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4160a5f5f17b7adee80057927a6f863a25577584 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to make Spotlight ONLY index certain file types? I use my mac for development, and create/delete so many (big) files that I ended up turning Spotlight off, since it was taking so much time indexing these files.
I think it would be fine if I would only allow Spotlight to index pdf and doc documents, is this possible?
A: As there is no easy way (no GUI certainly) to exclude file types, your best bet might be to exclude specific directories from being indexed. Create/delete Your big files inside one directory (including subdirs) and go to Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy and choose Your excluded directory (You can also drag and drop it).
| Q: How to make Spotlight ONLY index certain file types? I use my mac for development, and create/delete so many (big) files that I ended up turning Spotlight off, since it was taking so much time indexing these files.
I think it would be fine if I would only allow Spotlight to index pdf and doc documents, is this possible?
A: As there is no easy way (no GUI certainly) to exclude file types, your best bet might be to exclude specific directories from being indexed. Create/delete Your big files inside one directory (including subdirs) and go to Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy and choose Your excluded directory (You can also drag and drop it).
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608a5edaf075179271d303e328d4af247d6ab576 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to set brightnes for multiple thunderbolt displays at the same time using keys on apple keyboard Is there a way to set the brightness for all displays (thunderbolt displays) connected to a mac using thunderbolt syncroniously.
If I chnage the brightness using F1/F2 on my Mac Wireless Keyboard. Only the Main screen is affected. But I want the displays to stay syncronized.
Any way thought?
A: This won't let you adjust all of the screens but works for alternates
ctrl-F1 and ctrl-F2 usually change the brightness on the other display (or external display on 10.7).
| Q: How to set brightnes for multiple thunderbolt displays at the same time using keys on apple keyboard Is there a way to set the brightness for all displays (thunderbolt displays) connected to a mac using thunderbolt syncroniously.
If I chnage the brightness using F1/F2 on my Mac Wireless Keyboard. Only the Main screen is affected. But I want the displays to stay syncronized.
Any way thought?
A: This won't let you adjust all of the screens but works for alternates
ctrl-F1 and ctrl-F2 usually change the brightness on the other display (or external display on 10.7).
A: Can I change the brightness on a secondary display?
This thread (although the question is slightly different) offers answers to your question.
A: The hack I used to adjust multiple thunderbolt displays (I use two external displays in addition to my Macbook's built in for a total of three) is to adjust the random Thunderbolt using ctrl+f1/f2 and then unplugging that one and then I'm able to adjust the other with ctrl-f1/f2. When I plug in the other display the brightness setting returns to what I had set it at.
A: It looks like Apple dropped support for Apple Thunderbolt Display and brightness can’t be adjusted OOB. I use this app to control brightness of my external monitors:
https://apps.apple.com/ua/app/display-brightness/id1603899734?mt=12
Btw, it also can control other displays too
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0016468ae33ccb49032044a0d9a62452e780b67e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How Do I Change The Colour Of The Apple Icon In The Menu Bar The apple icon in the menu bar is a black gradient (everything on this MacBook Pro seems to be a shade of grey!).
How can I change the icon to use the classic fruit colours instead?
A: Here's a youtube video that covers how to do this in Mountain Lion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8wqOkrlX5Q
It appears to be the same in mavericks. The easier way to get to the folders in Finder is click Go > Go to Folder, or hit Shift-Command-G and in the window type /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LoginUIKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LoginUICore.framework/Versions/A/Resources and the other folder is /System/Library/CoreServices.
The files in Mavericks seemed to be named apple_s1.png, [email protected], apple.png and [email protected].
Good luck
| Q: How Do I Change The Colour Of The Apple Icon In The Menu Bar The apple icon in the menu bar is a black gradient (everything on this MacBook Pro seems to be a shade of grey!).
How can I change the icon to use the classic fruit colours instead?
A: Here's a youtube video that covers how to do this in Mountain Lion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8wqOkrlX5Q
It appears to be the same in mavericks. The easier way to get to the folders in Finder is click Go > Go to Folder, or hit Shift-Command-G and in the window type /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LoginUIKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LoginUICore.framework/Versions/A/Resources and the other folder is /System/Library/CoreServices.
The files in Mavericks seemed to be named apple_s1.png, [email protected], apple.png and [email protected].
Good luck
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9a386396b96f96c33d47dd9294eee2ab4bb8a182 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I restart from an Apple script without warnings? I wrote this Apple Script to bless my Windows partition and boot to Windows only once:
do shell script "/usr/sbin/bless --device /dev/disk0s3 --setBoot --legacy --nextonly " with administrator privileges
tell application "System Events"
restart
end tell
tell me to quit
However, each time I use this script to get to Windows, and then come back to OS X, it gives me the dialog that says my computer restarted because of a problem.
What is the correct "clean" or "official" way to restart with an Apple Script so that I don't get these warnings?
A: Instead of telling System Events to restart, tell Finder.
tell application "Finder"
restart
end tell
| Q: How can I restart from an Apple script without warnings? I wrote this Apple Script to bless my Windows partition and boot to Windows only once:
do shell script "/usr/sbin/bless --device /dev/disk0s3 --setBoot --legacy --nextonly " with administrator privileges
tell application "System Events"
restart
end tell
tell me to quit
However, each time I use this script to get to Windows, and then come back to OS X, it gives me the dialog that says my computer restarted because of a problem.
What is the correct "clean" or "official" way to restart with an Apple Script so that I don't get these warnings?
A: Instead of telling System Events to restart, tell Finder.
tell application "Finder"
restart
end tell
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07bc73c845537c580daf661c383aae559f878ab4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Paused & want to delete partially downloaded Yosemite I was installing Yosemite Beta, however, I paused the download as I have not backup my Mac. Does anyone know how I can delete the paused download of it? It's driving me nuts! I can't just press "delete" like my other Apps!
A: Partial downloads are stored in /private/var/folders/*/*/*/com.apple.appstore/. Delete the partial download from there and reset the Mac App Store from the debug menu if necessary.
| Q: Paused & want to delete partially downloaded Yosemite I was installing Yosemite Beta, however, I paused the download as I have not backup my Mac. Does anyone know how I can delete the paused download of it? It's driving me nuts! I can't just press "delete" like my other Apps!
A: Partial downloads are stored in /private/var/folders/*/*/*/com.apple.appstore/. Delete the partial download from there and reset the Mac App Store from the debug menu if necessary.
A: There are two simpler ways for this:
*
*In Mac App Store Updates page, simply hold down option, and you'll see the Pause button changes to Cancel.
*In Launchpad, hold down option and you'll see apps icons begin to wiggle (just like they would on iOS). Click the X that has appeared and the update will be canceled.
A: Best way to do this is to enable the Debug menu for the App Store. Do this:
*
*Run this command from Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true && killall App\ Store
*Go to the the App Store debug menu and reveal the download folder. You can delete the whole thing from Finder.
*Log out and back in to your Mac.
*Empty the trash.
A: In App Store go to Purchases tab and hold down the option key and you will see the Pause button turns to Cancel, only click on cancel button.
A: In Launchpad, click and hold on the icon for the download, and an 'x' will appear in the upper left-hand corner, clicking the 'x' will delete the download.
A: *
*Close App Store
*In the Finder search for: com.apple.appstore
*delete the whole com.apple.appstore folder
*empty trash
*restart the App Store
A: To delete an active download for Yosemite in the Trash can, I had to switch to Safe Mode (Hold down SHIFT Key while booting) before I could delete it.
HTH
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5036a74660887ee22f87aa97f7265d2dab60b8bb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: "Show all" by default in Finder? My question is directly related to this question in LION version.
I use Icon view in Finder and I want to get rid of "Show all" behaviour, i.e. I want all files to be shown by default.
Now, I am on Mavs, but still have no way to expand all the items by default in icon view.
Can we view all files by default in icon view in OS X?
A: Go to the folder and press ⌘J, then set Arrange By to None. This will still sort using whatever you have chosen for Sort By. Click Use as Defaults to use this option as default and remove the .DS_Store from any folder that you wish to inherit these defaults.
| Q: "Show all" by default in Finder? My question is directly related to this question in LION version.
I use Icon view in Finder and I want to get rid of "Show all" behaviour, i.e. I want all files to be shown by default.
Now, I am on Mavs, but still have no way to expand all the items by default in icon view.
Can we view all files by default in icon view in OS X?
A: Go to the folder and press ⌘J, then set Arrange By to None. This will still sort using whatever you have chosen for Sort By. Click Use as Defaults to use this option as default and remove the .DS_Store from any folder that you wish to inherit these defaults.
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a599a5d27a14fd5f23609e906c516cd93f42bda5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I run top as screensaver? My employer has recently issued me a MacBook Pro to play with. I have a lot of Linux experience, but I was struck by how nice the terminal looks on the Mac in full screen mode, especially when running "top". I think it'd look impressively "hackerish" as a screensaver.
Has anyone figured out a way to make this work? Of course, I'd have to disable the usual power saving mode where the display is turned off.
There's one project out there, but based on it's website it's very rough if it even works.
A: If you're looking for hackerish screensavers, the old Xscreensaver bundle was converted to OSX a while ago.
Nicely hacker type examples would be Sonar, AppleII, and Phosphor. Possible GLMatrix too.
However, to answer your question: https://superuser.com/questions/420546/osx-run-bash-or-app-as-the-screensaver
Write an applescript to run Terminal, run Top, and fullscreen itself. Then put that script into the app.
| Q: Can I run top as screensaver? My employer has recently issued me a MacBook Pro to play with. I have a lot of Linux experience, but I was struck by how nice the terminal looks on the Mac in full screen mode, especially when running "top". I think it'd look impressively "hackerish" as a screensaver.
Has anyone figured out a way to make this work? Of course, I'd have to disable the usual power saving mode where the display is turned off.
There's one project out there, but based on it's website it's very rough if it even works.
A: If you're looking for hackerish screensavers, the old Xscreensaver bundle was converted to OSX a while ago.
Nicely hacker type examples would be Sonar, AppleII, and Phosphor. Possible GLMatrix too.
However, to answer your question: https://superuser.com/questions/420546/osx-run-bash-or-app-as-the-screensaver
Write an applescript to run Terminal, run Top, and fullscreen itself. Then put that script into the app.
A: If you install the OS X version of XScreenSaver, the phosphor saver simulates an old phosphorous terminal display. It can be configured to run any command in the terminal display, including top:
I find the settings -scale 2 -delay 40 -program top work quite well, and look quite "hackerish".
A: The LookThrough screensaver does nearly what you are looking for on Mavericks and Yosemite.
It permits to maintain your Mac correctly secured when at the same time you maintain on screen the actual output of a top command.
The output on screen won't be exactly a synchronous copy of what would be on screen without the screen saver. This output will be an asynchronous copy, but the delay is so small that it is perfect to avoid completly eating the CPU of your Mac and to avoid to give you the feeling to be on slow motion.
It does also let you maintain on screen whatever you want.
I use it to keep on screen graphs of cacti output of network equipment
performance.
If you are looking for a solution on Lion or Mountain Lion,
please look at this old question Transparent locked screen.
A: You can use ScriptSaver, since, if you have Require password after sleep or screen saver begins enabled after IIRC OS X 10.7 you'll otherwise not see through and get a black screen (I'm on 10.8.5). Here's an example of using it to launch iTerm with top.
Activation Script
tell application "iTerm" to create window with profile "Hotkey Window" command "top"
Screen Saver
LookThrough. Alternatively, JohnnyNash, Transparent.
Deactivation Script
tell application "iTerm"
close front window
quit
end tell
A: If you want to save some computer memory and maybe cpu usage, here's a way to record the "hackerish" output from your Top command and use it as your screensaver.
The downside of this approach is that the sreensaver will notbe able to show any live Top data. If a live output is important, than Alex's answer is probably the best solution (excluding of course writing a program).
If however, you just want to do this for it's cool looks, the video approach will probably be a lot lighter on the system resources and can be done using official Apple programs. Plus, you won't need to run a full screen app in the background (though actually that is a pretty cool concept @Alex, and I might look into ot later for my own uses).
Anyway, here's the little walkthrough for making a screen capture screensaver:
*
*This short video shows how to make a screensaver with Apple's Quartz Composer. Unfortunately, this program no longer comes with Xcode by default.
*To get the Quartz Composer go to developer.apple.com/downloads and search for it on the home page. A list of Graphics Tools for Xcode program should come up, I installed the latest one and it works just fine on OSX 10.9.4 (I say this because the maker of the above video said that one of the older versions didn't work with his OS.)
*You can use the QuickTime Player to record your program by going to File > New Screen Recording.
*Record a few minutes of video, and cut/trim the video as needed to make it look good while looping by going to Edit > Split Clip and Edit > Trim. I think you can also copy-and-past your split segments as needed.
*Export the clip in a resolution of your choosing, but if you're just recording the Terminal, you probably don't need a very high resolution.
If you do record a very long video or you want to use high resolution, your file may come out pretty large and resource-inefficient, but luckily there is a work around. In this case, I would actually recommend using a non-Apple program for the video compression. This program has been around for quite a while, and in my opinion seems to be pretty reputable. It's called HandBrake. I personally use it very often when compressing my screen captures and class lectures. If you use the right settings, it does a really great job.
If you do decide to compress your vide with HandBreak, post a comment here, and I can suggest some settings that I use for my recordings.
Hope this helps! :)
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12fc301070e7afe47b3672335df4d565a8dfe17e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there any way to broadcast a part of your screen as webcam on OSX (for twitch, omegle etc)? Title: can you get a section of your screen recognised as if it was a webcam, so sites like twitch and omegle will read from it?
A: You can use OBS, also known as Open Broadcaster Software.
Here's the official site's description of OBS:
Open Broadcaster Software is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Supported features include:
*
*Encoding using H264 (x264) and AAC.
*Support for Intel Quick Sync Video (QSV) and NVENC.
*Unlimited number of scenes and sources.
*Live RTMP streaming to Twitch, YouTube, DailyMotion, Hitbox and more.
*File output to MP4 or FLV.
*GPU-based game capture for high performance game streaming.
*DirectShow capture device support (webcams, capture cards, etc).
*Windows 8 high speed monitor capture support.
*Bilinear or lanczos3 resampling.
You can download OBS for macOS 10.8+ from the official website. It also supports Windows 7/8/10 and Linux.
| Q: Is there any way to broadcast a part of your screen as webcam on OSX (for twitch, omegle etc)? Title: can you get a section of your screen recognised as if it was a webcam, so sites like twitch and omegle will read from it?
A: You can use OBS, also known as Open Broadcaster Software.
Here's the official site's description of OBS:
Open Broadcaster Software is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Supported features include:
*
*Encoding using H264 (x264) and AAC.
*Support for Intel Quick Sync Video (QSV) and NVENC.
*Unlimited number of scenes and sources.
*Live RTMP streaming to Twitch, YouTube, DailyMotion, Hitbox and more.
*File output to MP4 or FLV.
*GPU-based game capture for high performance game streaming.
*DirectShow capture device support (webcams, capture cards, etc).
*Windows 8 high speed monitor capture support.
*Bilinear or lanczos3 resampling.
You can download OBS for macOS 10.8+ from the official website. It also supports Windows 7/8/10 and Linux.
A: You can use GrabberRaster
Free screen grabber with live streaming: grab anything onscreen and use as a fake webcam. Desktop streaming, window grabs & more!
The screencasting requires a paid licence. Go to Window → ScreenCasting, select Grabber, then go to the app that takes a webcam as an input and select the GrabberRaster camera driver.
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f9c4550565bf1711811600f4d1a6122a1e7a7f8f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Close empty desktop/spaces I usually end up with a lot of empty desktop/spaces upon disconnecting external monitors.
Is there an easy way to close all desktop/spaces that don't have any application windows on them?
A: Aside from the usual way, going into Mission Control and closing each individual Space, I don't believe so. You can speed this up and hold the option key down and this will keep the (x) to close the Desktops shown so you don't have to hover over the selected Desktop and wait for it to show itself.
The only way that I would think you might be able close them all at once without performing the above process is probably with an Automator script or AppleScript.
| Q: Close empty desktop/spaces I usually end up with a lot of empty desktop/spaces upon disconnecting external monitors.
Is there an easy way to close all desktop/spaces that don't have any application windows on them?
A: Aside from the usual way, going into Mission Control and closing each individual Space, I don't believe so. You can speed this up and hold the option key down and this will keep the (x) to close the Desktops shown so you don't have to hover over the selected Desktop and wait for it to show itself.
The only way that I would think you might be able close them all at once without performing the above process is probably with an Automator script or AppleScript.
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9b3fc7b3629e0d91cddf659be60769f1a591321e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does an icon that looks like a pair of connected chain links next to a wireless network name mean? When I click on the WiFi symbol in the menu bar on my Mac I get a list of wireless networks, most of them with little lock icons next to them. But some of them show what looks like a pair of chain links instead (see image below). What does this mean? That these networks are personal hotspots?
A: It's a personal hotspot created by an iOS device to share the cellular data connection that the phone has over Wi-Fi.
| Q: What does an icon that looks like a pair of connected chain links next to a wireless network name mean? When I click on the WiFi symbol in the menu bar on my Mac I get a list of wireless networks, most of them with little lock icons next to them. But some of them show what looks like a pair of chain links instead (see image below). What does this mean? That these networks are personal hotspots?
A: It's a personal hotspot created by an iOS device to share the cellular data connection that the phone has over Wi-Fi.
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e2e06e6ee1b437321adfe96fc229b359256cfe0e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can one mount a FileVault 2 encrypted drive from Windows? I encrypted an external drive with FileVault 2. Now it would be great if I could access it from a Windows PC. Is this outright impossible? I found no definitive answer either way.
A: As of writing there is no software that natively supports working with FileVault 2 encrypted drives within Windows.
There are ways to access the content of a FileVault 2 encrypted volume on other platforms including Windows (for example libfvde), assuming you have the passkey and sufficient patience, but none that allow an encrypted volume to be used as a regular drive on Windows.
At the moment, to the best of my knowledge, there isn't even any software that allows Windows to natively understand drives that use unencrypted CoreStorage volumes.
| Q: Can one mount a FileVault 2 encrypted drive from Windows? I encrypted an external drive with FileVault 2. Now it would be great if I could access it from a Windows PC. Is this outright impossible? I found no definitive answer either way.
A: As of writing there is no software that natively supports working with FileVault 2 encrypted drives within Windows.
There are ways to access the content of a FileVault 2 encrypted volume on other platforms including Windows (for example libfvde), assuming you have the passkey and sufficient patience, but none that allow an encrypted volume to be used as a regular drive on Windows.
At the moment, to the best of my knowledge, there isn't even any software that allows Windows to natively understand drives that use unencrypted CoreStorage volumes.
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4b5bec935a88321266b289a88980339dd28bfa43 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: User account creation date time? I am using a shared mac in which a new user account was created by another user. I want to know the dateTime of the account creation. Is there a way to find it out without asking the peer?
A: A quick way to do it would be to go to the directory
/Users
And add the Date Created option via the View Options
This assumes that the home directory was created at the same time of account itself
| Q: User account creation date time? I am using a shared mac in which a new user account was created by another user. I want to know the dateTime of the account creation. Is there a way to find it out without asking the peer?
A: A quick way to do it would be to go to the directory
/Users
And add the Date Created option via the View Options
This assumes that the home directory was created at the same time of account itself
A: Try also this in a Terminal:
ls -l ~/*/.localized
These files are usually created when the account is created.
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1970b666f8f3c70d24161d302b1af3541c3c7a23 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: quick to install and set up FTP server on homebrew for OSX I need the smallest and easiest FTP server just to grab some files during development.
Homebrew has a discrete selection brew search ftp but I'm unsure which is the quickest to setup.
I don't want to use the builtin FTP server.
Any recommendations?
A: Strange that no one mentioned the simplest way, which is to just load the built-in FTP server:
sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist
It does work fine in 10.12 Sierra. However, it might not be available anymore in 10.13 High Sierra.
| Q: quick to install and set up FTP server on homebrew for OSX I need the smallest and easiest FTP server just to grab some files during development.
Homebrew has a discrete selection brew search ftp but I'm unsure which is the quickest to setup.
I don't want to use the builtin FTP server.
Any recommendations?
A: Strange that no one mentioned the simplest way, which is to just load the built-in FTP server:
sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist
It does work fine in 10.12 Sierra. However, it might not be available anymore in 10.13 High Sierra.
A: Google brought me to this answer, so thought I would update with my findings. I use ftp-srv on node which is very quick to set up and run on the command line ftp-srv [url] [options] and can serve from a directory of your choice.
A: As of writing, brew search ftp returns the following FTP servers:
*
*pure-ftpd
*vsftpd
*proftpd
Based on their websites, pure-ftpd appears to be your best choice for easy installation.
pure-ftpd
Beginners can install a Pure-FTPd server in 5 minutes. It can be as simple as installing the package, typing pure-ftpd & and… that’s all. You already have a running server, and clients can start to connect.
So for the two step, install and set to start each boot commands:
brew install pure-ftpd
brew services start pure-ftpd
vsftpd
vsftpd is a GPL licensed FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux. It is secure and extremely fast. It is stable.
ProFTPD
ProFTPD grew out of the desire to have a secure and configurable FTP server, and out of a significant admiration of the Apache web server.
A: Well, I do have OSX Mojave, and I ended up doing this:
brew install inetutils
and it worked perfectly. Hope it helps!
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5fe133a139ffa918ff3538e48560de0b19031cb1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to always allow "[program] wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this." I use a program which prompts me often to "make changes" (make a system-level/root-level change). I trust this program and want to always allow it to do so. How is this done? I would expect an "always allow" button, but there isn't one.
I know the system directory which the program wants to modify and that I could lower the permissions of that folder; however, that may have an impact on other applications which expect certain permissions on that folder, so I don't want to do that.
Here is an example of the dialog. (I removed the name for privacy.)
A: This is too large a trust you want to give to osascript.
Do you want this command to run without asking you for a real confirmation:
sudo osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to quit'
?
| Q: How to always allow "[program] wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this." I use a program which prompts me often to "make changes" (make a system-level/root-level change). I trust this program and want to always allow it to do so. How is this done? I would expect an "always allow" button, but there isn't one.
I know the system directory which the program wants to modify and that I could lower the permissions of that folder; however, that may have an impact on other applications which expect certain permissions on that folder, so I don't want to do that.
Here is an example of the dialog. (I removed the name for privacy.)
A: This is too large a trust you want to give to osascript.
Do you want this command to run without asking you for a real confirmation:
sudo osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to quit'
?
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502f1df07889d868e5059ef16bcff42221a351f8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Different enterprise signed apps on same iOS device Company A has an Apple Enterprise Developer account and distributes "in-house" iOS applications signed with its account key. Likewise, Company B does the same with its own in-house apps.
Is it possible to install a Company A enterprise-signed app and a Company B enterprise-signed app on the same iOS device? Or are iOS devices restricted to apps from at most one Enterprise Developer? Can someone point to Apple documentation that addresses this question?
A: Yes, it's possible. Apps can be installed from multiple enterprise locations on the same device. Whilst I haven't been able to find a citable source, I have personal experience as I have apps from an enterprise organisation installed on my device as well as the SE iOS beta app which is distributed through enterprise.
| Q: Different enterprise signed apps on same iOS device Company A has an Apple Enterprise Developer account and distributes "in-house" iOS applications signed with its account key. Likewise, Company B does the same with its own in-house apps.
Is it possible to install a Company A enterprise-signed app and a Company B enterprise-signed app on the same iOS device? Or are iOS devices restricted to apps from at most one Enterprise Developer? Can someone point to Apple documentation that addresses this question?
A: Yes, it's possible. Apps can be installed from multiple enterprise locations on the same device. Whilst I haven't been able to find a citable source, I have personal experience as I have apps from an enterprise organisation installed on my device as well as the SE iOS beta app which is distributed through enterprise.
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f86293d49b6a93f4ce021201fb63a6dc26ba0a21 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why are my songs on my iPhone, but they aren't downloaded? I'm trying to download some songs onto my iPhone (5S, iOS 7), but they are just grey with this little broken circle next to them. Can anyone explain what's going on? I have space on my phone, and when I don't, my computer tells me, but here the songs are just kind of there.
A: The circle means the song exists on the device but does not exist in your current iTunes library. You need to either import them again from CD into your library or transfer them from your device.
| Q: Why are my songs on my iPhone, but they aren't downloaded? I'm trying to download some songs onto my iPhone (5S, iOS 7), but they are just grey with this little broken circle next to them. Can anyone explain what's going on? I have space on my phone, and when I don't, my computer tells me, but here the songs are just kind of there.
A: The circle means the song exists on the device but does not exist in your current iTunes library. You need to either import them again from CD into your library or transfer them from your device.
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aff607f5dbb2bb0b72577702944d74a6637a7e04 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Turn all windows transparent in Mavericks I have been looking around for over an hour now trying to find some way to make all my windows somewhat transparent / translucent ...
I found the app Afloat, however that app doesn't work with all other applications, only some
Any ideas on how I can turn all my windows semi-transparent in OS X Mavericks?
Thanks!
A: You cannot change the window colors in Finder itself. However, there are finger alternatives that can do this. Try Pathfinder by CocoaTech. I believe it has the option to make Finder windows transparent.
| Q: Turn all windows transparent in Mavericks I have been looking around for over an hour now trying to find some way to make all my windows somewhat transparent / translucent ...
I found the app Afloat, however that app doesn't work with all other applications, only some
Any ideas on how I can turn all my windows semi-transparent in OS X Mavericks?
Thanks!
A: You cannot change the window colors in Finder itself. However, there are finger alternatives that can do this. Try Pathfinder by CocoaTech. I believe it has the option to make Finder windows transparent.
A: I believe if you open a new finder window and go into the preferences you can edit the color of the window background. From that you can then modify the alpha channel to add transparency :)
A: NOT AN ANSWER
Try reverse engineering this
https://www.howtogeek.com/199201/how-to-disable-window-transparency-in-os-x-yosemite/
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e4f2b370d16b800332dc5565d7b8983ac8b9a868 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Stop Console.app from auto-scrolling while I'm reading a log When using Apple’s Console.app to read logs, the window automatically scrolls to the bottom when a new entry is posted to the log. But I'm trying to read something in the middle of the log.
Is there some way to shutoff this auto-scroll-to-bottom feature?
A: Does disabling the Now button in the bottom right of Console help? It should stop the log from scrolling with new updates.
| Q: Stop Console.app from auto-scrolling while I'm reading a log When using Apple’s Console.app to read logs, the window automatically scrolls to the bottom when a new entry is posted to the log. But I'm trying to read something in the middle of the log.
Is there some way to shutoff this auto-scroll-to-bottom feature?
A: Does disabling the Now button in the bottom right of Console help? It should stop the log from scrolling with new updates.
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f35eb3505775aa41bca221873836a38d85b911e0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to hide the name of the desktop icons? I know it is possible to hide the name by renaming the file/folder to something else. The problem comes with my cloud showing in the desktop. I want it to show and I don't want to change the names of my folders.
I made a cool icon set for the few things I've got in my desktop and the names there just don't fit.
A: If you want to just hide one filename or folder, the answer is kludgey but it works:
Insert 58 spaces in the beginning of the filename: the filename "disappears" from the desktop. It still exists (you can Cmd-I or Finder to see it/change it), but it's no longer visible on the Desktop. In actuality, it's probably showing the first 58 characters of the filename (the invisible spaces) and cutting off the rest, so technically it's not hiding the name, just truncating it, but anyway... (The 58 may not be an exact number, but that's how many it took to hide "foo.app" on my 10.11.6 Mac.)
| Q: Is it possible to hide the name of the desktop icons? I know it is possible to hide the name by renaming the file/folder to something else. The problem comes with my cloud showing in the desktop. I want it to show and I don't want to change the names of my folders.
I made a cool icon set for the few things I've got in my desktop and the names there just don't fit.
A: If you want to just hide one filename or folder, the answer is kludgey but it works:
Insert 58 spaces in the beginning of the filename: the filename "disappears" from the desktop. It still exists (you can Cmd-I or Finder to see it/change it), but it's no longer visible on the Desktop. In actuality, it's probably showing the first 58 characters of the filename (the invisible spaces) and cutting off the rest, so technically it's not hiding the name, just truncating it, but anyway... (The 58 may not be an exact number, but that's how many it took to hide "foo.app" on my 10.11.6 Mac.)
A: Using just Finder to hide filenames on the Desktop is (to my knowledge) not possible, but I would be happy to be proven wrong about that.
I realise you don't want to rename files and folders, but the only workaround I know of to "hide" the filenames is to rename them to a space " ".
A: To Hide Desktop Icons, run the following commands in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false
killall Finder
To show them again, run:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true
killall Finder
Source: Hide All Desktop Icons in Mac OS X.
A: You can use HiddenMe app to hide Desktop icons on demand with a single click. This is especially useful for some presentations.
Homepage: http://appersian.net/
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a5b84a0266e315eb436c147a73d4e74a4b54facf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Using Linux computer as time capsule - possible but any experiences? have a Linux computer running as a server on which I also installed a time capsule (see for Vortexbox (my setup) but also for Ubuntu).
Before using this as my main backup, has anybody any experiences with this? The backup is working - but is the restore as well? ANy comments, experiences, sucess stories?
Any tips?
I am running Mavericks on my Mac.
A: I've had experience with this, and it does work with some fiddling, but it doesn't "just work" in the mac sense. Every now and then, you'll find that you have to reconnect the volume, restart a daemon, or else face weird time machine errors.
If you're okay with being this "hands on", you'll need to install Netatalk (AFP daemon) and Avahi (Bonjour daemon) on your Linux machine, and set a defaults option on your mac to allow Time Machine to use network drives.
This is the guide I used for setting such a system up: http://techiezone.rottigni.net/2013/12/backup-your-mavericks-using-debian-linux-as-a-time-machine/
Make sure you keep a close eye on it for your first few weeks - nothing worse than backups that aren't actually backing up!
| Q: Using Linux computer as time capsule - possible but any experiences? have a Linux computer running as a server on which I also installed a time capsule (see for Vortexbox (my setup) but also for Ubuntu).
Before using this as my main backup, has anybody any experiences with this? The backup is working - but is the restore as well? ANy comments, experiences, sucess stories?
Any tips?
I am running Mavericks on my Mac.
A: I've had experience with this, and it does work with some fiddling, but it doesn't "just work" in the mac sense. Every now and then, you'll find that you have to reconnect the volume, restart a daemon, or else face weird time machine errors.
If you're okay with being this "hands on", you'll need to install Netatalk (AFP daemon) and Avahi (Bonjour daemon) on your Linux machine, and set a defaults option on your mac to allow Time Machine to use network drives.
This is the guide I used for setting such a system up: http://techiezone.rottigni.net/2013/12/backup-your-mavericks-using-debian-linux-as-a-time-machine/
Make sure you keep a close eye on it for your first few weeks - nothing worse than backups that aren't actually backing up!
A: This is a recipe that I used a long time ago on I think a raspberry pi that had a 3 TB disk attached to it. I have a MacBook pro and when it is connected to a power supply it does the backup even when it is closed. It worked for months until the hard drive died.
I should say that I have not tested this with Mavericks, but I can not think of changes that should prevent this from working. Restore worked fine even though I experienced that big partial restores sometimes seem to fail but this is not a peculiarity of the debian style time capsule. I had a time machine backup once just on a disk and a script that I wrote that had a variable like so test=/${bla} and rm -rf ${test} - CAN YOU GUESS - started deleting my root tree. Yes I am an idiot, but I learn from my mistakes. That is more than some people can say. Anyway, the restore of this did not work, it crashed somewhere and I restored important data by hand. But this was a time machine issue, it had nothing to do with debian.
I took it from:
http://routerjockey.com/2009/08/28/setting-up-apple-filing-protocol-and-bonjour-under-debian/
apt-get build-dep netatalk
apt-get install libcrack2-dev fakeroot libssl-dev
apt-get source netatalk
cd netatalk-2.2.2/
dch -v 2.2.2-2+SSL (enter ctrl+x y and enter)
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=ssl dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
cd ..
dpkg -i netatalk_2.2.2-2+SSL_i386.deb
aptitude hold netatalk
vi /etc/default/netatalk
ATALKD_RUN=no
PAPD_RUN=no
CNID_METAD_RUN=yes
AFPD_RUN=yes
TIMELORD_RUN=no
A2BOOT_RUN=no
vi /etc/netatalk/afpd.conf
add line at bottom:
- -tcp -noddp -uamlist uams_dhx_passwd.so,uams_dhx2_passwd.so
This was the old line that caused unsupported server problem:
- -transall -uamlist uams_randnum.so,uams_dhx.so -nosavepassword -advertise_ssh
vi /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default
at the bottom add:
~/ "Home Directory" "$u" cnidscheme:cdb
/data/music mp3 allow:chris
3## This line is different from the tutorial in the link, as it did not work without the tm option
/data/timemachine TimeMachine allow:chris cnidscheme:cdb options:usedots,upriv,tm
I got the error on the Macbook:
Something wrong with the volume's CNID DB, using temporary CNID DB instead.Check server messages for details!
After changing cnidscheme:cdb to cnidscheme:dbd the error went away.
/etc/init.d/netatalk restart
apt-get install avahi-daemon
apt-get install libnss-mdns
vi /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 mdns
vi /etc/avahi/services/afpd.service
This file should contain:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
<name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>
<service>
<type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type>
<port>548</port>
</service>
<service>
<type>_device-info._tcp</type>
<port>0</port>
<txt-record>model=Xserve</txt-record>
</service>
</service-group>
/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart
chown -R chris:chris /data/timemachine/
chown -R chris:chris /data/music
This worked for me and as soon as I have bought a Raid something I will redo the setup with my raspberry as it is the ideal compromise between performance and energy usage.
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0a537546b4ff475b17831b793e0d1688b0c06328 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I temporarily disable my MBP's keyboard? I sometimes bring my external keyboard with me on the go and use it with my MBP. I would like to lay it over the macbook's current keyboard without having to worry about it pressing other keys.
Is there a way to temporarily enable/disable the onboard keyboard?
A: You can use KeyboardCleanTool to lock/unlock the keyboard using the mouse.
| Q: How can I temporarily disable my MBP's keyboard? I sometimes bring my external keyboard with me on the go and use it with my MBP. I would like to lay it over the macbook's current keyboard without having to worry about it pressing other keys.
Is there a way to temporarily enable/disable the onboard keyboard?
A: You can use KeyboardCleanTool to lock/unlock the keyboard using the mouse.
A: Karabiner-Elements has an option to automatically disable the built-in keyboard when an external keyboard is connected.
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edba53d3c4a3bb7bda19a7987652050758a31eee | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Gap at the bottom of maximized windows How can i get rid of the gap at the bottom of the screen when i maximized a window? The gap is almost imperceptible but at the bottom of a maximized window a few pixel are not filled, there one can see the desktop. If i go into full screen mode with a window, the 5 - 10 pixels get filled.
My os version is OS X 10.9 Mavericks
To better see the issue I enlarged the part at the bottom:
A: Those 5 pixels are tied to the Dock. You can position the dock on either the left of right side instead, but the gap stays on the side of the Dock. I think this is something fairly low level with the Dock, as window managers (like Spectacle) will maximize windows and not use the gap.
My $0.02: If you have a lot of screen real estate, as it looks like you do, I say shrink some of your windows to a more appropriate size and/or fullscreen windows instead of maximizing them.
| Q: Gap at the bottom of maximized windows How can i get rid of the gap at the bottom of the screen when i maximized a window? The gap is almost imperceptible but at the bottom of a maximized window a few pixel are not filled, there one can see the desktop. If i go into full screen mode with a window, the 5 - 10 pixels get filled.
My os version is OS X 10.9 Mavericks
To better see the issue I enlarged the part at the bottom:
A: Those 5 pixels are tied to the Dock. You can position the dock on either the left of right side instead, but the gap stays on the side of the Dock. I think this is something fairly low level with the Dock, as window managers (like Spectacle) will maximize windows and not use the gap.
My $0.02: If you have a lot of screen real estate, as it looks like you do, I say shrink some of your windows to a more appropriate size and/or fullscreen windows instead of maximizing them.
A: Drag the entire window down until it covers up the gap. Then resize the window at the top to cover the gap left at the top of the screen. Then you have no gaps.
A: I've come across a few ways to work around or completely fix this:
1) Minimize the effects with the following settings under System Preferences > Dock:
*
*Automatically hide and show the Dock
*Position on screen: Right (or left)
If you want to achieve that with a script instead, it'd be:
*
*defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -bool true
*defaults write com.apple.Dock orientation -string right
This makes the windows on my primary monitor truly maximized when I alt+shift+click the green window button. The windows on my secondary monitor still have the gap, but it's much less noticeable on the side of the window than the bottom, and I don't look at that monitor as often as my primary one anyway.
2) Override the Dock's gap completely with BetterTouchTool or BetterSnapTool. I haven't tried this personally, but I've read several sites saying that they fix this problem (for example).
A: Either change your desktop wallpaper to black, so you don't notice it; or add a black 5px line to the bottom of your preferred wallpaper.
A: I actually hacked the system... based on some of the other answers.
You can temporarily move the docker on the left, expand your window, and then move the docker back to the bottom. The window stays then.
Also note that Chrome is not affected at all by this nasty "bug". In my case, only Emacs is.
EDIT: For crying out loud; when you ALT-TAB the effect is gone.
A: You may use a program like GeekTool or Übersicht to add a black bar to the bottom of the screen. In this way you can essentially make the gap less visible, especially if your wallpaper stands out.
A: I made an AppleScript to achieve this. Unfortunately, after invoking the AppleScript, you'll notice that there is a gap between the menu bar and the window – you need to manually resize the window upwards to remove it (do not double click it, or else the dock gap will come back). However, after these two steps, there will be no dock gap – just as you had wanted.
on run
tell application "System Events"
set FrontMostApp to name of first item of (processes whose frontmost is true)
end tell
tell application FrontMostApp
activate
set bounds of front window to {0, 26, 1280, 800}
end tell
end run
One other thing – this is made for 13" MacBooks with a base screen resolution of 1280x800. You may need to change those bounds according to the model of your Mac.
Important: please use your own resolution if your resolution isn't an integer multiple of 1280x800.
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752cdee20d0fa97e4cc1008d7166e26fe9553794 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I configure iCloud mail in Mozilla Thunderbird? i just downloaded Thunderbird from Mozilla because it's the only program I can use to access my hosting email addresses in a easy way, but when I try to add my iCloud account, I get an error.
Here's how I'm trying to configure it (sorry for the Spanish).
A: These settings work for me, see also https://support.apple.com/HT202304.
Incoming
*
*Protocol: IMAP
*Server: imap.mail.me.com
*Port: 993
*SSL: SSL/TLS
*Authentication: Normal password
Outgoing
*
*Protocol: SMTP
*Server: smtp.mail.me.com
*Port: 587
*SSL: STARTTLS
*Authentication: Normal password
Username for both should just be your actual username "karlo_lopez", not your whole email address.
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:
If your Apple ID is protected with two-factor authentication, then you need to setup an app-specific password within your Apple ID account. Enter that password instead of your normal iCloud password when setting up the email address into Thunderbird.
| Q: How can I configure iCloud mail in Mozilla Thunderbird? i just downloaded Thunderbird from Mozilla because it's the only program I can use to access my hosting email addresses in a easy way, but when I try to add my iCloud account, I get an error.
Here's how I'm trying to configure it (sorry for the Spanish).
A: These settings work for me, see also https://support.apple.com/HT202304.
Incoming
*
*Protocol: IMAP
*Server: imap.mail.me.com
*Port: 993
*SSL: SSL/TLS
*Authentication: Normal password
Outgoing
*
*Protocol: SMTP
*Server: smtp.mail.me.com
*Port: 587
*SSL: STARTTLS
*Authentication: Normal password
Username for both should just be your actual username "karlo_lopez", not your whole email address.
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:
If your Apple ID is protected with two-factor authentication, then you need to setup an app-specific password within your Apple ID account. Enter that password instead of your normal iCloud password when setting up the email address into Thunderbird.
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ae6d9a44ef7fab217c74a6ebad13abd7a8941ce2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Will Time Machine backup of an encrypted HDD be encrypted? My MacBook is running Mac OS X Mavericks with FileVault HDD encryption. I use Time Machine to backup this drive to an unencrypted USB HDD.
Will this backup be encrypted? Or does Time Machine decrypt files from my internal HDD and save them in an unencrypted form on the USB HDD?
A: No - Time Machine will not preserve the encryption of the source disk since it reads the files in an unencrypted manner just like any other process once you log in to the Mac.
You would need to ensure that all Time Machine destinations are also encrypted to properly secure your data both on the main computer as well as have it encrypted on the Time Machine volumes. This is as easy as ticking a checkbox on the Time Machine preference pane in system preferences.
On macOS 10.12 Time Machine will throw a helpful notification if you do in fact select an unencrypted destination for encrypted OS.
| Q: Will Time Machine backup of an encrypted HDD be encrypted? My MacBook is running Mac OS X Mavericks with FileVault HDD encryption. I use Time Machine to backup this drive to an unencrypted USB HDD.
Will this backup be encrypted? Or does Time Machine decrypt files from my internal HDD and save them in an unencrypted form on the USB HDD?
A: No - Time Machine will not preserve the encryption of the source disk since it reads the files in an unencrypted manner just like any other process once you log in to the Mac.
You would need to ensure that all Time Machine destinations are also encrypted to properly secure your data both on the main computer as well as have it encrypted on the Time Machine volumes. This is as easy as ticking a checkbox on the Time Machine preference pane in system preferences.
On macOS 10.12 Time Machine will throw a helpful notification if you do in fact select an unencrypted destination for encrypted OS.
A: Mavericks does encrypt backups. From Apple:
The best way to keep your backups secure is to encrypt your backup
disk. Encryption is available for Time Capsule, disks attached to
another Mac on your network, and disks partitioned with the GPT
partition scheme and attached directly to your Mac.
If you want to change from unencrypted to encypted backups, you must
remove your backup disk and then set it up again.
So, if you have an existing backup, you'll need to remove them from the backup disk you'd like to be encrypted. You should be able to see the encryption status of your backup on a per-volume basis in the Time Machine pref pane.
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bcc98e3860e322c5287d2bfd5d5c41c0e481e278 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Applescript to change desktop image on all monitors? I have the following code to change the desktop image of my Macbook
tell application "System Events"
tell current desktop
set picture to "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Beach.jpg"
end tell
end tell
How do change all desktops - I have a second monitor.
A: The previous answers look great, but I wanted to share a way I found to do this with much less code.
tell application "System Events"
tell every desktop
set picture to "path/to/picture.png"
end tell
end tell
You could even condense it to one line:
tell application "System Events" to tell every desktop to set picture to "path/to/picture.png"
| Q: Applescript to change desktop image on all monitors? I have the following code to change the desktop image of my Macbook
tell application "System Events"
tell current desktop
set picture to "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Beach.jpg"
end tell
end tell
How do change all desktops - I have a second monitor.
A: The previous answers look great, but I wanted to share a way I found to do this with much less code.
tell application "System Events"
tell every desktop
set picture to "path/to/picture.png"
end tell
end tell
You could even condense it to one line:
tell application "System Events" to tell every desktop to set picture to "path/to/picture.png"
A: Here's a little script I use to set most of the Desktop Background properties for my dual monitors:
tell application "System Events"
tell desktop 1
set pictures folder to "/Library/Desktop Pictures"
set picture rotation to 2 -- using interval
set change interval to 1800
set random order to true
end tell
tell desktop 2
set pictures folder to "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Mine"
set picture rotation to 2 -- using interval
set change interval to 1800
set random order to true
end tell
end tell
I use this because MacOSX often resets my backgrounds to the default.
A: This might work. I only have one monitor so couldn't properly test it.
tell application "System Events"
set desktopCount to count of desktops
repeat with desktopNumber from 1 to desktopCount
tell desktop desktopNumber
set picture to "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Beach.jpg"
end tell
end repeat
end tell
A: For the Default monitor
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to set picture of current desktop to "<path-to-img>"'
For the second monitor
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to set picture of second desktop to "<path-to-img>"'
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fceba577cbf79c618f05a0b1b581f1fd91860c3a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Move some free space to Macintosh HD (Startup Disk) On my mac hard disk, Macintosh HD (Startup Disk) is almost full, I need to increase the size of Macintosh merging some free space from my another partition. But I tried all possible ways, free space always merged to same partition, not to Macintosh HD.
A: This requires the three partitions between the selected one and the intended one to be moved. Disk Utility can't do this without destructively destroying and recreating the partitions in the intended location, removing all data from the partitions. You will need third-party software such as iPartition. For more information, see Partitioning Software.
| Q: Move some free space to Macintosh HD (Startup Disk) On my mac hard disk, Macintosh HD (Startup Disk) is almost full, I need to increase the size of Macintosh merging some free space from my another partition. But I tried all possible ways, free space always merged to same partition, not to Macintosh HD.
A: This requires the three partitions between the selected one and the intended one to be moved. Disk Utility can't do this without destructively destroying and recreating the partitions in the intended location, removing all data from the partitions. You will need third-party software such as iPartition. For more information, see Partitioning Software.
A: Thanks for the suggestions and answers. As you all suggested there is no way to do this using disk utility, Seems need to have some 3rd party software.
Only way to achieve something similar to above using Disk Utility is:
According to image attached above, I had to move all data from "Software" partition to somewhere else and delete "Software" partition and merge free space to "Macintosh HD"
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10c17a332654e7c450a5b6be7738afe3f8bf19dc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to put a Macbook Air into "Target Disk Mode"? I have an older Macbook Air. I'm trying to transfer the data onto my new Macbook Air using a Thunderbolt cable. The Apple Store employee assured me that you can connect a Thunderbolt cable to a mini display port. However, using Migration Assistant does not recognize that the two Macbook Airs are connected via the Thunderbolt cable. I learned that you might be able to put the old one into "Target Disk Mode" and treat it like an external start-up disk. However, I can't seem to get it to work. I have shut down the old Macbook Air and started it up while holding down the T key. I have also tried enabling it through System Preferences, but there is no Target Disk Mode option. Both Macbook Airs are running Mavericks.
How can I enable target disk mode so this migration doesn't take days?
A: In the "startup disk" section of system preferences, you should have a button to restart in target disk mode. If this is missing/ disabled then the machine doesn't support Target Disk Mode.
| Q: How to put a Macbook Air into "Target Disk Mode"? I have an older Macbook Air. I'm trying to transfer the data onto my new Macbook Air using a Thunderbolt cable. The Apple Store employee assured me that you can connect a Thunderbolt cable to a mini display port. However, using Migration Assistant does not recognize that the two Macbook Airs are connected via the Thunderbolt cable. I learned that you might be able to put the old one into "Target Disk Mode" and treat it like an external start-up disk. However, I can't seem to get it to work. I have shut down the old Macbook Air and started it up while holding down the T key. I have also tried enabling it through System Preferences, but there is no Target Disk Mode option. Both Macbook Airs are running Mavericks.
How can I enable target disk mode so this migration doesn't take days?
A: In the "startup disk" section of system preferences, you should have a button to restart in target disk mode. If this is missing/ disabled then the machine doesn't support Target Disk Mode.
A: All non-vintage MacBook Air support target disk mode, including the Apple Silicon based MacBook Air released in 2020.
*
*https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlb37e8ca7/mac
Many vintage and obsolete Air still support target disk mode as well.
Target Disk Mode is not supported on older Macbook Air that lack a Thunderbolt port. The Mini DisplayPort is purely a video out port, and cannot be used for data transfer, despite the identical connector. Since thunderbolt is far faster than gigabit ethernet, it’s preferred due to speed as mentioned in the comments below.
*
*https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/transfer-files-mac-computers-target-disk-mode-mchlp1443/mac
Any MacBook Air that have Thunderbolt 3 or 2 support target disk mode.
For all devices - regardless of ability to boot to target disk mode, an additional supported option for transferring data between two Macs is using a wired connection and Migration Assistant. Since MacBook Air have no ethernet ports, you will need to purchase the Apple USB to Ethernet Adapter for the older model MacBook Air which does not have a Thunderbolt port, an Apple Thunderbolt to Ethernet Adapter for the newer model which supports Thunderbolt or one of the many third party USB adapters.
If you do not want to purchase the adapters, you could migrate the data off the Air using file sharing or have the Mac opened by a service technician to remove the storage and assist with a converter or another Air to house the drive while it's being accessed.
By deleting all files that are non-essential you can speed up the time of transfer, but the USB to ethernet adapter is 100MB speed and likely the fastest you could transfer files on your Air from 2014 or before. Since 2014, much faster WiFi and Ethernet adapters mean faster transfer speeds than before.
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ab130de6be31df868721068beb1a5052cd7d1df4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I disable Window Minimize animation I'm about ready to throttle someone if I can't figure this out. I have been working to disable all animation effects throughout OSX (10.9.2). since I got my new laptop about 3 months ago. I think I have most of them figured out, but I'm at a loss when it comes to disabling the minimize window application. The dock gives three options, none of which is acceptable for me. How can I disable this extremely aggravating behavior?
I'm open to any suggestions, hacks, patches, utilities, or dark magic rituals that will change this behavior. I'm not interested in people telling me that it can't or shouldn't be done. This is my personal computer, and I should be able to dictate it's behavior.
A: While Yosemite doesn't provide an option to prevent the minimise animation, it does provide an option to use the "scale effect", rather than the "genie effect". I find this animation to be much quicker and much less distracting.
See System Preferences -> Dock
| Q: How can I disable Window Minimize animation I'm about ready to throttle someone if I can't figure this out. I have been working to disable all animation effects throughout OSX (10.9.2). since I got my new laptop about 3 months ago. I think I have most of them figured out, but I'm at a loss when it comes to disabling the minimize window application. The dock gives three options, none of which is acceptable for me. How can I disable this extremely aggravating behavior?
I'm open to any suggestions, hacks, patches, utilities, or dark magic rituals that will change this behavior. I'm not interested in people telling me that it can't or shouldn't be done. This is my personal computer, and I should be able to dictate it's behavior.
A: While Yosemite doesn't provide an option to prevent the minimise animation, it does provide an option to use the "scale effect", rather than the "genie effect". I find this animation to be much quicker and much less distracting.
See System Preferences -> Dock
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1d4985981ef65b3459270bdaafcb688d43aba224 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable middle click paste Mavericks Terminal? I have looked all over the Net and can't find a way to disable middle-click paste in the Terminal application in Mavericks?
I want it scroll but not paste.
Anybody know how to fix this? I'd sure appreciate the tip.
A: You can use Karabiner (formerly known as KeyRemap4MacBook) with the following setting in private.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<appdef>
<appname>Terminal</appname>
<equal>com.apple.Terminal</equal>
</appdef>
<item>
<name>Disable middle-click</name>
<identifier>private.disablemiddleclick</identifier>
<only>Terminal</only>
<autogen>
__PointingButtonToKey__ PointingButton::MIDDLE, KeyCode::VK_NONE
</autogen>
</item>
</root>
| Q: How to disable middle click paste Mavericks Terminal? I have looked all over the Net and can't find a way to disable middle-click paste in the Terminal application in Mavericks?
I want it scroll but not paste.
Anybody know how to fix this? I'd sure appreciate the tip.
A: You can use Karabiner (formerly known as KeyRemap4MacBook) with the following setting in private.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<appdef>
<appname>Terminal</appname>
<equal>com.apple.Terminal</equal>
</appdef>
<item>
<name>Disable middle-click</name>
<identifier>private.disablemiddleclick</identifier>
<only>Terminal</only>
<autogen>
__PointingButtonToKey__ PointingButton::MIDDLE, KeyCode::VK_NONE
</autogen>
</item>
</root>
A: I wasn't able to get Karabiner working, but you can use this to disable middle click (or anything else) globally: http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/Download.html
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15dae599d8bb8791beace7ef8721d5ac256a7c02 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Notes.app - how to access history? Since notes.app seems to accrue a "rolling history" of data and doesn't automatically save out versions of your files to disk in any reasonable way (date stamped, etc), I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to access the history of the note data you have accrued.
Specifically this came up because I am trying to restore something that I have lost, because the undo command doesn't work in the app.
Any tips would be appreciated.
A: No, there is no history of notes. Once modified and synchronised, the note is overwritten and older versions are not available. Per my answer on your last question, you may be able to obtain older versions if a device has been offline, but besides this, unfortunately not. You can provide feedback to Apple at apple.com/feedback.
| Q: Notes.app - how to access history? Since notes.app seems to accrue a "rolling history" of data and doesn't automatically save out versions of your files to disk in any reasonable way (date stamped, etc), I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to access the history of the note data you have accrued.
Specifically this came up because I am trying to restore something that I have lost, because the undo command doesn't work in the app.
Any tips would be appreciated.
A: No, there is no history of notes. Once modified and synchronised, the note is overwritten and older versions are not available. Per my answer on your last question, you may be able to obtain older versions if a device has been offline, but besides this, unfortunately not. You can provide feedback to Apple at apple.com/feedback.
A: If you use backup software such as Time Machine, you may be able to access your Notes.app history/older versions of your notes by restoring the 3 .sqlite files in:
~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes/
Restore Process
*
*Quit Notes.app
*Restore those 3 files to the date of the version of the notes you're trying to get
*If you use iCloud, make sure you disconnect from your internet so the notes aren't synced from iCloud when you re-open Notes.app
*Re-open Notes.app
Source for notes database location
Recover Notes from TimeMachine
A: I accidentally deleted content from a note and Undo was unavailable.
To resolve, I put a different Apple device in Airplane Mode as quickly as possible, then opened the note from there - which didn't have time to update and therefore was still showing the version I wanted.
Good luck!
A: My notes was not syncing with Exchange, and I unchecked 'Notes' in Internet Accounts and then check it back. When I did that, Notes resynchronised from the last synchronised version and so I lost a whole lot of Notes. My Time Machine was not turned on, but I managed to find another way:
*
*/Users//Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library
*Make a copy of NotesV7.storedata-wal with .html extension, like NotesV7.storedata-wal copy.html
*Open in any web browser and you will see past notes - this is limited to the last saved version of NotesV7.storedata-wal, so make sure you get to here fast (as soon as you discover your Notes' been overwritten.
A: If you have a Time Machine Backup, this worked for me - based on the answer from @rsheyd here.
Find this folder:
~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes
Then
*
*Quit Notes
*Turn off WiFi (any network, so syncing is off)
*Rename folder example to ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes_disabled
*Replace folder with time machine backup of folder
*Open Notes - now you can see the old notes - get the one you need, copy it somewhere safe
*Quit Notes
*Delete the old folder, rename the original back to what it was
Done.
A: See history for shared notes with Show Note Activity
Some time between the accepted 2014 answer and now, Apple introduced View → Show Note Activity as part of their collaboration features. When you select a history item in Note Activity, it highlights changes associated with that edit.
While you can't restore a version with a single click, this feature gives what you need to identity and manually redress small, unwanted changes. This isn't a full solution, but it's much better than nothing in some situations.
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2b2e32af82a6aa2f888a6143cfd133ed3f4d969a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to upgrade Macbook Air 2014 SSD? I have a Macbook Air 2014 - 128 GB, and I am running out of space. Is it possible to upgrade the SSD to one of bigger capacity?
A: In some Macbook Airs the SSD is actually replaceable. Please refer to iFixit.com and the other answers for details.
However, a very interesting option is to make use of the SD card slot. There are a number of products out there that will fit seamlessly into your SD card reader slot. You can then mount it as an additional drive and put e.g. your music library onto it. Some examples (feel free to update):
*
*Transcend Jetdrive Lite
*PNY StorEDGE
*Nifty MiniDrive
*Sandisk miniDrive
Using one of these solutions you could add up to 256 GB (2015) of storage to your Mac.
| Q: How to upgrade Macbook Air 2014 SSD? I have a Macbook Air 2014 - 128 GB, and I am running out of space. Is it possible to upgrade the SSD to one of bigger capacity?
A: In some Macbook Airs the SSD is actually replaceable. Please refer to iFixit.com and the other answers for details.
However, a very interesting option is to make use of the SD card slot. There are a number of products out there that will fit seamlessly into your SD card reader slot. You can then mount it as an additional drive and put e.g. your music library onto it. Some examples (feel free to update):
*
*Transcend Jetdrive Lite
*PNY StorEDGE
*Nifty MiniDrive
*Sandisk miniDrive
Using one of these solutions you could add up to 256 GB (2015) of storage to your Mac.
A: It is 'possible'. However, you will have more trouble in finding a compatible and legitimate after-market PCI-e based SSD than you will actually replacing the current one. The only ones iFixit sells are used-genuine Apple OEM refurbished.
According to EveryMac:
As first reported by AnandTech, the "Mid-2013" MacBook Air models all use a PCIe-based SSD rather than a SATA-connected one like earlier SSD-equipped MacBook Air models. The "Early 2014" MacBook Air models are practically identical to their predecessors and use the exact same internal storage.
More specifically, AnandTech shared that the SSD in these lines use a
custom Apple design with a "PCIe 2.0 x2 interface, capable of a
theoretical maximum of 1 GB/s in each direction. At the moment,
compatible SSDs are few and far between, so installation instructions
effectively are theoretical."
The last sentence is the crux of the matter.
Essentially, not currently, but quite feasible in the future. The guides are all provided, it's just a matter of the hardware hitting the market.
A: There are no compatible third party upgrade solutions in the market as of the date of today, 16 August 2015. The only way is to buy from Apple or from companies like https://ifixit.com who sell refurbished Apple SSD storage.
A: The SSD drive in a MacBook Air is a custom PCI Express drive. A new 256GB drive will cost about $450,-.
You can order a drive and find installation instructions on iFixit
As Buscar says, warranty is gone when you open your machine. Ask the Applestore for a price and consider yourself what it wise.
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440798842aafb149a3943f2521f4b087f7756b36 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." How do I access info on USB flashdrive? Same message with other computers. Worried that I may have ejected incorrectly. Is there a way to retrieve the information on my USB flashdrive?
A: Since my HD was initialized with a Mac, I was able to use Disk Utility's First Aid functions to first verify and then repair the volume.
| Q: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." How do I access info on USB flashdrive? Same message with other computers. Worried that I may have ejected incorrectly. Is there a way to retrieve the information on my USB flashdrive?
A: Since my HD was initialized with a Mac, I was able to use Disk Utility's First Aid functions to first verify and then repair the volume.
A: If you formatted the drive on a Windows computer, there is the possibility that the format is NTFS which is not natively supported on OS X. If this is the case, you can add the read and write functionality to NTFS volumes using this video.
If you know that the drive is not NTFS, and were able to previously access it using your Apple computer, I would then recommend seeing if the machine even recognizes it. This can be achieved by using the following steps:
*
*Click the Apple icon in the upper left-hand corner of your screen
*Select the "About This Mac" option from the menu
*In the box which appears on the screen, select the "System Report" button in the "Overview" tab. (This will open another window which you can use to find out more in-depth details about your Apple device)
*In the new window which opened (System Information), select USB from the left-hand column under the Hardware category.
*From this point, you can see the USB bus, and all things connected to it, you may need to expand any "hub" section here, as it varies per model. If your device does not show up here, it could mean a number of things:
*
*That port is damaged and unusable: Ruled in/out by using another USB device in that port and verifying function.
*The USB drive is bad: ruled in/out by checking to see if it is recognized on another computer
*OS X is not recognizing USB devices properly (Unlikely, but anything is possible): Ruled in/out by trying other USB devices and drives
Hopefully this helps!
A: I've had a lot of success recovering drives with TestDisk. It's a free command line tool that can recover corrupted partition information, and failing that recover actual data.
There are detailed instructions at the following link on how to recover data.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step
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e791445972a05ba6117b0fa69656c38daa73de32 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I tell Firewall to allow incoming connections for Python.app running Django Each time I run my Django development server, I get a dialog to allow incoming connections.
No matter what I do :
*
*Click Allow in the dialog box
*Add to the Firewall via the OS X GUI
(both real and venv python executables are allowed, and also the
Python.app
*Self-sign the executable (see http://darklaunch.com/2014/02/02/fix-do-you-want-the-application-python-to-accept-incoming-network-connections)
OS X still systematically ask me to allow incoming connection.
It's not just annoying, it's impossible to work with my IDE which restart the dev server after each code change.
I have to either turn off the firewall, or change my IDE configuration, both are bad solutions.
How can I permanently add the script in my firewall allowed apps?
I'm running Maverick 10.9.4
A: Signing the python application, using the instruction in the answer to this question, worked for me.
| Q: How can I tell Firewall to allow incoming connections for Python.app running Django Each time I run my Django development server, I get a dialog to allow incoming connections.
No matter what I do :
*
*Click Allow in the dialog box
*Add to the Firewall via the OS X GUI
(both real and venv python executables are allowed, and also the
Python.app
*Self-sign the executable (see http://darklaunch.com/2014/02/02/fix-do-you-want-the-application-python-to-accept-incoming-network-connections)
OS X still systematically ask me to allow incoming connection.
It's not just annoying, it's impossible to work with my IDE which restart the dev server after each code change.
I have to either turn off the firewall, or change my IDE configuration, both are bad solutions.
How can I permanently add the script in my firewall allowed apps?
I'm running Maverick 10.9.4
A: Signing the python application, using the instruction in the answer to this question, worked for me.
A: You can manually configure the firewall to unblock a port (i.e. 8080).
You'll need to open /etc/pf.conf in a text editor and add:
pass in proto tcp from any to any port 8080
to the end of the file (for port 8080, adjust to suit your needs).
Then restart your computer.
If that doesn't work run:
$ sudo pfctl -vnf /etc/pf.conf
to see if you get an error. If so fix.
Then restart again.
Should work.
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c404b86e6935a09e15a71b7a0711f694f66f25e7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apple Magic mouse often loses connection I have mac mini late 2011, up to date mac OS X and fully charged batteries. It still loses connection about 10 times per hour. It's really annoying
I've tried to remove Bluetooth.plist file, but it didn't help.
Is it solvable issue?
I use Wi Fi, and bluetooth apple keyboard.
A: More people have this annoyance. For me the solution was to use slightly fatter/bigger batteries (Duracell for example), or a piece of paper. When I very gently slammed my mouse on the table from a small height, the connection would drop. Probably due to a short disconnection/movement of the batteries.
| Q: Apple Magic mouse often loses connection I have mac mini late 2011, up to date mac OS X and fully charged batteries. It still loses connection about 10 times per hour. It's really annoying
I've tried to remove Bluetooth.plist file, but it didn't help.
Is it solvable issue?
I use Wi Fi, and bluetooth apple keyboard.
A: More people have this annoyance. For me the solution was to use slightly fatter/bigger batteries (Duracell for example), or a piece of paper. When I very gently slammed my mouse on the table from a small height, the connection would drop. Probably due to a short disconnection/movement of the batteries.
A: The thing is, you can fix your mouse with just your fingers. Simply remove the back cover and bend it so that ends curve up on the Apple logo side. Then, replace the cover. This is why buying a new mouse can fix the issue: Over time, the back cover starts to bend so that there is more room between it and the batteries.
A: The paper shim trick didn't work for me - it made the cover bulge enough to rub on the table top. The cover bending suggestion sound risky. So I combined the two as follows: Start with an 8 cm square of paper. Fold it in half three times, giving a 4 cm by 2 cm pad with 8 thicknesses of paper. Remove the cover and position it on top of the paper pad, centered, so it overhangs the pad by 2 cm on each end. Push down on the two ends until they touch the table. Replace the cover (without any paper shim) and test. If necessary, repeat with a pad that has 10 or 12 layers of paper.
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ea32127092edc4efde0d50871d5a20f140fcfec5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I make my iPhone ring for phone calls but be silent for email? As a newbie on an iPhone 5, please how do I set up my phone to give an audible ringtone when I get a phone call, but remain silent when I get an email?
A: Open up Settings > Notification Center > Mail, then change the Alert Sound to None. This will silence any sounds when you get an email.
By default phone calls make a sound, so there is nothing you need to change for that.
| Q: How do I make my iPhone ring for phone calls but be silent for email? As a newbie on an iPhone 5, please how do I set up my phone to give an audible ringtone when I get a phone call, but remain silent when I get an email?
A: Open up Settings > Notification Center > Mail, then change the Alert Sound to None. This will silence any sounds when you get an email.
By default phone calls make a sound, so there is nothing you need to change for that.
A: I found that the small switch just top the left of the volume controls on the side of the phone was showing red and so off. move the switch and the audible ringtone etc will sound.
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21b8084b4f2da0873ba3a470cf3beffb8bd31f4d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I re-use an email address for a new Apple ID that was previously a secondary email address? I want to use my son's email for his new iPad mini, but previously his email was associated with my Apple ID on my iPhone 5c as an alternate email address. I have deleted his email from my Apple ID, but I still can't set up his iPad using his own email address.
I am attempting to create a new Apple ID for him with his email so all my contacts won't come up on his iPad mini. When we try it, it says that the email is already associated with an Apple ID.
A: Yes, you should be able to. Having an email address as a secondary email address on another Apple ID does not mean that the email address does not have an Apple ID already associated with it. Try to regain access to the existing Apple ID associated with the email address at iforgot.apple.com.
| Q: Can I re-use an email address for a new Apple ID that was previously a secondary email address? I want to use my son's email for his new iPad mini, but previously his email was associated with my Apple ID on my iPhone 5c as an alternate email address. I have deleted his email from my Apple ID, but I still can't set up his iPad using his own email address.
I am attempting to create a new Apple ID for him with his email so all my contacts won't come up on his iPad mini. When we try it, it says that the email is already associated with an Apple ID.
A: Yes, you should be able to. Having an email address as a secondary email address on another Apple ID does not mean that the email address does not have an Apple ID already associated with it. Try to regain access to the existing Apple ID associated with the email address at iforgot.apple.com.
A: The email you use for the Apple ID does not have to be the same as the one you actually use for email.
You don't need to use your son's existing email as an Apple ID either. You can create a different ID for Apple ID, then initially set his real email as the secondary. This would avoid the issue you are facing. The flow is like this: New disposable email> Register as Apple ID>Real email as secondary> get confirm email from Apple>change real email to primary email.
You need to have email access for the email you associate with your Apple ID in the initial on-boarding steps (you have to confirm that you have access to the email account), but there is no requirement that you use that email address after on-boarding. In the Apple ID configuration panel, you can add additional email addresses, and use those other email addresses as the primary email for contact emails as well as the email you wish to use for things like Messages. This way all emails come to the 'real' email and nothing goes to the 'temporary' email.
For example, I have an old hotmail.com email address that I still have access to, but have abandoned due to excessive spam. I use a gmail.com address instead for daily use and as my 'public' facing email. However, my Apple ID is the hotmail.com address, while Messages, and contact emails and notices from Apple are all sent to the gmail.com address as the 'public' address. I simply 'unchecked' the hotmail.com email as one where I want Messages, etc sent. The only time I ever even have to remember this email address is when I type it as my Apple ID.
A suggestion is to create a secondary email account for your son to use for the on-boarding process, then add his 'real' email to the Apple ID preferences. I would suggest he keep this secondary email but there is no reason to use it. If he has a school email address, this might be a good one to use for the Apple ID, but then his personal email becomes the one that is 'public'.
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23df1c63be863ce8504a4af8f0a618314ee3bbdf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What could cause Command-Tab task switching to get "stuck"? When I Command-Tab to task switch (in both Mavericks and Yosemite), occasionally (maybe 60% of the time) the task switcher will behave as if the Tab button was held down. That is, the task-switcher selection will fly over to the right-most icon. If I mouse-over the app icons, the cursor will continue constantly moving to the right.
I doubt it's a stuck Tab key, because I use the Tab key all the time when coding, navigating Cocoa controls, etc...never have a problem with Tabs being constantly entered. This only ever occurs on Command-Tab.
Any ideas?
A: Just had the same issue.
Turns out it is because I've got my mouse in my bag and it's still connected to the bluetooth dongle on the machine. So essentially is the mouse.
As soon as I disconnected the mouse the issue went away.
| Q: What could cause Command-Tab task switching to get "stuck"? When I Command-Tab to task switch (in both Mavericks and Yosemite), occasionally (maybe 60% of the time) the task switcher will behave as if the Tab button was held down. That is, the task-switcher selection will fly over to the right-most icon. If I mouse-over the app icons, the cursor will continue constantly moving to the right.
I doubt it's a stuck Tab key, because I use the Tab key all the time when coding, navigating Cocoa controls, etc...never have a problem with Tabs being constantly entered. This only ever occurs on Command-Tab.
Any ideas?
A: Just had the same issue.
Turns out it is because I've got my mouse in my bag and it's still connected to the bluetooth dongle on the machine. So essentially is the mouse.
As soon as I disconnected the mouse the issue went away.
A: Had the same issue today - almost 6 years later!
Couldn't find any workable solution online. I had already tried restarting and logging into another account with no help.
Finally reached out to the apple support.
They got me to do a safe boot (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262).
The problem wasn't there in safe boot mode.
Then, booted back to normal mode - and the problem was gone there as well!
A: Trying to gather some more information: Are you running multiple monitors when you see this? Do you have any tweaks, like Witch or Secrets, which could be modifying the default behavior?
For what it's worth my 2010 13" MBAir running Yosemite stops at the right-most icon when I hold Command-Tab. Command-` (once the switcher is running) stops at the far left.
A: The cause is most often a second mouse, or mouse-like device (eg Wacom tablet, or 3DConnexion mouse, or trackpad, or playstation controller - with something on it.
Every few months I forget to check - and it's always that. Unplugging the various devices normally sorts it out.
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8622016344e1bb5ce9439849ed0c4f914a4f3dbd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Add author to pdf I produce a quarterly bulletin, which I publish as a pdf. This is written in Pages 4.3 and exported. Previous issues on OS X 10.8 have my name as Author. Recent issues on OS X 10.9 show unknown author.
How can I change this on new exports?
A: Doesn't fix your export problem, but this is a fairly easy workaround.
You can easily edit PDF metadata using a very simple automator workflow:
*
*Open Automator and create a new Service
*Set 'Service receives selected' to PDF files 'in' Finder.app
*Search for 'set meta' and drag and drop the Set PDF Metadata action to the right
*At the bottom under 'Options' select Show this action when workflow runs
*Save the service and give it a name
*Optionally, create a keyboard shortcut under System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, select 'Services' from the left pane and look for your service under 'Files and Folders'
Now you can right click a PDF file and under services select your service, or select a PDF file and use your newly created shortcut to launch your Service.
Hope this helps.
| Q: Add author to pdf I produce a quarterly bulletin, which I publish as a pdf. This is written in Pages 4.3 and exported. Previous issues on OS X 10.8 have my name as Author. Recent issues on OS X 10.9 show unknown author.
How can I change this on new exports?
A: Doesn't fix your export problem, but this is a fairly easy workaround.
You can easily edit PDF metadata using a very simple automator workflow:
*
*Open Automator and create a new Service
*Set 'Service receives selected' to PDF files 'in' Finder.app
*Search for 'set meta' and drag and drop the Set PDF Metadata action to the right
*At the bottom under 'Options' select Show this action when workflow runs
*Save the service and give it a name
*Optionally, create a keyboard shortcut under System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, select 'Services' from the left pane and look for your service under 'Files and Folders'
Now you can right click a PDF file and under services select your service, or select a PDF file and use your newly created shortcut to launch your Service.
Hope this helps.
A: I use Pages 5.2 and notice that there is a preference for Author, however in my testing (under Mavericks) PDFs created by Pages do not inherit this value.
I think you are going to have to use a third party tool to edit the Author meta data after you create the PDF.
It doesn't appear you can do this in Preview.app or Adobe Reader. You can do this in Acrobat Pro ($), Automator (with the "Set PDF Metadata" function) or PDFInfo (free). I am sure that are other programs as well.
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c112c7214fa9abf46bbc02ae42e1617e20b95bed | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable Mac OS X's autocorrect but still show spelling suggestions? I welcome popup spelling suggestions, but I dislike the OS replacing text as I type without any real confirmation from me.
I'm aware both behaviors can be enabled/disabled together as one option in System Prefs > Keyboard > Text, but would anyone know a way to disable the autocorrect while leaving the tooltip-style suggestions intact…perhaps via the Terminal? Thank you.
Mac OS X 9.4 (Mavericks)
A: When a suggestion happens and the word is underlined in blue, then right click the word and goto Spelling and Grammar and uncheck Correct Spelling Automatically.
| Q: How to disable Mac OS X's autocorrect but still show spelling suggestions? I welcome popup spelling suggestions, but I dislike the OS replacing text as I type without any real confirmation from me.
I'm aware both behaviors can be enabled/disabled together as one option in System Prefs > Keyboard > Text, but would anyone know a way to disable the autocorrect while leaving the tooltip-style suggestions intact…perhaps via the Terminal? Thank you.
Mac OS X 9.4 (Mavericks)
A: When a suggestion happens and the word is underlined in blue, then right click the word and goto Spelling and Grammar and uncheck Correct Spelling Automatically.
A: i think you have to stop word Prediction in your iPhone, or iPad.
So, you have to go with below settings,
*
*Go to the Setting app.
*Then, Tap on general option.
*Then disable Prediction option. (turn off toggle).
A: I havent found a solution either, but as a crude workaround you can use something like popclip, which also provides correction
A: There is another crude workaround I use - right click, Spelling and Grammar, Show Spelling And Grammar. All suggestions will be there. It is better than popups if you do not need suggestions too often.
A: I tried going into System Preferences --> Keyboard --> Text (uncheck) "Correct Spelling Automatically"
It seems to have worked (so far) - I still get the option to correct without it automatically correcting (or autocorrecting to a word that was not a real word), at least in my emails, which was my biggest problem.
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2847e240fa7ff4baa695385bf154589542406151 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to Undo Deny Access on Keychain When accessing a secure note on my login keychain (Using the Keychain Access app) I accidentally selected "Deny" on the prompt.
Now I have no access to this keychain anymore. All of my applications that were previously able to access the keychain are denied as well. All items in the keychain have this issue.
The "Access Control" on the individual items in the keychain does not indicated that access is restricted.
Other keychains do not have this problem.
The error that I get is "Access to this item is restricted (-67808)"
How do I undo this action?
A: Had the same issue after accidentally hitting deny.
After repairing keychain, repairing permissions and touching the keychain file. I finally locked the keychain then unlocked it. That seemed to do the trick.
| Q: How to Undo Deny Access on Keychain When accessing a secure note on my login keychain (Using the Keychain Access app) I accidentally selected "Deny" on the prompt.
Now I have no access to this keychain anymore. All of my applications that were previously able to access the keychain are denied as well. All items in the keychain have this issue.
The "Access Control" on the individual items in the keychain does not indicated that access is restricted.
Other keychains do not have this problem.
The error that I get is "Access to this item is restricted (-67808)"
How do I undo this action?
A: Had the same issue after accidentally hitting deny.
After repairing keychain, repairing permissions and touching the keychain file. I finally locked the keychain then unlocked it. That seemed to do the trick.
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ebe19f5b3d8cc17d7792be3c641aedb16ee4f515 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does Numbers hide a huge PNG file in exported Excel sheets? OK, this is a weird one. I take my blank Numbers sheet:
...and export it to Excel:
Whoah, that seems a little large. Let's rename the Excel doc to .zip and have a look inside:
Digging a little deeper:
Well, we just found 99% of the file size. But what is it — some sort of embedded preview image? Let's open it:
Nope, just a 635x635 PNG of random noise. Anyone have any idea what's going on here?
A: I'm not sure why it's included in the export, but this is one of the default "Image Fills":
| Q: Why does Numbers hide a huge PNG file in exported Excel sheets? OK, this is a weird one. I take my blank Numbers sheet:
...and export it to Excel:
Whoah, that seems a little large. Let's rename the Excel doc to .zip and have a look inside:
Digging a little deeper:
Well, we just found 99% of the file size. But what is it — some sort of embedded preview image? Let's open it:
Nope, just a 635x635 PNG of random noise. Anyone have any idea what's going on here?
A: I'm not sure why it's included in the export, but this is one of the default "Image Fills":
A: tl;dr: it's the default shape fill, strictly unnecessary if there are no shapes.
XLSX, DOCX and other formats use OPC (the open packaging conventions), which mandates the zip container and describes how files should be laid out. If there is a file that you do not recognize, look in the various relationship files (they end in .rels).
In this case, the relevant line can be found in the themes relationship file xl/theme/_rels/theme1.xml.rels:
<Relationship Id="rId1" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/image" Target="../media/image1.png"/>
The file will be referenced in xl/theme/theme1.xml as rId1. Using ECMA-376 as a guide, you will find it referenced as the default shape fill:
<a:objectDefaults> <-- shape/line/text defaults
<a:spDef> <-- shape defaults
<a:spPr> <-- shape properties
<a:blipFill rotWithShape="1"> <-- picture fill
<a:blip r:embed="rId1"/> <-- references the picture
The writer must not be omitting the image if there is no shape.
A: Keynote files exported to PowerPoint do things like this too. That PNG is a background fill from Keynote, and is made available to PowerPoint to be used as the default shape fill for shapes created in the exported document. Keynote not only exports your document, but also the template style elements it was created with - even if some of those style elements (i.e. the background image) haven't been used yet.
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57f4da0a8361590e6109ae6349b9db4237558bf1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Create 128 Barcodes within Excel Is there a way to create Barcodes (128 standard) on a Mac, preferably via an add-in?
I need it to create barcodes in Excel sheets (or moreso a friend of mine needs it).
I have tried all VBA macros and fonts I found on Google, but none give me a scannable result (usually there are weird characters like ó's mixed in). Does anybody have a working solution?
A: You could try the Free Barcode Font downloaded from here: http://www.barcodelink.net/barcode-font.php and install it into /Library/Fonts.
To use it just choose the font** in any Application you want - including Excel.
The barcode will properly need to be in a larger font size then the rest of the cells - but you can try it out your self - maybe it is "good enough" for you.
It is not the best solution - but it is free. Alternatively, you can buy a solution - a search on e.g. Google will give you some hits.
** It is showing a barcode icon, and not the name, but it is located in the C's because the name of the font is code128.ttf
| Q: Create 128 Barcodes within Excel Is there a way to create Barcodes (128 standard) on a Mac, preferably via an add-in?
I need it to create barcodes in Excel sheets (or moreso a friend of mine needs it).
I have tried all VBA macros and fonts I found on Google, but none give me a scannable result (usually there are weird characters like ó's mixed in). Does anybody have a working solution?
A: You could try the Free Barcode Font downloaded from here: http://www.barcodelink.net/barcode-font.php and install it into /Library/Fonts.
To use it just choose the font** in any Application you want - including Excel.
The barcode will properly need to be in a larger font size then the rest of the cells - but you can try it out your self - maybe it is "good enough" for you.
It is not the best solution - but it is free. Alternatively, you can buy a solution - a search on e.g. Google will give you some hits.
** It is showing a barcode icon, and not the name, but it is located in the C's because the name of the font is code128.ttf
A: Here's how I do it:
Column A is the text I want to encode.
Column B is a formula for wrapping that text in asterisks (which is what, for me qualifies the entry as text): =CONCATENATE("*",A2,"*")
The text in column B is formatted with the barcode font, with the size adjusted for legibility, printing, and scanning.
I hope that helps in some way.
ADDENDUM
I found the following macro, authored by Eric Townsend Schmidt. All credit goes to him.
Public Function code128$(chaine$)
'This function is governed by the GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU LGPL)
'V 2.0.0
'Parameters : a string
'Return : * a string which give the bar code when it is dispayed with CODE128.TTF font
' * an empty string if the supplied parameter is no good
Dim i%, checksum&, mini%, dummy%, tableB As Boolean
code128$ = ""
If Len(chaine$) > 0 Then
'Check for valid characters
For i% = 1 To Len(chaine$)
Select Case Asc(Mid$(chaine$, i%, 1))
Case 32 To 126, 203
Case Else
i% = 0
Exit For
End Select
Next
'Calculation of the code string with optimized use of tables B and C
code128$ = ""
tableB = True
If i% > 0 Then
i% = 1 'i% devient l'index sur la chaine / i% become the string index
Do While i% <= Len(chaine$)
If tableB Then
'See if interesting to switch to table C
'yes for 4 digits at start or end, else if 6 digits
mini% = IIf(i% = 1 Or i% + 3 = Len(chaine$), 4, 6)
GoSub testnum
If mini% < 0 Then 'Choice of table C
If i% = 1 Then 'Starting with table C
code128$ = Chr$(205)
Else 'Switch to table C
code128$ = code128$ & Chr$(199)
End If
tableB = False
Else
If i% = 1 Then code128$ = Chr$(204) 'Starting with table B
End If
End If
If Not tableB Then
'We are on table C, try to process 2 digits
mini% = 2
GoSub testnum
If mini% < 0 Then 'OK for 2 digits, process it
dummy% = Val(Mid$(chaine$, i%, 2))
dummy% = IIf(dummy% < 95, dummy% + 32, dummy% + 100)
code128$ = code128$ & Chr$(dummy%)
i% = i% + 2
Else 'We haven't 2 digits, switch to table B
code128$ = code128$ & Chr$(200)
tableB = True
End If
End If
If tableB Then
'Process 1 digit with table B
code128$ = code128$ & Mid$(chaine$, i%, 1)
i% = i% + 1
End If
Loop
'Calculation of the checksum
For i% = 1 To Len(code128$)
dummy% = Asc(Mid$(code128$, i%, 1))
dummy% = IIf(dummy% < 127, dummy% - 32, dummy% - 100)
If i% = 1 Then checksum& = dummy%
checksum& = (checksum& + (i% - 1) * dummy%) Mod 103
Next
'Calculation of the checksum ASCII code
checksum& = IIf(checksum& < 95, checksum& + 32, checksum& + 100)
'Add the checksum and the STOP
code128$ = code128$ & Chr$(checksum&) & Chr$(206)
End If
End If
Exit Function
testnum:
'if the mini% characters from i% are numeric, then mini%=0
mini% = mini% - 1
If i% + mini% <= Len(chaine$) Then
Do While mini% >= 0
If Asc(Mid$(chaine$, i% + mini%, 1)) < 48 Or Asc(Mid$(chaine$, i% + mini%, 1)) > 57 Then Exit Do
mini% = mini% - 1
Loop
End If
Return
End Function
A: I got the fonts from ID automation
Interestingly their VBA scripts only seem to work with their own font.
Another solution (cheaper but more complicated, via AppleScript) that works for a friend of mine is offered here: Scorpion Research
Thanks to everyone for helping out.
A: Thanks Jer-el for the props.
It's true that you can't just download a barcode font and convert a column of data into scannable barcodes.
The macro listed above does the trick just fine. I'm moving it to http://etownsendschmidt.com/barcode-generator/3/free-barcode-generator-for-excel
The macro simply looks at the data in 1 column and converts it into the symbols, numbers and letters that corresponds to the font found on dafont.com in another column. I've hidden that column in the file to avoid accidental tampering.
The final column is a copy of that hidden column with the font changed the the barcode font. Click and drag and you're done.
I had to barcode 3000 items quickly with no budget.
To be completely honest, I found the original non-working code on a french geocities-esque website and it wasn't working since the standard for code128 changed. After fixing it, I tested it with my iPhone barcode scanner and SHAZAM! I cried a little...
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ee808c093bae8f4831b0fe62b08c5d27e5bdb491 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I know what version the Mini DisplayPort port is on my 2010 MacBook Pro? I want to connect 2 monitors to my MacBook Pro (mid-2010). The problem is that I don't if the Mini DisplayPort is version 1.2, which would support daisy chaining. How can I figure out what version firmware my Mini DisplayPort uses and whether or not it would support daisy chaining?
A: The 2011 MBP (MacBookPro8,1) has thunderbolt, so either your machine is not a 2011, or it has thunderbolt. the 2010 MacBook Pros have MDP that supports audio as well as video (I have a 2009 which only does video).
Keep in mind that MDP and Thunderbolt look identical.
| Q: How do I know what version the Mini DisplayPort port is on my 2010 MacBook Pro? I want to connect 2 monitors to my MacBook Pro (mid-2010). The problem is that I don't if the Mini DisplayPort is version 1.2, which would support daisy chaining. How can I figure out what version firmware my Mini DisplayPort uses and whether or not it would support daisy chaining?
A: The 2011 MBP (MacBookPro8,1) has thunderbolt, so either your machine is not a 2011, or it has thunderbolt. the 2010 MacBook Pros have MDP that supports audio as well as video (I have a 2009 which only does video).
Keep in mind that MDP and Thunderbolt look identical.
A: Open System Information, then under Hardware select Mini DisplayPort. This will tell you about the firmware of the port controller and more.
A: This FAQ from Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3382#5
Key part:
6 Can other video adapters be connected or "daisy-chained" to Apple Mini DisplayPort adapters?
No, you should not connect Apple Mini DisplayPort adapters to any
other video adapters. Connect your computer directly to an external
display via one Mini DisplayPort adapter.
So, regardless of the version, I'd be cautious.
A: Thanks so much for your post above - it really places a relatively simple way for all of us to trace our CPU, then GPU and from there the manufacturer stated max resolutions.
Thanks to your clear post, I cld trace my MacBook Pro 13" 2017's Intel i5 to it's Intel Iris Plus roots...and there it's stated (what no one else has told me):
The manufacturer of the Iris 640 says it will only support:
*
*HDMI up to an upper limit of 4K 30Hz.
*Native DisplayPort can support up to 4K 60Hz and
*eDP (for internal display) will also do 4K60Hz.
Huge puzzle solved...explains why so many hv failed by the HDMI wayside. And the few who hv succeeded used a direct wire i.e. thunderbolt3/USB-C to DisplayPort cable thereby gaining native DisplayPort and then the hallowed 4K60Hz!
Thanks for yr time in the pre-dawn hours! You've saved me time in the darkest ones!!
Cheers
A: So I looked up this question, it's 4 in the morning here in California, 2 years later...
I hope this answer finds you or anyone else interested because I think I backtracked a solid answer for both of us.
I have lately been getting into doing some specific display work and came across this question, how far can I really push my Macbook Pro 13 with 512mb GPU. It's all based on the video card, as I connected the dots to my experience with audio and sound.
Here's what I've found...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_DisplayPort
Which like you, led me to the same place, my Mac's about info/system report/graphics and displays and then... nothing. There were some clues though...
The intel 3000 graphics chipset
http://intel.ly/2enZo7q
I did some more research via Apple on my chipset and found this, it dates my computer very very well, check this out...
http://apple.co/2ePaukk
So for me I was a 3000 ok? something like 2011... then do this... it's like a complex math problem right? If you know the date of your computer, what connection you have (definitely, mini display port(WHICH ONLY SUPPORT SOME FORM OF HDMI)) but just need to know what kind of HDMI...drum roll please... then all you need to know is the date of your HDMI technology...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Version_1.4
The new technology including '4k' (1.4) was out 2009
At that point my only option is to assume that my late 2011 macbook includes the previous HDMI 1.4 technology.
I've compared the numbers between Mini DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 1.4 and they are aligned. Now you know you have and Mini DisplayPort 1.2 that can push 4k @ 24hz
Peace in the universe has been restored :)
It's something like 4:15 now and I'm glad I found this. I hope this post finds you or helps person waking up from a deep sleep needing to know their max computer resolution. Share this with your friends, add me on the socials, good luck and may the force be with you ;)
Cheers,
C
other sites
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
www.displayport.org/
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420ce98637a8a2885b61a2c78e18fcd3a296495c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do i cancel a pending purchase in the App Store? I have a pending purchase and i just want to cancel it. Its seems that thou may not have an option for this issue.
A: My experience is that the transaction doesn't take place at the moment you authenticate it.
The download of an app commences, sure, but they don't necessarily take any money out of your account. I saw a week pass until I was invoiced and I'm wondering the same thing the person asking the question is, as I "bought" multiple apps when I had money in my account, then went out the next day and spent what I thought I had left.
I am now constantly being asked to verify my payment information a week later as they never took the money out in the first place, and have restricted my use of the App Store to merely browsing the apps, I can't download or update any of them and they won't allow me to cancel it, it's ridiculous and their customer service is appalling.
| Q: How do i cancel a pending purchase in the App Store? I have a pending purchase and i just want to cancel it. Its seems that thou may not have an option for this issue.
A: My experience is that the transaction doesn't take place at the moment you authenticate it.
The download of an app commences, sure, but they don't necessarily take any money out of your account. I saw a week pass until I was invoiced and I'm wondering the same thing the person asking the question is, as I "bought" multiple apps when I had money in my account, then went out the next day and spent what I thought I had left.
I am now constantly being asked to verify my payment information a week later as they never took the money out in the first place, and have restricted my use of the App Store to merely browsing the apps, I can't download or update any of them and they won't allow me to cancel it, it's ridiculous and their customer service is appalling.
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6ac457b7e4f2153c7b4596ac2c36ffcc64dc1f53 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to auto switch input method by app My mac has several input methods (English, Chinese)
When I open terminal / iterm2 , I want the input method to switch to English automatically.
When I open skype or chat messenger , I want the input method to switch to Chinese automatically.
A: I have the same problem and solve it by the following approach.
*
*choose System Preferences
*select the Keyboard option
*Select the Input Sources tab, and then check the box next to Automatically switch to a document’s input source option
Source: https://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/53194/os-x-switch-language-input-sources-automatically/
| Q: How to auto switch input method by app My mac has several input methods (English, Chinese)
When I open terminal / iterm2 , I want the input method to switch to English automatically.
When I open skype or chat messenger , I want the input method to switch to Chinese automatically.
A: I have the same problem and solve it by the following approach.
*
*choose System Preferences
*select the Keyboard option
*Select the Input Sources tab, and then check the box next to Automatically switch to a document’s input source option
Source: https://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/53194/os-x-switch-language-input-sources-automatically/
A:
You can try going to system prefs/language & text/input sources and checking the box for "allow a different one for each document," but this may not do what you want.
Source: "Automatic Language Input Change" on the Apple Support community
A: Try this: GhostSKB
You guys really need to try it yourself, then come back to vote or de-vote this answer
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0ef3a38057d7b5d37193fdbae2d5c0404d2609e9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac thinks mouse is a keyboard Whenever I plug in my usb wireless mouse, my Macbook Air and Mac Pro both think that the mouse is a keyboard and won't register the mouse's movements at all. Is there a way to fix this?
The mouse is a cheapy Gigaware wireless usb mouse and I'm running OS X Mavericks.
A: This restored the default mouse behavior for me, though it looks like I had a different problem.
*
*Open keyboard settings in System Preferences > Keyboard
*Click Modifier Keys... button in bottom right of panel
*Select your mouse from the dropdown
*Click Restore Defaults button to restore default behavior.
If that doesn't work, you might also try these instructions for removing your keyboard profiles and then restarting.
| Q: Mac thinks mouse is a keyboard Whenever I plug in my usb wireless mouse, my Macbook Air and Mac Pro both think that the mouse is a keyboard and won't register the mouse's movements at all. Is there a way to fix this?
The mouse is a cheapy Gigaware wireless usb mouse and I'm running OS X Mavericks.
A: This restored the default mouse behavior for me, though it looks like I had a different problem.
*
*Open keyboard settings in System Preferences > Keyboard
*Click Modifier Keys... button in bottom right of panel
*Select your mouse from the dropdown
*Click Restore Defaults button to restore default behavior.
If that doesn't work, you might also try these instructions for removing your keyboard profiles and then restarting.
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8b2cbfcd05e0565b27686bcf48337eb6e345f900 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Reformat Time Machine backup drive back to an ordinary external hard drive I have a WDC Passport external drive which I used as a time machine backup. However, I do not want to use it as Time Machine backup anymore, I just want to use it as a regular external hard drive.
How can I do this? Whenever I run the Disk Utility App, I can't seem to find a way to reformat the external drive back to FAT32.
A: This process involves a few steps within the built-in Disk Utility program, particularly when your partition is encrypted.
Before we begin, note that you should see hierarchy of disks/volumes in Disk Utility. At the highest level, you should see a logical volume group representing your external drive, with at least one Time Machine partition nested underneath it. These two items could both have identical names, e.g., "Time Machine," but they represent different things.
Also, beware that following these steps will delete everything on your external drive.
*
*In Disk Utility, "unmount" (don't "eject") the Time Machine partition.
*Erase the Time Machine partition.
*Erase the logical volume group, i.e., the higher-level item that contains the partition.
| Q: Reformat Time Machine backup drive back to an ordinary external hard drive I have a WDC Passport external drive which I used as a time machine backup. However, I do not want to use it as Time Machine backup anymore, I just want to use it as a regular external hard drive.
How can I do this? Whenever I run the Disk Utility App, I can't seem to find a way to reformat the external drive back to FAT32.
A: This process involves a few steps within the built-in Disk Utility program, particularly when your partition is encrypted.
Before we begin, note that you should see hierarchy of disks/volumes in Disk Utility. At the highest level, you should see a logical volume group representing your external drive, with at least one Time Machine partition nested underneath it. These two items could both have identical names, e.g., "Time Machine," but they represent different things.
Also, beware that following these steps will delete everything on your external drive.
*
*In Disk Utility, "unmount" (don't "eject") the Time Machine partition.
*Erase the Time Machine partition.
*Erase the logical volume group, i.e., the higher-level item that contains the partition.
A: Go to Disk Utility, select the disk on the left, go to the Erase tab, specify the format as ‘MS-DOS (FAT)’ which is FAT32, enter a name and click Erase.
A: Click on the "Time Machine" drive that is indented (the one underneath the one you selected on your screen). Then the "Erase" tab should appear. Also, if your Time Machine is encrypted, my experience was that I needed to erase it and choose an unencrypted format in order to really regain full control of the disk.
A: There is no erase tab when using a disk that was a Time Machine.
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091478606e13367061f19f37a87de5a3d48f6d03 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Turn off NVIDIA on Windows 8.1 Bootcamp Has there be a successful attempt to turn off the NVIDIA graphic card and use the Intel one?
I know that in Linux, it is possible to turn off one graphic card and use the other (using vgaswitcheroo).
I am running Windows 8.1 Bootcamp on MB Pro 10.1 and experience overheating due to this issue.
A: If you are trying to disable the nVidia graphics card, you can do the following:
*
*Reboot into safe mode. If you don't know how to, refer to here for more information. Make sure that the Mac is configured to boot from Windows in the Boot Camp Control Panel.
*After booting into safe mode, open Device Manager by pressing Win+R, and then typing devmgmt.msc.
*Expand Display Adapters
*Right click on the nVidia driver and select Disable. MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO NOT DISABLE THE INTEL HD GRAPHICS OR IRIS PRO
*Reboot the Mac into Windows 8.1
*If it boots normally, great. If it screws up, do steps 1-3 and select enable.
Note that this will DISABLE your discrete graphics, so that means that you cannot use it until you re enable it in Device Manager.
| Q: Turn off NVIDIA on Windows 8.1 Bootcamp Has there be a successful attempt to turn off the NVIDIA graphic card and use the Intel one?
I know that in Linux, it is possible to turn off one graphic card and use the other (using vgaswitcheroo).
I am running Windows 8.1 Bootcamp on MB Pro 10.1 and experience overheating due to this issue.
A: If you are trying to disable the nVidia graphics card, you can do the following:
*
*Reboot into safe mode. If you don't know how to, refer to here for more information. Make sure that the Mac is configured to boot from Windows in the Boot Camp Control Panel.
*After booting into safe mode, open Device Manager by pressing Win+R, and then typing devmgmt.msc.
*Expand Display Adapters
*Right click on the nVidia driver and select Disable. MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO NOT DISABLE THE INTEL HD GRAPHICS OR IRIS PRO
*Reboot the Mac into Windows 8.1
*If it boots normally, great. If it screws up, do steps 1-3 and select enable.
Note that this will DISABLE your discrete graphics, so that means that you cannot use it until you re enable it in Device Manager.
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ce058b45902cdc247b60696a2a5b5c4348749a8c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to eject my external drive when my Mac refuses because of Spotlight? I have plugged an external disk to my Mac. Now, I want to eject it. But my Mac stubbornly refuses and says that an application may be using the disk.
I have not launched any app neither opened any file from the disk.
I have downloaded and installed the app What's Keeping Me? This app is quite nice. She tells me that the process mds is using my disk.
I have killed the process mds and several processes mdworker. These are for Spotlight. But such processes get spawned again.
How can I eject my disk from my Mac ?
I have Mac OS X 10.6.8.
A: Often I find it is mds that is preventing me from unmounting a volume.
sudo killall mds
And then (quickly) try ejecting the volume again.
In my case, I am mounting another Mac's main volume on my current Mac. I don't want to disable Spotlight as I want indexing to resume when the external volume is returned to the other Mac (as its boot up volume).
| Q: How to eject my external drive when my Mac refuses because of Spotlight? I have plugged an external disk to my Mac. Now, I want to eject it. But my Mac stubbornly refuses and says that an application may be using the disk.
I have not launched any app neither opened any file from the disk.
I have downloaded and installed the app What's Keeping Me? This app is quite nice. She tells me that the process mds is using my disk.
I have killed the process mds and several processes mdworker. These are for Spotlight. But such processes get spawned again.
How can I eject my disk from my Mac ?
I have Mac OS X 10.6.8.
A: Often I find it is mds that is preventing me from unmounting a volume.
sudo killall mds
And then (quickly) try ejecting the volume again.
In my case, I am mounting another Mac's main volume on my current Mac. I don't want to disable Spotlight as I want indexing to resume when the external volume is returned to the other Mac (as its boot up volume).
A: You can try to force-quit Finder, this worked for me. Finder was hanging onto the USB drive, so force-quiting and re-launching released whatever the hang was.
A: You may try to unmount it from the command line:
diskutil unmount /Volumes/MountPoint
or with force:
diskutil unmount force /Volumes/MountPoint
If it's still failing, check what's using your disk:
sudo fs_usage -w -f filesys | grep Volumes
Or using lsof:
sudo lsof | grep Volumes
(Some processes only turn up when lsof is run as administrator.)
To disable temporary Spotlight, run:
sudo mdutil -a -i off
Then sudo mdutil -a -i on to re-enable.
Other apps which can be helpful: Whats Keeping Me.
A: Simply turn indexing off for the drive and erase the contents of the journal on the volume. To do so, open Terminal and enter the following command:
sudo mdutil -Ei off "/Volumes/Name_of_Drive"
You must run this procedure as an admin. Enter your password when prompted. A reboot may be required.
Alternatively, as suggested by Simon White, just shut down the machine and then unplug the drive. The caveat is that the drive will start indexing when connected again, however.
A: To prevent Spotlight from indexing the drive, create a plaintext file in TextEdit with no content, just the title of .metadata_never_index and save to the external. Uncheck use extension "txt" ... and tell TextEdit that yes, you do want to save it with a dot at the front (which will make it invisible.)
I'm not sure whether that will stop it right now, but it will prevent it in future.
Alternatively, make this Applescript into an app, to force eject [with the usual caveats on force-ejecting...]... credit to The MacTipper Blog
property show_credits : true
set the_volumes to do shell script "ls /Volumes/"
tell application "Finder" to set the_HD to path to home folder as string
set ejectable_volumes to {}
repeat with i in (every paragraph of the_volumes)
if the_HD does not start with i then
set end of ejectable_volumes to (i as string)
end if
end repeat
if (count of items of ejectable_volumes) is 0 then
tell me to activate
display dialog "Sorry, but there are no ejectable volumes."
else if (count of items of ejectable_volumes) is 1 then
tell me to activate
set the_result to item 1 of ejectable_volumes as string
display dialog ("Eject \"" & the_result & "\"?") buttons {"No", "Yes"} default button 2 cancel button "No"
set the_path to quoted form of ("/Volumes/" & the_result as string)
do shell script "hdiutil eject -force " & the_path
else
tell me to activate
set the_result to choose from list ejectable_volumes with prompt "Please choose a volume to eject (You can select multiple items):" with multiple selections allowed
if the_result is not false then
repeat with j in the_result
set the_path to quoted form of ("/Volumes/" & j as string)
do shell script "hdiutil eject -force " & the_path
end repeat
end if
end if
if show_credits is true then
tell me to activate
set the_credits to button returned of (display dialog "This applescript brought to you by The MacTipper Blog.\n\nhttp://mactipper.com" buttons {"Don't Show Again", "Visit TMB", "OK"} default button 3) as string
if the_credits is "Don't Show Again" then
set show_credits to false
else if the_credits is "Visit TMB" then
open location "http://mactipper.com"
end if
end if
A: If you can’t disconnect a drive for any reason, you can simply Shutdown the computer. When the computer is off, you can safely disconnect the drive. Then start the computer. This will not only enable you to safely unplug the drive, but it will ensure that the mds process restarts in case it is actually hung.
If you have decided that you don’t want to use Spotlight with that drive, all you have to do to stop it from being indexed is add the drive to the Privacy tab of the Spotlight pane of System Preferences. Spotlight will ignore the drive.
Alternatively, if you do want to use Spotlight on that drive, then building an index the first time the computer sees the drive is a necessary evil. Once the index is built, it is updated with every change to every file, so it won’t make you wait again. But if you don’t see a progress bar in the Spotlight menu, then it is likely that mds is hung. Again, just Shutdown the computer in that case, and disconnect your drive.
A: This problem has resurfaced on Catalina and none of these worked. For now I'll force eject and pull the drive anyway if it balks about it.
It’s an awful solution but I don’t see how it lowers risk or saves time versus killing the process that is stuck and possibly reading or writing data.
A: Another simple option is to eject it through Disk Utilities.
A: I was cleaning up the thousands of CDs and DVDs that have accumulated over the decades and one got stuck in the external Mac Apple "Superdrive." I tried all the tricks to eject it, including rebooting. Then the OS wouldn't even show that the external drive existed. There were lots of suggestions online of how to eject the DVD and I tried most of them -- saving the most extreme for last, which involved prying open the housing with a flathead screwdriver.
My solution was to unplug the drive's USB from the Mac and plug it in to a Windows 7 laptop. The laptop found the correct driver and automatically ejected the disc. I posted this solution to the Mac support forum, but they took it down, because "the post was not a technical question."
I think the irony of Windows 7 fixing a "Superdrive" was too much for them.
A: You can tell Spotlight that it should never index that drive and then you won't have to worry about it.
In the 10.11 System Preferences there's an entry for 'Spotlight', which has a tab named 'Privacy'. Click '+', select your drive, and you're done. Just close System Preferences, wait a few seconds for the system to notice the update, and you should be able to eject. Now it won't start indexing the disk the next time you connect, so you won't have the problem again in the future.
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08234c06bb4cf2c3de8074d1464839fb1b4196bb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Prevent Outlook meeting requests from auto-deleting How can I prevent accepted meetings from being deleted in Office 2011?
When I accept a meeting in Outlook 2011 for Mac, it always automatically moves the invitation to deleted items. I'd prefer to see the invitation in my inbox indefinitely.
There are how-to guides describing how this can be fixed in Windows machines, but I've explored (I think) all the nooks and crannies of the preferences menu on my Macbook and can't find any equivalent setting in Office 2011 for Mac.
A: Actually I found a work around for this! If you go to your calendar and right click on the greyed out calendar entry that shows up (this is automatically done by outlook) and accept the request from the drop down menu (or tentatively accept or decline, whatever the case may be), it will go into your calendar and the actual email request will still be in your mailbox.
| Q: Prevent Outlook meeting requests from auto-deleting How can I prevent accepted meetings from being deleted in Office 2011?
When I accept a meeting in Outlook 2011 for Mac, it always automatically moves the invitation to deleted items. I'd prefer to see the invitation in my inbox indefinitely.
There are how-to guides describing how this can be fixed in Windows machines, but I've explored (I think) all the nooks and crannies of the preferences menu on my Macbook and can't find any equivalent setting in Office 2011 for Mac.
A: Actually I found a work around for this! If you go to your calendar and right click on the greyed out calendar entry that shows up (this is automatically done by outlook) and accept the request from the drop down menu (or tentatively accept or decline, whatever the case may be), it will go into your calendar and the actual email request will still be in your mailbox.
A: I found the setting present in the Web version:
A: Unfortunately, this feature is not currently available in Outlook 2011. Personally I think it was a huge mistake to omit this feature in the Mac version of Office 2011.
The best you can do is to send your feedback by clicking Help > Send Feedback... in any Office application, or by clicking on this link. However, if your feedback is taken into consideration, this feature will most probably be added only to future versions of Office for Mac.
More info on this Microsoft Community question
A: Another option is create a rule for messages of Kind "Meeting Request" to be copied to an "Invitations" folder in your inbox.
Steps that work on my version of Outlook.
*
*Create an Invitations folder.
*Highlight message that is a meeting invite
*Click on the "Organize" toolbar
*Click on the "Rules" icon
*On the little menu that pops up, click "Create Rule..."
*On the rules dialog, the first field will say "From". Change that to "Kind".
*The next box will say "Encrypted" (as in Kind is Encrypted). Change that to "Meeting Request"
*Use the minus sign to delete the sent to and subject rules (the next two rows)
*Change "Do the Following" from "Move to Folder" to "Copy to Folder"
*Change the folder name to "Invitations" or whatever you called it in step one
*Uncheck the box "Do not apply other rules..."
*Click ok
A: This has been requested for Outlook for Mac on the Microsoft UserVoice forum:
Don't auto-delete meeting requests!
Don't auto delete meeting requests! Sometimes they contain useful information in the body of the message that is hard to see once the meeting has been put on the calendar.
I can customize this setting in Outlook for Windows. Why leave it out for Outlook for Mac?
https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/293343-outlook-for-mac/suggestions/13031544-don-t-auto-delete-meeting-requests
Unfortunately, it has not yet been implemented. Please consider adding a comment to that UserVoice thread.
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8d5f806663558df4b308f4c55f36cbe356061ec9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac wont boot and fan runs high My Mid 2013 macbook pro recently will no longer boot. I was using it normally (no excessive use) and then all of a sudden it just went black and shut off immediately. I can no longer boot it (I got it to boot once but now it't having the same problem).
Basically, when I press the power button to turn it on, the fan runs really high then stops and wont boot. I have no idea what the problem is. Any help?
A: Apple's official guide has several good steps. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1367
I would start with resetting the SMC: the System Management Controller.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
If that doesn't work, reset the NVRAM (which isn't on the list) followed by attempting to boot to internet recovery.
*
*NVRAM - Command Option P R
*Recovery - Command R
Past that, you would need to open the machine and start removing all components that aren't part of the "minimal system" or take it to a technician that does that professionally.
| Q: Mac wont boot and fan runs high My Mid 2013 macbook pro recently will no longer boot. I was using it normally (no excessive use) and then all of a sudden it just went black and shut off immediately. I can no longer boot it (I got it to boot once but now it't having the same problem).
Basically, when I press the power button to turn it on, the fan runs really high then stops and wont boot. I have no idea what the problem is. Any help?
A: Apple's official guide has several good steps. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1367
I would start with resetting the SMC: the System Management Controller.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
If that doesn't work, reset the NVRAM (which isn't on the list) followed by attempting to boot to internet recovery.
*
*NVRAM - Command Option P R
*Recovery - Command R
Past that, you would need to open the machine and start removing all components that aren't part of the "minimal system" or take it to a technician that does that professionally.
A: Just fixed MacBook Pro stuck in Sleep and Fans running high. All you need to do is open up case and unplug the fans from motherboard! Somehow the temperature sensing must be in fan air and it senses high temp and shuts down computer with fans on high. Some how restarting computer doesn't reset things (design fault or firmware bug).
But UNPLUG FANS and you're good to go. I did this while powered on and it sprang into life! Later I checked it powers down and reboots.
Don't forget to plug fans in again before completion and fans "hey presto" run at normal speed.
Apple engineers couldnt fix this and said we had to buy new board or computer $2k+.
Good luck
A: I have had this problem as well. Right now I am running my mac book with no battery and the charger in. This normally makes it work. I am starting to think that the battery is sliding around because the brackets attached to my battery broke off (screws that hold the battery down). I temperaily had a piece of metal wedged to keep it from sliding and this did the trick for about a week. Then it started again. I am not sure what is going on but it all started for both me and my roommate after using the HDMI adapter accessory...
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a6442955ed3ce10031cfc419e92bb7941ef3cb64 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where is Java installed in OSX Mavericks? I am setting up Maven on my Mac but it is not working because the JAVA_HOME variable is not defined. I had expected the java installer to create this but alas not.
Where is java installed so I can create this variable myself?
A: George Garside's path is correct. Latest JDK released today from Oracle. I advise downloading directly from Oracle's Site. Use the symlink to create your JAVA_HOME variable.
Add the following to your .bash_profile or .bashrc profile.
export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
Just downloaded the kit and added the above to my .bash_profile.
As you can see, variable is now clearly defined:
Macbook-Pro:~ njboot$ echo $JAVA_HOME
Returns:
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_20.jdk/Contents/Home
| Q: Where is Java installed in OSX Mavericks? I am setting up Maven on my Mac but it is not working because the JAVA_HOME variable is not defined. I had expected the java installer to create this but alas not.
Where is java installed so I can create this variable myself?
A: George Garside's path is correct. Latest JDK released today from Oracle. I advise downloading directly from Oracle's Site. Use the symlink to create your JAVA_HOME variable.
Add the following to your .bash_profile or .bashrc profile.
export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
Just downloaded the kit and added the above to my .bash_profile.
As you can see, variable is now clearly defined:
Macbook-Pro:~ njboot$ echo $JAVA_HOME
Returns:
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_20.jdk/Contents/Home
A: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/<version>.jdk/Contents/Home
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e8378fb0dd17b4852bb5682f16feae3c7495e77c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Could you interpret these screen resolutions from Google Analytics? After choosing Macintosh in my Google Analytics stats and then choosing Screen Resolution as the secondary dimension, I get these numbers:
Which one of these are 15" Macbook Pro, 13" Macbook Pro, etc.
I'd like to know if the Retina screens are reported in their actual resolution. I don't see any stats for 2560x1600 and 2880x1800. Does this mean that these Retina screens are reported as 1280x800 and 1440x900 respectively?
A: 1440x900 is the native resolution for 15'' non Macbook Pros, and the given (best/default) resolution for 15'' rMBP with the pixel doubling effect taken into account, as it is. The analytics don't distinguish between the two, so the most you can infer from the data is that the most common model is a 15'' Macbook Pro.
| Q: Could you interpret these screen resolutions from Google Analytics? After choosing Macintosh in my Google Analytics stats and then choosing Screen Resolution as the secondary dimension, I get these numbers:
Which one of these are 15" Macbook Pro, 13" Macbook Pro, etc.
I'd like to know if the Retina screens are reported in their actual resolution. I don't see any stats for 2560x1600 and 2880x1800. Does this mean that these Retina screens are reported as 1280x800 and 1440x900 respectively?
A: 1440x900 is the native resolution for 15'' non Macbook Pros, and the given (best/default) resolution for 15'' rMBP with the pixel doubling effect taken into account, as it is. The analytics don't distinguish between the two, so the most you can infer from the data is that the most common model is a 15'' Macbook Pro.
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7fa0ce96f8bfb8c6c81705176d521d6ec718e6ca | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Native OSX Dictionary Is there a native dictionary on OSX?
I would like to be able to click on a word (in any open window), and get its meaning in a quick popup windows.
A: Mouse over a word and tap the trackpad with three fingers, or enable the Dictionary service in System Preferences to assign a keyboard shortcut (by default, it's ⌃⌘D).
| Q: Native OSX Dictionary Is there a native dictionary on OSX?
I would like to be able to click on a word (in any open window), and get its meaning in a quick popup windows.
A: Mouse over a word and tap the trackpad with three fingers, or enable the Dictionary service in System Preferences to assign a keyboard shortcut (by default, it's ⌃⌘D).
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d3ba5f732d085e1374e6a2635ee6828773cb11bb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I stop Finder from warning me when I change a file extension? When renaming a file in the Finder and changing the file extension, I get the following confirmation dialog warning message:
Are you sure you want to change the extension from ".md" to ".txt"?
If you make this change, your document may open in a different application.
How can I disable it?
A: Finder > Preferences > Advanced (⌘ ,), then uncheck
Show warning before changing an extension
| Q: How do I stop Finder from warning me when I change a file extension? When renaming a file in the Finder and changing the file extension, I get the following confirmation dialog warning message:
Are you sure you want to change the extension from ".md" to ".txt"?
If you make this change, your document may open in a different application.
How can I disable it?
A: Finder > Preferences > Advanced (⌘ ,), then uncheck
Show warning before changing an extension
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b3e30490094b0c757aa5d6f8e4e1e370f64a584d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I extend the end of a clip in iMovie? Need help with an iMovie I am putting together for a memorial this weekend. I've finished the movie, but was hoping to extend the first clip. Since I am using a 'ken burns' crop for the clip, the view pans from the bottom of the photo to the top in the clip. Once the view reaches the top of the photo, I'd like it to hold for about four seconds. I can't seem to make that happen, even if I'm using the inspector. Any step by step tips folks can offer up would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Leah
A: *
*Click the clip after the clip that you wish to pause
*Press ⇧← to go back to the end of the clip that you wish
*Press ⌥F to add a freeze-frame
*Delete the third clip
*Set the second clip to Fit or Crop to Fill
| Q: How do I extend the end of a clip in iMovie? Need help with an iMovie I am putting together for a memorial this weekend. I've finished the movie, but was hoping to extend the first clip. Since I am using a 'ken burns' crop for the clip, the view pans from the bottom of the photo to the top in the clip. Once the view reaches the top of the photo, I'd like it to hold for about four seconds. I can't seem to make that happen, even if I'm using the inspector. Any step by step tips folks can offer up would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Leah
A: *
*Click the clip after the clip that you wish to pause
*Press ⇧← to go back to the end of the clip that you wish
*Press ⌥F to add a freeze-frame
*Delete the third clip
*Set the second clip to Fit or Crop to Fill
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f61e0b71cef6a645cb05dba7b3af025789218d59 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: characters stick at the beginning of CLI When I press arrow up to search through the command history, some characters always remain at the beginning of the command line. Does anyone know what's going on ? How can I fix it?
for example, I ping google.com, it looks like this:
then I press up arrow a few times and down arrow a few times, some characters stick at the beginning of the command line like this:
those characters can't be removed or highlight, and I can still use the CLI normally, like this:
and move between directory despite the leading characters:
A: Your Bash prompt is not properly escaped for non-printing characters, so it thinks the prompt is longer than it truly is (and doesn't delete some of the characters). To fix it, add \[ and \] around the invisible parts.
You need to change it to:
export PS1='\[\e[31m\]\W\[\e[0m\] '
| Q: characters stick at the beginning of CLI When I press arrow up to search through the command history, some characters always remain at the beginning of the command line. Does anyone know what's going on ? How can I fix it?
for example, I ping google.com, it looks like this:
then I press up arrow a few times and down arrow a few times, some characters stick at the beginning of the command line like this:
those characters can't be removed or highlight, and I can still use the CLI normally, like this:
and move between directory despite the leading characters:
A: Your Bash prompt is not properly escaped for non-printing characters, so it thinks the prompt is longer than it truly is (and doesn't delete some of the characters). To fix it, add \[ and \] around the invisible parts.
You need to change it to:
export PS1='\[\e[31m\]\W\[\e[0m\] '
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20da9b2b6f69914273b4401f226246ba368f3a23 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I buy a used iPhone 5 from eBay and use it as an iPod Touch? I'm planning on buying a second-hand iPhone 5 from eBay and then using it as an iPod Touch (when the time comes, I'd like to activate it and use it as an iPhone). I'm not sure how activation works, however, and a few hours of internet searching have yielded several different answers. So far, I've heard that I'd need to get a SIM card matching the carrier of the iPhone, but I've heard some people say that it has to have been used with an iPhone before that?
Sorry for the possible triviality; I'm not too well-versed in Apple products and things. Thanks a ton in advance :)
A: The phone will need to be activated using a valid SIM card. If the device is carrier-locked it will need to be a SIM of that carrier. However you can just take out the SIM after activation and the phone will work fine until you reset it (then it would need to be activated again).
| Q: Can I buy a used iPhone 5 from eBay and use it as an iPod Touch? I'm planning on buying a second-hand iPhone 5 from eBay and then using it as an iPod Touch (when the time comes, I'd like to activate it and use it as an iPhone). I'm not sure how activation works, however, and a few hours of internet searching have yielded several different answers. So far, I've heard that I'd need to get a SIM card matching the carrier of the iPhone, but I've heard some people say that it has to have been used with an iPhone before that?
Sorry for the possible triviality; I'm not too well-versed in Apple products and things. Thanks a ton in advance :)
A: The phone will need to be activated using a valid SIM card. If the device is carrier-locked it will need to be a SIM of that carrier. However you can just take out the SIM after activation and the phone will work fine until you reset it (then it would need to be activated again).
A: You most certainly can use any iPhone without needing an active data connection. You can turn off the Cellular Data to help save some battery life, but the hardware will still use some energy no matter the settings you choose.
As to knowing the product, you will need to either risk losing the money, buy it though escrow service, clear things with the buyer and make sure you know who the seller is before paying.
Insist that the listing clarify two things before bidding is the best practice:
*
*That the device is not Activation Locked to an Apple ID.
*Whether the carrier lock is enabled or disabled.
Here are some threads to help:
*
*Will an iPhone only activate using the SIM card that it was originally activated with?
*Using iPhone as iPod touch
*Is it possible to use an iPhone without a SIM card as an iPod touch?
*How can I bypass Activation Lock?
*How secure is Activation Lock on iOS 7 (and later)?
Lastly, Apple has this advice for people buying a second hand iOS device:
*
*Carrier Unlocking - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5014
*Activation Lock and used devices - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4515 and http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5661
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367894bb85cc396427e26ead661fc0d061b11e6d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I upgrade RAM on an early 2014 Macbook Pro with Retina display? I bought a Macbook Pro with Retina display (4GB RAM, 128GB SSD) in April.
It keeps freezing and about every 3 days, and I need to upgrade the RAM.
Am I able to upgrade the RAM on this machine to 8GB or 16GB?
A: No, you cannot add more RAM.
Open up Activity monitor, located in the Utilities folder of the Applications folder (or just search using Spotlight)
/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor
Go to the memory tab and check out the memory pressure and swap used. If the memory pressure is too high (yellow/red graph) you can figure out which applications are using the most memory by going to the View menu and choosing Columns -> Real Memory. Sort applications by the newly added Real Memory column and you will see which applications/processes are taking the most memory and slowing/freezing your computer.
| Q: Can I upgrade RAM on an early 2014 Macbook Pro with Retina display? I bought a Macbook Pro with Retina display (4GB RAM, 128GB SSD) in April.
It keeps freezing and about every 3 days, and I need to upgrade the RAM.
Am I able to upgrade the RAM on this machine to 8GB or 16GB?
A: No, you cannot add more RAM.
Open up Activity monitor, located in the Utilities folder of the Applications folder (or just search using Spotlight)
/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor
Go to the memory tab and check out the memory pressure and swap used. If the memory pressure is too high (yellow/red graph) you can figure out which applications are using the most memory by going to the View menu and choosing Columns -> Real Memory. Sort applications by the newly added Real Memory column and you will see which applications/processes are taking the most memory and slowing/freezing your computer.
A: No you can't add ram to that model.
However, the computer shouldn't be freezing. There may be hardware error, take it to an apple store.
A: Just like the MacBook Air line, the retina MacBook Pro line has no distinct RAM slots. This is clearly stated in the tech specs as well as the user manuals for your model.
*
*http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/
Why not ask a follow-on question documenting the memory pressure you are seeing on the Mac and perhaps we can assist you in not needing to sell your Mac and buying another with a larger RAM capacity.
A: Your mac shouldn't be freezing. Do a apple hardware test or take it to an apple store.
Apple Hardware Test:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201257
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411432a213a09407dda46fb6f16606bc9b3d6e00 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I hide the Terminal split pane scroll bar? Edit: I realised that this wasn't Terminal specific and found the answer.
This toolbar/scrollbar appeared permanently all of a sudden for some reason, and I'd like to hide it, but can't find an option to do so?
A: As you've probably figured, I'm not used to using a mouse and realised that's what's causing the problem.
| Q: How can I hide the Terminal split pane scroll bar? Edit: I realised that this wasn't Terminal specific and found the answer.
This toolbar/scrollbar appeared permanently all of a sudden for some reason, and I'd like to hide it, but can't find an option to do so?
A: As you've probably figured, I'm not used to using a mouse and realised that's what's causing the problem.
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6bbee0460b70b43779e9a159780fd5b7ec0ecca8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to send several pings per second? (ping more quickly) I was looking into pinging a host 5 times per second. I've read the man page for 'ping' for Mac OSX, but I can't find anything that would allow me to do this. I tried setting the -W switch to 5, to try and force sending more packets faster than the reply is received, but no luck there.
-W waittime
Time in milliseconds to wait for a reply for each packet sent.
I ended up using liboping from homebrew.
Is there a reason why I can't control the time gap between ping attempts with the default ping utility?
A: ping -n -i 0.1 google.com
This should do it at 10/sec (works fine in my testing). (-i sets the interval wait in seconds).
| Q: How to send several pings per second? (ping more quickly) I was looking into pinging a host 5 times per second. I've read the man page for 'ping' for Mac OSX, but I can't find anything that would allow me to do this. I tried setting the -W switch to 5, to try and force sending more packets faster than the reply is received, but no luck there.
-W waittime
Time in milliseconds to wait for a reply for each packet sent.
I ended up using liboping from homebrew.
Is there a reason why I can't control the time gap between ping attempts with the default ping utility?
A: ping -n -i 0.1 google.com
This should do it at 10/sec (works fine in my testing). (-i sets the interval wait in seconds).
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1039b15a729e2b478ea8bcf5841e3dee2c94acaf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Add languages to OSX dictionary The native OSX dictionary (hover + 3-finger-tap) does not work for the Hebrew language.
The example below shows its reluctance to interpret the word פרסומת, a valid Hebrew word.
Any ideas how to add extra languages to the dictionary?
A: Three-finger tap lookup is enabled by Dictionary.app.
Dictionary -> Preferences will enable you to activate more built-in dictionaries.
For more on adding dictionaries to Dictionary.app, check out this article which also points out how to download and install third-party dictionaries.
| Q: Add languages to OSX dictionary The native OSX dictionary (hover + 3-finger-tap) does not work for the Hebrew language.
The example below shows its reluctance to interpret the word פרסומת, a valid Hebrew word.
Any ideas how to add extra languages to the dictionary?
A: Three-finger tap lookup is enabled by Dictionary.app.
Dictionary -> Preferences will enable you to activate more built-in dictionaries.
For more on adding dictionaries to Dictionary.app, check out this article which also points out how to download and install third-party dictionaries.
A: I was fed up with how hard it is to find good dictionaries if you don't speak one of the "big" languages that Apple supports (El Capitan adds a few very good dictionaries for German etc., but that's not very helpful for users in small(er) countries) and so I decided to do something about it and made an app for installing translation dictionaries: Dictionaries.
Right now it has 44 languages (including Hebrew) and dictionaries are based on a good source (Wiktionary, periodically updated and growing steadily) and have stylesheets to look good in Yosemite and El Capitan. That's my two gripes with clasqm's huge collection that Tom mentions: those are mostly old dictionaries, not updated for 10.10+'s more modern look and they are one-off conversions.
A: This site has a number of extra dictionaries:
http://clasquin-johnson.co.za/michel/mac-os-x-dictionaries/index.html
and this article provides links for Hebrew/English and English/Hebrew
http://blog.jle.vi/post/72464439746/get-the-look-up-dictionary-feature-in-os-x-to-work
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ab0db5bff9c92e724ad827086ee65a6ce51ac355 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change guest account photo in Mavericks? In Mavericks, how do you change the user account photo to something other than that gray silhouette?
I've searched for an answer to this question and it seems people figured it out in Mountain Lion and earlier, but not Mavericks as far as I can find. I'm using OS X 10.9.4. Thanks.
A: The image is located at the following location. Change it and reboot.
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LoginUIKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LoginUICore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/GuestUser.png
[email protected] is the image used for Retina displays
| Q: Change guest account photo in Mavericks? In Mavericks, how do you change the user account photo to something other than that gray silhouette?
I've searched for an answer to this question and it seems people figured it out in Mountain Lion and earlier, but not Mavericks as far as I can find. I'm using OS X 10.9.4. Thanks.
A: The image is located at the following location. Change it and reboot.
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LoginUIKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LoginUICore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/GuestUser.png
[email protected] is the image used for Retina displays
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90e2bdfdda4567ccf2caadb9f5de3093cf584cc1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to open a specific port in Firewall OS X 10.9.4 How do I open a specific port in the firewall?
I can not use the "allow connections from application" as I want to open the port for Jenkins, that is not on the list...
A: Apple's OS X Mavericks contains three firewalls. First of all, the Application Level Firewall which can be configured using the system settings. But there is also ipfw, a packet filtering firewall like netfilter/iptables on GNU/Linux and pf (FreeBSD/OpenBSD).
You can either configure ipfw using the command line, or using a graphical front-end like the free/libre WaterRoof.
You could start with an ipfw command like:
sudo ipfw add 31010 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 8080
| Q: How to open a specific port in Firewall OS X 10.9.4 How do I open a specific port in the firewall?
I can not use the "allow connections from application" as I want to open the port for Jenkins, that is not on the list...
A: Apple's OS X Mavericks contains three firewalls. First of all, the Application Level Firewall which can be configured using the system settings. But there is also ipfw, a packet filtering firewall like netfilter/iptables on GNU/Linux and pf (FreeBSD/OpenBSD).
You can either configure ipfw using the command line, or using a graphical front-end like the free/libre WaterRoof.
You could start with an ipfw command like:
sudo ipfw add 31010 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 8080
A: ipfw is deprecated by Apple. Mountain Lion and later use pfctl.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5413
A: I had the same issue under OS X Yosemite (10.10.3). Found this blog post that provides clear instructions. We can't use ipfw any more, as it's deprecated. Instead, use pfctl, which unfortunately lacks a nice command line way to tell it to open a port. Instead, you need to:
*
*Open /etc/pf.conf in a text editor.
*Add a line like this:
# Open port 8080 for TCP on all interfaces
pass in proto tcp from any to any port 8080
*Save the file.
*Load the changes with:
sudo pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf
If you need to open a udp port, change tcp to udp, if you need both, add a second line. Additional detail can be found in man pf.conf.
Also make sure your server is listening on the actual interface you want it accessible over (or all interfaces, using 0.0.0.0 or ::0), not localhost (127.0.0.1 or ::1).
A: Here's a one liner rather than requiring the user to mess around with Vim. Useful for automation.
sed -i '' -e '$a\pass in proto tcp from any to any port 8080' /etc/pf.conf; pfctl -vnf /etc/pf.conf
Or an alternative for Linux users
sed -i -e '$a\pass in proto tcp from any to any port 8080' /etc/pf.conf; pfctl -vnf /etc/pf.conf
Just make sure you change 8080 in the example to whatever you have in mind. Swap tcp with udp if you like.
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6858dc9e1c88f65b62ec9e935a2c23d4953e223f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What are the trusted Certificate Authorities in iOS? I'm wondering if StartCom is a trusted CA on iOS.
I'd like to setup a mail server for a TLD, and use their free certificate. It's only about $10/year cheaper than more well known authorities, so the deciding factor is if it's trusted on my iPhone.
I know it is on OS X, Windows and many linux distributions, but would like to be certain.
A: I think this Apple support article has the list you're looking for. It is updated as changes are made:
iOS: List of available trusted root certificates
And StartCom is on there.
| Q: What are the trusted Certificate Authorities in iOS? I'm wondering if StartCom is a trusted CA on iOS.
I'd like to setup a mail server for a TLD, and use their free certificate. It's only about $10/year cheaper than more well known authorities, so the deciding factor is if it's trusted on my iPhone.
I know it is on OS X, Windows and many linux distributions, but would like to be certain.
A: I think this Apple support article has the list you're looking for. It is updated as changes are made:
iOS: List of available trusted root certificates
And StartCom is on there.
A: Here's the trust list for iOS 7:
http://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT203065
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3977b384a3b3e8a66da48f89edab57d55b45242e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Creating a URL that always opens in Chrome If I want to ensure a URL, if clicked, will always open in Chrome (instead of the default browser) can I do that by modifying the header?
For example, I can get URLs that always open in Evernote, they start with evernote:///
Is this possible, for example to have something like chrome:///www.url.com
A: On iOS:
googlechrome://www.example.com
| Q: Creating a URL that always opens in Chrome If I want to ensure a URL, if clicked, will always open in Chrome (instead of the default browser) can I do that by modifying the header?
For example, I can get URLs that always open in Evernote, they start with evernote:///
Is this possible, for example to have something like chrome:///www.url.com
A: On iOS:
googlechrome://www.example.com
A: Google has official documentation on the Chrome iOS app’s URI scheme on its developer website.
Simply replace http with googlechrome and https with googlechromes. This means:
*
*http://www.google.com/ becomes googlechrome://www.google.com/
*https://apple.stackexchange.com/ becomes googlechromes://apple.stackexchange.com/
Previously, it supported an x-callback-url of googlechrome-x-callback://. This allowed the calling app to indicate its name and URI scheme to Chrome, which would show a back button in the address bar that closes the tab and invokes the specified URI. This feature was removed a few years ago when iOS 9 added the “Back to …” button in the status bar (but the URI scheme still works).
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eb35dd23fbd5d5a5592a57e3ca2d744aaebdec66 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Way to determine most popular Homebrew packages? Is there a way to determine which Homebrew packages have been installed the most times, either in the recent past or all-time? It would make it easier to determine which formulae are the most useful, and to discover new software I may not have heard of. Currently, I just use homebrew when I find out "I need to install this" for some dependency.
A: Homebrew has been collecting anonymized analytics data and is sharing it at https://brew.sh/analytics
Sample results:
#1 [email protected] 2,315,158 2.54%
#2 sqlite 2,159,426 2.37%
#3 [email protected] 1,933,232 2.12%
#4 gdbm 1,426,774 1.57%
#5 icu4c 1,332,610 1.46%
#6 readline 1,302,327 1.43%
#7 mpdecimal 1,291,791 1.42%
#8 glib 1,149,928 1.26%
#9 node 1,100,823 1.21%
#10 m4 1,078,010 1.1
Here is a list of the most popular packages that people explicitly install (not as a dependency of something else):
https://brew.sh/analytics/install-on-request/
Here is a list of most frequently installed packages, which may include dependencies:
https://brew.sh/analytics/install/
| Q: Way to determine most popular Homebrew packages? Is there a way to determine which Homebrew packages have been installed the most times, either in the recent past or all-time? It would make it easier to determine which formulae are the most useful, and to discover new software I may not have heard of. Currently, I just use homebrew when I find out "I need to install this" for some dependency.
A: Homebrew has been collecting anonymized analytics data and is sharing it at https://brew.sh/analytics
Sample results:
#1 [email protected] 2,315,158 2.54%
#2 sqlite 2,159,426 2.37%
#3 [email protected] 1,933,232 2.12%
#4 gdbm 1,426,774 1.57%
#5 icu4c 1,332,610 1.46%
#6 readline 1,302,327 1.43%
#7 mpdecimal 1,291,791 1.42%
#8 glib 1,149,928 1.26%
#9 node 1,100,823 1.21%
#10 m4 1,078,010 1.1
Here is a list of the most popular packages that people explicitly install (not as a dependency of something else):
https://brew.sh/analytics/install-on-request/
Here is a list of most frequently installed packages, which may include dependencies:
https://brew.sh/analytics/install/
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9e064a2712eac46f28559b95001edfc4b9163b4b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Install shuf on OS X? Ubuntu Linux has a great tool called shuf, which works like head except that it gives you ten random lines. I couldn't find it on Homebrew. What is the simplest way of installing it on OS X?
A: You can use sort -R
$ seq 5 | sort -R
2
3
4
1
5
| Q: Install shuf on OS X? Ubuntu Linux has a great tool called shuf, which works like head except that it gives you ten random lines. I couldn't find it on Homebrew. What is the simplest way of installing it on OS X?
A: You can use sort -R
$ seq 5 | sort -R
2
3
4
1
5
A: Another option is to install randomize-lines(homebrew) package, which has an rl command which has similar functionality to shuf.
Usage: rl [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Randomize the lines of a file (or stdin).
-c, --count=N select N lines from the file
-r, --reselect lines may be selected multiple times
-o, --output=FILE
send output to file
-d, --delimiter=DELIM
specify line delimiter (one character)
-0, --null set line delimiter to null character
(useful with find -print0)
-n, --line-number
print line number with output lines
-q, --quiet, --silent
do not output any errors or warnings
-h, --help display this help and exit
-V, --version output version information and exit
A: Yet another solution is to learn about the tools supplied by the vendor. Certainly you could chain jot, paste, sort, cut, head and get the same results.
jot -r "$(wc -l FILE)" 1 |
paste - FILE |
sort -n |
cut -f 2- |
head -n 10
*
*jot produces a random number from 1 to the number of lines in FILE for each line
*paste pastes the random number to each line in FILE
*sort sorts numeric each line
*cut removes the random number from each line
*head outputs the first 10 lines
A: You can install coreutils with brew install coreutils.
shuf will be linked as gshuf. Read the caveats when you install coreutils.
A: You can install coreutils with Macports as
sudo port install coreutils
This will put GNU core utils in /opt/local/bin with a g prepended
e.g. gshuf
More details on the package coreutils.
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95255aee4fa1c1fde6966f958542e3025bfeb7e8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change date format in Numbers 3.2 I recently updated Numbers to 3.2.
I want to be able to put a date in a cell numerically (8-22-14) and then have it show up with the month name, day, and year (August 22, 2014) without having to do a formula. I do not need the time.
A: *
*Click the Format button in the upper right
*Select the "Cell" tab
*Under Data Format select "Date & Time"
*Under Date select your prefered format.
You should be able to enter a date in these newly formatted cells any format (like 8-22-14) and it should change to your selected format.
| Q: Change date format in Numbers 3.2 I recently updated Numbers to 3.2.
I want to be able to put a date in a cell numerically (8-22-14) and then have it show up with the month name, day, and year (August 22, 2014) without having to do a formula. I do not need the time.
A: *
*Click the Format button in the upper right
*Select the "Cell" tab
*Under Data Format select "Date & Time"
*Under Date select your prefered format.
You should be able to enter a date in these newly formatted cells any format (like 8-22-14) and it should change to your selected format.
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/142877"
} |
4f49eecb66fd960074143779bef09a9efafc2849 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Only use part of screen? My screen is broken, but perfectly straight along one side and the rest (majority) of the screen is perfectly fine. I would like to adjust my display so that my computer thinks that the display ends where the screen is broken. Are there any utilities, command line or otherwise that would help me here? I have a 15-inch 3360 x 2100 retina display with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB graphics card. The computer is Early 2013.
A: SwitchRes X might be able to help you, it can modify screen settings that are usually inaccessible.
There is a custom resolutions section
| Q: Only use part of screen? My screen is broken, but perfectly straight along one side and the rest (majority) of the screen is perfectly fine. I would like to adjust my display so that my computer thinks that the display ends where the screen is broken. Are there any utilities, command line or otherwise that would help me here? I have a 15-inch 3360 x 2100 retina display with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB graphics card. The computer is Early 2013.
A: SwitchRes X might be able to help you, it can modify screen settings that are usually inaccessible.
There is a custom resolutions section
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/142948"
} |
4bf48e3eb9236f6c8da953060a64f1509b0cc548 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I indent a selected paragraph in Pages on OS X? This is very basic, but couldn't figure it out so far. If you select a paragraph on Microsoft World on Windows you can just press tab and the paragraph will move to the right. On the Mac, however, the whole text is replaced with the tab. In Xcode one can indent a block of text to the right by pressing cmd+] (or cmd+[) to unindent the selected text again. How can I do this in Pages?
A: ⌘] and ⌘[ to increase and decrease indent level works in Pages too. These are the default shortcuts for the options available in Format → Text.
| Q: How can I indent a selected paragraph in Pages on OS X? This is very basic, but couldn't figure it out so far. If you select a paragraph on Microsoft World on Windows you can just press tab and the paragraph will move to the right. On the Mac, however, the whole text is replaced with the tab. In Xcode one can indent a block of text to the right by pressing cmd+] (or cmd+[) to unindent the selected text again. How can I do this in Pages?
A: ⌘] and ⌘[ to increase and decrease indent level works in Pages too. These are the default shortcuts for the options available in Format → Text.
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e9dbcd4a7a01a95c06d9dd5f03bbf93380e86122 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: AppleScript keystroke ignoring numbers A very simple AppleScript like this:
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "abc 123"
end tell
results in just “abc” being typed. Online resources suggest this should not be the case. Adding a delay between keystrokes didn't help.
What might be causing this or how can I determine what might be causing this?
Small side question: in AppleScript terminology, what is keystroke? A function, command, something else?
A: Have a look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18136567/applescript-keystroke-not-behaving-as-expected & the list of ANSI codes at
How do I automate a key press in AppleScript?
It appears you're not the only one with the issue. One solution on there was to use the key code instead...
tell application "System Events"
key code {18} using {command down}
It may depend on what app you're trying to send the keystrokes to - I just tested with an already-open blank document in Text Edit using
tell application "TextEdit" to activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "abc 123"
end tell
& it worked as expected.
A keystroke is the scripted equivalent of actually pressing that/those keys[s]
How about...
tell application "TextEdit" to activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "abc"
keystroke space
keystroke "123"
end tell
| Q: AppleScript keystroke ignoring numbers A very simple AppleScript like this:
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "abc 123"
end tell
results in just “abc” being typed. Online resources suggest this should not be the case. Adding a delay between keystrokes didn't help.
What might be causing this or how can I determine what might be causing this?
Small side question: in AppleScript terminology, what is keystroke? A function, command, something else?
A: Have a look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18136567/applescript-keystroke-not-behaving-as-expected & the list of ANSI codes at
How do I automate a key press in AppleScript?
It appears you're not the only one with the issue. One solution on there was to use the key code instead...
tell application "System Events"
key code {18} using {command down}
It may depend on what app you're trying to send the keystrokes to - I just tested with an already-open blank document in Text Edit using
tell application "TextEdit" to activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "abc 123"
end tell
& it worked as expected.
A keystroke is the scripted equivalent of actually pressing that/those keys[s]
How about...
tell application "TextEdit" to activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "abc"
keystroke space
keystroke "123"
end tell
A: Some more info about this issue that I've discovered is that when using keystroke with numbers, the System Events always sends them as ANSI_Keypad# characters (code 82-92) instead of what you might expect as ANSI_# characters (code 18-29).
For most Mac applications, this does not matter as OS X itself does not care about (use, support, etc) the NUMLOCK function on a Keypad, therefore the Keypad numbers are seen the same as keyboard numbers. However, it will pass the NUMLOCK keypress to the application if you have a keyboard/keypad that has this key.
There are a few applications that do monitor the NUMLOCK key (for example, VMware Fusion application when running a Windows VM) and will change the behavior based on the NUMLOCK state.
So for example, if the AppleScript sends keystroke "456" to a NUMLOCK aware application.
*
*If the NUMLOCK state is ON, the numbers "456" will appear.
*If the NUMLOCK state is OFF, the equivalent keys received are Left Arrow 5 Right Arrow
In the original question, the AppleScript sent abc 123 but most likely his application (which was not mentioned) was aware of the NUMLOCK state, which was currently OFF, and therefore executed the keys as abc [space] End Down Arrow Page Down
I put together a little AppleScript function that loops through the given string sending key code commands for any numbers and keystroke commands for any other characters.
on numberAsKeycode(theString)
tell application "System Events"
repeat with currentChar in (every character of theString)
set cID to id of currentChar
if ((cID ≥ 48) and (cID ≤ 57)) then
key code {item (cID - 47) of {29, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 22, 26, 28, 25}}
else
keystroke currentChar
end if
end repeat
end tell
end numberAsKeycode
set myString to "abc 123"
numberAsKeycode(myString)
Which executes the following
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "a"
keystroke "b"
keystroke "c"
keystroke " "
key code {18}
key code {19}
key code {20}
end tell
Hope this helps :)
A: As @user271866, I was having this problem and discovered that it was "Enable Mouse Keys" being checked in System Preferences that was affecting the behavior of keystroke.
I had an automator service I had been using to enter search terms into spotlight and copy & paste the result. When I got a new computer, I installed the service. I remembered also turning on mouse keys during the setup and as luck would have it, before I first ran the service today on this new computer, my Magic Mouse 2 battery died and I used mouse keys to to connect my old Magic Mouse. I then encountered erratic behavior from the service when I tried it. On a hunch, I tried disabling mouse keys and running the service and it worked! It pasted the numbers along with the rest of the string.
One thing to note is, it's not just numbers. Other characters on the numeric keypad (but not all) also will not get "typed out" by keystroke. . and / also will not work in a string supplied to keystroke. I thus modified @Insomniac_Software's code to create a working replacement/wrapper for the keystroke function:
--This is a replacement for the keystroke function, which fails when "Enable Mouse Keys" is checked in System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Mouse & Trackpad. Keystroke will not "type out" any numbers, a dot ('.') or a slash ('/') that are in the supplied string when this option is enabled in System preferences. This method is safe to use whether that setting is checked or not. Call like this: my keystrokeForMouseKeys("your string")
on keystrokeForMouseKeys(theString)
tell application "System Events"
repeat with theChar in (every character of theString)
set theCode to id of theChar
if theCode is 44 then
key code 44
--Not sure why 46 (m) is what you get when you call id on "." but key code 47 types a "." and key code 46 types an 'm'...
else if theCode is 46 then
key code 47
else if ((theCode ≥ 48) and (theCode ≤ 57)) then
key code {item (theCode - 47) of {29, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 22, 26, 28, 25}}
else
keystroke theChar
end if
end repeat
end tell
end keystrokeForMouseKeys
Now, if you call my keystrokeForMouseKeys("./0123456789"), you get:
./0123456789
Tested on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6.
A: have you checked if Mouse Keys is enabled (System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Mouse & Trackpad -> Enable Mouse Keys)?
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69804c454b80fb175fe96c5b1b7ea001817ae3bf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Any suggestions for a password manager app? I currently have MiniKeePass on my iPhone and although it does the basic job of storing passwords, I don't have the ability to create random passwords from the app itself and sync the changes to Dropbox.
I'm looking for a subscription-free iOS app that had a clean, modern and beautifully designed UI.
Any suggestions?
A: KeePass is a free, open source, and cross platform password manager, which has the benefit that your password file can be used on multiple devices (Linux, Windows, OSX, iOS and Android). I usually use DropBox to sync the password database between my devices.
Unfortunately the official binary on OSX required an X Server, which made it awkward to use compared to it's competitors.
Fortunately there is MacPass, which is a native port of KeePass for OSX. While it's not as well known as 1Password, it is however free and open source, meaning that you can (potentially) check it's source code, if you don't believe it's secure enough, or contains hidden backdoors.
Also since it's a KeePass port, it can open and edit your MiniKeePass files as well.
| Q: Any suggestions for a password manager app? I currently have MiniKeePass on my iPhone and although it does the basic job of storing passwords, I don't have the ability to create random passwords from the app itself and sync the changes to Dropbox.
I'm looking for a subscription-free iOS app that had a clean, modern and beautifully designed UI.
Any suggestions?
A: KeePass is a free, open source, and cross platform password manager, which has the benefit that your password file can be used on multiple devices (Linux, Windows, OSX, iOS and Android). I usually use DropBox to sync the password database between my devices.
Unfortunately the official binary on OSX required an X Server, which made it awkward to use compared to it's competitors.
Fortunately there is MacPass, which is a native port of KeePass for OSX. While it's not as well known as 1Password, it is however free and open source, meaning that you can (potentially) check it's source code, if you don't believe it's secure enough, or contains hidden backdoors.
Also since it's a KeePass port, it can open and edit your MiniKeePass files as well.
A: I use 1Password which is available for macOS (AppStore or directly from AgileBits), iOS, Windows and Android and offers both requirements you've listed (random passwords and Dropbox syncing).
A: OS X and iOS come with Keychain built-in. The passwords are automatically synced between your Mac and iOS device. You can access the passwords on both.
I've used a number of the password managers mentioned in the comments, even the insanely overpriced 1Password, and, though some may have slightly slicker UIs than Keychain, nothing compares on iOS with Keychain's auto-fill. The closest match on iOS would be iCab browser's password fill and services option, but to get full functionality you'd have to also be using iCab browser on OS X and the desktop version simply isn't up to snuff.
A: Locko by BinaryNights
*
*Mac app is on sale for $0.99
*iOS app is expected to be released soon
*Clean, OS X Yosemite influenced design
*Dropbox sync
Description from the Mac App Store:
Locko is a beautiful and easy-to-use password manager and file vault. You can store confidential information such as web logins, credit card data, computer accounts, software licenses, private pictures and documents, and much more. Locko supports iCloud and Dropbox so you can keep your data synchronized across multiple computers while maintaining absolute security.
• Secure AES-256 encryption
• Configurable password generator
• Web Logins, Credit Cards, Bank Accounts, Software Licenses, and so much more…
• File vault
• Photo album
• Secure Notes
• Custom fields (text, password, date, secure text)
• Search in all fields
• Unlimited item groups
• Browser extensions for Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera
• 1 click login for websites
• QuickLook encrypted documents
• iCloud and Dropbox synchronisation
• Import from 1Password
• Export database in JSON format
A: Use KeePass. Does the job for me.
KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).
A: You can also use text/edit app tool(you can find Text/Edit app in launch pad under other section) and type in for example "Stack Exchange Account Information:", then hit enter, and below that you can type "email address:", then type name of it, hit enter then type "Password:", then go to your web browser and you can go to https://randompasswordgen.com , then be sure to include symbols in your password and be sure your password is strong. strong passwords are long up to 128 by example, a password containing 2048 characters long is what can be called unbelievable passwords, but that can be saved in text edit document, but you may wanna create new folder to put you document into. and you may want a usb flash drive to store the folder container containing the account information which would include your password. so what you can do is, in https://randompasswordgen.com, in my opinion and recommendation go for 50 characters long, check mark symbols, hit the generate password button, then highlight the generated long password, right click, hit copy, then paste the generated password into your textedit document below " Password:" text then give name title of document and you can call it "Stack Exchange Ask Different Account Information", y default you'll probably see rtf at end of your title name of document. after that be sure to go down pointed arrow to select location to save the document into, you can if you like select downloads then you can go to file and hit save, then go to downloads tab and you'll find the document you saved. you can drag and drop the document into the new folder on your desktop then drag the folder into usb storage. I named my external usb storage "VAULT" but you can name yours whatever you like. I hope you found this helpful. edits of this answer is fine with me.
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29469ace4d88eb45699ce08a12acd0827fa47c41 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is mdflagwriter and why does it eat up so much RAM? On my Mavericks 10.9.4 instance of mdflagwriter eats up 2.18G of RAM. I know that it's somehow related to Spotlight, but what is it exactly and why is it so RAM-hungry?
A: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Versions/A/Support/mdflagwriter is part of Spotlight's indexing. There seems to be a bug present for some people where mdflagwriter uses a considerable amount of RAM, but no canonical fix, apart from reinstalling OS X, or for some people reindexing with sudo mdutil -E /.
| Q: What is mdflagwriter and why does it eat up so much RAM? On my Mavericks 10.9.4 instance of mdflagwriter eats up 2.18G of RAM. I know that it's somehow related to Spotlight, but what is it exactly and why is it so RAM-hungry?
A: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Versions/A/Support/mdflagwriter is part of Spotlight's indexing. There seems to be a bug present for some people where mdflagwriter uses a considerable amount of RAM, but no canonical fix, apart from reinstalling OS X, or for some people reindexing with sudo mdutil -E /.
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"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/143002"
} |
71ee65f5e5debc5d42aa7de1195c685836b49015 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Interface Scaling / Independent Resolution per Application on MacBook Pro Retina I have a MacBook Pro Retina and I run it on the unsupported/non-HiDPI 2560x1600 to be able to work on multiple windows at the same time.
This resolution increases the DPI allowing a large screen real estate. Everything seems fine, i sometimes need to Zoom to a particular window (Ctrl+Scroll) but it's not bothering me.
I find an issue using Microsoft Office (Excel and Word), where I'm constantly having to zoom in at 200% inside the document to be able to read and write.
Pre-Retina, there was an Interface Scale Factor that could be increased System-wide or Application-wide. The Application-wide would let you decrease/increase the DPI per application such as iTunes or Safari.
The command was something similar to:
defaults write /theapp/ AppleDisplayScaleFactor 0.85
This command doesn't seem to work on my system (Retina/Mavericks)
My question is whether it exists something similar for my Retina (Mavericks)?
Basically I want to increase the Scale Factor/Independent Resolution/DPI per Application and try to get the UI of Office (or other applications) to be larger, which would help a lot in a 2500x1600 world.
Thank you,
| Q: Interface Scaling / Independent Resolution per Application on MacBook Pro Retina I have a MacBook Pro Retina and I run it on the unsupported/non-HiDPI 2560x1600 to be able to work on multiple windows at the same time.
This resolution increases the DPI allowing a large screen real estate. Everything seems fine, i sometimes need to Zoom to a particular window (Ctrl+Scroll) but it's not bothering me.
I find an issue using Microsoft Office (Excel and Word), where I'm constantly having to zoom in at 200% inside the document to be able to read and write.
Pre-Retina, there was an Interface Scale Factor that could be increased System-wide or Application-wide. The Application-wide would let you decrease/increase the DPI per application such as iTunes or Safari.
The command was something similar to:
defaults write /theapp/ AppleDisplayScaleFactor 0.85
This command doesn't seem to work on my system (Retina/Mavericks)
My question is whether it exists something similar for my Retina (Mavericks)?
Basically I want to increase the Scale Factor/Independent Resolution/DPI per Application and try to get the UI of Office (or other applications) to be larger, which would help a lot in a 2500x1600 world.
Thank you,
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2812a157e68f3bba0c79ba9458707a075996f40c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is Migration Assistant doing when it transfers Keychains? When Migration Assistant (or Setup Assistant) migrates Keychains, it successfully transfers most items as expected, but behaves (very) strangely with respect to the "Local Items" keychain. It appears, rather than transferring the current contents of "Local Items", to create a new set of items (at least partially) from old entries in the "Login" keychain, resulting in many items on the target machine that are missing or out of date.
What is the logic behind this behavior — is it a bug? (and is there a way to recover the correct contents of the source machine's "Local Items" keychain)?
I'm aware that the "Local Items" keychain is not really a keychain, but a database inside a folder named for the GUID of the machine where it is "Local". But this only deepens the mystery, since this folder is completely transferred from the source machine, but seems to be unused by the target machine and inaccessible there from within Keychain Access.
| Q: What is Migration Assistant doing when it transfers Keychains? When Migration Assistant (or Setup Assistant) migrates Keychains, it successfully transfers most items as expected, but behaves (very) strangely with respect to the "Local Items" keychain. It appears, rather than transferring the current contents of "Local Items", to create a new set of items (at least partially) from old entries in the "Login" keychain, resulting in many items on the target machine that are missing or out of date.
What is the logic behind this behavior — is it a bug? (and is there a way to recover the correct contents of the source machine's "Local Items" keychain)?
I'm aware that the "Local Items" keychain is not really a keychain, but a database inside a folder named for the GUID of the machine where it is "Local". But this only deepens the mystery, since this folder is completely transferred from the source machine, but seems to be unused by the target machine and inaccessible there from within Keychain Access.
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d32762dfce956058ce9854ec97edcd660bcfa4a8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to put music on someone else's device without erasing their data? I have a friend who wants me to put my music from my iTunes onto her iPad.
The problem is her iPad has not been backed up onto another computer, so when I plug it in it asks to set up as new iPad or restore from settings or something like that.
How can I do it that her apps and data won't get erased, because she has very important work on there?
It is fine if her music gets deleted but nothing else. Is there a way I can put music onto her iPad without erasing data?
A: You can transfer files to her computer via an external hard drive, from there she can import them into her iTunes, then onto her iPad. She should really back it up though.
| Q: How to put music on someone else's device without erasing their data? I have a friend who wants me to put my music from my iTunes onto her iPad.
The problem is her iPad has not been backed up onto another computer, so when I plug it in it asks to set up as new iPad or restore from settings or something like that.
How can I do it that her apps and data won't get erased, because she has very important work on there?
It is fine if her music gets deleted but nothing else. Is there a way I can put music onto her iPad without erasing data?
A: You can transfer files to her computer via an external hard drive, from there she can import them into her iTunes, then onto her iPad. She should really back it up though.
A: There's a lot of music in the public domain, and some people create their own music, and while nobody is more scrupulous than I am about paying artists for their work, if something is long out of print and can't be had any other way, the best one can do is try to track down the artist and get some money to him.
Don't copy music otherwise, it's wrong.
Second answer is the only correct way to do it. Add the tracks to the recipient user's iTunes library. This won't work for purchased items since they're encrypted to a different key. You can only synch each content type ̣ ̣(apps, music, photos, etc.) to one computer at a time.
A: Upon plugging in your device, you may receive a screen that asks whether you want to Setup as New iPhone or Restore from a backup. If the device has already been through the iOS Setup Assistant, Setup as New iPhone only creates the device record on the computer you are plugging it into. This does not remove any content that is already on the device.
After setting it up as a new device on the computer, you will have a selection below Options to Manually Manage Music and Videos. This will allow you to manually select the content you wish to sync to her device. If they are iTunes Store purchases they will be tied to the Apple ID which purchased them.
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2ecf8f22aaebbff0f6ea93c65617427132612d54 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to switch Karabiner profile via shortcut? Is there a way to change the Karabiner profile (formerly KeyRemap4MacBook) using a shortcut?
A: Yes, there is, using Karabiner's command-line tool. Paste this into your private.xml:
<vkopenurldef>
<name>KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_SHELL_switchprofile_newitem</name>
<url type="shell">
<![CDATA[ /Applications/Karabiner.app/Contents/Library/bin/karabiner select_by_name NewItem ]]>
</url>
</vkopenurldef>
<item>
<name>Switch Profile to NewItem with F4</name>
<identifier>private.switch1</identifier>
<autogen>
__KeyToKey__
KeyCode::F4,
KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_SHELL_switchprofile_newitem
</autogen>
</item>
Obviously, you will need to change the name of the profile (here it is NewItem).
If you want to toggle between them with a single hotkey, paste it twice and change the name, then check the box for the profile you want to switch to on each one.
| Q: How to switch Karabiner profile via shortcut? Is there a way to change the Karabiner profile (formerly KeyRemap4MacBook) using a shortcut?
A: Yes, there is, using Karabiner's command-line tool. Paste this into your private.xml:
<vkopenurldef>
<name>KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_SHELL_switchprofile_newitem</name>
<url type="shell">
<![CDATA[ /Applications/Karabiner.app/Contents/Library/bin/karabiner select_by_name NewItem ]]>
</url>
</vkopenurldef>
<item>
<name>Switch Profile to NewItem with F4</name>
<identifier>private.switch1</identifier>
<autogen>
__KeyToKey__
KeyCode::F4,
KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_SHELL_switchprofile_newitem
</autogen>
</item>
Obviously, you will need to change the name of the profile (here it is NewItem).
If you want to toggle between them with a single hotkey, paste it twice and change the name, then check the box for the profile you want to switch to on each one.
A: This definition allows to swtich back and forth between two profiles (in this case profile 0 and 2) by holding the F6 key for longer than 300 milliseconds (before that it defaults to F6). It uses terminal-notifier to deliver notifications as to which profile it has switched to.
<vkopenurldef>
<name>KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_SHELL_toggleprofile_alternative</name>
<url type="shell">
<![CDATA[ if test "$(/Applications/Karabiner.app/Contents/Library/bin/karabiner selected)" == "0"; then /Applications/Karabiner.app/Contents/Library/bin/karabiner select 2; /usr/local/bin/terminal-notifier -title "Karabiner" -group "Karabiner" -message "Alternative mode"; else /Applications/Karabiner.app/Contents/Library/bin/karabiner select 0; /usr/local/bin/terminal-notifier -title "Karabiner" -group "Karabiner" -message "Normal mode"; fi ]]>
</url>
</vkopenurldef>
<item>
<name>Toggle Profile "Alternative" with long F6</name>
<identifier>private.switch1</identifier>
<autogen>
__HoldingKeyToKey__ KeyCode::F6, KeyCode::F6, KeyCode::VK_NONE, KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_SHELL_toggleprofile_alternative, Option::NOREPEAT, ThresholdMillisecond::RawValue::400
</autogen>
</item>
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b71df8fd307e394778a9f3cc8fa286df245d31be | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone alarm doesn't go off sometimes! At times, the alarm in my iPhone 4S sometimes doesn't go off as set. Or actually, it goes off and I see the corresponding UI on the screen but there is NO sound.
This happens very randomly, may be once in ten times but is obviously not acceptable in an alarm application.
This mostly happens when the phone is in silent mode (which is still NOT expected behavior I am sure) but has also happened a couple times when the phone was non-silent.
How do I fix this?
A: This could have to do with a software issue on the phone. Try backing up your phone via iCloud or computer, then wipe and restore it as new. If it doesn’t fix the problem, take your device to Apple as it could be an internal hardware issue.
| Q: iPhone alarm doesn't go off sometimes! At times, the alarm in my iPhone 4S sometimes doesn't go off as set. Or actually, it goes off and I see the corresponding UI on the screen but there is NO sound.
This happens very randomly, may be once in ten times but is obviously not acceptable in an alarm application.
This mostly happens when the phone is in silent mode (which is still NOT expected behavior I am sure) but has also happened a couple times when the phone was non-silent.
How do I fix this?
A: This could have to do with a software issue on the phone. Try backing up your phone via iCloud or computer, then wipe and restore it as new. If it doesn’t fix the problem, take your device to Apple as it could be an internal hardware issue.
A: Try setting 3 alarms all roughly the same time eg: you want to get up at 08:00am set one for 07:59am one for 08:00am and one for 08:01am and it should work. That's what I do anyway because this happens constantly on my iPhone 6 plus and also my iPhone 4. Obviously your boss doesn't believe you when you use this excuse :)
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825a6ca3dcbb9e46540479467cd1687d72299fe3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Control Spotify with Media Keys How can I use the media keys (previous track, play/pause, next track) for Spotify instead of iTunes?
OS X 10.9.4
A: I've found this helper application : Magic Keys ; Graciously written in a generic way by the creator of the Gear music player.
iTunes still sometimes pops us when using a Bluetooth control however, but it's minimal and non-intrusive and works well otherwise.
| Q: Control Spotify with Media Keys How can I use the media keys (previous track, play/pause, next track) for Spotify instead of iTunes?
OS X 10.9.4
A: I've found this helper application : Magic Keys ; Graciously written in a generic way by the creator of the Gear music player.
iTunes still sometimes pops us when using a Bluetooth control however, but it's minimal and non-intrusive and works well otherwise.
A: You can go into System Preference - Users&Groups - Login Items, then disable iTune and Spotify at startup, restart, then start Spotify which triggers Spotify helper to take priority control of the media keys ... Good luck !!!
A: If you use the Spotify desktop app, the media keys on OS X work by default (sometimes iTunes randomly "retains" the keys: just reboot). For the best results, don't keep iTunes and Spotify open at the same time.
If you use the Spotify Web Player, you can enable the media keys using BeardedSpice, a free application which enables you to control web-based media players using you keyboard media keys. It also works for YouTube, for example.
A: You can download Bowtie. Although the developers have stopped developing this app, you can still use it to control Spotify, Rdio, and iTunes with media keys.
A: If nothing helps to make Spotify take over the keys, check if you have Google Music installed in Chrome apps, because it always takes over these keys. Removing the Chrome app immediately makes media keys to work in Spotify.
A: The keys didn't work for me on OSX10.10, while they normally do. I launched and quit iTunes. After that, Spotify responded to the media keys again. Even play/pause without launching iTunes. This may be because I tweaked OS X to stop launching iTunes when pressing play/pause (I can't remember for sure.)
Pressing play/pause on a headset does still launch iTunes.
A: My solution to the Spotify problem was to go to keyboard shortcuts in account preferences, and assign the > and < keys to perform the "Seek Forward" and "Seek Backward" functions. My media keys have always worked to start and pause playback, and skip or go back a track, but they would not perform the seek function.
A: There is a small, free and OS tool called MacOS High Sierra Media Key Enabler for iTunes and Spotify.
It proxies media key events to iTunes or Spotify. You can prioritize which app you would like to control or you can go with the default behaviour which controls the running app. The app runs in the menu bar in the form of a subtle and beautiful black dot.
This workaround is needed as Apple in High Sierra changed the behaviour of the media controller keys: they no longer control iTunes, they control the video playback in Safari.
A: If iTunes is not running, the media keys will work. I just tried it and it works on my Mac.
A: I've found that having Chrome open prevents the key from working.
Closing Chrome makes the keys work again.
A: I've found a really nice chrome addon:
It gives me notifications and uses my mac media keys to control the Spotify web player.
Everything I wanted + it's well maintained by the dev and open source hosted on github.
My main reason atm for using the webplayer is not having any ads.
Blocked them with ublock and these filters:
/mp3-ad/*$domain=open.spotify.com|play.spotify.com
audio-fa.scdn.co/audio/$media,domain=open.spotify.com
A: There is a nice little app called "Spotify Menubar" - you can set keyboard shortcuts via it's preferences. Works perfectly for me with Mojave.
A: Just go to Users & Groups > Login Items > Delete iTunes Helper from the list.
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7450e8ac32a01271feb355e9afb6ac9c87e79dfb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can you tell if updates came from OS X caching server? If I run software update on a Mavericks Mac it will find a caching server automagically if there are any running locally rather than using the CDN Apple hosts on the internet. I'm not so much concerned about security as just knowing when and if the server is running correctly without having any sort of log in to the server itself.
Is there a log file on the client end or another way to determine this conclusively?
A: I'm not sure on which version this stat became available, but in version 5.0.15 you can see a graph of the data served by the caching service:
| Q: Can you tell if updates came from OS X caching server? If I run software update on a Mavericks Mac it will find a caching server automagically if there are any running locally rather than using the CDN Apple hosts on the internet. I'm not so much concerned about security as just knowing when and if the server is running correctly without having any sort of log in to the server itself.
Is there a log file on the client end or another way to determine this conclusively?
A: I'm not sure on which version this stat became available, but in version 5.0.15 you can see a graph of the data served by the caching service:
A: The caching server will print to log when a client requests an update. This log is located at:
/Library/Server/Caching/Logs/Debug.log
The following is the anatomy of a request which was served by the caching server's cache:
*
*Client requests update package
Got request for host = http://swcdn.apple.com/{{REQUEST}}
*Find cached package in server data
Initializing asset handler for http://swcdn.apple.com/{{REQUEST}} (path = /Library/Server/Caching/Data/{{UDID}})
*Check/load asset in cache
Cached asset length = {{LENGTH}} MD5={{CHECKSUM}} last modified {{DATE/TIME}}
Extents loaded from disk: {{DATA}}
Data already cached for asset http://swcdn.apple.com/{{REQUEST}}, issuing If-Modified-Since request
Info loaded: file length = {{DATA}}, reader = {{DATA}}
*Serve asset to client from cache
{{BYTES}} bytes served, {{SERVED_BYTES}} from cache, 0 downloaded
This 0 downloaded is what shows the update was entirely served by the caching server.
*Finish
Outgoing connection finished
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0026b3c2dbb0bf16b49c45b90594700cfffedd41 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I connect to a wifi network from the login screen on OS X Mavericks? I have a late 2012 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and it uses a network login system with my school.
This normally wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that I can't connect to a wifi network from the login screen.
Is there a way I can accomplish this so that I can log in and get this thing going?
I can't use an Ethernet cable, because the MacBook doesn't have a full Ethernet port, but it requires a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter, which I do not possess, and neither does my school.
A: Use a local account on your mac to connect to the WiFi, then logout again, you won't loose connection, and you'll only have to do this once since your Mac will remember the network.
| Q: How do I connect to a wifi network from the login screen on OS X Mavericks? I have a late 2012 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and it uses a network login system with my school.
This normally wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that I can't connect to a wifi network from the login screen.
Is there a way I can accomplish this so that I can log in and get this thing going?
I can't use an Ethernet cable, because the MacBook doesn't have a full Ethernet port, but it requires a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter, which I do not possess, and neither does my school.
A: Use a local account on your mac to connect to the WiFi, then logout again, you won't loose connection, and you'll only have to do this once since your Mac will remember the network.
A: Reboot and hold down the OPTION button.
That should give you the option to select a wifi network.
Then select your drive and hit the arrow on the screen.
A: I have just encountered this issue myself with a 2017 MacBook Pro. It too doesn't have any Ethernet out of the box.
It's a little bit of a catch 22 but the way to resolve this is by creating a mobile user account that will cache credentials in your user home folder. In which case you have two options.
*
*The first requires you to get an Ethernet adaptor for your MacBook (Yes, I realise you don't have one of these but for completeness, I am including this as a solution because it might suit other readers) and make sure your network admin has setup a mobile user account for you.
*Once connected via Ethernet, login that way using your network account first. (Don't worry, we only need to this for the first logon.)
*Once you are logged on, make your user account a mobile account by going to System Preferences > Users & Groups. Click the lock icon to unlock it and enter an admin username and password. Then click the Create button next to “Mobile account,” choose the disk where you want the local copy of your network home folder, then click Create.
*Next, you want to connect to your WiFi network. Once you're logged onto the WiFi successfully for the first time, that should be enough to get you logged into your WiFi at the login screen, without the need for an Ethernet connection every time.
Your other option is to create a .mobileconfig configuration profile for your MacBook which allows you to configure a WiFi network for your MacBook to use at the login screen. Hopefully your network admin can help you with this too if you don't have macOS server you can use. For example, using macOS Server's Profile Manager, configure a Network payload for your MAcBook for your schools WiFi network. (The SSID is case sensitive so make sure its typed correctly.) See this link for more detail on creating and editing configuration profiles.
You will may need the help of your network admin to help you correctly configure your network authentication settings if you are using Enterprise Authentication. Given the many variables and that we know zero about your schools WiFi, it's impossible to advise here a correct configuration that will work.
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c7089ddbb45e3301e31912dbf97b88f0485a00cc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: launchd with high disk usage launchd is producing a lot of I/O activity. In the last day and a half it managed to write 12 GB of data while reading 500MB.
I the logs I do not see anything suspicious. Any suggestion at where could I look?
A: Try to use the lsof utility
sudo lsof -p 1
# or
sudo lsof -p $(ps -U root | grep -w "/sbin/launchd" | head -1 | awk '{print $1}')
EDIT
There are can be other user launchd processes running with different process IDs, run
ps aux | grep sbin/launchd
To check PIDs of other instances of launchd.
It should list opened files by launchd. Try that to find there something suspicious.
You can also try an app called fseventer, it shows read/write events to the filesystem, or use app like Grand Perspective or Disk Inventory X to find this newly created huge file and investigate further what it is.
| Q: launchd with high disk usage launchd is producing a lot of I/O activity. In the last day and a half it managed to write 12 GB of data while reading 500MB.
I the logs I do not see anything suspicious. Any suggestion at where could I look?
A: Try to use the lsof utility
sudo lsof -p 1
# or
sudo lsof -p $(ps -U root | grep -w "/sbin/launchd" | head -1 | awk '{print $1}')
EDIT
There are can be other user launchd processes running with different process IDs, run
ps aux | grep sbin/launchd
To check PIDs of other instances of launchd.
It should list opened files by launchd. Try that to find there something suspicious.
You can also try an app called fseventer, it shows read/write events to the filesystem, or use app like Grand Perspective or Disk Inventory X to find this newly created huge file and investigate further what it is.
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d610aa90bafb75075b01eb59eded9cfd7597bd82 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: History of my iPhone apps Is there a way to know the last time I reinstalled a specific app? Also, how many times I have reinstalled it?
A: Unfortunately not—there is no way to know that without jailbreaking.
| Q: History of my iPhone apps Is there a way to know the last time I reinstalled a specific app? Also, how many times I have reinstalled it?
A: Unfortunately not—there is no way to know that without jailbreaking.
A: If you're jailbroken, you can check when you installed an app by going to the application's container in /var/mobile/Applications and check the date modified of the iTunesMetadata.plist.
There is no way to check how many times you have reinstalled an app, even with a jailbreak.
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2249bb9e2bfd0300cc492924a70787db64edd1b4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to restore a removed /bin/sh file? I have followed a guide online which requested me to run this command:
sudo cp /opt/local/bin/node /bin/sh
It was a guide for fixing LESS. Instead of fixing it, it only made it worse. I have lost the file.
Is there any way to recover/refetch this file, or could someone upload their sh file for me?
A: Run this command to copy /bin/sh from the BaseSystem.dmg on the Recovery HD:
diskutil mount Recovery\ HD &&
hdiutil mount /Volumes/Recovery\ HD/com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.dmg &&
sudo cp -p /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/bin/sh /bin/sh
Also see How can I get back a system file after deleting it from my Mac?
| Q: How to restore a removed /bin/sh file? I have followed a guide online which requested me to run this command:
sudo cp /opt/local/bin/node /bin/sh
It was a guide for fixing LESS. Instead of fixing it, it only made it worse. I have lost the file.
Is there any way to recover/refetch this file, or could someone upload their sh file for me?
A: Run this command to copy /bin/sh from the BaseSystem.dmg on the Recovery HD:
diskutil mount Recovery\ HD &&
hdiutil mount /Volumes/Recovery\ HD/com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.dmg &&
sudo cp -p /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/bin/sh /bin/sh
Also see How can I get back a system file after deleting it from my Mac?
A: /bin/sh is actually a lot easier to fix if you have read through something like Linux from Scratch as it is usually a symlink on other UNIXes, pointing to a shell, usually /bin/bash, and occasionally /bin/dash.
The quick and fix:
sudo ln -sf bash /bin/sh
as it will create a symlink pointing from /bin/sh to /bin/bash just like every other UNIX and Linux distribution. You can of course symlink it to any other Bourne-compatible shells you would like to use, including that latest bash-4.3 or even Debian's dash.
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b57992b4366ed4bc3e146e731789d9722c176259 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Use TextEdit's AutoCorrect everywhere (especially in Google Chrome) I really love typing in TextEdit. It seems to correct all my typos and so saves time in editing.
Is there anyway I can get this functionality to work in all applications, especially on Google Chrome's text fields.
I've searched everywhere, but I can only find articles about Chrome's own built in Auto Correct (which isn't available on the Mac yet).
OS X 10.9
A: TextEdit's autocorrect is actually OS X's autocorrect, which is used in every system text box in the OS, in every application, including 3rd-party applications.
The problem comes when apps use their own text boxes—they then have to implement NSSpellChecker themselves. Whilst the Google Chrome issue relating to this seems to suggest that nothing has changed, my limited testing seems to suggest that it has been implemented in Canary.
| Q: Use TextEdit's AutoCorrect everywhere (especially in Google Chrome) I really love typing in TextEdit. It seems to correct all my typos and so saves time in editing.
Is there anyway I can get this functionality to work in all applications, especially on Google Chrome's text fields.
I've searched everywhere, but I can only find articles about Chrome's own built in Auto Correct (which isn't available on the Mac yet).
OS X 10.9
A: TextEdit's autocorrect is actually OS X's autocorrect, which is used in every system text box in the OS, in every application, including 3rd-party applications.
The problem comes when apps use their own text boxes—they then have to implement NSSpellChecker themselves. Whilst the Google Chrome issue relating to this seems to suggest that nothing has changed, my limited testing seems to suggest that it has been implemented in Canary.
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c4dedad6c8f1c8f0482f396066be6e6339709028 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Thumbnails for Image Files on Desktop won't load I have a dozen or so image files on my iMac's desktop. Most of the time, after booting up my computer, it displays a thumbnail of each image (as it should). But sometimes, the thumbnails won't show up (see screenshot below).
It appears to happen randomly. I estimate that it happens about 20% of the time.
Why is this, and how can I prevent it from happening? I am running OS X 10.9.4. Thanks.
A: OMG that linked gist did solve it! (from Apple forums).
Here is the bit that worked and fixed it:
*
*mkdir ~/tmp-quicklook
*mv /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.quicklook.* ~/tmp-quicklook/
*Log out/Log in (or reboot)
*sudo mv ~/tmp-quicklook/com.apple.quicklook.* /System/Library/LaunchAgents
*Log out/log in (or reboot)
(the two "resets" are really necessary)
Still the folder preview doesn't work but looks like it's much harder to fix:
| Q: Thumbnails for Image Files on Desktop won't load I have a dozen or so image files on my iMac's desktop. Most of the time, after booting up my computer, it displays a thumbnail of each image (as it should). But sometimes, the thumbnails won't show up (see screenshot below).
It appears to happen randomly. I estimate that it happens about 20% of the time.
Why is this, and how can I prevent it from happening? I am running OS X 10.9.4. Thanks.
A: OMG that linked gist did solve it! (from Apple forums).
Here is the bit that worked and fixed it:
*
*mkdir ~/tmp-quicklook
*mv /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.quicklook.* ~/tmp-quicklook/
*Log out/Log in (or reboot)
*sudo mv ~/tmp-quicklook/com.apple.quicklook.* /System/Library/LaunchAgents
*Log out/log in (or reboot)
(the two "resets" are really necessary)
Still the folder preview doesn't work but looks like it's much harder to fix:
A: Based on your log, I suggest trashing the Finder property list, then rebooting.
*
*Open Terminal
*Enter the following command rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
*Restart
*If the issue persists, I suggest following these instructions. to completely reset the service.
Further information: The X Lab's Maverick's Post Installation Issues
A: I just solved the same issue by going (in the Finder) to View->Show View Options. There, I moved the Icon Size slider to a larger size. All the image thumbnails loaded. Then I returned the slider to my selected size.
HTH!
A: *
*Right click: show view options
*Show icon preview: yes
A: This was happening to some of my image files as thumbnails on the Desktop. I simply went to Force Quit and relaunched Finder. Images all returned to these thumbnails. Hope this helps s.o.
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695a0d5d412a84579fdfea351d6433ab38cbc0c1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Fix 'Home' and 'End' keys on non-Cocoa applications Found that it's a common problem that the 'Home' and 'End' keys don't function as-expected on MacOS. Found this fix, posted on LifeHacker:
http://lifehacker.com/225873/mac-switchers-tip--remap-the-home-and-end-keys
The issue is that this fix only works on native/Cocoa apps and doesn't work on many of the other apps like ThunderBird and Eclipse. Will be thankful for any help, regarding this.
PS: I frequently switch between the beginning and end of the line and this has been so annoying lately that I switch to a vim window to edit code and use Eclipse only for debugging it.
A: You can do this with Karabiner's 'Use PC Style Home/End #2'.
This remaps Home and End to ⌘← and ⌘→ respectively.
| Q: Fix 'Home' and 'End' keys on non-Cocoa applications Found that it's a common problem that the 'Home' and 'End' keys don't function as-expected on MacOS. Found this fix, posted on LifeHacker:
http://lifehacker.com/225873/mac-switchers-tip--remap-the-home-and-end-keys
The issue is that this fix only works on native/Cocoa apps and doesn't work on many of the other apps like ThunderBird and Eclipse. Will be thankful for any help, regarding this.
PS: I frequently switch between the beginning and end of the line and this has been so annoying lately that I switch to a vim window to edit code and use Eclipse only for debugging it.
A: You can do this with Karabiner's 'Use PC Style Home/End #2'.
This remaps Home and End to ⌘← and ⌘→ respectively.
A: Karabina is now Karabina-Elements. Download it and go to Complex Modifications:
Click Add Rule:
Click Import More Rules from the Internet, and select PC-Style Shortcuts:
Open the link with Karabina-Elements and click Import:
Enable these options (may as well make print screen work):
There is another option to use Ctrl+a and Ctrl+e for the terminal but I already fixed that like this (home/end are the diagonal arrows):
I also added the ctrl/shift-up/down shortcuts in there because for some insane reason Apple doesn't include them by default.
A: I have the wired keyboard for my iMac. All I have to do is hit the down arrow and it takes me to the end of the line I that my cursor is on. It works exactly like the "end" key on my old windows computers.
A: Before, I had this working well using Karabiner (if I remember correctly). But after a reinstall of macOS, I couldn't get this working anymore. Even restoring the Karabiner configuration (in ~/.config/karabiner) from a backup didn't work. Too much time spent in trying to configure Karabiner Elements, trying several of the "complex modifications" offered on the site, didn't result in something that worked for most applications.
I finally stumbled upon an alternative key mapping tool in a Karabiner-Elements issue comment. While ⌘英かな is a Japanese application, it is simple enough to set up the required key mappings. Mapping Home/End to Ctrl+Q/E (A/E on my Belgian Azerty keyboard), Home/End key behavior can be fixed for most apps.
For some applications, the key mapping doesn't fix things. For these, you should disable the remapping:
For some of these, you can improve Home/End behavior by configuring custom keybindings. Create/edit ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict:
{
/* Remap Home / End to be correct :-) */
"\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:"; /* Home */
"\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:"; /* End */
"$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:"; /* Shift + Home */
"$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:"; /* Shift + End */
}
| apple | {
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68de16ba1b78943fbd1cc52e4bd047ff6b5d4d09 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the difference between 'Capacity' and '%iused' when running the 'df' command in the terminal When I run the df command I'm getting different values for capacity and %iused. What is the difference between them?
A: The first Used/Available/Capacity is the obvious "How much of my 1 TB drive is full?" measure. The second tracks internal storage structure called an inode or index node.
On traditional UNIX filesystems, there were a fixed number of inodes which are used to track files and directory entries (metadata and filesystem implementation data). When you ran out of inodes, you couldn't use the filesystem whether it was full or not. The df tool needed to report both resources that could fill so you could plan and maintain the filesystems.
OS X uses HFS+ which will make more inodes from any free space and can't run out of them, but they are still reported since as inode use grows, the storage is slightly less efficient and can be slower than if the filesystem were still in the original allocation of inodes.
Basically, you can just focus on Capacity/Used/Available and ignore inodes unless you are deep in filesystem implementation details.
| Q: What is the difference between 'Capacity' and '%iused' when running the 'df' command in the terminal When I run the df command I'm getting different values for capacity and %iused. What is the difference between them?
A: The first Used/Available/Capacity is the obvious "How much of my 1 TB drive is full?" measure. The second tracks internal storage structure called an inode or index node.
On traditional UNIX filesystems, there were a fixed number of inodes which are used to track files and directory entries (metadata and filesystem implementation data). When you ran out of inodes, you couldn't use the filesystem whether it was full or not. The df tool needed to report both resources that could fill so you could plan and maintain the filesystems.
OS X uses HFS+ which will make more inodes from any free space and can't run out of them, but they are still reported since as inode use grows, the storage is slightly less efficient and can be slower than if the filesystem were still in the original allocation of inodes.
Basically, you can just focus on Capacity/Used/Available and ignore inodes unless you are deep in filesystem implementation details.
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ee51499606ca0a41f226c7968c4a502f31cd8796 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Extract a GPS track (as .gpx) from a series of jpg photos I have a bunch of .jpg photos containing GPS information. What is the easiest way to extract the GPS information and save it into a .gpx file (or .kml, for that matter)?
I have seen this answer pointing to exiftool, which gives a readable output, but I would like to import the track into other applications (e.g. Oruxmaps or Google Maps).
Answers to this question on gis.stackexchange.com point to Windows programs, but I am looking for a usable alternative on Mac OSX.
A: exiftool itself can now also generate GPX files. You can download the gpx.fmt template from the exiftool website, then run
exiftool -p ./gpx.fmt *JPG > output.gpx
Some useful options:
*
*-if makes exiftool only process files with a gps tag,
*-fileOrder allows processing in a forced order,
*-d allows formatting the datatime string.
For example:
exiftool -if '$gpsdatetime' -fileOrder gpsdatetime -p ./gpx.fmt -d %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ *JPG > output.gpx
| Q: Extract a GPS track (as .gpx) from a series of jpg photos I have a bunch of .jpg photos containing GPS information. What is the easiest way to extract the GPS information and save it into a .gpx file (or .kml, for that matter)?
I have seen this answer pointing to exiftool, which gives a readable output, but I would like to import the track into other applications (e.g. Oruxmaps or Google Maps).
Answers to this question on gis.stackexchange.com point to Windows programs, but I am looking for a usable alternative on Mac OSX.
A: exiftool itself can now also generate GPX files. You can download the gpx.fmt template from the exiftool website, then run
exiftool -p ./gpx.fmt *JPG > output.gpx
Some useful options:
*
*-if makes exiftool only process files with a gps tag,
*-fileOrder allows processing in a forced order,
*-d allows formatting the datatime string.
For example:
exiftool -if '$gpsdatetime' -fileOrder gpsdatetime -p ./gpx.fmt -d %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ *JPG > output.gpx
A: Exiftool is going to be the easiest way to do this.
Here is a script that generates KML output for a list of images. You can modify this if you want a KML path, etc...
#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Create a KML file based on exif data
Requires exiftool to have been installed
Usage: exif2kml.py *.jpg > output.kml
"""
import os
import sys
import re
import time
def decimalat(DegString):
# This function requires that the re module is loaded
# Take a string in the format "34 56.78 N" and return decimal degrees
SearchStr=r''' *(\d+) deg (\d+)' ([\d\.]+)" (\w)'''
Result = re.search(SearchStr, DegString)
# Get the (captured) character groups from the search
Degrees = float(Result.group(1))
Minutes = float(Result.group(2))
Seconds = float(Result.group(3))
Compass = Result.group(4).upper() # make sure it is capital too
# Calculate the decimal degrees
DecimalDegree = Degrees + Minutes/60 + Seconds/(60*60)
if Compass == 'S' or Compass == 'W':
DecimalDegree = -DecimalDegree
return DecimalDegree
def writePlace(filename,lat,lon,date):
PlacemarkString = '''
<Placemark>
<name>{0}</name>
<Point>
<altitudeMode>absolute</altitudeMode>
<coordinates>{1}, {2}</coordinates>
<TimeStamp>
<when>{3}</when>
</TimeStamp>
</Point>
</Placemark>'''.format(filename,lat,lon,date)
return PlacemarkString
HeadString='''<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
<kml xmlns=\"http://earth.google.com/kml/2.2\">
<Document>'''
if len(sys.argv)<2:
print >> sys.stderr, __doc__
else:
placestring = ''
FList = sys.argv[1:]
for F in FList:
ExifData=os.popen('exiftool "'+ F +'" -DateTimeOriginal -GPSLatitude -GPSLongitude').read()
if "Longitude" in ExifData:
print >> sys.stderr, F,"\n",ExifData.rstrip()
Fields = ExifData.split("\n")
for Items in Fields:
if len(Items)> 10:
K,V = Items.split(" : ")
if "Latitude" in K:
lat = decimalat(V)
elif "Longitude" in K:
lon = decimalat(V)
elif "Date" in K:
date = time.strptime(V.strip(),"%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S") # time format
if lat:
TimeFmt = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"
placestring += writePlace(F,lon,lat,time.strftime(TimeFmt,date))
lat = ''
# Generate the output file...
# This just prints to screen -- use > to capture to file...
print HeadString
print placestring
print """</Document>\n</kml>"""
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1c4d70ec86d4620c8e320018c837321159e9ad07 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to remove blank space on the menu bar? For some reason I have a blank space on my menubar, It doesn't happen on my second screen, and when i click it disappears but appears in the other screen and so forth.
I haven't done anything to the system like trying to remove the spotlight icon or that sort of thing.
I have OS X 10.9.4
I've tried removing all other apple icons and this happens:
When I activate istat menu, the issue goes away temporarily but I'd rather not use istat forever.
Are there any other solutions to this?
A: Restart your menubar
This might be due to some error within the placements of the icons in your menubar. You can restart your menubar and your icons will 'reload' and settle correctly.
Run the following in Terminal to reload the menubar:
killall -KILL SystemUIServer
| Q: How to remove blank space on the menu bar? For some reason I have a blank space on my menubar, It doesn't happen on my second screen, and when i click it disappears but appears in the other screen and so forth.
I haven't done anything to the system like trying to remove the spotlight icon or that sort of thing.
I have OS X 10.9.4
I've tried removing all other apple icons and this happens:
When I activate istat menu, the issue goes away temporarily but I'd rather not use istat forever.
Are there any other solutions to this?
A: Restart your menubar
This might be due to some error within the placements of the icons in your menubar. You can restart your menubar and your icons will 'reload' and settle correctly.
Run the following in Terminal to reload the menubar:
killall -KILL SystemUIServer
A: it was LittleSnitch, even though it had it "show status in menu bar" disabled, on one screen it will always show that empty space.
A: Some applications (like Google drive) will reserve the space to the right of it for messages.
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c2270631f5632e34f621ed5eb554dd9c16deced1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does my MacBook Air produce so much noise My MacBook Air's fan is spinning rapidly even though there are hardly any programs running. This normally only occurs when I am using the MacBook at a high intensity. However, the fan stops only when the MacBook shuts down. However, when I turn it back on again, it starts spinning at maximum speed again. Why is this so and how can I solve this problem? I need to use my MacBook urgently without it producing any noise from the fans.
Update:
I have included some screenshots from Activity Monitor. However, I am not sure which of them are applicable at this point in time. Sorry.
A: OK, the Activity monitor does no show anything unusual.
You are a candidate for the SMC reset. SMC (system management controller) is responsible for fan control, the battery charging ect..
Follow the instructions here for how to.
Apple kb HT3964
| Q: Why does my MacBook Air produce so much noise My MacBook Air's fan is spinning rapidly even though there are hardly any programs running. This normally only occurs when I am using the MacBook at a high intensity. However, the fan stops only when the MacBook shuts down. However, when I turn it back on again, it starts spinning at maximum speed again. Why is this so and how can I solve this problem? I need to use my MacBook urgently without it producing any noise from the fans.
Update:
I have included some screenshots from Activity Monitor. However, I am not sure which of them are applicable at this point in time. Sorry.
A: OK, the Activity monitor does no show anything unusual.
You are a candidate for the SMC reset. SMC (system management controller) is responsible for fan control, the battery charging ect..
Follow the instructions here for how to.
Apple kb HT3964
A: If you hold Shift+Control+OPTION+POWER at the left side of the keyboard, hold it for ten seconds, then wait, it will totally fix it.
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a7e62a4a4f0917000a537430a41807b5b7c5d5fc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Dock randomly switches between screens. Any way to stop? I have a iMac running OS 10.9.3 that has 2 monitors connected to it.
Randomly, thourhgout the day the dock will flip either to the left or right screen. Its pretty annoying.
Does anyone know what is causing this or how to fix it?
A: Dock position could be changed when You place Your mouse on the bottom edge of the secondary screen and then move it down again.
| Q: Dock randomly switches between screens. Any way to stop? I have a iMac running OS 10.9.3 that has 2 monitors connected to it.
Randomly, thourhgout the day the dock will flip either to the left or right screen. Its pretty annoying.
Does anyone know what is causing this or how to fix it?
A: Dock position could be changed when You place Your mouse on the bottom edge of the secondary screen and then move it down again.
A: I know this is old but I came across this and thought I would share my solution.
My fix is to disable separate spaces by going to "Preferences > Mission Control" then disable "Displays have separate Spaces.
The only downside to this is that you will now loose the second menu bar as well.
Thankfully there is also a app for that if this is something you want.
Its called "SecondBar" and can be downloaded from here.
http://blog.boastr.net/
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8ee35528276c4d1a6dc1fb022e957eb42551942a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change *.txt to *.csv How can I rename all *.txt in a directory to *.csv files in the terminal (Mavericks). I tried following inside the directory:
mv *.txt *.csv
A: You need to loop over all files
for f in *.txt; do
mv "$f" "${f%.txt}.csv"
done
If you have files with names starting with a . as well you might need to run
for f in *.txt .*.txt; do
[[ -f "$f" ]] && mv "$f" "${f%.txt}.csv"
done
| Q: Change *.txt to *.csv How can I rename all *.txt in a directory to *.csv files in the terminal (Mavericks). I tried following inside the directory:
mv *.txt *.csv
A: You need to loop over all files
for f in *.txt; do
mv "$f" "${f%.txt}.csv"
done
If you have files with names starting with a . as well you might need to run
for f in *.txt .*.txt; do
[[ -f "$f" ]] && mv "$f" "${f%.txt}.csv"
done
A: This also works well:
# change to the Zsh
zsh
# load the built-in zmv function
autoload -U zmv
# rename the files
zmv '(*).txt' '$1.csv'
A: ls *.txt |awk '{print "mv "$1" " substr($1,1,(index($1,".txt")))"csv"}' |sh
Command explanation:
ls *.txt lists files ending with txt
| awk '{print "mv "$1" " substr($1,1,(index($1,".txt")))"csv"} prints the command that allows to rename the previous files listed with txt to csv
| sh executes the previously printed command, thus effectively renaming the files
Note: if you want to list all files including hidden files (those starting with .) use ls -a *.txt instead
A: If you have a huge number of files inside the directory, then even the ls*.txt command can fail, in that scenario, the below command can help:
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.txt' | sed 's/^\.\///g' | while read f1 ;do mv -v "$f1" "${f1%.*}.csv" ; done
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f19f16447d780cecdc57c347b97ebd4b2764af2d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I share my iMac's internet connection via ethernet My iMac connects to the internet (and my local network) via WiFi. Is it possible for me to connect another device via ethernet cable to my iMac to access the internet from that device?
A: Sharing your source Internet using WiFi to your Ethernet output.
| Q: Can I share my iMac's internet connection via ethernet My iMac connects to the internet (and my local network) via WiFi. Is it possible for me to connect another device via ethernet cable to my iMac to access the internet from that device?
A: Sharing your source Internet using WiFi to your Ethernet output.
A: You sure can! Open System Preferences, then go to Sharing and select Internet Sharing. Change "Share your connection from:" to Wi-Fi, and then in the box below it select Ethernet.
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1079e0e887aa2692c66823b927a5d9224ef52b70 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I see if an e-mail is signed in "Mail" (using an Exchange account)? Usually, a signed message shows a checkmark icon. Clicking on this icon displays the certificate that was used to sign the message:
Not so when a message lies in an exchange mailbox, and is displayed with "Mail" on MacOS (tested up to 10.10):
The iPad, on the other hand, handles the exact same message just fine. It is also connected via Exchange protocol to the server:
So: How can I enable this also on "Mail" on OS X? Or is this a bug, or even a permanent restriction?
A: It was most likely a bug. I had the same behaviour and after the latest update (10.10.2) Mail is showing the information again.
Edit
As commented by user2216335 the Security information is not always shown.
Apple Mail was able to recognise the signature from my example:
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name=smime.p7s;
smime-type=signed-data Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s"
Content-Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
but not from a message sent by Apple Mail
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s"
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
| Q: How can I see if an e-mail is signed in "Mail" (using an Exchange account)? Usually, a signed message shows a checkmark icon. Clicking on this icon displays the certificate that was used to sign the message:
Not so when a message lies in an exchange mailbox, and is displayed with "Mail" on MacOS (tested up to 10.10):
The iPad, on the other hand, handles the exact same message just fine. It is also connected via Exchange protocol to the server:
So: How can I enable this also on "Mail" on OS X? Or is this a bug, or even a permanent restriction?
A: It was most likely a bug. I had the same behaviour and after the latest update (10.10.2) Mail is showing the information again.
Edit
As commented by user2216335 the Security information is not always shown.
Apple Mail was able to recognise the signature from my example:
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name=smime.p7s;
smime-type=signed-data Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s"
Content-Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
but not from a message sent by Apple Mail
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s"
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
A: Does the RFC 822 Name in your certificate match the email address that you have listed in Apple Mail on your Mac? If you're not sure, double click on your certificate in Keychain Access to bring up the details and scroll down to the RFC 822 Name field. This email address must precisely match (including case sensitivity) the email address listed in your account's settings in Mail.
For example, if your RFC 822 Name is listed like this:
[email protected]
Check your email address to see what how closely it matches:
[email protected] - Exact match, certificate should appear
[email protected] - Not exact match, certificate won't appear
[email protected] - Not exact match, certificate won't appear
[email protected] - Not exact match, certificate won't appear
| apple | {
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"length": 303,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:39266",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/143534"
} |
822005929f1a1a1b2edbf36ac640e099102e2ce3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to move "section"/change "section" margin in Pages I've been a full-time Mac user for 5 or so years now, but sometimes the Apple way still confuses my Microsoft-conditioned mind. This is especially true of iWork. In the screenshot below, can someone tell me how to move the big, main text area up to that red line?
I've tried every setting I can find - I wouldn't be asking if I hadn't - and came up completely empty. FYI this is one of Apple's stock resume templates.
Thanks.
A: I found it!
This "section" is no section, but rather the document-proper! The other elements are in fixed positions and that margin is set on the document.
Not entirely unexpected, I suppose.
| Q: How to move "section"/change "section" margin in Pages I've been a full-time Mac user for 5 or so years now, but sometimes the Apple way still confuses my Microsoft-conditioned mind. This is especially true of iWork. In the screenshot below, can someone tell me how to move the big, main text area up to that red line?
I've tried every setting I can find - I wouldn't be asking if I hadn't - and came up completely empty. FYI this is one of Apple's stock resume templates.
Thanks.
A: I found it!
This "section" is no section, but rather the document-proper! The other elements are in fixed positions and that margin is set on the document.
Not entirely unexpected, I suppose.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 122,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:39269",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/143545"
} |
802b6ac01c7c0f95d5e6726b1d1e8f66eb2a8cde | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to display unicode chars in emacs when running in terminal This is not strictly a OSX question but someone in here probably has a solution.
I'm running emacs from the command line and I simply can't get emacs to correctly show Unicode characters. Everything outside ASCII is just garbage. There is no problem writing unicode characters on the command line but inside emacs is another story.
Is there some magic emacs-lisp I have to write to my .emacs file? Some arcane key combination I have to press?
EDIT
beroe's comment made me realise that I had an ancient version of emacs so I upgraded to 24.3.1. Now when i write ÅÄÖ I get \305\304\326 in the buffer. So I assume I have to somehow enable a font which supports UTF-8 or something like that?
| Q: How to display unicode chars in emacs when running in terminal This is not strictly a OSX question but someone in here probably has a solution.
I'm running emacs from the command line and I simply can't get emacs to correctly show Unicode characters. Everything outside ASCII is just garbage. There is no problem writing unicode characters on the command line but inside emacs is another story.
Is there some magic emacs-lisp I have to write to my .emacs file? Some arcane key combination I have to press?
EDIT
beroe's comment made me realise that I had an ancient version of emacs so I upgraded to 24.3.1. Now when i write ÅÄÖ I get \305\304\326 in the buffer. So I assume I have to somehow enable a font which supports UTF-8 or something like that?
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 136,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:39271",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/143558"
} |
12f585b8487a60d7d7701b81a91b5af5595bfd13 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Replace keyboard shortcut for ⌥ + d I want to replace the keyboard shortcut for
⌥Option + d = ∂
with
⌥Option + d = ð
How can I do that?
A: Create a plain text file with this in it (in TextEdit, use Format > Make Plain Text):
{
"~d" = ("insertText:", "ð");
}
Call it DefaultKeyBinding.dict (make sure to uncheck “When no extension is provided, use .txt”), and save it in ~/Library/KeyBindings/. (You can press Command ⌘+Shift ⇧+G and paste that path.)
The "~d" means Option-D, and the ("insertText:", "ð") means it will insert a ð character instead of ∂.
You will have to restart your applications in order for this setting to take effect.
| Q: Replace keyboard shortcut for ⌥ + d I want to replace the keyboard shortcut for
⌥Option + d = ∂
with
⌥Option + d = ð
How can I do that?
A: Create a plain text file with this in it (in TextEdit, use Format > Make Plain Text):
{
"~d" = ("insertText:", "ð");
}
Call it DefaultKeyBinding.dict (make sure to uncheck “When no extension is provided, use .txt”), and save it in ~/Library/KeyBindings/. (You can press Command ⌘+Shift ⇧+G and paste that path.)
The "~d" means Option-D, and the ("insertText:", "ð") means it will insert a ð character instead of ∂.
You will have to restart your applications in order for this setting to take effect.
A: Another solution is to create a custom keyboard layout. I can easily type symbols like →, ←, , and ♥ with my custom layout.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 143,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:39274",
"question_score": "6",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/143562"
} |
a62e15a145c7defc3165b09917b55cec0a4c7997 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to dock a detached Web Inspector in Safari 8? I'm running OS X Yosemite. I detached the web inspector and cannot find a way to dock it again. The usual dock/detach button isn't there, and I couldn't find any help elsewhere on the internet.
Does anyone know how to dock the web inspector, please?
Thanks in advance.
Solved: Safari will shows the dock/detach controls when the main browser window is wide enough to display the web inspector. If the controls are not displayed, make the Safari window wider.
| Q: Is it possible to dock a detached Web Inspector in Safari 8? I'm running OS X Yosemite. I detached the web inspector and cannot find a way to dock it again. The usual dock/detach button isn't there, and I couldn't find any help elsewhere on the internet.
Does anyone know how to dock the web inspector, please?
Thanks in advance.
Solved: Safari will shows the dock/detach controls when the main browser window is wide enough to display the web inspector. If the controls are not displayed, make the Safari window wider.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 92,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:39276",
"question_score": "13",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/143568"
} |
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