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4b5212d760c476e1f8213fb1b92e2079a835f035 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable frequently visited items and favorites under the address bar in Safari 8? I want to remove the following frequently visited items and favorites under the address bar in Safari 8. How can I do this?
A: Go to Safari Preferences → Search and disable Show Favourites.
| Q: How to disable frequently visited items and favorites under the address bar in Safari 8? I want to remove the following frequently visited items and favorites under the address bar in Safari 8. How can I do this?
A: Go to Safari Preferences → Search and disable Show Favourites.
A: You can actually remove "Frequently Visited" without disabling "Favorites" now by right clicking the background of the "New Tab" page. I did this in Safari 10, not sure if this works in Safari 9.
*
*Settings -> General -> New tabs open with: Favorites
*Open a new tab
*Right click on the background
*Uncheck "Show Frequently Visited Sites"
This setting in the "new tab" page is now also reflected in the URL bar.
A: To remove Frequently Visited items, just simply click on the icon, hold and drag it out of the Window.
Do this for each item you wish to dismiss.
Done.
A: Go to settings and go to safari then find frequently visited items slide left and it will be turned off there you go
A: You cannot disable the frequently visited annoyance. Yes, you can manually remove sites from it, but the annoyance is turned on by default and cannot be turned off, so sites will always continue to appear there.
A: Click and drag to trash - that worked for me (Yosemite)
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3271a89c2d32194c0d5f49dd47fb28454e2bef99 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Desktop icons rearrange spontaneously (Yosemite) I like to have all my desktop icons and shortcuts in very specific places. When I take a screenshot of the screen (for example) and it is saved to a file on the desktop, all the desktop icons arrange on the right of the screen by name and I have to move all my icons back to where they were.
I have my desktop set to "none" sorting and "snap to grid" turned off so I can always keep my icons exactly where I want them all the time, without them moving around randomly whenever a file appears on the desktop.
Has anyone else experienced this? It's pretty annoying and very detrimental to the efficiency of my workflow, and others too, I'm sure.
iMac 21.5 inch, late 2012, OS X Yosemite 10.10
A: I just had the same problem. If I tried to move an icon, it would bounce back. The answer was so simple I couldn't believe it. I went into "View" and clicked on to Sort by "None". Simple. Problem solved.
| Q: Desktop icons rearrange spontaneously (Yosemite) I like to have all my desktop icons and shortcuts in very specific places. When I take a screenshot of the screen (for example) and it is saved to a file on the desktop, all the desktop icons arrange on the right of the screen by name and I have to move all my icons back to where they were.
I have my desktop set to "none" sorting and "snap to grid" turned off so I can always keep my icons exactly where I want them all the time, without them moving around randomly whenever a file appears on the desktop.
Has anyone else experienced this? It's pretty annoying and very detrimental to the efficiency of my workflow, and others too, I'm sure.
iMac 21.5 inch, late 2012, OS X Yosemite 10.10
A: I just had the same problem. If I tried to move an icon, it would bounce back. The answer was so simple I couldn't believe it. I went into "View" and clicked on to Sort by "None". Simple. Problem solved.
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ed3727e8e46f6ec75ae8a5063b828894aaac0f34 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to take 9:41 am screenshots on an iOS Simulator and Device? I know that it's possible to record the screen on Yosemite and take screenshots that have 9:41 am. Is this same functionality possible with the Simulator?
A: There are 2 ways to do this:
1. Clone, build and run SimulatorStatusMagic in your simulator.
This will only work for your simulator.
https://github.com/shinydevelopment/SimulatorStatusMagic
cd ~/Desktop
git clone [email protected]:shinydevelopment/SimulatorStatusMagic.git
cd ~/Desktop/SimulatorStatusMagic
open SimulatorStatusMagic.xcodeproj/
# Build the "Framework" Target
# Build & RUN the "SimulatorStatusMagic" in your Emulator
2. via QuickTime Player:
This will only work for your device.
*
*Connect your own device to your Mac.
*Open "QuickTime Player" (Install if required)
*File → New Movie Recording
*Click the dropdown next to the Red Record button
*Select your iPhone e.g: "Anil's iPhone"
*Record and bring your screen up, then Stop the recording.
*Now you can "Play" your recording, find the screen you want, pause it,
Edit Menu → Copy (will copy the screen grab).
Both should result in something like this (Time 9:41 AM - Full Battery and Wifi):
| Q: How to take 9:41 am screenshots on an iOS Simulator and Device? I know that it's possible to record the screen on Yosemite and take screenshots that have 9:41 am. Is this same functionality possible with the Simulator?
A: There are 2 ways to do this:
1. Clone, build and run SimulatorStatusMagic in your simulator.
This will only work for your simulator.
https://github.com/shinydevelopment/SimulatorStatusMagic
cd ~/Desktop
git clone [email protected]:shinydevelopment/SimulatorStatusMagic.git
cd ~/Desktop/SimulatorStatusMagic
open SimulatorStatusMagic.xcodeproj/
# Build the "Framework" Target
# Build & RUN the "SimulatorStatusMagic" in your Emulator
2. via QuickTime Player:
This will only work for your device.
*
*Connect your own device to your Mac.
*Open "QuickTime Player" (Install if required)
*File → New Movie Recording
*Click the dropdown next to the Red Record button
*Select your iPhone e.g: "Anil's iPhone"
*Record and bring your screen up, then Stop the recording.
*Now you can "Play" your recording, find the screen you want, pause it,
Edit Menu → Copy (will copy the screen grab).
Both should result in something like this (Time 9:41 AM - Full Battery and Wifi):
A: Starting with Xcode 11 beta 4, you can use the xcrun simctl command to set the time and battery in the Simulator.
xcrun simctl status_bar <device> override --time "9:41" \
--batteryState charged --batteryLevel 100
Example of usage:
xcrun simctl status_bar "iPhone 11 Pro Max" override --time "9:41" \
--batteryState charged --batteryLevel 100
The simulator needs to be run before executing the command.
See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode_release_notes/xcode_11_beta_4_release_notes for more details.
There is a tool to loop across all running simulators and also handle time zones a bit better than explicitly calling it each time: 2020-09-15T09:41:00-07:00
*
*https://github.com/jessesquires/Nine41
A: Now that Apple has delivered a tool to manage this, use Nine41 and/or xcrun simctl status_bar
Those are far more time efficient than fixing it in post production with Photoshop or Pixelmator or Acorn and your video editor of choice as you are in to pay attention to these details.
One screen shot at the right time with light and dark backgrounds let you adjust the battery level, bars, time and more to suit your needs.
There are even plug in to the simulator that will programmatically clean up the status bar for more than just time if you are running your code that way and not on a device:
*
*https://github.com/shinydevelopment/SimulatorStatusMagic
A: I simply run this command in the terminal after running my code on the simulator:
xcrun simctl status_bar booted override --time "2007-01-09T09:41:00-6:00" --wifiBars 3 --cellularBars 4 --batteryLevel 100
You will need to replace the timezone -6:00 to whatever yours is.
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f7ea2bf6602025d590cedf90c27755442c2a993d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X 10.9.4 Apple preview - can you rotate in inserted rectangle? The updated version of Preview has so many features I can use it instead of the complicated photoshop. However I have found there is no way to rotate/angle an inserted rectangle or square. can it be done?
A: You can only rotate an inserted shape by going to Tools > Rotate Left/Right...
| Q: OS X 10.9.4 Apple preview - can you rotate in inserted rectangle? The updated version of Preview has so many features I can use it instead of the complicated photoshop. However I have found there is no way to rotate/angle an inserted rectangle or square. can it be done?
A: You can only rotate an inserted shape by going to Tools > Rotate Left/Right...
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d5571279f96e9bd6213b0a73b482049eec80f6ec | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Prevent Open/Save dialog from solliciting external hard drives I have several external drives, which I don't use constantly, and so they spin down, and rest.
Unfortunately for me, every time I have the "Open..." or "Save..." dialogs, Mac OS X spins these hard drives back up, even if the currently displayed folder does not belong to those drives, and even though nothing of those drives appears anywhere (no treeview on the side, no folder from those drives in the sidebar). I don't have Spotlight enabled.
Obviously a solution would be to disconnect/reconnect those drives, but that is something I would like to avoid.
Is there a way to tell Mac OS X not to eagerly/preemptively fire up the drives?
A: Here's what did it for me, fingers crossed:
In an open/save file dialog, drag your external drives from the sidebar to nirvana. Next time you open/save a file, the disks should not spin up.
Kudos to the original hint.
| Q: Prevent Open/Save dialog from solliciting external hard drives I have several external drives, which I don't use constantly, and so they spin down, and rest.
Unfortunately for me, every time I have the "Open..." or "Save..." dialogs, Mac OS X spins these hard drives back up, even if the currently displayed folder does not belong to those drives, and even though nothing of those drives appears anywhere (no treeview on the side, no folder from those drives in the sidebar). I don't have Spotlight enabled.
Obviously a solution would be to disconnect/reconnect those drives, but that is something I would like to avoid.
Is there a way to tell Mac OS X not to eagerly/preemptively fire up the drives?
A: Here's what did it for me, fingers crossed:
In an open/save file dialog, drag your external drives from the sidebar to nirvana. Next time you open/save a file, the disks should not spin up.
Kudos to the original hint.
A: I stumbled upon this question because I was experiencing this same problem recently. Ultimately, I found the the order I had set in the Finder sidebar affected the behaviour. I had moved the external volumes and drives to the top of the sidebar and that made the Save-As dialogue box hang until the external drives spun up. I moved "Locations" back down below the typical "Favourites" and I get to interact with the Save-As window right away.
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282985b135f234dced8949b2bfbf80922b245eb8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: An error occurred while moving messages to mailbox “(null)” I just moved my IMAP email from one server to another and now while I'm trying to delete any emails, Mail produces the following error:
An error occurred while moving messages to mailbox “(null)”.
I Google'd for it and found a lot of folks out there who are having the exact same issue but was not able to find solution.
A: If this is occurring with a Gmail IMAP account:
This problem occurred for me because my Trash label in gmail was not set to 'show in IMAP' (despite following the recommendation of @rcarver). I required one additional step first, i.e.
*
*In Gmail settings, make sure that the trash label is set to 'show' and 'Show in IMAP'.
*In Mail.app, select the trash folder, Mailbox → Use This Mailbox As → Trash Mailbox.
[see @rcarver's answer above]
| Q: An error occurred while moving messages to mailbox “(null)” I just moved my IMAP email from one server to another and now while I'm trying to delete any emails, Mail produces the following error:
An error occurred while moving messages to mailbox “(null)”.
I Google'd for it and found a lot of folks out there who are having the exact same issue but was not able to find solution.
A: If this is occurring with a Gmail IMAP account:
This problem occurred for me because my Trash label in gmail was not set to 'show in IMAP' (despite following the recommendation of @rcarver). I required one additional step first, i.e.
*
*In Gmail settings, make sure that the trash label is set to 'show' and 'Show in IMAP'.
*In Mail.app, select the trash folder, Mailbox → Use This Mailbox As → Trash Mailbox.
[see @rcarver's answer above]
A: Try selecting the Trash mailbox (folder) and then the menu item:
Mailbox → Use This Mailbox As → Trash Mailbox
A: This helped in my case (same error message, IMAP-server, deleting messages always popped up this error):
Mail → Preferences → troubled account → Mailbox Behavior and removed the tick on "store deleted messages on server".
Here is where I found help:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1986823?tstart=0
A: Unsure if you've resolved the issue but I've just had the same problem and fixed it.
Select the trash folder in your new email account. Click 'Mailbox' from the toolbar and 'Use this mailbox as', then click on trash.
Solved it straight away :)
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af5f29d2d97260172f23fa6e71989c2b4c50e86d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Yosemite - Pre-release: How do I opt out installing the beta seed? Last night Apple put forth 14B17 a Pre-release: OS X Update Seed 10.10.1
I don't want to install it, but it doesn't go away.
I tried downloading the 'normal' Yosemite from the App Store and reinstalled it over the old one. All is well but the Pre-release update is still there bugging me to upgrade.
How do I disable it? There should be a file somewhere that survives a OS X reinstall (in place upgrade) but I can't figure out where.
Later edit... You're right. However my Change button had no text in it and it was small. I think this is a localization issue/bug. Change to English and there it was. Thanks!
A: Go to System Preference -> App Store, then select Stop showing pre-release Software Update seeds in the App Store
(source: tekrevue.com)
| Q: Yosemite - Pre-release: How do I opt out installing the beta seed? Last night Apple put forth 14B17 a Pre-release: OS X Update Seed 10.10.1
I don't want to install it, but it doesn't go away.
I tried downloading the 'normal' Yosemite from the App Store and reinstalled it over the old one. All is well but the Pre-release update is still there bugging me to upgrade.
How do I disable it? There should be a file somewhere that survives a OS X reinstall (in place upgrade) but I can't figure out where.
Later edit... You're right. However my Change button had no text in it and it was small. I think this is a localization issue/bug. Change to English and there it was. Thanks!
A: Go to System Preference -> App Store, then select Stop showing pre-release Software Update seeds in the App Store
(source: tekrevue.com)
A: It seems to be an App Store preference.
https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/unenroll
A: Apple Store preferences options disappeared on newer releases and so far the only way to unenroll seems to be via the command line
sudo softwareupdate --clear-catalog
A: The post marked as the answer is not really the answer to this problem. The answer is that you need to change the OSX language to English to make the 'Change' button appear, as was suggested above in a secondary post. There's a text-formatting problem by which this button remains hidden in other languages such as Spanish.
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0bb3bd099497f12f4bb6f0b810e978efdbef355b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: WindowServer Bookend log messages I am getting lots of log messages in my 10.10 Server install. This was an upgrade from 10.9.5. I will get hundreds of the Gesture Started and Gesture Ended messages in a second with different numbers (i.e. 503xxx becomes 504xxx).
9:41:46 AM WindowServer: 50386035501120 -- Bookend Type: 62 (Gesture Ended) conn: 0xf8c7, window 0x5e
9:41:46 AM WindowServer: 50386035506584 ++ Bookend Type: 61 (Gesture Started) conn: 0xf8c7, window 0x5e
9:41:46 AM WindowServer: *** Complete ***
Any ideas?
A: I cannot describe how terribly annoying this was for me post Yosemite install as well. Your beloved mac would freeze as hundreds (thousands?) of log lines detailing gesture bookends would demand intense resources. Anyhow, here is the secret sauce.
Note that multi-monitor preferences are going to be lost (screen arrangement, preferred display, etc)
Step 1: move/backup your plist files
sudo mv /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist ~/Desktop/
sudo mv ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver* ~/Desktop/
Step 2: Shutdown your mac
Step 3: Reset pram
press/hold Command+Option+P+R and press power button once
wait for two tones
let go of the keys and allow your mac to boot normally
I hope it does the trick for you.
| Q: WindowServer Bookend log messages I am getting lots of log messages in my 10.10 Server install. This was an upgrade from 10.9.5. I will get hundreds of the Gesture Started and Gesture Ended messages in a second with different numbers (i.e. 503xxx becomes 504xxx).
9:41:46 AM WindowServer: 50386035501120 -- Bookend Type: 62 (Gesture Ended) conn: 0xf8c7, window 0x5e
9:41:46 AM WindowServer: 50386035506584 ++ Bookend Type: 61 (Gesture Started) conn: 0xf8c7, window 0x5e
9:41:46 AM WindowServer: *** Complete ***
Any ideas?
A: I cannot describe how terribly annoying this was for me post Yosemite install as well. Your beloved mac would freeze as hundreds (thousands?) of log lines detailing gesture bookends would demand intense resources. Anyhow, here is the secret sauce.
Note that multi-monitor preferences are going to be lost (screen arrangement, preferred display, etc)
Step 1: move/backup your plist files
sudo mv /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist ~/Desktop/
sudo mv ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver* ~/Desktop/
Step 2: Shutdown your mac
Step 3: Reset pram
press/hold Command+Option+P+R and press power button once
wait for two tones
let go of the keys and allow your mac to boot normally
I hope it does the trick for you.
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f50fb5114d2eb41899c2e0a947ad7c9bccd0154b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Git autocompletion is not working with homebrew Here is my setup:
brew install git bash-completion
Warning: git-2.1.3 already installed
Warning: bash-completion-1.3 already installed
In .bash_profile:
if [ -f $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion ]; then
. $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion
fi
But I still don't have autocompletion for git commands. (I used macports before, but completely removed it because I couldn't get git commands to autocomplete no matter what I tried.)
I am on OSX 10.10
A: For Yosemite, after I upgraded to git 2.1.3 with homebrew, this worked in my .profile file (.bash_profile or similar would work, too):
# git tab completion (homebrew)
if [ -f `brew --prefix`/etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.bash ]; then
. `brew --prefix`/etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.bash
fi
I used to have git-prompt.sh there, but changing it to git-completion.bash worked for me. ymmv.
| Q: Git autocompletion is not working with homebrew Here is my setup:
brew install git bash-completion
Warning: git-2.1.3 already installed
Warning: bash-completion-1.3 already installed
In .bash_profile:
if [ -f $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion ]; then
. $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion
fi
But I still don't have autocompletion for git commands. (I used macports before, but completely removed it because I couldn't get git commands to autocomplete no matter what I tried.)
I am on OSX 10.10
A: For Yosemite, after I upgraded to git 2.1.3 with homebrew, this worked in my .profile file (.bash_profile or similar would work, too):
# git tab completion (homebrew)
if [ -f `brew --prefix`/etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.bash ]; then
. `brew --prefix`/etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.bash
fi
I used to have git-prompt.sh there, but changing it to git-completion.bash worked for me. ymmv.
A: Try download directly in your home directory:
curl -O https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
mv git-completion.bash .git-completion.bash
Then in your .bash_profile add the following:
if [ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ]; then
. ~/.git-completion.bash
fi
A: On my system (10.10.5), I fixed this by creating a symlink in /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/ to the bash_completion.d/git-completion.bash in the GIT directory. In my case:
cd /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d
ln -s ../../Cellar/git/2.7.2/etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.bash git-completion.bash
be sure to checkout your installed version of git and replace 2.7.2 with your version.
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9b3620db547440169b3d6c5ea299b6d392e8b550 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to rename "Remaining" to "Apple Juice Remaining"? On a MacBook Pro, is there a way to change the text in the battery life drop down?
Specifically, where it says "X:XX Remaining" I want it to say "X:XX of Apple Juice Remaining"
Why? Because a good pun is its own reword.
Yes, this is a serious question. Yes, I tried googling first.
I'm currently running Mavericks, though an upgrade to Yosemite is probably in my near future.
A: You want to change line 92 of the xml version of /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Battery.menu/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings:
*
*Make a copy of the strings file:
cp /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/Battery.menu/Contents/Resources/\
English.lproj/Localizable.strings ~/Desktop
*Convert the binary strings file to xml:
plutil -convert xml1 ~/Desktop/Localizable.strings
*Edit line 92 (Yosemite) of the file now on the desktop with your favourite text editor:
*Convert the xml strings file back to binary:
plutil -convert binary1 ~/Desktop/Localizable.strings
*Back up your existing file! If you mess up, this will let you reverse your changes by removing -bak from the file name.
sudo mv /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/Battery.menu/Contents/Resources/\
English.lproj/Localizable.strings /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/\
Battery.menu/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings-bak
*Overwrite the old file with the new:
sudo mv ~/Desktop/Localizable.strings /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/\
Battery.menu/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/
Result:
| Q: Is there a way to rename "Remaining" to "Apple Juice Remaining"? On a MacBook Pro, is there a way to change the text in the battery life drop down?
Specifically, where it says "X:XX Remaining" I want it to say "X:XX of Apple Juice Remaining"
Why? Because a good pun is its own reword.
Yes, this is a serious question. Yes, I tried googling first.
I'm currently running Mavericks, though an upgrade to Yosemite is probably in my near future.
A: You want to change line 92 of the xml version of /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Battery.menu/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings:
*
*Make a copy of the strings file:
cp /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/Battery.menu/Contents/Resources/\
English.lproj/Localizable.strings ~/Desktop
*Convert the binary strings file to xml:
plutil -convert xml1 ~/Desktop/Localizable.strings
*Edit line 92 (Yosemite) of the file now on the desktop with your favourite text editor:
*Convert the xml strings file back to binary:
plutil -convert binary1 ~/Desktop/Localizable.strings
*Back up your existing file! If you mess up, this will let you reverse your changes by removing -bak from the file name.
sudo mv /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/Battery.menu/Contents/Resources/\
English.lproj/Localizable.strings /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/\
Battery.menu/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings-bak
*Overwrite the old file with the new:
sudo mv ~/Desktop/Localizable.strings /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/\
Battery.menu/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/
Result:
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d0b79464f50cd962251de473d5933e504403df13 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Do non-smartphones exist that are able to sync with any OS after Mountain Lion? Currently I have a Nokia 6300 and a Mac with Mountain Lion installed. Calendar and Contacts sync through iSync via Bluetooth without a problem.
I'm thinking of upgrading to Mavericks or Yosemite, but as these newer OS'es miss the syncing services necessary for iSync to work I wouldn't be able to connect my Nokia anymore.
I don't want to buy a smartphone just so it will sync with my Mac, so therefore I'm looking for a "dumbphone" that can sync with my Mac on Mavericks or Yosemite.
So my question is:
Does a dumbphone exist that will be able to sync contacts and calendars with a Mac on Mavericks or Yosemite? It's fine if a third-party application is needed.
A: Sync Mate 4 was best to support Nokia S40 sync over Bluetooth.
Yet it is not working under 10.9 or 10.10. And their new version 5 dropped support for S40 altogether.
So going further probably the only way is to setup Virtual Machine with older OS of your choosing and run it from time to time just to sync.
| Q: Do non-smartphones exist that are able to sync with any OS after Mountain Lion? Currently I have a Nokia 6300 and a Mac with Mountain Lion installed. Calendar and Contacts sync through iSync via Bluetooth without a problem.
I'm thinking of upgrading to Mavericks or Yosemite, but as these newer OS'es miss the syncing services necessary for iSync to work I wouldn't be able to connect my Nokia anymore.
I don't want to buy a smartphone just so it will sync with my Mac, so therefore I'm looking for a "dumbphone" that can sync with my Mac on Mavericks or Yosemite.
So my question is:
Does a dumbphone exist that will be able to sync contacts and calendars with a Mac on Mavericks or Yosemite? It's fine if a third-party application is needed.
A: Sync Mate 4 was best to support Nokia S40 sync over Bluetooth.
Yet it is not working under 10.9 or 10.10. And their new version 5 dropped support for S40 altogether.
So going further probably the only way is to setup Virtual Machine with older OS of your choosing and run it from time to time just to sync.
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bc8f78792721dc77b44e4720a4718759f1ab0a24 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why is it not possible to change username on an Exchange account of Mail.app? I'm trying to set up an Exchange server in Mail.app. The username in the preferences is incorrect, and I can't connect to the server because of that.
There's no explanation in the UI, or any help section to explain.
When I select the "User Name:" field nothing happens. The text is gray, and not editable. The same is true for "external server".
How can you edit this information?
A: Maybe this is because you are connected to that Exchange server.
You could try to disconnect from it by taking that account offline (Mailbox -> Online Status -> Take "YourAccountName" offline) and try to edit the account then.
If that does not help, try to delete that account and create it again with the corrected credentials.
| Q: Why is it not possible to change username on an Exchange account of Mail.app? I'm trying to set up an Exchange server in Mail.app. The username in the preferences is incorrect, and I can't connect to the server because of that.
There's no explanation in the UI, or any help section to explain.
When I select the "User Name:" field nothing happens. The text is gray, and not editable. The same is true for "external server".
How can you edit this information?
A: Maybe this is because you are connected to that Exchange server.
You could try to disconnect from it by taking that account offline (Mailbox -> Online Status -> Take "YourAccountName" offline) and try to edit the account then.
If that does not help, try to delete that account and create it again with the corrected credentials.
A: With Exchange I had to add the account using the address I wanted to use (which broke Autodiscover) and then could specify the actual user account when Autodiscover failed. Ridiculous that you can't edit something once added.
A: Mail.app uses the user component of your e-mail address as the Exchange username by default. To get through the configuration you can try entering an invalid e-mail address that consists of your valid username and domain, e.g. <exchange_username>@<domain>.
You can then fix your e-mail address manually by editing two fields in ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Accounts.plist
*
*CanonicalEmailAddress
*EmailAddress
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c6e758d91e95aaf7453112673574b7df57f57052 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: 10.10 updated and my internal camera not working I have just updated my 2013 MacBook Pro 13 inch with 10.10 Yosemite, but now I can't webcast.
How do I turn the camera back on?
A: Hi I had the exact same problem. Played around with terminal and figured out a way to reset the camera. Just open terminal, paste this in to it, and then press Return:
sudo killall VDCAssistant
| Q: 10.10 updated and my internal camera not working I have just updated my 2013 MacBook Pro 13 inch with 10.10 Yosemite, but now I can't webcast.
How do I turn the camera back on?
A: Hi I had the exact same problem. Played around with terminal and figured out a way to reset the camera. Just open terminal, paste this in to it, and then press Return:
sudo killall VDCAssistant
A: This seems to be a bug. I experience the same problem after upgrading to 10.10.1. See Apple Discussions for some ideas to solve it (resetting SMC). But since the proposed solutions are not consistently helping to solve the problem, I really suspect a driver problem. My System Profiler is showing "No video capture devices were found." Alternatively you could try to connect an external USB camera.
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b6dda50b0a39d28f4465736b36428430d6e09cfd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Parallels: Make sure VMs never start automatically at program startup If I quit Parallels when there are virtual machines running, then these machines are automatically started the next time I start Parallels.
Is there any way to make sure that Parallels never automatically start any VM at startup?
I have already set the "Start Automatically" setting set to "Never" for all my VMs. (Its under "Virtual Machine > Configure...", and then "Options > Startup and Shutdown"). But this is not helping.
I'm using Parallels Desktop 9 (Build 9.0.24251).
A: Please enable On Quit: ☑ Disable Resume for Parallel Desktop in Parallels Desktop -> Preferences -> General
| Q: Parallels: Make sure VMs never start automatically at program startup If I quit Parallels when there are virtual machines running, then these machines are automatically started the next time I start Parallels.
Is there any way to make sure that Parallels never automatically start any VM at startup?
I have already set the "Start Automatically" setting set to "Never" for all my VMs. (Its under "Virtual Machine > Configure...", and then "Options > Startup and Shutdown"). But this is not helping.
I'm using Parallels Desktop 9 (Build 9.0.24251).
A: Please enable On Quit: ☑ Disable Resume for Parallel Desktop in Parallels Desktop -> Preferences -> General
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b75514e21ab3b640c4d65ca89905bd3320ca93d9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: osx - cannot open images or pdfs When I try to open images or pdfs with preview, the application starts but the files never open. When I try to open them from the command line, I get the error message:
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -1712 for file [...]
This was working yesterday, so presumably I did something to break it since then, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it could have been.
A: Were you using Firefox browser to download them?
If so in Firefox go to: Tools>Add-ons>Plugins>Adobe Acrobat NPAPi Plugin>Disable.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/925055?e=es&as=aaq
If not then right click (control click) on a PDF file. Select "get info". Toward the bottom of the dialog you'll see "Open with:" and an arrow. Click on the arrow and you'll be presented with the applications that can open PDF files. Select Preview and then click on the box that says: "Change All..."
When you select Preview it will say below it: "Use this application to open all documents like this one."
| Q: osx - cannot open images or pdfs When I try to open images or pdfs with preview, the application starts but the files never open. When I try to open them from the command line, I get the error message:
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -1712 for file [...]
This was working yesterday, so presumably I did something to break it since then, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it could have been.
A: Were you using Firefox browser to download them?
If so in Firefox go to: Tools>Add-ons>Plugins>Adobe Acrobat NPAPi Plugin>Disable.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/925055?e=es&as=aaq
If not then right click (control click) on a PDF file. Select "get info". Toward the bottom of the dialog you'll see "Open with:" and an arrow. Click on the arrow and you'll be presented with the applications that can open PDF files. Select Preview and then click on the box that says: "Change All..."
When you select Preview it will say below it: "Use this application to open all documents like this one."
A: There can be a few reasons for this to happen, but the most likely cause is a disk permissions problem.
Disk permissions are flags set for each item in the file system. They define whether an item can be read, written to, or executed.
The LSOpenURLsWithRole is a function that is used to associate a file with a program.
Open Disk Utility in your Utility folder and run repair permissions.
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3819aba1cfaa84643eee66c94903104f58b3237a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Bundle ID does not appear in iTunes Connect
*
*created App ID - DONE
*created development provision profile - DONE
*when creating App in iTunes Connect I would hope to select appropriate Bundle ID, but that is not listed
A: This is happening since around 14 hours so far, it's a server issue and it's not the first time to occur.
| Q: Bundle ID does not appear in iTunes Connect
*
*created App ID - DONE
*created development provision profile - DONE
*when creating App in iTunes Connect I would hope to select appropriate Bundle ID, but that is not listed
A: This is happening since around 14 hours so far, it's a server issue and it's not the first time to occur.
A: I know this is an old question, however it's the first that shows up on google, since this issue can still happen.
Miraculously, clearing the Safari cache solved this problem for me, after I waited for almost a day.
A: I know this is an old thread, but hopefully this will help users in the future.
If the Bundle ID is not appearing inside AppStore Connect (formerly iTunes Connect) as an option when creating a new app, it is possible that the app has previously been created and then subsequently removed. That stops the Bundle ID from being used again. Information about this can be seen at https://help.apple.com/app-store-connect/#/dev28d17ed35.
Next:
*
*When on the My Apps screen, towards the top right hand corner, change All Status to Removed Apps.
*If the app in question exists, click into it and go to App Information on the left hand side.
*Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click Restore App.
According to Apple, if the ID has already been used, it cannot be selected again, so in this scenario, the options are to either restore the app and work with that listing or create a new Bundle ID.
Hope that helps someone else.
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d14f6a6b47fb9e371b5364c2b41be98158493a58 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Messages app showing unread number after deleted message. Can remove/reset? Just what the title says, I deleted a group message in Messages, but it's still showing the unread number from that thread (see screenshot) and I can't bring up the group message because I deleted it.
Short of having someone text in that group again to make it reappear, anyone know how I can fully delete the thread, or clear the unread number?
A: Two options:
*
*Close Messages.app, then in the Terminal killall Dock. This worked for me.
*Identify the message that Messages believes is unread (hover over icon in Dock) and delete it on your iDevice(s).
From here: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/unread-messages-badge-on-mbp-is-stuck.1806575/
Also, this seems to be a duplicate of Why does Messages on OSX always show unread messages?
| Q: Messages app showing unread number after deleted message. Can remove/reset? Just what the title says, I deleted a group message in Messages, but it's still showing the unread number from that thread (see screenshot) and I can't bring up the group message because I deleted it.
Short of having someone text in that group again to make it reappear, anyone know how I can fully delete the thread, or clear the unread number?
A: Two options:
*
*Close Messages.app, then in the Terminal killall Dock. This worked for me.
*Identify the message that Messages believes is unread (hover over icon in Dock) and delete it on your iDevice(s).
From here: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/unread-messages-badge-on-mbp-is-stuck.1806575/
Also, this seems to be a duplicate of Why does Messages on OSX always show unread messages?
A: Unfortunately so far the only way I have found to settle this problem is:
SHUT DOWN / HOLD SHIFT-CONTROL-COMMAND KEYS AND TURN COMPUTER BACK ON AND RELEASE RIGHT AWAY!
But that really isn't a FOREVER solution as it will happen again. I wish there was a way to solve it without shutting down!
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0324d4b1a739186857e5a3720e7e49e291e650b6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I prevent my Bluetooth headphones from dropping audio on OS X? I have a pair of Beats Studio Wireless headphones. They work great most of the time. However, sometimes, they will start to skip and drop in and out (as if I were plugging and unplugging an audio cable). The speed of the audio will increase after it skips to "catch up".
I've seen various suggestions about changing some Bluetooth defaults to increase audio quality, but that's not what I need. I don't know much about Bluetooth, but is there a way for me to basically prioritize the audio device or increase some buffer limit so it doesn't skip so much?
I have a wireless Apple Keyboard and Magic Mouse, and I work in an office environment, so there are dozens of other Bluetooth devices around me. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it.
(As a side note, I notice Bluetooth headphones will sometimes do the same thing when paired with my iPhone, with no other Bluetooth devices nearby.)
| Q: How do I prevent my Bluetooth headphones from dropping audio on OS X? I have a pair of Beats Studio Wireless headphones. They work great most of the time. However, sometimes, they will start to skip and drop in and out (as if I were plugging and unplugging an audio cable). The speed of the audio will increase after it skips to "catch up".
I've seen various suggestions about changing some Bluetooth defaults to increase audio quality, but that's not what I need. I don't know much about Bluetooth, but is there a way for me to basically prioritize the audio device or increase some buffer limit so it doesn't skip so much?
I have a wireless Apple Keyboard and Magic Mouse, and I work in an office environment, so there are dozens of other Bluetooth devices around me. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it.
(As a side note, I notice Bluetooth headphones will sometimes do the same thing when paired with my iPhone, with no other Bluetooth devices nearby.)
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72acb0d6cbafc6a3baa829d7348cc9a80744bcdd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I have Safari on OS X remember to permanently trust a website with my current location? The only options on the location privacy prompt are 'Allow' or 'Don't Allow', with a 'Remember my decision for one day' modifier checkbox as well. But what if there's a site that I trust in perpetuity? I want to give it permission to access my location forever. Why can't I do that?
Safari 8.0 on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
A:
But what if there's a site that I trust in perpetuity?
If you want to trust a site in perpetuity check "Prompt for each website one time only" in Settings>Privacy, visit the site, in the sheet that appears check the option "Remember my decision and don't ask me again" and click the Allow button:
If you get prompted to allow Safari to use your location, press the OK button:
Note that the Cookies and Website Data>Details section in Safari:
doesn't mention whether a specific site can access your location information:
so you might lose track of which sites you allowed.
For more information visit this article: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT5403
| Q: How can I have Safari on OS X remember to permanently trust a website with my current location? The only options on the location privacy prompt are 'Allow' or 'Don't Allow', with a 'Remember my decision for one day' modifier checkbox as well. But what if there's a site that I trust in perpetuity? I want to give it permission to access my location forever. Why can't I do that?
Safari 8.0 on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
A:
But what if there's a site that I trust in perpetuity?
If you want to trust a site in perpetuity check "Prompt for each website one time only" in Settings>Privacy, visit the site, in the sheet that appears check the option "Remember my decision and don't ask me again" and click the Allow button:
If you get prompted to allow Safari to use your location, press the OK button:
Note that the Cookies and Website Data>Details section in Safari:
doesn't mention whether a specific site can access your location information:
so you might lose track of which sites you allowed.
For more information visit this article: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT5403
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86f0ac5e9020c80541ab615baee6853e0a022e71 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What sense it has to set copyright info when creating app in iTunes Connect? It is not straightforward that the owner of the product is who uploads the binary?
Why do I have to set the year at copyright field? Next year I have to update it?
In which case I can use copyright info? If somebody steels the my computer, my binary, than I can sue him? Can copyright info use against me?
A: Apple does not assume who owns the copyright. The copyright field is provided for you to explicitly state who claims copyright for the uploaded product.
Apple's iTunes Connect documentation states:
Copyright (required) The name of the person or entity that owns the exclusive rights to the app, preceded by the year the rights were obtained (for example, 2014 Example, Inc.). The copyright symbol is added automatically.
Copyright is a large and complex issue. If you are unsure or have legal questions, you are best contacting a legal expert for the jurisdictions you intend to operate within.
You may also find this question helpful, Understanding copyright field in the iTunes Connect app submission.
| Q: What sense it has to set copyright info when creating app in iTunes Connect? It is not straightforward that the owner of the product is who uploads the binary?
Why do I have to set the year at copyright field? Next year I have to update it?
In which case I can use copyright info? If somebody steels the my computer, my binary, than I can sue him? Can copyright info use against me?
A: Apple does not assume who owns the copyright. The copyright field is provided for you to explicitly state who claims copyright for the uploaded product.
Apple's iTunes Connect documentation states:
Copyright (required) The name of the person or entity that owns the exclusive rights to the app, preceded by the year the rights were obtained (for example, 2014 Example, Inc.). The copyright symbol is added automatically.
Copyright is a large and complex issue. If you are unsure or have legal questions, you are best contacting a legal expert for the jurisdictions you intend to operate within.
You may also find this question helpful, Understanding copyright field in the iTunes Connect app submission.
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504393b75655803a36553e89e0609ba47ea2163f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to keep mute button available during call I use my iPhone for conference calls regularly, with a Bluetooth headset/microphone. Often I keep my mic muted except for when I speak.
It is awkward that when I want to speak, I need to wake-up and unlock my phone, before pressing the mute button.
Is there a way to make my phone stay awake during calls, without changing the sleep/lock settings generally?
A: In iOS10 you can just tap the number + call duration in the lock screen and it'll bring up the phone controls.
| Q: How to keep mute button available during call I use my iPhone for conference calls regularly, with a Bluetooth headset/microphone. Often I keep my mic muted except for when I speak.
It is awkward that when I want to speak, I need to wake-up and unlock my phone, before pressing the mute button.
Is there a way to make my phone stay awake during calls, without changing the sleep/lock settings generally?
A: In iOS10 you can just tap the number + call duration in the lock screen and it'll bring up the phone controls.
A: Swipe right at the unlock screen during an active call and the controls are displayed. There's no need to unlock the phone to access the mute.
A: I've found a really easy way. If your phone is locked, simply click the phone number/contact name and it quick links you to the screen with the mute button on.
Like another poster, I've found when you unlock the phone normally, it links you to the last app, and then you've got to app switch to go to the phone and then mute, so it's unlock->app->switch->mute.
The method above is click->mute.
It's not perfect, but it's meant I don't have to have an uncomfortable 5 second pause when someone wants to speak to me and I've muted my sound.
A: To keep it awake: try blocking the ambient light sensor with your hand or an object, so iPhone thinks you're holding it against your face. Then remove the obstruction to awaken the phone.
This incurs a delay to awaken but might be worth a try.
Personally I solved this by simply getting a Jawbone earpiece. They feature excellent built-in noise cancellation technology, so when I'm not speaking, even with the AC on full blast in my car, there's just a flatline of silence when I'm not speaking.
A: Swipe right on lock screen works as mentioned in above post. If you unlock the screen with your fingerprint already you will see a green bar of the phone talk on top - swipe right on the top green bar also bring up the button to mute / unmute.
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d3dc668159f74a4065d36ecbc9f8cd6015217172 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to escape modal dialog in Safari? A certain Safari tab is asking for a username/password that I do not have. I can click "Cancel" on the authentication dialog but it immediately pops up again. The dialog is modal, meaning that it disables all other UI elements of the window except the minimize/resize buttons.
How can I close the problematic tab without quitting the application?
A: Open Activity Monitor, look for the process corresponding to the tab and quit it.
| Q: How to escape modal dialog in Safari? A certain Safari tab is asking for a username/password that I do not have. I can click "Cancel" on the authentication dialog but it immediately pops up again. The dialog is modal, meaning that it disables all other UI elements of the window except the minimize/resize buttons.
How can I close the problematic tab without quitting the application?
A: Open Activity Monitor, look for the process corresponding to the tab and quit it.
A: *
*click with the right mouse button on the page and select "back", in this way the page go back (but the modal is still there)
*open new safari window install SafariRestore plugin
*click on the plugin icon
*save a new session
*quit safari
*open safari
*restore the session
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c031af6877097f3ad37de2e4d5e18596f40badda | Apple Stackexchange
Q: system sounds coming from thunderbolt display, all else through headphones I've got my headphones connected, and I've checked system preferences to make sure they are the audio output device. Most sound comes out through the headphones, like Spotify and YouTube. But, system sounds come out through my thunderbolt display, like dragging a file to the trash.
Seems to only be a problem since I upgraded to Yosemite.
A: Under "Sound Effects" tab, change "Play sound effects through:"
Instead of automatically changing this option, when I plug in headphones this setting remains unchanged.
| Q: system sounds coming from thunderbolt display, all else through headphones I've got my headphones connected, and I've checked system preferences to make sure they are the audio output device. Most sound comes out through the headphones, like Spotify and YouTube. But, system sounds come out through my thunderbolt display, like dragging a file to the trash.
Seems to only be a problem since I upgraded to Yosemite.
A: Under "Sound Effects" tab, change "Play sound effects through:"
Instead of automatically changing this option, when I plug in headphones this setting remains unchanged.
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074e90bc1009f2bc9da2fc04af746644bfc28443 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Create custom text transformation In a text box, I can right click and select Transformations > Make Uppercase.
Is it possible to create my own text transformations? a super simplified example would be to wrap the selected text in parenthesis.
A: Make an Automator service which accepts text and use the following AppleScript action:
on run {input}
return "(" & (input as string) & ")"
end run
| Q: Create custom text transformation In a text box, I can right click and select Transformations > Make Uppercase.
Is it possible to create my own text transformations? a super simplified example would be to wrap the selected text in parenthesis.
A: Make an Automator service which accepts text and use the following AppleScript action:
on run {input}
return "(" & (input as string) & ")"
end run
A: You can also create ~/Library/Keybindings/ and save a property list like this as ~/Library/Keybindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict:
{
// option-9 to wrap with parentheses
"~9" = (setMark:, moveBackward:, insertText:, "(", swapWithMark:, moveForward:, moveForward:, insertText:, ")", moveBackward:);
}
Quit and reopen applications to apply the changes.
See http://osxnotes.net/keybindings.html or https://github.com/ttscoff/KeyBindings/blob/master/DefaultKeyBinding.dict for more examples.
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a9ae0e802a3f546d0fdfe35c6e05d8e2cd202b48 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I change the aqua theme in Yosemite? How can I change the aqua theme/skin to a dark one in Yosemite? I'm referring to the window title bars, scroll bars, buttons, etc (the cocoa aqua ui theme?). Everything is grayish by default, but i'd like a dark theme.
A: If you're still looking for a method to darken your UI in Yosemite, download Flavours 2 and choose the "Smooth Criminal" flavour.
Flavours 2 is still in Beta, but most things look great with this skin.
| Q: How can I change the aqua theme in Yosemite? How can I change the aqua theme/skin to a dark one in Yosemite? I'm referring to the window title bars, scroll bars, buttons, etc (the cocoa aqua ui theme?). Everything is grayish by default, but i'd like a dark theme.
A: If you're still looking for a method to darken your UI in Yosemite, download Flavours 2 and choose the "Smooth Criminal" flavour.
Flavours 2 is still in Beta, but most things look great with this skin.
A: You can change the Finder icons with LiteIcon, freeware.
More icons than you could ever need at DeviantArt
Alfred (freeware) can do custom theming, but might require the Powerpack (not free) for what you require.
There's also ThemePark
A: Go to System Preferences → General → Right under Appearance check "Use dark menu bar and dock"
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e9c7de56f0a7de1f5ced5e9b0977616eb836b1ee | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to use an animated image for the user picture? So I dragged my .gif onto he default globe, and it shows the popup allowing me to edit the dimensions of my image. While I am zooming in/out, it is still animating. I was overjoyed at this, thinking that if the image animates in the edit panel, then it will animate on the login screen.
Nope.
Even if I re-open the image edit dialog, it still shows the animation, but it will not animate no matter what. Is there any way to get this working in the OS, or maybe a program that can do it?
A: This is currently not possible. You can provide feedback to Apple here:
*
*https://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
| Q: Is it possible to use an animated image for the user picture? So I dragged my .gif onto he default globe, and it shows the popup allowing me to edit the dimensions of my image. While I am zooming in/out, it is still animating. I was overjoyed at this, thinking that if the image animates in the edit panel, then it will animate on the login screen.
Nope.
Even if I re-open the image edit dialog, it still shows the animation, but it will not animate no matter what. Is there any way to get this working in the OS, or maybe a program that can do it?
A: This is currently not possible. You can provide feedback to Apple here:
*
*https://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
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e3f2deee39a218d3b017dcad81bfce92f84f8bd0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X Yosemite attempts to eject external drives after sleep I have 2 external drives that I use respectively for Time Machine and for all my work. I installed OS X Yosemite today and now every time my iMac goes to sleep (I never turn my macs off) it attempts to eject them. This never happened before and is a pain as all my work could potentially get lost or corrupted. Help!
A: I used to have the same problem, but since installed an app called "Mountain". It allows me to customize which volumes to eject and also re-connect for me on wake. It is not a free app, but it's worth the $5.99 (as of the time I write this).
http://appgineers.de/mountain/
Note, I don't work for them nor am I connected to them in any way. I just like the app and have had great results with it doing exactly what you're doing and more. (I move my macbookpro from 3 locations, where I have different external volume configurations.)
| Q: OS X Yosemite attempts to eject external drives after sleep I have 2 external drives that I use respectively for Time Machine and for all my work. I installed OS X Yosemite today and now every time my iMac goes to sleep (I never turn my macs off) it attempts to eject them. This never happened before and is a pain as all my work could potentially get lost or corrupted. Help!
A: I used to have the same problem, but since installed an app called "Mountain". It allows me to customize which volumes to eject and also re-connect for me on wake. It is not a free app, but it's worth the $5.99 (as of the time I write this).
http://appgineers.de/mountain/
Note, I don't work for them nor am I connected to them in any way. I just like the app and have had great results with it doing exactly what you're doing and more. (I move my macbookpro from 3 locations, where I have different external volume configurations.)
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2321574f64d2ad39dea604513c6789e4bc9c476f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Old folder icon in Google Drive app on OS 10.10 Yosemite Have this little problem, anyone knows how to fix it? Update the app didn't help. Tnx!
So, with the help of @John the solution finds me. Thanks again!
As for new icon I used this from dribble. Hope this post helps someone else!
A: The folder icon is controlled by the app used to sync with Google Drive. Until the app is updated with a new icon, it will not change.
| Q: Old folder icon in Google Drive app on OS 10.10 Yosemite Have this little problem, anyone knows how to fix it? Update the app didn't help. Tnx!
So, with the help of @John the solution finds me. Thanks again!
As for new icon I used this from dribble. Hope this post helps someone else!
A: The folder icon is controlled by the app used to sync with Google Drive. Until the app is updated with a new icon, it will not change.
A: Yes you can change it. Right Click on the 'Google Drive' app in your Applications folder, select 'Show Package Contents'. Navigate to ▸ Contents ▸ Resources ▸ lib ▸ python2.7 ▸ resources ▸ images. There you will find a 'folder-mac.icns' image. You can replace that image with your own Yosemite Google Folder icon image.
A: It would appear that Google Drive does not automatically update itself when you upgrade to Yosemite. I have just manually upgraded Drive (http://www.google.ca/drive/download/) and now, after a few minutes, it has automatically updated all of my icons.
A: As someone has stated above, the main problem with this is that you'll have to change it every time the app updates, but you can resolve this making an automator workflow.
Automator-> File-> New
Look for "Run shell script"
Then configure it like this:
Shell: /bin/sh
Pass input: to stdin
And the command should be something like:
cp new_icon_path default_icon_path
cp just copies some file to some place (or over another file, overwritting it)
default_icon_path: "/Applications/Google Drive.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/resources/images/folder-mac.icns"
new_icon_path: that's where you wanna keep the new version. It could be something like:
"/Users/your_username/new_icon.icns" (where you must substitute your_username for your own one)
So it would look like:
cp "/Users/John Doe/new_icon.icns" "/Applications/Google Drive.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/resources/images/folder-mac.icns"
A: I've just borrowed from a few other people who made some code to solve this problem and created two simple scripts you can run to make life easy.
Steps:
*
*Download the scripts: http://stuartbowness.com/scripts/Yosemite-icns.zip
*Unzip them to your "Pictures" folder in your home folder
*Open terminal and run:
*bash ~/Pictures/Yosemite-icns/gdrive-replace.sh
*bash ~/Pictures/Yosemite-icns/gdrive-inverse-fix.sh
This will:
*
*gdrive-replace.sh - Replace all the crappy default icons Google has
included and update them to nice icons that match Yosemite. It will
restart both Google Drive and Finder when complete.
*gdrive-inverse-fix.sh - Will fix the Google Drive menu icons when the menu bar is inverted to black (dark menu bar is enabled in
System Preferences>General).
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558596b86f98b03cc570a30172bd9e5adc50c722 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to change the font size of the Reminders app? Is there a way to increase the font size of the Reminders app? It was easy in Mavericks, by changing a text file inside the app package, but I can't find it anymore on yosemite.
The text is just too small, isn't it?
A: I believe the right answer is: it is not possible.
| Q: How to change the font size of the Reminders app? Is there a way to increase the font size of the Reminders app? It was easy in Mavericks, by changing a text file inside the app package, but I can't find it anymore on yosemite.
The text is just too small, isn't it?
A: I believe the right answer is: it is not possible.
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a07b61b2754f19aa598b382a283ba384a26db855 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MacBook Pro 2011 rebooting on startup When booting up and logging into my MacBook Pro, I get the following error message:
localhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] <Emergency>: Boot task failed: fsck-safe
localhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] <Emergency>: Shutting down in 3 seconds.
This is an image of the error:
I am running OS X Yosemite, on a mid 2011 MacBook Pro.
A: Hold alt during startup, you will then be able to boot from something called "recovery partition". When that is booted, in the menu select "disk utility" and try to repair disk and/or volume.
| Q: MacBook Pro 2011 rebooting on startup When booting up and logging into my MacBook Pro, I get the following error message:
localhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] <Emergency>: Boot task failed: fsck-safe
localhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] <Emergency>: Shutting down in 3 seconds.
This is an image of the error:
I am running OS X Yosemite, on a mid 2011 MacBook Pro.
A: Hold alt during startup, you will then be able to boot from something called "recovery partition". When that is booted, in the menu select "disk utility" and try to repair disk and/or volume.
A: Based on the fsck error that would be your Samsung SSD failing.
Since you can not boot in Safe mode or any other including recovery, your only option is to boot from a external drive.
Then try to repair your hard drive.
A: Tried everything posted here and in other Apple forums but it wouldn't work. In the end, I booted using a USB drive and deleted all existing partitions on the failing SSD. Once all partitions were cleaned, I reinstalled Yosemite and the computer is up and running again.
A: Similar symptoms on my 2011 MBP.
The shutdown would occur during the boot process as the progress bar is loading, about 50-60% of the way the machine would just shutdown, everytime.
I tried resetting the PRAM and SMC controller as per Apple's instructions. This didn't help directly.
I ended up going into internet recovery mode, and attempted to use the Disk Utility to repair/diagnose the main HD. Disk Utility couldn't mount it or perform First Aid.
So I opened up the terminal and ended up doing the following:
*
*Unlocking my encrypted drive.
*Mounting the drive with mount_hfs and specifically ignoring journalling. If this step succeeds, I'd spend some time backing up important files to an external drive or USB stick, as this may be your only chance to do so if you've got an incurable issue with your HD.
*diskutil disableJournal on the drive after it mounted.
*diskutil enableJournal on the drive.
*diskutil unmount the drive.
*Reboot.
Step 1 is explained here (archive).
Step 2-5 are explained in a bit more detail here (archive).
My system then booted up correctly and seems to be working okay. I suppose the issue was a corrupt journal file that the system kept on failing on each time it booted, and by disabling/re-enabling the journal I effective "cleaned" it up. I can also confirm that steps 3 & 4 cleared out some large *journal* files in the root of the problematic drive.
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239274a728173f2a115d212007dc2d0f1b8f747a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: waking up from locked screen with just keyboard I'm on OS X 10.9.5. I do not like using mouse/trackpad, and mostly work with keyboard only. One annoying thing is that when the OS is locked (screen lock) and the power saving for the monitor is activated, I can't wake it up with a keystroke. I MUST move the mouse cursor to let me type in my password to unlock the screen.
Does anybody else have the same problem and if so is there a workaround?
A: On 10.9.5 You could use the Accessibility option and enable mouse keys if you have a keyboard number pad.
There are some optional settings there to choose from like:
By clicking 5 times on the Option key you can turn that feature on or off.
| Q: waking up from locked screen with just keyboard I'm on OS X 10.9.5. I do not like using mouse/trackpad, and mostly work with keyboard only. One annoying thing is that when the OS is locked (screen lock) and the power saving for the monitor is activated, I can't wake it up with a keystroke. I MUST move the mouse cursor to let me type in my password to unlock the screen.
Does anybody else have the same problem and if so is there a workaround?
A: On 10.9.5 You could use the Accessibility option and enable mouse keys if you have a keyboard number pad.
There are some optional settings there to choose from like:
By clicking 5 times on the Option key you can turn that feature on or off.
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5921ef4265b9e2eaf5d49bef6e12feeb371721aa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Trying to pass images to shell command using automator I am creating this service for Finder that will receive image files and pass to a shell command.
The idea is this:
*
*I select image files on finder.
*I right click and choose the service I am creating
*the service receives the files and passes to sips, so it will scale the images to a given size.
this is how I created it.
sips would run on terminal if I type
sips -z 750 1334 *.png (or any other extension, including *.*)
I am hoping that $* would pass a list of arguments to sips, but this is not working.
How do I do that?
A: I found a following solution that works for me:
for f in "$@"; do
sips -z 750 1334 "$f"
done
| Q: Trying to pass images to shell command using automator I am creating this service for Finder that will receive image files and pass to a shell command.
The idea is this:
*
*I select image files on finder.
*I right click and choose the service I am creating
*the service receives the files and passes to sips, so it will scale the images to a given size.
this is how I created it.
sips would run on terminal if I type
sips -z 750 1334 *.png (or any other extension, including *.*)
I am hoping that $* would pass a list of arguments to sips, but this is not working.
How do I do that?
A: I found a following solution that works for me:
for f in "$@"; do
sips -z 750 1334 "$f"
done
A: You're looking for $@:
sips -z 750 1334 "$@"
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102b547d0499faa5dac8ac41e613be756f81b7ce | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Trying to convert pdf to text for free I am using OSX and would like to be able to convert pdf files to text.
I would like a free application to do this, as I am sure there must be some.
A: Multiple methods.
*
*Use Google documents (you will need a Google account)
*Use Automator (some work required)
You can use Automator to create a workflow that can extract text from
PDFs and save it as a text or RTF document.
| Q: Trying to convert pdf to text for free I am using OSX and would like to be able to convert pdf files to text.
I would like a free application to do this, as I am sure there must be some.
A: Multiple methods.
*
*Use Google documents (you will need a Google account)
*Use Automator (some work required)
You can use Automator to create a workflow that can extract text from
PDFs and save it as a text or RTF document.
A: xpdf which I installed with ports:
port install xpdf
contains:
xpdf-pdftotext
It does what you want for any PDF file which is coming from a
text file (and not from an image):
xpdf-pdftotext PDF_file text_file
A: Current version of Adobe Reader (11.0.09) has a "Save as Other" item in its File Menu.
One of the options is Text.
The App is free, and does a decent job outputting text files. All images in the new document will be lost with the .txt format.
A: The following python script will output the text from a PDF document to a .txt file. (Note: There is no guarantee that the text is necessarily in 'logical' human readable order, due to the way that data is held in the PDF format.)
The script will create text files for any PDF files supplied as arguments to it on the command line (e.g. pdf2txt.py myPDF.pdf), or you can use in Automator's "Run Shell Script" action, setting the shell type to python and Pass input to "As arguments". Then you can use it as a Quick Action or DropApp.
#!/usr/bin/python
# coding: utf-8
import os, sys
from Quartz import PDFDocument
from CoreFoundation import (NSURL, NSString)
NSUTF8StringEncoding = 4
def pdf2txt():
for filename in sys.argv[1:]:
inputfile =filename.decode('utf-8')
shortName = os.path.splitext(filename)[0]
outputfile = shortName+" text.txt"
pdfURL = NSURL.fileURLWithPath_(inputfile)
pdfDoc = PDFDocument.alloc().initWithURL_(pdfURL)
if pdfDoc :
pdfString = NSString.stringWithString_(pdfDoc.string())
pdfString.writeToFile_atomically_encoding_error_(outputfile, True, NSUTF8StringEncoding, None)
if __name__ == "__main__":
pdf2txt()
NB: The above script will 'only' work on any Mac running Leopard to Monterey 12.2...! Python 2 was removed from macOS in Monterey 12.3. If you install python 3 and the pyobjc library, then the following python 3 script will work:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import os, sys
from Quartz import PDFDocument
from CoreFoundation import (NSURL, NSString)
NSUTF8StringEncoding = 4
def pdf2txt():
for filename in sys.argv[1:]:
shortName = os.path.splitext(filename)[0]
outputfile = shortName+" text.txt"
pdfURL = NSURL.fileURLWithPath_(inputfile)
pdfDoc = PDFDocument.alloc().initWithURL_(pdfURL)
if pdfDoc :
pdfString = NSString.stringWithString_(pdfDoc.string())
pdfString.writeToFile_atomically_encoding_error_(outputfile, True, NSUTF8StringEncoding, None)
if __name__ == "__main__":
pdf2txt()
A: Here are the steps I used to install and use xpdf via Homebrew.
*
*Install Homebrew's dependencies:
xcode-select --install
*Install Homebrew from their website:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
*Do what it tells you to complete the Homebrew installation.
*Verify that Homebrew is happy and functioning to spec.
brew doctor
*Next install xpdf and its dependencies:
brew install Caskroom/cask/xquartz
brew install xpdf
*Finally, use pdftotext, a package that comes with the xpdf suite:
pdftotext Some_Document.pdf Some_Document.txt
The first file name is an existing PDF; the second is the destination. The results were much better than with an (admittedly old) version of Adobe Acrobat. Edit: New (2019) versions of Adobe Acrobat have shown similarly poor results.
A: I would think you should be able to copy and paste the text into another document. To select all the text
Open the PDF in "Preview", and
*
*choose "Edit | Select All"
*choose "Edit | Copy"
Go to another app, say "Text Edit"
*
*choose "Edit | Paste"
Note that if you try and do this, and there's no text pasted, just a bunch of blank lines, try printing your PDF to a new PDF first, e.g.
*
*In Preview, choose "File | Print"
*In the bottom right, choose "PDF | Save as PDF"
*This exports a new PDF.
Now try the above process with this new PDF. Worked for me!
PS: If you have Microsoft Word, you may be able to open your PDF in word
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388ecd37e6f388698e94ba6b5c94a69b7220e18b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone: What is `accountsd` and why is it using 80% CPU? I just got a new iPhone 6 for my SO and noticed that it is quite toasty to handle with the battery draining quite fast. It has been 24 hours since I first set it up. I plugged it into Instruments and loaded the Activity Monitor and noticed that accountsd is chewing through 80% of the CPU:
What is accountsd on iOS and why is it chewing up so much CPU?
A: Accountsd and cloudd manage iCloud. There's an insanely annoying bug which lots of people have where a sign into icloud password prompt comes up every few seconds and you can't sign out of find my phone.
| Q: iPhone: What is `accountsd` and why is it using 80% CPU? I just got a new iPhone 6 for my SO and noticed that it is quite toasty to handle with the battery draining quite fast. It has been 24 hours since I first set it up. I plugged it into Instruments and loaded the Activity Monitor and noticed that accountsd is chewing through 80% of the CPU:
What is accountsd on iOS and why is it chewing up so much CPU?
A: Accountsd and cloudd manage iCloud. There's an insanely annoying bug which lots of people have where a sign into icloud password prompt comes up every few seconds and you can't sign out of find my phone.
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95dcc55ba39a24de2210376b3e4d1b60d806fda4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How did the function "Save As…" change to "Duplicate"? I recently noticed that within Pages ('09), Numbers ('09), Keynote ('09),
the menu entry:
*
*File > Save As…
had been replaced by a new one:
*
*File > Duplicate
On the other hand I still use this function within some other applications like LibreOffice (4.2.3.3) without a problem.
I suspect this change isn't a system wide one.
I didn't get any notice of this change of a key function in file management within any recent upgrade.
When did this change appear?
Which upgrade performed this change?
A: This was changed in Lion along with the introduction of Auto Save and Versions. Save As is still available by holding ⌥ alt whilst in the menus.
| Q: How did the function "Save As…" change to "Duplicate"? I recently noticed that within Pages ('09), Numbers ('09), Keynote ('09),
the menu entry:
*
*File > Save As…
had been replaced by a new one:
*
*File > Duplicate
On the other hand I still use this function within some other applications like LibreOffice (4.2.3.3) without a problem.
I suspect this change isn't a system wide one.
I didn't get any notice of this change of a key function in file management within any recent upgrade.
When did this change appear?
Which upgrade performed this change?
A: This was changed in Lion along with the introduction of Auto Save and Versions. Save As is still available by holding ⌥ alt whilst in the menus.
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647357c80e3b07287b69312775192de0c7eb9366 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Translation of words in spotlight I am looking for an extension for spotlight on Yosemite, which allows an offline translation of english words into german and vice-versa. Similar to the inbuilt dictionary, but rather giving a translation of the word instead of a definition.
It should also be lightweight, so not slowing the system or spotlight down.
Is there such a software?
A: This may not be quite what you're looking for, but have a look at Flashlight. It allows you to use plugins for Spotlight, including translation plugins. I don't think the translation ones are offline, but it's open source, so maybe you could figure out a way to download an offline translation dictionary and modify an existing plugin to use this offline dictionary?
| Q: Translation of words in spotlight I am looking for an extension for spotlight on Yosemite, which allows an offline translation of english words into german and vice-versa. Similar to the inbuilt dictionary, but rather giving a translation of the word instead of a definition.
It should also be lightweight, so not slowing the system or spotlight down.
Is there such a software?
A: This may not be quite what you're looking for, but have a look at Flashlight. It allows you to use plugins for Spotlight, including translation plugins. I don't think the translation ones are offline, but it's open source, so maybe you could figure out a way to download an offline translation dictionary and modify an existing plugin to use this offline dictionary?
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6ea0396f857cbd4c736c00a1fcd6c0557347dca8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: "Import from Scanner" greyed out in Preview app I have a Canon Pixma MG6300 printer/scanner for which I properly installed the drivers.
I know it is supposed to show in the Preview app under File > Import from Scanner. This menu item, however, is greyed out.
Does anyone know how I can have my scanner show up in here?
Running on OS X Yosemite.
A: You can try below steps:
*
*In System Preference > Printers & Scanners, press Control and click the printer and click Reset Printing System. This will remove all your printers.
*Go to Utilities and open Disk Utility. Click Macintosh HD in the left panel and then click Repair Disc Permissions in the right panel.
*Restart your computer.
*Re-install your printer.
| Q: "Import from Scanner" greyed out in Preview app I have a Canon Pixma MG6300 printer/scanner for which I properly installed the drivers.
I know it is supposed to show in the Preview app under File > Import from Scanner. This menu item, however, is greyed out.
Does anyone know how I can have my scanner show up in here?
Running on OS X Yosemite.
A: You can try below steps:
*
*In System Preference > Printers & Scanners, press Control and click the printer and click Reset Printing System. This will remove all your printers.
*Go to Utilities and open Disk Utility. Click Macintosh HD in the left panel and then click Repair Disc Permissions in the right panel.
*Restart your computer.
*Re-install your printer.
A: Turned out my problem was that the scanner wasn't connected. Plugging in the USB helped a lot.
A: Before reseting & restarting, I recommend trying just step 2:
Go to Utilities and open Disk Utility. Click Macintosh HD in the left panel and then click Repair Disc Permissions in the right panel.
If that isn't sufficient, then go through all the steps that Chunghao gave.
A: My problem was that the printer was installed with the default AirPrint driver instead of the actual HP driver. I reset the printing system then re-installed the printer, explicitly choosing the HP driver (which it automatically downloaded and installed, causing the printer to whir and click a few times in the process).
After that, the "Import from HP Laserjet..." option started showing up in the Preview "Print" menu.
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ccc0f8441d2103efe3a791f548f45e899f5d12d9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can you disable Today's Date in the Today View in Yosemite Notification Center? While it's possible to remove the Today Summary from the view you cannot remove the date. It's superfluous while using a calendar app such as Fantastical. Any way to tweak this?
Thanks.
| Q: Can you disable Today's Date in the Today View in Yosemite Notification Center? While it's possible to remove the Today Summary from the view you cannot remove the date. It's superfluous while using a calendar app such as Fantastical. Any way to tweak this?
Thanks.
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34b27259fe2dca3c52824f20f1a00c3c8c93ad96 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to search a phrase in Preview of OS X? When I search for a term like "formation water", preview returns everything starting with formation and not the term "formation water". How can I search for a phrase in Preview?
A: cmd + f and double quotes search does not work anymore.
As described here Searching for an exact phrase in PDF with Preview one needs to click the magnifying glass icon and select "Exact Phrase", then search without double quotes. This doesn't work with cmd + f.
| Q: How to search a phrase in Preview of OS X? When I search for a term like "formation water", preview returns everything starting with formation and not the term "formation water". How can I search for a phrase in Preview?
A: cmd + f and double quotes search does not work anymore.
As described here Searching for an exact phrase in PDF with Preview one needs to click the magnifying glass icon and select "Exact Phrase", then search without double quotes. This doesn't work with cmd + f.
A: Just like you would with a Google search, use the double quotes operator to tell Preview the result must be an exact match.
In your case, for example, typing "formation water" should yield the desired result.
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36ce324dc337222c87901bd1cc4d7db80a2e1694 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Adjust delay for activating Full Screen Mode toolbar Is it possible to change the delay on the full screen mode window toolbar in OS X Yosemite?
I'm thinking of something like this, but for the toolbar
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 5
I love using full screen mode, but I'm frequently accidentally triggering the toolbar which covers up whatever I'm trying to access at the top of the screen.
A: Try
defaults write -g NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001
or
defaults delete -g NSWindowResizeTime
to revert it. Taken from http://www.defaults-write.com/disable-full-screen-animation-of-os-x/.
| Q: Adjust delay for activating Full Screen Mode toolbar Is it possible to change the delay on the full screen mode window toolbar in OS X Yosemite?
I'm thinking of something like this, but for the toolbar
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 5
I love using full screen mode, but I'm frequently accidentally triggering the toolbar which covers up whatever I'm trying to access at the top of the screen.
A: Try
defaults write -g NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001
or
defaults delete -g NSWindowResizeTime
to revert it. Taken from http://www.defaults-write.com/disable-full-screen-animation-of-os-x/.
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67dd1878cde9cbae44e7ed0f76f4595523bc05cf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Pinch to zoom broken in Yosemite I had pinch to zoom working fine after installing Yosemite but after a month or so it's stopped working. The setting is enabled in Trackpad > Scroll & Zoom and it seems none of those gestures are working anymore. I can use 4/5 fingers outwards for Expose though.
How can I get the full functionality back?
A: Turn off pinch to zoom in preferences, then turn on again. This has worked for me before. If that doesn't work then doing a reboot will usually fix any and all trackpad issues. Problems after a reboot? Check out the above slightely more extreme ways around the problem..
| Q: Pinch to zoom broken in Yosemite I had pinch to zoom working fine after installing Yosemite but after a month or so it's stopped working. The setting is enabled in Trackpad > Scroll & Zoom and it seems none of those gestures are working anymore. I can use 4/5 fingers outwards for Expose though.
How can I get the full functionality back?
A: Turn off pinch to zoom in preferences, then turn on again. This has worked for me before. If that doesn't work then doing a reboot will usually fix any and all trackpad issues. Problems after a reboot? Check out the above slightely more extreme ways around the problem..
A: I tried to toggle Pinch to Zoom off and on in System preferences but it didn't fix the issue. So I put the MacBook to sleep, woke it up and then Pinch to Zoom started working again.
A: If you have Ad Block installed..
Turn off Ad Block in Safari's Extensions..
Uncheck and then recheck Pinch to Zoom in Trackpad settings..
Test.. If working now turn Ad Block back on.. and test again
It should now work as normal.
A: Not for any of my 6 macs. Try reinstalling it on a fresh HFS+ formatted HD.
A: I reconnected my trackpad and it's worked
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bc39869702fd14f8766baa136acf6f640b9b3471 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Foolishly left old beta on my iPhone that has now expired, is my only option to restore and lose everything? I installed an iOS 8 beta on a test iPhone I have back in the summer, and forgot to keep it updated with more recent betas, and now it's not allowing me to get into it due to the beta being expired.
Is my only option to be able to use it again to restore it from scratch and lose everything? Or is there some way to update it to the actual released version of iOS 8?
A: Simply download the IPSW of the final build of iOS 8.1 from developer.apple.com, connect your device to iTunes, alt-click the Update button and select your IPSW.
No data will be lost and your device will be updated.
| Q: Foolishly left old beta on my iPhone that has now expired, is my only option to restore and lose everything? I installed an iOS 8 beta on a test iPhone I have back in the summer, and forgot to keep it updated with more recent betas, and now it's not allowing me to get into it due to the beta being expired.
Is my only option to be able to use it again to restore it from scratch and lose everything? Or is there some way to update it to the actual released version of iOS 8?
A: Simply download the IPSW of the final build of iOS 8.1 from developer.apple.com, connect your device to iTunes, alt-click the Update button and select your IPSW.
No data will be lost and your device will be updated.
A: My understanding is that you will have to restore the device, which will wipe the contents of the device.
However, if you have a back up of the device's contents (either on iCloud or stored on your computer), it is a simple option in the device re-setup process to restore your device (now with the latest version of iOS) to this backup, thus allowing you to regain access to your data.
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ea1e650de46ae5808b5b00398116aa7ef9f9306a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to show Spotlight indexing status/progress in Yosemite? In previous versions of OS X, you could click the Spotlight icon in the menu bar to show the status of the Spotlight indexing, and it would show an estimate ("6 hours left"), along with a progress bar.
I've updated to Yosemite yesterday, and I noticed that Spotlight is not showing some expected results, i.e. files I know to be there, but it just doesn't find them if I type in their name and file type ("kind:excel vacation").
When I start typing in the Yosemite Spotlight window, it shows a small progress bar under the search box, but there's no estimate.
Is there another way to show the progress or an estimation on how long the indexing is going to take?
A: From this page
To see whether Spotlight indexing is enabled for a volume:
mdutil -s -v /Volumes/volumename
↪︎
/Volumes/volumename:
Indexing enabled.
Here are some other Spotlight terminal commands
This comment thread suggests that there is not a great way to get an estimated time to completion.
| Q: Is there a way to show Spotlight indexing status/progress in Yosemite? In previous versions of OS X, you could click the Spotlight icon in the menu bar to show the status of the Spotlight indexing, and it would show an estimate ("6 hours left"), along with a progress bar.
I've updated to Yosemite yesterday, and I noticed that Spotlight is not showing some expected results, i.e. files I know to be there, but it just doesn't find them if I type in their name and file type ("kind:excel vacation").
When I start typing in the Yosemite Spotlight window, it shows a small progress bar under the search box, but there's no estimate.
Is there another way to show the progress or an estimation on how long the indexing is going to take?
A: From this page
To see whether Spotlight indexing is enabled for a volume:
mdutil -s -v /Volumes/volumename
↪︎
/Volumes/volumename:
Indexing enabled.
Here are some other Spotlight terminal commands
This comment thread suggests that there is not a great way to get an estimated time to completion.
A: type "indexing" into spotlight and the progress bar shows up as the first result.
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262bbf947755a1732e8b555c22da45b25ea15650 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OSX Yosemite full screen menu bar Is there a way to always keep the menu bar visible in full screen mode?
When developing I like having certain applications take up the full screen but I find the delay in bringing down the menu bar slightly annoying. I'd like the menu bar to be always visible. I followed the answers from this post but changing the LSUIPresentationMode did not do anything.
If anyone has a working solution I'd be happy to try it out!
Thanks!
A: Like @james_fuller said auto-hiding the doc and maximizing the app window (use the alt key when clicking maximize) will have the requested result. Some apps (Google Chrome) have custom behavior for the maximize button so Shiftit.app can be used to maximize those apps with a simple key command.
| Q: OSX Yosemite full screen menu bar Is there a way to always keep the menu bar visible in full screen mode?
When developing I like having certain applications take up the full screen but I find the delay in bringing down the menu bar slightly annoying. I'd like the menu bar to be always visible. I followed the answers from this post but changing the LSUIPresentationMode did not do anything.
If anyone has a working solution I'd be happy to try it out!
Thanks!
A: Like @james_fuller said auto-hiding the doc and maximizing the app window (use the alt key when clicking maximize) will have the requested result. Some apps (Google Chrome) have custom behavior for the maximize button so Shiftit.app can be used to maximize those apps with a simple key command.
A: I use Moom and works pretty good:
http://manytricks.com/moom/
It allows you to maximize to fullscreen but keeping the menubar still visible. Different than clicking the green button on the window which enters fullscreen.
A: Alt+Click on the green full screen button does the same as that when Double click the app menu bar
A: To add the toolbar and keep it there when maximizing the screen I used the option and taped the pad. I was surprised.
A: Press shift & alt/option and click on the green maximize button.
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bdead1a2d891bad0c08bb1fe6ebf274f4a4123c7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Screen overlay when using hotkey to switch keyboard input I've recently upgraded iMacs the other day. Can't figure out how to toggle the following overlay to show up when switching inputs using keyboard hotkeys
Right now the shortcut will toggle the input switch, but doesn't display the overlay below.
EDIT
If it helps any I am using the first gen 27" Retina 5k iMac with Yosemite 10.10.1.
A: In the Keyboard system preferences panel, select the Shortcuts tab then the Input Sources entry on the left. Enable the "Select the previous input source" checkbox and assign it to the keyboard shortcut you wish.
The input source switcher window ONLY works with this shortcut. It will not show if you use the "Select next source in Input menu" shortcut.
I'm guessing that the 2nd shortcut was added later by another developer. Besides the lack of this secret switcher feature, notice the wording of the shortcut description. If the same person did both, they probably would have called it "Select the next input source".
| Q: Screen overlay when using hotkey to switch keyboard input I've recently upgraded iMacs the other day. Can't figure out how to toggle the following overlay to show up when switching inputs using keyboard hotkeys
Right now the shortcut will toggle the input switch, but doesn't display the overlay below.
EDIT
If it helps any I am using the first gen 27" Retina 5k iMac with Yosemite 10.10.1.
A: In the Keyboard system preferences panel, select the Shortcuts tab then the Input Sources entry on the left. Enable the "Select the previous input source" checkbox and assign it to the keyboard shortcut you wish.
The input source switcher window ONLY works with this shortcut. It will not show if you use the "Select next source in Input menu" shortcut.
I'm guessing that the 2nd shortcut was added later by another developer. Besides the lack of this secret switcher feature, notice the wording of the shortcut description. If the same person did both, they probably would have called it "Select the next input source".
A: I don't know what your set shortcut is, let's say it's control + space.
Simply hold down control, press space but don't release control. The overlay will be shown.
Also, there's no need for three input sources. I have two input sources and it works.
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2e89bc292dcc9ef4ba76aa847b5e6c87750bb4a2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there any way to access the console logs on an iOS 8 device without installing Xcode? Prior to iOS 8, I accessed console logs on iOS 8 devices using iPhone Configuration Utility. That no longer works.
Is there any other way to access these logs without installing a program as large as XCode?
A: There is a tool called iTools
It provides real time system logs just like Console log in iPCU or xcode
*
*Connect Your device to system.
*click on itools->Under iPhone->>Advanced->System logs
| Q: Is there any way to access the console logs on an iOS 8 device without installing Xcode? Prior to iOS 8, I accessed console logs on iOS 8 devices using iPhone Configuration Utility. That no longer works.
Is there any other way to access these logs without installing a program as large as XCode?
A: There is a tool called iTools
It provides real time system logs just like Console log in iPCU or xcode
*
*Connect Your device to system.
*click on itools->Under iPhone->>Advanced->System logs
A: Yes. Apple Configurator 2 has a command line tool that can tail and/or dump the console logs and do some other nice operations like pair, enumerate connected devices, etc...
cfgutil syslog
That's the official Apple way and it's much smaller a download than Xcode. Both are free but cfgutil is much more powerful and can do things like remove apps, erase, pair, and even run scripts when you attach and detach iOS devices to your Mac.
To make cfgutil available at the command line, open Configurator 2, and choose Configurator 2 -> Install Automation Tools ... from the menu.
You could also look at homebrew and install libimobiledevice - that is open source and free as well and seems to be kept updated fairly well over time.
brew install libimobiledevice
A: With iTools 3.1.9.8 (available for Mac & Windows) you can get logs from your iOS device by selecting Toolbox and Real-time Log:
A: I'm using libimobiledevice(link).
This is a cross-platform software protocol library and tools to communicate with iOS® devices natively.
Once these are installed, you can plug in a paired device, unlock it and use the following command to view the logs on the screen: idevicesyslog
This is akin to running a tail against the device. Again, the device must be paired. You can use the command line (e.g. if you’re running this on Linux) to view the logs, but if you’re not paired you’ll need to pair your device: idevicepair pair
You can also unpair: idevicepair unpair
When pairing and unpairing, you should see the appropriate entries in /var/db/lockdown.
A: There's also an app called "iOS Console," but it requires iOS 9.
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46c9bc4ce4224f5c871a031ce6a5b7f8d6e6bbe1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disabling iMessage while travelling I will be travelling overseas without mobile data. International SMS will be set up, but I have iMessage linked to this mobile number. I have other iPhones, iPads and Macs which also receive iMessages on this account.
Do I have to disable iMessage on all my devices before I travel to ensure when people send a message to my mobile number, I will receive it as an International SMS?
Thanks in advance.
A: Simple answer, yes.
If you want SMS to arrive at your phone there must be no other device left active that can possibly pick up the iMessage.
Otherwise Apple considers that if any device received the iMessage, it is considered delivered & will not try again as SMS.
Related question - How to tell Messages "I'm not at home"? which remains unanswered, despite the great efforts of one member; but shows promise for Yosemite, if not Mavericks.
| Q: Disabling iMessage while travelling I will be travelling overseas without mobile data. International SMS will be set up, but I have iMessage linked to this mobile number. I have other iPhones, iPads and Macs which also receive iMessages on this account.
Do I have to disable iMessage on all my devices before I travel to ensure when people send a message to my mobile number, I will receive it as an International SMS?
Thanks in advance.
A: Simple answer, yes.
If you want SMS to arrive at your phone there must be no other device left active that can possibly pick up the iMessage.
Otherwise Apple considers that if any device received the iMessage, it is considered delivered & will not try again as SMS.
Related question - How to tell Messages "I'm not at home"? which remains unanswered, despite the great efforts of one member; but shows promise for Yosemite, if not Mavericks.
A: When there is not any internet connection SMS messages should be delivered to your phones, so you should not need to disable iMessage anywhere. However just to be on the safe side, I would recommend you to disable it. It would be a fail proof way to feel safe about SMS/iMessage mystery.
If you use only your phone number as your iMessage account you can just disable it in all your devices to be sure that you will get all SMS messages.
If you have any e-mail address associated with your iMessage account, you can just remove your phone number from iMessage accounts in your devices and keep your e-mails. That way you can still receive iMessage, whenever internet connection is available.
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68ac9d76bad28c3e6ab069d6d67789b3604e8273 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iOS App Preview videos - are all 3 iPhone resolutions required I've just completed an App Preview video for my forthcoming universal iOS app. I did it by capturing an iPhone 6 using QuickTime then editing in iMovie.
If I only submit my iPhone 6 App Preview video (750x1334), will iPhone 5/5s and 6 Plus users be able to see the video on the App Store?
Or do I have to create and upload separate iPhone 5/5s & iPhone 6 Plus videos?
Thanks.
A: In the end I only uploaded 3 videos - iPhone 5 resolution, iPhone 6 resolution and iPad resolution. When I visited the app on the App Store on an iPhone 6 PLUS - the iPhone 6 video was shown.
So it looks like larger iPhones will fallback to smaller videos if the larger preview video is not present. Presumably the iPhone 6 will fallback to the iPhone 5 video as well.
| Q: iOS App Preview videos - are all 3 iPhone resolutions required I've just completed an App Preview video for my forthcoming universal iOS app. I did it by capturing an iPhone 6 using QuickTime then editing in iMovie.
If I only submit my iPhone 6 App Preview video (750x1334), will iPhone 5/5s and 6 Plus users be able to see the video on the App Store?
Or do I have to create and upload separate iPhone 5/5s & iPhone 6 Plus videos?
Thanks.
A: In the end I only uploaded 3 videos - iPhone 5 resolution, iPhone 6 resolution and iPad resolution. When I visited the app on the App Store on an iPhone 6 PLUS - the iPhone 6 video was shown.
So it looks like larger iPhones will fallback to smaller videos if the larger preview video is not present. Presumably the iPhone 6 will fallback to the iPhone 5 video as well.
A: An App Preview is an optional short video demonstrating your app. Your app may have one App Preview per device. The specifications for App Previews are given in App Preview Properties.
Source: developer.apple.com
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cea58b2631189e1c757fd3d6b43c6456c78fd03a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Authentication Server could not be contacted Our OS X Server machine has had no issue at all with being in the Windows AD domain right up until we updated it to OS X 10.10. Now it behaves bizarrely, refuses to connect to our Exchange mail server, and even rejects the DNS lookup for all of the other servers on the network.
I tried removing and readding the Server to the domain, but I get
"Unable to add server.
Authentication server could not be contacted (5200)"
Is there any way of finding out what the solution may be?
A: I had the same problem. We have MACs on El Capitan to High Sierra and Win 2012 R2 as Domain controller. After a lot of trial and error, I found out that the AD user has to belong to "Account Operator" security group, even if the user is Domain Admin or Enterprise Admin. We found this out after a lot of struggle.
Hope this solution helps you.
| Q: Authentication Server could not be contacted Our OS X Server machine has had no issue at all with being in the Windows AD domain right up until we updated it to OS X 10.10. Now it behaves bizarrely, refuses to connect to our Exchange mail server, and even rejects the DNS lookup for all of the other servers on the network.
I tried removing and readding the Server to the domain, but I get
"Unable to add server.
Authentication server could not be contacted (5200)"
Is there any way of finding out what the solution may be?
A: I had the same problem. We have MACs on El Capitan to High Sierra and Win 2012 R2 as Domain controller. After a lot of trial and error, I found out that the AD user has to belong to "Account Operator" security group, even if the user is Domain Admin or Enterprise Admin. We found this out after a lot of struggle.
Hope this solution helps you.
A: I got the same problem,
I have local AD server on my local network. and I set also a DNS server in the same network.
I tried to set the administrator user as domain controller as mentioned in @Shareek answer which did not resolve the problem. besides I set the DNS of my connection the same as DNS of my AD Server and everything worked well
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c95d0288fb33232d70551b562e7771afc4d88fd7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Changing the default keyboard shortcuts in iTerm2 In iTerm2, ⌘W will close the current shell. In Vim, Ctrl W, by default, sets you up for a window command (e.g., Ctrl Wh moves to the window on the left, etc.)
I am new to using a Mac and haven't got completely used to the Command key, yet. As such, I am regularly closing my terminal session accidentally. (Fortunately, I'm running tmux, so my session is preserved, but it's nonetheless getting pretty annoying!)
Is there a way to change keyboard shortcuts in iTerm2? I realise it's probably unlikely and easier to change the Vim keybindings, but I don't want to change what I'm used to.
A: Just tested this in Yosemite. If you re-map the keyboard shortcut for "Close" in the System > Keyboard > Shortcuts, then that changes the ⌘+W behavior.
See:
| Q: Changing the default keyboard shortcuts in iTerm2 In iTerm2, ⌘W will close the current shell. In Vim, Ctrl W, by default, sets you up for a window command (e.g., Ctrl Wh moves to the window on the left, etc.)
I am new to using a Mac and haven't got completely used to the Command key, yet. As such, I am regularly closing my terminal session accidentally. (Fortunately, I'm running tmux, so my session is preserved, but it's nonetheless getting pretty annoying!)
Is there a way to change keyboard shortcuts in iTerm2? I realise it's probably unlikely and easier to change the Vim keybindings, but I don't want to change what I'm used to.
A: Just tested this in Yosemite. If you re-map the keyboard shortcut for "Close" in the System > Keyboard > Shortcuts, then that changes the ⌘+W behavior.
See:
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0916e42ada60c7da474fdb9ecd85d9080037fd1b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't delete old TimeMachine backup In terminal, trying to do the following:
$ sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/BACKUP/Backups.backupdb/lappy/2014-11-02-005458/
Deleting: /Volumes/BACKUP/Backups.backupdb/lappy/2014-11-02-005458
I get the following error:
Error (-36) deleting: /Volumes/BACKUP/Backups.backupdb/lappy/2014-11-02-005458
Error (512) re-linking Latest for machine directory: /Volumes/BACKUP/Backups.backupdb/lappy
Total deleted: 8.0K
Is there another way I can delete old backup files to release disk space?
And Time Machine window shows
A: I had the same problem and found the solution at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8597674:
Add your Terminal app (i.e. Terminal.app or iTerm.app) to your list of apps for full disk access in Settings > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access.
| Q: Can't delete old TimeMachine backup In terminal, trying to do the following:
$ sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/BACKUP/Backups.backupdb/lappy/2014-11-02-005458/
Deleting: /Volumes/BACKUP/Backups.backupdb/lappy/2014-11-02-005458
I get the following error:
Error (-36) deleting: /Volumes/BACKUP/Backups.backupdb/lappy/2014-11-02-005458
Error (512) re-linking Latest for machine directory: /Volumes/BACKUP/Backups.backupdb/lappy
Total deleted: 8.0K
Is there another way I can delete old backup files to release disk space?
And Time Machine window shows
A: I had the same problem and found the solution at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8597674:
Add your Terminal app (i.e. Terminal.app or iTerm.app) to your list of apps for full disk access in Settings > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access.
A: Yes there is another way to delete old Time Machine backups.
*
*Enter Time Machine (browse your backups).
*Go back in time to the date that you want to delete.
*Right click on the folder of the date you want to delete, and choose Delete Backup
Here is a screenshot to help explain:
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66eb8b9c445ef67d51ffae7f16aa4b0965fc1542 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Adding annotation in iBooks How can I add annotations on my book using iBooks?
Any time that I try to create an annotation, iBooks wants to create a new copy, with this message:
The original document can't be changed, so a duplicate with your changes has been created.
| Q: Adding annotation in iBooks How can I add annotations on my book using iBooks?
Any time that I try to create an annotation, iBooks wants to create a new copy, with this message:
The original document can't be changed, so a duplicate with your changes has been created.
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2fc39b5e22658cf898edc7e3a0eab1c5816ea46b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: AppleScript to read all notifications in the Notification Center OSX 10.10 Yosemite It seems like the following AppleScript is no longer working in the latest version of the OS X 10.10 (Yosemite):
on run
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Notification Center"
set theseWindows to every window
display notification (count of theseWindows)
end tell
end tell
end run
This were supposed to get all notifications listed in the Notification Center. However, the count attribute always returns 0.
Does anyone know how to retrieve all notifications in the Notification Center different than the script above?
A: I have not found a way for AppleScript to do this, but shell scripting has been effective for some people to get at the full database or log of past notifications.
*
*Does the OS X log notifications from the Notification Center?
The format is an sqlite database, and it can be found inside this folder:
~/Library/Application Support/NotificationCenter
Assuming AppleScript is more important, you can call arbitrary shell scripts if needed from one, but other languages might be easier for database interactions / reporting.
| Q: AppleScript to read all notifications in the Notification Center OSX 10.10 Yosemite It seems like the following AppleScript is no longer working in the latest version of the OS X 10.10 (Yosemite):
on run
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Notification Center"
set theseWindows to every window
display notification (count of theseWindows)
end tell
end tell
end run
This were supposed to get all notifications listed in the Notification Center. However, the count attribute always returns 0.
Does anyone know how to retrieve all notifications in the Notification Center different than the script above?
A: I have not found a way for AppleScript to do this, but shell scripting has been effective for some people to get at the full database or log of past notifications.
*
*Does the OS X log notifications from the Notification Center?
The format is an sqlite database, and it can be found inside this folder:
~/Library/Application Support/NotificationCenter
Assuming AppleScript is more important, you can call arbitrary shell scripts if needed from one, but other languages might be easier for database interactions / reporting.
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a9ce8d1e6ca98cf056ef8a16fdb1189634234362 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to fix messed-up MacBook disk partition table? I have broken the disk of my Mac doing partitions with gparted. Now, nothing boots (except pendrives) and the OS X Rescue Disk recognizes the disk as Virtual Whole Disk. Nothing works, repairing or partitioning the disk throws errors.
Is there a Linux utility to reformat the disk completely as I could reinstall Mac OS X? It is extremely urgent, I am extremely nervous because it is for work, and I really don't know what to do. I do not need to recover data, just reinstall.
A: Yes. Boot into the mac's recovery, and reinstall (or repair) the drive.
| Q: How to fix messed-up MacBook disk partition table? I have broken the disk of my Mac doing partitions with gparted. Now, nothing boots (except pendrives) and the OS X Rescue Disk recognizes the disk as Virtual Whole Disk. Nothing works, repairing or partitioning the disk throws errors.
Is there a Linux utility to reformat the disk completely as I could reinstall Mac OS X? It is extremely urgent, I am extremely nervous because it is for work, and I really don't know what to do. I do not need to recover data, just reinstall.
A: Yes. Boot into the mac's recovery, and reinstall (or repair) the drive.
A: Finally, solved the problem. I used a GParted Live USB, re-formatted the partitions as HFS+, and then used OS X on USB to remove all the partitions a create a new one.
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3c809a492142582a3dc63c29f12c892982eb01fe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Configure Preview to auto reload pdf and stay at the same location System: OS X 10.10
Preview version: 8.0
When a pdf file opened by Preview is updated by another program (such as pdflatex), Preview will automatically reload it, which is good. However, Preview always shows the first page of the updated file, which is inconvenient.
Is it possible to configure Preview such that after reloading the same page gets displayed? This seems to be the behavior of one older version (at least for the one on 10.7).
A: There seems to be no way to make Preview.app do this, but Skim offers this feature.
On my system, using pdflatex, Skim will 'jerk' for a split second as it reloads, but it does return to the right position on the current page.
| Q: Configure Preview to auto reload pdf and stay at the same location System: OS X 10.10
Preview version: 8.0
When a pdf file opened by Preview is updated by another program (such as pdflatex), Preview will automatically reload it, which is good. However, Preview always shows the first page of the updated file, which is inconvenient.
Is it possible to configure Preview such that after reloading the same page gets displayed? This seems to be the behavior of one older version (at least for the one on 10.7).
A: There seems to be no way to make Preview.app do this, but Skim offers this feature.
On my system, using pdflatex, Skim will 'jerk' for a split second as it reloads, but it does return to the right position on the current page.
A: I have found a partial solution on Stackoverflow.
If you activate the single page mode (cmd 2) the focus will be stay on this page after refreshing.
A: You can use XEE, it's an image preview software that includes autorefresh. (http://xee.c3.cx/)
A: Improvement to Marcel's solution: Turn on view > thumbnails option. When running pdflatex and switching to preview would still bring up the first page on the main panel but the thumbnails would stay on the Nth page that you want to view.
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dc4a6ff4ac8858fbc4da9771ddae188e2a814a53 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Troubleshooting "Unexpected argument" error when running defaults write Trying to change the default screenshot directory to a specific folder in my google drive, but when I try the following command
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ‘~/Users/tommy\Google Drive\Sync\iMac\iMac Screenshots’
I get this error
2014-11-10 21:49:43.644 defaults[2184:76708] Unexpected argument DriveSynciMaciMac; leaving defaults unchanged.
and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
A: There are backs lashes (\) in your path that should probably be forward slashes (/). You also use curly quotes (‘ and ’), which are weird at best. Try using straight quotes ('), although in that case straight double quotes (") should do as well:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location '/Users/tommy/Google Drive/Sync/iMac/iMac Screenshots'
| Q: Troubleshooting "Unexpected argument" error when running defaults write Trying to change the default screenshot directory to a specific folder in my google drive, but when I try the following command
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ‘~/Users/tommy\Google Drive\Sync\iMac\iMac Screenshots’
I get this error
2014-11-10 21:49:43.644 defaults[2184:76708] Unexpected argument DriveSynciMaciMac; leaving defaults unchanged.
and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
A: There are backs lashes (\) in your path that should probably be forward slashes (/). You also use curly quotes (‘ and ’), which are weird at best. Try using straight quotes ('), although in that case straight double quotes (") should do as well:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location '/Users/tommy/Google Drive/Sync/iMac/iMac Screenshots'
A: In addition the quotes and slashes, it looks like you are trying to give an absolute path, so remove the tilde:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location '/Users/tommy/Google Drive/Sync/iMac/iMac Screenshots/'
Don't forget to run killall SystemUIServer or logout afterwards
A: TL;DR;
# Make and/or Ensure The File Path Exists.
mkdir -vp "$HOME/Google Drive/Sync/iMac/iMac Screenshots"
# Update Your Screenshot Save Path
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "$HOME/Google Drive/Sync/iMac/iMac Screenshots"
# Restart System UI.
killall SystemUIServer
# Check That The Setting Was Updated
defaults read com.apple.screencapture location
# Take a screenshot to add to your new location
Screenshot Your Screen or All Screens
CTRL+SHIFT+3
Note: Saves a Screenshot for every single screen connected to your computer. 3 screens == 3 saved images.
Screenshot By Click & Drag Selection
CTRL+SHIFT+4
Screenshot Window Selection
CTRL+SHIFT+4 the press SPACEBAR
and drag your mouse over what window you want to screenshot, Then (Left) Click.
Custom Screenshot/Screen Recording Session
CTRL+SHIFT+5
Take screenshots or screen recordings on Mac
Details:
Ok, so here's my more verbose explanation:
You can also do this by replacing the ~ (tilde) with the $HOME
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "$HOME/Google Drive/Sync/iMac/iMac Screenshots"
# Restart System UI. Needed for the system to recognize the screenshot location change.
killall SystemUIServer
You can check the set value by running
defaults read com.apple.screencapture location
If you get
####-##-## ##:##:##.### defaults[####:######]
The domain/default pair of (com.apple.screencapture, location) does not exist
Then the value has not been set...
Otherwise you should get a value back like this where tommy is your whoami
/Users/tommy/Google Drive/Sync/iMac/iMac Screenshots
IMPORTANT
If the file path does not exist your screenshots will default to saving to your ~/Desktop...
In Terminal try to cd to the directory to ensure it exists and/or that you typed it correctly:
cd "$HOME/Google Drive/Sync/iMac/iMac Screenshots"
If you don't get an error you are good to go.
If you cannot cd into that directory but you want to create it or make sure it is made then run this:
mkdir -vp "$HOME/Google Drive/Sync/iMac/iMac Screenshots"
man mkdir
# -v
# Be verbose when creating directories, listing them as they are created.
# -p
# Create intermediate directories as required.
# If this option is not specified,
# the full path prefix of each operand must already exist.
# On the other hand, with this option specified,
# no error will be reported if a directory given as an operand already exists.
# Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of “rwxrwxrwx” (0777)
# as modified by the current umask, plus write and search permission for the owner.
This should fix any potential issues, by creating the file path that you expect/set.
Notes:
Single Appostrophe's. ' treat the values as literal characters.
Double Quote's: " evaluates the string before hand.
Backslashes: \ are used as escape characters & are not required for this example as the path is already in quotes. So there no need to escape the spaces.
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b126ebcfa7ce336c3e1449eb1afafae2fc0f31f8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Fullscreen Flash video only shows 1/4 of video When I maximize some Flash (version 15.0.0.xxx) videos to fullscreen, only the top left quarter of the screen is showing video, the rest is completely black.
I've tried this on OSX 10.9 and 10.10, 2014 Macbook Pro, 3 browsers (Safari, Chrome, and Firefox) with no plugins, no additional screen, and hardware acceleration set to enabled and disabled.
Here's a workaround I've found: right click on the 1/4-screen video and look for the Stretching is <type> item in the options list. Click on that and the video will fill the screen. Keep repeating to get back to the 'Stretching is none' setting.
What can I do to debug this?
A: I've found it. After looking a little further, I was able to find something I missed some time ago.
*
*In the URL bar enter chrome://plugins/
*Locate the Flash plug-in, you should see multiple versions listed
*Click Disable for the plug-in with the location /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so
*You should still have one enabled in another location, like /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
*Restart Chrome (quit and open again)
Source: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=135353#c25
This fixed it for me!
| Q: Fullscreen Flash video only shows 1/4 of video When I maximize some Flash (version 15.0.0.xxx) videos to fullscreen, only the top left quarter of the screen is showing video, the rest is completely black.
I've tried this on OSX 10.9 and 10.10, 2014 Macbook Pro, 3 browsers (Safari, Chrome, and Firefox) with no plugins, no additional screen, and hardware acceleration set to enabled and disabled.
Here's a workaround I've found: right click on the 1/4-screen video and look for the Stretching is <type> item in the options list. Click on that and the video will fill the screen. Keep repeating to get back to the 'Stretching is none' setting.
What can I do to debug this?
A: I've found it. After looking a little further, I was able to find something I missed some time ago.
*
*In the URL bar enter chrome://plugins/
*Locate the Flash plug-in, you should see multiple versions listed
*Click Disable for the plug-in with the location /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so
*You should still have one enabled in another location, like /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
*Restart Chrome (quit and open again)
Source: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=135353#c25
This fixed it for me!
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b6cb9f32e3e2f04af8378762da101c9ab5fd9053 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Adding page break to tables in Pages 5.5 In Pages 5.5 on Yosemite how can I add a page break into a table?
A: You can't add a page break within a table. You can provide feedback to Apple regarding this:
*
*https://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html
| Q: Adding page break to tables in Pages 5.5 In Pages 5.5 on Yosemite how can I add a page break into a table?
A: You can't add a page break within a table. You can provide feedback to Apple regarding this:
*
*https://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html
A: You can make another table by copying your table format and paste another table on to the next page. Then you can continue the information. You can still reference the other table for formulas. Just Figured it out!
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72c8e410aa566d56151a08b4a7a26ff23321c7db | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Font Used in OS X 'Yosemite' Version of Terminal's Icon? What font is used for the prompt ('>_') in Terminal's icon in OS X 10.10.x 'Yosemite?'
A: The font used in the version of Terminal's icon included with OS X 10.10.0 'Yosemite' has been identified here on WhatTheFont! as 'Menlo,' the same font used by default in Terminal's own shells.
| Q: Font Used in OS X 'Yosemite' Version of Terminal's Icon? What font is used for the prompt ('>_') in Terminal's icon in OS X 10.10.x 'Yosemite?'
A: The font used in the version of Terminal's icon included with OS X 10.10.0 'Yosemite' has been identified here on WhatTheFont! as 'Menlo,' the same font used by default in Terminal's own shells.
A: You can find a font from image in websites like WhatTheFont.
Just take an screenshot of the terminal icon and look for it.
Having only one symbol, I believe that can be difficult to find out.
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e5400bedd8ad6870ee7a868fa02ff9890d1fe226 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Spotlight shortcut Cmd+Space stops working in Yosemite I have to go to the spotlight menu under system preferences and change and re-set the keyboard shortcut to Cmd+Space and then it starts to work again.
Has anyone else also experienced this? Anyone know what causes the shortcut to stop working?
A: Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts tab and click Restore Defaults. Then reconfigure your shortcut.
| Q: Spotlight shortcut Cmd+Space stops working in Yosemite I have to go to the spotlight menu under system preferences and change and re-set the keyboard shortcut to Cmd+Space and then it starts to work again.
Has anyone else also experienced this? Anyone know what causes the shortcut to stop working?
A: Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts tab and click Restore Defaults. Then reconfigure your shortcut.
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54839317275827ea42a5abd09c082a0a6c834c32 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why do you need a SIM to "activate" an iPhone Why do you need a SIM to "activate" an unlocked iPhone, even to use with iTunes?
What happens if you use a SIM from another network than that you intend to use?
A: iPhone is a phone.
In order for it to work as a phone you need a phone service provider.
Also in order for the software to complete the boot process you need a active SIM even if you do not intend to use it as a phone.
That comes in a form of a SIM card from a network provider.
If you activate it with one provider but later you want to switch to another, you can do that providing your phone is unlocked from any providers.
In your case the unlocked means you can use any SIM from any provider to activate the phone function.
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT3406
| Q: Why do you need a SIM to "activate" an iPhone Why do you need a SIM to "activate" an unlocked iPhone, even to use with iTunes?
What happens if you use a SIM from another network than that you intend to use?
A: iPhone is a phone.
In order for it to work as a phone you need a phone service provider.
Also in order for the software to complete the boot process you need a active SIM even if you do not intend to use it as a phone.
That comes in a form of a SIM card from a network provider.
If you activate it with one provider but later you want to switch to another, you can do that providing your phone is unlocked from any providers.
In your case the unlocked means you can use any SIM from any provider to activate the phone function.
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT3406
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f37d75bd4c56475c98503af4169aa4644e35dc7b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I mass delete photos from my iPhone in Yosemite / iOS 8? I previously used Image Capture (ie. this solution: How to mass delete your photos in your iPhone?). It seems like the delete functionality was removed in Yosemite. Now what? I have 800+ photos and I don't want to select them one by one.
When I connect to iTunes, it says "iCloud Photos is On" - and does not allow me to sync through iTunes.
A: Turning off iCloud Photos Beta and restarting my iPhone worked, then the option returned in Image Capture. Seems to be a bug in iCloud Photos Beta
| Q: How do I mass delete photos from my iPhone in Yosemite / iOS 8? I previously used Image Capture (ie. this solution: How to mass delete your photos in your iPhone?). It seems like the delete functionality was removed in Yosemite. Now what? I have 800+ photos and I don't want to select them one by one.
When I connect to iTunes, it says "iCloud Photos is On" - and does not allow me to sync through iTunes.
A: Turning off iCloud Photos Beta and restarting my iPhone worked, then the option returned in Image Capture. Seems to be a bug in iCloud Photos Beta
A: When your iOS device is using the iCloud photo storage option, you can delete all the photos using the web interface at https://icloud.com as opposed to using Image Capture.
You can "delete" all the local copies of the photos by navigating to:
*
*Settings > iCloud > Photos
Tap the iCloud Photo Library button and then tap "Remove from iPhone" which will delete all photos off the iOS device in question (if it's not an iPhone - the prompt should say iPad or iPod).
This failed me on my iPhone 11 Pro and iPad Pro with iOS 13 so they have residue photos left. In one case 36,000 photos that take up 45 GB of space. I will have to look at a second step since this does not seem to be as reliable at cleaning with recent hardware and software. Image Capture of course works, but I’ll see if I’m clever enough to do it untethered to a computer.
A: I'm using OS/X Yosemite Public Beta. The delete functionality does work out of Image Capture, but the control is not in the menu toolbar. The delete icon on the bottom of the window works (red circle with slash).
A: This doesn't really solve the bug that you seem to be encountering but if you just pull up iPhoto and import the photos it will ask you if you want to keep the photos on your device or delete them. Kind of quick and dirty but if you want them gone that will work.
A: This worked for me -- Turn off/uncheck "Photos" in iCloud on your Mac & iDevice. Restart both devices. The delete button was then displayed in Image Capture. Prior to restarting my iPhone, Image Capture displayed my photos in duplicate. The restart solved this.
Hope this helps!
A: This seem to be a bug on iCloud Photo Library (maybe Apple will officially disable this for everybody once the OS X Photos app is released).
As a workaround, you can login on iCloud Photos online and delete the pictures from there. Use the Select Photos button on the top right corner (next to Upload). It's not optimal, but much faster than doing it on the phone.
A: There's a little box in the lower-left corner of the Image Capture window. Click the box and the "Delete after import" option should appear (at least it did for me).
A: I have the same issue, I think it's a bug in iCloud.
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fa0f0d2e76ef7e1e1d96ee93ccdd61309ed2f264 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can a Yosemite extension enable itself without the user turning it on? I'm working on Yosemite Finder sync extension, and I need to know if I'm able to enable it by myself without forcing users to turn it on.
I've noticed that on start it writes message into log:
PM com.apple.preferences.extensions.remoteservice[2241]: ### com.MyHome.FinderExtension setting enabled:1
Can I turn it on manually somehow?
Thanks!
A: pluginkit -e use -i <com.XXX.plugin_bundle_id> installs the extension!
| Q: Can a Yosemite extension enable itself without the user turning it on? I'm working on Yosemite Finder sync extension, and I need to know if I'm able to enable it by myself without forcing users to turn it on.
I've noticed that on start it writes message into log:
PM com.apple.preferences.extensions.remoteservice[2241]: ### com.MyHome.FinderExtension setting enabled:1
Can I turn it on manually somehow?
Thanks!
A: pluginkit -e use -i <com.XXX.plugin_bundle_id> installs the extension!
A: This is not possible how I think you wish it would be: through Objective-C code within your app. This would be a security risk if this would be permitted. In a similar fashion to enabling accessibility options for an app, the app itself is not able to set this. Furthermore, through GUI scripting, accessibility must be enabled for your app anyway, which is more hassle than it is worth for the end user.
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1f59611755db541ca5d1b8fe36e25a555dceacea | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to delete U2 album from iPod Touch The free U2 album was downloaded to my iPod Touch. It does not show up in my iTunes library on the computer. I do not want this album. How do I now delete the songs from my iPod Touch?
A: You just have to go to the following link, and press the "Delete album" button:
https://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/offerOptOut
Edit: More info can be found on this official link from Apple.
| Q: How to delete U2 album from iPod Touch The free U2 album was downloaded to my iPod Touch. It does not show up in my iTunes library on the computer. I do not want this album. How do I now delete the songs from my iPod Touch?
A: You just have to go to the following link, and press the "Delete album" button:
https://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/offerOptOut
Edit: More info can be found on this official link from Apple.
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262e17cf8a049592e05979639eb571ccd4fa6d7c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Yosemite Calendar 24 hour clock New Event Since upgrading to Yosemite, I can't enter a New Event in Calendar using the 24 hour clock. If I try to enter the start or end time as 14:00, it enters the 1 and then beeps at me.
Calendar does display events in 24 hour format, I just can't create a new event using it. I've check the calendar and Mac settings and they all appear correct.
A: I do not have Yosemite but on Mavericks you can set it up as follows:
Open system preferences Languages and Regions
Click on the 24 Hour time format.
That should change the time format in Calender.
I can enter any time (as 2 digits)
Let me know if it works in Yosemite.
| Q: Yosemite Calendar 24 hour clock New Event Since upgrading to Yosemite, I can't enter a New Event in Calendar using the 24 hour clock. If I try to enter the start or end time as 14:00, it enters the 1 and then beeps at me.
Calendar does display events in 24 hour format, I just can't create a new event using it. I've check the calendar and Mac settings and they all appear correct.
A: I do not have Yosemite but on Mavericks you can set it up as follows:
Open system preferences Languages and Regions
Click on the 24 Hour time format.
That should change the time format in Calender.
I can enter any time (as 2 digits)
Let me know if it works in Yosemite.
A: There does seem to be a problem here. My computer was showing a 12 hour clock plus am or pm. Changing this to 24 hour clock in the date and time section of system preferences didn't work. After some digging I found that the language and region section of system preferences also has a 24 hour clock setting option. And this one works.
Looks like a little buglet for Apple to fix
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afc4dfd82078b4980007ecd8ab7eed1caa631a78 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the minimum partition size for Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite? I'm about to set up a Mac mini to dual boot Mavericks and Yosemite for software development purposes. What's the recommended minimum size of a Yosemite partition?
A: I have run Mavericks/Yosemite on a 64 GB SD card and after a clean install, there was about 20-30 GB free.
I would say that you could install Yosemite on a 20 GB partition, but I would not recommend anything less than 30 GB.
| Q: What is the minimum partition size for Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite? I'm about to set up a Mac mini to dual boot Mavericks and Yosemite for software development purposes. What's the recommended minimum size of a Yosemite partition?
A: I have run Mavericks/Yosemite on a 64 GB SD card and after a clean install, there was about 20-30 GB free.
I would say that you could install Yosemite on a 20 GB partition, but I would not recommend anything less than 30 GB.
A: Instead of rebooting constantly to test software in different environments, try a virtual machine. I use VMware Fusion. Major advantages include suspend rather than shut down, and you can have as many as you have disk space for. You can have as many running simultaneously as you have memory for, and you don't need extra hardware to handle different versions - the hardware is simulated, so it's even possible to run future versions on older hardware within some limits.
My VM library includes 10.6 thru 10.10, Windows XP thru 11, Ubuntu, and DOS.
A: It is possible, but unadvisable, to run OS X 10.10 Mavericks on a 16 GB partition. I am doing so at the moment during a reinstall.
Mac OS X prefers to have applications on the boot drive, as well as the user home locations, swapfile, and sleep image file.
if you are not willing to hack files, then a 32gb partition is a minimal install partition for practical purposes, allowing for the roughly 12 GB system, 8 GB of vm files, 8 GB of sleep image, and some apps.
A: From the official source:
These Mac models are compatible with OS X Yosemite
*
*iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
*MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
*MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
*MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
*Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
*Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
*Xserve (Early 2009)
You can upgrade to OS X Yosemite from the following
*
*OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6.8)
*OS X Lion (v10.7)
*OS X Mountain Lion (v10.8)
*OS X Mavericks (v10.9)
General Requirements
*
*OS X v10.6.8 or later
*2GB of memory
*8GB of available storage
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e155978d4d4189e9624100eebe92b315eed2e235 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Make gmail in chrome the default email application for Yosemite I love my MacBook but I'm not a huge fan of Mail. Can I make GMail in Chrome the default email application for Yosemite so that when I click on email links I am sent to a new draft there?
I've done this before on other systems.
A: To Set default protocol handler in your chrome browser, visit any web app or website which support protocol handlers (For ex: Gmail for mailto:, Google Calendar for webcal: ) and you’ll see Protocol handler icon <<>> on right side of your address bar, click that icon to set default handler.
http://www.ashout.com/complete-guide-to-google-chrome-handlers/
| Q: Make gmail in chrome the default email application for Yosemite I love my MacBook but I'm not a huge fan of Mail. Can I make GMail in Chrome the default email application for Yosemite so that when I click on email links I am sent to a new draft there?
I've done this before on other systems.
A: To Set default protocol handler in your chrome browser, visit any web app or website which support protocol handlers (For ex: Gmail for mailto:, Google Calendar for webcal: ) and you’ll see Protocol handler icon <<>> on right side of your address bar, click that icon to set default handler.
http://www.ashout.com/complete-guide-to-google-chrome-handlers/
A: Sort of...
If you mean "when I click on a "mailto:" link on a web page, can it go to my Gmail tab in Chrome instead of Apple's Mail.app." the answer is yes.
In Chrome go to Setting -> Advanced ->content Settings. Scroll down to handlers -> manage handlers and select Gmail from the mailto link.
A more complete tutorial for Chrome, Firefox and IE can be found here.
A: I tried doing this, but ran into an issue where my "Manage Handlers" window was blank and I could not add anything to it.
Here is the javascript solution that works even if your Handlers window does not. I figured I would post this here, in case anyone else finds this post and has this problem.
*
*Make sure you are logged in to Gmail and the active window is your main Gmail page (or nothing will happen).
*Copy/paste this into the address bar:
javascript:navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","Gmail")
*Add the javascript: to the front again if needed, because when you pasted it, Chrome probably trimmed everything before and including the colon. Then hit enter.
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4a0a1ba84d8156b90b3ec0aba035ab124f73928c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: "The required index.xml is missing" in Pages and "You need a newer version of Pages to open this document" I have the newest Pages 4.3 and Yosemite 10.10 so the report makes no sense, Pages has been messed up. I tested the conversion between pages file and zip and it recompiled pages to a folder but it did not work -- only getting the error: you need the new Pages.
How can I fix this I-Cannot-Open-Any-Pages-File-On-My-Computer-Anymore with Pages?
A: You need to go to the Mac App Store and install the latest version of Pages (5.x)
As of now, the latest version of Pages is 5.5.1, and it's only available from the App Store.
*
*Mac App Store
*Apple website
I've seen this when using Pages from iWork '09, which is 4.3. The file format changed and iWork '09 cannot directly open the new files.
You can export iWork '09 compatible files from Pages 5.x though.
| Q: "The required index.xml is missing" in Pages and "You need a newer version of Pages to open this document" I have the newest Pages 4.3 and Yosemite 10.10 so the report makes no sense, Pages has been messed up. I tested the conversion between pages file and zip and it recompiled pages to a folder but it did not work -- only getting the error: you need the new Pages.
How can I fix this I-Cannot-Open-Any-Pages-File-On-My-Computer-Anymore with Pages?
A: You need to go to the Mac App Store and install the latest version of Pages (5.x)
As of now, the latest version of Pages is 5.5.1, and it's only available from the App Store.
*
*Mac App Store
*Apple website
I've seen this when using Pages from iWork '09, which is 4.3. The file format changed and iWork '09 cannot directly open the new files.
You can export iWork '09 compatible files from Pages 5.x though.
A: Being that I have frustrated no end by this ridiculous message with NO solution (that I could find) from Apple, here is what I finally stumbled on.
After a recent "re-start" I could not open some documents. Always got the "xml" message.
Tried all sorts of things. Updated to Yosemite - wouldn't run. TRIED to update Pages to 5,x (had 4.x before) - no dice. Then Yosemite finally updated. Pages ? I got the "installing" message but that NEVER ended.
After more frustration, I finally found a particular document I had had on my "startup: list that was PASSWORD protected. For whatever reason, on re-start, the password protected file didn't come up.
So, finding THAT doc in my pages list, I clicked on it and the password box came up. I entered the password and the document appeared. Once I did that the other docs that previously got the "xml" message appeared as well. And finally, I find that I DO HAVE Pages 5.x installed after all (Only Pages 4.x was showing before.
Note - for about a week or 10 days now something (automatic update ?) has changed in my MAC. When I click on say "Pages" (in the dock) my Chrome browser slides to the right instead of simply staying in the background. My menu bar also "hides" where before it stayed at the top. I cannot find any "fixes" for these.
A: Interesting observation: I've been seeing the "File Couldn't be Opened / The required index.xml file is missing" dialog when I attempt to open several numbers documents. At the same time, the App Store was downloading updates to Xcode; however, the download appeared to stop. I disconnected the network and was able to halt the download. After that, I was able to successfully open up the documents using numbers...
A: Today, I tried to open Numbers documents and, for no known reason, received the message the documents were invalid because the required "index.xml file was missing. After an hour of panic and knowledge-less button pressing,I shut my MacBook Pro down completely, let it rest for about 10 minutes.
After starting back up, the problem disappeared and all numbers documents opened without error messages. Have no idea what or why?
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0d9184c37dcf9fe5d18570f6c2b35380159cd568 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X (Yosemite) offline password manager I am fairly new Mac user, so sorry for a newbie question.
I work as a webdev and i have hundreds of login credentials for websites/FTPs/cPanels for different clients and so far i used a text document to store and manage them all (what can i do, Mac newbie lol).
Since it has become to hard to keep track of that, i am looking for the best and most secure offline password manager so i can keep track of them on a single place.
I dont need any fancy features like multiple devices sync (only thing i need is an autofill) and to be honest, since the iCloud leak this year, i dont trust any company to hold that sensitive data.
Can anybody suggest me any solution, doesnt matter is it paid or free as long as it does the job.
Thanks a bunch!
A: OSX comes with a good Keychain manager, you can sync, encrypted to iCloud or store locally.
| Q: OS X (Yosemite) offline password manager I am fairly new Mac user, so sorry for a newbie question.
I work as a webdev and i have hundreds of login credentials for websites/FTPs/cPanels for different clients and so far i used a text document to store and manage them all (what can i do, Mac newbie lol).
Since it has become to hard to keep track of that, i am looking for the best and most secure offline password manager so i can keep track of them on a single place.
I dont need any fancy features like multiple devices sync (only thing i need is an autofill) and to be honest, since the iCloud leak this year, i dont trust any company to hold that sensitive data.
Can anybody suggest me any solution, doesnt matter is it paid or free as long as it does the job.
Thanks a bunch!
A: OSX comes with a good Keychain manager, you can sync, encrypted to iCloud or store locally.
A: Another option is "pass: the standard unix password manager", which encrypts all password files with gpg.
It's an open source project, so you don't have to trust a company with your password data, which perhaps makes this preferable to the other two answers that have been suggested so far. Given that the encryption is done with gpg—a pretty widely-used open source tool for encryption—it's likely that the passwords will be pretty safe.
Moreover, the gpg-encrypted files can be stored offline, as requested by the OP. However, since the files are encrypted with gpg you can probably safely put the binary files online somewhere, so long as you take the necessary steps to protect your gpg key that decrypts the passwords.1
Passwords that are tracked by pass are stored in ~/.password-store, which is, by default, a git repository. Since the files are encrypted with gpg and can only be decrypted with your key, one thing you can do—if you want to—is add a git remote that is hosted on some cloud service, like GitHub or Bitbucket. I personally keep my ~/.password-store directory in a private repo on Bitbucket (since Bitbucket has unlimited private repos, unlike GitHub). And I feel pretty safe with this setup, given that the files are encrypted and can only be decrypted with my gpg key.
As far as autofill goes, there is a Firefox plugin that has been written by the community that uses pass.
The community has also developed a cross-platform GUI app, an Android app, a Windows client, and an emacs package.
I suppose one reason to prefer some of the other answers is that they are probably more user-friendly, but I personally prefer pass to any other options that I have come across for a Mac, since I don't have to trust companies and their closed-source password managers and since the encryption of the passwords is done with a widely-used open source encryption tool.
If the set up process seems intimidating, here is a blog post that walks you through the process.
*
*Here are two blog posts (1, 2) that detail good and safe ways to generate and protect your gpg keys.
A: I am also a web developer and couldn't recommend 1Password more highly: https://agilebits.com/onepassword/mac
Honestly, the price has by and far been worth it for me. I believe I have ~300 login items in there and nearly all of them have different, very secure passwords. You can store nearly any data in the there and it is extremely flexible. The keyboard shortcut Command + \ automatically fills out logins and makes that part extremely easy (as long as there is a URL with that). Note that as of 1Password 5.0 it does not support auto-filling HTTP Basic Authentication. You can still copy/paste those credentials, though.
It is also possible to tag and organize items. There are many types of items including logins, servers, credit cards, identities (for filling out your name/address/email/etc.) and notes which also create a natural organization.
Edit: I also like the fact that since the URL can be (and is) saved in 1Password for the login it will not automatically fill in a form that is not the correct URL. For example if a scammer sends you an phishing email with a link to login to your bank, 1Password won't recognize the site and hence will not automatically fill the form when you hit the keyboard shortcut.
I will also note that 1Password offers excellent multi-device syncing.
I have tried SplashID and my brother (who also does web development) has tried LastPass, I believe, several years ago but we both are on 1Password and love it.
I am not affiliated with 1Password.
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e59e3323f97d3b29538aebcb155557a77acff89f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: permanently stop iPhone text messages from appearing on my iMac How do I permanently stop iPhone text messages from appearing on my iMac. I don't want to send/receive/view messages on my computer. I only want to use my phone for sending/receiving/viewing messages. Also, I'm hoping the fix doesn't require constant maintenance. I've gotten advice for this before, but the fix has to be repeated every time I restart my computer.
A: To disable Text Message Forwarding:
*
*On your iPhone, open the Settings app, then tap on Messages, then Text Message Forwarding.
*Tap on the on/off button across from your Mac's name to disable.
| Q: permanently stop iPhone text messages from appearing on my iMac How do I permanently stop iPhone text messages from appearing on my iMac. I don't want to send/receive/view messages on my computer. I only want to use my phone for sending/receiving/viewing messages. Also, I'm hoping the fix doesn't require constant maintenance. I've gotten advice for this before, but the fix has to be repeated every time I restart my computer.
A: To disable Text Message Forwarding:
*
*On your iPhone, open the Settings app, then tap on Messages, then Text Message Forwarding.
*Tap on the on/off button across from your Mac's name to disable.
A: If you specifically mean iMessage, rather than SMS forwarding, then ...
*
*Launch Messages on the Mac
*Messages menu > Preferences > Accounts > [Settings] > Sign out
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e97266e55f6db7fb11c27af40c90f18476305f76 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: AppleHighlightColor syntax I'm changing my highlight color via a command I find in Mathias Bynen's dotfiles like so:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleHighlightColor -string "0.764700 0.976500 0.568600"
I'd like to change it to something other than green, but I don't understand the syntax that is used for the color configuration (i'm a web developer so anything behind hex or rgba is dark magic to me).
First, what is the color specification?
Second, is there any documentation behind AppleHighlightColor?
A: To get the values for AppleHighlightColor try the following:
*
*Pick your desired color
*Get that color's RGB values
*Take each value and divide it by 255
*Put them into the string in order R G B
So, the color:
*
*Red: 255 => 255/255 = 1
*Green: 152 => 152/255 = 0.5960784314
*Blue: 89 => 89/255 = 0.3490196078
would end up as:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleHighlightColor -string "1 0.5960784314 0.3490196078"
Be careful, it's the hightlight color only so you don't want to pick something dark as some (all?) apps don't change the highlighted text color - dark highlight color + black text = hard to read.
| Q: AppleHighlightColor syntax I'm changing my highlight color via a command I find in Mathias Bynen's dotfiles like so:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleHighlightColor -string "0.764700 0.976500 0.568600"
I'd like to change it to something other than green, but I don't understand the syntax that is used for the color configuration (i'm a web developer so anything behind hex or rgba is dark magic to me).
First, what is the color specification?
Second, is there any documentation behind AppleHighlightColor?
A: To get the values for AppleHighlightColor try the following:
*
*Pick your desired color
*Get that color's RGB values
*Take each value and divide it by 255
*Put them into the string in order R G B
So, the color:
*
*Red: 255 => 255/255 = 1
*Green: 152 => 152/255 = 0.5960784314
*Blue: 89 => 89/255 = 0.3490196078
would end up as:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleHighlightColor -string "1 0.5960784314 0.3490196078"
Be careful, it's the hightlight color only so you don't want to pick something dark as some (all?) apps don't change the highlighted text color - dark highlight color + black text = hard to read.
A: The string is RGB with each value ranging from 0.0 to 1.0 (i.e. 1 being 100%, 0 being 0%).
AppleHighlightColor is an undocumented setting as far as I can tell.
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9d7333e036a7a4c27f173605ee9c5130ddb734c8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Keyboard adjustment keys have black box around them I recently did a fresh reformat and install of Yosemite on my macbook pro, it was working as expected until today when i noticed that whenever i use the top keyboard row keys to change something like screen brightness, volume, backlight level, there is a black box around the rounded box that normally pops up. Is this a common problem with yosemite and is there a fix?
A: This effect occurs when "Reduce Transparency" is enabled (System Preferences > Accessibility).
(Very odd that this is how the effect would degrade, instead of just make it a solid colored square.)
| Q: Keyboard adjustment keys have black box around them I recently did a fresh reformat and install of Yosemite on my macbook pro, it was working as expected until today when i noticed that whenever i use the top keyboard row keys to change something like screen brightness, volume, backlight level, there is a black box around the rounded box that normally pops up. Is this a common problem with yosemite and is there a fix?
A: This effect occurs when "Reduce Transparency" is enabled (System Preferences > Accessibility).
(Very odd that this is how the effect would degrade, instead of just make it a solid colored square.)
A: I solved it accidentally on my 2009 macbook pro running 10.10.3 by removing the battery, unplugging the charge cable, and holding the power button down for 15 seconds. I was trying to reset the SMC/PRAM for unrelated reasons and noticed the black boarders are gone.
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bff750bfae6ba9adb4fcbd8eab497642ab1df659 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Terminator (Ubuntu) like app for OS X Yosemite I'm using Ubuntu on a daily basis, and recently (6 months ago) I bought a Mac, so the first thing I did was installing VMWare and Ubuntu on my MBP.
I'm a developer and a huge fan of Terminator. With Terminator, you can open multiple file in one window, code separatly on them, and many other great things.
I thought that if it runs on Ubuntu it could possibly run on Mac OSX but it seems that it doesn't work.
Is there a Terminator-like terminal app for OS X Yosemite?
A: My solution to darting between Mac and Linux as a developer is to use tmux, which runs in the terminal on both platforms. You get an identical feature set, and you can even sync your config files between the two platforms for all your fave build shortcuts across terminal panes, and anything else you'll ever think of, I imagine.
tmux runs in a terminal, and from there you can divide up the terminal window as desired.
tmux runs in a terminal, so it's not sexy.
| Q: Terminator (Ubuntu) like app for OS X Yosemite I'm using Ubuntu on a daily basis, and recently (6 months ago) I bought a Mac, so the first thing I did was installing VMWare and Ubuntu on my MBP.
I'm a developer and a huge fan of Terminator. With Terminator, you can open multiple file in one window, code separatly on them, and many other great things.
I thought that if it runs on Ubuntu it could possibly run on Mac OSX but it seems that it doesn't work.
Is there a Terminator-like terminal app for OS X Yosemite?
A: My solution to darting between Mac and Linux as a developer is to use tmux, which runs in the terminal on both platforms. You get an identical feature set, and you can even sync your config files between the two platforms for all your fave build shortcuts across terminal panes, and anything else you'll ever think of, I imagine.
tmux runs in a terminal, and from there you can divide up the terminal window as desired.
tmux runs in a terminal, so it's not sexy.
A: Use iTerm2. Can do most things that Terminator does.
A: The gnometerminator docs are slightly outdated. Fink is now in stable, but must be installed from source on OSX 10.11.
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/terminator?rel_id=10.11-x86_64-current-stable
A: Did you try to do run Terminator with Fink:
To install Terminator on Mac OS X you will need to be using
the Fink project, and have it configured to allow unstable software.
With those requirements satisfied, in a terminal run: fink install
terminator
http://gnometerminator.blogspot.no/p/introduction.html
Although iTerm2 works great for me (although I prefer Yakuake for terminal on Linux)
A: While not completely 1:1 with all of the features of Terminator, Hyper is a nice looking terminal on macOS that is easily extensible. I use multiple window panes frequently and Hyper does a great job at that.
If you have a really busy terminal (and I mean REALLY busy, like spewing data) it's a bit slower since it's backed in web tech. Still, it's an option worth looking at.
A: There is hope in brew too:
$ brew search terminator
homebrew/x11/terminator
Here I would like to say too that, agreed ITerm2 is great but there might be use cases where terminator ... I mean the same terminator on Linux would shine such as better keyboard mappings for emacs out of the box or similar.
A: it's a bit late, but for anyone reading this, use warp
this one is amazing
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491193a5a4f23af72621eaeb588cc0881b8bd32a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: "Use Option as Meta key" with ability to type the # symbol I am using Terminal version 2.5, where I have two requirements:
*
*I need to be able to type the Meta key.
*I need to be able to type the # character, too (Option+3 for the UK keyboard layout)
How can I satisfy both of these? By default, (2) is satisfied, but (1) is not. I can then turn on "Use Option as Meta key", which satisfies (1), but breaks requirement (2).
How can I have both? (It shouldn't be so hard for me to just be able to type.)
Edit: what I'm looking for, for example, might be a way to just "Use Option as Meta key" for the left/right Option key, or a way to override the "Use Option as Meta key" for the sole exception of the # character.
A: iTerm 2 can be configured to only use one option key as meta:
| Q: "Use Option as Meta key" with ability to type the # symbol I am using Terminal version 2.5, where I have two requirements:
*
*I need to be able to type the Meta key.
*I need to be able to type the # character, too (Option+3 for the UK keyboard layout)
How can I satisfy both of these? By default, (2) is satisfied, but (1) is not. I can then turn on "Use Option as Meta key", which satisfies (1), but breaks requirement (2).
How can I have both? (It shouldn't be so hard for me to just be able to type.)
Edit: what I'm looking for, for example, might be a way to just "Use Option as Meta key" for the left/right Option key, or a way to override the "Use Option as Meta key" for the sole exception of the # character.
A: iTerm 2 can be configured to only use one option key as meta:
A: For requirement 2 you can choose to make the keyboard an Australian one. The only difference between UK and Australian i alt3 and shift3. For UK they give # and £ and vice versa for Australian. This means that for an Australian keyboard # is shift3 as it is for a US or under Windows or Linux.
To change the keyboard layout (under Yosemite) got System Preferences->Language & region - hit the Keyboard Preferences button and use + to add Austrailian to the left hand column
A: I finally figured out how to do this by code:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30336086/make-shift3-produce-not-%C2%A3-on-osx-by-code
If you have developer tools, you can compile & run that from the commandline.
A: I have built a solution myself and it doesn't require abandoning Terminal.app in favour of iTerm 2.
It is a simple status bar app that runs in the background and rewrites all left Alt + $KEY key events to two key events in rapid succession, Esc, then $KEY; however, it only does this if Terminal.app is in focus.
You can find the source for the app here. You'll need Xcode to build it.
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3468d0988c7e62ad063170c08ba50643b4f2aea8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Yosemite: Quick Look previews are transparent Since Yosemite i'm having this strange problem with Quick Look (giving previews of files when pressing the space bar): whenever i preview my files they are displayed transparently. Pretty irritating for images, and very inconvenient for text files (see image).
I've tried switching off the 'Reduce transparency' option in the Accessibility preference pane, but to no avail.
Does anyone know if this is a bug in Yosemite or some strange setting i can change?
A: Instead of rebooting, you can simply enter "killall quicklookd" in Terminal.
That fixed it.
| Q: Yosemite: Quick Look previews are transparent Since Yosemite i'm having this strange problem with Quick Look (giving previews of files when pressing the space bar): whenever i preview my files they are displayed transparently. Pretty irritating for images, and very inconvenient for text files (see image).
I've tried switching off the 'Reduce transparency' option in the Accessibility preference pane, but to no avail.
Does anyone know if this is a bug in Yosemite or some strange setting i can change?
A: Instead of rebooting, you can simply enter "killall quicklookd" in Terminal.
That fixed it.
A: For those still looking for this answer, a simple reboot did the trick for me.
A: relaunch your Finder in Force Quit Applications will fix it
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295b8dd12791300d546746bb12dd6ec02b24256f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I make a shared link in Mail.app appear above my signature? When I click the Share arrow in Yosemite / Safari, then select 'Email this page' Mail.app opens a new email with my signature and the link below the signature:
I want the link to appear above my signature. Is there any way to change that?
I feel like the link used to be above my signature, but I can't find a preference that seems to affect the location. I tried the 'signature appears above quoted text' checkbox which some people implied could change this, but no dice.
A: I can see the attached image when I select add Signature:
Do you have this? Does it work?
I'm using 10.10.x
| Q: Can I make a shared link in Mail.app appear above my signature? When I click the Share arrow in Yosemite / Safari, then select 'Email this page' Mail.app opens a new email with my signature and the link below the signature:
I want the link to appear above my signature. Is there any way to change that?
I feel like the link used to be above my signature, but I can't find a preference that seems to affect the location. I tried the 'signature appears above quoted text' checkbox which some people implied could change this, but no dice.
A: I can see the attached image when I select add Signature:
Do you have this? Does it work?
I'm using 10.10.x
A: No, but Mailbox for Mac does. it's free, but you need a Dropbox account to use.
http://www.mailboxapp.com/download/mac/
Don't forget to open Mail.app and go into settings and change the default email reader from Mail.app to Mailbox.app.
A: Even if this is not the perfect solution, it maybe helps in your case.
I hope you don't mind writing some html code.
You can create a simple custom email template and apply it to your email after sharing the link from within Safari.
Step 1: Prepare your template
Open Mail.app and create a new email.
Go to the File menu and choose 'Save as Stationery ...' and named as desired.
Step 2: Edit your template
Open a Finder window.
From the menu, select 'Go to Folder ...', and paste this
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Application Support/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/Custom/Contents/Resources
You should see your newly created template. Right-click (2-Finger-Tap on the Touchpad) the template and pick 'Show Package Content'.
Inside your template, follow the folder structure and you'll find a file named content.html .
This is your email template. Open it with your favorite text editor, e.g. TextWrangler, or, if you happen to have one, your HTML editor (I really love Brackets!).
Replace the content of that file with something like this:
<html>
<head></head>
<body dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">
<span contenteditable="true" apple-content-name="body">
CONTENT
</span>
<br >
<div>
Your signature goes here
</div>
</body>
</html>
Replace 'Your signature goes here' with ... well, your signature.
Don't forget to save the file. But keep it in your editor for further changes.
Step 3: Share a page from within Safari
When the email opens up, apply your new custom stationary. The rightmost button on top of the mail window opens the stationary pane.
You have to scroll down to find the 'Custom' section and within it your new template.
Click to apply. Your signature should now appear below the link, as it is the signature from the template.
Step 4: Edit and repeat
If it does not fit your needs, change the html code of the template until it does.
To reapply the template, pick another stationary for your email, then reselect your custom one.
For future shared links from Safari, just apply that stationary.
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5bbce9f381b0e2a02ebb0b41603dd748b85abb90 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Activity Monitor suddenly showing all cores in Dock icon After upgrading my MBP from Mavericks to Yosemite, the "CPU History" option of the Activity Monitor only showed one aggregate graph.
After reinstalling Yosemite from scratch, I suddenly have 8 tiny graphs, one for each core, which I find too tiny to be useful. Is there any way to switch the Dock icon of Activity Monitor back to the single graph?
A: I saw this on a fresh install on 10.10.4. To fix it, close Activity Monitor and then:
defaults write com.apple.activitymonitor IconType -int 4
| Q: Activity Monitor suddenly showing all cores in Dock icon After upgrading my MBP from Mavericks to Yosemite, the "CPU History" option of the Activity Monitor only showed one aggregate graph.
After reinstalling Yosemite from scratch, I suddenly have 8 tiny graphs, one for each core, which I find too tiny to be useful. Is there any way to switch the Dock icon of Activity Monitor back to the single graph?
A: I saw this on a fresh install on 10.10.4. To fix it, close Activity Monitor and then:
defaults write com.apple.activitymonitor IconType -int 4
A: On macOS Mojave
This command show all the processors
defaults write com.apple.activitymonitor IconType 5
This command show only one composite graph
defaults write com.apple.activitymonitor IconType 4
The "all processor graph" doesn't work on MacBook and MBPro
The "composite graph" doesn't work on the old Pro desktops
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29025fa93e5460c71ac285c7b43704c980d234a4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Rename/delete files in Mac OS X save window Is it somehow possible to rename/delete/copy files when saving a file and the Finder window pops up? I know you can do it with Windows, is it possible with Mac OS X?
A: A quick test in OS X 10.10 shows that you can copy and delete, but not rename files from the save dialog box. Right(control)-clicking on a file brings up the options for Move to Trash and Duplicate. The usual behavior of changing a file name by clicking on the already-selected file does not seem to work as it does in the Finder.
| Q: Rename/delete files in Mac OS X save window Is it somehow possible to rename/delete/copy files when saving a file and the Finder window pops up? I know you can do it with Windows, is it possible with Mac OS X?
A: A quick test in OS X 10.10 shows that you can copy and delete, but not rename files from the save dialog box. Right(control)-clicking on a file brings up the options for Move to Trash and Duplicate. The usual behavior of changing a file name by clicking on the already-selected file does not seem to work as it does in the Finder.
A: If you are talking about operating on files in the folder structure you see in the Save window as if you were working in a Finder window, the answer is no.
The only operation that approaches this is to click on a filename appearing in the Save window, which will then rename the file portion of the filename, and save the file in its native format.
Below I'm saving a TextEdit file, (Untitled.rtf is the default file name & extension):
When I click on the Word document 3D_Course_v2.Doc, the filename changes to match, but keeps the format of the file, as evident by the .rtf:
A: A commercial extension called Default Folder X provides this. Tested against OS X 10.10.3.
It has a few other nice features, like letting you pick an open Finder window as the save/open destination.
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01000a15c2399ed1daa75c1e0fe5d072c3fad84c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Problems creating Yosemite USB bootable drive I was trying to make a USB boot loader for Yosemite using this command
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled 2 --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction
I borrowed it from the original
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction
Which has worked for tons of people. The issue is for some reason it doesn't recognize the name of my volume is Untitled 2.
Error message:
/Volumes/Untitled is not a valid volume mount point.
I don't understand why it isn't reading the 2. Is there another way to point the command to the partition without using the names given e.g. serial addressing?
A: Change
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled 2 --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction
to
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume "/Volumes/Untitled 2" --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction
or
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled\ 2 --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction
and it should work.
You have to escape spaces in paths in the command line either with a \ or quotation marks.
| Q: Problems creating Yosemite USB bootable drive I was trying to make a USB boot loader for Yosemite using this command
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled 2 --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction
I borrowed it from the original
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction
Which has worked for tons of people. The issue is for some reason it doesn't recognize the name of my volume is Untitled 2.
Error message:
/Volumes/Untitled is not a valid volume mount point.
I don't understand why it isn't reading the 2. Is there another way to point the command to the partition without using the names given e.g. serial addressing?
A: Change
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled 2 --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction
to
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume "/Volumes/Untitled 2" --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction
or
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled\ 2 --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction
and it should work.
You have to escape spaces in paths in the command line either with a \ or quotation marks.
A: Use this path instead:
/Volumes/Untitled\ 2/
The backslash tells the terminal that the space is included in the path, otherwise it thinks your volume is called /Volumes/Untitled and that there is a random 2 argument in the command.
A: I had this issue recently when trying to re-install Sierra on an older machine. None of the helpful tips from a few years ago seemed to work. Apple's installer certificates expired in Oct of 2019 and the installers all had to be replaced. However, Apple included a bug with the Sierra installer and I was stuck! I reached out to a friend and he came up with a clever way to solve it. I can verify that with his instructions, I was able to create a Sierra installer on a USB drive using an image I downloaded from Apple after Oct 24, 2019. This image was able to boot a MacBook Air and that I was able to re-install the Sierra OS with that USB drive. If anyone else has this issue in 2020, follow these instructions:
https://krieger.io/creating-bootable-macos-sierra-installation-media-on-macos-catalina/
A: sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction
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547e5bf09b6ab400d6efa9cded4a52d6a6ba6cc6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there any software for checking hardware in iOS? Is there anything like this in iOS for iDevices ?
A: This question & top answer are very relevant.
Basically "yes", but not so much from a customer / end user standpoint. iOS has a diagnostics tool built in that is accessible from Apple once you give consent.
You can check your iOS device's health using Apple's main support site. From that page you can select iPhone (or iPad), find an issue that would warrant running the diagnostic (I chose power, unexpected shutdown/restart), verify that a restore didn't resolve the issue and then enter your phone number / email address to start the diagnostic process. Apple will text / email you a link to open. The link opens the iOS diagnostic tool, which requires you to click through a legal agreement before starting the test. The test results are sent back to Apple once they finish and you tap "done". Back on the support site the page will refresh and show any issues that were found with the device as well as support options for resolving them.
| Q: Is there any software for checking hardware in iOS? Is there anything like this in iOS for iDevices ?
A: This question & top answer are very relevant.
Basically "yes", but not so much from a customer / end user standpoint. iOS has a diagnostics tool built in that is accessible from Apple once you give consent.
You can check your iOS device's health using Apple's main support site. From that page you can select iPhone (or iPad), find an issue that would warrant running the diagnostic (I chose power, unexpected shutdown/restart), verify that a restore didn't resolve the issue and then enter your phone number / email address to start the diagnostic process. Apple will text / email you a link to open. The link opens the iOS diagnostic tool, which requires you to click through a legal agreement before starting the test. The test results are sent back to Apple once they finish and you tap "done". Back on the support site the page will refresh and show any issues that were found with the device as well as support options for resolving them.
A: There is an free app called SensorMonitor, available from the AppStore, that can be used to check the functionality of various sensors in an iPhone/iPad, for example the compass, accelerometer, etc.
Description taken from the AppStore:
Description IMPORTANT : Currently, Sensor Monitor doesn't support
iOS8.
Sensor Monitor displays several sensor raw value of your device. and
log, use for development!
Also, 'Send over UDP' is available!
available sensor : magnetometer,gps, gyroscope,accelerometer,
battery,proximity, mic level, touch
A couple of screen shots:
The Accelerometer and Gyroscope Screen
The GPS Screen
Admittedly, it unfortunately does not provide checks for most of the hardware that you mentioned (namely the backlight, ringtone, vibrator or camera).
Update August 2017
As per the comment, the app seems to be no longer available.
This was the icon:
This is the about box:
Maybe you can contact the developer at [email protected].
Here is a web site about the app, Sensor Monitor. It does not support iOS 8, unfortunately.
A: Phone Doctor Plus has many diagnostics for the hardware.
iTunes link:
https://appsto.re/us/GXURH.i
A: Contact Apple. They can send/text you a free diagnostics file to make sure everything is working fine.
A: This software can make hardware test and diagnostic
https://idevice.me/3utools-idevice-verification-report/
A: Apple has a utility called Apple Configurator 2 for macOS available from the Mac App Store. It enables you to pull console logs, manage profiles, device info, etc.
[
Screenshot of Apple Configurator 2 (macOS) showing iPhone console log.
Apple Configurator 2 on the Mac App Store
A: For IOS function check, you can download free app Phone diagnostics from app store: https://itunes.apple.com/vn/app/phone-diagnostics/id1171677218?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
It's easy to use: just launch the app and click on each function test buttons to perform the test.
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6af332e1f840d592a420a5e1f0fe46993086817b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I renew my Developer Program Account? How do I renew my Developer Program Account. The Account I used to have has expired. Please give very clear and specific instructions.
A: Links updated Nov 2016
According to Apple, you can renew your membership anytime after it expires by signing in to Member Center with the Apple ID you used to enroll in the iOS Developer Program.
Following that link, after login, you will see an screen with renew options.
Source: Apple Developer Support
| Q: How do I renew my Developer Program Account? How do I renew my Developer Program Account. The Account I used to have has expired. Please give very clear and specific instructions.
A: Links updated Nov 2016
According to Apple, you can renew your membership anytime after it expires by signing in to Member Center with the Apple ID you used to enroll in the iOS Developer Program.
Following that link, after login, you will see an screen with renew options.
Source: Apple Developer Support
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5fcbb2348a93b00f4c219b9be5e89afd8661fb67 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to reinstall Safari 8 without reinstalling OS X Yosemite Safari keeps on crashing or is unusable for some other reason and I have no possibility of reinstalling it without reinstalling the OS. What do I do?
A: First try to boot your computer into Safe Mode and open Safari. If it does open you can see if there are any extensions causing the crash and remove them.
You can also update to the Safari 8.0.1 beta from https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action# and see if that helps fix it.
If all else fails. Boot to the recovery partition and reinstall the OS (This will ONLY reinstall the core system and its Apps. Including Safari. No personal data will be lost)
| Q: How to reinstall Safari 8 without reinstalling OS X Yosemite Safari keeps on crashing or is unusable for some other reason and I have no possibility of reinstalling it without reinstalling the OS. What do I do?
A: First try to boot your computer into Safe Mode and open Safari. If it does open you can see if there are any extensions causing the crash and remove them.
You can also update to the Safari 8.0.1 beta from https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action# and see if that helps fix it.
If all else fails. Boot to the recovery partition and reinstall the OS (This will ONLY reinstall the core system and its Apps. Including Safari. No personal data will be lost)
A: Steps to take to reinstall Safari:
*
*Remove Safari with Clean My Mac (or something similar, simply
dragging it to the trash doesn't work)
*Ask a friend/colleague (someone you trust not to have adapted the file) to upload his Safari to a server or dropbox (or something similar)
*Download the just-uploaded Safari
*Drag it from your download-folder to your Applications
*Enjoy Safari 8
A: This post solved my Safari problem (crashing on opening):
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987
DO NOT install ANY software from developers you don't know! Belatedly, I learned you can set Safari's preferences so you're forewarned. I was working late New Year's Day, was tired, and really didn't want to be there. While using Photoshop, a notification popped-up saying something to the effect that "this program wants to install an update . . ." Naturally, I thought it was an Adobe update and rather absent-mindedly clicked okay. Bad mistake. The culprit turned out to be an ad-injection software known as "Genieo." (There are several others). I spent the next two days trying to solve the problem when I finally stumbled across the above Apple support post.
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f96234b44651bd4d31ce4ad019572ac4d3ec1ef6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mail client sending duplicate replies I have my OS X Mail client setup with one GMail and one Outlook account. They both use IMAP.
I have an issue that every time I reply to a message I send two identical replies (from the same hotmail address to the same recipient). This only happens when I reply with my hotmail address, writing a new message works as it is supposed to.
Mail version 8.0 (1990.1) and OS X 10.10.
I saw a previous poster had a similar issue but the problem solved itself in his/her case. Anyone got advice on how to fix this?
Regards
Edit: Here is the mail setup
A: This problem happens only for Hotmail accounts in MacOS Mail app. I also had this problem once.
While to setting up hotmail account in mail app try to add it as Exchange account instead of using "Add another account".
This process resolved my duplicate mails in sent folder issue for Hotmail account.
| Q: Mail client sending duplicate replies I have my OS X Mail client setup with one GMail and one Outlook account. They both use IMAP.
I have an issue that every time I reply to a message I send two identical replies (from the same hotmail address to the same recipient). This only happens when I reply with my hotmail address, writing a new message works as it is supposed to.
Mail version 8.0 (1990.1) and OS X 10.10.
I saw a previous poster had a similar issue but the problem solved itself in his/her case. Anyone got advice on how to fix this?
Regards
Edit: Here is the mail setup
A: This problem happens only for Hotmail accounts in MacOS Mail app. I also had this problem once.
While to setting up hotmail account in mail app try to add it as Exchange account instead of using "Add another account".
This process resolved my duplicate mails in sent folder issue for Hotmail account.
A: You are most likely not sending each message twice, but saving two copies of it in your Sent folder.
Uncheck Store sent messages on the server under Mailbox Behaviors.
Your SMTP server automatically saves a copy of each outgoing message in your Sent folder. No need for Mail to duplicate that effort.
A: OK, the only settings i found that might cause that is in the Outlook web client.
Try setting it to as shown in pic above.
I assume the IMAP sync is doing something it should not.
But you can try resenting the outgoing server for outlook in Mail app.
type
smtp.live.com
Use this Apple tool to double check your email settings.
A: Go to Mail -> Preferences -> Viewing and un-tick "Include related messages" in the View conversations section.
A: This is caused by usage of IMAP instead of Microsoft Exchange. It is a Microsoft email service after all.
Remove the account from the Mail application and add a new one via Mail -> Add account... -> Exchange.
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93856b0efe919467292486d628275f009abdca64 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can Siri be set to read characters? So my iPhone 5 digitizer broke, and since I have an upgrade coming up soon, I'm trying to do without a working phone until i can get the new 6. My problem is, however, that I have some websites I need 2FA for, and it's set to send codes to my cell phone via text message. Siri is still completely functional, so I've been making phone calls and dictating text messages through her, but when I ask her to read a message with a 2FA code, she not only speeds through the code so fast i need to listen multiple times, but she also doesn't diferentiate between lowercase and uppercase letters.
Is there any way I can set Siri to:
A. Read slower
B. Read letters as uppercase or lowercase
And can I change these settings with Siri, not going to the Settings app?
Thanks!
| Q: Can Siri be set to read characters? So my iPhone 5 digitizer broke, and since I have an upgrade coming up soon, I'm trying to do without a working phone until i can get the new 6. My problem is, however, that I have some websites I need 2FA for, and it's set to send codes to my cell phone via text message. Siri is still completely functional, so I've been making phone calls and dictating text messages through her, but when I ask her to read a message with a 2FA code, she not only speeds through the code so fast i need to listen multiple times, but she also doesn't diferentiate between lowercase and uppercase letters.
Is there any way I can set Siri to:
A. Read slower
B. Read letters as uppercase or lowercase
And can I change these settings with Siri, not going to the Settings app?
Thanks!
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1003a9daf76a66c9645737797bd9543763a4c505 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Reminders won't sync to iPhone Running iOS 8.1 on an iPad mini, Yosemite on an Air, and 8.1 on a 5C.
For whatever reason, the 5C has stopped syncing reminders to/from iCloud. Works fine between the iPad and Air.
So far I've tried disabling reminder sync on the iPhone (not entire iCloud), and rebooted. When I open Reminders now everything is gone (expected) but none of the lists sync down. Reminders is stuck in a state where the only visible button is the "New List +" section, which does not react to taps.
If I turn off sync and open the app, I'm presented with "New List +" and a default empty "Reminders" sheet.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Potentially related: iOS reminders app not syncing with Yosemite
Kind Regards,
A: What worked for me:
*
*Disable reminders in iCloud settings
*Open reminders
*On the default reminders list create a random task, e.g. "Test"
*Re-enable reminders in iCloud settings
*"Merge" reminders
*Open reminders and wait for the sync to finish
| Q: Reminders won't sync to iPhone Running iOS 8.1 on an iPad mini, Yosemite on an Air, and 8.1 on a 5C.
For whatever reason, the 5C has stopped syncing reminders to/from iCloud. Works fine between the iPad and Air.
So far I've tried disabling reminder sync on the iPhone (not entire iCloud), and rebooted. When I open Reminders now everything is gone (expected) but none of the lists sync down. Reminders is stuck in a state where the only visible button is the "New List +" section, which does not react to taps.
If I turn off sync and open the app, I'm presented with "New List +" and a default empty "Reminders" sheet.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Potentially related: iOS reminders app not syncing with Yosemite
Kind Regards,
A: What worked for me:
*
*Disable reminders in iCloud settings
*Open reminders
*On the default reminders list create a random task, e.g. "Test"
*Re-enable reminders in iCloud settings
*"Merge" reminders
*Open reminders and wait for the sync to finish
A: I had the same problem, until I realized that the in the iPhone's iCloud settings, Reminders is unchecked by default. So all I did - on my iPhone - was go to Settings > iCloud and then just activate Reminders. Within a few seconds all my Reminders between my iPhone and Mac were synced.
A: on the date October 1, 2019 the problem is with Apple
iOS 13 came out a couple of weeks ago, but one thing you may have noticed is that Reminders no longer sync with Macs. Apple has now confirmed that Reminders won't update until its latest macOS update is made available.
The new version of Reminders for iPhone impressed us with its improvements in iOS 13.1. However, to sync Reminders between an iPhone and a Mac requires macOS 10.15, a.k.a. Catalina, which is released in the coming weeks.
A: The only thing that worked for me was to fully sign out of icloud on the phone and deleting all icloud data off phone then signing in again to icloud. Reminders then sync'ed.
A: There are limits to Calendars and Reminders on iCloud which must be followed. Reminders or lists which surpass those limits will not be synced, and will be reverted back to the previous state. Reminders below the limits will sync fine.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202158
In my case, my list title had over 100 characters in length, and some of my reminders had over 1000 characters in length. The list always reverted to "New list" (default name) after renaming, and the reminders were not synced at all, and would disappear from the device after a while.
So if some of your reminders or calendars aren't syncing, check if they are over the iCloud limits. As far as iCloud is concerned, "Lists" (inside Reminders app) and Calendars are the same thing (EKCalendar), so their limits are also the same.
I know this is not the solution for jlindenbaum's specific problem, but I came to this question with iCloud sync problems and was wondering why it wasn't working even after having followed a lot of advice and different answers to this question. So my answer is to help people with the same problem I had with iCloud sync.
A: For me, it turned out be the number of completed reminders - the limits. I deleted all my completed reminders, and it syncs properly now.
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070a576dbebda0b678c75a864383fe4152d33672 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: After Yosemite, the volume adjustment doesn't make noise? I tried to fix it in system preference...but when I did, it made a weird ticking noise rather that the noise it used to. How do I get this to go back to normal?
A: This bugged me as well. You can change it by modifying the sound it plays. Open Terminal.app and execute the following commands.
First navigate to the following directory:
cd /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/Contents/Resources
Then make a backup of the Yosemite sound, if you want to.
sudo cp volume.aiff volume_backup.aiff
Move the old sound file from Mavericks (or anything you want), found in the link below and rename it to volume.aiff. (If you use the link below it will already be named volume.aiff afer you extract it)
sudo cp "~/Desktop/mysound.aiff" volume.aiff
Change ~/Desktop/mysound.aiff from above command to the path to the new sound file you want to use.
Restart for it to take effect.
Original sources I used below:
MacWorld Change Volume Sound
Macrumors forum with original sound.aiff
| Q: After Yosemite, the volume adjustment doesn't make noise? I tried to fix it in system preference...but when I did, it made a weird ticking noise rather that the noise it used to. How do I get this to go back to normal?
A: This bugged me as well. You can change it by modifying the sound it plays. Open Terminal.app and execute the following commands.
First navigate to the following directory:
cd /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/Contents/Resources
Then make a backup of the Yosemite sound, if you want to.
sudo cp volume.aiff volume_backup.aiff
Move the old sound file from Mavericks (or anything you want), found in the link below and rename it to volume.aiff. (If you use the link below it will already be named volume.aiff afer you extract it)
sudo cp "~/Desktop/mysound.aiff" volume.aiff
Change ~/Desktop/mysound.aiff from above command to the path to the new sound file you want to use.
Restart for it to take effect.
Original sources I used below:
MacWorld Change Volume Sound
Macrumors forum with original sound.aiff
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bb6501a01ec0a9c25480df7502b906c342cf438a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to open a shell script in a new Terminal window and run it with administrator privileges I need to programmatically open a shell script in a Terminal window and run it with administrator privileges. I'm using osascript as it displays a convenient prompt for an admin login/password.
I'm currently using this :
osascript -e 'do shell script "open -a Terminal \"'"$appDir"'\"" with administrator privileges'
The trouble is, even after entering the credentials in the OS X prompt, the newly opened script will beg for a password at the first sudo command.
How do I pass the admin credentials to the opened script?
A: I'd try writing a simple script:
#!/bin/bash
sudo /usr/bin/id
save this as something.command, change its permissions to executable with chmod +x, and then run this from AppleScript with
osascript -e 'do shell script "open -a Terminal ./something.command"'
Instead of /usr/bin/id you can call whatever script you need to run with admin privileges then.
EDIT:
This will work:
osascript -e 'do shell script "sudo /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal" with administrator privileges'
| Q: How to open a shell script in a new Terminal window and run it with administrator privileges I need to programmatically open a shell script in a Terminal window and run it with administrator privileges. I'm using osascript as it displays a convenient prompt for an admin login/password.
I'm currently using this :
osascript -e 'do shell script "open -a Terminal \"'"$appDir"'\"" with administrator privileges'
The trouble is, even after entering the credentials in the OS X prompt, the newly opened script will beg for a password at the first sudo command.
How do I pass the admin credentials to the opened script?
A: I'd try writing a simple script:
#!/bin/bash
sudo /usr/bin/id
save this as something.command, change its permissions to executable with chmod +x, and then run this from AppleScript with
osascript -e 'do shell script "open -a Terminal ./something.command"'
Instead of /usr/bin/id you can call whatever script you need to run with admin privileges then.
EDIT:
This will work:
osascript -e 'do shell script "sudo /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal" with administrator privileges'
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5b918d1d1c7c5bbfa26d344c56ddda9b14890a1b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iOS8 - Open podcasts app via website link? One of my clients publishes a number of podcasts. He would like to add links in our HTML site that would open the Podcast App and load or prompt to load the episode indicated in the link.
Is that possible?
A: Based on this answer, feed://podcasturl... or pcast://podcasturl... both work, though slightly differently.
With my tests today, using Chrome for IOS, feed:// opens up the podcast app with the "Add a Podcast by URL..." popup with your podcast feed already populated. All you have to do is press Subscribe
If I use Safari, it tries to use a feed reader app, like Reeder.
pcast:// seems to open your podcast so the user can browse the published episodes.
Note: the pcast:// option didn't work for me, possible because this is a private podcast used for testing, and not published to Apple iTunes.
| Q: iOS8 - Open podcasts app via website link? One of my clients publishes a number of podcasts. He would like to add links in our HTML site that would open the Podcast App and load or prompt to load the episode indicated in the link.
Is that possible?
A: Based on this answer, feed://podcasturl... or pcast://podcasturl... both work, though slightly differently.
With my tests today, using Chrome for IOS, feed:// opens up the podcast app with the "Add a Podcast by URL..." popup with your podcast feed already populated. All you have to do is press Subscribe
If I use Safari, it tries to use a feed reader app, like Reeder.
pcast:// seems to open your podcast so the user can browse the published episodes.
Note: the pcast:// option didn't work for me, possible because this is a private podcast used for testing, and not published to Apple iTunes.
A: Links to the podcast on the iTunes Store will direct iOS users to the Podcasts app automatically.
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6778cccfbb7eb4ac4d6e1fa0d0929624fced6007 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Keyboard shortcut for switching windows not working in Yosemite While on OS X 10.9 it works nice to switch windows of all apps (not produced by apple) I am using in my work like Google Chrome, SublimeText, iTerm from keyboard using:
cmd ⌘ + `
On OS X 10.10 it works only with apple apps ;(
Is there something changed, what third-party applications developers should change, or is some other keyboard shortcut to get this working as it should?
UPDATE:
- I restored all keyboard settings to default, and things started working as expected.
Make sure that this one checkbox is checked:
A: It seems not to work in full screen mode of apps. Switching to normal mode everything works fine.
| Q: Keyboard shortcut for switching windows not working in Yosemite While on OS X 10.9 it works nice to switch windows of all apps (not produced by apple) I am using in my work like Google Chrome, SublimeText, iTerm from keyboard using:
cmd ⌘ + `
On OS X 10.10 it works only with apple apps ;(
Is there something changed, what third-party applications developers should change, or is some other keyboard shortcut to get this working as it should?
UPDATE:
- I restored all keyboard settings to default, and things started working as expected.
Make sure that this one checkbox is checked:
A: It seems not to work in full screen mode of apps. Switching to normal mode everything works fine.
A: I had to uncheck "Move focus to next window", then recheck it. Then it started working.
A: Go to system preferences/keyboard/shortcuts/keyboard and then check box to the left of "Move focus to next window' [command `]
Before I checked box, there was no keyboard shortcut to cycle between open windows or tabs on Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
After checking box, command` cycles between open windows/tabs in all browsers
A: For MacBook Pro, the default settings are: Cmd+`
But to access this shortcut from the keyboard, you need to press: Cmd+Shift+`
This looks difficult as you need to press three keys together. So a better option would be to Go to System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Keyboard, and change the key combination for Move focus to next window to Cmd+@ and enable the checkbox.
It started working
A: I've bought a Macbook Pro with german keyboard a couple of weeks ago. It came with Yosemite installed, I was looking for the same shortcut, I found that Cmd + < does the trick.
A: A slightly different thing solved it for me. The checkbox was checked and the shortcut was ⌘ F1 but it wasn't working.
Changed the shortcut to a different one and it worked.
A: I had a similar issue when Stage Manager was on. Sometimes Cmd+` worked, sometimes not. After disabling Stage Manager, the combination works perfectly.
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a16249d91a2850cefe345c64e778ad0df5546631 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why is emptying the trash so much slower than rm? If there are a lot of files in the trash, sometimes the Finder will display a progress bar saying (for example) "Preparing to delete 62,736 files", then another progress bar for the actual deletion. By comparison, deleting those same files from the command line is nearly instantaneous.
What is the Finder doing that takes so long? Is it detrimental to my system to skip that by deleting files via rm?
A: This is a case of "destructive" vs "non-destructive" editing of files.
Like in old days of cutting and gluing together audio tape or film, editing then was destructive like RM command is. You type in the command, hit ENTER and RM is immediately executed.
On the other hand, moving files to the TRASH folder is just that, and the system responds, "wait while I figure out how much stuff I need to move". You pay in time for the ability to UNDO a possible accidental erase. In the old days we were usually not so lucky in computers or with film or tape. :-)
| Q: Why is emptying the trash so much slower than rm? If there are a lot of files in the trash, sometimes the Finder will display a progress bar saying (for example) "Preparing to delete 62,736 files", then another progress bar for the actual deletion. By comparison, deleting those same files from the command line is nearly instantaneous.
What is the Finder doing that takes so long? Is it detrimental to my system to skip that by deleting files via rm?
A: This is a case of "destructive" vs "non-destructive" editing of files.
Like in old days of cutting and gluing together audio tape or film, editing then was destructive like RM command is. You type in the command, hit ENTER and RM is immediately executed.
On the other hand, moving files to the TRASH folder is just that, and the system responds, "wait while I figure out how much stuff I need to move". You pay in time for the ability to UNDO a possible accidental erase. In the old days we were usually not so lucky in computers or with film or tape. :-)
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e04b69b6f7efc32dc69213a70f679c18e2bb532d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to access ITunes Store in foreign country Suppose I have an AppleID linked to my credit card in my country. Now I would like to browse the ITunes Store of another country.
I know I have to create another AppleID linked to a credit cards (or any other payment option) of that country. However I do not have such a credit card.
My question is: Can I browse or/and consume content in the ITunes store of a foreign country, where I have no credit card, bank account, etc. ?
A: It depends on the country you will plan to open the account on.
For example, if you want to open an account on US or UK, you could select None as payment method. Payment methods you can use in the iTunes Store, Mac App Store, App Store, and iBooks Store, same website for UK.
If you want to open in in Spain, you don't have this option. ¿Qué métodos de pago puedo usar en el iTunes Store?.
Best option is to open any websites I post before, go to the bottom of the page, select the country you want and check available options.
| Q: How to access ITunes Store in foreign country Suppose I have an AppleID linked to my credit card in my country. Now I would like to browse the ITunes Store of another country.
I know I have to create another AppleID linked to a credit cards (or any other payment option) of that country. However I do not have such a credit card.
My question is: Can I browse or/and consume content in the ITunes store of a foreign country, where I have no credit card, bank account, etc. ?
A: It depends on the country you will plan to open the account on.
For example, if you want to open an account on US or UK, you could select None as payment method. Payment methods you can use in the iTunes Store, Mac App Store, App Store, and iBooks Store, same website for UK.
If you want to open in in Spain, you don't have this option. ¿Qué métodos de pago puedo usar en el iTunes Store?.
Best option is to open any websites I post before, go to the bottom of the page, select the country you want and check available options.
A: You can browse any store without an account. If you scroll to the bottom of the iTunes Store home page, there is a link for Change Country. But without an account, you won't be able to purchase anything. See jherran's answer about options for obtaining an account.
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ae2410154d3e9579cd022b368da7313b46a98cd3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Son playing on IPad instead of doing homework My son is playing with his IPad instead of doing his homework on it. Is there an app to see what apps he is using along with how long he is on each app?
A: Without installing additional applications (since is not your iPad after all), you could use the Battery consumption indicator that comes with iOS as a rough indicator how long a app was running- consuming battery. It does not tell you the time of usage but the amount.
The benefit is you will not be intrusive nor raise any suspicion from the "user" looking at the battery consumption, as compared to some tracking software, since the kids are very clever these days.
iOS 8 tells you what app is draining your iPhone's battery
Example for 7 days (Clash of Clans is a game) and here you can see the heavy usage over a week that might help you managing the situation.
| Q: Son playing on IPad instead of doing homework My son is playing with his IPad instead of doing his homework on it. Is there an app to see what apps he is using along with how long he is on each app?
A: Without installing additional applications (since is not your iPad after all), you could use the Battery consumption indicator that comes with iOS as a rough indicator how long a app was running- consuming battery. It does not tell you the time of usage but the amount.
The benefit is you will not be intrusive nor raise any suspicion from the "user" looking at the battery consumption, as compared to some tracking software, since the kids are very clever these days.
iOS 8 tells you what app is draining your iPhone's battery
Example for 7 days (Clash of Clans is a game) and here you can see the heavy usage over a week that might help you managing the situation.
A: You mentioned that it's a school-issued iPad. Many school districts use mobile device management packages, such as maas360 or Lightspeed to control these devices.
You may want to contact the school to see if they have any recommendations.
A: Maybe its better to configure your router. You can control the access over it or you can give his iPad just access to some pages, which he will need for his homework. And after the homework is done, you can remove the access control. Is a little more work than installing an app, but it does really helps.
A: If you are using Apple kit, use Airport Utility to prevent internet access during certain hours. Not the complete answer to your problem I’m afraid, but it stops my teenage sons browsing/chatting etc. when they should be sleeping !
Using Spotlight, open Airport Utility. It will show you a diagrammatic representation of your Airport Extreme, Express and other devices. Double click on your Airport Extreme (or the nearest booster if you have them and want to do it on a local basis) and click ‘Edit’ in the bottom right hand corner. From the options that pop up, chose ’Network’ then check the box labelled ‘Enable Access Control’. Select 'Timed Access Control'. You can now entire the days and times you want the router to function. Don’t forget to save ! –
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d135b6dfc5b3855a7d933a0c6f6d643cc85e8d0b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Has file copy dialog disappeared in OS X Yosemite? I recently upgraded to OS X Yosemite, and I noticed that the file copy dialog in Finder seems to have disappeared. Instead, I am shown greyed out entries of the files being copied in the destination directory, with the successfully copied files turning to black.
How do I cancel a file copy, especially if the copy operation consists of multiple large files and I want to cancel the copy midway? The file copy dialog seems to have disappeared.
A: It turns out that Box Sync was indeed causing problems. I uninstalled Box Sync and the progress dialog in Finder reappeared.
| Q: Has file copy dialog disappeared in OS X Yosemite? I recently upgraded to OS X Yosemite, and I noticed that the file copy dialog in Finder seems to have disappeared. Instead, I am shown greyed out entries of the files being copied in the destination directory, with the successfully copied files turning to black.
How do I cancel a file copy, especially if the copy operation consists of multiple large files and I want to cancel the copy midway? The file copy dialog seems to have disappeared.
A: It turns out that Box Sync was indeed causing problems. I uninstalled Box Sync and the progress dialog in Finder reappeared.
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9948244df5781bd233e9bb8feb4acab06bc89980 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is causing iTunes to open? Lately, I will go through periods where iTunes keeps opening itself repeatedly. It never plays anything or loads any files or URLs. But I can't figure out what is triggering it to open. Is there a log somewhere that shows why an app opened? Presumably it's due to a file association somewhere.
A: This is a super old question, but I can admit to giving up looking for a source for a rather long time. It turns out (in my case) that the magic "4th conductor" within the headphone port that is used for the microphone also is used for the remote control. ie: Vol up/down, Play/Pause, Next/Prev, etc. This works by shorting that 4th conductor in various ways. When the cord for my headphones, with only 3 conductors, wiggled in it's loose fit, my laptop thought that I had pressed the play button, which triggered iTunes to open up.
(I have also seen a similar thing happen with bluetooth headphones, as mentioned above.)
| Q: What is causing iTunes to open? Lately, I will go through periods where iTunes keeps opening itself repeatedly. It never plays anything or loads any files or URLs. But I can't figure out what is triggering it to open. Is there a log somewhere that shows why an app opened? Presumably it's due to a file association somewhere.
A: This is a super old question, but I can admit to giving up looking for a source for a rather long time. It turns out (in my case) that the magic "4th conductor" within the headphone port that is used for the microphone also is used for the remote control. ie: Vol up/down, Play/Pause, Next/Prev, etc. This works by shorting that 4th conductor in various ways. When the cord for my headphones, with only 3 conductors, wiggled in it's loose fit, my laptop thought that I had pressed the play button, which triggered iTunes to open up.
(I have also seen a similar thing happen with bluetooth headphones, as mentioned above.)
A: I was also experiencing this issue. I had turned off all the auto downloads in iTunes. Then, in System Preferences, I "delete"d iTunes Helper - which did not delete anything and may not have had any effect. I discovered later that it was when I turned on/connected Bluetooth headphones that iTunes opened without any notice in the background.
I haven't found a way around this yet, but at least I know what was causing it.
This was with iTunes 11.4 and OS X 10.9.5
Of course this may or may not be what is happening with your set up. I would be interested to know if other things also cause this.
A: I just had this problem start up. After an extremely frustrating troubleshooting process, I realized my Mac was accepting commands from my Logitech universal TV remote (which I was attempting to use with my TV). Every time I pressed the OK button on the remote, iTunes would start to play. I had never attempted to pair this remote with my Mac.
A: One thing I can think of that might help is to Open Console.app and filter (upper right corner) for "iTunes".
Another thought: Is there an iDevice that is wifi syncing periodically on the same network? Not sure how to test that other than turning off wifi.
A: As this is happening on my machine, I am guessing it is from a bluetooth speaker connection. As I've disabled any auto updates in itunes and removed the program from startup items. Also turned off any sharing on the computer. OSX 10.10.3 itunes 12.1.2.27. It's nothing really, but it's super annoying.
A: I have experienced iTunes app opening on it's own, too. I believe the external speaker connection is the culprit as well. Though, I did not have head phones connected, I did have external speakers plugged in.
I realized static electricity from a window fan directly next to my desk may've been responsible for the static & glitch. Avid users know to maintenance computer & auxiliary inputs against dust & static build up (i.e. avoid computer contact with carpet). Static electricity can flow from your finger tips too!
Having lived through reel to reel tape decks to record & playback music, I used my tape head de-magnetizer to eliminate static build up from my computer, screen & cables. I do not recommend using a de-magnetizer because it may damage the hard drive and/or corrupt or erase stored data.
That said, a simpler & safer way to reduce and/or eliminate static charge to your computer & accessories might be to wipe w/ dryer sheet. I can't attest to it's effectiveness but definitely think it's worth a try.
A: In my case, it was definitely the external speaker/headphone connection. I plugged in external speakers and iTunes kept opening on its own. I unplugged the speakers, no further problem.
A: if it's happening on your computer running the free program Malwarebytes might find and fix it -- if it finds any items have it remove them. Fast and easy.
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878461c1e0f8b6a7d855aae4e8070490183afc16 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone, is it possible to recover only one app from a backup? The latest release of an app I love is completely buggy.
Can I recover it from a backup without recovering everything else?
My last backup is quite old :-(
A: You can't recover from an iPhone backup, but there is other way.
You can check your apps directory within you iTunes Media Folder Location (under iTunes → Preferences → Advanced). This will tell you where your iTunes are located (example: /Users/username/Music).
If you go to /Users/username/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications you can find that this is the directory where apps are saved.
Check this folder to see if the app you are looking for is there. Apps have version number in it's name. If not exists what you want, or exists the latest version, you must use a backup to recover (If you have it).
| Q: iPhone, is it possible to recover only one app from a backup? The latest release of an app I love is completely buggy.
Can I recover it from a backup without recovering everything else?
My last backup is quite old :-(
A: You can't recover from an iPhone backup, but there is other way.
You can check your apps directory within you iTunes Media Folder Location (under iTunes → Preferences → Advanced). This will tell you where your iTunes are located (example: /Users/username/Music).
If you go to /Users/username/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications you can find that this is the directory where apps are saved.
Check this folder to see if the app you are looking for is there. Apps have version number in it's name. If not exists what you want, or exists the latest version, you must use a backup to recover (If you have it).
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9a20204747c97034fccef5070fc2038352931613 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where osx 10.10 notification center settings are stored Prior to Yosemite Notification Center settings stored in an sqlite db in ~/Library/Application\ Support/NotificationCenter/
Now this folder does not exist anymore, where does the OS store those settings?
TIA!
A: The database has moved on Yosemite. The following command takes to you to its new location:
cd `getconf DARWIN_USER_DIR`/com.apple.notificationcenter/db
| Q: Where osx 10.10 notification center settings are stored Prior to Yosemite Notification Center settings stored in an sqlite db in ~/Library/Application\ Support/NotificationCenter/
Now this folder does not exist anymore, where does the OS store those settings?
TIA!
A: The database has moved on Yosemite. The following command takes to you to its new location:
cd `getconf DARWIN_USER_DIR`/com.apple.notificationcenter/db
A: FYI, the location has moved. It is now:
cd `getconf DARWIN_USER_DIR`/com.apple.notificationcenter/db2
A: Because I was looking for the file that notifications are stored in I came to this page (using macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra).
Here are some facts:
getconf command … with the DeviceVariable and DeviceName parameters, [returns] the value of the disk device name or location, for the device
path specified by the DeviceName parameter
The above code returns (with "cd" omitted!): /var/folders/_d/pg2g__g17nzfwrv64j8ddvn80000gn/0//com.apple.notificationcenter/db: is a directory
Inside this/my folder I found: db db-shm db-wal db2upgraded
When some action takes place (I sent a notification) only db-wal gets updated immediately. So notifications are "registered" there somehow; interestingly, recurring ones are listed several times, meaning, a kind of "history" could be created once the db code is "translated".
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dc445e3f80ca78ae77f5559c6f938eff97520ba8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disconnect from wifi on Mac OS X How does one disconnect from a wifi hotspot on Mac OS X?
The only way I found how is to Turn Wi-Fi off then back on and finally select a different access point...
Surely there must be a better way.
A: Or you can use Terminal:
Instead of "DEVICE_NAME" use your interface (i.g.: en0)
sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport "DEVICE_NAME" -z
| Q: How to disconnect from wifi on Mac OS X How does one disconnect from a wifi hotspot on Mac OS X?
The only way I found how is to Turn Wi-Fi off then back on and finally select a different access point...
Surely there must be a better way.
A: Or you can use Terminal:
Instead of "DEVICE_NAME" use your interface (i.g.: en0)
sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport "DEVICE_NAME" -z
A: Hold down the option key when you click on the WiFi menu. Then next to the currently active network there will be a "Disconnect from" option. I'm on Yosemite, and so I'm not sure whether this was present on earlier versions of OS X.
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/156899"
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e16edbe4970595e3c1f84a9c95afe137f48530e5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: My erase junk mail is grayed out The option to erase junk mail does not show up when I right click and in the menus it is grayed out. Any idea how to get it back.
I am running Yosemite, 10.10 on an iMac.
I couldn't find anything using google except someone else with the same problem and no answer.
Thanks.
A: Try to set your settings to the what you see below, this may fix your issue.
| Q: My erase junk mail is grayed out The option to erase junk mail does not show up when I right click and in the menus it is grayed out. Any idea how to get it back.
I am running Yosemite, 10.10 on an iMac.
I couldn't find anything using google except someone else with the same problem and no answer.
Thanks.
A: Try to set your settings to the what you see below, this may fix your issue.
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/156919"
} |
4fd21edc9c14eecda4d73d6ccba20302347d8825 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Turn Virtual Memory Swapping back on in Yosemite I disabled virtual memory swapping using OnyX in Yosemite, but the program can't turn it back on when I click Turn On.
I already tried:
sudo launchctl load -wF /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
and it just says "Operation already in progress." OnyX still shows that the swap file is turned off and I have zero swap files. How do I turn it back on?
A: Figured it out! I had to force the OS to create a swap file using this command in terminal:
memory_pressure -l critical
It will run a test to force your RAM usage to climb. Open Activity Monitor to watch its progress and it will show the swap file being created. Ctrl+C will stop the process in terminal. Now the virtual memory swapping works again.
| Q: Turn Virtual Memory Swapping back on in Yosemite I disabled virtual memory swapping using OnyX in Yosemite, but the program can't turn it back on when I click Turn On.
I already tried:
sudo launchctl load -wF /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
and it just says "Operation already in progress." OnyX still shows that the swap file is turned off and I have zero swap files. How do I turn it back on?
A: Figured it out! I had to force the OS to create a swap file using this command in terminal:
memory_pressure -l critical
It will run a test to force your RAM usage to climb. Open Activity Monitor to watch its progress and it will show the swap file being created. Ctrl+C will stop the process in terminal. Now the virtual memory swapping works again.
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/156921"
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ee73d8cb6735f726cf05f6908d21c5d7bc9220de | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to fix a Time Capsule disk in "Internal disk needs repair" status? My Time Capsule disks shows "Internal disk needs repair".
How can I repair the disk (without erasing it)?
A: It is simple but non-obvious, as you have discovered...
There is an Apple KB article that states:
"Simply restart your AirPort Time Capsule. AirPort Time Capsule automatically performs a file system check on the internal drive during startup. If the AirPort Time Capsule detects an issue that it can resolve, it will repair the file system of the disk. If an issue is found that cannot be resolved, the AirPort Time Capsule's LED will flash amber, and AirPort Utility will state the issue. You should use the most current version of AirPort Utility."
You can find that here.
Failing that you may have to remove the disk from the airport (ifixit.com has instructions) put it in an external USB drive sled and attach it to your Mac for further repairs and diagnosis. If Apple's Disk Utility cant fix it then you may have to use a commercial utility on it like DiskWarrior or Drive genius.
| Q: How to fix a Time Capsule disk in "Internal disk needs repair" status? My Time Capsule disks shows "Internal disk needs repair".
How can I repair the disk (without erasing it)?
A: It is simple but non-obvious, as you have discovered...
There is an Apple KB article that states:
"Simply restart your AirPort Time Capsule. AirPort Time Capsule automatically performs a file system check on the internal drive during startup. If the AirPort Time Capsule detects an issue that it can resolve, it will repair the file system of the disk. If an issue is found that cannot be resolved, the AirPort Time Capsule's LED will flash amber, and AirPort Utility will state the issue. You should use the most current version of AirPort Utility."
You can find that here.
Failing that you may have to remove the disk from the airport (ifixit.com has instructions) put it in an external USB drive sled and attach it to your Mac for further repairs and diagnosis. If Apple's Disk Utility cant fix it then you may have to use a commercial utility on it like DiskWarrior or Drive genius.
A: When you get the message "disk needs repair" with amber flashing light from your Time Capsule, Please be sure to check that anther external hard drives but internal disk drive of TC is ok. Taking out it from TC is easy and checking it by Disk Utility from your MacOS laptop or desktop removes all the problem instantly before being suspicious about the internal hard drive of TC.
I was in a daze that I had to zero-out the internal hard drive mistakenly and then I found the error was being sent from one of external hard drives to TC.
This is a reference in favor of your convenience!
A: For stubborn issues, move the Airport's drive to an external case and try Disk Utility's First Aid or another repair utility.
I tend to backup to an external USB drive connected to the Airport for backups, as backup speed in most use-cases is non-critical.
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