Music deleted from my iPhone 4 So I have the iTunes app on my iPhone 4 and I used it to purchase songs onto my phone. I went to my music app a while back a deleted some songs I didn't want anymore ( i just went to the song swiped my finger across the screen and the delete button apeared) but now I want them again and I don't know how get them back on my phone with out debuting them?

If you bought it on the same Apple ID, then the iTunes on your computer should see that you purchased those songs already. Therefore, you should be able to simply sync music back to iPhone.
Perhaps I'm not understanding your question though. So I'll cover both sides.
Transferring Music from iPhone to Computer
If you purchased songs and you bought them on the same Apple ID, you can simply transfer purchases back onto your iPhone. See the picture below.
Just go to File => Devices => Transfer Purchases

Transferring Music from Computer to iPhone
First of all, you can see what content you purchased (make sure you sign in to the iTunes store first). Take a look at the picture below. You should see it under the Quick Links section:

However, to automatically transfer these purchases from the computer to the iPhone, you need to follow these instructions:
On the iPhone Side:
You need to use Automatic Downloads. Make sure it's on by following the directions in the picture below.

On the Computer Side:
Make sure that iTunes has the preference that is mentioned in this picture enabled.

There's a purchased section on the iTunes app. If you tap it you can view the song you have purchased.


Booting iMac (2011) off of external SSD I have been booting my iMac off of an external SSD.  When I initially set it up I did a clean install of high sierra and once that was booted up I used migration assistant to restore from a time machine backup.  It works well but one of the only issues that I'm noticing is that when I click on shutdown or restart the screen just goes black and the cursor stays on the screen but the system does not actually shutdown.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

The firsts things you can do :
Reset SMC : https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
Reset NVRAM : https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063


How to play music from my computer on iPhone (without iTunes)? How can I play music that resides my computer on my iPhone (plugged in to my stereo)? I am at home, they are on the same wifi network. The computer runs Windows 7.

I tried iTunes's sharing feature and my computer's "library" was listed on the phone, but  when I select it, the symbol spins for a minute then gives up. Once it did work, but it only listed about a hundred songs (of tens of thousands). I don't know why.

I'd like to choose the music from the iPhone.

Edit: I have much more music than disk space on my iPhone, so I can't copy it all.

You want a DNLA streaming app for your iPhone, which can play a music library via a DLNA server running on your PC.

For the PC side, google "windows DLNA server" will get you current choices, but at this time there are Plex, Tversity, and Twonky

On the iPhone side, look at apps like Media:connect. There are summaries of current choices online, like this one: http://blog.dreamcss.com/iphone/dlna-streaming-apps-for-iphone/

You can try WiFi2HiFi , works great..
Just download the app onto your iPhone and PC or Mac .

On Itunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wifi2hifi/id417409424

Mac or PC : http://www.wifi2hifi.com/

Well Apple also has a solution , Airport Express but costs 99 $ .


Web Visit Generator - Similar to JingLing I would like to know if there is a software for Mac similar to JingLing for Windows. I am looking for a free desktop software to generate automatic visits to my websites.

If you know something online it would be OK also.

A quick Google Search shows that a lot of others have asked this question before, but with no real answers. Instead people are suggesting using Bootcamp.


No explicit songs show on my music I just purchased a bunch of new songs through the iTunes store on my computer and one by one I saw them being iClouded onto my iPhone.

I was very happy about this until I noticed that none of the songs that i bought marked "Explicit" were showing up.

Is there a way to fix this because I like these songs and honestly it's like one word so I don't see the big deal.

Can someone please tell me if it is possible to get these explicit songs onto music on my phone?

Check your Restrictions.

Go to Settings > General > Restrictions.
Enter your passcode.
Look under "Allowed Content" for "Music, Podcasts & iTunes U", it should say "Explicit" to the right.

If it does not, tap on it and enable it.

If everything is greyed out when you arrive at Restrictions, it means they are disabled; I've read people have had some success enabling them, allowing explicit content and then disabling Restrictions again.

Turn off your restrictions, that worked for me


How to use a downloaded font in preview I've just downloaded a new font from the web, and installed it into the Font Book application, where I can find it under all fonts.

Specifially, "Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Font" is the one I'm referring to. I want to use it when editing a PDF with the preview application, but it doesn't show up there. Have I just missed a step? How do I use a font from font book in preview?

There may be a bug in some versions of Preview so that some third-party fonts do not appear in the Annotations font selection control.

Preview missing lots of fonts that are shown in font book

Also, note that amateur fonts which may not have been created to professional standards have traditionally been responsible for a variety of problems.

The books of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" use Coop Forged as their typeface.
https://houseind.com/hi/typography_of_coop

After you open your file with Preview, go to Tools Menu/Annotate/Text. Click on text a toolbar will appear above your image. At the right end of the toolbar is an icon for text. This icon is a capital A and if you click on the arrow it will open a pane where you can select font and size. The pulldown should show all the fonts available. See the image below.

And,

Select the pulldown next to the 'A' at the end of the annotation toolbar.


Disable Mail notifications on a per account basis In the iOS Mail app I have two accounts configured.
It is possibile to have notifications (banner and sounds) turned on only for one of the two accounts, or the setting in Notification under Settings is global for all the accounts?

I'm using an iPhone 4 with the latest version of iOS 5.

This is possible with iOS 6. Under Settings → Notifications → Mail, notifications can be changed or disabled on a per-account basis.

Once you select the account: Choose notification settings - Notification Center and Alert Style (Off and None, I assume). Then choose "New Mail Sound". Select the New Mail Sound and Select the Vibration (None and None, I assume).

you can accomplish this by holding the power button until the red dot shows up. swipe it over to the side and the notification will be disabled. thanks


Stop iPhone alerting me when I'm in a phone call When I'm in a phone call, I still get alerts for emails and texts. The noise will play and, if the phone is on Speaker, it will vibrate -- often leading the person I'm talking to wonder what that weird noise was.

Surely there must be a way to silence the phone while you're talking on it. It's very distracting to have beepings going off right next to your ear!

Set Settings > Sounds > Vibrate on Silent to OFF; then while on the call you can flip the hardware switch to Silent. This will disable all sounds and vibration.

download a silent ringtone. Set your phone alerts to this ring tone. its the only  way.


Run my Mac command “chsh -s /usr/local/bin/false” and can't log in to my account again I really messed up! Since I ran my Mac with the command below

chsh -s /usr/local/bin/false

Several minutes later, I noticed my Mac logged out by itself. So, I tried to log back in by clicking 'change user' But I can't see my administer account there.

I guess 'false' is not a loggin-able shell, that's why my account is hidden.

I'm trying to change my shell with Terminal.app on recovery mode or single-user-mode (but both are read-only).

So right now, I want to know if there's any solutions that might be able to fix this problem.

OK - bummer situation, but probably pretty easy to get around.

Boot in single user mode, mount the drive as read&write by running /sbin/mount -uw /, remove the /var/db/.AppleSetupDone file and make a new admin account
Use that admin account to change back the shell for your user.
Log out and check your account.
Clean up the “temporary” admin account if you wish.

Nothing can go wrong, except for perhaps FileVault or no backup or a firmware password so if you can finish a backup or might have another admin account already - using that would be much better in case the above outline isn’t workable for you.

iMac is stuck in a login loop

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202860

try sudo cp /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/false


How can I move files to different Dropbox folders on my iPad? My specific need came from using a plaintext editor (Plaintext, although the issue is similar in IA Writer, Byword, etc.) where I can create new folders to organize my .txt docs, and I create new docs in them, but I can't move existing ones into or out of folders.

So I thought, surely I can switch over to the Dropbox app, move the files to the desired folders there, then come back, but that's not the case.   There's not even a move function in the Dropbox app.

Is there some way on an iPad to move a file in Dropbox to a different folder in Dropbox (that doesn't involve logmein or some other VPN app that lets me access my Mac)?

There is a move function within the dropbox app.
Go to the folder that contains the file(s) you want to move and click on the check icon.

Select the file(s) you want to move and click on move on the lower right corner. Now a new window will appear. Choose the location where you want to move the file and tab the choose button.

That's it.

Okay I am using an apple macbook and this is the best video for that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuTH4qVqUhk


How did I end up with two iPad apps called Apple Store? Which is the real one? What is the other one? How did I get it?

TL;DR: keep the one that looks like a bag, it now a universal app. The cart one was the iPad specific one.

Looks like the one of the left (with the shopping cart icon) is the old one. Launching it now directs me to the new one, but it didn't when I was trying to figure this out before. Here's what I get when launching the old one now.

EDIT-20140917: It appears that Apple may have had a separate iPad app that they have since deprecated and made their iPhone/iPod Touch app a universal app and that's why this app is now defunct.

The old iPad Store APP is obsolete and has been updated and replaced with this new one.


Hide the clock on the iPhone 6+ lockscreen Is there no way to hide the clock on the iPhone 6+ lock screen?

This is not possible without jailbreaking.

I did this for my gf with some simple photoshopping, works like a charm, you will never see the time again.

http://images.fzilla.com/images/renaa.png
http://images.fzilla.com/images/zsunnyslut.png


Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-en0' VirtualBox? I download VirtualBox 5.2.10 r122088 (Qt5.6.3) On my macOS High Sierra. I set up my virtual machines but I cant have bridged adapter apparently. it was working in the last one but in this one, it just Gives me an error whenever I do AttachedTo: Bridged Adapter, Name: en0: WIFI(Air-Port) and in the advanced Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (82540EM)

And when I start I get an error: Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-en0' (VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND).
Failed to attach the network LUN (VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND).

I ran into the same problem and then I solved it.

My installation environment is macOS High Sierra.

Install the extension package Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack corresponding to the VBox version
Create a new virtual machine
Set the network to bridge the network card
Start and select the image installation
During the installation process, open [Network and Host Name], Ethernet, then you can see the LAN IP
Continue to complete the installation.

So, This not the correct answer but i solved it like this i download VM-ware fusion and set it up using this youtube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfLGKJM3bsI&t=315s


Change volume of speakers before unplugging headphones I have a 15" Macbook Pro mid-2015.

If my headphones are currently plugged into the audio jack, is it possible for me to control the volume of the speakers?

So that, after unplugging my headphones, the speakers can already be muted for example?

If you had already set your speaker to be mute before you plug in you device into your audio-jack port after you unplug your headphones it will still be mute.

Here's an example.

Before the headphone jack:

You can see that the speakers are set on mute.

When you plug the headphone it will be on the last set volume:

And again when you unplug them, you can see that they are still on mute:


Can't turn off email alerts for events in Yosemite After I've upgraded to Yosemite, I've started to receive email alerts about upcoming events from my Calendar. This is a typical email

Return-Path: <my-email@gmail.com>
Received: from [192.168.100.245] ([113.163.117.148])
    by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id gz1sm18613666pbb.8.2014.11.03.21.00.03
    for <my-email@gmail.com>
    (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128);
    Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:00:04 -0800 (PST)
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:00:04 -0800 (PST)
From: My Name <my-email@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/html;
charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X com.apple.MailServiceAgent 8.0 \(1990.1\))
Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Alert_-_=D0=9F=D0=BB=D0=B0=D0=BD=D0=B5=D1=80=D0=BA?=
 =?utf-8?Q?=D0=B0_UC?=
Message-Id: <82009606-9D7A-4238-A09E-7374739780EA@gmail.com>
To: my-email@gmail.com
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1990.1)

4 Nov 2014 14:00 : =D0=9F=D0=BB=D0=B0=D0=BD=D0=B5=D1=80=D0=BA=D0=B0 UC=

My OSX Calendar is connected to my Google Account. And takes events info from Google Calendar.

I have disabled all notifications for OSX Calendar. http://take.ms/ZVQus

But I still receive email notifications about upcoming events. Since I also receive them from Google Calendar, I get all notifications twice.

How to disable them?

This worked for me:

Open Calendar on your Mac.

In the left column list of calendars, right click (or command-I) on the calendar in question and "Get Info"

Check the box labeled "Ignore alerts"

Hit "OK"

Calendar > Preferences > Alerts > Uncheck "Time to Leave"


How to understand if a customer mac is retina display? A customer of mine is not able to say if she owns a Retina Display. She sent this info:

15-inch (1680 x 1050)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MB graphics

Can I understand from it, if she owns a retina display?

The only Model that came with the following graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MB graphics were the Mid-2010 Macbook Pro's (Non-Retina):

"Core i5" 2.4 15" (Mid-2010)

256 MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
256 MB Intel HD Graphics*

"Core i5" 2.53 15" (Mid-2010)

256 MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
256 MB Intel HD Graphics*

"Core i7" 2.66 15" (Mid-2010)

512 MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
256 MB Intel HD Graphics*

"Core i5" 2.53 17" (Mid-2010)

512 MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
256 MB Intel HD Graphics*

You can check the following link for a complete list: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/macbook-pro-unibody-faq/macbook-pro-unibody-video-processor-types-nvidia-dedicated-integrated.html

From apple website:

  When you pack so many pixels into a display — over 4 million on the 13‑inch model and over 5 million on the 15‑inch model — the results are positively stunning. The pixel density is so high, your eyes can’t discern individual pixels. Images take on a new level of realism. A spectacular 2560-by-1600 resolution on the 13‑inch MacBook Pro and an equally impressive 2880-by-1800 resolution on the 15‑inch MacBook Pro let you see more of your high-resolution images with pixel-for-pixel accuracy. And text is so sharp, you’ll feel like you’re reading email, web pages, and documents on a printed page.
  MacBook Pro with Retina Display - Features

but i'd dig more if i want to be sure and ask for model number.


Does Find My iPhone upload its location when connected to iTunes via USB? If Find My iPhone is active for my iPhone, will it upload its location if the iPhone is connected to an Internet-connected PC or Mac using a USB cable?

Normally I would imagine it would ask for a password or 'trust this computer' for example, but since Find My iPhone is enabled for the iPhone it would make sense if it would just use the Internet connection to pass on its location details to iCloud so I can trace it.

My iPhone is stolen but it had a PIN code on it, but at the same time it happened abroad so data roaming was switched off and it is very unlikely it will automatically connect to an unknown Wi-Fi network for passing on location data obviously.

No, the iPhone does not update its location when plugged in. However, the iPhone will send its location to Apple when the battery gets to a critical level as long as it has an Internet connection.


Should I verify copied files and with which software? I would like to move/copy a large size of files from on hard drive to another. Do I need to verify the moved files to be on the safe side or is that over-kill? If not, what software should I use?

On Windows there is a software called Teracopy for this.

This discussion seems to suggest that Finder verifies copied files when copying across media (but not otherwise). This means that you don't have to verify it yourself. The only problem is I can't find proof or official confirmation that this is true. So I wouldn't 100% trust it.

In any case, if you want to make sure manually, there are two kinds of tools you can use.

Option 1: Use tools that tell you whether you copied successfully. This QA shows you how to use diff tools (command-line or GUI, your choice) to do it. stuffe's answer to your question shows a quick and dirty way to be reasonably sure the copy operation was ok: just check the total folder sizes.

Option 2: Use rsync. Rsync is a tool that can find differences between the copy source and destination, and update the destination to reflect the source. It's different from cp -R because (1) it tells you if there are differences, so it kind of does that diff does and (2) it only needs to copy over the differences, which makes it faster when the destination is almost up to date.

There are three common ways you might want to use rsync:

rsync --dry-run (aka rsync -n) to tell rsync to display what files need to be updated without doing anything. This is basically like diff.
Just use rsync to copy files over, and run it again to verify and fix differences.
Some people say that Finder copies faster that rsync. You can use Finder to do the initial copy, then use rsync once to verify and fix differences.

Important rsync flags to know:

-v, verbose, makes rsync print what is being copied. This is good for the verification step, so you see what didn't get copied right earlier.
-a, archive, sets a bunch of other flags that tell rsync to preserve modification time, permissions, etc. If you only want to preserve a subset of file metadata, read the rsync man page to see which flags you want to set.
Some people are saying that the version of rsync included with Mac OS does not support copying HFS extended file attributes, which store things like whether the file extension is shown, "Open with…" settings", spotlight comments, tags, etc. To get the latest copy of rsync, install Homebrew and brew install homebrew/dupes/rsync.

I use RapidCopy for this - http://www.lespace.co.jp/file_bl/rapidcopy/manual/index_en.html

Hedge is also great - https://hedge.video

Update: I used Teracopy when I was on Windows.


How do I associate the right Contact Card under Users & Groups to my own profile? Just got a Mac for the first time...

Under System Preferences > Users & Groups, I have a user profile set as the Admin.

My Full Name and Apple ID are shown correctly. However, when I click on the "Open" button next to "Contacts Card", it thinks that this user profile is associated to the contact card of another member of the family. How do I change that to my own Contact Card?

The consequences of this wrong profile is that whenever I install a new software and I get asked for my name, it keeps putting the name of the family member by default. I also had to go back into my Mail, Contacts & Calendars settings where the full name field was filled out with the family member's name although the accounts were set up correctly.

You don't need iCloud.com to do this.  Open the Contacts application, select your card entry, click on the Card menu, choose "Make this My Card"

Go to setting...mail,contac,calendars.... Scroll down to where is says "my info" select your contact card and you are done. Hope it helps


Default sender in Apple Mail when replying and more than one account Using Mavericks Apple Mail, I have two Exchange mail accounts, one for myself and one for Jane Doe.  The accounts are organised in the left hand mailbox list with mine above Jane Doe's.  If I reply to mail sent to both myself and Jane Doe, the default Sender that Apple Mail uses (unless I change it with the pulldown menu of email addresses) is Jane Doe, but it should be myself (since I am writing the email).  Is this a bug, or behaviour that I can change?  Note that on Preferences > Composing I have set "Send new messages from:" to my email, but this doesn't make a difference (and indeed the setting says it is for new messages, while I am concerned with the Sender of replies.)

Lets differentiate between NEW massages send from and Reply to sender.

There are 2 settings in Mail for each of the purpose.

One is for new mails:

That is the setting to either use a specific account or current Mail box account.

The other is for Replay-To.

The Reply-To settings are in each individual account settings, there you choose which account is to be used in Replay-To.

Preferences- Accounts - Outgoing mail Server (SMTP)
set the Server there and check the box use only this server.

Make sure you use (set) different server setting there for each account.

I ws going to make this a comment about SamH's reply, but I don't have a high enough reputation:

I'm not sure why SamH's answer wasn't upvoted, because he's right.

I've included some images in case they help explain his answer graphically—sorry for the blurring, but the point should be fairly clear in each.

If you highlight "Inbox" and check a message addresses to you and Jane Doe, the response will come from either the Primary account holder; or the one that's first alphabetically—alphabetically when neither recipient is Primary has been my experience, anyhow.
If you highlight your Inbox in the list at left (when the Inbox list is expanded) and reply to the e-mail, it will come from you automatically.
If you highlight Jane Doe's Inbox in the list at left, the reply to the message will come from her.

I hope the images help, but if you came looking for an answer to this issue, please upvote SamH's response as it is completely accurate.


No power through USB for Roland A-49 I just plugged my Roland A-49 to my MacBook Pro (Early 2011 2.3 GHz). The MIDI keyboard would have its power supplied via USB, but it has no power. The specification says it needs 98 mA current, which is way less than the 500 mA provided by the MBP's USB 2.0 port. If I plug it into a desktop PC, it works. What can be the problem? An USB hub would solve this issue, I suppose, but can I avoid buying one?

I do not think it is a power problem.

Check in GarageBand if your device is showing up.

If not:
I would start with getting the latest software for your MIDI device

You will need to disenable the SIP control of the Mac OS. Here a link that tells you how to do that;
http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/05/disable-rootless-system-integrity-protection-mac-os-x/


Can I save my data before Force Quitting an Application? When an application is not responding I force Quit and Restart it.

But, is there a way in which I can save my data before quitting? Is there anything I can do to confirm that the application is really dead?

Unfortunately when an application is not responding, it is generally not possible to rescue any of the data. The exception to this would be applications that save a recovery file at regular intervals e.g. Microsoft Office suite of applications.

Your options are either to wait and hope that the application responds or the Force Quit.

You can quit a non-responding app via the Activity Monitor, which will also confirm that it is gone by not showing it in the list of active processes.


What does a 2012 Mac Mini need for microphone input? I need a simply jack Mic unamplified physically connected to my Mac Mini (late 2012 model) through Audio-IN and it doesn't work.

I also tried the original iPhone's headphones to no avail and I wonder if this is normal?

Does the Mac Mini require a USB microphone or can I use the Audio Line-in port with another type of microphone?

UPDATE 10/14: I tried using a 3 channel splitter like this

then I plugged my speakers and my earphones with mic but nothing to do, mic still doesn't work... (maybe just because this splitter has a 3 channel male jack but it's a normal 2 ch; I bought it for 2€ from China so it's possible..)

The audio-in port on Mac Minis is a line-level port, meaning that a standard PC microphone may not be audible without some sort of amplifier.

On any Mini from 2010 and later, you can use the Apple headset (the kind that comes with the iPhone), but you have to plug it into the headphone port, not the audio-in port. There are also adapters available that allow you to use any standard PC headset with that port.

On older Minis, you'll have to use a USB audio adapter. The iMic is a popular one, but there are many others out there.

Get a USB Stereo Sound adapter  $8 problem solved


Is it possible to swap option and command keys for a specific keyboard? I just bought a Logitech USB keyboard (Logitech K120, if that matters.) It's a Windows keyboard, so it has a Windows key and an alt key. The Windows key maps to Command, and the Alt key maps to option. The keys are reversed from their positions on a normal Mac keyboard. It's driving me nuts.

I'm running 10.12.1 (Sierra)

Is there any way to remap them, for this specific keyboard?

You can change the functions of the modifier keys (Caps Lock, Control, Option, Command) in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys.

If you have more than one keyboard, the setting window allows you to select and set separate mapping for each one:

Have you looked into using a keyboard remapping program such as Sharp Keys?


Forcing/Getting app to run on lower Mac OSX version I bought some software; on the back of the cover it says the minimum version that it supports is 10.4.11 which is the same as my Mac. However, after copying it to the Applications folder, it says it can't run on this version of OS X (I have checked in About this Mac, and the version matches what's on the CD cover).

I right clicked the app, Show Package Contents and opened its info.plist; there it said the minimum version supported is 10.5, so I changed this to 10.4.11, saved the file and tried opening the app, but it still wouldn't open. The message box looks like it's from the OS rather than the application, so the app hasn't even started before I get told I can't open it.

Is there a way to trick it into allowing it to open, and hopefully nothing will go wrong, seeing as according to the box it can run on my Mac.

NSBundle and CFBundle aggressively cache the contents of application bundles to improve performance. Although you edited the Info.plist, the Finder and Launch Services don't yet know that the application is any different.

Running the following command in Terminal to touch the application bundle will force the Finder (and Launch Services) to re-register the application, thereby noticing the changes you made to the Info.plist:

touch "/Applications/My Cool App.app"

After running that, deselect the application, then reselect it in the Finder, and then try launching it.

Note that this won't necessarily guarantee that you'll be able to launch the app. The developer would need to make sure they set a deployment target of 10.4 and/or use weak framework linking to assure that the app will be fully backward-compatible.

For me it was enough to edit the .plist file of a game, and the app would at least open. Then unfortunately it said that I could not run Metal with my actual graphic card....
But still, it's so satisfying when you kinda trick the system :)


Uploading app to app-store with same name for another developer id Let me explain clearly,

I have developed an application and created an app in the app-store with an apple developer id. But, not uploaded the binary version.

Now I need to upload the app with another apple id with the same name. I know if I delete the old one I can reuse the name with other id.

I need to know two things about this,

Is there any time gap required for using the name after deleting the old app(can I create immidietely after deleting the old app)?

Is it possible to use the same Bundle identifier that I used for the old one?

As the old app's binary version is not uploaded and reviewed, I just renamed that application and then used the name for the new developer id.

Apple accepts the name and the app is now in review.


What are the .mbox files in ~/Library/Mail/Mail Lost+Found/Mailboxes in Mail.app 5.0 (Lion)? When I upgraded to Lion, Mail.app 5.0 created a directory ~/Library/Mail/Mail Lost+Found. There were a couple of outdated bundles, which seems logical. But there is also a Mailboxes directory that has a lot (~30-40) .mbox files. Here is the contents of one of those files:

total used in directory 224 available 282057236
drwxr-xr-x   6 kmm  kmm     204 Aug  1 15:55 .
drwxr-xr-x  17 kmm  kmm     578 Aug  2 08:47 ..
-rw-rw-r--   1 kmm  kmm       0 Nov  6  2007 .index.ready
-rw-rw-r--   1 kmm  kmm  109793 Nov  6  2007 Incoming_Mail
-rw-rw-r--   1 kmm  kmm    1860 Nov  6  2007 Incoming_Table_of_Contents
-rw-rw-r--   1 kmm  kmm       0 Nov  6  2007 mbox.SKindex.isValid

Is it safe to delete these files? I haven't opened them all to determine if any contains actual messages. The few I have opened have not.

They only occupy 9.5 mb in total, which isn't much, admittedly. But I have something against cruft hanging around when it's not needed.

This folder is created by Mail when updating to Lion. I don't think it indicates any problems with a forced shutdown. It's just a place to store the old files after Mail has migrated to its new folder structure in the ~/Library/Mail/V2 folder. If the update is successful, you shouldn't need anything in this folder, except perhaps the contents of the Bundles folder if you want to re-install any plug-ins.

The lost+found folder is a special UNIX folder created for a variety of reasons: Most often the lost+found folder is created after a forced shutdown or a power cut. The OS loses track of what was going on and instead of dumping any files or folders it has lost track of, it puts them in the lost+found folder.

It's not much to be concerned about , seeing as those are some old files they can probably be safely deleted.


My iPhone & my daughters iPhone are getting the same text messages I just restored a phone from back up for my daughter.  Now my text messages say they are from her.  We both have IOS 7, and share an Apple ID.

guessing - they're iMessages & both are using the Apple ID rather than just the individual phone number…

though I still don't think it's very wise have 2 people's devices using the same ID, Family Sharing would seem a better option.

Try removing the ID as an iMessage source, leaving just the phone number, on at least one of the devices…

do you mean iMessage messages? Try deleting the account from you one phone unter Settings->iMessage.


iTunes says an update is available but iPhone doesn't (iOS 10.1.1) I recently updated my 6s Plus to iOS 10.1.1, and says it has the latest version. But when i connect it to iTunes both in mac & win it says an update available with the same version number.

should i upgrade or ignore?

Answer from this MacRumors article: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/09/apple-releases-new-version-of-ios-10-1-1/

  Apple today seeded a minor version change to iOS 10.1.1, the current
  version of the iOS 10 operating system. The update is minor enough
  that it did not warrant a full 10.x.x number change, but it does
  include an updated build number.

  iOS 10.1.1 being released today has a build number of 14B150, while
  the initial iOS 10.1.1 release, which came on October 31, had a build
  number of 14B100.

  The new build of iOS 10.1.1 is only available as a download from
  Apple's servers and cannot be obtained over-the-air at this time for
  those who have already installed the first version of iOS 10.1.1. The
  new version of iOS 10.1.1 will likely be provided to those who have
  yet to install iOS 10.1.1, as it otherwise requires an iTunes
  connection to obtain.

In other words, you can safely update via iTunes to benefit from this minor update.

I suspect there was a security patch made. Last year there was an update of a zero day exploit which was installed over the wires by link found in an email, with three unknown vulnerabilities.

Yesterday one of my banking apps said that my phone had been jailbroken - which I never did so I suspect that over the last few weeks a vulnerability has been found and must be updated via itunes only


Cannot Find Browsing history in IOS7 On previous versions of iOS, I knew how to get a list of sites previously visited.   I need to get URL of site i browsed about 3 weeks ago.

Anybody know if this is missing form IOS7 or if it is hidden in the user interface somewhere.   For the record I do not have "Do Not Track" enabled, but that should not make a difference as that is request to servers not internal Safari setting.

Click the bookmarks Button:

               You will then need to click the Parent Folder button:

             Until you come to the beginning of the Bookmarks list.

               There you should see the history.

I think this is a problem with IOS 7. My history doesn't have any records. Tried many different settings.


Is there a command on Mac can show the disk IO input and output stats? I can use vmstat on ubuntu linux to show IO input and output stats. Whether there is a build-in command in MacOS do the same output?

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu-----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 0  0      0 266800 1408168 25417796    0    0     3    76   35   46  1  1 98  0  0
 0  0      0 266708 1408168 25417796    0    0     0  1032 1693 4065  1  1 98  0  0
 0  0      0 267156 1408168 25417808    0    0     0     0 1819 4443  2  1 97  0  0
 0  0      0 266872 1408168 25417828    0    0     0    12 1298 3724  1  1 98  0  0

I can use iostat to check disk IO stats but it doesn't show input and output. It shows a total number of bytes on the disk.

I don't want to install 3rd party library to do that. Is there a command I can use on Mac?

The closest thing to getting IO r/w info is iotop command, which comes with all Mac OS (see disk_r and disk_w).

$ sudo iotop
2019 Jul 15 22:39:17,  load: 1.19,  disk_r:      0 KB,  disk_w:    628 KB

  UID    PID   PPID CMD              DEVICE  MAJ MIN D            BYTES
    0      1      0 launchd          ??        1   2 W           643072
    0      0      0                  ??        1   2             649216

If you are running on Mac OSX 10.10 (El Capitan) or later, then you need to first disable the SIP (System Integration Protection) for dtrace in order to run iotop because iotop uses dtrace.  For older OSX, you can ignore the following steps.

To disable SIP for dtrace (and iotop) for Mac OSX 10.10 and above:

Turn on or Restart your Mac
As the Mac is turning on, hold down Command-R to boot into Recovery Mode
Open terminal and type csrutil disable (this is a temporary step)
type csrutil enable --without dtrace. (It re-enables SIP except for dtrace)
Reboot your Mac

Now you can run iotop and dtrace.

If you want to restore SIP to its original state, and to prevent dtrace from running, reboot into Recovery Mode and in terminal, type csrutil enable and reboot.

The nettop command might be useful.

For options see

man nettop


Airport Extreme + USB Drive vs Time Capsule The price between an airport extreme and 2TB Time Capsule is quite a lot (£100) and as far as I can see the only different is that the Time Capsule has a hard drive built in.
Is there any problems with buying an airport extreme and a (£70) 2TB USB hard drive and just plugging it in to the back? Will I still be able to use Time machine? And will I be able (like my last question) be able to use the same drive for windows backup?

(I'm not sure why Apple would charge so much more if you can use them separately?)

According to Apple, Airport Extreme with attached disk is not supported for Time Machine. It might work, sometimes, but with a backup system, people usually want more than "might work sometimes".

Sources:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2038
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/15139.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.7/en/mh15139.html

If you attach a USB drive to an Extreme, you can access that drive as a "mapped network drive" in Windows (right-click Network).   Once mapped, it is just like any other drive, and your backup program should be able to read/write it.


How to install Mac OS X without OS X Recovery or the DVD that came with the Mac? I'm having an issue installing Mac OS X on my MacBook Pro, here is what I have:

MacBook Pro "Core i7" 2.66 15" Mid-2010.
Mac OS X install DVD that is not for the above model I don't have the one it came with.
New 1 terabyte HD that I just bought and installed on the Mac. The original HD is broken and can't be recovered.

When I try to use the Mac OS X install DVD I get the following error:

  Mac OS X can't be installed on this computer

What I tried:

Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button.  When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area.  If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing.  SMART info will not be reported  on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.
Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
Click on the Erase button.

But this didn't work for me.

You don't indicate which OS X you are starting from, but your MacBook Pro shipped with Snow Leopard.

One course of action is to purchase the retail packaged Snow Leopard generic installation DVD and then the downloadable Lion from the Apple store for US$19.99 each. You will need to install Snow Leopard first from disc, update to 10.6.8, then download and install Lion. There are no Lion or later install DVDs available from Apple.

If the disk is corrupt or wiped (no recovery partition, no time machine copy, etc.) then this will be more difficult. If your Mac is older than around 2012, then it will not have internet recovery mode either.  You really need the grey discs that came with your Mac.  If you don't have those, read on...

Here are the steps to follow if you want to legally install Mac OS X on your hard drive:

Purchase OS X 10.6 installation disks from Apple using this link: http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
Wait for the discs to show up in the mail.
When they do show up, insert the first disk. While powering up your mac, hold the C key until you are presented with an option of which disk to boot - select your DVD.
(Don't have a DVD drive? Then sorry, there is no legal way to install OS X on your computer.)
Once you have 10.6 installed, you can upgrade to 10.6.8 over the internet by going to the Apple icon and clicking on Software Update.
Once you have 10.6.8 you will have access to the App store, where you will be allowed to upgrade to the latest OS X version (Currently El Capitan), only if you have a valid Apple ID. You can only upgrade to the latest version, you cannot upgrade legally to any intermediate versions.

(There is an exception to #6: if your Apple ID was used previously to upgrade to an intermediate version when that version was still available for download, you can go to your purchase history to access those versions, but only after you install from scratch to 10.6 using legal DVDs and then upgrade to 10.6.8 to activate the App Store)

If you just want the fastest sure fire way to just make your Mac work, and you don't care about legality or violating Apple's EULA, then what you want to do is obtain a bootleg bootable copy of Mac OS X from Usenet servers, torrent, etc.  You can get pretty much any OS X from 10.6 to 10.9 Mavericks as a bootleg bootable download.  Find a bootloeg version that comes as a .toast file and use TransMac or PowerISO to burn the .toast image to a burnable DVD, then use that DVD in your Mac and reboot your Mac while holding down the C key on your keyboard to boot from the DVD.  Just be sure the bootlegged copy says it's a bootable version.  No working Mac is required using this method, just a Windows PC with an internet connection and a DVD burner.


Mountain Lion with Java 7 only I performed a clean installation of Mountain Lion and installed JDK7.

java -version in Terminal returns java version "1.7.0_05" correctly, still Java Preferences and some other Java programs (such as Eclipse) result in prompts to install Java SE 6.

I can start Eclipse perfectly from the command line with Java 7.

Is there a way to get this working without having to install Java 6?

JDK 7 will be installed under /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk, JDK 6 under /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines.

To trick OS X to accept Java 7 instead of proposing to install Java 6 a simple symlink is enough:

sudo mkdir /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
sudo ln -s /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk

Most Java Programms will run with this little hack without the need to install Java 6.
OS X's Java Preferences (and maybe some others) will not as it seems to explicitly check the version of the JVM when it is started.

Mountain Lion with Java 7 alone

You're on the right track …

Without installing Java 6

… prompts to install, as described in the question, are to be expected.

So my short answer is yes, you can have Java 7 alone; but not without an installation of Java 6.

Try:

allow Apple's installation of Java
remove, from the two directories below, the version(s) of Java that are no longer required:

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines

/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines

(For a case such as this, I reckon you can safely ignore the usual advice to not interfere with /System stuff.)


Adding text around a circle with pages How do I add text around a circle I'm using for a logo?  I have a circle filled in with some initials on the inside.  I want to add the company name around the outside of the circle.

This is not a feature Pages '09 or Pages '13 provides (unlike Microsoft Word with the Wordart).

As XAleXOwnZX suggested you definitely should look at softwares that are made for what you want like InkScape or Illustrator.

You can try Art Text, the app offers different shape presets for text, including ring and freehand splines. The resulting work can be exported as an image file and used in Pages, Keynote or anywhere else.


MacBook Air Battery is not charging, no light, still be able to power up, battery condition is normal I experienced this behavior two days ago (My MacBook Air is late 2011 version (4.2):

I can still power up my Mac, with or without MacSafe charger connected
Battery is not charging
There is no light.
I tried to reset SMC but it does not help
Battery condition is normal
I tried with few different MagSafe charger but still can't charge my MacBook Air

What is the problem and what should I do?

Here is the result of System Information:

Battery Information:

  Model Information:
  Serial Number:    xxxxxxxxxx
  Manufacturer: SMP
  Device Name:  bq20z451
  Pack Lot Code:    0
  PCB Lot Code: 0
  Firmware Version: 406
  Hardware Revision:    000a
  Cell Revision:    162
  Charge Information:
  Charge Remaining (mAh):   4743
  Fully Charged:    No
  Charging: No
  Full Charge Capacity (mAh):   5788
  Health Information:
  Cycle Count:  269
  Condition:    Normal
  Battery Installed:    Yes
  Amperage (mA):    0
  Voltage (mV): 8032

System Power Settings:

  AC Power:
  System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
  Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes):   10
  Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):    10
  Wake on AC Change:    No
  Wake on Clamshell Open:   Yes
  Wake on LAN:  Yes
  Current Power Source: Yes
  DarkWakeBackgroundTasks:  1
  Display Sleep Uses Dim:   Yes
  PrioritizeNetworkReachabilityOverSleep:   0
  Standby Delay:    4200
  Standby Enabled:  1
  Battery Power:
  System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
  Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes):   10
  Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):    2
  Wake on AC Change:    No
  Wake on Clamshell Open:   Yes
  DarkWakeBackgroundTasks:  0
  Display Sleep Uses Dim:   Yes
  Reduce Brightness:    Yes
  Standby Delay:    4200
  Standby Enabled:  1

Hardware Configuration:

  UPS Installed:    No

AC Charger Information:

  Connected:    Yes
  ID:   0x0000
  Revision: 0x0000
  Family:   0x0000
  Serial Number:    0x00000000
  Charging: No

Your issue is not normal obviously but this could be a sign that something is wrong with the hardware.

The best advice is to go to an Apple store or an Apple Authorized Service Provider and let them look at it.

The issue could be your battery, it could be the MagSafe board or it could be the logic board.

I wish I could help you more but without seeing the unit with my own eyes and taking it apart I can't say for certain what it is. I doubt it is software and therefore encourage you to reach out and find someone who is certified to open Macs.

The problem is with your MacBook A1278 A1286 MagSafe DC-In Power.


Can I downgrade to macOS Mojave if I buy the new 2019 MacBook Pro? I plan to buy a MacBook Pro. But my work relies heavily on 32 bit apps for music production, which are not supported in Catalina. Can I downgrade to macOS Mojave if I buy the new MacBook Pro?

Update

Apple has released a new 16" MacBook Pro on 13 November 2019. It replaces the 15" MacBook Pro lineup. The new 16" MacBook Pro comes pre-installed with macOS Catalina 10.15.1 and cannot be downgraded to run macOS Mojave, or earlier releases of macOS.

Yes

So far, year 2019 has seen three releases of MacBook Pro:

13-inch, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports (May 21, 2019).
15-inch (May 21, 2019).
13-inch, Two Thunderbolt 3 Ports (July 9, 2019).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro#Technical_specifications_4

All three of them came pre-installed with macOS Mojave 10.14.5 (However, the build number of macOS for the former two is 18F132, and for the one released in July is 18F2058).

Source: Mactracker macOS app

macOS Mojave saw a point release past 10.14.5 with the current latest public release at 10.14.6.

  Can I downgrade to macOS Mojave if I buy the new MacBook Pro?

So, yes it is possible to downgrade to run macOS Mojave 10.14.5 or later on all the MacBook Pro's released in 2019 till date. Even if the MacBook Pro you purchase comes pre-installed with macOS Catalina 10.15, it would be possible to install and run macOS Mojave 10.14.5 or later as the build includes the necessary drivers for the newer machines.

Note: This above information will most likely not hold true for any newer Mac/MacBook hardware that happen to get released by Apple during the remainder of the year 2019.

Best Buy claims they're selling a MacBook Pro with Mojave.


Can you Manually copy User Folder to new Mac? I've had an issue with an old Mac where I can no longer boot into it. I plugged the drive into another computer and I can access my user folder.

Is it possible to restore this whole user account on a new Mac?
Could I just paste it in the Users folder in the new mac?
Is there a way to create a time machine backup of that
user folder which I can then restore from?

If the drive is fine and only the old Mac broken, then you have several options. These are the steps I would recommend:

With the drive attached to your new Mac, open disk utility, hit view and select show all devices. Then choose the parent volume of the drive and click first aid. Do the same with its volumes. If an error occurs try again multiple times and/or in Recovery Mode.
Try simply booting from this drive. Shut down the Mac. Disconnect everything, then only reconnect the old system drive. Start your Mac and hold the opt. If the boot loader detects your old system drive to be bootable it show up and you can select it to boot from that drive. You can then do a TM-Backup or even continue using it that way if you want.
As already suggested by @nohillside you can also try using Migration Assistant.
If you want to completely control what files will be on your new Mac, then I suggest only copying specific files from your old drive to the new Mac (e.g. only the Home folder and no Apps).

To restore your user account I would recommend creating a TM backup, since this will also restore settings and all programs for that user account.
If you only want to restore the data of your user account, it is
perfectly fine to just copy the contents of the Home folder (e.g. the
Movies folder).


git is broken: "Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo" My install of git seems to be broken, and it looks like somehow my Developer Tools are broken.

When I try to run git, I get this error. This happens both with /usr/bin/git and /opt/local/bin/git (from MacPorts):

cook47@rcmac (RC_bash_lib (master)): /usr/bin/git pull
Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo.
Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo.
Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo.

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

I have run Xcode and agreed to the license. I tried running xcode-select --install and got another error:

cook47-a@rcmac (current_projects): sudo xcode-select --install
Password:
xcode-select: error: no developer tools were found, and no install could be requested (perhaps no UI is present), please install manually from 'developer.apple.com'.

The remote repository is not a problem;
After googling this error, I downloaded the commandlinetools installer from Apple for OS X 10.9.5 and XCode 6.2. It installed successfully.  However, git still is broken and xcode-select --install still gives the same errors.

I also tried xcodebuild -license  and it does prompt me to agree to the agreement but after agreeing, no change. Still broken.

This has me completely stumped.  This was working yesterday!  I work in a government environment where it's possible an update changed something, so I cannot be sure exactly what might have changed.

Anyone know how I can get git working again?  I tried nuking and reinstalling Xcode and the Command Line tools but to no avail. git from MacPorts and /usr/bin/git are both giving the same error message.

OK, I found the problem:  the message was coming from the remote git server, not the client side.  I ran sudo xcodebuild -license on the server side (where the repo is located and the git server is running) and the problem went away.  Sigh.

You need to open the application to install it...

I had the same problem where it showed me the same error after typing git init in terminal, I received the error message, even though it was installed.

All I did was open the XCode application. After opening, it prompted for the password and then actually installed the application, NOT just downloaded it. Which is stupid.


Problem with exchange email account aliases in Mail for Mac OS X Mavericks I've always used Mail in Mac OS X but one day I decided I would try Outlook 2011 so I could manage rules and filters without having to go to OWA. I was not very happy with Outlook 2011 so I removed it and decided to go back to Mail for Mac OS X. Since trying Outlook 2011, I'm having problems setting up the Exchange account in Mail.

My company uses first.last@company.com and flast@company.com for our email address/alias.

When I setup the account, auto discovery finds everything just fine and logs me in and downloads all the mail, rules, filters, etc. stored on the server. The problem is in Internet Accounts in System Preferences, I now see two Exchange accounts. One for first.last@ and another for flast@

I didn't think too much about this since mail seemed to be working fine, but one day I noticed something when I did a reply all to a mail message. It included myself in the reply to fields. I thought maybe it was a setting in Mail that I overlooked when setting up the Exchange account. As it turns out though, the problem is that the first.last@ account is now somehow the default mail account on Exchange and the flast@ is what I'm replying with.

Checking System Preferences, I noticed that the first.last@ Exchange account doesn't have checks in the selection boxes for Mail, Contacts or Notes, but it does for Calendars and Reminders.

However the flast@ is exactly the opposite; it has checks in the selection boxes for Mail, Contacts and Notes, but not Calendars or Reminders.

When I try to enable Mail, Contacts or Notes in the first.last@ Exchange account I get an error dialog stating "There was a problem setting up the account. An unknown error occurred."

I do not experience this behavior on my iPhone 4S or my iPad Air.

I'm using Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 and iCloud for my home accounts and connecting to an Exchange 2010 work account. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

chflags nohidden ~/library
go to drive>users>XXXX>library>MAIL>V2>ACCOUNTS.plist
edit the email address and save.


Mail.app @hotmail.com Exchange Is it possible (in any way!) to enable my @live.nl, @outlook.com, @hotmail.com accounts through Exchange, into the stock Mail application? I'm willing to buy Office 365 for one account (and remove the others) as long as it supports 'offline' push messages. I've tried the following:

  Add the account through 'Internet accounts' in System Preferences. As the exchange server, I've tried: m.outlook.com and s.outlook.com.

From what I've read, OS X Mail.app does not support EAS (Exchange Active Sync), which is the only form of Exchange supported by @outlook.com, @live.nl, @hotmail.com etc. Could anyone verify this?

EDIT:
For clarification, I want to have an Exchange set-up to receive the additional contact, calendar and reminders syncing.

To add Microsoft mail accounts to mail, you have to select 'Add other account...' from the internet accounts list. Then enter your hotmail email and password as normal.

If you really want to go through all these expenses,why not load "Windows Parallel" and load "windows ,along with Microsoft outlook".


iMessages no longer working after Yosemite upgrade I just updated my MacBook Pro (Early 2011) to OS X Yosemite, now iMessages is no longer working. I turned it off/on on both my computer and my iPhone, reset my Keychain, and a bunch of other stuff. Nothing worked.

How can I fix this ?

After an hour long call with Apple, I was finally told to reset my default Keychain, and after a reboot, that worked. We diagnosed this as the issue because every time I rebooted, iCloud/FaceTime/Messages would ask for my password again, even though it had supposedly saved it.

This also came right after I had just reset the default Keychain to solve not being able to connect to my wireless network.


Hide the cursor from the terminal I want to be able to hide the cursor programmatically. I am okay with giving any required permissions to the script.

so what i just did was to download cursorcerer pref pane.  then i unzipped it.  then showed package contents.  then simply double clicked the resource called cursorcerer.app.  now my cursor is invisible -- even after moving.  so you could call this app from the terminal.  quite debilitating in my environment, but could be very helpful in others!

http://doomlaser.com/cursorcerer-hide-your-cursor-at-will/

i was able to get my cursor back by running the preference pane.

You can use applescript to set the cursor to the current background color of the terminal window:

tell application "Terminal"
    set invisibleColor to get background color of (get properties of (get startup settings))
    set properties of (get startup settings) to {cursor color:invisibleColor}
end tell

Use osascript to execute applescript within a shell script.


Disable HTML5 video auto-play in OS X Safari? I want to disable videos in Safari, as I have to pay for each byte downloaded.  Some videos I may want to watch, but I want to decide whether I use my precious bandwidth, rather than have it automatically play.  Is there any way to accomplish this?

This seems to work for me (macOS Sierra 10.12.2, Safari 10.0.2), courtesy of jeffreyv in an Apple Support thread:

In the Terminal, enter:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1

That enables the Debug menu in Safari. Then tick this menu item on:

Debug -> Media Flags -> Video Needs User Action


Can I install an App that is not available in my country's iTunes appstore? I want to download and install an app on my iPhone, that is available in the US iTunes App Store - but not in my country's iTunes App Store.

Is that possible without creating a US iTunes account or jailbreaking my phone?

A common way to work around the cross-border restrictions of the iTunes store is by using pre-paid iTunes cards. These are often available on eBay and you can redeem them in the iTunes store for the country of origin (assuming you want US items, you need to buy a pre-paid card from the US.)

Use a VPN for either your phone or computer should work. Just my 2 cents


How do you change your UID in OS X Mountain Lion kimvais @ kimvais ~ $ id
uid=501(kimvais) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),404(com.apple.sharepoint.group.3),405(com.apple.sharepoint.group.4),502(com.apple.local.ard_reports),503(com.apple.local.ard_interact),500(com.apple.access_ssh),501(com.apple.local.ard_admin),401(com.apple.access_screensharing),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),12(everyone),33(_appstore),61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),504(com.apple.local.ard_manage),506(access_bpf),406(com.apple.sharepoint.group.5)

How do I change the 501 to something different give by my IT (so that my NFS mounts have correct UIDS) without breaking my system. Changing all the file ownerships I can handle "manually".

First, I have to say that doing this is using a sledgehammer to crack a peanut but here it is.

You will want to change your userid then you will want to change the owner of all your files. You don't want to be logged on as yourself when you do this.

sudo dscl . -change /Users/YourUserName UniqueID 501 1001

is indeed the correct way to do it.

Then :-

sudo find / -uid 501 -exec chown 1001 {} \;

To change the ownership of all your files. This should stop almost all of the breakages inherent in doing this.

I assume there is some perfectly good reason for you not to be using ITs Active Directory or LDAP server to log on to your Mac and avoid all of this problem. This is the accepted way of getting around all these problems, not to mention you will then already be authenticated making mounting the NFS shares easier. Once you've done a network login you can shift your documents from the old local account to the new network account and life is hunky dory.

I had installed Debian Linux on my mac, and wanted the ownership of the files on my macOS to be the same as that on Debian so I wouldn't have problems accessing them from Debian.
This worked for me to change my uid from 501 to 1000, and didn't break anything(default UID under debian is 1000).
With one change: under macOS 10.4.11 find doesn't recognize -uid
use -user instead.


Drive does not stay mounted I created an encrypted RAID 0 disk following Why doesn't FileVault work on a RAID volume? on a WD My Passport Pro

$ diskutil cs createLVG TimeMachineLVG disk5
Started CoreStorage operation
Unmounting AppleRAID set at disk5
Adding disk5 to Logical Volume Group
Creating Core Storage Logical Volume Group
Switching disk5 to Core Storage
Waiting for Logical Volume Group to appear
Discovered new Logical Volume Group "67A69135-A5AF-4FA3-8FC1-5BD66606A595"
Core Storage LVG UUID: 67A69135-A5AF-4FA3-8FC1-5BD66606A595
Finished CoreStorage operation

$ diskutil cs createLV 67A69135-A5AF-4FA3-8FC1-5BD66606A595 JHFS+ TimeMachine 100% -stdinpassphrase
Passphrase for new volume:
Started CoreStorage operation
Waiting for Logical Volume to appear
Formatting file system for Logical Volume
Initialized /dev/rdisk7 as a 4 TB case-insensitive HFS Plus volume with a 311296k journal
Mounting disk
Core Storage LV UUID: 37D10BDF-AF34-4252-AAD7-41D18AFFF9AE
Core Storage disk: disk7
Finished CoreStorage operation

So far so good. The drive can be listed and seems to be there

$ diskutil list
...
/dev/disk7 (external, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS TimeMachine            +4.0 TB     disk7
                                 Logical Volume on disk5
                                 37D10BDF-AF34-4252-AAD7-41D18AFFF9AE
                                 Unlocked Encrypted

The size is correct and is marked as Unlocked and Encrypted

Now when I try to mount it, I get no errors but nothing happens:

$ diskutil mount /dev/disk7
Volume TimeMachine on /dev/disk7 mounted

$ mount
/dev/disk1 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
/dev/disk6 on /Volumes/External (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, noowners)

On the console I see:

2015-11-18 15:28:07.000 kernel[0]: hfs: mounted TimeMachine on device disk7
2015-11-18 15:28:07.896 mdworker[12530]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
2015-11-18 15:28:07.897 mdworker[12542]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
2015-11-18 15:28:07.897 mdworker[12544]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
2015-11-18 15:28:07.901 mdworker[12543]: (ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb
2015-11-18 15:28:07.941 fseventsd[59]: Events arrived for /Volumes/TimeMachine after an unmount request! Re-initializing.
2015-11-18 15:28:07.941 fseventsd[59]: creating a dls for /Volumes/TimeMachine but it already has one...
2015-11-18 15:28:08.373 mds[75]: (DiskStore.Error:3239) vsd:0x7ffb9e04d000 DiskStore bringup failed.  AA5ED57E-162E-45E1-B2EF-10A3F609C68B
2015-11-18 15:28:08.000 kernel[0]: hfs: unmount initiated on TimeMachine on device disk7
2015-11-18 15:28:08.611 fseventsd[59]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/TimeMachine/.fseventsd/0000000007afdf62 (No such file or directory). mount point /Volumes/TimeMachine/.fseventsd
2015-11-18 15:28:08.611 fseventsd[59]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/TimeMachine/.fseventsd/0000000007afdf62 (No such file or directory). mount point /Volumes/TimeMachine/.fseventsd

What could the reason be?

I tried to reproduce your environment using a VM (Mavericks 10.9.5).

I didn't get the same log errors as you did, but it didn't work neither: the (pre-)encrypted Logical Volume just doesn't mount properly.

I solved the problem in my VM by deleting the whole Logical Volume Group and rebuilding it but with an non-encrypted Logical Volume.

Then open the Time Machine preference pane, choose the Logical Volume as Time Machine backup volume and enable encrypted backups.

You will be asked to enter the passphrase twice and to enter a hint.

Alternatively you may try to mount the volume (after unlocking it) with

diskutil mount 37D10BDF-AF34-4252-AAD7-41D18AFFF9AE

Try fix your disk

disk logger: failed to open output file
(ImportBailout.Error:1325) Asked to exit for Diskarb


Should I Move The Swap Location For My Mac From The SSD To The Larger HDD In My Laptop? Should I move the swap location for my Mac from the SSD to the larger HDD in my laptop?

Background information: I've heard some suggestions in the general PC/Windows world that if you have an SSD for your OS and HDD for your user data, you should move the swap location/swap file away from the SSD to the HDD (perhaps re protecting the hits on the SSD perhaps).  Note I have a MacBookPro with SSD & HDD both in it (using the optical drive bay).

PS.  Question stems from Steve's words from http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-284.txt

  STEVE:  And Mark Thompson and I have discussed this at length.  He's
  performed the experiment of using an SSD for a swap file and watching
  it burn out the SSD.  I mean, in a relatively short time it just
  killed it.  And so, anyway, so my advice stands, which is, if you're
  using an SSD, hopefully before you have gone to the expense of using
  an SSD, which is still much more expensive than a hard drive, you will
  have invested money in as much RAM as your system can handle because
  RAM is much less expensive, and you'll get much more, you'll get huge
  benefit from going to the most RAM you can possible get.  And if
  you've done that, then turn off pagefiles.  And if the only drive you
  have is an SSD, I stand by my advice.

  I agree that, from a performance standpoint, the SSD is a perfect
  device for containing the pagefile.  Unfortunately, Microsoft thrashes
  their pagefile.  I mean, they're writing to it a lot.  Yes, 40 times
  less than they're reading, but it's something that's going on all the
  time, pretty much.  I mean, we've all seen, we've watched the hard
  drive light flickering there, like when nothing is going on.  It's
  like, what is it doing?  Well, who knows.  But we know that it's
  writing to the pagefile, which it does a lot.  So anyway, I think it's
  a perfect example of two different people with very different aspects
  of the problem that they're addressing.  I'm looking at long-term
  life.  Microsoft's looking at performance.

I am certainly not an expert, but I would think that the faster read/write rates on an SSD would ensure faster performance on large programs than the hdd would.

I love listening to Security Now and you can go both ways on this.

Swap on SSD:
Yes, the HDD is slower, but one thing you have to remember is you are using a Mac, not Windows.  Windows tries to move things out from ram into swap as quickly as it can, leading to the hard drive thrashing.  However on a Mac, memory management is much better.  Instead of keeping stuff in ram for the future like on Windows, it releases unused memory.  I have 9 Safari tabs, Mail, iTunes, an RSS reader, and Minecraft running right now and not one byte in swap (I do have 8GB of ram).  If something does go to swap, it probably won't be used soon and have a low write usage (SSDs only wear out during writes, not reads).

Swap on HDD
If you are doing media editing, then use your HDD for the swap.  You will be putting a lot into memory and swap and see a lot of thrashing.  The larger space makes more room for the swap so you don't run out of memory.  Having the swap on a different drive is good practice anyways so that memory management can be done at the same time as general data management, instead of waiting on one for the other.


Opening 'BaseSystem.dmg'? I just had a window pop up telling me it was Opening BaseSystem.dmg, and then disappearing in ~1 second.  All I can find is a reddit thread with preciously few answer.  Anybody with more intel?  I was doing a backup (with Time Machine, an USB connected external drive) when the pop up flickered.

I am on MacOS 10.13.6 (17G65).

EDIT: the same dialogue just flashed up (I am doing a backup, with an external HD connected with a USB port).  So likely this popup has something to do with having a drive attached.

I have also seen this happen on my system a few times. For me, it happens right when a Time Machine backup finishes (I am also backing up to an external USB HD). I am running macOS Mojave 10.14.3 (18D42).

It is very likely that Time Machine creates this file so that it can recover the OS in the case that the backup fails and screws up your system. It probably self-deletes this file if there are no issues at the conclusion of the backup.

In case Time Machine is not the only culprit, I recommend searching your system for the source(s) of the file. Open the application "Terminal", and run the following command:

sudo find / -name BaseSystem.dmg -type f 2>/dev/null

This will prompt you for your admin password because it will search all files on your system (even those owned by the root user). Depending on how big your hard drive is, this could take a very long time.

For me, the only file found was at /Library/Application Support/com.bombich.ccc/Recovery/BaseSystem.dmg. This is a directory used by Bombich Software's Carbon Copy Cloner application. I know this application archives the recovery partition for your OS (so you can reinstall macOS if needed), so I am assuming this DMG file is related to that.

I haven't tried it, but I assume that if I were to delete this CCC file, it would just get recreated by CCC later. As others have stated, this file does not seem to be malicious or harmful in any way, so keeping it around or deleting it probably doesn't matter too much and is really up to you.

If you really want to, you can delete all of these files with the following command:

sudo find / -name BaseSystem.dmg -type f -delete -print

We check the identifier of the volume
diskutil list |grep "Recovery"

4:                APFS Volume Recovery                613.8 MB   disk2s3

Now let's make the volume writable
diskutil mountDisk  /dev/disk2s3

The terminal will now forward us
open -R /Volumes/Recovery


How can I make ctrl+right/left arrow stop changing Desktops in Lion? ⌃ Control+→ and ⌃ Control+← switches desktops.

I actually had this enabled in Spaces on Snow Leopard, but I'd like to turn this off because I use those key combinations when editing in Eclipse. How do I turn this off?

Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control and change the settings for "Move left a space" and "Move right a space" or disable them completely.

I updated an app called Karabiner and it turned some Mission Control shortcuts off. I like moving desktops. Here's how you turn them back on:


How can I stream files to my iPad? I have loads of videos and music on my computer, which I want to watch on my iPad.

However, I want to stream it to it, so I can grab what I feel like watching rather than having to preload everything.

I would like to stream these over wifi and they should be Windows 7 compatible

I'm very happy with Air Video(*). Lifehacker have a feature on it.

(*) Have only used it on an iPhone, no iPads in Sweden yet :-(

Audiogalaxy works great, but is for audio only.


How can I display the SSID I am connected to in the Menu extensions area? I'd like to also display the SSID I am currently connected to next to the WiFi signal strength indicator.

Running El Capitan (10.11.4)

The best solution I use for adding the SSID to the menu bar is turning off Apple's menu item and using WiFi Signal app from Adrian Granados:

https://www.adriangranados.com/?q=apps/wifi-signal
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wifi-signal/id525912054?mt=12

It's much fuller featured than just displaying the SSID, but it does that job nicely. I am a very satisfied customer of all his Mac apps as they are powerful, well engineered and updated regularly.


How to disable Game Center process (gamed) on OS X 10.11 El Capitan? It seems I can't edit the plist file from LaunchAgents — even if I sudo, I'm prevented from any deletion/alteration.
Do I have to necessarily disable SIP to do this?

Disable the LaunchAgent (not LaunchDaemons) and reboot your machine (without sudo):

$ launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.gamed.plist

In case you want to enable it again at one point:

$ launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.gamed.plist

You have to first enter csrutil disable in Terminal when in Recovery Mode, then restart make changes, restart again in Recovery Mode and do csrutil enable, restart.

But I do not know which processes when modified will compromise boot in El Capitan


What's the OS X equivalent of a BSOD? As a Windows user, I've seen my share of BSODs. I've also seen some errors from Macs, but as I haven't used them as long, I don't really know what the Mac OS X error screens are like.

I've seen some kernel panics and some other error screens, but what I want to know is which one is the basic equivalent of a BSOD. Is it a kernel panic? Is it something else?

What's the OS X equivalent of a BSOD?

A BSOD is the equivalent of kernel panic in unix and unix-like OSes. From the wiki article:

  In Unix-based operating systems, a similar term is kernel panic.

That said, I've seen the following image two times over the past 3-4 years. This is a kernel panic screen, as described in this support article.

There is no equivalent to a Blue Screen of Death on a Mac. Mine has been running 12 Hours a Day for 7 years with no issues whatsoever.


How do I know if a time machine backup is running? Due to APFS having a mind of its own and filling the hard disk with unwanted snapshots, I made a cron to run tmutil deletelocalsnapshots xxx. Later I found out that running this command while a backup is in progress will stop the backup. How can I know if a time machine backup is in progress to avoid running the command? The man page for tmutil doesn't list any status command.

Right now I'm doing the following in the script, since now backups mount at /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/:

ls -d /Volumes/Time* 2>/dev/null|grep Machin >/dev/null

if [[ $? != 0 ]]; then
     # run here tmutil snapshot deletion commands
fi

However, this doesn't seem to be very precise. The volume may be mounted some minutes later after a backup has started, and also stopping a backup leaves that mounted volume for a while. Finally, the name of the mounted volume might change in the future, making the check useless.

The canonical way to check status of time machine is to use the utility and check status or for newer os check the current phase only:

 tmutil status
 tmutil currentphase

Now, you have to process the text since it reports exit 0 when running and when it's not running since the status returned - not that there's a correct status.

I would use:

tmutil status | grep "Running = 0;"

That returns 0 if the system is not currently running and 1 if you are backing up. However, back up on High Sierra implies a non-snapshot event. The snapshots literally are to external drives which literally are not APFS. Only the internal SSD gets APFS treatment and the local snapshots are not something that "run" as so much as "just exist" and the "running" if anything is the thinning process - not the backing up process.

The thinning process calls backupd-helper which doesn't have a command line tool to check when done but you can time that running by issuing a blocking call like:

 tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 1000000000

Above has enough zeros to thin one giga byte - add two zeros to ask for 100 GB back.

I do want to correct (or at least challenge lightly) the concept of too many snapshots. APFS is a copy on write filesystem and the only examples of this being bad seem highly contrived or non-default configurations. The files that are around are already written to disk. The system just is "lazy" about cleaning them up and doesn't expend any processing time until it knows the a) system is relatively idle b) storage is relatively idle and not yet running low on free space.

Apple is clearly still in flux with how many snapshots to keep mounted, how to set the cleanup thresholds, how many intervals to keep in situations where the external drive is not connected and the local snapshots exist.

You can dig deeper with:

tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 1
tmutil deletelocalsnapshots YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS

Again, I've yet to see a place where I needed to thin or delete snapshots out of the automatic process on local volumes. The delete can be handy when you want to purge a large backup from an external drive. The real lever we used to have was to use Time Machine exclusions to omit the backup of large files that had tiny changes. It remains to be seen how APFS reacts to these files - my guess is you may be able to placethose type of files on a different APFS volume and thin aggressively and periodically or continue to watch the backup exclusions to see if that saves you allocated space without slowing down the copy on write performance and storage benefits.

Time Machine itself has a menu bar that you can use. You just need to enable the menu bar item.

Inside the preference pane of Time Machine, there is a checkbox selection for the menu bar item to appear. The menu bar allows you to manually do a backup, if it is doing a backup, and how far along it is.

EDIT: This however will not allow for you to setup a cron to know when a local snapshot is being taken, you'd have to do it manually.

Edit 2: down voted or not, those searching for the question titled will find my answer to be helpful. I won't be deleting it.


How do I do a right click on a 'magic mouse'? We’ve just won a brand new iMac. It came with an Apple keyboard, Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad. The keyboard works well, although it's weird not having a numeric keypad. The trackpad also works well.

But while the mouse seems to connect fine and I can scroll and click ok, for the life of me I cannot figure out how to do right-clicking on the mouse?

I did try looking for a Control Panel to try and fix this, but there isn’t one.

There is no Control Panel like in Windows or the old Classic Mac OS systems of years ago. Instead, what macOS has are System Preferences. You can access this from the Apple Menu and selecting the System Preferences… option.

Once you do you’ll see a list of Preferences Panes you can access by using a single mouse click. There are two you can utilise to address your issue, because both the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad can be set up to do what you’re calling a right-click.

Below are screenshots of both the Mouse and Trackpad preference panes:

Note that when you look at both these preference panes you will see options for a Secondary click.  This is the setting that will enable the right-click you’re looking for.

I suggest while you’re in System Preferences you also have a play with what else is available.

Finally, you may find the Mac tips for Windows switchers site of great interest to you.

two finger tap on the pad is equivalent to right click with a mouse


Can't download iTunes I wish to download iTunes to my MS Windows (Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit) computer. So I surf to http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ and discover a "Download iTunes" header. Beneath it is

I fill in the options, click "Download Now", and a dialog box opens asking me whether to download the file or to cancel. I choose to download it (and where to save it to), even as the browser surfs to a confirmation ("Now that you’ve downloaded iTunes") page. The dialog box closes, and nothing gets downloaded. The browser's "Downloads" window does not show that any attempt to download a file from Apple had been made.

What gives? I mean, what's going on here? Why can't I download iTunes?
Does anyone have a solution, or at least a workaround, please?

I've tried this also from https://: also no dice. I'm doing this on Firefox 21.0, both in usual and in "Private Browsing" modes.

Apple doesn't have a downloads page to directly download iTunes - and the link typically goes to a content delivery network.

In june, you could temporarily try downloading from https://secure-appldnld.apple.com/iTunes11/091-6059.20130605.205Rf/iTunesSetup.exe but this URL will likely change or fail in the near future. In September, the link is now https://secure-appldnld.apple.com/iTunes11/041-8597.20130918.PmmEw/iTunesSetup.exe so you can see trying to pass around direct links is not a good general solution.

The best thing to do in this case is check that you don't have any DNS blockers or other web site plug in that attempt to control / restrict downloads and try refreshing that page (or try in another browser).

Apple support might also be a good place to open a ticket, since they usually support people looking to use iTunes or Apple ID for free since you can't spend money with them without these accounts and tools.

Other things to try:

Change your network (have a friend download the file from a different router / internet connection) and share it over Dropbox or other means - this would fix DNS issues or other network effects.
Change your browser - if Chrome or Firefox have add-ons, blockers, etc. - try disabling all browser scripts and extensions or even another browser like Opera or Lynx or Safari
Change your computer - downloading from another computer might show the problem is with DNS settings or something else specific to your PC.

make sure you close your itunes before attempting the download. this simple step worked for me.


Numbers spreadsheet can't be imported I have a spreadsheet I have been updating in IOS Numbers for several months and I sometimes update it with OSX Numbers

However when I did a recent update in OSX I get the error message Spreadsheet couldn't be imported. An error occurred when I tried to open in IOS. This as the first time I edited in OSX since the iPhone was upgraded to IOS7.

I have edited the spreadsheet down so that it is just a simple table - to make sure that my recent edits had not caused an incompatibility.

I have looked at the problem spreadsheet in iCloud and it seems OK.
I also got a backup via Time Machine on OSX of before I opened it in OSX and that is openable in IOS

The errors Occur with Numbers '09 2.3(554) on OSX 10.8.5 and Numbers on IOS 7.0.2

How can I find out what is causing the error (and then fix it)

I had the same problem.
A hard reset of my iPad (press and hold both the home button and the power button until the device turns off, then wait while it reboots) solved the issue.

Also I have had the same problem and had to convert the file for it to work. See my workaround here.
Hope this works for you too. :)


What is "photoanalysisd" and why is it using 77% of my CPU? We got a new iMac for Christmas and it has seemed really slow for the past couple of days. In desperation I checked out Activity Monitor and it shows photoanalysisd as the guilty process that is hogging my CPU. I assume this is related to the Photos app, but that's not even running!

What is "photoanalysisd", why is it using 77% of my CPU, and can I safely stop the process?

Update for 2019, 16" MacBook Pro running Catalina 10.15.2:

start Photos, let it continue past the first dialogue box;
now Preferences in the app menu is clickable (it wasn't before);
Preferences > General , and untick both check boxes in Memories;
close Photos.

This stops photoanalysisd cold, no reboot or kill required.

That process interferes severely with time machine by hogging all available CPU. It is the only process that I encountered so far that is that annoying. Now I finally stop the process manually through Activity Monitor > select CPU > select "photoanalysisd" > click red stop sign in top left – as soon as it starts to interfere with my work. Not a permanent solution, but at least I can use my machine for what it is intended.


Read files from old windows-formatted external USB hard drive Years ago, I used an external USB hard drive with my PC (most likely Windows XP at the time). I've been trying to recover some files off of the old drive, but I no longer have a Windows machine and the drive is not being read by my Mac. The drive powers on, but nothing happens. No icon on my desktop, no sign of the drive in Disk Utility, no sign in Finder.

I've downloaded FUSE for OS X as well as Paragon's NTSF for Mac OS X, but still nothing. I'm not concerned with writing to the drive, but I'd like to get some old files off of there. Is there anything else that I can try?

You need to copy those documents to a windows machine. After that you need to format a USB stick MS-DOS (FAT32). Formatting USB drive as MS-DOS (FAT32) will alow you to use the USB on Windows and OS ! Will not alow you to write files bigger then 4 GB i think or 2.


iPhoneX doesn't alert me when receiving text messages from a particular contact My iPhone X won't alert me when I receive a text from one particular contact. This is happening with only one contact. It vibrates, but there is no notification, and when I open the Messages app, the message that was sent to me appears as if it has already been read. I do not have do not disturb on, and have tried to set a special text tone for this one contact.

I see that you said you do not have "Do not disturb" but there is also a contact specific setting "Hide alerts."

Go to Messages> select the contact that for which you don't receive the notification and make sure the "Hide alerts" toggle is not enabled.

Wife had the same problem. Couldn’t find any solution.

Then we went with a good old fashioned power cycle. And.....problem solved.


Internet connection no longer reliable after installing Mountain Lion I installed Mountain Lion yesterday and find that when my 2 year old iMac comes back from sleep it finds the router and connection but fails to allow internet connection.  In other words it indicates the machine is connected but I cannot access Mail or use any Internet browser.
I have two PCs in the house that have no problems, so I assume the problem is neither with the modem or the router.  There was never a problem when I was running Lion, it began only after installing Mountain Lion, so once again I assume the problem is with the new operating system.  My iMac is circa early 2010. My son's iMac (2012) is not demonstrating the same problem.
The most reliable way to establish an internet connection is to reboot my router (NetGear N300).  When the computer reconnects after the reboot, it invariably finds the Internet.  I have occasionally been successful Turning Wi-Fi off, and then back on, but most times not.
I see that other users are reporting similar difficulties.  Even if no one has an answer I hope that this is brought to the attention of Apple Engineers and a fix is quickly forthcoming.

I tried all the tips imaginable.
The only solution was to set the channel on the wireless router on channel 11.
It seems to me, the Mountain Lion has a problem when the channel the router is in automatic, then every time the channel is changed, the connection of the Wi-Fi card of MacBook drops.

I had the same problem. I solved it by using a cable instead of  wifi connection. All the others, iPad,xpria,etc work normally.
I hope this can help you


Can't see drafts folder in Mac Mail I have a recent MacBook Pro that was running OS X 10.6 but was recently updated to 10.7. My work email switched from Gmail to Exchange and they said to use the built-in Mail app. Overall, I like it, but I can't figure out how to see my drafts folder. According to the help, it only shows up if I have something in it, but I tried composing a message and saving it, and I still don't see my drafts folder in my list of folders. What am I supposed to do about this?

I fixed this issue by restarting Mail. I have no idea why the drafts folder wasn't showing up before.

Right Click -> Get Account Info->Drafts-Show Messages

You will be able to see drafts folder thereafter .

Cheers!!!

Ankur


How can I sync old messages between iDevices? Recently Messages stopped working on my Mac. Messages sent by my iPad and iPhone were synced to my Mac, but sending failed. After trying about twenty-eleven possible solutions from here, apple, and elsewhere on the internet, I rebooted my Mac.  This doesn't happen often.  The problem went away, but so did the last 2 months worth of messages.

Is there a way to sync past messages between multiple devices?

Iphone/ipad are on iOS 10, Mac is on Yosemite.

Generally speaking, the answer is no. Messages are saved on Apple's servers for up to 30 days, but only if the message has not been confirmed as received by the device. Even if it was still on the server, there's no way to get the server to resend it to your device. Nor is there a way to sync messages between devices.

You could save Messages history off your iPhone with something like iExplorer, but there's no way to integrate that into the Messages app on your Mac.

As far as them disappearing when you rebooted, under Messages > Preferences ensure "Save history when conversations are closed" is enabled.

The easiest way would be to use iCloud.  I have it on all of my devices and it works flawlessly across an iPad, iPhone, MBP and Mini(Server).  You may need to pay for additional storage because mail counts against your iCloud storage limit.


What malware has actually affected Jailbroken iOS devices? Are there examples of malware that affects jailbroken iOS devices that doesn't require installation of shady packages (e.g. something that can compromise a device just by opening a PDF or visiting a site)?

I hate to say it, but in all my years of jailbreaking I have yet to see any type of malware have any real impact on the iOS community. Sure there was the infamous SSH vulnerability, but that was patched rather quick. That's the beauty of jailbreaking; we don't have to wait for Apple to release a fix. Most people fear that jailbreaking is insecure and puts your device at risk. That's far from the truth. My favorite example is the jailbreakme.com PDF exploit for iOS 4.3.3. At the same time they released the exploit, they pushed a patch to Cydia. As soon as you jailbroke, you were advised to install the patch, so that your device could not be further compromised. It took Apple a lot longer to implement and roll out their fix. In that situation, it was better to jailbreak than to not, because unless you had the patch, someone with bad intentions could have abused the exploit and done anything they wished with your device. Sure, you can be careless and install some malicious software, but most of the time it's the user's fault, because you always should be careful with what you do in a limited-regulation environment. As a final answer to your question, there were a few PDF exploits that were triggered merely be visiting a website (jailbreakme.com), but those vulnerabilities were never used for evil.

Edit: Another malware example has popped up, but it's not specific to jailbroken devices; it can remotely jailbreak any device without user interaction. This is the first time we've seen a remote jailbreak being used in the wild for malicious use. Apple has already patched it - they patched it quick. But the jailbreak community took a few months to patch it.

If you leave your device unattended for just a couple of minutes a trojan horse can be quickly installed. It takes roughly 1-2 minutes to install it on a jailbroken device.


What application uses the rstf://scheduleState=1 URL scheme? For some time now (perhaps since the 10.13.3 upgrade of MacOS) I have been waking my Mac up from sleep and seeing between 3 and 7 cascading dialogue boxes with the error message:

"Unable to find an application to open URL rstf://?scheduleState=1, with "Ok, Cancel, Find Application" buttons.

I have searched everywhere and cannot find any reference to rstf or scheduleState (there some scheduleState stuff, but it seems unrelated).

Does anyone know how I can find and kill what is trying to open this URL?

Presumably the job is scheduled somewhere, but crontab just has a SuperDuper entry and I've since deleted SuperDuper.

You can use the RCDefaultApp preference pane to see a list of all URL schemes provided by applications on your system.

These supported URL schemes are defined in the Info.plist of an app, and registered collectively by macOS.

Sadly, I do not have any apps installed that handle rstf:// but please let us know when you find out what it is!

I faced the same issue. For me, it was Skype that was causing this issue. Here's what I did to resolve it:
The solution is:

Open Terminal
Add the following entries to your hosts' file (sudo nano /etc/hosts)

127.0.0.1 rad.msn.com
127.0.0.1 live.rads.msn.com
127.0.0.1 ads1.msn.com
127.0.0.1 static.2mdn.net
127.0.0.1 g.msn.com
127.0.0.1 a.ads2.msads.net
127.0.0.1 b.ads2.msads.net
127.0.0.1 ac3.msn.com
127.0.0.1 apps.skype.com

Ctrl-O, RETURN, Ctrl-X
(you are basically adding proxy DNS entries, not allowing the ad URLs to leave your computer with this modification)


Is there an image editor like Windows' Paint for OS X? I tried out several image editors mentioned on this site but some of them (like Pixen and Seashore) were very disappointing. These apps were too simple and low level.

What do you suggest for a (preferably free) image editor on OS X?

P.S: I was using GIMP on Linux and also know that it was released for OS X too, but I want to find new good applications.

You could try Paintbrush (free).
As quoted from its website :

Paintbrush is a simple paint program for Mac OS X, reminiscent of Microsoft Paint and Apple’s own now-defunct MacPaint. It provides users with a means to make simple images quickly, something which has been noticeably absent from the Mac for years.

What about the PowerPoint? You can edit images and then take a screenshot.


Unix "ln -s" command not permitted in OSX El Capitan Beta3 I was installing nodejs for Symphony when I hit an "Operation not permitted" error.  Anyone know why this happened?

MacBook-Pro-de-XXX:~ XXX$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/node /usr/bin/node
Password:
ln: /usr/bin/node: Operation not permitted

This is the so called "rootless" mode in the new version of OS X. It effectively makes certain system directories read-only (even for admins). "/usr" is one of those protected directories (the only subdirectory that is excluded from this rule is "/usr/local")

One can disable this rootless mode with the following commands:

$ sudo nvram boot-args="rootless=0"
$ sudo reboot

But this is not recommended! The best practice is to install custom stuff to "/usr/local" only.

Update (27-Oct-15): 10.11 (El Capitan) Public Release

Please note that the above described workaround will not work with the public release of El Capitan anymore as Apple has changed things around.

The proper way to disable the "rootless" mode (aka System Integrity Protection, "SIP") is to boot temporarily into Recover Mode (hold Command+R during boot) and use the csrutil disable command (or csrutil enable to reenable) from the Terminal. The Terminal is reachable via the menu of the Installer that launches in Recovery Mode.

In my version of El Capitan the /bin directory did not exist :

/usr/local/bin

So, the fix was :

mkdir -p /usr/local/bin

The -p flag will create the dir (and incidentally any dirs in the full path) if it does not exist.

Then you can create symlinks & copy apps to /usr/local/bin because /usr/local not part of the "rootless" mode.


Opening .msg file in Outlook for Mac 2011 Most of my colleagues use Outlook on Windows and I need to access emails stored in .msg format (don't ask, it's complicated).

My understanding is that .msg is an Outlook file format, but Outlook 2011 on Mac can't open them.  When I right-click on the file and ask to open with Outlook, it creates an email with the .msg file as an attachment.  Using various dragging and trying to open with the file menu also don't help.

Any ideas on how to open these on Mac?  Preferably without having to install additional software.

For everyone in 2016 who is also looking for a free software without IAPs and similiar "problems" (MailRaider for example was free years ago):

MSGViewer is a free software, which can be downloaded via sourceforge. It does, what the name stands for: viewing / showing the content of the msg files! I just tried it after browsing for a good software that does not cost 10 Dollars or more and I can recommend it.

MSGViewer SourceForge link.

Edit:
Just had an .msg file with images inside: msgviewer is also capable of showing them.

To open .msg file on mac you can directly access through outlook.com and by office 365. If you don't want to use it then you can use online tools like MailRaider, MSGViewer, MSGConvert etc. For more information you can check this one https://www.macoszon.com/open-msg-file-on-mac/


How to turn off slide transition when switching between two full screen applications on OS X Mavericks? Application switching cause one application to slide into another. Most times this is fine but am working on a MacBook Air and the slide transition causes motion sickness at times, especially after prolonged use (4+ hours). Looking for a way to turn off these animation.

Totalspaces2 has a turn off slide transition option, so I am pretty sure it's possible. Lion, Mountain Lion had Terminal commands for animation. I tried them all, and they don't work with Mavericks. I'm looking for Mavericks terminal commands to achieve the same.

In MacOS Sierra:

 - Go to System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display
 - Check in the box "Reduce motion".

This new function will speed up the animation between various display motion techniques such as using the mission control, switching desktops etc.

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO