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cd16a392fbfd741843280330a79411a493d220fa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to record iPhone/iPad screen on macOS? OS X Yosemite brought support for recording iPhone/iPad screen natively without having to using AirPlay applications like AirServer or Reflector.
How do I record the iPhone screen on macOS ?
A: Requirements
*
*iPhone/ iPad running iOS 8 and above (Lightning port ONLY)
*Mac running OSX 10.10, OSX 10.11, macOS 10.12 and above.
How to Record iPhone/iPad Screen on macOS
*
*Connect the iPhone/iPad to Mac via USB
*Open the QuickTime Player on the Mac
*Select File > New Movie Recording
*Quicktime will default select iSight camera, click on the arrow alongside the record button to select the iPhone/iPad.
*Click on the record button to record the iPhone/iPad Screen
| Q: How to record iPhone/iPad screen on macOS? OS X Yosemite brought support for recording iPhone/iPad screen natively without having to using AirPlay applications like AirServer or Reflector.
How do I record the iPhone screen on macOS ?
A: Requirements
*
*iPhone/ iPad running iOS 8 and above (Lightning port ONLY)
*Mac running OSX 10.10, OSX 10.11, macOS 10.12 and above.
How to Record iPhone/iPad Screen on macOS
*
*Connect the iPhone/iPad to Mac via USB
*Open the QuickTime Player on the Mac
*Select File > New Movie Recording
*Quicktime will default select iSight camera, click on the arrow alongside the record button to select the iPhone/iPad.
*Click on the record button to record the iPhone/iPad Screen
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1318e1d9fad00c91023867aef332d05ee15fad95 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: No hover feedback in OS X Yosemite I recently upgraded to OS X Yosemite. Everything works fine but for some odd reason my cursor fails to highlight (provide feedback on anything I hover on any options).
As an example (if I'm not explaining this very well):
When I hover over the options in the Safari menu (or any other menu, nothing shows up as a blue background as you would expect (it only turns blue after I've clicked it).
I've been running Mavericks for a long while, and I had no issues.
I'm not sure if the mouse has a part to play, I'm using Mad Catz R.A.T3, anyone know if this as an issue with Yosemite? Or are aware of a fix?
A: I had the same issue with my Mad Catz MMO 7 and I fixed the problem! If you download the latest driver software from http://madcatz.com/downloads/ for Mavericks (OS X 10.9) it fixes the problem. You will have to restart your computer in the process.
| Q: No hover feedback in OS X Yosemite I recently upgraded to OS X Yosemite. Everything works fine but for some odd reason my cursor fails to highlight (provide feedback on anything I hover on any options).
As an example (if I'm not explaining this very well):
When I hover over the options in the Safari menu (or any other menu, nothing shows up as a blue background as you would expect (it only turns blue after I've clicked it).
I've been running Mavericks for a long while, and I had no issues.
I'm not sure if the mouse has a part to play, I'm using Mad Catz R.A.T3, anyone know if this as an issue with Yosemite? Or are aware of a fix?
A: I had the same issue with my Mad Catz MMO 7 and I fixed the problem! If you download the latest driver software from http://madcatz.com/downloads/ for Mavericks (OS X 10.9) it fixes the problem. You will have to restart your computer in the process.
A: I reached out to MadCatz support and they have a workaround to get the Mavericks drivers working in Yosemite:
Go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Unlock to
make changes
In the list "Allow the apps below to control your computer" ticked the
following:
*
*MadCatzSmartTechnology
*Mad Catz Editor”
A: For me the same with a Logitech MX connected to a unifying receiver. I did repair the mouse with the Unifying software provided by Logitech and then it worked again.
A: I have the same problem with Mad Catz R.A.T. 5. I haven't tried to fix it yet, but it appears that the driver is the cause of the problems.
A: For what it's worth, my mouse isn't compatible with the Macbook Air A1466...I'm using a Logitech M510. For the longest time, it worked flawlessy with my 2011 Macbook Pro. Switched my computer yesterday for work, and a large part of it's functionality ceased to work. Including the hover option.
A: I'm having the same problem now in El Capitan with a RAT 3, and none of the above advice worked for me. I emailed their support and received the following reply (very quickly, to their credit):
Thank you for contacting the MadCatz Tech Support Team.
Please be advised that our developers are still working on a software for the most recent versions of the Mac operating systems.
Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with a time frame when this will be available.
What we can suggest is to use the device as a plug and play one or to ask for a refund if you have recently purchased it.
I am sorry I cannot assist you with this.
I guess I'll just put up with it and hope that a fix happens sometime. I'll comment here if I do get more information.
A: For me uninstall and install lastest Mad Catz RAT Driver 1.1.69 nothing changed. But when I delete MadCatz from Application and every file with name contain 'madcatz' from my drive and restart computer - hover function with my R.A.T. 9 work again. But sadly every time when I unplug my MacBook from Display problem appears again. When plug in Thunderbolt Display again to MacBook I must restart system.
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60aba2c7485dfecb0691e8bd0ea37ef2326eb83d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable Little Snitch in Guest account It seems that Little Snitch 3.4.1 is a rehaul of the old version and this solution to disabling it in the guest account posted here Disable Little Snitch in guest account? doesn't work anymore.
When I get to step 4, there is no at.obdev.LittleSnitch.plist file. Additionally, it seems that when I disable LS in the guest account temporarily and then log out and log back into my regular account, it disables it for my own (admin) account as well. Everything I've tried isn't working and it's so annoying to be bombarded with little snitch prompts on the guest account. Does anyone have a solution?
A: You can limit access to specific apps via the Parental Controls in:
System Prefs > Users & Groups > Guest User
then click the Open Parental Controls. It may take some configuration to get all the services working. But I've logged into guest having disabled Little Snitch and it hasn't opened. It worked fine when I logged back into my account.
| Q: Disable Little Snitch in Guest account It seems that Little Snitch 3.4.1 is a rehaul of the old version and this solution to disabling it in the guest account posted here Disable Little Snitch in guest account? doesn't work anymore.
When I get to step 4, there is no at.obdev.LittleSnitch.plist file. Additionally, it seems that when I disable LS in the guest account temporarily and then log out and log back into my regular account, it disables it for my own (admin) account as well. Everything I've tried isn't working and it's so annoying to be bombarded with little snitch prompts on the guest account. Does anyone have a solution?
A: You can limit access to specific apps via the Parental Controls in:
System Prefs > Users & Groups > Guest User
then click the Open Parental Controls. It may take some configuration to get all the services working. But I've logged into guest having disabled Little Snitch and it hasn't opened. It worked fine when I logged back into my account.
A: I am on Snow Leopard (10.6), and this solution has appeared to work for me:
Find the files
/Library/LaunchAgents/at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist
and set their permissions such that "everyone" has No Access, and any account or group that you want to have access to Little Snitch has at least Read access.
I don't know of any potential side effects, but this appears to disable it on the guest account while leaving it intact on my main account. You can probably extrapolate this to other accounts or groups.
Note that you will probably need to create a Little Snitch rule for webfilterproxyd to allow connections in order for the guest account to access the internet.
A: It's because it is not an app it's a boot plugin runn by the system,
So there is (as far as I know ) no solution to that issue, if you don't want to reverse engineer MacOsX itself. That would be possible on Linux.
To solve the problem the only solution I found is to use the uninstall (in the installation disk image). But this remove it from all the computer .
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b5d368edeafbbf5793f97b87a68bc1db8d2153f8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Compare content of two folders, including subfolders Over the years I have imported photos from iPhone to Mac and organized them in folder by month.
I now want to import all photos I have on the iPhone and compare those with the files that I've organized in folders over the years - if there are any missing.
Is there any tool (included in OSX or free/purchaseable) or other procedure that can compare folder content, with one folder holding the files in root and the other in many subfolders?
A: Terminal: diff
You can compare two folders in Terminal using the following command:
diff -rq /path/to/folder1 /path/to/folder2
To ignore folder hierarchy you can copy all the files out of a folder into a third folder, then compare these:
find /path/to/folder2 -mindepth 2 -type f -print -exec cp {} /path/to/folder3 \;
| Q: Compare content of two folders, including subfolders Over the years I have imported photos from iPhone to Mac and organized them in folder by month.
I now want to import all photos I have on the iPhone and compare those with the files that I've organized in folders over the years - if there are any missing.
Is there any tool (included in OSX or free/purchaseable) or other procedure that can compare folder content, with one folder holding the files in root and the other in many subfolders?
A: Terminal: diff
You can compare two folders in Terminal using the following command:
diff -rq /path/to/folder1 /path/to/folder2
To ignore folder hierarchy you can copy all the files out of a folder into a third folder, then compare these:
find /path/to/folder2 -mindepth 2 -type f -print -exec cp {} /path/to/folder3 \;
A: This is an old thread, I realise, but it looks like the question wasn't fully answered. I stumbled across this before trying to figure out roughly the same things for myself, so I thought I'd post an option in case others stumble across it...
Some of the answers were nearly there... and mine might be done more easily, but it works!
This will create a file of all the names of your photos:
find /Path/to/the/topmost folder/of/photos -mindepth 2 -type f -print
| sed 's/^.*///' | sort > /tmp/photos-from-folders
If any are in folders owned by others, prepend with sudo and use >> to append those filenames to those already in the initial file.
use a similar command to create a second file containing all the filenames of your phone's photos.
You can just do a diff and send to a file with > or, if you know which set is biggest, use that as file1 and do
diff file1 file2 | egrep -v '<' > filediff-output
Of course, all the paths have been stripped by the sed in the intial find to generate just the filenames. If you see something that might be missing, you want to know where it is, so use
sudo find /Path/to/the/topmost folder/of/photos -name
'filename-you-want' -ls
and that will tell you where it is.
Hope this helps. I helped me work out what I need to keep from an old home directory of mine that's not in my new home directory. 65 Gig of space saved!
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f5d5dec7f37fe8d3450cef49831bcfc1fa31f089 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Adding custom email headers on iOS I use Mozilla Thunderbird on OSX but I am considering getting an iPad. Thunderbird allows me to add any kind of custom email header. For me, this feature is essential.
Will I find an iOS app that can do the same?
| Q: Adding custom email headers on iOS I use Mozilla Thunderbird on OSX but I am considering getting an iPad. Thunderbird allows me to add any kind of custom email header. For me, this feature is essential.
Will I find an iOS app that can do the same?
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6173596a44222fbcb085fb30d08c0b71d4f037fe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can the name under the Bank Account be different from Account holder? My sister made an iTunes Connect account and signed up for the developer program (she is over 21). I am the developer of the account; i'm just not exactly 18 yet (will be in a couple months).
In setting up the agreements/tax/banking, can she input my bank account information, since it has a different name than that on the developer account? If not, is there anything she can do (add me as a developer or something) to be able to?
A: Per the iTunes Connect Developer Guide (emphasis mine):
Specify the bank account.
Identify the bank account by the following:
...
Account Holder Name. Be sure that the Account Holder Name exactly matches the name expected by the bank; it doesn't have to match the Legal Entity Name for the iTunes Connect organization.
| Q: Can the name under the Bank Account be different from Account holder? My sister made an iTunes Connect account and signed up for the developer program (she is over 21). I am the developer of the account; i'm just not exactly 18 yet (will be in a couple months).
In setting up the agreements/tax/banking, can she input my bank account information, since it has a different name than that on the developer account? If not, is there anything she can do (add me as a developer or something) to be able to?
A: Per the iTunes Connect Developer Guide (emphasis mine):
Specify the bank account.
Identify the bank account by the following:
...
Account Holder Name. Be sure that the Account Holder Name exactly matches the name expected by the bank; it doesn't have to match the Legal Entity Name for the iTunes Connect organization.
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7f8bc6fa457a109a2a21748950d87a8ca6d07c03 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change color of desktop font (Yosemite) Tinkertool took care of most of the too-small fonts (are any Apple designers over 40?), but the white text on my preferred light desktop is bad. Linux GTX has a rather tricky file to hand-edit to fix a similar bad default. Does Yosemite have any well-hidden way of changing the desktop icon font color?
A: As far as I know, it is not possible to change the color of the system font. The system graphic interface files are under the license protection of Apple's user agreement and they are well guarded with encryptions. This also results in the lack of capacity of turning off full screen animation, and other unfortunate unique OSX graphic interface design features and behaviors.
| Q: Change color of desktop font (Yosemite) Tinkertool took care of most of the too-small fonts (are any Apple designers over 40?), but the white text on my preferred light desktop is bad. Linux GTX has a rather tricky file to hand-edit to fix a similar bad default. Does Yosemite have any well-hidden way of changing the desktop icon font color?
A: As far as I know, it is not possible to change the color of the system font. The system graphic interface files are under the license protection of Apple's user agreement and they are well guarded with encryptions. This also results in the lack of capacity of turning off full screen animation, and other unfortunate unique OSX graphic interface design features and behaviors.
A: This doesn't do exactly what you want, but it might make the colors more bearable.
Try this:
Go to System Preferences > Accessibility > Display and play around with Invert Colors and Enhance Contrast options.
If you want to achieve the effect of making your desktop font black, you can try turning on the Invert Colors and Use Gray Scale options.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I would recommend a better workaround, however. I believe the reason your white font looks bad is because you have your background set to something light. I had a similar issue too until I set my background to something more neutral. Try setting it to a solid color like a shade of brown, or a dull medium blue. Of course, dark grey or black would also work, but I personally don't like the colorless, depressing look of a plain black or grey background.
A: I've run into that too and ended up using an app called NerdTool to create semi-permanent bars behind my logos (also helped with the icons that I had changed that were partially transparent and completely disappeared against dark backgrounds.
In this case, I took a frame (ie I googled 3D frame and downloaded an image that looked like it might look ok). I used NerdTool to put the image on the wallpaper and set the size to what I wanted (took some finagling). That's how I got the white bar on top. Then I took a screen shot of a part of my screen that was black, imported that into NerdTool, and stretched and positioned it to be under the letters to make those pop out.
NerdTool can be a little daunting if you don't know the command line, but for this circumstance you don't actually touch terminal.
Of course this will only work for files that you plan on keeping put on your desktop and isn't a great solution if your shuffling stuff around a lot, but for me, the files in the screen shot I included are ones that I use frequently and are going to stay there.
I know this isn't a fix all, but it's something. Hope this helps someone.
A: You can create your own user .css file to modify the default fonts when using Safari on Yosemite
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13496edbb1bd748fd18dad2e47c6037fa7aa79ef | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Still possible to pin dock in OS X 10.10 Yosemite? Since 10.5 are so I have been using this command to flush the dock to the upper corner of the screen:
defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string start ;
I can see that this is still present in the plist, but it no longer effects the dock. Anyone know if there is a way to restore pinning now?
| Q: Still possible to pin dock in OS X 10.10 Yosemite? Since 10.5 are so I have been using this command to flush the dock to the upper corner of the screen:
defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string start ;
I can see that this is still present in the plist, but it no longer effects the dock. Anyone know if there is a way to restore pinning now?
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553cff214d3244ce4027ab42aefcfa0932c9ed30 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: My cursor is wrong in certain apps (Safari, Chrome, Mail) I have this weird issue, where my cursor isn't changing to a pointer (or any other cursors) when I'm browsing the web or in Mail.
MBPr mid 2012, OS X Yosemite, Safari 8
Anyone knows how to fix this?
A: If Photoshop CC runs, the mouse pointer can show you wrong pointer in several different apps (Chrome, Mail, etc.). Close Photoshop CC and the cursor should be OK.
Reference: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=357347
| Q: My cursor is wrong in certain apps (Safari, Chrome, Mail) I have this weird issue, where my cursor isn't changing to a pointer (or any other cursors) when I'm browsing the web or in Mail.
MBPr mid 2012, OS X Yosemite, Safari 8
Anyone knows how to fix this?
A: If Photoshop CC runs, the mouse pointer can show you wrong pointer in several different apps (Chrome, Mail, etc.). Close Photoshop CC and the cursor should be OK.
Reference: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=357347
A: I'VE FOUND THE PROBLEM!!!! WHOOORAHHHHH!
ADOBE it's you!
Flickering curser / curser not showing / jiggering around all over etc in all adobe products and your browser with ADOBE flash plugins!
A team of 22 people in my office all had similar issues and we resolved it simply by closing our currently open photoshop documents. Why this fixed it we have no clue. But it did fix the issues - all the cursor-related issues!
Try it.
We're now on high alert for when exactly the issue starts to resurface to try to pin down exact causes.
A: Hey I know this is an old issue. But I just recently was faced with it as well. The cursor did not change into a hand when hovering over links, plus my cursor was flickering and jumping in all Adobe Apps! I'm using OSX El Capitan.
My issues were solved by installing SmoothMouse.
I don't even use any features of the App but it did overwrite some settings and now everything is working fine!
Hope that helps anyone.
A: I found a article how to fix that on Apple Support Communities by Linc Davis.
This procedure is a test, not a solution. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Step 1
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is localized to your user account.
Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. Don't use the Safari-only “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac.”
While logged in as Guest, you won’t have access to any of your personal files or settings. Applications will behave as if you were running them for the first time. Don’t be alarmed by this; it’s normal. If you need any passwords or other personal data in order to complete the test, memorize, print, or write them down before you begin.
Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem?
After testing, log out of the guest account and, in your own account, disable it if you wish. Any files you created in the guest account will be deleted automatically when you log out of it.
*Note: If you’ve activated “Find My Mac” or FileVault, then you can’t enable the Guest account. The “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac” is not the same. Create a new account in which to test, and delete it, including its home folder, after testing.
Step 2
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party system modifications that load automatically at startup or login, or by a peripheral device.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards. Boot in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, and some things won’t work at all, including Wi-Fi on certain iMacs. The next normal boot may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Test while in safe mode. Same problem?
After testing, reboot as usual (i.e., not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of steps 1 and 2.
A: Using SmoothMouse worked for me as well. It must overwrite some files. It worked immediately and has continued to work with no problems. http://smoothmouse.com/
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01cc472c4c48ad103527408f726fa93038fc376c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X Yosemite desktop icon positioning problems I just updated my MacBook Pro 13 inch mid 2012 model to OS X Yosemite, and the icons on my desktop are behaving strangely. When I try to move a file or folder to a specific place to keep my desktop organized, it doesn't let me put them where I want them to go.
Below is a screenshot of my desktop. I tried to move the folder with the red 1 on it into the empty space where the 2 is, but it wouldn't let me, and the folder moved back to where it was. However, if i were to move the folder to the number 3, it would let me do this.
A: I pressed command-j, changed the font from 12 to 11, changed "sort by" from "snap to grid" to "none", moved my icons where I wanted them, put "snap to grid" back on, then control-click and selected "clean up" to move all the icons back into the alignment of the grid. Since doing this, I have not experienced this problem.
| Q: OS X Yosemite desktop icon positioning problems I just updated my MacBook Pro 13 inch mid 2012 model to OS X Yosemite, and the icons on my desktop are behaving strangely. When I try to move a file or folder to a specific place to keep my desktop organized, it doesn't let me put them where I want them to go.
Below is a screenshot of my desktop. I tried to move the folder with the red 1 on it into the empty space where the 2 is, but it wouldn't let me, and the folder moved back to where it was. However, if i were to move the folder to the number 3, it would let me do this.
A: I pressed command-j, changed the font from 12 to 11, changed "sort by" from "snap to grid" to "none", moved my icons where I wanted them, put "snap to grid" back on, then control-click and selected "clean up" to move all the icons back into the alignment of the grid. Since doing this, I have not experienced this problem.
A: By no means a scientific answer, but when this happened to me, I eventually got round it by...
Closing all windows [to save confusion]
Dragging all the icons over to the left side of the screen, Hit Cmd/J & set Sort by to None [from Snap to grid previously]
Right clicking the desktop then setting to Clean up by Name, then Sort by Size [or anything other then name]
Then set to Sort by None, Sort by Snap to Grid, then manually moving the icons back where I wanted them.
This time they stayed where I set them.
Essentially I think I just shook up all the prefs & made it have another look.
If still no joy, then run Disk Utility & check permissions & verify/repair disk & try the shake-up again.
A: Right click the desktop, and hit clean up. I had the exact issue and clean up fixed it!
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ac1ae237e9f64ed66de12f1286026021ab985cb0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to switch Spotlight in OS X to using Google? Spotlight (in Yosemite) has the ability to search the web. However, this only works with Bing. Is it possible to switch it to using Google?
A: You might check out Google Quick Search Box. From their description:
Quick Search Box is an open source search box that allows you to
search data on your computer and across the web. With Quick Search Box
you can search for information from just about anywhere. You can then
perform actions on the search results, such as launching applications,
emailing friends, or playing a song.
Otherwise, OS X Yosemite still has a shortcut in System Preferences >> Keyboard >> Shortcuts >> Under Searching, Search with Google
However, the short answer to your question is no. You cannot use spotlight to directly search Google.
| Q: Is it possible to switch Spotlight in OS X to using Google? Spotlight (in Yosemite) has the ability to search the web. However, this only works with Bing. Is it possible to switch it to using Google?
A: You might check out Google Quick Search Box. From their description:
Quick Search Box is an open source search box that allows you to
search data on your computer and across the web. With Quick Search Box
you can search for information from just about anywhere. You can then
perform actions on the search results, such as launching applications,
emailing friends, or playing a song.
Otherwise, OS X Yosemite still has a shortcut in System Preferences >> Keyboard >> Shortcuts >> Under Searching, Search with Google
However, the short answer to your question is no. You cannot use spotlight to directly search Google.
A: In OS X 10.10 someone has made a spotlight plugin which has unofficially reversed engineered the API necessary to add new search engines.
i.e. google. The project is called flashlight.
It comes out of the box with a lot of plugins, including google.
To use it, you start spotlight and enter g yosemite, for example, which does a google search for "yosemite"
This open-source app is hosted on git hub and has releases which mean you just install the .app file, as usual. However, it's not signed so you may need to go to system preferences -> security & privacy and choose to allow the app to open (which you do after starting it and getting the error message that the app is not from the app store). Assuming you trust the app and/or my recommendation. You may like to visit the github site and see how many people have starred this application, to give you some sense of confidence.
download here:
http://flashlight.nateparrott.com/
github:
https://github.com/nate-parrott/Flashlight#flashlight
A: It is not possible to get suggestions from Google, but it is possible to do a Google (or any other supported search engines) search from Spotlight.
Select your favorite search engine in the Safari preferences. Then in spotlight you type the term to be searched and then do the search with ⌘ + B.
This works even if your default browser is not Safari, but will use Safari's default search engine.
A: Open Safari, open preferences > search > Make sure your search engine is set to Google. Also, make sure to include Spotlight Suggestions. This should do the trick. I have attached my settings, which allow me to use Google with Spotlight. If you need more help, comment and I'll be interested to help! My settings:
A: If you want to search more than google, an interesting alternative is Alfred, it's pretty close to spotlight, but has a lot more options (especially if you buy the power pack.
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79991490bfeed6bdcd56eacbda8bd6f500fedab8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Yosemite Mail.app is playing sounds for non-inbox mail I have some filters set up in Gmail, for things like mailing lists. Messages skip the inbox, get tagged, and go straight to archive. This was not a problem in Mavericks, but now I'm getting the "new mail" noise all the time, when really it's a new message in the archive, from one of these filters, but nothing is new in my inbox.
The setting in my preferences is still: New message notifications: Inbox Only.
Any ideas? A bug in Mail?
A: My workaround…
*
*Switch off the new message sound in Prefs > General
*To the end of every rule, or at least the end of all possible paths, add a new Action - 'Stop Evaluating Rules'.
*Add one more Rule at the end, like this…
Anything that gets that far through the Rule list will play the sound, anything diverted on the way will not…
...or you can selectively add that or any chosen sound at the bottom of earlier Rules, for instance if you wanted to differentiate or highlight any particular incoming path.
| Q: Yosemite Mail.app is playing sounds for non-inbox mail I have some filters set up in Gmail, for things like mailing lists. Messages skip the inbox, get tagged, and go straight to archive. This was not a problem in Mavericks, but now I'm getting the "new mail" noise all the time, when really it's a new message in the archive, from one of these filters, but nothing is new in my inbox.
The setting in my preferences is still: New message notifications: Inbox Only.
Any ideas? A bug in Mail?
A: My workaround…
*
*Switch off the new message sound in Prefs > General
*To the end of every rule, or at least the end of all possible paths, add a new Action - 'Stop Evaluating Rules'.
*Add one more Rule at the end, like this…
Anything that gets that far through the Rule list will play the sound, anything diverted on the way will not…
...or you can selectively add that or any chosen sound at the bottom of earlier Rules, for instance if you wanted to differentiate or highlight any particular incoming path.
A: I haven't used the client side mail filters for while, but I don't think it's a bug.
As a alternative workaround you can use server side gmail filter. So, incoming email messages, like mailing lists are already sorted on the server before they show up in Mail. It is so much faster than sorting them locally.
A: Go to Mail -> Preferences -> Rules.
Edit one of the lists, where you have to add under "Perform the following actions:":
Mark as Read
A: Solution: update your Gmail filters to:
*
*Skip the inbox
*Mark as read
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0966c1bbc9360f4c071ead40eaa5db0986ae0488 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X Yosemite spotlight search wikipedia and web content missing One of the new features in spotlight was supposed to be information from wikipedia, web when anything was searched. However, I don't seem to be getting this information when I search in spotlight. Is this feature only available in certain countries? (Im in India, and all the reviews I've read about Yosemite are US or Europe based websites).
A: This could be related: https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#spotlight-suggestions-spotlight-suggestions
It's a list of countries that have Spotlight Suggestions enabled in iOS 8. If this is true, this is a pretty bad move from Apple.
Source: macrumors discussion
UPDATE: Apple confirms that
Spotlight Suggestions may not be available in all regions.
on the Spotlight support page.
| Q: OS X Yosemite spotlight search wikipedia and web content missing One of the new features in spotlight was supposed to be information from wikipedia, web when anything was searched. However, I don't seem to be getting this information when I search in spotlight. Is this feature only available in certain countries? (Im in India, and all the reviews I've read about Yosemite are US or Europe based websites).
A: This could be related: https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#spotlight-suggestions-spotlight-suggestions
It's a list of countries that have Spotlight Suggestions enabled in iOS 8. If this is true, this is a pretty bad move from Apple.
Source: macrumors discussion
UPDATE: Apple confirms that
Spotlight Suggestions may not be available in all regions.
on the Spotlight support page.
A: Appart from @shrx correct answer there is a second issue with Yosemite's new Spotlight feature:
On my system I was able to enable Wikipedia and Web content by aligning my system's region and language settings.
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2joxlh/os_x_yosemite_1010_bug_thread/cldpzkh
A: This feature is not available in India.
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ab5e71692bc264432040d9bd2aabea9bddf41b25 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: XCode 6 on Yosemite crashing in fullscreen mode when build & running app on device Xcode 6 on Yosemite crashes everytime when pressing Build&Run on Device.
Current window disappears and Start screen appears.
Anyone else experiencing this?
UPDATE:
As it seems Xcode is not crashing, but clicking "Run" triggers "close" and clicking "Stop" triggers "minimize". It's not whole buttons it's only area of closing and minimizing buttons behind.
So concluson is that new fullscreenmode somehow sometimes shadows click to underlying controlbuttons.
Reported this to Apple.
UPDATE 23.4.2015
This seems to be fixed now in Yosemite 10.10.3 (14D131).
A: It's not that it's crashing but it's executing the red close button when you hit the play button. I have also seen it exit full screen when you press the stop button.
But Yes I have been seeing the same thing.
| Q: XCode 6 on Yosemite crashing in fullscreen mode when build & running app on device Xcode 6 on Yosemite crashes everytime when pressing Build&Run on Device.
Current window disappears and Start screen appears.
Anyone else experiencing this?
UPDATE:
As it seems Xcode is not crashing, but clicking "Run" triggers "close" and clicking "Stop" triggers "minimize". It's not whole buttons it's only area of closing and minimizing buttons behind.
So concluson is that new fullscreenmode somehow sometimes shadows click to underlying controlbuttons.
Reported this to Apple.
UPDATE 23.4.2015
This seems to be fixed now in Yosemite 10.10.3 (14D131).
A: It's not that it's crashing but it's executing the red close button when you hit the play button. I have also seen it exit full screen when you press the stop button.
But Yes I have been seeing the same thing.
A: I've started using ⌘R to compile & run the app, to avoid this problem
A: I've had the same. Selecting file open>recent and then opening the file you already have open before hitting build&run seems to help.
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994886b2ef6082a8e3b393898daad61dd9870e0f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is handoff available for Safari with Yosemite and iOS8.02? Assumptions:
*
*Yosemite installed on a Macbook Pro Retina
*iOS 8.02 installed on an iPhone 6
I was able to receive a call on my iPhone and have the handoff of the call to my Macbook Pro work successfully.
This article suggests that handoff is available for Safari.
On the home screen it should look like this:
I can't see either of these icons popping up - even though I can get handoff for calls working.
My question is: Is handoff available for Safari with Yosemite and iOS8.02?
A: Yes handoff is available for Safari in Yosemite and iOS 8.02, I just tested it. But it does not work with Google Chrome as shown in the screenshot (at least not yet and in my case).
But you can use iCloud tabs on your iPhone. It shows you which tabs are opened on other devices, have a look a this page. It is for iOS7 but it works the same in iOS8.
| Q: Is handoff available for Safari with Yosemite and iOS8.02? Assumptions:
*
*Yosemite installed on a Macbook Pro Retina
*iOS 8.02 installed on an iPhone 6
I was able to receive a call on my iPhone and have the handoff of the call to my Macbook Pro work successfully.
This article suggests that handoff is available for Safari.
On the home screen it should look like this:
I can't see either of these icons popping up - even though I can get handoff for calls working.
My question is: Is handoff available for Safari with Yosemite and iOS8.02?
A: Yes handoff is available for Safari in Yosemite and iOS 8.02, I just tested it. But it does not work with Google Chrome as shown in the screenshot (at least not yet and in my case).
But you can use iCloud tabs on your iPhone. It shows you which tabs are opened on other devices, have a look a this page. It is for iOS7 but it works the same in iOS8.
A: Ok - I got it working. There were a couple of steps:
*
*Log out and log in to iCloud on both machines
*Ensure that 'Safari' is checked in the iCloud System Preferences
After this the Chrome icon popped up on my Mac when browsing in safari on the iphone. (Chrome is the default browser on the mac)
I also got the safari icon on the iphone lock screen when browsing in Safari on my mac.
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995900b8b1873203437c912055e3ad44c51d78b5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why is my MacBook visibile on Bluetooth after Yosemite install? Since upgrading to Yosemite (from Mavericks) my MacBook Pro (Retina mid 2014) is visible (in "advertising mode") on Bluetooth (at least to my iPhone). It was not visible prior to Yosemite, and there's nothing that I did on my iPhone (that I can recall) to make this happen.
Why is my Mac visible on Bluetooth, and how do I hide it again?
A: Bluetooth needs to be in advertising mode for Yosemite's Handoff to work.
To disable Handoff in Mac Yosemite: Select System Prefs > General and uncheck "Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices".
| Q: Why is my MacBook visibile on Bluetooth after Yosemite install? Since upgrading to Yosemite (from Mavericks) my MacBook Pro (Retina mid 2014) is visible (in "advertising mode") on Bluetooth (at least to my iPhone). It was not visible prior to Yosemite, and there's nothing that I did on my iPhone (that I can recall) to make this happen.
Why is my Mac visible on Bluetooth, and how do I hide it again?
A: Bluetooth needs to be in advertising mode for Yosemite's Handoff to work.
To disable Handoff in Mac Yosemite: Select System Prefs > General and uncheck "Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices".
A: Looks like the three ways Macs become discoverable (showing up in other computers) via Bluetooth are Bluetooth Sharing, Handoff, and when the Bluetooth Preference pane is open.
To keep your Mac from being discoverable via Bluetooth, do the following:
*
*Select Apple menu->System Preferences...
*Select Sharing.
*Turn off Bluetooth Sharing, if it's on.
*Select View menu->General.
*Turn off Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices, if it's on. (This option won't appear on older Macs.)
*Keep Bluetooth Preferences closed except when pairing with another device.
You can check discoverability from another Mac as follows:
*
*Select Apple menu->System Preferences...
*Select Bluetooth.
*Wait a while to see if your computer appears.
A: I've got the same problem - the issue seems to be with Yosemite's insistence to make your MacBooks' bluetooth discoverable in case you want to use the Handoff feature - but the problem is, there are plenty of MacBooks out there which are fast enough to run Yosemite, but too old to support Handoff. In which case, the "Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices" tick box is missing and the only way to stop your Mac from advertising its presence via bluetooth seems to be to turn off bluetooth completely. Very annoying!
A: Use "Pref Setter" to change the Settings in the Bluetooth System preferences:
*
*Start "Pref Setter"
*Search for "Bluetooth"
*In "System Preferences" -> com.apple.Bluetooth -> doubleclick -> find "DiscoverableState" -> change to "false".
*Close window with cmd-w, safe, exit.
*Restart (disable/enable) bluetooth.
Don't be alarmed when opening the bluetooth menu. To confirm that this has worked, check Bluetooth state with alt-click on the Bluetooth menu; it should read discoverable: no.
A: Spent hours searching on a solution for this problem but Jawa's answer was the correct way to solve it. Thanks!
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daa79016da4451073950269d7113aea06df11c82 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I disable Bonjour visibility after Yosemite install? Since upgrading to Yosemite (from Mavericks) my MacBook Pro (Retina mid-2014) advertises itself on Bonjour (with "whats-my-name"). It was not visible in this way prior to Yosemite, and I have no sharing features enabled on my Mac.
How do I hide it again or turn off the "whats-my-name" service?
A: There is no more com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist in OS X 10.10. The service that controls mDNSResponder is now discoverd. The plist file you are looking for is actually:
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist
You want to add --no-multicast to the ProgramArguments in that file.
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/libexec/discoveryd</string>
<string>--udsocket</string>
<string>standard</string>
<string>--loglevel</string>
<string>Basic</string>
<string>--logclass</string>
<string>Everything</string>
<string>--logto</string>
<string>asl</string>
</array>
Becomes
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/libexec/discoveryd</string>
<string>--udsocket</string>
<string>standard</string>
<string>--loglevel</string>
<string>Basic</string>
<string>--logclass</string>
<string>Everything</string>
<string>--logto</string>
<string>asl</string>
<string>--no-multicast</string>
</array>
You'll want to be very careful when editing that file. You can also use this script to do it for you - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MacMiniVault/Mac-Scripts/master/disablebonjour/disablebonjour.sh
| Q: How do I disable Bonjour visibility after Yosemite install? Since upgrading to Yosemite (from Mavericks) my MacBook Pro (Retina mid-2014) advertises itself on Bonjour (with "whats-my-name"). It was not visible in this way prior to Yosemite, and I have no sharing features enabled on my Mac.
How do I hide it again or turn off the "whats-my-name" service?
A: There is no more com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist in OS X 10.10. The service that controls mDNSResponder is now discoverd. The plist file you are looking for is actually:
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist
You want to add --no-multicast to the ProgramArguments in that file.
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/libexec/discoveryd</string>
<string>--udsocket</string>
<string>standard</string>
<string>--loglevel</string>
<string>Basic</string>
<string>--logclass</string>
<string>Everything</string>
<string>--logto</string>
<string>asl</string>
</array>
Becomes
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/libexec/discoveryd</string>
<string>--udsocket</string>
<string>standard</string>
<string>--loglevel</string>
<string>Basic</string>
<string>--logclass</string>
<string>Everything</string>
<string>--logto</string>
<string>asl</string>
<string>--no-multicast</string>
</array>
You'll want to be very careful when editing that file. You can also use this script to do it for you - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MacMiniVault/Mac-Scripts/master/disablebonjour/disablebonjour.sh
A: in Yosemite 10.10.5 here, there is no discoveryd or ever any reference to it on the whole filesystem.
I always install the 'hide bonjour' prefpane however and tweak the living crap out of the OS and remove all cloud, game and social media apps, and the rest of the CPU / RAM killing privacy crud too.
The app 'Lingon' is helpful for cleaning up launchD too.
There is a basic free version too - if you look around :)
A: In OS X 10.9, Bonjour advertising can be disabled by following the steps listed at "How to disable Bonjour service advertising":
*
*Make a back up copy of the mDNSResponder.plist file as a precaution.
Open the mDNSResponder.plist file in Terminal using your preferred text editor. Here is a sample command:
sudo nano "/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist"
*Add "-NoMulticastAdvertisements" to the array in the "ProgramArguments" section.
Example:
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/sbin/mDNSResponder</string>
<string>-launchd</string>
</array>`
becomes...
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/sbin/mDNSResponder</string>
<string>-launchd</string>
<string>-NoMulticastAdvertisements</string>
</array>
*Save the file.
Important: If you edited this file using emacs, you must remove the emacs backup file (the file with a tilde at the end of the name, "/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist~") or your Mac will not start up.
*Restart your Mac.
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57eed99e62b17ee6c6743b805678bb8bb6db6bc2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Ogg Vorbis/FLAC Support for OS X 10.10 I used to playback Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files (in iTunes) with this QuickTime plugin: https://www.xiph.org/quicktime/
But this no longer seems to work in OS X 10.10 (probably also in 10.9, I don't have many Ogg files/FLAC files, so I use it not very often). Is there any possiblity to playback Ogg Vorbis/FLAC in iTunes? Using another player like VLC works of course...
| Q: Ogg Vorbis/FLAC Support for OS X 10.10 I used to playback Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files (in iTunes) with this QuickTime plugin: https://www.xiph.org/quicktime/
But this no longer seems to work in OS X 10.10 (probably also in 10.9, I don't have many Ogg files/FLAC files, so I use it not very often). Is there any possiblity to playback Ogg Vorbis/FLAC in iTunes? Using another player like VLC works of course...
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2f737f24d53d206635631651c5e6128e3192bce8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: LaunchPad totally disorganised after reboot OS X Yosemite Running Yosemite 10.0 with a clean erase and install, when I reboot, all my launchpad apps are totally disorganised, folders and un-official apps disappears...
After reorganizing the layout twice, I don't want to keep sorting my launchpad every time I restart my Mac.
A: *
*Go to: User directory > Library > Application Support > Dock > there, you might have a file with a strange name finishing by .db - you can do this in finder with the Go menu and paste or type the string shown below:
*Put this file into the trash, but don't empty the trash, just in case.
*Just restart the Mac. The Launchpad must be reinitialize, that's mean you have to remake the arrangement of all your apps, the same way at your first Lion's installation. Voilà!
*If you have problems after the reboot, you can restore the file from trash to the correct location - replacing any new file that was created and then contact Apple support in that case:
From Apple Discussions
| Q: LaunchPad totally disorganised after reboot OS X Yosemite Running Yosemite 10.0 with a clean erase and install, when I reboot, all my launchpad apps are totally disorganised, folders and un-official apps disappears...
After reorganizing the layout twice, I don't want to keep sorting my launchpad every time I restart my Mac.
A: *
*Go to: User directory > Library > Application Support > Dock > there, you might have a file with a strange name finishing by .db - you can do this in finder with the Go menu and paste or type the string shown below:
*Put this file into the trash, but don't empty the trash, just in case.
*Just restart the Mac. The Launchpad must be reinitialize, that's mean you have to remake the arrangement of all your apps, the same way at your first Lion's installation. Voilà!
*If you have problems after the reboot, you can restore the file from trash to the correct location - replacing any new file that was created and then contact Apple support in that case:
From Apple Discussions
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b8c616fbc19ac8a0a8a2237523e8f088ed70db3e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Reinstalling OS X Lion after erasing the HD A friend of mine recently bought a used Macbook (I believe it's the model before the last Macbook model from 2011). It had OSX Lion installed. I rebooted the system, held down Command + R and used Disc Utilities to to wipe it out. When I went to reinstall Lion, I get an error say that the item is not available and to try again later. Of course, trying again later has done me no good.
Any ideas? I've read elsewhere online that this is a common problem but have not found any solutions.
A: You can purchase Lion at Apple on a DVD: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion I guess that is the only legal way to install Lion on a clean Mac.
| Q: Reinstalling OS X Lion after erasing the HD A friend of mine recently bought a used Macbook (I believe it's the model before the last Macbook model from 2011). It had OSX Lion installed. I rebooted the system, held down Command + R and used Disc Utilities to to wipe it out. When I went to reinstall Lion, I get an error say that the item is not available and to try again later. Of course, trying again later has done me no good.
Any ideas? I've read elsewhere online that this is a common problem but have not found any solutions.
A: You can purchase Lion at Apple on a DVD: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion I guess that is the only legal way to install Lion on a clean Mac.
A: Use Cmd/R at startup & select Internet Recovery - that should use an online recovery method & restore the OS that the machine originally shipped with. (See About OS X Recovery.)
Newer Macs include the ability to start up directly from an Internet-based version OS X Recovery. Your Mac automatically uses this feature when the Recovery System on the startup drive isn't available. For example, if your startup drive encounters an issue, or if your startup drive has been replaced or erased. Internet Recovery lets you start your Mac directly from Apple's servers. Starting up from this system performs a quick test of your memory and hard drive to check for hardware issues.
Internet Recovery initially asks you to select a Wi-Fi network and enter a network password when needed. Next, Internet Recovery downloads and starts from a Recovery System image. From there, you are offered the same utilities and options as the Recovery System on a startup drive.
2011 MacBook Pro may need a firmware update in order to do this. Refer to "Computers that can be upgraded to use OS X Internet Recovery" and click on the link for your specific computer model to find a download and instructions.
Far too much info on the above links to even attempt to make a good answer in here.
A: You can't access to Lion with your AppleID, because the previous owner of this MacBook forgot to "deauthorize" it before selling.
(Forgive me this meaningless and stupid term, a more appropriate term would have been "revoke ownership").
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b3f56a8386489b91c1923f87986614efb6028f56 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to disable spell check systemwide? I've just done a clean install of Yosemite, and in practically all of my apps I'm noticing those red underlines whenever I've "misspelled" something (or, more accurately, used an unrecognized name, technical term, piece of code, etc.). I have been disabling it app by app, although even then it doesn't always work - for example, when doing Google searches in Chrome it still shows up, even though I've disabled "check spelling while typing."
I've also gone to System Preferences/Keyboard/Text and unchecked "Correct spelling automatically," but this still doesn't seem to do anything.
Has something gone wrong on my system? And is there any more reliable way to completely disable this unwanted "feature?"
A: Renaming '/System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/Contents/Resources' did not work for me since that file doesn't seem to exist on this install (10.11). What did work was disabling it for the languages I usually write in, under System Preferences->Keyboard->Text->Spelling select menu. It's set to 'Automatic by Language' by default, choose 'Set up…' at the bottom and deselect your languages. Restart the applications that use the Spelling service.
| Q: Is it possible to disable spell check systemwide? I've just done a clean install of Yosemite, and in practically all of my apps I'm noticing those red underlines whenever I've "misspelled" something (or, more accurately, used an unrecognized name, technical term, piece of code, etc.). I have been disabling it app by app, although even then it doesn't always work - for example, when doing Google searches in Chrome it still shows up, even though I've disabled "check spelling while typing."
I've also gone to System Preferences/Keyboard/Text and unchecked "Correct spelling automatically," but this still doesn't seem to do anything.
Has something gone wrong on my system? And is there any more reliable way to completely disable this unwanted "feature?"
A: Renaming '/System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/Contents/Resources' did not work for me since that file doesn't seem to exist on this install (10.11). What did work was disabling it for the languages I usually write in, under System Preferences->Keyboard->Text->Spelling select menu. It's set to 'Automatic by Language' by default, choose 'Set up…' at the bottom and deselect your languages. Restart the applications that use the Spelling service.
A: Rename the contents of the AppleSpell service to append .disabled, then kill AppleSpell.
sudo mv /System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/Contents/Resources \
/System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/Contents/Resources.disabled
killall AppleSpell
A: This work for me on El Capitan: https://www.osx.news/mac/turn-off-autocorrect-on-mac/
Edit: This is not a solution to the question asked. Auto-correction is not spell checking.
A: Under System Preferences > Keyboard > Text there is a checkbox in the top right called "Correct spelling automatically". Turn that off to disable AppleSpell.
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4d502800d5dc3601363ac6dd137bd655b94b9652 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable mouse acceleration in Yosemite? I just upgraded to Yosemite and my current best interpretation of what's happening is that there's a new behavior that "helpfully" moves the mouse (and a window if you're moving one) closer to an edge of the screen when moving quickly enough.
I really dislike this, in great part because it causes very strange behavior when I'm playing a game.
Is this a setting that can be changed?
With additional testing, it looks like the mouse doesn't snap to the edge, but has tremendous acceleration in some cases (quick changes in direction?) which it didn't have before the upgrade to Yosemite.
A: It turns out Yosemite enables mouse acceleration by default. it can be disabled by typing this in terminal:
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1
After changing this setting in Terminal, you'll need to logout and log back in to your Mac. Relaunching Finder will work too (option + right-click on Finder icon in dock -> Relaunch)
| Q: How to disable mouse acceleration in Yosemite? I just upgraded to Yosemite and my current best interpretation of what's happening is that there's a new behavior that "helpfully" moves the mouse (and a window if you're moving one) closer to an edge of the screen when moving quickly enough.
I really dislike this, in great part because it causes very strange behavior when I'm playing a game.
Is this a setting that can be changed?
With additional testing, it looks like the mouse doesn't snap to the edge, but has tremendous acceleration in some cases (quick changes in direction?) which it didn't have before the upgrade to Yosemite.
A: It turns out Yosemite enables mouse acceleration by default. it can be disabled by typing this in terminal:
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1
After changing this setting in Terminal, you'll need to logout and log back in to your Mac. Relaunching Finder will work too (option + right-click on Finder icon in dock -> Relaunch)
A: USB Overdrive remains the best way to control mouse speed/acceleration in OS X, in my opinion. Apple's mouse driver is appallingly bad.
A: Even with mouse acceleration turned off, OS X uses an 'acceleration curve', which makes the mouse slower and the movements less linear.
To disable the acceleration curve/set it to a linear one, download Steelseries Exact Mouse Tool, open it and set it to 'always on'(there will be an icon in your menu bar).
It doesn't just work with Steelseries mice, I use it with my razer mamba in combination with their drivers and it works perfectly.
A: Using defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1 doesn't let you set your mouse speed.
I tried USB overdrive and it does the job even if I'm sure there are other applications that handle this.
A: I highly recommend the program called smooth mouse. It works perfectly for me.
It enables you to choose different settings for the mouse and trackpad (acceleration on trackpad is highly desirable, in contrast with the mouse).
It can be downoaded for free here: http://smoothmouse.com/
A: If you have a razer product and use razer synapse the following apply:
The acceleration can be reenabled on OS X update. To disable again just drag acceleration up and then down to 0 again and the issue is fixed.
A: I can't comment yet but I also want to chime in for USB overdrive, which works with El Capitan.
But just having the USB overdrive driver does not remove mouse acceleration even after unchecking the Acceleration box within the driver settings. You also need to go to the OS X Mouse Settings panel and set Tracking Speed all the way to Slow. You can still adjust mouse sensitivity by modifying the Speed slider in the USB Overdrive panel. I can confirm that moving my mouse at any speed will move the cursor a consistent distance.
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a9479286dc584a26ac5af0ac6ab4adc2f47e0126 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't open files after changing username I use OS X Mavericks 10.9.4.
I changed my username and this may have caused that I am not able to open any files. I still can see my PDFs and photos in Preview! I get this:
File XYZ couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it.
I have tried to run Repair Permissions in Disk Utility but that didn't help. I tried manually chmod files but didn't have a permission to do that.
The strangest thing is that I can see my photos in Preview but when I open them I get the error.
The files are not locked. The folder is not locked too and in permissions tab I can see my username "Lukas (Me)" as "Read Write" access.
A: Make sure that all the permissions are correct on your home folder.
You can use the ACL tool on the Recovery HD to do this:
*
*Boot into the Recovery HD using ⌘R.
*Run resetpassword in Terminal (available from Utilities → Terminal).
*Select your account from the drop-down list.
*Click the Reset button for Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs.
| Q: Can't open files after changing username I use OS X Mavericks 10.9.4.
I changed my username and this may have caused that I am not able to open any files. I still can see my PDFs and photos in Preview! I get this:
File XYZ couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it.
I have tried to run Repair Permissions in Disk Utility but that didn't help. I tried manually chmod files but didn't have a permission to do that.
The strangest thing is that I can see my photos in Preview but when I open them I get the error.
The files are not locked. The folder is not locked too and in permissions tab I can see my username "Lukas (Me)" as "Read Write" access.
A: Make sure that all the permissions are correct on your home folder.
You can use the ACL tool on the Recovery HD to do this:
*
*Boot into the Recovery HD using ⌘R.
*Run resetpassword in Terminal (available from Utilities → Terminal).
*Select your account from the drop-down list.
*Click the Reset button for Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs.
A: I have launched Disk Utility once restarted my computer and then did Repair permissions and it worked.
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4fb0e9c8e37ada863eafe377a9f93f5067774538 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I stop my browsers creating a new tab for every new domain? I have a MacBook and have tried browsing with both the Safari 7 and the Chrome browsers, but every time I go from one domain to another, it automatically creates a new tab. So if I click a link that goes from Yahoo to, say, the IMDB, it will create a new tab for the IMDB site.
This is really annoying because the back button will only navigate me back to the beginning of the history for that domain.
On my PC, no new tabs are created unless I specifically create them.
Is there any way I can prevent this behaviour?
| Q: How do I stop my browsers creating a new tab for every new domain? I have a MacBook and have tried browsing with both the Safari 7 and the Chrome browsers, but every time I go from one domain to another, it automatically creates a new tab. So if I click a link that goes from Yahoo to, say, the IMDB, it will create a new tab for the IMDB site.
This is really annoying because the back button will only navigate me back to the beginning of the history for that domain.
On my PC, no new tabs are created unless I specifically create them.
Is there any way I can prevent this behaviour?
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b71ce23733df51d2e20884a005d3e5bb61338a9d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Yosemite Disk Utility: You may only split this volume in two I just upgraded to 10.10- Yosemite. I have an external 4TB hard drive. These are the problems I see with Disk Utility:
*
*No more than two partitions are allowed.
*Changing the partition size I can only use the slider, so I can't enter a number for the size of the selected partition.
*Changing the name of the parent partition is not possible.
I tried to repair the drive, that didn't change anything. I can try to reformat, or even format the drive on Linux to something else and then see what DU says about that. Any ideas what is the problem here or is this a case of a bad release by Apple?
A: I monted the disk on Ubuntu, opened the disk utility and saw the following. It seemed like Apple Disk Utility messed up. I deleted all partitions, then mounted the disk on my mac and I could create three partitions like I wanted.
| Q: Yosemite Disk Utility: You may only split this volume in two I just upgraded to 10.10- Yosemite. I have an external 4TB hard drive. These are the problems I see with Disk Utility:
*
*No more than two partitions are allowed.
*Changing the partition size I can only use the slider, so I can't enter a number for the size of the selected partition.
*Changing the name of the parent partition is not possible.
I tried to repair the drive, that didn't change anything. I can try to reformat, or even format the drive on Linux to something else and then see what DU says about that. Any ideas what is the problem here or is this a case of a bad release by Apple?
A: I monted the disk on Ubuntu, opened the disk utility and saw the following. It seemed like Apple Disk Utility messed up. I deleted all partitions, then mounted the disk on my mac and I could create three partitions like I wanted.
A: Only way for Yosemite Disk Utility to get 3 partitions I have found is to enter repair mode cmd+R and then manually erase Macintosh HD partition and after that it would be possible to get 3 partitions // Only you will need to reinstall OS X from internet recovery
A: OS X Yosemite includes a recovery partition, the main one and a further one whose use i do not know but these are important so don't delete them.
Sorry, you'll just have to work around it.
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1f30af82ee43005aca89da924c63a1a8be01ce33 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: My volume icon disappeared after I updated to Yosemite. My volume icon disappeared after I updated to OS X Yosemite 10.10. I still have sound. resetting the PRAM didn't work.
I have refurbished 2012 Macbook Air
A: Go to System Preferences then Sound, then put a check on "Show volume in menu bar".
| Q: My volume icon disappeared after I updated to Yosemite. My volume icon disappeared after I updated to OS X Yosemite 10.10. I still have sound. resetting the PRAM didn't work.
I have refurbished 2012 Macbook Air
A: Go to System Preferences then Sound, then put a check on "Show volume in menu bar".
A: Open System Preferences, click on Sound (in the second section, all the way to the right), then make sure Show volume in menu bar is checked.
A: If you're using Bartender, check that it's not set to completely hide the volume icon.
You would think if you had this answer's problem you wouldn't need this answer, but then you wouldn't be thinking of me -_-
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dfb3e9fceb419e78871640b93c0a9cd1ca0a0566 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OSX spaces - how to switch space on another monitor I cannot for the life of me figure this out. I have two monitors. If I'm focused on the left monitor, I cannot use a shortcut to switch spaces on the right monitor. Or (as often happens) I click my right monitor to focus it instead of alt tabbing, and then I cannot switch the left monitor space with my keyboard without clicking on that screen.
Is there not a way to control the space of another monitor with your keyboard?
A: Ctrl-Left Arrow/Right Arrow let you scroll through spaces from the keyboard in Mavericks.
Spaces are only independent if you have "Displays Have Separate Spaces" enabled under System Preferences > Mission Control -- with this option enabled, you should be able to switch workspaces on each monitor independently. The monitor that switches when you use the keyboard shortcut should be the monitor where the pointer currently resides.
| Q: OSX spaces - how to switch space on another monitor I cannot for the life of me figure this out. I have two monitors. If I'm focused on the left monitor, I cannot use a shortcut to switch spaces on the right monitor. Or (as often happens) I click my right monitor to focus it instead of alt tabbing, and then I cannot switch the left monitor space with my keyboard without clicking on that screen.
Is there not a way to control the space of another monitor with your keyboard?
A: Ctrl-Left Arrow/Right Arrow let you scroll through spaces from the keyboard in Mavericks.
Spaces are only independent if you have "Displays Have Separate Spaces" enabled under System Preferences > Mission Control -- with this option enabled, you should be able to switch workspaces on each monitor independently. The monitor that switches when you use the keyboard shortcut should be the monitor where the pointer currently resides.
A: The keyboard shortcuts for switching spaces apply to the display that the pointer is on - there isn't really a way of getting round that, as far as I'm aware.
A: Yes, if you know applescript.
For example, to switch to Space 1 on the Secondary Display. Note:
1) Primary/Secondary Display is defined by where the Menu Bar is (i.e. System Preference -> Display -> Arrangement), not by cursor focus.
2) This script switches to Space 1, whether it's a Desktop or fullscreen app. If you want to switch only to Desktop 1, it can be done, but not with this script as it is.
3) If you don't mind flashing, remove delay 0.5 line.
4) The script cannot do without the animation/transition.
5) Enable Accessibility and all the standard applescript spiel.
6) Modify button number to switch to a different Space on that Display. Modify list number to switch a different Display.
7) Switching to a non-existent Space, e.g. Space 100, would leave the UI at mission control. Nothing bad is going in bad to your computer. It just stays there, and user will have to manually drop back to current Space.
8) No relative switching, i.e. move left or right a space. Just absolute switching.
9) Cursor focus doesn't switch display after running this script. That's a plus.
10) No simultaneously switching Spaces on both displays.
tell application "System Events"
do shell script "/Applications/Mission\\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\\ Control"
delay 0.5
tell process "Dock" to tell group 1 to tell list 2 to tell button 1 to click
end tell
A: The free app "CurrentKey Stats" will do just what you want: https://currentkey.com/
With CKS, you can assign a hotkey to each Desktop/Workspace. Pressing that hotkey will bring up the assigned space no matter which monitor has the mouse or has the active focus. You can be working in the main monitor and press your chosen hotkey to change which desktop is visible in the side monitor, without losing focus in the main monitor or having to move the mouse.
CKS has the powerful feature of being able to assign names to each desktop workspace -- and (here's the cool part) the names persist if you change the order of your desktop spaces, even if you move them to another monitor. That seriously beats the Mission Control names of Desktop 1, Desktop 2, etc., especially if you like to rearrange the order to put things you're working on at the same time into adjacent workspaces.
I currently have 21 desktop spaces and I was running out of mnemonic hotkeys that I could type one-handed and didn't have side effects in one app or another, so I created a menu in "Keyboard Maestro". Other apps like QuickKeys or Alfred can probably do the same kind of thing.
In my KBM menu, I type a hotkey, Shift+Option+Command+S, that I can do with my left hand and it brings up a menu listing the names of all the desktop workspaces. A second keystroke, this time without any modifiers, picks from the menu. (Actually, the menu items can say whatever I want, I use the CKS name preceded by the menu choice mnemonic letter.)
My primary reason for making sure that I can access my Spaces menu (Shift+Option+Command+S) and the menu choices one-handed is that if you change desktop workspace while in the middle of dragging a window, you drag that window to the new workspace.
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0baf2af31973c50a31ce4c879f279253a711d06d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I change the feedback/volume sound effect back to the one in Mavericks? So I recently installed OSX Yosemite, and one of the immediate changes I noticed was the lack of sound when changing volume. In System Preferences I found you can turn it back on, but instead of the "pop" it plays a woodblock sounding noise. I know where to find where the sound effect is stored, but how do I change it back?
Also, it appears that the old sound effect is nowhere to be found, so if anyone knows how I can extract it from a system to use elsewhere that would be great.
| Q: How do I change the feedback/volume sound effect back to the one in Mavericks? So I recently installed OSX Yosemite, and one of the immediate changes I noticed was the lack of sound when changing volume. In System Preferences I found you can turn it back on, but instead of the "pop" it plays a woodblock sounding noise. I know where to find where the sound effect is stored, but how do I change it back?
Also, it appears that the old sound effect is nowhere to be found, so if anyone knows how I can extract it from a system to use elsewhere that would be great.
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d7aca1a73e0067aae9243c1e1add36fc243bb6c2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I adjust the time Mac Mail takes to mark messages "read"? It takes a number of seconds before Mac Mail marks a message as "read". I would like for it to take no more than 0.5 seconds, though instantaneous would be best.
How can I adjust the time required to view a message before it is no longer considered "unread"?
Mac OS X, 10.9.4 and 10.10
A: Have you tried quitting Mail, launching a Terminal and putting in
defaults write com.apple.Mail MarkAsReadDelay 0
| Q: How do I adjust the time Mac Mail takes to mark messages "read"? It takes a number of seconds before Mac Mail marks a message as "read". I would like for it to take no more than 0.5 seconds, though instantaneous would be best.
How can I adjust the time required to view a message before it is no longer considered "unread"?
Mac OS X, 10.9.4 and 10.10
A: Have you tried quitting Mail, launching a Terminal and putting in
defaults write com.apple.Mail MarkAsReadDelay 0
A: When utilizing an IMAP account, you may see a delay in marking read when connected to the mail server, as it issues the mark read command to the server first and waits for a response before doing so locally.
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13c9db3642e05750ca7b30635a2b5f12979d836b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone hotspot prioritized over ethernet In Yosemite, when I connect my iPhone to my Macbook Air through USB the iPhone becomes a internet hotspot for my Mac, even though I've connected the MBA via ethernet. If I enable Wifi, then Wifi is prioritized.
Can I change so that ethernet is prioritized over the iPhone?
A: *
*Open System Preferences
*Select Network preferences pane
*Click gear menu in lower-left corner of Network pane and choose "Select Service Order..."
*Drag the services into whichever order you want
*Click OK
| Q: iPhone hotspot prioritized over ethernet In Yosemite, when I connect my iPhone to my Macbook Air through USB the iPhone becomes a internet hotspot for my Mac, even though I've connected the MBA via ethernet. If I enable Wifi, then Wifi is prioritized.
Can I change so that ethernet is prioritized over the iPhone?
A: *
*Open System Preferences
*Select Network preferences pane
*Click gear menu in lower-left corner of Network pane and choose "Select Service Order..."
*Drag the services into whichever order you want
*Click OK
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c183557a79e22aa0af0a3c9b7f3e2b13dc614166 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: too late to get mavericks? I'm on an older imac on SnowLeopard and didn't upgrade as was happy with the OS and heard there were bugs with Lion etc.
I didn't realise Mavericks was going to disappear from the app store. I'm not sure if many of my apps like CS5 are going to be compatible with Yosemite, and I only have 4GB of RAM.
Is there any way to get mavericks now? Or am I too late?
A: OS X Mavericks is not legally available (via the Mac App Store) anymore. Sharing it is not allowed.
Edit: just remembered that I needed it too a could of months ago and I called Apple. They said 'it might be available in the future'.
| Q: too late to get mavericks? I'm on an older imac on SnowLeopard and didn't upgrade as was happy with the OS and heard there were bugs with Lion etc.
I didn't realise Mavericks was going to disappear from the app store. I'm not sure if many of my apps like CS5 are going to be compatible with Yosemite, and I only have 4GB of RAM.
Is there any way to get mavericks now? Or am I too late?
A: OS X Mavericks is not legally available (via the Mac App Store) anymore. Sharing it is not allowed.
Edit: just remembered that I needed it too a could of months ago and I called Apple. They said 'it might be available in the future'.
A: It is too late to download Mavericks from the Mac App Store, but if you can find someone you know that has purchased Mavericks in the App Store they can still download it. If not, I'm sure you would be able to find a copy online somewhere from a less legitimate source.
A: Is this the file you need? I still have it from when I upgraded from Mt Lion. Also have Mt Lion installer.
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66c663f04fe69ab788a99f1bf727a380d590cfd6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: When woken up from sleep, some Chrome windows are blurry I have a 2nd monitor attached to my Retina MBP. I was on OS X Mavericks and had this problem, where sometimes the displays would go to sleep and when I wake them, many tabs within Chrome look blurry on my main Retina screen.
When I move the tabs over to the non-retina monitor, it actually fixed it. i.e. the solution is to temporarily move the tab to the non-retina monitor (drop it there) and then bring it back and all of a sudden it looks crispy clear again.
Obviously this is a non-scalable/sustainable strategy.
I assumed that by upgrading to Yosemite that would take care of that, but it didn't. I am still seeing it.
Not all tabs are blurry, and the only ones that seem to be blurry are my Chrome tabs. I haven't tried Safari or anything else yet.
Any ideas for what may be causing this?
Here is a screenshot of a Chrome tab looking blurry.
A: Not 100% sure, but It looks like the latest stable release (39.0.2171.71, released 11/25), may have fixed this.
| Q: When woken up from sleep, some Chrome windows are blurry I have a 2nd monitor attached to my Retina MBP. I was on OS X Mavericks and had this problem, where sometimes the displays would go to sleep and when I wake them, many tabs within Chrome look blurry on my main Retina screen.
When I move the tabs over to the non-retina monitor, it actually fixed it. i.e. the solution is to temporarily move the tab to the non-retina monitor (drop it there) and then bring it back and all of a sudden it looks crispy clear again.
Obviously this is a non-scalable/sustainable strategy.
I assumed that by upgrading to Yosemite that would take care of that, but it didn't. I am still seeing it.
Not all tabs are blurry, and the only ones that seem to be blurry are my Chrome tabs. I haven't tried Safari or anything else yet.
Any ideas for what may be causing this?
Here is a screenshot of a Chrome tab looking blurry.
A: Not 100% sure, but It looks like the latest stable release (39.0.2171.71, released 11/25), may have fixed this.
A: Is the external monitor always connected to your machine?
I'm not sure this will work or if this is a viable solution, but try to set the external monitor as your primary display and report back.
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fb46886d65063046259f5f3d3b067a0fe9b399ae | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Yosemite Safari Favicon Anyone know of a way to make Safari show favicons in Yosemite? I was using Glims under Mavericks but that no longer works. I tend to have lots of tabs open and sometimes it's easier to find the proper tab by the favicon rather than the text.
A: As of Safari 8, favicons no longer show up on the tab bar, to my disappointment.
One solution is to use SafariStand & EasySIMBL. Once installed (see instructions on the SafariStand site), open the SafariStand settings and check "Show Icon on Tab Bar". This will return favicons to the tabs.
| Q: Yosemite Safari Favicon Anyone know of a way to make Safari show favicons in Yosemite? I was using Glims under Mavericks but that no longer works. I tend to have lots of tabs open and sometimes it's easier to find the proper tab by the favicon rather than the text.
A: As of Safari 8, favicons no longer show up on the tab bar, to my disappointment.
One solution is to use SafariStand & EasySIMBL. Once installed (see instructions on the SafariStand site), open the SafariStand settings and check "Show Icon on Tab Bar". This will return favicons to the tabs.
A: You can't. But a workaround is to use this Safari Extension to add emoji to the tabs instead of favicons. For a lot of popular sites there is an emoji that closely matches the favicon or brand!
A: Instead of favicons, try zooming out with a trackpad or a mousepad. It will show you previews of all your open tabs.
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50b2953c898941db887cfd1fba51f5e079a67192 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Inactive menu bar in Yosemite blinks annoyingly I created a little screen recording to show the effect on my mac.
There are no special applications running which would change the menubar (like Google Drive, ownCloud and the like)
During the video I am just surfing with Safari or clicking around in Finder on the other screen. This blinking takes place all the time. Sometimes it is colored, sometimes just bright or dark. It is really distracting when there's a blinking effect in the corner of your eye.
Any idea what triggers this strange behaviour? Or might this just be an annoying bug in Yosemite and I have to wait for an update from Apple?
(In the meantime I downgraded back to Mavericks using a TimeMachine backup, which - much to my surprise - was no hassle at all! I think I'll refrain from installing Yosemite again, until an update will be offered by Apple.)
A: After checking the option "Reduce tranparency" in "System Preferences" -> "Accessibility" -> "Display", the blinking finally ended. Now the menubar also looks more like in Mavericks, no blurred tranparency effects anymore: neither in the title bar of my windows nor in the menubar.
| Q: Inactive menu bar in Yosemite blinks annoyingly I created a little screen recording to show the effect on my mac.
There are no special applications running which would change the menubar (like Google Drive, ownCloud and the like)
During the video I am just surfing with Safari or clicking around in Finder on the other screen. This blinking takes place all the time. Sometimes it is colored, sometimes just bright or dark. It is really distracting when there's a blinking effect in the corner of your eye.
Any idea what triggers this strange behaviour? Or might this just be an annoying bug in Yosemite and I have to wait for an update from Apple?
(In the meantime I downgraded back to Mavericks using a TimeMachine backup, which - much to my surprise - was no hassle at all! I think I'll refrain from installing Yosemite again, until an update will be offered by Apple.)
A: After checking the option "Reduce tranparency" in "System Preferences" -> "Accessibility" -> "Display", the blinking finally ended. Now the menubar also looks more like in Mavericks, no blurred tranparency effects anymore: neither in the title bar of my windows nor in the menubar.
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5864c6501260426d3b0cf35f013fc328cc869f2e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to select text with touchpad without pressing the "hard" key? Now on OS X, when I want to select some text, I have to press the "hard" key on touchpad with thumb and drag through the text with another finger on touchpad. With linux on the same macbook pro, I could quickly touch the touchpad twice and start selection/dragging behavior without pressing the "hard" key on touchpad with single finger. I feel the way in linux is much easier for fingers and quicker. Is it possible to configure OS X touchpad behave in the same way?
A: the way to do it in high sierra is to go to accessibility options, and then enable dragging and select the three finger drag as shown here.
Also note I had changed the app expose to 4 fingers from trackpad settings.
| Q: How to select text with touchpad without pressing the "hard" key? Now on OS X, when I want to select some text, I have to press the "hard" key on touchpad with thumb and drag through the text with another finger on touchpad. With linux on the same macbook pro, I could quickly touch the touchpad twice and start selection/dragging behavior without pressing the "hard" key on touchpad with single finger. I feel the way in linux is much easier for fingers and quicker. Is it possible to configure OS X touchpad behave in the same way?
A: the way to do it in high sierra is to go to accessibility options, and then enable dragging and select the three finger drag as shown here.
Also note I had changed the app expose to 4 fingers from trackpad settings.
A: Go to system preferences > Trackpad
Trackpad > Point and Click Tap
Point and Click > Check "Tap to Click"
This will give you the behavior your want.
The are two methods for selecting text with tap to click enabled; the first is simplest to setup by just checking tap to click as outlined above; the second is my favorite setup but requires one more tweak in system preferences; the second will likely be your favorite too because you don't need to complete the selection in a single slide)
*
*To select text (with drag-lock set to OFF in accessibility - the default):
Tap & Slide (Finger Contact, Finger Lift, Finger Contact, Finger Slide, Finger Lift (The selection extent is finalized with the finger lift)
*To select text (with drag-lock set to ON in accessibility):
Tap & Slide & Tap (Finger Contact, Finger Lift, Finger Contact, Finger Slide, Finger Lift, Finger Contact, Finger Lift (The selection extent can be adjusted with multiple finger slides; the selected extent is finalized with the final finger tap)
To turn on Drag-Lock for the Trackpad:
Go to system preferences > Accessibility
Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad
Mouse & Trackpad > Trackpad Options
Trackpad Options > Select "Enable Dragging"; Select "with Drag-Lock"
Cheers!
A: The settings location where the three finger "drag" is enabled has changed over time.
From OS X 10.11 "El Capitan" to macOS 10.14 "Mojave":
*
*Go to System Preferences > Accessibility
*Choose Mouse & Trackpad from the left options list
*Click Trackpad Options
*Tick "Enable dragging" and select “three finger drag” from the drop-down menu next to it
For macOS 10.15 "Catalina" and later:
*
*Go to System Preferences > Accessibility
*Choose Pointer Control
*On the Mouse & Trackpad tab, click Trackpad Options
*Tick "Enable dragging" and select “three finger drag” from the drop-down menu next to it
A: The nearest thing available is the "Three finger drag" option in System prefs -- under trackpad you'll find the option to use it:
This lets you drag by hold three fingers on the trackpad and dragging..
A: Serge Voloshenko's comment to a different answer is what worked for me finally:
In macOS Catalina it's under Accessibility > Pointer Control > Mouse &
Trackpad > Trackpad Option
I prefer the dragging with drag lock option, but there's the three finger drag too:
A: Had this issue with new Macbook Air (latest one late 2015) and old trackpad that suddenly required a hard click and drag, simultaneously, to copy large amounts. Found that above directions with modest variation works perfectly as:
*
*Go to System Preferences > Accessibility
*Choose Mouse & Trackpad from the left options list
*Click Trackpad Options
Step #4 also works as:
*Tick "enable dragging" and select "without drag lock" from the drop-down menu next to it
This was how my trackpad always worked before I migrated to the new computer, and it is easier on fingers. 1 finger, no hard pressure.
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641f9ea3c493706ddafb82134650a50d1ac43c67 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you enter numbers on a Mac when making a cellular voice call with iPhone? I just upgraded to Yosemite, and sometimes perform outbound cellular calls from my Mac using my iPhone. However, if I call a company that has a phone menu I have to enter specific numbers to choose from those menu options.
Is this possible, and if so, how can I do this?
A: Yes, it is possible. Numbers can be entered using the keyboard. The correct tones will be produced and transmitted on your Yosemite Mac.
| Q: How do you enter numbers on a Mac when making a cellular voice call with iPhone? I just upgraded to Yosemite, and sometimes perform outbound cellular calls from my Mac using my iPhone. However, if I call a company that has a phone menu I have to enter specific numbers to choose from those menu options.
Is this possible, and if so, how can I do this?
A: Yes, it is possible. Numbers can be entered using the keyboard. The correct tones will be produced and transmitted on your Yosemite Mac.
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b29660a1126870e43082eb95278a7d266596e6d1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iBooks series metadata In iBooks on 10.10, books can have series metadata as shown in the image.
What metadata do I need to add to an external epub (i.e. not from ibook store) so that it can be displayed as a series?
A: I have a solution:
*
*Go to the iBooks store and download the samples for the books you are trying to work with.
*Change the extension from .epub to .zip.
*Extract the zip and delete the folder named "OPS" (OEBPS for comics).
*Locate the eBook you have and change from .epub to .zip.
*Extract it and locate OPS.
*Move OPS to the sample ebook folder.
*Select all files in the sample, and create a .zip.
*Change the extension to epub.
*Do the same for each book in the series.
*Drag-and-drop into itunes.
*Synchronize and there you go!
Be carefull while going into the iBook store though, if you see the ebook you edited, it will have a button saying "update." DO NOT click update, or you will have to do it over again.
A whole lot easier than having to edit sqlite, and it works on both Mac and Windows.
| Q: iBooks series metadata In iBooks on 10.10, books can have series metadata as shown in the image.
What metadata do I need to add to an external epub (i.e. not from ibook store) so that it can be displayed as a series?
A: I have a solution:
*
*Go to the iBooks store and download the samples for the books you are trying to work with.
*Change the extension from .epub to .zip.
*Extract the zip and delete the folder named "OPS" (OEBPS for comics).
*Locate the eBook you have and change from .epub to .zip.
*Extract it and locate OPS.
*Move OPS to the sample ebook folder.
*Select all files in the sample, and create a .zip.
*Change the extension to epub.
*Do the same for each book in the series.
*Drag-and-drop into itunes.
*Synchronize and there you go!
Be carefull while going into the iBook store though, if you see the ebook you edited, it will have a button saying "update." DO NOT click update, or you will have to do it over again.
A whole lot easier than having to edit sqlite, and it works on both Mac and Windows.
A: I made it, but it's quite a bit tricky.
Summary:
You have to change the Books.plist file in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books for the books you want to have in a series, and also you have to add rows in the BKSeries-*.sqlite database on ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iBooksX/Data/Documents/BKSeriesDatabase for them and the series.
Here's how I did it:
The database has 4 tables: ZBKSERIESCHECK, ZBKSERIESITEM, Z_PRIMARYKEY and Z_METADATA. I only changed the first three tables. The "series" is treated just like a book in these tables.
*
*Add the books and the series in table ZBKSERIESCHECK. The table has 5 columns.
*
*Z_PK is the primary key. It has to be a sequential number.
*Z_ENT and Z_OPT I just completed with a "1".
*ZDATECHECKED is just the date the row is created. In my case it was auto-assigned.
*ZADAMID is a unique code for the book or series.
This is the table with the data I added.
The zAdamId I used are from Calibre, so I asume that you can use any number. Keep in mind that those numbers have to be different from the series/books you purchased.
The row with the zAdamId "1" is my series, the others are the books.
*Add the relationships within books and series in the table ZBKSERIESITEM. This table has 16 columns.
*
*Z_PK, Z_ENT and Z_OPT are not the same ones defined in the previous table. Z_PK has to be sequential and, Z_ENT and Z_OPT I just completed with "2" and "1" respectively.
*ZISCONTAINER defines if a zAdamId is a series or not. "1" is true, "0" is false.
*ZPOSITION defines the number of a book in a series, starting with "0" for the first book.
*ZADAMID is the same defined in the previous table for the same item.
*ZAUTHOR is the author of the series/books.
*ZGENRE is the genre of the series/books.
*ZSEQUENCEDISPLAYNAME defines how a book is displayed as a member of a series. For example, for the first book, you can define "Book 1" or "Volume 1" or "Vol.1". This string is going to be prepended to the name of the book. This column has to be empty for the series.
*ZSERIESADAMID is the series zAdamId of the book. For the series, this is the same as ZADAMID.
*ZSERIESTITLE is the name of the series.
*ZSORTTITLE and ZTITLE is the name of the book or series.
*Adjust table Z_PRIMARYKEY.
I found that this table has only two rows. One for each of the previous tables.
Here you have to change the Z_MAX column to the MAX(*) value of the Z_PK in each of the previous tables. For instance, in my DB, for the table ZBKSERIESCHECK (BKSeriesCheck) the MAX(*) of the column Z_PK is "22".
*Save the changes.
*Open the Books.plist file. Look for each of the books of the series and add these keys:
*
*seriesAdamId as Number with the value of ZBKSERIESITEM~ZSERIESADAMID.
*itemId as Number with the value of ZBKSERIESITEM~ZADAMID.
*seriesSequenceNumber as String with the value of ZBKSERIESITEM~ZPOSITION + 1. (Remember that in the table it starts with "0".)
*seriesTitle as String with the value of ZBKSERIESITEM~ZTITLE.
*Save the file. Close iBooks (if you didn't close it from the beginning). Kill the com.apple.BKAgentService process. Start iBooks. You should be able to see your series.
Notes
Those columns I didn't name, I just left them empty and it didn't affect the end result.
I think it's waaay to difficult to put all your books and series properly when you have a lot of them. Hope to see someday something that do all this auto-magically.
This is my first post. I hope everybody finds it useful.
A: I noticed that, in iBooks, I have a book (Inheritance) which iBooks highlights as a member of a series (in my case called 'Eragon' instead of 'The Farseer Trilogy'). In order to investigate this, I downloaded Inheritance and stripped the DRM using Requiem (on an old virtual machine) so I could poke about in the source code of the book.
Unfortunately, I have bad news. I used Sigil to search for the word 'Eragon'. The word 'Eragon' appears nowhere in the metadata within the epub, indicating that this is not possible; iBook evidently maintains series information separate to the actual epub files.
A: I tried it myself, and found out, that the playlist in same folder that stores the epubs has informations about the book series. There are the metadata seriesTitle and
seriesSequenceNumber set. But unfortunately changing it there does´t make Ibooks to list books as series.
Also setting Metadata in the e-book itself saying series Title and seriesSequenceNumber is not working.
Then I found a folder in usr. Library containers com.apple.IBooksX Data Documents BKSeriesDatabase, but it contains a SQL Database. Maybe the information is stored there.
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34d20da90f57cab1fed32fe9bb9c92bcdd6da4f8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MacBook Air logs off automatically since Yosemite My MacBook Air mid-2012 model running OS X Yosemite logs off automatically without any prior warning when I am working on it.
This has been happening since the latest update, to Yosemite.
The logs from the moment of logout are here:
*
*http://pastebin.com/embed_js.php?i=u3TaFSWH
To be more specific my Air has been connected to an external monitor both times and has been charging both times too!
Similar problems have been discussed on Apple Support Communities:
*
*https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2742595?searchText=automatic%20log%20off
A: According to this Apple support article: Set your mac to log out when not in use - installing Yosemite turns on the "log off after 60 minutes of inactivity" feature.
To turn it back off, click on the "Advanced" button at the bottom of the "Security and Privacy" window and uncheck the option. You should be good to go!
| Q: MacBook Air logs off automatically since Yosemite My MacBook Air mid-2012 model running OS X Yosemite logs off automatically without any prior warning when I am working on it.
This has been happening since the latest update, to Yosemite.
The logs from the moment of logout are here:
*
*http://pastebin.com/embed_js.php?i=u3TaFSWH
To be more specific my Air has been connected to an external monitor both times and has been charging both times too!
Similar problems have been discussed on Apple Support Communities:
*
*https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2742595?searchText=automatic%20log%20off
A: According to this Apple support article: Set your mac to log out when not in use - installing Yosemite turns on the "log off after 60 minutes of inactivity" feature.
To turn it back off, click on the "Advanced" button at the bottom of the "Security and Privacy" window and uncheck the option. You should be good to go!
A: I have the same problem with a MacBook Pro Retina and since Yosemite.
I was able to track down the corresponding crash, at each occurance of the "log off" there is a WindowServer crash log generated. After goolging I've found this post in the Apple forums:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/26929324#26929324
Summary of the post (detailed instructions are in the post)
The bug could be due to a memory leak in the video memory. Users with external monitor are much more susceptible to have the bug. Because it crashes the WindowServer, all connected users are logged out, but sometimes some of their process still remain running.
*
*Unplug all external monitor;
*Fix filesystem permissions using the Safe Mode;
*Reset the Mac SMC, and allow for a full start and shutdown afterwards;
*Reset the NVRAM (also called PRAM previously).
I've done these steps, and I cannot be sure that it solve the problem. These random logout occured not every day, and sometimes multiple times in the same day. But since I applied them (this morning) they do not occur anylonger, but that's still a bit short to be sure.
Anyway worth a try!!
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95788c9b6281cc38a88cff9982f455ac4bf1e25d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Yosemite com.apple.xpc.launchd error every 10 seconds Every 10 seconds i get this error in my console:
20/10/14 19:35:56,840 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.viber.osx[9850]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 45: Operation not supported: com.viber.osx
20/10/14 19:35:56,840 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.viber.osx) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Brand new MacBook Pro 2014, Yosemite OS X. Viber was installed two days ago. The error occurs even when Viber is running.
Even upon deleting Viber from Applications, an error still occurs:
20/10/14 19:38:37,078 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.viber.osx[9870]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 149: Could not find a bundle of the given identifier through LaunchServices: com.viber.osx
Can anyone tell me what this is and why it happens? Any way to remedy it?
A: Too bad i was posting before doing my own checking.
The solution was simple and shall be presented here for others who have the same issue: Simply launch Viber and go to Preferences, there, tell Viber not to launch on system startup. It will remove its LaunchDaemon entry and the error will disappear.
Needless to say, Viber should address this issue in their first App release targeted for Yosemite OS X.
| Q: Yosemite com.apple.xpc.launchd error every 10 seconds Every 10 seconds i get this error in my console:
20/10/14 19:35:56,840 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.viber.osx[9850]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 45: Operation not supported: com.viber.osx
20/10/14 19:35:56,840 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.viber.osx) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Brand new MacBook Pro 2014, Yosemite OS X. Viber was installed two days ago. The error occurs even when Viber is running.
Even upon deleting Viber from Applications, an error still occurs:
20/10/14 19:38:37,078 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.viber.osx[9870]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 149: Could not find a bundle of the given identifier through LaunchServices: com.viber.osx
Can anyone tell me what this is and why it happens? Any way to remedy it?
A: Too bad i was posting before doing my own checking.
The solution was simple and shall be presented here for others who have the same issue: Simply launch Viber and go to Preferences, there, tell Viber not to launch on system startup. It will remove its LaunchDaemon entry and the error will disappear.
Needless to say, Viber should address this issue in their first App release targeted for Yosemite OS X.
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8eb966d2e65e6c0fcfc2634892e1bf9ab8f12bf0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What features will I lose if I disable Bonjour's 'whats-my-name' service? Upgrading to Yosemite (from Mavericks) enabled Bonjour's "whats-my-name" service on my Mac; I would like to disable this (for security policy reasons) but wonder if some feature (perhaps something new with Yosemite) will be lost if I do so.
What, if any, features will I lose if I disable Bonjour's "whats-my-name" service?
A: You will lose the visibility of your services on other computers (i.e. Finder sidebar). If you don't have any sharing services running than it is of no consequence and would be equivalent of a firewall not allowing multicast traffic from your Mac.
Because you did not completly disable Bonjour you will still benefit from seeing others on the network and cloaking of the ".local" domain in DNS. AirDrop, Handoff and Continuity all use BLE as discovery mechanism, not Bonjour so would not be affected.
| Q: What features will I lose if I disable Bonjour's 'whats-my-name' service? Upgrading to Yosemite (from Mavericks) enabled Bonjour's "whats-my-name" service on my Mac; I would like to disable this (for security policy reasons) but wonder if some feature (perhaps something new with Yosemite) will be lost if I do so.
What, if any, features will I lose if I disable Bonjour's "whats-my-name" service?
A: You will lose the visibility of your services on other computers (i.e. Finder sidebar). If you don't have any sharing services running than it is of no consequence and would be equivalent of a firewall not allowing multicast traffic from your Mac.
Because you did not completly disable Bonjour you will still benefit from seeing others on the network and cloaking of the ".local" domain in DNS. AirDrop, Handoff and Continuity all use BLE as discovery mechanism, not Bonjour so would not be affected.
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da83531a1705a88e6115c2ded7d4ee886e69722f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you capture the screen with accessibility features turned on? I'm trying to take a screenshot of my screen with Accessibility display features "Invert colors" and "Use grayscale" enabled, but the resulting screenshot images do not have any of the visual modifications. They appear as if the Accessibility features were turned off. Anyone know how to capture this type of image?
Normal: http://3gfp.com/i/normal.png
Inverted & Grayscale: http://3gfp.com/i/inverted-colors_and_grayscale.png
Update: If I capture a movie with QuickTime or ScreenFlow, I get the grayscale effects, but not the inverted colors. Then, I could grab a still from the movie.
A: *
*Take the screenshot normally, then open the image in Preview.
*Press ⌥⌘C to adjust the colour of the image.
*Drag the saturation slider down to the minimum.
*Swap the colour positions in the histogram.
Result:
| Q: How do you capture the screen with accessibility features turned on? I'm trying to take a screenshot of my screen with Accessibility display features "Invert colors" and "Use grayscale" enabled, but the resulting screenshot images do not have any of the visual modifications. They appear as if the Accessibility features were turned off. Anyone know how to capture this type of image?
Normal: http://3gfp.com/i/normal.png
Inverted & Grayscale: http://3gfp.com/i/inverted-colors_and_grayscale.png
Update: If I capture a movie with QuickTime or ScreenFlow, I get the grayscale effects, but not the inverted colors. Then, I could grab a still from the movie.
A: *
*Take the screenshot normally, then open the image in Preview.
*Press ⌥⌘C to adjust the colour of the image.
*Drag the saturation slider down to the minimum.
*Swap the colour positions in the histogram.
Result:
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d5fba8e783b2cab029440ccf9855449770bc30ab | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable screen blur on fast user switching in Yosemite Anyone aware of a way to customize the appearance of the screen during fast user switching? I'd like to disable the background blur to make it look more like it did in Mavericks.
A: oh yes ..you can change the login screen as well.. The howto provided in this link. The only 1 thing not mentioned there is to make sure that the 'permission' of the png file is set to be able to be read by the user. http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/custom-login-screen-wallpaper-os-x-yosemite/
| Q: Disable screen blur on fast user switching in Yosemite Anyone aware of a way to customize the appearance of the screen during fast user switching? I'd like to disable the background blur to make it look more like it did in Mavericks.
A: oh yes ..you can change the login screen as well.. The howto provided in this link. The only 1 thing not mentioned there is to make sure that the 'permission' of the png file is set to be able to be read by the user. http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/custom-login-screen-wallpaper-os-x-yosemite/
A: Go to /Library/Caches, and modify the com.apple.desktop.admin.png file. That contains an image for your login screen in Fast-User-Switching.
By default, the image looks like a place in Yosemite. Replace the image with an image of your choice that's not blurred.
This requires Admin privileges, though. Also, make sure you're not in ~/Library/Caches, you have to be in (Root)/Library/Caches. This image might be hidden.
A: Yes, you can change the blurred background image on the login screen in Yosemite.
In root /Library/Caches (make sure you're not in the user ~/Library) you will find a file called: com.apple.desktop.admin.png. This is the blurred image that was created when you set your Desktop wallpaper.
Replace this file with any image you would like on your login page. Make sure to keep the permissions the same as the original file.
Hat Tip to Bobby T from Apple Support Communities: https://discussions.apple.com/message/26879262#26879262
Cheryl
A: To disable blurring, please read this tip http://www.mcelhearn.com/yosemite-tip-how-to-turn-off-the-annoying-translucency/
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9dcc1a14a7cbc316871e76e0e3ed7c5dd6e11e33 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable iPhoto auto launch when connecting an iPhone or iPad iPhoto starts launching when iPhone is connected even though it never used to before Yosemite.
Steps described in: On connecting device - iTunes or iPhotos must not open does not work in Yosemite. Yosemite seems to ignore the iPhoto settings.
A: With iPhone plugged in.
*
*Open application "Image capture"
*Select your iPhone
*Press the triangle in square symbol in the lower left corner.
*Choose "No application" in the droplist under "Connecting this iPhone opens:"
| Q: Disable iPhoto auto launch when connecting an iPhone or iPad iPhoto starts launching when iPhone is connected even though it never used to before Yosemite.
Steps described in: On connecting device - iTunes or iPhotos must not open does not work in Yosemite. Yosemite seems to ignore the iPhoto settings.
A: With iPhone plugged in.
*
*Open application "Image capture"
*Select your iPhone
*Press the triangle in square symbol in the lower left corner.
*Choose "No application" in the droplist under "Connecting this iPhone opens:"
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af762210be47d225e67dc34ba0e1462917db2444 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What will happen to my iPod Touch (4th Gen, iOS 6.1.6) if I upgrade to iCloud Drive? I currently have 3 Apple devices tied to my iCloud account:
*
*Macbook Air (2012) - just upgraded to Yosemite today
*iPad with Retina Display (4th edition) - iOS 8.0.2
*iPod Touch (4th Gen) - iOS 6.1.6
When I was asked in the Yosemite upgrade whether I would use iCloud Drive, the instructions warned that my iPod cannot be upgraded to a newer OS, and therefore would not be able to use iCloud Drive.
What does that mean? I currently use my iPod for little other than music, podcasts, and games.
Specifically, my question is, if I change to iCloud Drive, will my apps and games on my iPod no longer be able to save what files they save using legacy iCloud?
A: It appears that if you upgrade to iCloud Drive, you won't be able to sync any game data with your iOS 8 devices. As an upgrade to iCloud Drive will no longer allow your older iOS 6 iPod to view or edit Documents in iCloud (which I assume includes game data).
Source: this MacRumors forum
| Q: What will happen to my iPod Touch (4th Gen, iOS 6.1.6) if I upgrade to iCloud Drive? I currently have 3 Apple devices tied to my iCloud account:
*
*Macbook Air (2012) - just upgraded to Yosemite today
*iPad with Retina Display (4th edition) - iOS 8.0.2
*iPod Touch (4th Gen) - iOS 6.1.6
When I was asked in the Yosemite upgrade whether I would use iCloud Drive, the instructions warned that my iPod cannot be upgraded to a newer OS, and therefore would not be able to use iCloud Drive.
What does that mean? I currently use my iPod for little other than music, podcasts, and games.
Specifically, my question is, if I change to iCloud Drive, will my apps and games on my iPod no longer be able to save what files they save using legacy iCloud?
A: It appears that if you upgrade to iCloud Drive, you won't be able to sync any game data with your iOS 8 devices. As an upgrade to iCloud Drive will no longer allow your older iOS 6 iPod to view or edit Documents in iCloud (which I assume includes game data).
Source: this MacRumors forum
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85355bfc2204536ac1fd90e6d888541a1c67754e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to automatically find corrupted PDF files? Due to a recent syncing issue with Dropbox I ended with a lot of conflicting copies and corrupted files across different machines. Especially PDF documents seemed to be corrupted in some way that Preview (and other PDF readers) refuses to open them (error "file empty").
I’m not to worried about the data itself, as I have individual backups of those files around and could still restore them directly from Dropbox.
However, since I have almost 10,000 PDFs in my Dropbox, I’m looking for an automated method to at least identify them.
Any idea (software, script etc.) on how to get a list of the faulty ones?
| Q: How to automatically find corrupted PDF files? Due to a recent syncing issue with Dropbox I ended with a lot of conflicting copies and corrupted files across different machines. Especially PDF documents seemed to be corrupted in some way that Preview (and other PDF readers) refuses to open them (error "file empty").
I’m not to worried about the data itself, as I have individual backups of those files around and could still restore them directly from Dropbox.
However, since I have almost 10,000 PDFs in my Dropbox, I’m looking for an automated method to at least identify them.
Any idea (software, script etc.) on how to get a list of the faulty ones?
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2c32879b916bb806b0564b88ce25c4ea5b3f80dc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change characters in press and hold popup? Seems changed in Yosemite? Does anyone know where the pressandhold.app file is in Yosemite? I used this answer (How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion?) to customize mine, but lost the customizations upon upgrade. Now the System/Library/Input Methods folder is empty.
Thanks!
A: Pressandhold.app should be in exactly the same place in Yosemite that it was in Mavericks.
I just checked on both my Macs that I upgraded to Yosemite.
/System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app exists exactly where it should.
And to try to confirm whether this is a holdover from Mavericks (since both my Macs were upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite) I checked the Info.plist with the PressAndHold.app bundle. It lists "10.10" as the LSMinimumSystemVersion and "macosx10.10internal" as the DTSDKName both of which indicate Yosemite.
So please check that folder on your Mac again. I'd be very surprised if that folder was empty.
| Q: Change characters in press and hold popup? Seems changed in Yosemite? Does anyone know where the pressandhold.app file is in Yosemite? I used this answer (How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion?) to customize mine, but lost the customizations upon upgrade. Now the System/Library/Input Methods folder is empty.
Thanks!
A: Pressandhold.app should be in exactly the same place in Yosemite that it was in Mavericks.
I just checked on both my Macs that I upgraded to Yosemite.
/System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app exists exactly where it should.
And to try to confirm whether this is a holdover from Mavericks (since both my Macs were upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite) I checked the Info.plist with the PressAndHold.app bundle. It lists "10.10" as the LSMinimumSystemVersion and "macosx10.10internal" as the DTSDKName both of which indicate Yosemite.
So please check that folder on your Mac again. I'd be very surprised if that folder was empty.
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1a0b84d0a08e16bbe348dc6a1149033bf0eb7ce9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: The phone number "is not registered with iMessage" Right now I can't seem to send some text messages from my OS X. Here is a list of things I have done that will have caused the error:
*
*I fresh installed Yosemite about 2 days ago
*I updated my iPhone to 8.1 this afternoon
*I paired my device (I was able to send some texts from OS X)
*I fresh installed iOS 8.1 on my iPhone
*I can't send some text messages from my computer
When I start a new conversation on iMessage, the name of the person remains red. When I try to send a message I get a popup saying: " is not registered with iMessage". The handoff is well configured because I am able to see an icon appear in the dock when I use the notes app.
What can I do to make this functionality work again?
Thanks
A: Also check the OS X settings: Messages > Preferences > Accounts.
In my case the Messages app had disabled my AppleID account and enabled a new Google Jabber account.
| Q: The phone number "is not registered with iMessage" Right now I can't seem to send some text messages from my OS X. Here is a list of things I have done that will have caused the error:
*
*I fresh installed Yosemite about 2 days ago
*I updated my iPhone to 8.1 this afternoon
*I paired my device (I was able to send some texts from OS X)
*I fresh installed iOS 8.1 on my iPhone
*I can't send some text messages from my computer
When I start a new conversation on iMessage, the name of the person remains red. When I try to send a message I get a popup saying: " is not registered with iMessage". The handoff is well configured because I am able to see an icon appear in the dock when I use the notes app.
What can I do to make this functionality work again?
Thanks
A: Also check the OS X settings: Messages > Preferences > Accounts.
In my case the Messages app had disabled my AppleID account and enabled a new Google Jabber account.
A: You need to wait for the iOS 8.1 update in order to be able to do SMS from your computer / iPad. It should be available for you now or tomorrow if you go to "settings -> general -> software update"
EDIT: "iPhone Settings -> Messages -> Text Message Forwarding" then select your device that you want to send from and enable it :)
Restart messages on OSX if it's still not working.
A: I had this issue, but quitting iMessage and relaunching iMessage fixed it.
A: The contact you are trying to text via iMessage needs to re-enable (or re-register) iMessage on their freshly updated iPhone. This happened to my wife and I.
The contact in question needs to go to Settings --> Messages and move the slider to enable iMessage:
A: I just had this problem, and I figured it out! I tried all of the above solutions, but to no avail. Both my computer and phone are updated with the latest versions of software. Anyways, you should check your iPhone messages section (in the Settings app), where it says "Text Message Forwarding." Make sure the slider is slid to green for it to allow messaging from computer or iPad, then your texts will send fine to everyone. I just sent a few messages to people that I couldn't access a few minutes ago. Hopefully this helps someone out there!
A: You have to use your friends email that's registered as their Apple account.
A: Make sure you type the number in the right format. For the US, type +1XXXYYYZZZZ (XXX=Area Code, YYY=Prefix, ZZZZ=Suffix).
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1c55bc82797b73ee4eb598b83b0cd17d5a22433f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I install Mavericks now that Yosemite has been released? I have a late 2009 iMac running Mountain Lion, I also have a Macbook Pro running Mavericks. I have been planning on installing Mavericks on the iMac, but now that Yosemite has been released, Mavericks is no longer available on the Mac App store.
How can I install Mavericks on the iMac? As you can guess, I'm not an early-adoptor, so not interested in installing Yosemite for now.
Even though I have a Macbook Pro with Mavericks, it came installed with Mavericks, so it is not in my Mac App store 'Purchases', but 'Mountain Lion' is.
A: Take it to the Genius Bar. They have installers for every OS.
| Q: How do I install Mavericks now that Yosemite has been released? I have a late 2009 iMac running Mountain Lion, I also have a Macbook Pro running Mavericks. I have been planning on installing Mavericks on the iMac, but now that Yosemite has been released, Mavericks is no longer available on the Mac App store.
How can I install Mavericks on the iMac? As you can guess, I'm not an early-adoptor, so not interested in installing Yosemite for now.
Even though I have a Macbook Pro with Mavericks, it came installed with Mavericks, so it is not in my Mac App store 'Purchases', but 'Mountain Lion' is.
A: Take it to the Genius Bar. They have installers for every OS.
A: So if I'm comprehending your question correctly you want to be able to downgrade back to Mavericks.
You will have to download or torrent it externally without Apple's permission but seeing as it was a free upgrade when it was available there should be no problem.
That being said here's a (broken) link to a download of a bootable DMG file.
Link: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/11054371/OS_X_Mavericks_10.9.5_(13F34)_bootable_USB_(DMG_File)#filelistContainer
Also you will need a USB Flash Drive of 8GB or higher.
And if you want to you can use Time Machine to backup your Macs files and preferences to an external drive.
Here's a link to a helpful video on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgYqcL7_0BI
Now onto the good stuff:
Once the torrent is downloaded open Disk Utility.
Select your flash drive from the list.
Click the 'Erase' tab.
Click the dropdown next to Format and select 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)'.
Then in the name box you can put whatever name you want.
Then click Erase and confirm it as well.
BEWARE AS IT SOUNDS IT DOES ERASE ALL OF YOUR DATA FROM THE FLASH DRIVE!
Once it's finished select the partition that has the name your entered and click the 'Restore' tab.
Locate the file you downloaded earlier and drag it into the 'Source' box.
and then drag the partition you made into the 'Destination' box.
Click the 'Restore' button in the bottom right.
Then let the magic happen. :)
Once its finished shut down the Mac and turn it on again while holding the 'option' key until the grey screen WITH the drives to select pops up.
Select the drive you made and it should boot into a recovery-like drive.
From there you should be able to format the drive with Disk Utility and reinstall Mavericks.
A: It looks like you can still get Mountain Lion here: http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion
A: As far as I understand, if it's not in your purchased items list, you'll need to download the installer from an alternate source. Get it from the friend, or a trustworthy online source.
Apple might put it up for sale eventually (or for free) like they've done with Mountain Lion, Lion, and Snow Leopard. You can still buy those from store.apple.com
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04a5045b84cf91bfc3546ce925222a2a6a7a7379 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X Mavericks vs Yosemite Performance I am using a 2013 MacBook Air and considering to upgrade from 10.9 to 10.10. Is there a performance gain after the upgrade? Is Yosemite faster than Mavericks, say, regarding UI responsiveness?
A: Quick answer: NO. Yosemite isn't faster than Mavericks.
I don't say that the performance is worse. The oldest is the computer most noticeable is the difference. But, on a 2013 computer, it should be the same, or nearly the same, on both machines. Anyway, there are things you can do to improve it (How to Improve OS X Yosemite Performance).
What I noticed, is that is quite more efficiently on batteries.
| Q: OS X Mavericks vs Yosemite Performance I am using a 2013 MacBook Air and considering to upgrade from 10.9 to 10.10. Is there a performance gain after the upgrade? Is Yosemite faster than Mavericks, say, regarding UI responsiveness?
A: Quick answer: NO. Yosemite isn't faster than Mavericks.
I don't say that the performance is worse. The oldest is the computer most noticeable is the difference. But, on a 2013 computer, it should be the same, or nearly the same, on both machines. Anyway, there are things you can do to improve it (How to Improve OS X Yosemite Performance).
What I noticed, is that is quite more efficiently on batteries.
A: I have recently upgraded a 2012 MacBook Air from Mavericks to Yosemite, and I have not noticed any change in responsiveness or speed. I didn't do any measurements, but the performance difference (at least on my system) is small enough that it is unnoticeable to me.
A: UI responsiveness is worse or at least it's getting worse while my macbook is running without restart for longer period. Especially if you don't check the "Reduce transparency" option in Accessibility settings the performance is noticeably worse. (on macbook pro 13" late 2013)
A: From a purely anecdotal experience, I haven't noticed much of a difference between Mavericks and Yosemite on my 2011 Macbook Air (i5). The only exception may be the animation for expanding stacks and fans being slightly less smooth, but this may just be me being hypersensitive to finding performance differences.
If you find that your Mac is significantly slower or less responsive after the update you may want to backup and do a clean install. I've had good results of doing an upgrade-installs with my Macs in general, but sometimes they can result in a more sluggish system compared to a clean install.
A: I do have lots and lots of UI responsiveness problems with Yosemite that I don’t have with Mavericks.
I have a 16GB Mid-2012 rMBP (first Retina MBP) and boy! is Yosemite sluggish! Fun fact: Mavericks used to being as sluggish when it first came out… Apple did enhance it.
I do have a lot of Spaces opened all the time (around 6, not counting fullscreen apps), but with (almost) the same apps opened on Mavericks and Yosemite, Yosemite is way slower. And it gets slower and slower as the uptime grows.
My advice: wait for OS X 10.10.3 or such (at least 10.10.2). Let Apple optimise its OS.
A: I used to have Mavericks installed on my machine (a 2012 macmini with 2.5ghz i5, 16GB RAM), then I upgraded to Yosemite. I didn't notice any significant difference in performance in terms of UI responsiveness.
But it seems to me quite clear that Yosemite is using more RAM to cache a lot of stuff. The boot up process seems to also take quite long on Yosemite. Safari is noticeably faster on Yosemite than it was on previous systems.
My fastest system in terms of responsiveness is a Mountain Lion installed on a separate partition with swapping disabled. Unfortunately I didn't find a way to disable swapping on Yosemite too, so I can get a better use for the 16GB of RAM.
In many ways Yosemite feels like a better system, though, and I wouldn't go back to any previous system, even though there is no significant improvement in terms of functionality (it's mostly UI changes).
A: I would like to add, as a concerned guy with performance, that since Mavericks my MacBook Air 2013's boot time has increased a lot! I measured the boot time 3 times with a stopwatch and calculated the average, so here are the results:
*
*Mountain Lion: 11.0 seconds
*Mavericks: 18.0 seconds
*Yosemite: 22.0 seconds
I don't like the idea that every time Apple releases a new OS X, the boot time increases. One of the reasons I chose Mac was because it was fast! I was able to push the power button and get to work in 10 seconds, now I'm not. I'm not very fond of Linux, but my Ubuntu boots in 15 seconds and it's the latest version of Ubuntu. If I need to do something as quickly as possible, which one do you think I would turn on? Yosemite or Ubuntu? = /
I miss Mountain Lion, it's the best OS X in my opinion. I just hope Macs don't take 1 minute to load like Windows in the next OS.
A: I have a macbook air mid 2013 and Yosemite is 100% my favourite OS X so far. It is worth trying it out only because of giant jump in performance of safari. I also recently installed Yosemite on macbook late 2008 with hdd and 2gb ram, after upgrading to 4gb ram I could fully enjoy the fresh OS X even on the old machine. However I did notice that turning on time takes a little longer than using mavericks. I would strongly suggest switching to Yosemite as most of the time we spend with the browser, unless your job requires otherwise. Definitely worth giving a try.
A: So, I am running a Macbook pro late 2011 with upgrade to a Samsung SSD ,instead of the normal HDD.
That being said, I can tell you that after changing form Mavericks to Yosemite, I'v been really happy with the way it runs!
I will make a list of pro's and con's so it will be easy for you to read.
PRO's:
1. Safari is insanely cool!
2. Notification center is now similar to the iOS's notification center and I find it really useful!
3. The design is smooth and nice to look at.A bit better than Maverick's design.
4. Slightly bigger battery life -still a big plus.At least 30 minutes more battery life.
5. Overal cooler user-experience.
CON's
1. The laptop boots a bit faster than it did before -I get like 4 seconds boot time up to the password stage, but after I write my password, it takes about 10 seconds to load the UI completely.
2. Had slight problem with the Mail app
Been using Yosemite a few days and overall experience was awesome!
Totally recommended!
A: When I compare Yosemite with Mavericks, The system is very slower with Yosemite
The translucent graphics require much more CPU power and system working very slower. It will be better to select "Reduce Translucency" option from System Preferences -> Accessibility to increase the system performance
Plus there are many bugs exist in the program. The geographical location system and related systems are always crushing and system is stalling
If you run the Activity Monitor... You will realize that, OS X Yosemite is full of Bugs
Finally, It's for these reasons that I decided to return back to my old Mavericks...
A: As of my own experience, Yosemite doesn't seem that much slower than Mavericks on executing operations (I have a MacBook Pro mid-2010).
What is way slower though is UI responsiveness especially for Finder's windows. My main gripe is with Window Resizing, which respond as fast as a slideshow. In 10.10.0, Icon view and List view were acceptable. Column view was unbearable. Since 10.10.2, I noticed all three views are suffering from the same problem.
One way to fix this is indeed to Reduce Transparency (System Preferences / Accessibility / Display) but also to Always Show scroll bars (System Preferences / General).
What is funny though is that I booted Parallels Desktop with Windows 7 while still using Yosemite and Windows 7 was more responsive even running as a Virtual Machine. That shows that there is a real problem on the software side from Apple.
All and all, Yosemite is a great update, feature-wise. I would advice to stay away from it for now if you can't stand those issues.
A: I've been running Yosemite since it came out, with the updates and I'm finding that its boot time is unacceptable. I'm seeing 30+ seconds of totally blank screen and then longer with the logo and the progress bar - I'd guess the startup time before I can log in is between 1.5 and 2 minutes.
So - yes, startup is now firmly in the old Windows territory and is completely pathetic when compared to my Samsung XE, Surface Pro 3 and a bog-standard dual core Pentium machine - all of which run Win8/8.1 and all boot to a login within 20 seconds!
I'm seriously considering backing up all my data off the iMac (2012) - and going back to an earlier version - maybe Mountain Lion - until Apple gets their act together!
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679ef6388666997320708d78a3e34fea38607337 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to change zoom/"green button" behaviour Since Yosemite, the green button in the upper left corner on each window activates the fullscreen mode. By holding the alt/⌥ Option key, it works as before (Mavericks). Is there any possibility (Terminal?) to change this behaviour back to "normal"? For example: holding alt for fullscreen mode?
Update
You can change the behaviour back to "normal" with BetterTouchTool.
A: According to what I could find, you cannot change the default behaviour (much like most things in OSX) ... however what I ended up doing is using a keyboard shortcut to use zoom. The following answer helped me do that: https://superuser.com/a/718843/98807
Essentially:
*
*System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts
*Add a custom "App Shortcut"
*name "Zoom"
*whatever key combo you want e.g. Opt+Cmd+=
| Q: How to change zoom/"green button" behaviour Since Yosemite, the green button in the upper left corner on each window activates the fullscreen mode. By holding the alt/⌥ Option key, it works as before (Mavericks). Is there any possibility (Terminal?) to change this behaviour back to "normal"? For example: holding alt for fullscreen mode?
Update
You can change the behaviour back to "normal" with BetterTouchTool.
A: According to what I could find, you cannot change the default behaviour (much like most things in OSX) ... however what I ended up doing is using a keyboard shortcut to use zoom. The following answer helped me do that: https://superuser.com/a/718843/98807
Essentially:
*
*System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts
*Add a custom "App Shortcut"
*name "Zoom"
*whatever key combo you want e.g. Opt+Cmd+=
A: Double-clicking the empty area in the window frame (title bar) seems like the best answer. In fact a great one, since this is a larger area than the green button..
Worth noting that Firefox wants to hide the title bar – this threw me for a while. Go to 'toolbars>customize' and click on 'title bar' to get it back.
A: I use alt + shift + the green button. This reflects the Windows maximize button behaviour.
A: Hold down Option key and click the Green button. It will change from the Full Screen button back to a Zoom button.
You can also double-click the empty area in the window frame (title bar) if you don’t have it set to minimize when double-clicking.
However, this soft can help you : https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/30591/right-zoom
Apple Support
A: According to this page you can achieve this using BetterTouchTool
*
*Download BetterTouchTool here
*Open BetterTouchTool and grant access to “Accessibility” when requested (this will open System Preferences > Security > Privacy > Accessibility)
*Allow BetterTouchTool access in OS X Preferences
*Back in BetterTouchTool, click on the “Other” tab in the upper right of the app
*Select “Global” from the left side options
*Near the bottom, click on “Configure New Trigger”
*In the “Trigger” pulldown menu, choose “Leftclick Green Window Button”
*In the “Predefined Action” menu, choose “Zoom Window Below Cursor”
*Flip back to the OS X Finder (or another open app) and click the green button, it should now simply maximize the window rather than send it into Full Screen Mode (even if the icon changes to fullscreen when the mouse hovers).
*Close BetterTouchTool preferences pane (Red Window Button)
The changes will stay in effect as long as you have BetterTouchTool runs in background (its icon should appear in the menu bar, and that it is configured this way.
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f5f6cc1503fa69c70b291a04e4cf27b85fa26583 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to decrease the height of chooser (file-picker dialog) My chooser (file-picker dialog) goes under the dock so I can't see buttons. What can I do?
A: The simplest method is to hold Shift ⇧ & drag by any visible edge of the file-picker dialog. This will resize from all sides simultaneously.
Alternatively, for any open/save file-picker dialog which is not rendered as an attached sheet to the underlying window, you can resize from the top then drag the entire window up, or hold Option whilst resizing which will size from top & bottom simultaneously.
For an attached sheet, the only alternative appears to be to Esc from the file-picker, fullscreen the app, then open the file-picker again.
This will force the dialog to fit the window, allowing you to reach the bottom & resize upwards.
This size will then be remembered when not in fullscreen.
| Q: How to decrease the height of chooser (file-picker dialog) My chooser (file-picker dialog) goes under the dock so I can't see buttons. What can I do?
A: The simplest method is to hold Shift ⇧ & drag by any visible edge of the file-picker dialog. This will resize from all sides simultaneously.
Alternatively, for any open/save file-picker dialog which is not rendered as an attached sheet to the underlying window, you can resize from the top then drag the entire window up, or hold Option whilst resizing which will size from top & bottom simultaneously.
For an attached sheet, the only alternative appears to be to Esc from the file-picker, fullscreen the app, then open the file-picker again.
This will force the dialog to fit the window, allowing you to reach the bottom & resize upwards.
This size will then be remembered when not in fullscreen.
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a09ecaa9b2282998df679083880c67ff85e00f0e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Highlight Active Button in Yosemite I usually work without using the mouse too much.
In Mavericks the active button (the one that's pressed using the spacebar) had a nice blue outline. Any way to get that back?
In the screenshot below "Don't Save" is actually active and pressing space presses it. also Tab-Space presses the cancel button.
Old UI:
A: This used to work in every application for me until I installed Yosemite. Now, It only works for certain applications. The way around this is to use the 'command + (first letter of the button text)' For example, if you want to choose "Don't Save" then 'command+d'.
| Q: Highlight Active Button in Yosemite I usually work without using the mouse too much.
In Mavericks the active button (the one that's pressed using the spacebar) had a nice blue outline. Any way to get that back?
In the screenshot below "Don't Save" is actually active and pressing space presses it. also Tab-Space presses the cancel button.
Old UI:
A: This used to work in every application for me until I installed Yosemite. Now, It only works for certain applications. The way around this is to use the 'command + (first letter of the button text)' For example, if you want to choose "Don't Save" then 'command+d'.
A: This works in Yosemite (10.10.3), not sure about earlier versions:
*
*First make sure that you have a highlight colour set in System Preferences > General:
*In System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, review the setting that lets you toggle how Tab moves focus. This lets you change the setting in #3 below by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F7. I leave mine off because I always want tab to move between all controls and don't want to change this by a keyboard shortcut.
*Make sure the 'All controls' setting is selected so that you can tab between all the controls (including the Save/Don't Save buttons).
Now you can tab between all controls and see the highlight for the active control (shown with red lines in image below). For some control types (such as the segmented control at the top) once you've selected it with tab, you choose the active segment using the cursor keys (shown by blue arrow in image below).
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c6d17062eb8f04cc01c09beb3cd026672584deb3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: My Mac keeps playing a sound every now and then After I updated to OS X Yosemite, I have noticed that I keep hearing a sort of 'chime' sound every now and then, randomly. I don't know what it is, and it seems to happen often when I'm watching YouTube.
Please help if you have any idea why this is happening, and how I can fix it – It's very annoying!
A: If someone comes here with the same problem: for me it was the Calendar app. I disabled notifications for the calendar in the notification pref because I am using Fantastical for that. It must have been desperately trying to show me an event and beeped because of that. My solution was also to disable audio notifications and voila, the basso beep disappeared.
| Q: My Mac keeps playing a sound every now and then After I updated to OS X Yosemite, I have noticed that I keep hearing a sort of 'chime' sound every now and then, randomly. I don't know what it is, and it seems to happen often when I'm watching YouTube.
Please help if you have any idea why this is happening, and how I can fix it – It's very annoying!
A: If someone comes here with the same problem: for me it was the Calendar app. I disabled notifications for the calendar in the notification pref because I am using Fantastical for that. It must have been desperately trying to show me an event and beeped because of that. My solution was also to disable audio notifications and voila, the basso beep disappeared.
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cc0a7ee9ee2ae7a4475b048ac0f5ef8892cd2f8e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change MAC address in OS X Yosemite I usually changed my MAC address with the following commands:
# Get a New MAC Address
openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//'
# Changing the MAC Address
sudo ifconfig en0 ether d4:33:a3:ed:f2:12
When I enter:
ifconfig en0 |grep ether
I still get the old MAC address :( - Who can help? I would love to have a script or system to automatically change it on system boot.
A: Ferros made a sweet node tool to do just this https://github.com/feross/spoof
He has a Python version as well https://github.com/feross/SpoofMAC
| Q: Change MAC address in OS X Yosemite I usually changed my MAC address with the following commands:
# Get a New MAC Address
openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//'
# Changing the MAC Address
sudo ifconfig en0 ether d4:33:a3:ed:f2:12
When I enter:
ifconfig en0 |grep ether
I still get the old MAC address :( - Who can help? I would love to have a script or system to automatically change it on system boot.
A: Ferros made a sweet node tool to do just this https://github.com/feross/spoof
He has a Python version as well https://github.com/feross/SpoofMAC
A: This command works fine for me, the random script have I taken from this answer: https://serverfault.com/a/299564 from MadHatter.
sudo ifconfig en0 ether $(perl -e 'for ($i=0;$i<5;$i++){@m[$i]=int(rand(256));} printf "02:%X:%X:%X:%X:%X\n",@m;') && sudo ifconfig en0 down && sudo ifconfig en0 up
A: One possible problem is that randomly generated MACs will fail half the time. The first byte of a MAC address needs to be even (e.g. end in 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, A, C, E).
So, for example, 3b:92:22:cf:55:7e wouldn't work because '3b' is odd. See Wikipedia's MAC address article for the details (even = unicast, odd = multicast).
To avoid this problem, you can slightly edit your random-MAC sed command to force the second nibble to 0.
openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/./0/2; s/.$//'
Combining this with hrbrmstr's answer worked for me:
sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport --disassociate
sudo ifconfig en0 ether $(openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/./0/2; s/.$//')
networksetup -detectnewhardware
A: You need to disassociate the device before changing the MAC address. For en0, it will be:
sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport -z
sudo ifconfig en0 ether d4:33:a3:ed:f2:12
networksetup -detectnewhardware
A: Use this
sudo ifconfig en0 lladdr d4:33:a3:ed:f2:12
See the manual page of ifconfig
man ifconfig
A: Here's my contribution to change your MAC address: https://gist.github.com/vinyll/b511159cce2d25edafe78403749088ca
#/bin/sh
# Instructions:
# 1. Copy this script locally and run the following `chmod +x mac-address-spoofer.sh`
# 2. Later, run the following: `./mac-address.spoofer.sh` and see your MAC address changing.
echo "origin MAC address: " `sudo ifconfig en0 ether | grep ether`
sudo ifconfig en0 ether `openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//'`
echo "new MAC address: " `sudo ifconfig en0 ether | grep ether`
A: This works!
Steps:
*
*Get the MAC address of your Apple TV and write it down. It's found in the Network Settings.
*Get the MAC address of your MacBook (Yosemite OS version). Type "ifconfig" in a terminal window. It will be in the "En0" section.
*Cut/Paste the following (replacing the X's with your Apple TV MAC address) into a teminal window:
change MAC OSX to the Apple TV MAC
sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport -z
sudo ifconfig en0 ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
networksetup -detectnewhardware
*Enter your password if prompted and repeat step 3, if necessary**
*Reconnect to the hotel wireless with your MAC (not Apple TV) and accept the conditions of service.
*Cut/paste the following into the terminal window (replace the Y's with your MAC OSX MAC address)
change MAC address back to original
sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport -z
sudo ifconfig en0 ether YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY
networksetup -detectnewhardware
*Connect to the hotel wireless with your Apple TV.
A: sudo ifconfig en0 ether `openssl rand -hex 5|perl -nE '$s.=join":",/../g}{say"02:$s"'`&& sudo ifconfig en0 down && sudo ifconfig en0 up
My is much smarter :)
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900e79ff1b26297d335a146d1e89e64cc50704e3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: ZTE USB Modem not working in Yosemite I have updated my MacBook Pro 15″ late-2011 to OS X Yosemite from Mavericks and now my ZTE USB Modem (unclear model) for the internet will not work.
How can I get the hardware to work with 10.10?
A: I found a solution from web and it works on my ZTE-MF667 with no problem.
*
*Go to System Preferences → Network
*If you see your USB connection on the left side go to step 5.
If not, select the "+" icon like this.
*Select your Interface and set your Service Name like this, then select Create:
*Select ZTEUSBModem and set Configuration-Default, Telephone Number: #99*
Account Name and Password must be blank.Then select Advanced
*Set Vendor: Generic and Model: GPRS(GSM/3G)
*Click OK and Connect.
| Q: ZTE USB Modem not working in Yosemite I have updated my MacBook Pro 15″ late-2011 to OS X Yosemite from Mavericks and now my ZTE USB Modem (unclear model) for the internet will not work.
How can I get the hardware to work with 10.10?
A: I found a solution from web and it works on my ZTE-MF667 with no problem.
*
*Go to System Preferences → Network
*If you see your USB connection on the left side go to step 5.
If not, select the "+" icon like this.
*Select your Interface and set your Service Name like this, then select Create:
*Select ZTEUSBModem and set Configuration-Default, Telephone Number: #99*
Account Name and Password must be blank.Then select Advanced
*Set Vendor: Generic and Model: GPRS(GSM/3G)
*Click OK and Connect.
A: I suspect that your problem is a USB device problem.
For some reason Yosemite is not creating the proper device file entry in /dev when a number of USB devices are plugged into the system.
Because there is no /dev/ entry after plugin, the software is not able to access the device.
A: You really need to know a little more detail about your device before you can go about updating the software driver for it on your Mac. The ZTE website at http://www.ztedevices.com/product/data_card/index_1.html shows several of their current products that might match what you have. If you can identify which product you have form the information on this site, or perhaps from your System Report (from the Apple menu select 'About this Mac' then click on System Report from the resulting window, then click on USB form the Hardware section, and you might get some useful information there avout your device - make sure of course that it is plugged in first) then you can go about making sure you have the latest software installed for the device. The same website provides software and documentation downloads. I've not checked whether their software downloads include support for Yosemite.
A: My carrier confirms that ZTE has not released a driver update to support Yosemite. Thi is terrible on ZTE's part because Apple provided developer information months in advance of their launch of 10.10. It seems like we have to wait for ZTE to update their software, which you should be able to find in the connection manager when the USB stick is plugged in.
A: I did try the above option. The ZTE Mf668 did start to connect and working but at very slow speeds. The web pages would hardly open. It seemed to operated at 2G speeds or lesser. The Light on the dongle which would earlier blink Blue colour was now blinking Green Colour. Blue light blinking denotes high speed 3G connection which was now not happening even though I had selected GSM/3G as per above. Any Solution and Advise would be welcome.
I wonder when would ZTE upload drivers for this MF668 Data dongle or all these data dongles would stop working globally on All the Macs upgraded to Yosimite OS 10.10
Normally all hardware company's upgrade their drivers when any new major OS is released. I have written to ZTE help desk and customer support but they are of no help and are not aware of this problem quite surprisingly.
A: I've been having the same problem with my ZTE MF821D. I've been in contact with ZTE for a couple of weeks and yesterday they sent me a Beta update package for Windows, this however updated the modem to work with Yosemite as well, so if you have a virtual desktop or a PC with windows at home, feel free to update the modem with this file
*
*https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31379385/DL_MF821D_TLN_SE_EUV1.00.04.exe%20(1).zip
This is a beta and I take no responsibility. ZTE have not yet released it. I asked them specifically if I could try it out and they sent me the file, I then without touching it, uploaded it to my own dropbox. It worked like a charm for me :)
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37598c952a6466969bde856e9e1c9634d602866c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to rotate pictures in iOS 8? Updated to iOS 8 some time ago, now I have to rotate a picture and the "rotate" option is gone. Where is the functionality located?
A: Go to the photo in Photos, tap Edit, then tap the Crop button to show the Rotate button.
Tapping the Crop button is what's new here as in iOS 7 this wasn't required.
| Q: How to rotate pictures in iOS 8? Updated to iOS 8 some time ago, now I have to rotate a picture and the "rotate" option is gone. Where is the functionality located?
A: Go to the photo in Photos, tap Edit, then tap the Crop button to show the Rotate button.
Tapping the Crop button is what's new here as in iOS 7 this wasn't required.
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ca6ad5e26d0f1373e956dbb0225f7f531dee1dc0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Process (fmfd) spamming my console with sandbox denies Since installing OSX 10.10 (Yosemite), my console is full of error messages regarding fmfd, like fmfd(384) deny file-read-metadata /Volumes/Macintosh HD
This happens mostly at startup and when starting programs. I just want to know what it is, for my peace of mind and that my console can lose some weight ;)
Here´s some more (hopefully useful) information from one report:
fmfd(384) deny file-read-metadata /Volumes/Macintosh HD
Process: fmfd [384]
Path: /usr/libexec/fmfd
Load Address: 0x105f38000
Identifier: fmfd
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: x86_64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Date/Time: 2014-10-21 17:13:10.336 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10 (14A389)
Report Version: 8
Can you help me with that, or assure me it´s harmless? I don´t necessarily want to allow the process more rights in the sandbox if not necessary, like they did in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5495141?start=15&tstart=0
A: fmfd is 'find my friends daemon' I believe. I have noticed on my multiuser iMac that the two logged in users are polling each other's home directories ... though I've not yet figured out why. :-)
| Q: Process (fmfd) spamming my console with sandbox denies Since installing OSX 10.10 (Yosemite), my console is full of error messages regarding fmfd, like fmfd(384) deny file-read-metadata /Volumes/Macintosh HD
This happens mostly at startup and when starting programs. I just want to know what it is, for my peace of mind and that my console can lose some weight ;)
Here´s some more (hopefully useful) information from one report:
fmfd(384) deny file-read-metadata /Volumes/Macintosh HD
Process: fmfd [384]
Path: /usr/libexec/fmfd
Load Address: 0x105f38000
Identifier: fmfd
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: x86_64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Date/Time: 2014-10-21 17:13:10.336 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10 (14A389)
Report Version: 8
Can you help me with that, or assure me it´s harmless? I don´t necessarily want to allow the process more rights in the sandbox if not necessary, like they did in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5495141?start=15&tstart=0
A: fmfd is 'find my friends daemon' I believe. I have noticed on my multiuser iMac that the two logged in users are polling each other's home directories ... though I've not yet figured out why. :-)
A: I just found how to solve this problem.
*
*Go to the /System/Library/Sandbox/Profiles folder, you will find a file named fmfd.sb. You can't modify it here, so copy it to your desktop.
*Open the copy with TextEdit, locate the allow file-read-metadata section and add a new line under (literal "/Volumes") for the folder that can't be read, for you that should be (literal "/Volumes/Macintosh HD").
*Replace the original with the copy (don't forget to make a backup), since it's in a system folder it will ask for your password.
*Reboot your Mac the error messages in Console should be gone!
A: According to Activity Monitor info on fmfd:
This tool generates files that allow Apple to investigate issues with your computer and help improve Apple products. The files might contain personal information found on your device or associated with your iCloud accounts, including but not limited to serial numbers of your device, your device name, your user name, file paths, file names, your computer’s IP addresses, and network connection information. This information is used by Apple in accordance with its privacy policy and is not shared with any other company. By using this tool and sending the results to Apple, you consent to Apple using the contents of these files to improve Apple products.
To see what fmfd is doing sample the process, i.e. open terminal, enter:
sample fmfd
A: I think it belongs to "Find My Mac". When you turn it off in Preferences, stops spamming your logs.
A: fmfd - Find my friends daemon, is part of MacOS, and you probably should let it run. If it experiences errors (and logs them) better try to understand what (else) is broken on your Mac. In your case, I'd try to fix file access rights.
Here is an excerpt from the man pages for fmfd:
fmfd(8) BSD System Manager's Manual fmfd(8)
NAME
fmfd -- Find My Friends daemon
SYNOPSIS
fmfd
DESCRIPTION
fmfd is the daemon for Find My Friends.
There are no configuration options to fmfd. Users should not run it manually.
Mac OS X March 13, 2020 Mac OS X
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e8951f451dd0eac4b0def25ec2cc0640992e2490 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does Apple Pay require an internet connection? Do I need an internet connection on my iPhone 6 to use Apple Pay?
A: No, Apple Pay does not require an internet connection. Apple Pay uses NFC technology; it does not use Wi-Fi or cellular technology.
According to CNet, Apple Pay will work even if you put your iPhone 6 into Airplane Mode. Airplane Mode disables both the Wi-Fi and cellular internet.
| Q: Does Apple Pay require an internet connection? Do I need an internet connection on my iPhone 6 to use Apple Pay?
A: No, Apple Pay does not require an internet connection. Apple Pay uses NFC technology; it does not use Wi-Fi or cellular technology.
According to CNet, Apple Pay will work even if you put your iPhone 6 into Airplane Mode. Airplane Mode disables both the Wi-Fi and cellular internet.
A: The answer is yes and no.
Internet connectivity is required for any setup or maintenance of your cards. Once a card has been successfully added to the device, the phone can be disconnected for payments, which is a local interaction between the device and the point of sale terminal.
A: No, Apple Pay can be used an unlimited number of times while offline since it generates payment information locally as opposed to some other mobile payments like HCE which only allow a limited number of payments in-between getting an internet connection.
Apple Support article: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201469
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1295bd0d004e81488303fc4f0a6ffade6d8d3e85 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Yosemite: Safari's window is too wide I'm a web developer and like to develop with a narrow browser window to somehow emulate how my website will look on a mobile phone. With pre-Yosemite-Safari it was possible to create such a narrow window that you could easily judge the look of your site on mobile. With Yosemite, this seems to be impossible. Any suggestions?
Picture from an iPhone. I'd like to replicate this on the desktop. Note the line break after "Analytical"
Situation on the desktop after upgrading to Yosemite
A: You can enable "Develop" menu in Preferences > Advanced.
Then you can select choose the User Agent to be iPhone or whatever.
And then resize the window appropriately:
Edit: This doesn't get around the minimum width for the window. Here is a workaround. Go to View > Show Sidebar. This pulls out the sidebar, which can be resized making the viewport smaller.
| Q: Yosemite: Safari's window is too wide I'm a web developer and like to develop with a narrow browser window to somehow emulate how my website will look on a mobile phone. With pre-Yosemite-Safari it was possible to create such a narrow window that you could easily judge the look of your site on mobile. With Yosemite, this seems to be impossible. Any suggestions?
Picture from an iPhone. I'd like to replicate this on the desktop. Note the line break after "Analytical"
Situation on the desktop after upgrading to Yosemite
A: You can enable "Develop" menu in Preferences > Advanced.
Then you can select choose the User Agent to be iPhone or whatever.
And then resize the window appropriately:
Edit: This doesn't get around the minimum width for the window. Here is a workaround. Go to View > Show Sidebar. This pulls out the sidebar, which can be resized making the viewport smaller.
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2a85ab331aa5b6025861c879b0d19bc877887e7f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I re-enable Notification Center in Yosemite or El Capitan post-upgrade? I believe I followed the advice here: How do I permanently disable Notification Center in Mavericks?
Post upgrade to Yosemite, the Notification Center icon shows up in the menu bar, but clicking on it does nothing, as noted by this individual: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/142921/96853
A: This in Terminal will show Notification Center again:
launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
killall NotificationCenter
You will have to restart your Mac afterwards.
Reported to work in El Capitan (10.11.1) as well.
| Q: How do I re-enable Notification Center in Yosemite or El Capitan post-upgrade? I believe I followed the advice here: How do I permanently disable Notification Center in Mavericks?
Post upgrade to Yosemite, the Notification Center icon shows up in the menu bar, but clicking on it does nothing, as noted by this individual: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/142921/96853
A: This in Terminal will show Notification Center again:
launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
killall NotificationCenter
You will have to restart your Mac afterwards.
Reported to work in El Capitan (10.11.1) as well.
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4f8c01e256121c7437cd7572d91e059dc2746f17 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: ScreenSharing as VNC client/viewer doesn't work in Yosemite I was using built in ScreenSharing app to connect to a VNC server running on a Linux box.
After upgrading to Yosemite the ScreenSharing icon on my Dock is a question mark now. Does OS X no longer have a built in VNC client?
A: On OS X Yosemite the Screen Sharing app moved to the applications subfolder:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications
| Q: ScreenSharing as VNC client/viewer doesn't work in Yosemite I was using built in ScreenSharing app to connect to a VNC server running on a Linux box.
After upgrading to Yosemite the ScreenSharing icon on my Dock is a question mark now. Does OS X no longer have a built in VNC client?
A: On OS X Yosemite the Screen Sharing app moved to the applications subfolder:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications
A: It appears that the application moved (no clue from where to where). All I had to do was enter the path
vnc:\\machine.domain.com:5981
in a Safari tab, and it came to life. Then just drag the icon that shows up near the bottom of the dock to somewhere up in the middle, and it will stay on my Dock just like the old one had (removed the old one).
(Adjust your machine name and port number accordingly, 5900 is the default)
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44f690ef111f10930d045450745a2215effab1d6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I delete contact suggestions from Messages in OS X? In the "To:" box in the Messages app on OS X, when I start typing in a contact name, I get old "iMessage" contacts which I've long since deleted. They certainly don't exist in my contacts; the only place I think they could exist is in my iMessage History somewhere on the iCloud servers. In any case, how can I delete them? Thanks.
A: The answer provided by @Noldorin works for me:
Messages on OS X doesn't allow "Recent" contacts to be deleted, but
Messages on iOS does allow this. An oversight by Apple, but this is a
fix nonetheless.
To clarify, I looked at recent addresses on my iPhone/iMessage when starting a new conversation. There's an "i" symbol which allows your to see recent group conversations and addresses, and also a remove button.
Once removed the erroneous address is no longer visible in OS X iMessage.
| Q: How do I delete contact suggestions from Messages in OS X? In the "To:" box in the Messages app on OS X, when I start typing in a contact name, I get old "iMessage" contacts which I've long since deleted. They certainly don't exist in my contacts; the only place I think they could exist is in my iMessage History somewhere on the iCloud servers. In any case, how can I delete them? Thanks.
A: The answer provided by @Noldorin works for me:
Messages on OS X doesn't allow "Recent" contacts to be deleted, but
Messages on iOS does allow this. An oversight by Apple, but this is a
fix nonetheless.
To clarify, I looked at recent addresses on my iPhone/iMessage when starting a new conversation. There's an "i" symbol which allows your to see recent group conversations and addresses, and also a remove button.
Once removed the erroneous address is no longer visible in OS X iMessage.
A: Just found the solution myself: Messages on OS X doesn't allow "Recent" contacts to be deleted, but Messages on iOS does allow this. An oversight by Apple, but this is a fix nonetheless.
A: You need to remove the person in iMessage on iOS device (when typing the name of the person that should not be in your contacts anymore, that person's name may still appear. press the little "i" icon on the right and choose "remove from recent"), Quit and reopen imessage on OS X, when you start typing that name it will no longer show. It syncs from the iOS device
A: i found the solution
i submitted it here , but was refused
un check all the boxes in application messages general
Sorry : wrong picture ,should have uploaded a screenshot of picture containing entry rudy
take an entry and send a message
the following message will appear, if you delete the converation
entry rudy will be gone
A: This worked for me:
Go to settings, accounts and passwords, iCloud.
Then where it says “apps using iCloud” turn off contacts.
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059bc2a9d41a6a0e7c0cbec5ca5d82f4237f3d5d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Preview hangs when opening any image or pdf Recently Preview has started hanging for me whenever I open any pdf or image. I keep getting the spinning balloon of death and am unable to do anything in Preview, so I have to force-quit the application. Is there something I can do about this?
Crash report is here.
A: Probably resetting Preview by deleting its configuration from ~/Library could solve that problem.
cd ~/Library
rm Caches/com.apple.Preview \
Containers/com.apple.Preview \
Preferences/com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList.plist\
Preferences/com.apple.Preview.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList.plist \
"Saved Application State"/com.apple.Preview.savedState
Restart Preview and test.
| Q: Preview hangs when opening any image or pdf Recently Preview has started hanging for me whenever I open any pdf or image. I keep getting the spinning balloon of death and am unable to do anything in Preview, so I have to force-quit the application. Is there something I can do about this?
Crash report is here.
A: Probably resetting Preview by deleting its configuration from ~/Library could solve that problem.
cd ~/Library
rm Caches/com.apple.Preview \
Containers/com.apple.Preview \
Preferences/com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList.plist\
Preferences/com.apple.Preview.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList.plist \
"Saved Application State"/com.apple.Preview.savedState
Restart Preview and test.
A: I had the same issue on OS X 10.10.5, and removing only ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview was enough to solve.
tar czf ~/preview_cache.tgz ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/ # make a backup copy
rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/
Then, run Preview again, and if the issue is solved, you can remove the backup:
rm ~/preview_cache.tgz
A: Someone in my office just had this issue, and it was because one of their previously opened files reliably caused Preview to hang when opened. Unfortunately, whenever they opened Preview, it automatically opened all windows that were open when it was last terminated, causing it to immediately hang.
To fix this, we permanently disabled the feature where Preview automatically reopens previously-open files, using the command suggested at https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/54856/51010:
defaults write com.apple.Preview ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES
After this, he was able to open Preview without it hanging.
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6370b233296495a4b3ad06339ce1e2f1fa599079 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to get custom favorites icons in Safari 8 on Yosemite? I am wanting to add custom favorites icons (i.e. new tab page) for my website in Safari 8 on Yosemite. I have tried the open graph tag og:image with both png and jpg formats. I have also looked over the source of several sites that had the custom icons in my favorites page, including a site that appeared to update its icon, and I still cannot find the right way to include these icons. Any help? Thanks.
A: This is not related to OS X, so I’ll let the moderator move this question to other network. But I’m still going to answer this. The one you’re talking about is Apple Touch Icon which can be implemented by using the markup below:
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="57x57" href="/apple-touch-icon-57x57.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="/apple-touch-icon-114x114.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="/apple-touch-icon-72x72.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144" href="/apple-touch-icon-144x144.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="60x60" href="/apple-touch-icon-60x60.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120" href="/apple-touch-icon-120x120.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="76x76" href="/apple-touch-icon-76x76.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152" href="/apple-touch-icon-152x152.png">
There are multiple sizes because it needs to support Retina and non-Retina display.
Source: CSS Tricks
| Q: How to get custom favorites icons in Safari 8 on Yosemite? I am wanting to add custom favorites icons (i.e. new tab page) for my website in Safari 8 on Yosemite. I have tried the open graph tag og:image with both png and jpg formats. I have also looked over the source of several sites that had the custom icons in my favorites page, including a site that appeared to update its icon, and I still cannot find the right way to include these icons. Any help? Thanks.
A: This is not related to OS X, so I’ll let the moderator move this question to other network. But I’m still going to answer this. The one you’re talking about is Apple Touch Icon which can be implemented by using the markup below:
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="57x57" href="/apple-touch-icon-57x57.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="/apple-touch-icon-114x114.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="/apple-touch-icon-72x72.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144" href="/apple-touch-icon-144x144.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="60x60" href="/apple-touch-icon-60x60.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120" href="/apple-touch-icon-120x120.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="76x76" href="/apple-touch-icon-76x76.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152" href="/apple-touch-icon-152x152.png">
There are multiple sizes because it needs to support Retina and non-Retina display.
Source: CSS Tricks
A: Safari (at least version 9.0.2 on Yosemite) does not show favicon in the tabs. For a client side solution i recommend SafariStand. It is a SIMBL plug-in that adds many extra features to the Safari such as favicon on tabs and bookmark bar, separate download and bookmark panel, and other tweaks.
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826f508ca71b69d43737f432674c4cc11c80dc4f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Turn off MacBook Pro's display while connected to external monitor on Yosemite How do you turn off the MacBook Pro’s display with the lid open while using an external monitor on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite?
All the previous methods—such as the one’s listed here—that have worked on Mavericks no longer work on Yosemite.
Does anyone know the way to do this on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite? Turning down the brightness is not the same as turning off the display as the GPU still sends a signal to the internal display and the external monitor.
These were the terminal commands to achieve this on Mavericks:
Enable
sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x0"
Disable
sudo nvram -d boot-args
Anyone know how to achieve this on Yosemite?
A: I have a magnet iPhone case, I put it near my old macbook's keyboard, near the ASDF keys, and the internal screen turns off immediately! It's so simple!
Credit to http://www.cultofmac.com/176329/turn-off-internal-lcd-display-of-your-macbook-air-os-x-tips/
Edit: You have to connect your macbook to a power adapter to make this method working.
| Q: Turn off MacBook Pro's display while connected to external monitor on Yosemite How do you turn off the MacBook Pro’s display with the lid open while using an external monitor on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite?
All the previous methods—such as the one’s listed here—that have worked on Mavericks no longer work on Yosemite.
Does anyone know the way to do this on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite? Turning down the brightness is not the same as turning off the display as the GPU still sends a signal to the internal display and the external monitor.
These were the terminal commands to achieve this on Mavericks:
Enable
sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x0"
Disable
sudo nvram -d boot-args
Anyone know how to achieve this on Yosemite?
A: I have a magnet iPhone case, I put it near my old macbook's keyboard, near the ASDF keys, and the internal screen turns off immediately! It's so simple!
Credit to http://www.cultofmac.com/176329/turn-off-internal-lcd-display-of-your-macbook-air-os-x-tips/
Edit: You have to connect your macbook to a power adapter to make this method working.
A: Found this wonderful free application :
https://github.com/Eun/DisableMonitor/
Works like a charm. Warning: The app is not in development anymore and warns that it might cause irretrievable dataloss.
A: The equivalent command for Yosemite is:
sudo nvram boot-args=niog=1
I've only tested it on my Late 2008 15-inch MacBook Pro, but it works for me. Your mileage may vary.
Source: I read the IOGraphics source code, specifically IOGraphicsFamilyModuleStart() in IOFramebuffer.cpp.
Technical details: We need to clear bit 0 (kIOGDbgLidOpen) in the module's gIOGDebugFlags variable in order to change how it handles lid open events.
Previous versions of the code would set this variable to whatever value iog specified in the boot arguments, or 0x03 if iog wasn't specified.
The code in Yosemite first sets gIOGDebugFlags to 0x43, then bitwise ORs it with the value specified by iog (if it exists), and finally bitwise ANDs it with the bitwise complement of the value specified by niog (if it exists). In other words, iog can now only set bits in gIOGDebugFlags, but the new niog can clear bits. So we specify niog=1 in the boot arguments to clear bit 0.
A: Similar to other posts here, I ended up doing this with a fridge magnet. Flexible plastic ones did not work reliably, so I found one with a small (~5mm diameter) circular metal magnet on the back. Hopefully this matches the magnet in the lid fairly well, and won't overload the hall effect sensor, if that's possible.
To pinpoint where to place the magnet, I used this guide:
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/506016/Putting+to+sleep+with+a+magnet
This places the sensor close to the left-hand edge, near the headphone jack.
Waved the magnet over the area and if the magnet is strong enough both displays will turn off and the external one then comes back on by itself. When I lift the magnet more than 1cm away from the case the screen comes back. This seems about right compared to the actual lid.
Hope this helps someone, will post an update if anything goes wrong!
A: Lunar can turn off the MacBook display without having to close the lid of the MacBook.
This allows the MacBook to cool down faster and allows you to keep using TouchID, webcam and the very nice speakers of the MacBook, while being able to focus on the external monitor.
The feature is called Blackout, here are some more details: lunar.fyi/#blackout
How it works:
*
*Sets the native brightness of the MacBook display to 0
*Sets the Gamma tables of the MacBook display to a list of zeroes
*Mirrors the external monitor to the MacBook display so that:
*
*The monitor keeps its native resolution
*Apps/windows don't get trapped on a non-visible display
To activate, just press Control+Command+6 and Lunar will toggle Blackout and do all of the above steps for you.
Disclaimer: I'm the developer of Lunar and BlackOut is a paid feature with a free 14-day trial
A: This trick works (make the external monitor as primary one and partially close the lid till display goes off)
http://gizmodo.com/5938452/a-trick-to-make-using-an-external-monitor-with-your-macbook-way-better
A: Go to screen saver then activate the "display off" in hot corners.
A: Reducing screen brightness to 0 via the keyboard works for me - Macbook screen is totally dark, but the external display is not affected.
My use case is watching a movie on an external display and wanting the Macbook monitor totally off. If you want to make sure the trackpad can't go off the external screen (to the darkened Mac screen) just choose to Mirror the displays and then what you see on the external monitor is all there is.
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a75d5efc42a10fb6e7116d30a7948c50be6ca665 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Back to My Mac problems under Yosemite Since updating to Yosemite a couple of days ago my Back to My Mac feature has stopped functioning. It is activated in the Sharing Preferences and I didn't change anything on the router settings. In the iCloud settings it says (in french): that Back to My Mac doesn't work properly because the DNS server doesn't respond _ that I should contact my ISP in order to get a new DNS server address
I am accessing Internet via a Fritzbox router and everything worked just fine under Mavericks
iMac (27-inch Late 2009), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
| Q: Back to My Mac problems under Yosemite Since updating to Yosemite a couple of days ago my Back to My Mac feature has stopped functioning. It is activated in the Sharing Preferences and I didn't change anything on the router settings. In the iCloud settings it says (in french): that Back to My Mac doesn't work properly because the DNS server doesn't respond _ that I should contact my ISP in order to get a new DNS server address
I am accessing Internet via a Fritzbox router and everything worked just fine under Mavericks
iMac (27-inch Late 2009), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
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3804fcb41018e013b7daf74d1f759ebe5310c52d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: 'Show Package Contents' in new iWork (Yosemite) File Formats After installing both Yosemite and the new iWork suite updates (Pages 5.5 and Keynote 6.5), I've noticed I can't 'Show Package Contents' in order to access/modify the media associated with these files.
Does anybody know how to get in to these seemingly new formats?
Doesn't seem like a simple unarchive, either...
A: I've managed to expand the file by using the system (or any other) archive utility.
Here's how I got into the file:
*
*Make a copy of the .key, .pages, or .numbers document
*Change the file extension to .zip
*Unarchive as you would any other .zip file to produce a folder
*This folder is similar to previous show package contents bundle representations of older file versions
*Make the changes you need to the document's data — in my case, this was modifying a few picture files that were used as icons throughout the multi-slide presentation
*Re-compress the folder
*Change the resultant zip file's extension to .key or .pages or .numbers
| Q: 'Show Package Contents' in new iWork (Yosemite) File Formats After installing both Yosemite and the new iWork suite updates (Pages 5.5 and Keynote 6.5), I've noticed I can't 'Show Package Contents' in order to access/modify the media associated with these files.
Does anybody know how to get in to these seemingly new formats?
Doesn't seem like a simple unarchive, either...
A: I've managed to expand the file by using the system (or any other) archive utility.
Here's how I got into the file:
*
*Make a copy of the .key, .pages, or .numbers document
*Change the file extension to .zip
*Unarchive as you would any other .zip file to produce a folder
*This folder is similar to previous show package contents bundle representations of older file versions
*Make the changes you need to the document's data — in my case, this was modifying a few picture files that were used as icons throughout the multi-slide presentation
*Re-compress the folder
*Change the resultant zip file's extension to .key or .pages or .numbers
A: The Show Package Contents option is no longer available because iWork documents are now single files. Previously the documents were bundles; bundles are specialised folders on OS X that appear as files to the user.
The new file formats are not publicly documented. Magnus Lewan discusses the problems this raises on the Pages FAQ site:
Undocumented Proprietary File Format in Pages 5
The new Pages 5 file package format contains binary .iwa files that seem unreadable by other applications. This makes it very difficult or even impossible to recover file content if you are on a computer without Pages 5 or if Apple one day abandons the program. This is a big shift from the XML based file structure of Pages '09 (4.3) and earlier, which at least could be read by text editors, and which in theory could be recovered.
Depending on your needs, you may be able to systematically access the document contents through the applications with an AppleScript.
A: The Pages 5.5.3, Numbers 3.5.3, and Keynote 6.5.3 applications and later have a means to convert the single-file format (com.apple.iwork.pages.sffpages) document format into a package file format (com.apple.iwork.pages.pages). It is not advisable to manually do this as has been posted.
Pages File menu: Advanced : Change File Type : {Single File, Package}. Choose Package, and then click File menu : Save.
Images (if present) are in the Data folder. Otherwise, the rest of the document contents is in a new Pages *.iwa format that is only intelligible by the current Pages application.
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cd6a55846589cb0a21fb6e79422a9a170157111c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to add icons to iTerm2? I've been looking into making my terminal more visually expressive. So far I've found , and learnt how to import themes and customize color schemes, but I was wondering how people get these cool icons and visual modifications as seen in these images. Can anyone provide me with some useful links?
A: The first prompt you show a picture of looks like a customized version of a powerline oh-my-zsh theme. It requires oh-my-zsh. There is also a version that supports bash, zsh, and fish.
To use those, you need a Powerline-patched font.
Your second screenshot comes from dracula-theme, a color scheme and prompt for lots of different editors plus oh-my-zsh.
Personally, I would not recommend oh-my-zsh, as in my experience it was kind of slow and heavy. I created my own bash prompt using Powerline symbols, but milkbikis/powerline-shell is probably the best one to use.
| Q: How to add icons to iTerm2? I've been looking into making my terminal more visually expressive. So far I've found , and learnt how to import themes and customize color schemes, but I was wondering how people get these cool icons and visual modifications as seen in these images. Can anyone provide me with some useful links?
A: The first prompt you show a picture of looks like a customized version of a powerline oh-my-zsh theme. It requires oh-my-zsh. There is also a version that supports bash, zsh, and fish.
To use those, you need a Powerline-patched font.
Your second screenshot comes from dracula-theme, a color scheme and prompt for lots of different editors plus oh-my-zsh.
Personally, I would not recommend oh-my-zsh, as in my experience it was kind of slow and heavy. I created my own bash prompt using Powerline symbols, but milkbikis/powerline-shell is probably the best one to use.
A:
oh-my-zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration.
It comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes, and a few things that make you shout…
Github Project
Themes
A: Consider installing Powerlevel9k, a popular and highly customizable terminal theme for the shell Zsh.
I used this blog post to get started:
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-you-can-style-your-terminal-like-medium-freecodecamp-or-any-way-you-want-f499234d48bc
Once you have everything installed, you may want to visit this git repo to see plenty of customization examples: https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k/wiki/Show-Off-Your-Config
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3cbb117187504f21ee061908e05ea04472bf7ef7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to always show window controls in Yosemite full screen apps? The default behavior in Yosemite for apps with combined window title/toolbar in full screen mode is, that the window controls (signal lights) slide in from the left when the mouse the mouse pointer reaches the top screen edge. Is there any known Terminal defaults command to disable this behavior and always show the "signal lights"?
I'm asking because I find it annoying especially in Xcode when I want to press the Run button but instead close the whole workspace :(
Thx
A: Use Option + Shift + Click green button to get the old fill screen behavior of expand to fill the whole screen.
Use Option + Click green button to get the old green button behavior to just expand vertically.
This was also driving me nuts today since every time that I change my KVM switch to my other machine, I end up with OS X resizing all of my windows! Argh! At least now I can get them back to the sizes I want. But the windows that I don't want to take up much room are still getting moved around annoyingly.
| Q: How to always show window controls in Yosemite full screen apps? The default behavior in Yosemite for apps with combined window title/toolbar in full screen mode is, that the window controls (signal lights) slide in from the left when the mouse the mouse pointer reaches the top screen edge. Is there any known Terminal defaults command to disable this behavior and always show the "signal lights"?
I'm asking because I find it annoying especially in Xcode when I want to press the Run button but instead close the whole workspace :(
Thx
A: Use Option + Shift + Click green button to get the old fill screen behavior of expand to fill the whole screen.
Use Option + Click green button to get the old green button behavior to just expand vertically.
This was also driving me nuts today since every time that I change my KVM switch to my other machine, I end up with OS X resizing all of my windows! Argh! At least now I can get them back to the sizes I want. But the windows that I don't want to take up much room are still getting moved around annoyingly.
A: I have been trying to find a solution for this problem. What I am doing right now, is resizing the window to it's max without maximizing :(
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bb8eabc4076da17407343d983c766bcffc3ad7e6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to access HealthKit data through a web interface? I would like to read, and ideally write to, my HealthKit data from a computer's web browser. Is this possible? I have not found any tools so far that let me do it.
An out of the box tool is ideal, but a script-based workaround that syncs with Google Spreadsheets or Dropbox would work as well.
A: I haven't found any out-of-the-box solutions, but I'm looking for something similar, and posted this related question.
Options:
*
*export data as XML files and email them to yourself
*use iTunes backup, 3rd party backup reader, get sqlite3 Databases
Either of these two can be fed into a PHP/RoR/JSP/.NET etc.. web app but so far there's no way to do it without manual intervention.
| Q: Is there a way to access HealthKit data through a web interface? I would like to read, and ideally write to, my HealthKit data from a computer's web browser. Is this possible? I have not found any tools so far that let me do it.
An out of the box tool is ideal, but a script-based workaround that syncs with Google Spreadsheets or Dropbox would work as well.
A: I haven't found any out-of-the-box solutions, but I'm looking for something similar, and posted this related question.
Options:
*
*export data as XML files and email them to yourself
*use iTunes backup, 3rd party backup reader, get sqlite3 Databases
Either of these two can be fed into a PHP/RoR/JSP/.NET etc.. web app but so far there's no way to do it without manual intervention.
A: Because health data is so sensitive and protected by multiple laws, providing a web interface that can be arbitrary accessed by a web script from a web page the user browses to presents far to high of a risk to customer’s protected health information (PHI).
By only providing native Objective C / Swift interfaces to Health Kit, the manditory use of app signing and “entitlements”, in conjunction with the app vetting process that precedes availability in the App Store; Apple does its best to guarantee no bad web actors (malicious script kiddies) have a remote way to hack or socially engineer Health data from the user.
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6c98c0b19b0fbe5461836ca18e8325802093766a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Shell environment variables not available in GUI apps even if app launched via Command Line It is expected that shell environment variables won't be available in GUI apps launched via Spotlight or Finder.app.
But until Mavericks - I could launch an app via Command line such as:
open -a IntelliJ\ IDEA\ 11
And Intellij will inherit the environment variables defined in shell (In my case zsh). This does not seem to work properly anymore. I have seen similar problem, when I launch Emacs.app from command line.
Related thread - https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/208181/why-did-my-tex-related-gui-program-stop-working-in-mac-os-x-yosemite
BTW, I know I can use Setting the system-wide PATH environment variable in Mavericks for setting system wide environment variables, but I don't want system wide environment variables. I want GUI app to inherit variables that were defined at the point, the app was launched from command line.
A: You can try something like this:
launchctl setenv VARIABLE VALUE
open -a IntelliJ\ IDEA\ 11
launchctl unsetenv VARIABLE
This will pass environment variable VARIABLE into the launched app and later it will be cleaned, but will remain in the app.
| Q: Shell environment variables not available in GUI apps even if app launched via Command Line It is expected that shell environment variables won't be available in GUI apps launched via Spotlight or Finder.app.
But until Mavericks - I could launch an app via Command line such as:
open -a IntelliJ\ IDEA\ 11
And Intellij will inherit the environment variables defined in shell (In my case zsh). This does not seem to work properly anymore. I have seen similar problem, when I launch Emacs.app from command line.
Related thread - https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/208181/why-did-my-tex-related-gui-program-stop-working-in-mac-os-x-yosemite
BTW, I know I can use Setting the system-wide PATH environment variable in Mavericks for setting system wide environment variables, but I don't want system wide environment variables. I want GUI app to inherit variables that were defined at the point, the app was launched from command line.
A: You can try something like this:
launchctl setenv VARIABLE VALUE
open -a IntelliJ\ IDEA\ 11
launchctl unsetenv VARIABLE
This will pass environment variable VARIABLE into the launched app and later it will be cleaned, but will remain in the app.
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a041c0888dd769ae8f1dc34174c5bbd8f88e0912 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable swapping on Yosemite Under OS X Mavericks and below we just could launchctl unload the dynamic_pager plist, but trying to unload this plist doesn't have any effect since OS X Yosemite.
What is the new way to disable swap files now with OS X Yosemite?
A: Here's what I do:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
(disables hibernation mode)
sudo rm -rf /private/var/vm/.
*(removes existing swap files)
sudo chflags uchg /private/var/vm/
(locks down the swapfile directory, prevents anything from being written to the folder)
As others have said, though, please only do this if you know what you're doing.
| Q: Disable swapping on Yosemite Under OS X Mavericks and below we just could launchctl unload the dynamic_pager plist, but trying to unload this plist doesn't have any effect since OS X Yosemite.
What is the new way to disable swap files now with OS X Yosemite?
A: Here's what I do:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
(disables hibernation mode)
sudo rm -rf /private/var/vm/.
*(removes existing swap files)
sudo chflags uchg /private/var/vm/
(locks down the swapfile directory, prevents anything from being written to the folder)
As others have said, though, please only do this if you know what you're doing.
A: Have you tried something like this?
# Check installed RAM, disable VM if 8Gb or more.
mem_inst=`/usr/sbin/sysctl -n hw.memsize`
if [ "$mem_inst" -ge "8589934592" ]; then
echo "8Gb+ Memory installed."
if [ "$action" == "unload" ]; then
sudo nvram boot-args="vm_compressor=2"
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
echo "vm.compressor_mode set to 2"
else
sudo nvram boot-args="vm_compressor=4"
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3
echo "vm.compressor_mode reset to defaults"
fi
launch_control $action /System/Library/LaunchDaemons com.apple.dynamic_pager
else
echo "Less than 8Gb memory."
fi
This isn't something I wrote, was information I found.
A: sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
Tested on freshly installed Yosemite from App Store.
A: I used a program called Onyx to disable my swap file.
& I have 16GB of RAM.
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1155a47cda2875de0ec2886aaff84edd2d89c460 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to get Mail.app to display (rather than hide) duplicate messages Prior to Yosemite, setting the following invisible preference would cause Mail.app to show duplicate messages rather than its default behavior of hiding them:
% defaults write com.apple.mail AlwaysShowDuplicates -bool true
This no longer seems to have any effect in Yosemite (OS X 10.10). Does anyone know of an alternate method to achieve this?
A: defaults write com.apple.mail _AlwaysShowDuplicates -bool true
This should be working.
| Q: How to get Mail.app to display (rather than hide) duplicate messages Prior to Yosemite, setting the following invisible preference would cause Mail.app to show duplicate messages rather than its default behavior of hiding them:
% defaults write com.apple.mail AlwaysShowDuplicates -bool true
This no longer seems to have any effect in Yosemite (OS X 10.10). Does anyone know of an alternate method to achieve this?
A: defaults write com.apple.mail _AlwaysShowDuplicates -bool true
This should be working.
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8e872037f8db052b73c725060575726ac9040a60 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the wheel user group for? The output of groups after sudo bash lists the following groups:
wheel daemon kmem sys tty operator procview procmod everyone staff certusers localaccounts admin com.apple.sharepoint.group.2 _appstore _lpadmin _lpoperator _developer com.apple.access_screensharing com.apple.access_ssh com.apple.sharepoint.group.1
What is the wheel user group for and why is it called wheel?
A: Quoting from this superuser answer by Rich Homolka:
Mac OS X has roots in BSD UNIX, a.k.a. the UNIX that came out of UC
Berkeley. They had a group of trusted people
that could become superuser by using the su command. So they coded
their UNIX to only allow people in this specific group to become
superuser using su. They chose the groupname 'wheel', supposedly
reference to other systems that had WHEEL, possibly a reference to
being a 'big
wheel'
It's less important now that you have the GUI authorization popups and
sudo. You can use sudo without being in wheel group I believe.
| Q: What is the wheel user group for? The output of groups after sudo bash lists the following groups:
wheel daemon kmem sys tty operator procview procmod everyone staff certusers localaccounts admin com.apple.sharepoint.group.2 _appstore _lpadmin _lpoperator _developer com.apple.access_screensharing com.apple.access_ssh com.apple.sharepoint.group.1
What is the wheel user group for and why is it called wheel?
A: Quoting from this superuser answer by Rich Homolka:
Mac OS X has roots in BSD UNIX, a.k.a. the UNIX that came out of UC
Berkeley. They had a group of trusted people
that could become superuser by using the su command. So they coded
their UNIX to only allow people in this specific group to become
superuser using su. They chose the groupname 'wheel', supposedly
reference to other systems that had WHEEL, possibly a reference to
being a 'big
wheel'
It's less important now that you have the GUI authorization popups and
sudo. You can use sudo without being in wheel group I believe.
A: From Wikipedia:
Modern Unix systems use user groups to control access privileges. The wheel group is a special user group used on some Unix systems to control access to the su command, which allows a user to masquerade as another user (usually the super user).
In computing, the term wheel refers to a user account with a wheel bit, a system setting that provides additional special system privileges that empower a user to execute restricted commands that ordinary user accounts cannot access.The term is derived from the slang phrase big wheel, referring to a person with great power or influence.
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48b8f7ddef2bf38aebe96cb0c934b78fa0c5f312 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Screensharing slow, even over gigabit ethernet When I connect from my laptop to my server with Apple Screen Sharing, it is extremely laggy, even over gigabit ethernet.
Files copy at expected speeds (~100MB/s) but Screen Sharing is terribly slow.
Any way to speed this up?
A: Some (all?) Macs when run without a monitor turn off the video circuitry so they do not waste energy, even though this circuitry is used by screen sharing to dramatically speed up screen stuff.
There might be a way to turn this circuitry back on through software, but I have not foud a reliable way to do so. What works very well is to plug in something into a video port to get the Mac to think it has a monitor connected.
You can build one yourself:
https://macminicolo.net/blog/files/build-a-dummy-dongle-for-a-headless-mac-mini.html
Buy one to plug into a HDMI port on some MacMinis:
https://macminicolo.net/blog/files/an-hdmi-adapter-for-a-headless-mac-mini.html
Buy one to plug into the MiniDisplay Port:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/CBLMDPHEAD/
Instructions for a resistor added directly to the video card:
http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=11
I picked up a handful of the HDMI ones a while back, they are very useful.
A similar question/answer is at Force the resolution on a headless mac mini server
| Q: Screensharing slow, even over gigabit ethernet When I connect from my laptop to my server with Apple Screen Sharing, it is extremely laggy, even over gigabit ethernet.
Files copy at expected speeds (~100MB/s) but Screen Sharing is terribly slow.
Any way to speed this up?
A: Some (all?) Macs when run without a monitor turn off the video circuitry so they do not waste energy, even though this circuitry is used by screen sharing to dramatically speed up screen stuff.
There might be a way to turn this circuitry back on through software, but I have not foud a reliable way to do so. What works very well is to plug in something into a video port to get the Mac to think it has a monitor connected.
You can build one yourself:
https://macminicolo.net/blog/files/build-a-dummy-dongle-for-a-headless-mac-mini.html
Buy one to plug into a HDMI port on some MacMinis:
https://macminicolo.net/blog/files/an-hdmi-adapter-for-a-headless-mac-mini.html
Buy one to plug into the MiniDisplay Port:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/CBLMDPHEAD/
Instructions for a resistor added directly to the video card:
http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=11
I picked up a handful of the HDMI ones a while back, they are very useful.
A similar question/answer is at Force the resolution on a headless mac mini server
A: Suggest that you try alternate screen sharing systems. Chicken of the VNC is one option. TeamViewer is another option. (http://teamviewer.com)
I have had reasonable response using teamviewer over a satellite link to a remote machine running windows on the other side of the continent. Not instantaneous. But given that every round trip packet involved 160,000 km of microwave...
A: If you can't go the hardware route, here is my software-only workaround:
Use the Automator to create a trivial bash job:
*
*Launch Automator.
*Choose to create an Application.
*Select Run Shell Script from the Actions list - the Run Shell Script edit field will display on the right side.
*Select Shell: /bin/bash (it may already be the default)
*Type sleep 999999 into the script entry area.
*From the menu select File -> Export... and enter SpeedUpScreenSharing (or a name of your choice) in the Export As: field, and Save it.
Now you can run it like you would any other application. It will run forever with a little gear icon that appears in the status area of the menu bar. Whatever the reason is, it seems to help make my old macbook pro more responsive. It isn't super zippy, but it gave me a significant speedup - YMMV.
A: The answer is simple, stop using Screen Sharing and get Apple Desktop Remote. Apple Desktop Remote App is as fast as Microsoft Desktop Remote. Screen sharing is not the same and quite slow and choppy and presumably intended for occasional usage as opposed to ADR which is for serious use such as headless displays and file transfers.
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31224859da23a8b058fc9ff66c464feaf9e788da | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Shortcut to switch between Today and Notifications in Yosemite While it is possible to set a keyboard shortcut to bring up the Notification Center in Mac OS Yosemite, I cannot find a way to switch between the panels "Today" and "Notifications" via the keyboard - it only seems to be possible using the mouse/trackpad.
Is there anything I overlooked?
A: Applescript:
tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"
click menu bar item "Notification Center" of menu bar 2
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "NotificationCenter"
click radio button "Today" of radio group 1 of window "NotificationTableWindow"
end tell
Depend on what an user needs, whether it's to switch when the menu is pulled out, or to simply access Today or Notifications on demand, one can modify the above code and bind it/them to keyboard shortcuts.
| Q: Shortcut to switch between Today and Notifications in Yosemite While it is possible to set a keyboard shortcut to bring up the Notification Center in Mac OS Yosemite, I cannot find a way to switch between the panels "Today" and "Notifications" via the keyboard - it only seems to be possible using the mouse/trackpad.
Is there anything I overlooked?
A: Applescript:
tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"
click menu bar item "Notification Center" of menu bar 2
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "NotificationCenter"
click radio button "Today" of radio group 1 of window "NotificationTableWindow"
end tell
Depend on what an user needs, whether it's to switch when the menu is pulled out, or to simply access Today or Notifications on demand, one can modify the above code and bind it/them to keyboard shortcuts.
A: Just adding this based on fartheraway's answer (because he mentions how to get the Today tab to open).
Here's how to get it to open on the Notifications tab:
tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"
click menu bar item "Notification Center" of menu bar 2
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Notification Center"
click radio button "Notifications" of radio group 1 of window "NotificationTableWindow"
end tell
end tell
Now I just need to figure out how to run these off a keyboard shortcut :(
A: As of Sierra, the menu bar layout has changed. The following should work:
tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"
click menu bar item "Notification Center" of menu bar 1
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "NotificationCenter"
click radio button "Today" of radio group 1 of window "NotificationTableWindow"
end tell
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34a87b9feff05d6434b8c5263b1ea405eef807e1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a log file for App Nap? I use a piece of specialty software that seems to be dealing badly with App Nap. Is there a way to retroactively list when App Nap acted on a specific process?
The Console log shows symptoms (Spindump reports when an app is throttled for excessive wakelocks or cpu use) but I can't find anything related to the third type of App Nap throttling (priority reduction), quoting from developer docs:
For any app that is not performing important user work, App Nap triggers a number of measures, including:
*
*Priority reduction, which reduces the process priority of an app so that it receives a smaller share of available processor time
*Timer throttling, which reduces the frequency with which an app’s timers are fired
*I/O throttling, which reduces the rate at which an app can read or write data from a device while foreground apps need the device
A: app nap events are shown in the system.log (the easiest way to find them is to open up Console.app and look in All Messages).
| Q: Is there a log file for App Nap? I use a piece of specialty software that seems to be dealing badly with App Nap. Is there a way to retroactively list when App Nap acted on a specific process?
The Console log shows symptoms (Spindump reports when an app is throttled for excessive wakelocks or cpu use) but I can't find anything related to the third type of App Nap throttling (priority reduction), quoting from developer docs:
For any app that is not performing important user work, App Nap triggers a number of measures, including:
*
*Priority reduction, which reduces the process priority of an app so that it receives a smaller share of available processor time
*Timer throttling, which reduces the frequency with which an app’s timers are fired
*I/O throttling, which reduces the rate at which an app can read or write data from a device while foreground apps need the device
A: app nap events are shown in the system.log (the easiest way to find them is to open up Console.app and look in All Messages).
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856c50f63037b80f80ce034508b3637021809a25 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Automatically update apps in iTunes Since iOS7 installed applications on iPhone and iPad are automatically updated. Is there any way to also automatically update the applications in the iTunes library (either direct or indirect via an iOS device)?
Right now I have a iTunes 12 libraries that contains music, applications etc. that automatically synchronizes with a couple of devices (all on iOS8) via wifi. The devises all have automatic updates for applications enabled. While the updates are downloaded on the devices, the updates are apparently not synchronized back to iTunes. Likewise iTunes does not automatically download available updates, updates are shown in the 'Avilable Updates' tab, but not downloaded.
| Q: Automatically update apps in iTunes Since iOS7 installed applications on iPhone and iPad are automatically updated. Is there any way to also automatically update the applications in the iTunes library (either direct or indirect via an iOS device)?
Right now I have a iTunes 12 libraries that contains music, applications etc. that automatically synchronizes with a couple of devices (all on iOS8) via wifi. The devises all have automatic updates for applications enabled. While the updates are downloaded on the devices, the updates are apparently not synchronized back to iTunes. Likewise iTunes does not automatically download available updates, updates are shown in the 'Avilable Updates' tab, but not downloaded.
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d1b0b303905d8627b5b0ebe8985805395f2ddbf1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable steps count in iPhone 6 Today I opened Health on my iPhone 6 and I realized that it is counting my steps.
However I never enabled this functionality.
Is there a way to disable it?
A: iOS 8 has Settings => Privacy => Motion & Fitness => Fitness Tracking (On/Off). I don't know if it works; it was on when I just discovered it, yet Health app can't find any motion data. I do walk ...
| Q: Disable steps count in iPhone 6 Today I opened Health on my iPhone 6 and I realized that it is counting my steps.
However I never enabled this functionality.
Is there a way to disable it?
A: iOS 8 has Settings => Privacy => Motion & Fitness => Fitness Tracking (On/Off). I don't know if it works; it was on when I just discovered it, yet Health app can't find any motion data. I do walk ...
A: It's not a feature that you need to enable. The co-processor starts tracking when you switch on your phone. To answer your question, Health app does not track your steps, it merely only shows you the data that is fed from the co-processor and other health related apps. I'm afraid it's something which cannot be switched off.
Some developers over at the jailbreak community have tried to disable it - it's worth taking a look if you're interested in that sort of solution.
A: This data has been counted in previous iPhones too. (Starting from 5s), it's only made visible now. I wonder why this became a problem now?
There's currently no way to disable this built-in pedometer.
A: In Health, you should visit the Steps settings under More then Steps, and change the setting to Don't track steps. It should stop counting!
Hope this helps!
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2162d2f17377ef0ebfe8cc5073c3b6fedf5f99a7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to transfer ONE photo FROM PC to iPhone 6 From time-to-time I want to transfer only one or a very few photos FROM my PC (Windows 7) to my iPhone (currently an iPhone 6).
I can find plenty of advice on how to transfer from the iPhone to the PC, but there seems to be a dearth (severe lack) of info on how to do the converse.
I have iCloud, Wifi, iTunes, and a cable. I (and I'm sure another of 10K of your best friends) will be grateful for instructions that are "written for grandma." (I'm not a grandma, but I am a late adopter.)
A: The Apple way is to pick a folder on your PC for sync. You do this through iTunes, by connecting your phone and picking the photos tab. Full information here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4236
However, if it's just 1 or 2 photos, the easiest way is to use Dropbox (you have Dropbox right?). Put the photo in your Dropbox, go to the same folder using the Dropbox app on your phone, click on the photo, click the little share button in bottom left, and then choose "Save Image."
| Q: How to transfer ONE photo FROM PC to iPhone 6 From time-to-time I want to transfer only one or a very few photos FROM my PC (Windows 7) to my iPhone (currently an iPhone 6).
I can find plenty of advice on how to transfer from the iPhone to the PC, but there seems to be a dearth (severe lack) of info on how to do the converse.
I have iCloud, Wifi, iTunes, and a cable. I (and I'm sure another of 10K of your best friends) will be grateful for instructions that are "written for grandma." (I'm not a grandma, but I am a late adopter.)
A: The Apple way is to pick a folder on your PC for sync. You do this through iTunes, by connecting your phone and picking the photos tab. Full information here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4236
However, if it's just 1 or 2 photos, the easiest way is to use Dropbox (you have Dropbox right?). Put the photo in your Dropbox, go to the same folder using the Dropbox app on your phone, click on the photo, click the little share button in bottom left, and then choose "Save Image."
A: Go to iTunes. Click on your iPhone/iPod/iPad. Go to Photos. If the "Sync All Photos" option is checked, un check it. You can reenable it later. Then, select your photo, and hit sync.
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b72eee1faa161ac60ed5bf3a9d6e34cffade2230 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPad Air 2 - How to enable device rotation I am working with a new iPad Air 2. I cannot figure out how to change the view to landscape.. There is no side button, and I am tired, but I cannot see a preference in Settings.
A: There is apparently an option to adjust screen rotation in the Control Center on the iPad Air 2, since it has no side switch. (Control Center can be accessed by swiping up from he bottom of the screen).
| Q: iPad Air 2 - How to enable device rotation I am working with a new iPad Air 2. I cannot figure out how to change the view to landscape.. There is no side button, and I am tired, but I cannot see a preference in Settings.
A: There is apparently an option to adjust screen rotation in the Control Center on the iPad Air 2, since it has no side switch. (Control Center can be accessed by swiping up from he bottom of the screen).
A: The just released Apple iOS 8.1 fixes the
Fixes bugs that could cause screen rotation to stop working
among other stuff.
Where is it:
You probably have your switch set to be used for mute instead of rotation lock. Click on the setting and when in that screen select general look in the right hand side panel. Setting > General. > USE SWITCH TO: select the "Lock Rotation" option.
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cf3b90fc47b4092625692c151404e6a9536a3030 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: View TLS Certificate in Safari 8 / Yosemite i've installed the new OS X Yosemite recently. Now i'm trying to view the TLS Certificate and the Certificate Chain in the new Safari.
In the older versions of Safari one just had to click onto the padlock to view the connection properties.
I know, it's all possible by using another Browser, but i like the new Safari ;-)
Best regards, Jonas
A: The padlock should still be there
and by clicking on it, you get the certificate information as before:
Clicking on «Show Certificate» gives the details:
| Q: View TLS Certificate in Safari 8 / Yosemite i've installed the new OS X Yosemite recently. Now i'm trying to view the TLS Certificate and the Certificate Chain in the new Safari.
In the older versions of Safari one just had to click onto the padlock to view the connection properties.
I know, it's all possible by using another Browser, but i like the new Safari ;-)
Best regards, Jonas
A: The padlock should still be there
and by clicking on it, you get the certificate information as before:
Clicking on «Show Certificate» gives the details:
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9d747bb266a4eab39ff3baec8eefb3a60cac369d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to resolve dropping wifi issue since Yosemite upgrade? As of today I experience random wifi connection drops on my MacBook Air 2012 that force me to reselect the network every ten minutes. The only recent change to the system was an upgrade to Yosemite. A google search indicated that others have the problem as well, yet as of yet I could not find a solution.
How to fix this issue?
A: Apple released the 10.10.1 update today, which is supposed to fix many wifi issues.
| Q: How to resolve dropping wifi issue since Yosemite upgrade? As of today I experience random wifi connection drops on my MacBook Air 2012 that force me to reselect the network every ten minutes. The only recent change to the system was an upgrade to Yosemite. A google search indicated that others have the problem as well, yet as of yet I could not find a solution.
How to fix this issue?
A: Apple released the 10.10.1 update today, which is supposed to fix many wifi issues.
A: Unfortunately I think only Apple can fix this, hopefully with an update to Yosemite (which is reportedly already being tested, but a release date is unknown).
Until then, all I can offer is a workaround.
Find Your WiFi "port"
First you need to find your Wi-Fi port. On a MacBook Air this is probably en0.
On a Mac with built-in Ethernet and Wi-Fi, the Wi-Fi is probably en1.
If you aren't sure, you can use this:
WIFI=`/usr/sbin/networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder |\
egrep Device |\
fgrep Wi-Fi |\
sed 's#.*(Hardware Port: Wi-Fi, Device: ##g ; s#)##g'`
and then do
echo "$WIFI"
to see what it is.
Use the airport command
Since Snow Leopard (at least) there has been an airport tool at:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport
Let's call that $AIRPORT for short:
AIRPORT='/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport'
So if we put that together, this should be the proper command to tell your Mac to join the strongest Wi-Fi signal available:
${AIRPORT} ${WIFI} prefs JoinMode=Strongest JoinModeFallback=KeepLooking
which is just another way of writing this:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport en0 prefs JoinMode=Strongest JoinModeFallback=KeepLooking
Use launchd
You can automatically run that airport command periodically with launchd.
I have put together the necessary files at https://github.com/tjluoma/airport-autojoin but the idea is this:
*
*Use launchd plist in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ (which must be owned by root:wheel)
*Have that launchd plist watch /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ for changes
*Run the above command whenever changes occur.
I am not experiencing this problem in Yosemite, so I cannot guarantee that this will fix it, but it's what I would do to fix it if it kept happening to me.
See the GitHub page for more detailed instructions, including removal.
A: I was having issues all the way through 10.10.4, the following fixed the issue on my Early 2013 MBP.
*
*Disable WiFi
*Open Finder
*Press Cmd+Shft+G to go to the folder /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/
*Delete (or move) the following files:
*
*com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
*NetworkInterfaces.plist
*preferences.plist
*Restart your computer
*Re-enable WiFi
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5e2451686bb16a7c8c5d347c6a50d3aaa88498a5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Get full url address on Safari In Yosemite, the new Safari "hides" part of the URL, how could I show it without going to the address bar every time?
e.g. https://www.google.com.br/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=p9lIVJbjCYiX8QfnpoCgBQ#q=stackexchange becomes google.com.br
A: I found the solution, right after posting...
Go to Safari → Preferences → Advanced → Show Full Website URL
| Q: Get full url address on Safari In Yosemite, the new Safari "hides" part of the URL, how could I show it without going to the address bar every time?
e.g. https://www.google.com.br/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=p9lIVJbjCYiX8QfnpoCgBQ#q=stackexchange becomes google.com.br
A: I found the solution, right after posting...
Go to Safari → Preferences → Advanced → Show Full Website URL
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e8553d9f3e4d5d784947df97bd2ff5bdbcd36e46 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mission control: switch to desktop1 + show desktop I'm bored of pressing 2 key shortcuts
need to write a script that tells mission control the following:
*
*if not at desktop1, switch to desktop 1
*perform "show desktop" (windows will be hidden\displayed, depending on how they are now)
PS: where can i find info on taming Mission Control and Finder?
currently i use it like this:
tell application "System Events"
key code 18 using {option down, command down} --current shortcut for "Switch to Desktop 1"
key code 103 --current shortcut to "Show Desktop"
end tell
but there is no check for "i'm on desktop 1 already", and no toggle (show\hide windows)
A: The in-n-out cannot be avoided with applescript, to my knowledge.
tell application "System Events"
do shell script "/Applications/Mission\\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\\ Control"
delay 0.5
tell process "Dock" to tell group 1 to tell list 1 to tell button 1 to click
delay 0.5
do shell script "/Applications/Mission\\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\\ Control 1"
end tell
| Q: Mission control: switch to desktop1 + show desktop I'm bored of pressing 2 key shortcuts
need to write a script that tells mission control the following:
*
*if not at desktop1, switch to desktop 1
*perform "show desktop" (windows will be hidden\displayed, depending on how they are now)
PS: where can i find info on taming Mission Control and Finder?
currently i use it like this:
tell application "System Events"
key code 18 using {option down, command down} --current shortcut for "Switch to Desktop 1"
key code 103 --current shortcut to "Show Desktop"
end tell
but there is no check for "i'm on desktop 1 already", and no toggle (show\hide windows)
A: The in-n-out cannot be avoided with applescript, to my knowledge.
tell application "System Events"
do shell script "/Applications/Mission\\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\\ Control"
delay 0.5
tell process "Dock" to tell group 1 to tell list 1 to tell button 1 to click
delay 0.5
do shell script "/Applications/Mission\\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\\ Control 1"
end tell
A: Did you consider using Keyboard Maestro?
Here you can see how I deal with this. I use it to change between screens, but is really easy to modify per your requests.
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54d047fd1a1566dbdd92d2b8511e6e0e66b5fd67 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Font smoothing for pdf files in OSX Yosemite Safari vs Skim I produce a lot of pdf files using LaTeX and thus, I also read a lot of such files. After the update to OS X 10.10 the fonts are not smooth anymore. However, Safari seems to handle it much better than Skim (see screenshot for comparison).
The option "Use LCD font smoothing when available" is enabled; without it, the texts are almost unreadable. Anyone has any clue how to make the font looking better?
Screenshot 1 :
Screenshot 2 (left quick preview [spacebar], right Skim):
Hardware: I use non-retina MacBook Pro 2011 + Fujitsu 27" LCD attached with dual-head DVI.
A: This bug appears to be fixed in 10.10.3.
I can confirm (with Pixie) the rendering is the same in Preview, Skim, and QuickLook, at least with subpixel rendering forced to 2.
| Q: Font smoothing for pdf files in OSX Yosemite Safari vs Skim I produce a lot of pdf files using LaTeX and thus, I also read a lot of such files. After the update to OS X 10.10 the fonts are not smooth anymore. However, Safari seems to handle it much better than Skim (see screenshot for comparison).
The option "Use LCD font smoothing when available" is enabled; without it, the texts are almost unreadable. Anyone has any clue how to make the font looking better?
Screenshot 1 :
Screenshot 2 (left quick preview [spacebar], right Skim):
Hardware: I use non-retina MacBook Pro 2011 + Fujitsu 27" LCD attached with dual-head DVI.
A: This bug appears to be fixed in 10.10.3.
I can confirm (with Pixie) the rendering is the same in Preview, Skim, and QuickLook, at least with subpixel rendering forced to 2.
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69c39927f818874be496acd65783680d49b11d89 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Keyboard shortcut to change tabs in terminal not working anymore in yosemite I've set up a custom shortcut for Terminal to change tabs: cmd+option+left/right (the same as in most browsers, for convenience).
I did this by going to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts and adding it to Terminal as shortcuts for "Select Next Tab" and "Select Previous Tab". It worked perfectly.
Two days ago, I've upgraded to OS X Yosemite and now it's not working anymore. When I browse to the same location in System Preferences, it's configured. But it doesn't work.
How do I fix this, and more importantly, why is this happening?
A: The menu option Select Previous Tab is changed to Show Previous Tab and there is by default key shortcut for it
⌘ + ⇧ + } Show Next Tab
⌘ + ⇧ + { Show Previous Tab
| Q: Keyboard shortcut to change tabs in terminal not working anymore in yosemite I've set up a custom shortcut for Terminal to change tabs: cmd+option+left/right (the same as in most browsers, for convenience).
I did this by going to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts and adding it to Terminal as shortcuts for "Select Next Tab" and "Select Previous Tab". It worked perfectly.
Two days ago, I've upgraded to OS X Yosemite and now it's not working anymore. When I browse to the same location in System Preferences, it's configured. But it doesn't work.
How do I fix this, and more importantly, why is this happening?
A: The menu option Select Previous Tab is changed to Show Previous Tab and there is by default key shortcut for it
⌘ + ⇧ + } Show Next Tab
⌘ + ⇧ + { Show Previous Tab
A: It appears Apple renamed Terminal menus from Select Next Tab to Show Next Tab. Same for Previous. If you just rename the menu titles in your Keyboard Shortcuts accordingly, your shortcuts should start working again.
A: To fix the problem: If you want your old shortcuts back, you can go into System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts , then rename your shortcuts of Select Previous Tab and Select Next Tab to Show Previous Tab and Show Next Tab respectively. The naming here matters in order for you to see results when you re-open your terminal.
A: I boarded the struggle bus on this for many days. If the change in syntax from 'Show Previous Tab' to "Select Previous Tab" mentioned above doesn't work for you, you'll need to make sure you check that whatever your desired shortcut isn't already defined somewhere else in the 'system preferences.' In my case, my favorite tab shortcut of control-arrow was reserved for a mission control shortcut that wasn't reserved in Mavericks. The switch to Yosemite led to the discrepancy and cost me too much head scratching.
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ad92c8bd6cd61c9b00dff45f75f87d47811f0480 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Yosemite broke Dropbox toolbar shortcut to reveal files in Finder I just updated to Yosemite, and now I cant access newly added files through the dropdown menu the Dropbox icon in the toolbar provides.
Previously it was possible to reveal a newly added file in finder if a file on the dropdown list was pressed(See picture) But now nothing happens!
Am I the only that has this problem?
A: Here is how I solved it:
*
*Restart finder via terminal command or just reboot (copy/paste into Terminal: killall Finder && open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app)
*Finder > Go tab > Go To Folder
*Drag DropBox to the left favorite column
Works!
| Q: Yosemite broke Dropbox toolbar shortcut to reveal files in Finder I just updated to Yosemite, and now I cant access newly added files through the dropdown menu the Dropbox icon in the toolbar provides.
Previously it was possible to reveal a newly added file in finder if a file on the dropdown list was pressed(See picture) But now nothing happens!
Am I the only that has this problem?
A: Here is how I solved it:
*
*Restart finder via terminal command or just reboot (copy/paste into Terminal: killall Finder && open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app)
*Finder > Go tab > Go To Folder
*Drag DropBox to the left favorite column
Works!
A: I got it working. I restarted my Mac and now its working again. Weird..
A: Post Yosemite upgrade, Dropbox contextual menu items and sync status icons in Finder were gone. I downloaded and installed latest 2.10.41 build and that fixed it. Until I rebooted. Then, gone again!
A: Yosemite did something to my finder involving Dropbox. After I downloaded the new os, finder wouldn't work at all. It wasn't responding and nothing happeneded when I relaunched it. The only things that I could click on we're the on the top bar and bottom bar. So I starting closing programs until finder worked again. The culprit was Dropbox. As soon as I closed it finder started working again.
A: Make sure you've got the latest version of Dropbox. It should look like this (note the positions of the buttons is now top-left rather than top-right):
A: Right now Dropbox's changelog is full of entries like "More fixes for Finder on Mac OSX 10.10". I didn't notice your issues, but Dropbox kept hanging since the Yosemite upgrade.
I just updated to the latest version from Dropbox website, which got me release 2.10.41, and now everything you mention works fine (for now). But from the changelog link, you can download later stable releases which might work better.
Let me speculate on the reason: while before Yosemite Dropbox used a huge hack to extend Finder, now Apple introduced clean support for Finder Extensions, so the Dropbox integration with Finder was probably rewritten. In theory, this should make things more stable; apparently, though, the new code is not good enough yet.
A: I had the same problem. It was solved when I updated to Dropbox version 2.10.46 and relaunched Finder. You can restart finder with the following Terminal command:
killall Finder && open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app
A: Make sure that "Enable Finder integration" is checked in Dropbox preferences
A: *
*Open Finder.
*Click the "Go" tab.
*Click "Enclosing Folder".
*Navigate through the folders until you find your username, then open that folder.
*Scroll down till you see the Dropbox that you wish to lock in the Favourites bar.
*Simply drag and drop this Icon/Folder in the Favourites bar.
A: I had the same problem too. It says it is updated but the files that I uploaded at Finder do not appear in dropbox.com. So i went to pause the sync button and sync them back again. And now it works!
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5767d00b4e0d73e9255033129509c5bbab494f8d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Uninstalling macOS App Extensions from System Preferences I'm a developer, but it is more of a user-centric question.
How can one "unregister" a Finder Sync (or any other, presumably) OS X / macOS App Extension so that it disappears from System Preferences > Extensions?
I've removed the app that's hosting it (FinderSyncTest), but it still shows here:
A: I found my extensions in:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ShareKit.framework/Versions/A/PlugIns
Delete FinderSyncTest.appex, restart Finder, and it should be gone.
| Q: Uninstalling macOS App Extensions from System Preferences I'm a developer, but it is more of a user-centric question.
How can one "unregister" a Finder Sync (or any other, presumably) OS X / macOS App Extension so that it disappears from System Preferences > Extensions?
I've removed the app that's hosting it (FinderSyncTest), but it still shows here:
A: I found my extensions in:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ShareKit.framework/Versions/A/PlugIns
Delete FinderSyncTest.appex, restart Finder, and it should be gone.
A: Did you create this extension yourself?
I found that after creating, building, and testing an extension I created that there was some data that lives here:
/Users/$USER/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData
that I needed to blow away and then relaunch the Finder (which can be done with Force Quit) to get the extension to "die"
A: Another answer in addition to my previous one: if your extension is actually runnable (i.e.: it doesn't crash when started via System Preferences -> Extensions), find the extension in your Activity Monitor, double click the process, then go to the "Open Files and Ports" tab. You'll see the path of your extension listed.
A: I found my location via the "Open Files and Ports" location in Activity Monitor mentioned in the other answer.
This lead to the location:
/Users/USER/Library/Developer/Xcode/Archives/2018-10-09/MyApp 10-9-18, 9.35 PM.xcarchive/Products/Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/PlugIns/MyAppFinderSync.appex/Contents/MacOS/MyAppFinderSync
This archive was 10 days old and I'm not sure why it would have been running. I've been deleting my app since that date, and I believe the extension was being removed from System Preferences.
I deleted the archives in that location, and the app extension no longer runs (which it was doing before). However, it's still listed in System Preferences. Still looking for a way to fully delete.
Edit: I started running a new version of the container app, from /Applications/. About 10 minutes later, I went back to System Preferences and toggled the Extension on/off and back to on. This launched the new version of the Extension and everything appears to now be working normally.
A: You need to remove it from DerivedData and restart the finder.
I use DevCleaner, a free utility on the app store to deal with that:
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9437edee94e6a7c4b1494f03770ba36a46d1b7d2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can you place a shortcut or a link to a website in the dock in osx? Is there a way you can place a shortcut or a link to a website in the dock in osx ? Similar to how you can save a website to the homescreen of ios.
Id like to do this on 2 machines - one is on osx 10.9 and one is on 10.8.
A: *
*Select URL and drag it to your desktop.
*Drag the newly created shortcut to your Dock*.
Optional:
*If you want to add a custom image, there are instructions in this Ask Different thread.
* In Yosemite, at least, it can only be placed on the right pane of the Dock.
| Q: Can you place a shortcut or a link to a website in the dock in osx? Is there a way you can place a shortcut or a link to a website in the dock in osx ? Similar to how you can save a website to the homescreen of ios.
Id like to do this on 2 machines - one is on osx 10.9 and one is on 10.8.
A: *
*Select URL and drag it to your desktop.
*Drag the newly created shortcut to your Dock*.
Optional:
*If you want to add a custom image, there are instructions in this Ask Different thread.
* In Yosemite, at least, it can only be placed on the right pane of the Dock.
A: Yes. Here are the steps:
*
*Create a Bookmark (Chrome/Firefox) or Favorite (Safari) of the sites you want linked.
*Open up the Bookmarks/Favorites bar, and locate the bookmark you just created.
*Drag the bookmark with the mouse onto your Desktop.
*Now drag the webloc that was created from your Desktop onto the dock.
Optional: If you don't want the link to live on your desktop, you can drag it into a different Finder folder. If you want the link to have a different icon, you can simply set a different icon in Finder.
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6ea02d32946298cf58097e7ff158a4444492f183 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does installing Yosemite require an internet connection? After it has finished downloading, does installing Yosemite require an internet connection to install?
A: No, there is a difference between download and install. Download is to get the files from the Internet, and install is applying the downloaded data.
However on most OS installations, an internet connection is recommended (Sometimes necessary). Sometimes, the installation goes wrong and in that fact, you might need Internet Recovery to fix it.
| Q: Does installing Yosemite require an internet connection? After it has finished downloading, does installing Yosemite require an internet connection to install?
A: No, there is a difference between download and install. Download is to get the files from the Internet, and install is applying the downloaded data.
However on most OS installations, an internet connection is recommended (Sometimes necessary). Sometimes, the installation goes wrong and in that fact, you might need Internet Recovery to fix it.
A: No. All of the information has been downloaded therefore it does not need an Internet connection to install. Just make sure you start the install while on wifi because the installer asks a few questions and it may need wifi to process it. Once answering the questions and it starts the actual install you may take the computer away from wifi
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33df1f5ccd27a8df5fdb2df6a5f63f33f714f2c0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Yosemite - Can't add text note at arbitrary position in Preview? Previously, when selecting the "text" tool in preview in order to add a note to a PDF, I could specify where to add this text note by clicking on a particular place of the pdf before actually typing in. However now it seems to be not the case anymore: The text box automatically appears exactly in the middle of the current page. This is incredibly inconvenient as I have to drag the them around after typing to put them exactly in place. I can't believe they have dished out such an un-intuitive design. Is there a way to revert to the old fashion, or do I have to change software for PDF?
A: My formal answer to the question: Don't use Preview.app for anything beyond viewing simple PDF documents. In particular don't use Preview.app when you intend to save the document.
The obvious (and better) choice is Adobe Reader XI, which does at least not destroy a document when saving it.
| Q: Yosemite - Can't add text note at arbitrary position in Preview? Previously, when selecting the "text" tool in preview in order to add a note to a PDF, I could specify where to add this text note by clicking on a particular place of the pdf before actually typing in. However now it seems to be not the case anymore: The text box automatically appears exactly in the middle of the current page. This is incredibly inconvenient as I have to drag the them around after typing to put them exactly in place. I can't believe they have dished out such an un-intuitive design. Is there a way to revert to the old fashion, or do I have to change software for PDF?
A: My formal answer to the question: Don't use Preview.app for anything beyond viewing simple PDF documents. In particular don't use Preview.app when you intend to save the document.
The obvious (and better) choice is Adobe Reader XI, which does at least not destroy a document when saving it.
A: Well Adobe Reader's slow page scrolling is simply unbearable. In the end I decided to use Skim, which a lot of people seem to be using as default PDF viewer on OS X already. I'll only use Adobe Reader if I'm dealing with very important/complicated document, or if I want to change the background color of the document when I read.
EDIT April 2017: Now that Adobe Reader's efficiency seems to have been improved considerably, I just switched to it instead.
A: Preview 7.0 has this capability. If you have a backup of your Mavericks installation you can copy Preview 7.0 into your Applications folder and it will coexist with Preview 8.0 (Yosemite).
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fc38105a847ee0509bef5d81ac22bee02400b0e0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Sound not working when running OS 10 Yosemite My sound does not work whe I try to turn up the volume it just show this
I tried looking on the forums but they didn't help.
Thank you for spending the time to answer, if you have any questions please comment them down below
A: If you are still unable to solve the problem, try killing all apps that output audio and running them again. In a terminal, do this:
sudo killall coreaudiod
Now run your audio program, and you should be able to adjust the volume level again.
| Q: Sound not working when running OS 10 Yosemite My sound does not work whe I try to turn up the volume it just show this
I tried looking on the forums but they didn't help.
Thank you for spending the time to answer, if you have any questions please comment them down below
A: If you are still unable to solve the problem, try killing all apps that output audio and running them again. In a terminal, do this:
sudo killall coreaudiod
Now run your audio program, and you should be able to adjust the volume level again.
A: Solution is, plug in a headphone/earpiece, then unplug. Worked for me.
A: Sometimes the sound won't work in Yosemite even though you've made the right output sound settings.
If that's the case, try resetting the PRAM by starting (or restarting) your mac WHILE pressing alt+cmd+p+r simultaneously. Keep holding the keys until you hear a second start up sound, then release the keys and let your mac finish its start up. When you now choose the right output device the sound should work.
I've noted that it's no longer possible to just plug-and-play some headphones that used to work just fine - sometimes you have to plug them in and then choose the headphones option in your output sound options.
A: *
*Go to System Preferences
*Go to Sound
*On the top centre there is Output tab, navigate to there
*Then select your output
A: By default, without an external monitor and no headphones plugged into the MacBook Pro, the audio should come out of the built-in speakers and you should be able to control the audio with the built-in keyboard volume controls. If you hold down the ⌥ Option key while clicking on the audio icon in your statusbar, you should see this:
If, however, you have an external monitor plugged in via Mini DisplayPort or HDMI, and your monitor supports audio passthrough, then you may be running into a problem of the MacBook Pro seeing that monitor as the primary audio output device.
If your goal is to play audio through the built-in speakers, simply select Internal Speakers in the drop-down shown above and you will be able to control the volume again. It should look like this screenshot:
If your goal is to play audio through the external speakers, and your volume controls do not work, then that means your external speakers (or monitor's speakers) do not support the volume controls in your MacBook Pro, and you will need to control the audio through your speakers or monitor. There should be an audio control on the speakers, or you may have been provided a remote to use with the monitor/speakers.
A: The solution is not to install hot-off-the-presses new OS versions that aren't ready for showtime. I have not heeded my own advice. I encountered the same problem.
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9c8b30cc5cb79e8e995483c14d58c969eb59d2bf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't send outgoing messages in Mac Mail I have a Gmail account which I access using Mac Mail. I still am able to receive messages but cannot send messages in Mac Mail. I receive the following message for each unsuccessful attempt to send:
Cannot send message using the server smtp.gmail.com: (and my e-mail address)
The SMTP connection to server "smtp.gmail.com" failed.
I called Google for assistance and was on hold for a very long time. I don't believe I've done anything wrong lately to cause this dilemma. Can anyone offer some assistance? It will be greatly appreciated.
A: As stated before, all this means is your outgoing server credentials are incorrect in the Mail App.
In order to check the outgoing server's credentials go to Mail menu > Preferences > Accounts > find your Gmail account. Click on your gmail account then under "outgoing server" check what server is chosen by default then click "edit smtp server list" at bottom.
Once there double check all the server info. Make sure it has your email spelled correct and password correct, make sure authentication is set to "password" then make sure you use SSL and use port 465 or 587.
| Q: Can't send outgoing messages in Mac Mail I have a Gmail account which I access using Mac Mail. I still am able to receive messages but cannot send messages in Mac Mail. I receive the following message for each unsuccessful attempt to send:
Cannot send message using the server smtp.gmail.com: (and my e-mail address)
The SMTP connection to server "smtp.gmail.com" failed.
I called Google for assistance and was on hold for a very long time. I don't believe I've done anything wrong lately to cause this dilemma. Can anyone offer some assistance? It will be greatly appreciated.
A: As stated before, all this means is your outgoing server credentials are incorrect in the Mail App.
In order to check the outgoing server's credentials go to Mail menu > Preferences > Accounts > find your Gmail account. Click on your gmail account then under "outgoing server" check what server is chosen by default then click "edit smtp server list" at bottom.
Once there double check all the server info. Make sure it has your email spelled correct and password correct, make sure authentication is set to "password" then make sure you use SSL and use port 465 or 587.
A: I had the same problem. All my settings seemed correct. "Connection Doctor" indicated my username/password was incorrect but I thought it was weird since I did get incoming mails. Anyhow, after I re-typed my email address/pw inside the "edit smtp server list > Advanced", the outgoing mail went out successfully. BTW, I have 2 gmail accounts configured in Mac Mail, only one of them had this issue. Cheers~
A: This is a common issue with any IMAP account when setting up through Mac Mail. If you are able to receive messages BUT NOT SEND (GMail, Hotmail, Live, etc), the answer is simple :)
Click Mail > Preferences > Accounts (select yours) > (select) Account Information > Click the Drop Down (smtp.gmail.com, smtp.live.com, etc), select Edit Server List > Advanced > Click the Drop Down Box under AUTHENTICATION, select PASSWORD
To find this menu, be sure to uncheck, Automatically manage connection settings.
Enter your FULL email and password, and the checkbox for default ports and SSL should be checked.
Basically, you skipped the authentication step when setting up the outgoing emails, so you're sending an email that connects to a server with no credentials, hence the "unable to send" message. Hope this helps someone who is new to Mac OS!
A: I have also gotten this error recently and the fix is simple. I am not exactly sure where, but somewhere in the mail app (probably in the preferences) there is a setting to change which outgoing mailbox it uses. When it happened to me it was set to an "offline" mailbox and all I had to do was change it to an "online" one. Restarting the mail app may be necessary.
A: Encountered this issue also after enabling the 2 step verification. Resolution was to generate a new app specific password for Mail on Mac and added it back to the Outgoing server settings.
A: like user Yaya, I had the same problem.
All my settings was double checked by me and it was correct.
"Connection Doctor" indicated my username/password wasn't correct and I decided to try method of user Yaya
so after I re-typed my email address/pw inside the
"edit smtp server list > Advanced",
the outgoing mail went out successfully.
btw, before changing settings in smtp server lists, i forced shutdown the mail application, then start it again, and only after that try to retype pasw.
but as for real its works. all of you should try this method.
A: For Yahoo mail
Here's the essential steps to get it working.
*
*Server name should match your email
*Right outgoing mail port (465) is used
*Authentication method is Password
Here's the step by step instructions:
*
*Get to Mail > Preferences and select the account you are working on. Check the Outgoing Mail Servers (SMTP)
*Click Edit SMTP Server List
*Add (+) Server name: smpt.mail.yahoo.com
*Port: 465
*Select Password for Authentication method.
*Fill in your email account and password.
A: It appears this issue was fixed in 10.10.3 . I have been having the same issue for 6 months and was unable to fix it despite trying all of things that I had read. After I installed the Yosemite 10.10.3 update everything is working fine. Hopefully other people can download the update and it will start working for them as well.
A: None of the answers worked for me. It ended up being that I was connected to an unsecured network (i.e. a public network), so none of the SMPT servers were working. Try connecting to a secure network or use a VPN to resolve the issue.
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fcae835c1ef9040ad0dd3850487cf7a051d4b1d1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: how to remove Yosemite installer? I had begin the update and left it overbite for download, it downloaded completely but then failed. I started the download again and this time it had finished successfully but I didn't notice it and thought it had failed again so started the download again. When it downloaded about 3 GB I saw the Yosemite installer and upgraded. But now the second upgrade icon is still there. How do I remove it and its data?
A: Nevermind, got it.
App Store -> Purchases -> Press Option and you will see cancel.
| Q: how to remove Yosemite installer? I had begin the update and left it overbite for download, it downloaded completely but then failed. I started the download again and this time it had finished successfully but I didn't notice it and thought it had failed again so started the download again. When it downloaded about 3 GB I saw the Yosemite installer and upgraded. But now the second upgrade icon is still there. How do I remove it and its data?
A: Nevermind, got it.
App Store -> Purchases -> Press Option and you will see cancel.
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1f11828fa6e6ea50e3dafc49b84af8fa4c94e327 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Jetbrains'IDE can't start after upgrading to OS X Yosemite Yesterday I upgrade my MBP to OSX 10.10 Yosemite, everything went well. But When I try to start Pycharm, it shows me this
It means "You need to install old Java SE 6 runtime to run Pycharm".
It seems I'm not the only one run into this problem
https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/entries/27854363-IDE-doesn-t-start-after-updating-to-Mac-OS-Yosemite-or-Mavericks
There're some hacks from the link above, but I would like to find an "official way" to solve this. I'm also curious about the cause of this problem.
Thank you!
A: You can also solve it by doing the following:
Locate your Installed package (PyCharm or IntelliJ), right click, show package contents
Under contents, open up Info.plist
Locate the JVMOptions dictionary entry, and find the key titled "JVMVersion"
The default value for that key should be "1.6*". change it to "1.6+".
Save it, and re-launch the IDE again.
You should be able to use it without JDK 6 installed.
| Q: Jetbrains'IDE can't start after upgrading to OS X Yosemite Yesterday I upgrade my MBP to OSX 10.10 Yosemite, everything went well. But When I try to start Pycharm, it shows me this
It means "You need to install old Java SE 6 runtime to run Pycharm".
It seems I'm not the only one run into this problem
https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/entries/27854363-IDE-doesn-t-start-after-updating-to-Mac-OS-Yosemite-or-Mavericks
There're some hacks from the link above, but I would like to find an "official way" to solve this. I'm also curious about the cause of this problem.
Thank you!
A: You can also solve it by doing the following:
Locate your Installed package (PyCharm or IntelliJ), right click, show package contents
Under contents, open up Info.plist
Locate the JVMOptions dictionary entry, and find the key titled "JVMVersion"
The default value for that key should be "1.6*". change it to "1.6+".
Save it, and re-launch the IDE again.
You should be able to use it without JDK 6 installed.
A: OK, I found the official solution
Download Java for OS X 2014-001 from here, install, done :)
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91b4364ef5d3c05028aab4cd0393ddc2e1d0452d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Allow Apps won't unlock in Security & Privacy - Yosemite When I was running Mountain Lion I selected "Allow apps downloaded from: Anywhere" in Security & Privacy. I updated to Yosemite a few days ago. The update set that back to: "Mac App Store and identified developers". I want to run some software from elsewhere. When I select Security & Privacy and click the padlock icon, a pane comes up asking me to enter my password. Since I don't have a password I simply click "Unlock". The padlock unlocks for a few milliseconds and re-locks far too quickly for me to change the setting. I know that I don't need a password as that pane lets me click Authenticate during software installation from a .dmg
So what do I have to do to change Allow apps setting now?
A: You have a few options:
*
*Temporarily set a password to change the setting.
or
*
*Hold down Ctrl, click on the app, then click Open from the menu shown. This will allow you to temporarily bypass the checks.
| Q: Allow Apps won't unlock in Security & Privacy - Yosemite When I was running Mountain Lion I selected "Allow apps downloaded from: Anywhere" in Security & Privacy. I updated to Yosemite a few days ago. The update set that back to: "Mac App Store and identified developers". I want to run some software from elsewhere. When I select Security & Privacy and click the padlock icon, a pane comes up asking me to enter my password. Since I don't have a password I simply click "Unlock". The padlock unlocks for a few milliseconds and re-locks far too quickly for me to change the setting. I know that I don't need a password as that pane lets me click Authenticate during software installation from a .dmg
So what do I have to do to change Allow apps setting now?
A: You have a few options:
*
*Temporarily set a password to change the setting.
or
*
*Hold down Ctrl, click on the app, then click Open from the menu shown. This will allow you to temporarily bypass the checks.
A: You will need to temporarily put a password on, then you can just take it off. I had to do that for Steam and it worked perfectly. I think this might be a bug and hopefully they're gonna fix it.
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f912ee383c64b9c23154bacb7c49b1f2b474275d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Macbook Pro with Yosemite very slow I've upgraded my mac from Mavericks to official Yosemite. In the first day my mac was normally, but in the second day, it was unusable, very slow and it was not responding, The third day(now) still like that. I dont know what to do, I've already reset pram, reset smc, repaired disk permissions, tried to reinstall Yosemite and nothing changed. I think it can be the file vault that I had activated when I upgraded to Yosemite, but I can't even know the percentage of the process. My MacbookPro is a version late 2011, processor i5 2.4Ghz, 16gb ram, 500gb HD. I would appreciate if somebody could help me.
A: It seems to be a common issue with Yosemite, see e.g. a Mac Rumors thread.
In the last couple of days there also popped up several articles complaining about Apple’s current state of its software. You can find a good overview of the most common issues in this article (it’s also worth to skim over the comments as there are issues that aren’t discussed in the article).
| Q: Macbook Pro with Yosemite very slow I've upgraded my mac from Mavericks to official Yosemite. In the first day my mac was normally, but in the second day, it was unusable, very slow and it was not responding, The third day(now) still like that. I dont know what to do, I've already reset pram, reset smc, repaired disk permissions, tried to reinstall Yosemite and nothing changed. I think it can be the file vault that I had activated when I upgraded to Yosemite, but I can't even know the percentage of the process. My MacbookPro is a version late 2011, processor i5 2.4Ghz, 16gb ram, 500gb HD. I would appreciate if somebody could help me.
A: It seems to be a common issue with Yosemite, see e.g. a Mac Rumors thread.
In the last couple of days there also popped up several articles complaining about Apple’s current state of its software. You can find a good overview of the most common issues in this article (it’s also worth to skim over the comments as there are issues that aren’t discussed in the article).
A: I used the command in terminal to disable filevault, that is:
fdesetup status # to check the status of file vault
sudo fdesetup disable # to disable file vault
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152730e856a269e988337ccb094654558bc17217 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Detailed Wi-Fi menu by default When you hold down the option key before clicking on the wi-fi menu, you get all sorts of detailed stuff about your current connection.
Is there any way of making this the default behaviour? A terminal command perhaps?
A: This is quite a workaround to go through and unfortunately involves paying for a software (unless you're aware of free alternatives) but thought I'd throw it out there while looking for more details:
Using a program like Keyboard Maestro, you can record a Macro that will be the result of a string/hotkey.
I recorded as follows:
*
*Hit record
*Pressed and held option key.
*Clicked on Wifi menubar
*Stopped recording.
I then set up the trigger to be a hotkey (like CMD+,) or a string like wifio. Both worked. Detailed Wifi menu was opened and waited for my choice.
| Q: Detailed Wi-Fi menu by default When you hold down the option key before clicking on the wi-fi menu, you get all sorts of detailed stuff about your current connection.
Is there any way of making this the default behaviour? A terminal command perhaps?
A: This is quite a workaround to go through and unfortunately involves paying for a software (unless you're aware of free alternatives) but thought I'd throw it out there while looking for more details:
Using a program like Keyboard Maestro, you can record a Macro that will be the result of a string/hotkey.
I recorded as follows:
*
*Hit record
*Pressed and held option key.
*Clicked on Wifi menubar
*Stopped recording.
I then set up the trigger to be a hotkey (like CMD+,) or a string like wifio. Both worked. Detailed Wifi menu was opened and waited for my choice.
A: Another workaround for trackpad users is using BetterTouchTool (fortunately free):
To configure a gesture:
*
*Choose "Trackpads" (highlighted in orange in the screenshot below)
*Choose a touchpad gesture (highlighted in red)
*Choose predefined action -> Mouse Click Actions -> Option+Click (highlighted in green)
In my example below I have chosen a single finger tap at the top right of the trackpad to initiate an option-click.
This only works if BetterTouchTools runs. You may enable "Launch BetterTouchTools at start up" in simpe mode in the basic settings or in advanced mode in the settings.
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b89f1db4ff24ad87205dd5c50cead19e230d4c00 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I still download OS X Mavericks for Free? I never upgraded to Mountain Lion or Mavericks and now that Yosemite has arrived I thought of upgrading but I find that some of my software will not work with it. So I would like to upgrade to Mavericks for now. Is it still possible to get the free upgrade? I no longer see it listed in the Mac App Store.
A: Yes, it is still possible to download Mavericks: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/6268-mac-os-x-mavericks.html
That is a upgrade from Mavericks 10.9.4 to 10.9.5 (not a full version of Mavericks which is a 5.3 Gig file.)
But maybe the software not working on Yosemite may neither works on Mavericks.
| Q: Can I still download OS X Mavericks for Free? I never upgraded to Mountain Lion or Mavericks and now that Yosemite has arrived I thought of upgrading but I find that some of my software will not work with it. So I would like to upgrade to Mavericks for now. Is it still possible to get the free upgrade? I no longer see it listed in the Mac App Store.
A: Yes, it is still possible to download Mavericks: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/6268-mac-os-x-mavericks.html
That is a upgrade from Mavericks 10.9.4 to 10.9.5 (not a full version of Mavericks which is a 5.3 Gig file.)
But maybe the software not working on Yosemite may neither works on Mavericks.
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