How to make Macintosh HD size the same as SSD So today, I tried dual-booting my late 2013 rMBP on El Capitan with Windows 10. I got to the step within Bootcamp where it was partitioning my SSD, and I went ahead and played a game of Super Smash. After the round was over, I found that my Macbook had restarted because of an issue. I don't know what the issue was, and I don't know why the computer restarted, but I think it messed with my drive sizes. When I open Disk Utility, I see that the computer recognizes that I have a 250 GB SSD, but the Macintosh HD area seems to be "partitioned" for 204 GB. I have included pictures for clarification.

This is what the mac says about my SSD.

Here is what the Macintosh HD looks like.
If I'm not mistaken, shouldn't the Macintosh HD size be the same as my SSD? How can I fix this, as I'm unable to find any tutorials to help me. I have tried to partition the SSD to try to be able to merge them, but I get an error saying: "The provided Core Storage logical volume has an incorrect size. You should run whole-disk repair."
I have run diskutil in terminal to find no information that is useful to me, but I have included it here in case it helps someone help me.
diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            250.1 GB   disk0s2
3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.1 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +204.0 GB   disk1
                              Logical Volume on disk0s2
                             FEB0DA59-F214-4841-A491-59BFE7F9DEE4
                             Unlocked Encrypted

diskutil cs list:

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group A7C277C4-D35C-48A1-AD85-135FC3FBBAAE
=========================================================
Name:         Macintosh HD
Status:       Online
Size:         250140319744 B (250.1 GB)
Free Space:   45788061696 B (45.8 GB)
|
+-< Physical Volume 3A4B651C-DA22-4F22-96F3-A1C3D22BCE45
|   ----------------------------------------------------
|   Index:    0
|   Disk:     disk0s2
|   Status:   Online
|   Size:     250140319744 B (250.1 GB)
|
+-> Logical Volume Family DBA55F9D-7D02-4191-B9C2-1CC1CB429E3C
    ----------------------------------------------------------
    Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
    Encryption Status:       Unlocked
    Conversion Status:       Complete
    High Level Queries:      Fully Secure
    |                        Passphrase Required
    |                        Accepts New Users
    |                        Has Visible Users
    |                        Has Volume Key
    |
    +-> Logical Volume FEB0DA59-F214-4841-A491-59BFE7F9DEE4
        ---------------------------------------------------
        Disk:                  disk1
        Status:                Online
        Size (Total):          203999936512 B (204.0 GB)
        Revertible:            Yes (unlock and decryption required)
        LV Name:               Macintosh HD
        Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
        Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

Is there a way I can get back the usable space onto Macintosh HD? Is there a method if I were to wipe the hard drive (and how) and start from scratch? Thanks in advance for any help.

Your main CoreStorage container has a size of 250.1 GB with 45.8 GB of unallocated container disk space.

Usually you can expand the size of a Logical Volume to the full size of the Logical Volume Group if no other blocking Logical Volumes exist in the same group.

This is done with the command:

diskutil cs resizeVolume lvUUID size

In you case that's:

diskutil cs resizeVolume FEB0DA59-F214-4841-A491-59BFE7F9DEE4 250g

If the Logical Volume is encrypted it has to be unlocked.

Failing to change the disk layout with Boot Camp Assistant often corrupts internals of the Logical Volume Group and the above command fails. Then you have to remove the Logical Volume Group and restore a Time Machine backup to an erased and JHFS+ formatted disk0s2 partition

Since there is only a partition on your drive seen by macOS, you should be able to make a new partition with BootCamp Assistant. Make it of minimum size, it should "eat" all the free space on your drive. Then you can restore all of it via BootCamp Assistant.
That worked for me, I restored 502GB on my 3TB Fusion Drive.


Mavericks: Safari does not recognize PDFs and shows them inline Since upgrading to Mavericks Safari does not recognize PDFs anymore and shows them inline (as text)

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[...]

Before upgrading the very same files from the same sites where downloaded as PDFs and shown with Preview (the are delivered with the correct MIME type).

I do not have any Adobe Reader plugin (checked both /Library/Internet Plugins and ~/Library/Internet Plugins.

Open "safe" files after downloading is checked in Safari's options.

Any idea on what could be wrong and how to fix it?

Edit

This is only happening on one machine (I tested the same URLs with other Mavericks installations and they are displayed correctly).

The MIME type handling seems OK. defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info.plist gives:

    {
        CFBundleTypeExtensions =             (
            pdf
        );
        CFBundleTypeIconFile = "document.icns";
        CFBundleTypeMIMETypes =             (
            "application/pdf"
        );
        CFBundleTypeName = "PDF document";
        CFBundleTypeRole = Viewer;
        NSDocumentClass = BrowserDocument;
    },

On both machines

This may not resolve the issue of Safari displaying PDF as garbled text, but you can use this command in Terminal.app to open PDFs outside of Safari:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES

It is (likely) a conflict with the adobe pdf reader plugin.

go to folder: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins

delete the adobe pdf reader plugin if it is there... should fix...


Is there any solution to remove the macOS App - Prepare for Submission? As you can see I wanted to update my iOS App 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 but I accidentally added the macOS App.

After searching some solution on a couple website, I still can't find the solution...
Some say you can remove the "Prepare for Submission" in the "App Information" but I think that is not the correct way. I use that way, I think you will delete the whole App.
Even I wanted to try remove it but in the "App Information", I still can't see the "Remove" Button that I wanted... What can do I?
Other's people screenshot:

My case:

I even have go to the apple developer documentation have a look but their link is not working...(https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store-connect/)
All the link that I press in the apple documentation is just keep loading just like below this image.

Is there any solution to remove the macOS App - Prepare for Submission?

It's not possible to remove a version of your app in Prepare for Submission state.
You can provide feedback to Apple at feedbackassistant.apple.com.

According to Apple's Developer site:

Remove a build from review
To stop the App Review process, you can remove the app version from App Review. The app status must be one of the following to do this:

Waiting for Export Compliance
Waiting for Review
In Review
Pending Developer Release
Pending Apple Release

Required role: Account Holder, Admin, or App Manager.

From My Apps, select your app. The page opens with the App Store tab selected.

In the sidebar, click the app version you want a build removed from review for.

In the message that appears up top, click “remove this version from review.”

In the dialog that appears, click Remove.

The app version is removed from Apple’s review queue and the app status changes to Developer Rejected. Later, when you resubmit the app, the review process will start over from the beginning.


Skype is showing up in Launchpad twice — why? How do I fix it? Skype is showing up in Launchpad twice. It's been acting like this for a while but if I remember correctly I think it first started when I let Skype auto-update itself a while back.

Any ideas why Skype is showing up twice?

How can get rid of the extra Skype instance?

I have searched my hard drive using spotlight including "system files" for an extra application bundle. None exists.

When click either of the Skype icons in Launchpad they both seem to launch the same application (Activity Monitor confirms this — they are at the same path).

Well, a bit more research and I may have found a solution.

* Proceed with caution. Backup files. Be smart. This worked for me YMMV. *

The Easy Solution

The most straight forward way to fix this problem seems to be to delete the SQLite database that stores Launchpad's data. To do this simply open the following folder,

~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock

and delete any .db files you find in there. They'll have a file name that looks like this,

58357ED0-F8D5-4EB3-9A1F-E6B71B0A001D.db

Then open terminal and type this command followed by return:

killall Dock

But be careful, you will lose any icon groups you created in Launchpad. I didn't like this solution for that reason so I while this worked to get rid of the duplicate icons I used the following solution on my machine.

The Hard Solution

I opened the above mentioned folder and located the above mentioned file and then opened that file in SQLite Database Browser by dragging the file onto the icon for the db browser.

Once I had the file open I clicked Browse Data and then selected Apps from the Table menu.

I then scrolled through the list of apps until I found one of the duplicate records for Skype and selected it.

With the duplicate record selected I clicked Delete Record.

I then quit SQLite Database Browser and acknowledged that I wanted to save my changes.

Then I switched to terminal and typed this command followed by return:

killall Dock

And Skype's doppelganger was thereby vanquished from my Launchpad.

Its because of update. You just remove the old one from dock by right clicking the icon and then selecting remove from dock.


Adding to accented characters available on OS X Keyboard If you hold down a letter then OS X will show you options for accented versions of that character.  This is very useful when typing in other languages.

However, not all the versions of that letter are always available.  For example, if I hold down the [S], then I can choose ß, ś, or š.  However, I'd like for it to also display the turkish ş. Is there a way to add that character to the accent menu?

I'm looking for an easy way to type Turkish characters on my english keyboard.

You can find the answer where this question was asked back in 2011:

How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion?

An extra step is needed for El Capitan:

The keyboard's plists of PressAndHold also can no longer be modified to add the new accents in El Capitain

In System preferences, you can change the Input Source to whatever you want. Also, change the region in the Language and Region section to a region where that accented letter is used. That should help!

If it doesn't, you can create a shortcut, in the Keyboard section, to achieve typing it quickly.

Have a nice day :)


Using my iMac in a country with a different power supply standard We may be relocating to a different area of the world where the power standards and outlets differ considerably from what I've got here in North America.

Is the power supply in my iMac auto-adjusting, universal? Can I just buy a new IEC cable for it to match the local plug standard and run it straight in to the wall? Or do I need a transformer?

Edit: I have an older iMac. 2007. 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo.

Building on @penguinrob's answer, the specs for the 2007 iMac can be found on the Apple Support KB:

  Electrical and environmental requirements

  Meets ENERGY STAR requirements

  Line voltage: 100-240V
  AC Frequency:
  50Hz to 60Hz, single phase
  Maximum continuous power: 200W (20-inch
  models); 280W (24-inch model)
  Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10°
  to 35° C)
  Storage temperature: -40° to 185° F (-40° to 85° C)
  Relative
  humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
  Maximum altitude: 10,000 feet

It looks like you should be able to get by with the IEC cable/adapter; the transformer can handle 100-240V, so you likely do not need an additional transformer.

No problem re getting an adapter and usung the iMac, BUT instead of directly into the wall, plug it into a power surge bar as some countries have more “ebb and flow” than in North Merica.


Changing my iTunes account details I have a UK account but have relocated to Australia.
I'm trying desperately to change my account details but the system won't let me as I have £10 credit on my UK account.

I don't mind losing the £10 I just want to change my details to my new Oz details.

Anyone know how?
Also, is possible to credit the £10 to my Oz account as that would be fantastic.

After searching around the internet, it sounds like other people are having this same issue. You could try contacting Apple to get their advice, but it will probably be easier to just spend the £10 credit on something and then try switching again.

Not true.  The device will still tell you:
"you have a store credit balance; you must spend your balance before you can change stores.".

Terrible catch-22 situation that Apple has put their global users in.
I have an amount of $4cents left on my iPhone, but moved to Europe.
I have no way of spending this amount, so I can start using local European iTune cards.
Completely crazy situation!!


My iPhone 4S won't text my friend's Android, my phone thinks she still has an iphone with iOS5 My friend used to have an iPhone 3GS with iOS version 5. Our text messages showed up blue being that we were on the same software. She now has updated her phone to a Galaxy S II and my phone still thinks that her phone number is operating on iOS 5 software. Her phone cannot receive messages from my phone, but my phone receives messages with no problem. No matter what I do (even restarting my phone and deleting her and reading her) her text messages are still in blue instead of green. When I send a message, it shows that it's sent but her phone never receives it. It's extremely aggravating.

This is a known issue with iMessage. In your case, what has happened is that the SIM was registered on Apple's servers as capable of accepting iMessages. When your friend swapped phones, they likely kept the same SIM card. So now their old iPhone (bound to Apple's servers by its UUID) and the SIM card (bound by its own ID) are both registered with Apple to receive iMessages.

This article talks of possible fixes, and the possibility that Apple has something cooking (after all they should provide some capacity to remove the devices, perhaps from your Apple ID account). You can also head over to this article for additional reading and perhaps more solutions.

I wish I had a simple solution for you, but it may require calling Apple and discussing the matter with them. I would say you should also ask them to cover the cost of a new SIM should your friend require one.

I had come across this issue regarding the same phones. We figured out that, because the old iPhone was switched on, my iPhone picked up on iMessage, once we turned the iPhone off as It wasn't needed then the Samsung S3 recieved all msgs as a normal text.

But if you have sold your iPhone, and not deleted your iTunes account, this will not work. You will need to delete your account. If for any reason you don't wish to do this because you have other apple products it will result in registering a new SIM -- which takes five minutes once you have a new SIM.


OS X RDP server application I am searching for a RDP implementation on OS X, but can't find any.

Does OS X have an RDP implementation application?

I, too, was a loyal user of iRAPP. CodeRebel is still in bankruptcy as of today. There's a new company, https://www.nuords.com/, that the CTO of CodeRebel has co-founded to sell comparable technology. I have not tested this product; I don't know whether the IP issues have been resolved.

xrdp works on Sierra (I'm using it right now). The compilation instructions can be found on these two pages:

https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/wiki/Building-on-OSX-(not-official)
https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xorgxrdp/issues/78

The instructions work with macports as well as homebrew; on macports, the final package you need is pkgconfig rather than pkg-config, and you don't have to work around the absence of OpenSSL. It took me about 15 minutes from start to finish to get it running.

I have nothing against OSXxRDP, but I'm truly amazed how you guys are pushing untrue information about iRAPP. Yes, CodeRebel went down, but their licensing servers were taken over by developers and they were supporting iRAPP for free. There was not any down time. Also, If your license is not a trial, it can not expire. Only support subscription could expire, which is not a problem for the installed version. Just saying, be honest in competition. By the way, there is a new product https://www.nuords.com/


How to make your iPhone beep every hour? Is it possible to have my iPhone making a sound every hour ? And preferably during day time, like 12 hours a day, and moreover only during weekdays only ?

Well – you can either set up returning alarms – but I suppose you already came up with that idea yourself. Or you can use one of those many many apps for hourly chimes. This overview claims to have a list of over 50 apps doing just that (and more) www.appcrawlr.com/ios-apps/best-apps-hourly-chimes

The first app I see in the list ("chime") seems to be doing exactly what you describe, available on the iTunes App Store at Chime

Try EveryHour app (https://itunes.apple.com/app/id963108472). Simple application for beeps


How to delete doubled weather widget in El Capitan? After upgrading to OS X 10.11 I have two weather widgets (one, maybe, is inactive). So, is it possible to delete the blank one? If yes, where or how I can do this?

7 simple steps to solve the problem (works even in OS X 10.11.1):

Go to /private/var/db/locationd/ from your finder or terminal;
Give you full privilege to change files inside this folder;
Convert clients.plist file from binary mode into xml1 by running this command in your terminal: sudo plutil -convert xml1 /private/var/db/locationd/clients.plist;
Open the clients.plist and remove the key and dictionary pair in the configuration file. For my case I delete all fields that includes weather word;
Don’t forget to convert back the client.plist into binary file using the command below in Terminal: sudo plutil -convert binary1 /private/var/db/locationd/clients.plist
The prelast step is to restart the daemon that monitor the change of location. Type this command in Terminal: sudo killall -KILL locations;
Finally com.apple.ncplugin.weatherdisappeared from Location Services, I reaccepted to check my weather by location and everything starting to work perfectly.

This article helps me.

To delete a doubled or unwanted widget in El Capitan open dashboard, press the option key,click on the widget you want to remove and a little X will appear.  Click on the X and Voila!  It's gone!


Missing photos on my iPhone I have a Macbook Pro and an iPhone that share the same iCloud account. On my Macbook's Photos I have a smart album that contains 52 photos. On the iPhone the album contains 40, with 12 photos are missing.

How can I resync the missing 12 photos with the iPhone?

Smart Albums are not fully supported yet. See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204478

I would suggest trying to create a new smart album, perhaps with slightly different parameters, and see if you can work around the bug. Or, worst case, you could create a regular album.


Does Homebrew install use SSL/TLS? I recently installed Homebrew on my Mac using the UNIX command from the Homebrew homepage

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

When the command downloads the Ruby script, does it secure the connection to the GitHub server using TLS or SSL? In other words, is there any chance that I could have downloaded a malicious script if someone intercepted my connection?

Also, can someone please explain each of the options, flags, switches, etc. included in the command above?

You can't know for sure, at least not based on the information you shared in the question:

It's a https connection so it should be secure
Nevertheless you could connect through a network which tricked/forced you to accept a new certificate and then performed a man-in-the-middle attack
Somebody could have tampered with the script on Github, resulting in an attack within the script you've downloaded

Yes, the connection is made using https, which uses TLS. Nothing is 100% secure, but it's as secure as online banking sites, etc. The file is fetched using curl. Type man curl to see all the parameters. In this case:

-f : fail - do not show server errors
-s : silent - don't show progress meter etc.
-S : show-error - show an error on failure (other than server errors)
-L : allow redirect to another URL


How can I remove Photos.app from Mac OSX El Capitan? Appzapper doesn't work
Appcleaner doesn't work
The typical Terminal Command i use doesn't work

Is the only way to doe this by disable SIP (System Integrity Protection)?

Try AppZapper, i always use it but idk if it really delete Apple's apps

AppZapper can delete .app and also every configuration file that it have

EDIT: i've found this, the guy in that tutorial is using CleanMyMac3 to do it. Hope it can help you


Why can't an iPhone 6 and a mid-2011 MacBook Air see each other in AirDrop? I'm trying to transfer photos, for example, from an iPhone 6 running iOS 8.1.3 to a MacBook Air, mid-2011, running OS X 10.10.2.

In either of these scenarios:

iPhone set to be discoverable by Everyone
Finder open to AirDrop on the Mac
Select a photo on iPhone, select Share, the Mac does not appear in the AirDrop pane

or

iPhone set to be discoverable by Everyone
Pick a photo on the Mac, select Share, Airdrop, no devices appear in the Send via AirDrop dialog

I have successfully used AirDrop from this Mac to other Macs in the past. Any idea why it isn't working with my iPhone? (I should point out that other features of Yosemite, such as receiving phone calls and SMS from the iPhone on the Mac, are functioning properly.)

Your mac (and mine too) is not compatible with airdrop between mac and iOS

System Requirements
To see if your Mac works with AirDrop, make sure you’re in the Finder by clicking the desktop (the background area of your screen), or by clicking the Finder icon in the Dock. Then, check to see if AirDrop is listed as an option in the Go menu. If you don't see AirDrop listed, your Mac doesn't support this feature.
In order to transfer files between a Mac and and an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

your iOS device needs to include a lightning connector
your iOS device needs iOS 7 or later installed
your Mac needs to be a 2012 or later model with OS X Yosemite
installed
Your Mac and iOS device both need bluetooth and Wi-Fi turned on. You
do not have to be connected to a specific Wi-Fi network

source:http://support.apple.com/en-is/HT203106

Uncommon but valuable answer:

Your iPhone and Mac must be on the same wireless network. I run into this fairly often in urban workspaces, shops, and homes.


Time Machine bug - not enough space, folder cannot be deleted Backup is failing on a disk that is near its limit with the error message "not enough space". Weird as Time Machine is supposed to delete old backups as needed to store the new ones.
So, I tried to just reformat using Disk Utility and start fresh. That failed with the error message "disk could not be unmounted".
Next, I tried to make space myself by going into the backup folder and deleted a few of the older dated folders. It took forever to delete a folder via Cmd+Backspace, literally over 30min. :-( I tried instant delete (Cmd+Opt+Backspace) but it wasn't faster and failed on a folder with the the message "items had to be skipped" and the tip to unlock. The folder in question is not listed as locked though. On to the Terminal with "rm -rf folder" which resulted in "permission denied". Sudo of the same command just changed the error message to "operation not permitted".
It's also weird because the deleted folders are still shown in Finder - some processes still running. Only about 30GB on a 500GB disk have been freed so far (20 left initially to 50 now).
The especially troublesome folder I tried the "rm" on stands out as it has different permissions. All folders show "drwxr-xr-x@  3 root  wheel" while this one reads "drwxr-xrwx@  3 root  wheel". Some of the deletion processes are still shown in Finder as ongoing.
How can I just reformat that disk and be done with the nitty gritty?
Second best, how can I weed out by hand and delete some of the older backups, getting past the above snags?
System: Catalina 10.15.6

You can try this method. it has worked in the past. Open your Time Machine backup disk and then Enter Time Machine using the Time Machine icon in the menu bar. Now you should be in Time Machine with a list of the backups. Select one of the backups and then look for a gear icon near the header of the backup you selected. Click on this gear icon and it should have an option to delete that backup. If you open a Time Machine folder you can use the gear icon to delete that folder. Here is what the gear icon looks like:

It's storage problem. Go do some research on "How to delate Time machine backup on mac"
Here is my solve:

Get the Time machine disabled.
Use terminal to delate old backups in Time machine.


How does one download El Capitan from the App Store using High Sierra The link from Apple's support page redirects to the Mac App Store but upon clicking download you're met with an error message saying you "This version of OS X can't be installed on the computer"
Note: I've tried 4 different MacBook Pro TouchBar but none will download it.
I'm only looking to download El Capitan so I can create a USB installer for an older Mac.

If the older Mac has a recovery partition, there are three different key combinations you can use to select different O.S. versions to install from internet.

If it doesn't have a recovery partition, you might still be able to use Internet recovery.

Macs use a different boot medium than HP/Dell/Lenovo/etc BIOS.  This boot chip technology knows the minimum OSX it can run and cannot run or apparently even download an earlier version.

Apple support can sometimes give a special download code to bypass normal limitations.

Also, the AppStore will only keep the current OSX for ready download, unless you downloaded an earlier version while it was still available.  If you did download it whie it was current it is under the "previous purchases" menu option.


Creating a bootable Linux distro compatible with Mac OS X I have downloaded the appropriate Linux distro (in this case Fedora Xfce Live) and I have partitioned the USB with Disk Utility and attempted copying both the Fedora iso, and a Fedora iso converted to the Mac .img format.

When I booted (holding option key) the USB with Fedora didn't show up in either case in boot manager.

What needs to be done for Mac to consider the USB "bootable" and for it to be visible in "boot manager" when holding option key?

A working approach to get Fedora Xfce Live booting is the dd-method:

Download Fedora 23 Xfce Desktop.
Attach the thumb drive. The thumb drive will be erased!
Open Terminal and enter diskutil list to get the disk identifier of the thumb drive (e.g. /dev/disk3).
Unmount the thumb drive with diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk3
Enter:

sudo dd if=/Users/user_name/Downloads/Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-23-10.iso of=/dev/rdisk3 bs=8m

This will copy the content of the iso to the thumb drive. When the process is finished you get an response like this one:

114+1 records in
114+1 records out
960495616 bytes transferred in 5.920656 secs (162227899 bytes/sec)

Exit and close Terminal.
Open System Preferences -> Startup Volume and choose "Fedora Live" (or similar).
Reboot your Mac. You may need a USB keyboard/mouse because Bluetooth devices like the Apple Magic Mouse initially don't work booted to Fedora Live.

http://lifehacker.com/5934942/how-to-dual-boot-linux-on-your-mac-and-take-back-your-powerhouse-apple-hardware

http://anee.me/installing-fedora-on-mac-book-pro/

did you try to search google? )

by the way, may be you just try something like Virtual Box? )


How much of 32-bit support is dropped in macOS Catalina? macOS Catalina is said to have dropped support for 32-bit apps. It’s not clear how much support is dropped.

Is there any supported way for a 64-bit app to request the kernel to create a 32-bit code segment?

netkas has experimented with this here.  It seems like Apple has not removed 32-bit capability from the Darwin kernel itself, but merely disabled it as well as removing all the 32-bit libraries from the system.

To re-enable 32-bit processing from the kernel, just disable Apple's disabling function by adding no32exec=0 to your boot-args (sudo nvram boot-args="no32exec=0" if SIP is disabled, if not run the same command from Recovery mode).

To get the 32-bit libraries back, just copy them from Mojave

Sources: Bringing back 32-bit apps to life

Unfortunately the answer is just flat no.  As stated here and here Apple started requiring AppStore apps to be 64 bit in 2018.  They have been working on this for a while and with Catalina they are finally shutting the door entirely.

Edit:  This sheds more light on app development.


Interstitial screen/marketing layer on Airport guest wifi Is there a way I can add an interstitial screen when a user first logs in to my Airport Extreme's guest network whereby I can make a marketing ask (like, "Like us on Facebook!") and require them to check a box and click a button ("I accept the terms of service," etc.) before continuing to browse the web?

What you're looking for is a Captive Portal.

You can't create captive portals solely with an AirPort Extreme—you need at least a computer behind the network set up as DCHP/DNS/etc. You're going to need to configure a Mac to provide DNS to redirect the first visit from a device to a hosted site.

For more information about creating a captive portal yourself, see:

http://brewstersoft.com/blog/setting-up-a-captive-portal.html

Commercial software is available which can set this up for you:

http://patronsoft.com/firstspot/

your looking to do something like what the Wavespot (router) does, its a social wifi authentication gateway that allows people to sign into a wifi network using email or Facebook 'Like' (or twitter or Google Plus). Good service and we use it for a few of our agency (bluntagency.com) clients, predominantly shopping centre's.


How do you get terminal to echo / print all key strokes? Looking to see what the terminal gets when you press keystrokes such as alt+a or whatever.

I remember there was a really simple way to do this with a one line command and without installing any extra software, but I can't seem to find it again.

Any one know?

Found it

sed -n l

Really useful for debugging problems with terminal programs that benefit from complex bindings like vim.

Or just use cat or sed


Setting defaults for Magic Mouse When I log on the Guest user, the Magic Mouse settings are not as I want them to be. E.g., I would always like the right click enabled and the tracking speed set to fast, but these settings default to unwanted values. So every time after login on Guest, I must change these settings manually.

Is there a way to change the defaults setting for the Magic Mouse so that every new user will get these changed defaults ?

This is a two step process. The system make all new accounts from this template:

/System/Library/User Template

Unless you need to only change a specific localization, you'll be putting files into /System/Library/User Template/Non_localized/Library/Preferences

The two step process is knowing where to change a file and what change to make.

I don't have an answer to the second part (no Magic Mouse handy), but you might be able to do that part yourself. If you make a new account and change only that mouse preference and dig through the ~/Library/Preferences to isolate the file(s) that encode that change (sort them by date and the newest files should be the ones you changed to configure the mouse). Second, you need to copy that file into the default user template so that when the system makes a new account (guest account or any new account), that user gets the modified mouse settings you have copied into the template to replace the default values for that setting.

An alternate method is to look inside the file(s) to see if the settings can be written easily by a sudo defaults command:

How can I prevent the iCloud dialog from showing up for new users?

First of all you may need to unhide the hiden files so open terminal and run those commands :

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

killall Finder

To switch back, do the same but substitute FALSE for TRUE.

Now
Login to your guest account, there set chrome as your default browser (or even Firefox)
Then do not logout ! This would erase your session, so use the  on the top right corner use the swich user drop down menue,
Now that you are back again in your Admin account,
Find the new temporary guest home folder, under

 Users/Guest

Select all the folders inside of it,
And copy them in :

 /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/

English or whatever your languish is if you are using your computer in french this should be :

  /System/Library/User Template/French.lproj/

as you can see in this folder there was the defaults folders for the guest account
By modifying them you have just modified default appearance of the guest user account
You may want to save this folder in a safe place before, in case you want to undo your work.

For reference ,
You just have to follow the steps as shown in this video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-W2-_c5bA

Or if you prefer text version :

http://www.michaelsmac.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=394


Install unsupported iOS version I am developing iOS apps with Swift, and don't want to buy an Apple device to test them, and have just got an iPod 4gen which supports iOS up to 6.1.

I just wanna know if there is absolutely no possible way for me to install iOS 8 or 9? or even 7? I am willing to take all risks, I don't care if it get's super slow or even bricks my device while trying.

PS. I understand why the simulator doesn't have app store and why I can't run pre compiled apps on the simulator. As the simulator is x86 and the devices are on ARM processors. But an old device is stil the same processor so it should be possible to try out and unsupported OS, if I then run into apps crashing and other stuff not working is something else and I don't care about how badly it will run. I just wanna test my code out on an actual device.

No, iOS 6.1.6 is the latest version your iPod touch will support. There is absolutely no way to install iOS 7, 8, 9, or (extremely) likely anything later. It just won't work.

No, you can't install older iOS version, because Apple do not seed this version anymore.


Does it make sense to Quit apps before Sleep? Will quitting (Cmd+Q) large apps before closing the MacBook lid make getting up and running again faster?

I have the impression that my MacBook needs more time to recover from sleep if I have large, memory-hungry (LibreOffice, heh) applications open, but that doesn't make much sense from what I believe sleep mode is (e.g., powering down disk and screen but not memory).

Yes and no.

Without knowing the model of MacBook and level of Mac OS X - you may have safe sleep enabled by default. Safe sleep writes the entire contents of RAM to the hard drive, so anything that is still hitting the hard drive for IO might slow things down until the OS has suspended all the active applications in preparation for this write. It is theoretically possible this suspending process could take more time - but in practice I have never seen reports that it is measurable.

Recovering from sleep is the same since that means that power was not removed and the RAM contents were maintained. I would guess that the number of apps running does affect greatly how long it takes for the mac to become responsive again. Every app will start processing events (keyboard, mouse, periodic checks to save) so there will be a burst of activity to "catch" up to the current time. Newer OS also use launchd to kick off processes that should have been started while the machine was asleep. For example, the daily clean up script runs daily at 3:15 AM - so if the mac was asleep at that time, waking it up at 10am means the 3:15 script gets started as part of the waking from sleep which might slow things down. Add in several other processes on a full mac - and you get the slowness you are observing.

The no would be if you don't have it asleep over a time when events are started by launchd and if your apps are efficient or don't need to "catch up" - it really depends on your mac and the specific programs running.

In the end - if you want a more responsive mac when waking it and quitting apps makes that happen - do it! Don't worry of other people have different experiences. The apps you quit are most likely still in virtual memory (which is saved during sleep) so launching them again will be faster than an initial launch which is the entire reason why sleep exists. (unless you have less than 1/4 total RAM listed as inactive RAM in Activity Monitor).

I think the long and short of this is that it is going to be about the same amount of time to either sleep with the applications running and restarting or sleeping with no applications running and then having to restart each application (I would actually bet that this is more time consuming). Both approaches will take about the same amount of time in non-scientific testing and closing all the applications does sort of defeat the purpose of sleep. Either way this is probably well under a minute...

If it is taking more time than that, then I too would recommend running maintenance on the macbook.


What is my iPhone downloading in the background? Is there any way to find what apps are downloading stuff in the background? And what stuff they are downloading? I've done a little research and gather it's the Background Transfer Service doing the work. But no hint of how to monitor what its doing. This other question is a bit more general and the answer was "there's no way to know" but it's a bit old and the answers aren't authoritative.

About once a week when I plug my phone in and it's on WiFi I find it's suddenly downloading hundreds of megabytes of data. I can figure out a bit of what's going on from my router, an HTTP connection to aaplimg.com, but all that tells me is it's something on Apple's CDN. Short of running a packet sniffer I have no way to see what is being downloaded or by what.

Do you have iCloud Drive and/or iCloud backups enabled? If so, that's what it's probably doing. You may also want to check which apps you have enabled to refresh in the background. See: Settings > General > Background App Refresh

Have you checked the app data usage under Mobile Data?  That would indicate what apps are using the most data on your cellular connection.  By process of elimination, you can uninstall the apps that use the most data on mobile and see if that affects the data use on Wi-Fi.  It's a tedious, annoying solution, but it's the best method I can think of.

Do you have your iPhone set to sync data to iCloud over Wi-Fi?  That might be a factor too…


Can I get the CPU temperature and fan speed from the command line in OS X? Is there a command I can run from the command line in OS X to get the current CPU temperature and/or the fan speed(s)?

To be more specific, I'd like to be able to get the same info available in the iStat widget under the Fans and Temps tabs on the command line.

I'd like to be able to find these values at the command line so it could be scripted and plugged into a monitoring setup on my Mac - I have a data-nerd desire to collect and graph these values (and other stats) on my Macbook over time.

On Linux, it seems like this would be possible by reading a pseudo-file under the /proc directory, but I'm not sure how to do the equivalent on OS X (if it exists).

The iStats ruby gem lets you see the CPU temperature via the command-line.
Installation
$ gem install iStats
Usage
$ istats all

On my mid-2011 MacMini with OSX 10.13.6 I use smc to set and check the fan speed plus osx-cpu-temp for the temperature.

https://github.com/hholtmann/smcFanControl

https://github.com/lavoiesl/osx-cpu-temp


Are there any Lion optimized text editors with VIM keybindings? I am looking for a text editor with support for Lion's new features - specifically autosave, versions, and full-screen support.

I would also really like to be able to use VIM keybindings, either standard, or as an option. Does this combination exist?

Check Sublime Text 2, it is still in beta and they have adding full-screen support in Lion but not others you mentioned.  And you can use Vim key-binding too.

MacVim is also working on some of the Lion refinements (the ones that are included have some rough edges) - it's certainly not stable since it's being fixed as the days go by, but as an open-source program, you can see the bugs/defects and know when the features you care are shipped or have issues.

I'm fairly sure there isn't anything (could be wrong, VIM makes my eyes glaze over), but that's probably best followed with a yet. A lot of devs seem to be scrambling to get updated with the new Lion calls.


How can I control an app on my iOS device from Mac or PC I would like to take control of my app on an iOS device (mostly an iPhone) from my MacBook Pro or Windows, doesn't matter which one.

I know that it can be accomplished via Veency, and that's exactly what I need - but I do NOT want to jailbreak my iPhone.

Is there a similar legal alternative?

If not - is it something I could develop perhaps, or will I run into some SDK limitations for such a thing?

All iOS SDK apps work within a security sandbox, and thus have no access or control over any other apps (with a few tiny exceptions for registered URLs). You could take control of you own app, but no others, including Apple's, on a stock OS device.

Turn on Home Sharing using Remote

1.Connect iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to a Wi-Fi network on the same local network as your Mac, PC, or Apple TV.

Open the Remote app on your iOS device.
Turn on Home Sharing from the Remote Settings screen.
Sign in to the same Apple ID you used on your other devices.


How can I get curl to resume download after waking from sleep mode? I'm trying to download the wwdc videos using curl .. however, my mac goes onto sleep mode after an hour. Can I resume the half-completed downloads or do I have to re-start?

You could try using wget -c:

-c
--continue
    Continue getting a partially-downloaded file.  This is useful when you
    want to finish up a download started by a previous instance of Wget, or
    by another program.  For instance:

            wget -c ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/ls-lR.Z

    If there is a file named ls-lR.Z in the current directory, Wget will
    assume that it is the first portion of the remote file, and will ask the
    server to continue the retrieval from an offset equal to the length of
    the local file.


"You can’t sign in at this time" when signing into iCloud I recently upgraded my fairly new MacBook Pro to OS X 10.11 (El Capitan). I started the Notes app, hoping to see my notes, but they weren't there. I clicked on iCloud in the Settings app and typed my Apple ID and password, and a dialog box showed saying "You can’t sign in at this time. Try signing in again.".

I am sure I am typing the right Apple ID and password because I can log in from my phone, and I can log in from the iCloud website.

I tried deleting my ~/Library/Application Support/iCloud/Accounts directory as described here and that didn't seem to do anything.

I tried the procedure described here and that didn't work either.

Why is this happening? What can be done about it?

I called Apple Support. We tried several things. Eventually, I started Keychain Access, and under the "Keychain Access" menu, clicked "Preferences". In the Preferences, I clicked the "Reset My Default Keychain" button. I had to re-enter my Mac and iCloud passwords. Everything appears to be working fine now.

my experience with this issue was a bit of a "Doh!" moment. I was trying to sign on using my username "@me.com". As soon as I switched to "@icloud.com" everything worked great.


Are there any "App Store quality" apps for creating animated GIFs from a series of image files? I searched the App Store for "animated GIF" but the only returned app was one to convert a movie file into an animated GIF. I need to go the other way: I have a series of screenshots taken of an app that I'm a beta tester for. These are the standard PNG files created by OS X's ⌘+⇧+4 keyboard shortcut. They show the sequence of events I use to reproduce a display bug.

When I say "App Store quality" I mean they are native Cocoa apps. These apps generally have attention paid to user interface and usability. You know, all the things that make good Mac apps good.

You might install ImageMagick with brew install imagemagick and then use something like this:

convert -delay 4 *.png output.gif

-delay 4 sets the delay between frames to 0.04 s.

See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_basics/ for more information.

Gimp can do it very easily.  Here are clear instructions:

http://www.techpraveen.com/2011/01/how-to-make-animated-gif-picture-in-gimp.html


My Retina MacBook Pro is missing some icons suddenly! What happened? This happened after a wake from sleep. And rebooting doesn't solve the problem! Has anyone encountered this problem before?

Every item in the bar, for example Safari, has no previous and next arrows for the button, and Finder is missing sidebar icon.

I have the same problem with my Retina MBP (the 2.3 GHz model); after upgrading to the latest 10.8.2 (including the graphics update) and resuming from overnight sleep, all Apple applications (Safari, Finder, etc) are missing all icons from toolbar and menubar (see a screenshot).

This is second time I encounter the problem. At first time I did a clean reinstall of Mountain Lion (i.e. wiped the disk) and did not install the latest OS X updates. When I yesterday updated OS X (after a week), today the problem was back after resuming the machine from overnight sleep.

rm -rf'ing all files under /Library/Caches and ~/Library/Caches and rebooting did not help for me. I filed a bug report at https://bugreport.apple.com.

Update:

After reading this thread, I re-booted into safe-mode, then back to normal mode and the icons are now back. I disabled hibernation as a precaution, until Apple will fix the problem.

Creating a new user will help you to get back all the missing icons.

Source Apple Premium Reseller Sales Guy


Trackpad gesture that minimizes all windows? This has been driving me nuts for close to a year. I hope someone can tell me what triggers it. I've searched many times over several months and have never found any mention of it.

I use an MBP running OS X 10.8.3 with external monitors, external keyboard and external trackpad. Occasionally while I am manipulating windows with the trackpad (usually moving them by dragging, I think) all of the open windows for all apps will begin minimizing to the dock, one at a time, using the genie effect. Depending on the number of windows I have open, this can take several seconds. I have no idea what, specifically, I'm doing that triggers this behavior.

It is NOT "show desktop" -- the windows definitely fly down to the dock and are minimized, they do not slide to the edges of the screen. The windows are not hidden -- they don't come back with cmd-tab, for example, and they don't disappear instantly -- they "genie" down to the dock. The closest I've found is option-cmd-M, except that it only minimizes windows for the current app -- the behavior I'm asking about minimizes ALL windows from ALL apps.

Help? Please? Thanks!

I've found no default bindings that would make this occur, but I have found an application that possibly could be triggering what's occuring. There is a background application called MagicPrefs which allows for the addition of non-default bindings. MagicPrefs would also allow you to bind AppleScript to things like this as well.

three fingers swipe up will do what you are telling about, I think.  it works on my Dell


MacBook Pro 2015 install app on external drive including a cloud storage drive I would like to install MS Office 2016 on my MacBook Pro but there's not enough space. I thought of installing it on an external USB drive. However, I got an error message that "Microsoft Office 2016 can't be installed on this disk. OS X isn't installed.", and hence I couldn't install it.
Is there anyhow to overcome this situation?
I have one more question which is, is it possible to consider a cloud storage drive like Google Drive as a kind of USB and install an app on it?

Install the application to Macintosh HD (your internal drive). Then go to your Applications folder, move the applications (after they've been installed) to the external drive. Test to make sure the apps on the drive open properly. Then delete the ones in the Applications folder.

Addition: if you have a cloud storage service, you cannot install the apps onto it, but you can store some of your other documents there while you install MS Office on your internal drive.

You can!!(this mite not work but give it a try!!)
just get a copy of mac os and get it on the dics and then get the app you want!
Thanks


Why can't I resolve machine names on my LAN to their IP address? I purchased a new ADSL modem/router last week (Belkin Share), and can no longer resolve machine names on my LAN to their respective IP addresses under OS X. My Windows machines and VMs are able to do this successfully. If I ping the IP address directly, it succeeds, but if I attempt to ping the machine name I get 'cannot resolve . Unknown host'. My previous modem/router (DLink DSL-G604T) did not have this problem.

If I look at the DHCP leases on the router, the list includes the machine name, and this coupled with the fact that the Windows machines can resolve IP addresses makes me think this may be an OS X config issue (although I'm not experienced enough with it yet to know exactly what). I tried removing and re-adding the Ethernet connection under Network settings, but that made no difference.

It appears the router doesn't support Bonjour at all (and Belkin support were totally clueless when approached about it), so I've returned it for a refund and am on the hunt for one that plays nicely with Macs.

Just go to System Preference -> Network -> Ethernet/WIFI -> Advanced -> DNS.
Add in search domains ".local" Apply and done.


How to get a list of the installed app on my Mac? How I can parse the list of all Mac applications? I am executing:

ls /Library/Preferences/ > apps.txt

But still there are some apps that are missing from the list. I think it parse only user apps and do not parse common apps

system_profiler

To list all the applications on a Mac, use the system_profiler command:

system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType

This will output the command in human readable format:

   Power Manager:

      Version: 4.6.1
      Obtained from: Identified Developer
      Last Modified: 20/01/2018, 6:42 pm
      Kind: Intel
      64-Bit (Intel): Yes
      Signed by: Developer ID Application: Dragon Systems Software Limited, Developer ID Certification Authority, Apple Root CA
      Location: /Applications/Power Manager.app

This will include every application on the Mac, including many that are hidden within folders.

XML Formatted List

Add the -xml option to the command for a format that can be parsed and analysed by other tools:

system_profiler -xml SPApplicationsDataType

This will output a Property List (XML), such as:

        ...
        <dict>
            <key>_name</key>
            <string>Safari</string>
            <key>has64BitIntelCode</key>
            <string>yes</string>
            <key>info</key>
            <string>11.0.3, Copyright © 2003-2017 Apple Inc.</string>
            <key>lastModified</key>
            <date>2018-01-31T08:33:08Z</date>
            <key>obtained_from</key>
            <string>apple</string>
            <key>path</key>
            <string>/Applications/Safari.app</string>
            <key>runtime_environment</key>
            <string>arch_x86</string>
            <key>signed_by</key>
            <array>
                <string>Software Signing</string>
                <string>Apple Code Signing Certification Authority</string>
                <string>Apple Root CA</string>
            </array>
            <key>version</key>
            <string>11.0.3</string>
        </dict>
        ...

ls /Applications > apps.txt should do the trick if all you want is the application names. If you have applications installed for one user only (which is rare) you might have to do it again like ls /Users/username/Applications > apps.txt.


OS X Lion not available in U.S. Store I recently had my computer brought to the the Genius Bar, and they installed a copy of OS X Snow Leopard onto my computer. However, I was previously running Lion. So I went over to the Mac App Store to try and reinstall Lion, and it keeps telling me that the item I've requested is not available in the U.S. Store. Is there any way I can resolve the issue? I've tried switching stores and had no luck.

Unfortunately, Apple no longer sells OS X Lion in the Mac App Store. It's not even available in the US Mac App Store and there is no way that you can get OS X Lion from Apple. You can always ask around for a copy, or torrent it (I very well advise against this), but other than that, there's nothing that you can do but to upgrade to OS X Mavericks.


Should I be worried about 98°C CPU temperature on MacbookAir? I'm a developer and often times I need to compile some packages or maybe even run some codes for couple of hours.

Recently I have noticed that whenever I use Homebrew to install something, it defaults to source, and compilation causes my CPU temp to go around 98 Celsius . Some of the compiles are quite long, couple of minutes, and I'm worried this might harm my MacBookAir.

Should I be worried about this 98°C CPU temperature on MacbookAir?
And if so, how can I fix that?

Michiel's correct in that if the computer gets too hot, it'll shut down automatically. However, if you want to be on the safe side, you can check out smcFanControl and Fan Control.

smcFanControl:

  smcFanControl lets the user set the minimum speed of the build in fans. So you can increase your minimum fan speed to make your Intel Mac run cooler. However in order not to damage your machines smcFanControl doesn't let you set a minimum speed to a value below Apple's defaults (MacUpdate).

Fan Control

  Some MacBooks and MacBook Pros are just to hot for daylong use. Fan Control adjusts the minimum fan speed depending on the current CPU temperature. For safety, it leaves the original automatic fan speed control intact (lobotomo).

And remember, if your computer ever gets to 660.4°C, don't leave it on your lap, unless you want liquid aluminum all over you.

UPDATE:

I found another tool called CoolBook that

  lets you monitor the frequency, voltage and temperature of the CoreDuo / Core2Duo CPU. Registered users can also change the frequency and voltage of the processor.

Here's a list of features that are listed on the site:

Reduce heat (presumably by optimizing fan speed)
Reduce fan speed (presumably by lowering fan speed)
Extend battery life
Improve performance
Fine tune your CPU

This seems like a useful tool, but it does not support Lion and Mountain Lion, and does not work on Intel i3, i5, and i7 processors.

Don't worry about the temperature of your macbook... use it without any thought.


My iPhone 4 won't send text messages! My iPhone is not sending text messages through. It will take a long time to send (progressing the little bar at top very slowly), then it says "Message not Delivered". Why and how can I resolve this?

I had the same problem, there are two things you can try:

It is possible that your carrier's network is having problems. The best course of action is to see whether the problem goes away after a day or two
Have the person you are trying to message send you a message to your phone and reply then to see whether this fixes the connection issues


Can I transfer purchased content from an iPhone to an authorised PC Ok so on computer 1, I have setup my iPhone, authorised computer 1 and downloaded some content from iTunes, and put this onto my iPhone.

I have just authorised computer 2, can I transfer the data on my iPhone to computer 2 or do I need to re-download everything?

It seems a bit of a waste having to re-download everything (a couple of gigabytes) when all of the content is already sitting right there on my iPhone.

I'm not trying to do anything dodgy, just trying to transfer some purchased apps/music from a non-jailbroken iPhone to a properly authorised computer, why does Apple make this so difficult?

This is my first apple device so I am new to the whole apple ecosystem, can somebody help me carry out this simple task?

Thanks

You can transfer purchases from your device to your computer.

Assure that you are signed into the AppleStore on the Computer
With the device plugged in via USB, Context-click (right-click) on the device and select "Transfer Purchases".

For more information and guided steps, please refer to this AppleSupport Article

Phone to PC (or Phone to Mac) is some shareware that can be used for this, although the trial should be sufficient for your one time use need


How to activate new iPad without disclosing credit card number? I bought my mother an iPad 2 as a gift for her birthday, hoping that it would enable my toddler son to do Facetime with his grandmother.

I tried to walk her through the activation process (over email) by having her download iTunes to her Windows laptop, etc.  She managed to do that much, but when the activation process asked her to create an Apple ID and give a credit card number, she refused to proceed.

I can't imagine that she would even buy an app, or music, or a book.   I thought the device would be worth it just for mobile Safari, Facetime, and the other built in apps.

Is it possible to activate the device without creating an Apple ID?  If not, is it possible to get around the credit-card number field?

I think you are going to need an iTunes account, but you can get around the need of a credit card. You can follow Apple's support documentation on how to setup an iTunes account without a credit card. You can use a Mac to make a free account that works on iOS and iOS to make a free account that works on Mac. Once your iTunes store account is set up once, you might want to avoid creating a second one since they cannot be merged later.

Creating an iTunes Store, App Store, iBookstore, and Mac App Store account without a credit card - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204034

Open iTunes without account and try to download a free app. Then create a new id and click on non credit card option and fill the all details. Make sure your password has at least one upper case letter.


My SMB shares won't mount under Catalina! What's wrong? I am in the process of migrating from Mojave, on my iMac's internal HDD, to Catalina, on a USB 3.1 SSD.

I have an AppleScript that runs on login, "Connect to servers and set mouse pointer." It mounts my SMB shares, resets several Finder windows to icon view without toolbar, closes the finder windows opened, and then trips Mousecape, to set my mouse pointer to look like a small rodent.

Everything works just fine under Mojave, but the SMB shares aren't mounting under Catalina.

The very first thing it does is mount my SMB shares, using code of the following form (once for each share):

try
    open location "smb://uuuuuuuu:pppppppp@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/dddddddd"
end try

where uuuuuuuu is my user-ID, and pppppppp is my password, on the Linux box hosting the SMB share, at local IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, and name dddddddd.

This works perfectly under Mojave, but under Catalina, it (1) throws up a dialog showing the user-ID and asking for my password, and (2) rejects the password when entered.

Can anybody shed any light on what's going on here?

As per https://medium.com/@gobinathm/how-to-access-smb-printer-shares-in-macos-catalina-10-15-17ea91d2c10b, I added an nsmb.conf file; doing so had no effect.

I think I found something: on StackExchange, I stumbled onto something about Catalina removing support for SMB 1 protocol. With some further research, I found out about the "smbstatus" command at https://askubuntu.com/questions/917565/checking-smb-version. I ran it on the Linux box serving the SMB shares, and got this, with my Mac connected under Mojave:

Samba version 3.0.33-3.14.el5
PID     Username      Group         Machine
-------------------------------------------------------------------
32496   jamesl        users         jamess-imac  (192.168.1.11)
32499   jamesl        users         jamess-imac  (192.168.1.11)
Opened /var/cache/samba/connections.tdb

Service      pid     machine       Connected at
-------------------------------------------------------
shared       32499   jamess-imac   Wed Apr  1 15:19:22 2020
development   32496   jamess-imac   Wed Apr  1 15:19:22 2020

Could this be it? The Linux box in question is running CentOS 5.4, FWIW.

It turns out that the version of Samba (3.0) running on the server only does SMB1, whereas Catalina requires at least SMB2 (which didn't come in until Samba 3.5).

Caught between a rock and a hard place.

Given that the Samba box (1) is now only being used, at least on any sort of regular basis, by me, making it gross overkill, (2) is literally doing nothing but serving SMB1 and consuming power, and (3) is a 15-year-old Dell 400SC, I'm probably going to replace it outright. Possibly with a thumb drive.

You can easily mount your favorite volume with AutomountMaker


Should Do Not Disturb be cancelling incoming calls? I was just wondering about DND. It was my understanding that DND just silenced notifications (calls, texts, alerts, etc) system wide.

I thought it just ensured that the screen does not light up and not audible notification is played, however it seems from my testing that when enabled DND actually cancels incoming calls, rather than just silencing the incoming call. Is this correct behavior?

The iOS 7 description of Do Not Disturb states(accessible over Settings > Do Not Disturb)

  When Do Not Disturb is enabled calls and alerts that arrive while locked will be silenced, and a moon icon will appear in the status bar.

So DND should not cancel incoming calls.

This seems to be an ongoing problem/bug on the official apple forums.

Report it at https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html as bug Report and Apple should work on it.


Yosemite Disk Utility: You may only split this volume in two I just upgraded to 10.10- Yosemite. I have an external 4TB hard drive. These are the problems I see with Disk Utility:

No more than two partitions are allowed.
Changing the partition size I can only use the slider, so I can't enter a number for the size of the selected partition.
Changing the name of the parent partition is not possible.

I tried to repair the drive, that didn't change anything. I can try to reformat, or even format the drive on Linux to something else and then see what DU says about that. Any ideas what is the problem here or is this a case of a bad release by Apple?

I monted the disk on Ubuntu, opened the disk utility and saw the following. It seemed like Apple Disk Utility messed up. I deleted all partitions, then mounted the disk on my mac and I could create three partitions like I wanted.

OS X Yosemite includes a recovery partition, the main one and a further one whose use i do not know but these are important so don't  delete them.
Sorry, you'll just have to work around it.


Random 100% Finder CPU Usage On One Account Ok guys, here's the deal. Randomly, I wasn't doing anything specific -- my system starts getting sluggish. I checked the activity viewer -- wow, finder is at 150% CPU!

I have scoured the internet for fixes, and franky, I have tried them all (except one -- which I may need help with -- more on that later).

SYSTEM: Snow Leopard with a Mac Pro (Twelve Core 2.66 Westmere)

This is what I have tried and the results:

Trashing com.apple.finder.plist, com.apple.systemuiserver.plist, com.apple.loginwindow.plist. -- NO FIX
Trashing ALL apple.* namespaced .plist files -- NO FIX
Turning off "calculate all sizes" in finder -- NO FIX
Turning off "show view options" in finder -- NO FIX
Disabling all startup items -- NO FIX
Unplugging external hard drives -- NO FIX
Getting rid of all data on desktop. -- NO FIX

However, if I create a new account or use my wife's account -- the FINDER CPU USAGE IS NORMAL.

I analyzed the finders cpu pattern, it goes like this. If active, its always between 70 and 150% cpu usage. If i kill it, and stay 100% idle -- it goes from 0-ish% to 100+% slowly, and the Real Memory column in activity viewer goes from 0mb to ~2gb+ slowly, and when it gets around there, it dies and cycles all over again.

Here's where I need help from people smarter than me in this area. What are some methods I can use to trace what's happening in Finder?

I am pretty new to Mac and this has been a big blow to me -- I am loving the rest of it after being on Windows for over 17 years.

Would appreciate any help I can get!

I am getting the following when I issue the fs-usage -f filesys

18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000401 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000404 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000340 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000339 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000535 W Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000192 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000326 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000462 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000194 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000127 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000410 W Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000198 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000600 W Path Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000188 W Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.001019 W Finder
18:03:19 getdirentries64 0.000416 W Path Finder

Any ideas? I disabled path finder after and it still happens, but with just Finder.

First:

consult the Utilities -> Console.app and check your logfiles, for some idea. ;)

Next:

Activity Monitor (also in Utilities) may help shed some light and can tell you what code Finder is busy with and what else is happening at the same time.

Look over the routines when you sample the Finder to see if they make any sense (or at least Finder gets caught in the same code each time to know you have one cause and not many)
What processes are also getting CPU when this happens?
Does this happen when all networks are disconnected?
Are disk activity and network levels higher or lower than normal when this happens?

If Console does not help, you can trace all the network and file usage to see if you can snoop at what Finder and the system is doing:

open Terminal.app
in its preferences change the scroll-back buffer to 10.000+ lines
and enter the next command
sudo fs_usage   #you will need enter the admin password
after a while (10-20 seconds) you can interrupt with CTRL+c
now scroll back and try get some idea - i understand than it is hard, because you will got hundreds lines what are normal...

This will show what files are currently used in the whole OS - maybe you will get some idea, what's happening.

maybe:

HDD error in several sectors - (try check smart-status for your HDD)
bad QuickLook plugin?
remote HDD (iDisk?) timeouts?

UPDATE:

First - if your wife's account is OK - thats can mean,

the problem is "somewhere" bellow your $HOME dir, so it is probably not in /System or /Library, or
the problem is "somewhere" in /System or /Library, but caused by your login (StartupItem or LaunchDaemon or some your Preference setting what use Finder for some work - for example TimeMachine)

Some guessing (but honestly - these are not "advices" only pure guessing)

uninstall PathFinder.
check $HOME/Library/QuickLook folder. if anything is here, try move into ~/Desktop (for temporary) and relog - if not help, move them back - your should relog when moving plugins.
check /Library/QuickLook (let there here only QBQL.., iWork) - don't trash them, only temporary move to desktop and relog.
do you installed any Finder-plugin/hack - something?
try disable TimeMachine - if it is enabled
try eject (umount) all networked drives, and usb drives
have you BootCamp especially with NTFS? - Try exclude it from Spotlight, TimeMachine etc...
try exclude everything from Spotlight (this probably will not help, but for "sure" - your mdworder should stop indexing) (in the SysytemPrefs -> Spotlight -> Privacy - add your whole hdd and bootcamp too.)
disable all sharing (SysPrefs->Sharing)
download Onyx and remove all Caches. (this will cause increased CPU usage while rebuild cache again, but only for short time)
remove ALL .DS_Store (hidden) files - don't worry, they're not essential. Sure exists some GUI tool for this job. If don't find any, you can try this Terminal command.

find "$HOME" -name .DS_Store -print0 | xargs -0 echo

the above is for "dry run" - you can check what will be removed, if satisfied, change the echo to rm

if none of above help (and probably will not :=() have no idea...

bmike? any other idea?

Deleting the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist file worked for me when I had this very same problem.


How to keep Night Shift™ enabled indefinitely on macOS 10.12.5+? Settings only have "turn on until tomorrow" I want to keep it turned on until I turn it off, not until some fixed date. How to achieve this?

(I know about the option to use f.lux, but I'd prefer to not depend on it now that macOS is so close to being able to do it itself)

In the preferences (System Preferences > Display > Night Shift) do the following:

set 'Schedule' to Custom
set 'From:' to 00:00
set 'to:' to 23:59
adjust the Color Temperature as desired

Now night shift will be enabled all the time. Disable it using the Notification Center or using the 'Manual' toggle in the preferences pane.

open Notification Center, swipe down and manualy change.


Time Machine: "Enter Time Machine" menu command does not do anything I have Time Machine running on an external hard drive and it reports happily that it is doing backups and I have no reason to doubt it.

But when I try to look at the backups by clicking "Enter Time Machine" nothing at all happens. No noises from the disk as far as I can tell. Nothing. And when I locate the "Time Machine" app in the Applications folder and run that, again, nothing happens...

Do you have any idea what is up or what I need to do?

I just had the same issue in 10.11 El Capitan: "Enter Time Machine" did nothing, and nothing relevant showed in Console.app.

I relaunched Finder (Apple menu > Force Quit > scroll to Finder and choose Relaunch) and the issue was then resolved.

This surprised me, given that the relevant app is /Applications/Time Machine.app, not Finder.  But it seems likely that Finder is actually responsible for the Time Machine display of the historic files: if I "Enter Time Machine", then check with ps or Activity Monitor via remote log in, I see no Time Machine process.  So perhaps /Applications/Time Machine.app simply tells Finder to start the display, then exits.

You should enable local storage by Time Machine. Just run the following command in Terminal:

sudo tmutil enablelocal


Do any OS X apps ease Search and Replace across multiple files? I'm looking for an OS X tool which allows me to search and replace a search string in multiple files. The requirements are the following:

Search and Replace
Search by regular expression
Search across multiple files
Search across nested directory structures
Replace expression can use values from the search (Regular Expression)
The tool has an easy to use user interface
Preferably free

I know that some text editors like BBEdit have this functionality, but I would prefer a lightweight tool that doesn't require me to open the files for editing first.

If there aren't any tools to match these requirements, I would also consider a command line alternative. I know that perl and sed support something like this - a solution that I can define either as a Bash alias or function would be welcome in this case.

I typically use TextMate:

TextMate (1) is/was a buy product, but TextMate 2 is currently under active openSource development on gitHub and free to use.

Take a look at my App Search and Replace. You can use it on multiple files or directories, safe your search/replace strings and you can use regular expressions.


How to start OS X applications from the command line with optional arguments? I am looking for an easy way to start different GUI OS X applications from the command line and with different parameters.

If possible I would like to add them to the system PATH in order to call them easier.

Note:  I tried open -a "Google Chrome" --args --disable-plugins and it started Chrome but without disabling the plugins.

Normally you can find the actual executable in the Contents/MacOS folder of the Application bundle. For Chrome try it like so:

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --disable-plugins

This DOESN'T enable you to send an argument to the application, but I found my way to this thread trying to find a way to open an application from the command line so will at least share how to do that in case anyone else ends up in the same position.

It might work to make an alias in ~/.bash_profile.

For example:

alias affinity="open -a Affinity\ Designer.app"

(No path necessary. Hmm.)

Works for something like:

$ affinity path/to/file.png


How to create shortcut to insert specific special character I'm using some special characters like mathematical symbols in different programs like Mail or Adobe Illustrator. Of course I can open the Symbols Table, search for the needed symbol and copy&paste it. Is there a way to define a shortcut to insert a specific special character?

Two possibilities are through creating a modified keyboard layout (which can be done manually, but is made much simpler using a program like Ukulele) or through a shortcut program like TextExpander

I use TextExpander, myself, so that c== is a shortcut on my system for ⌘, o== for ⌥, and several others, in part because I do not want to lose the symbols already mapped to the option (⌥) key combinations on my keyboard.

On the other hand, remapping the ⌥ keys to symbols different than the ones they are original configured for can be helpful and convenient for some people also, which is where Ukulele shines.

You may create an AppleScript that insert your character.

Then, it is possible to have this script in the Scripts menu at the right.

Then I think that, in the menu, the script can have a keyboard command.

Then you are done!


Charge an iPad on MacBook running Win7 There are half a dozen questions here why the iPad doesn't charge (or displays this at least) on most Windows machines. I have one more to add.

Of course my iPad (1st gen) does charge on my MacBook (late 2008) under Mac OS X. However, when I boot Win 7 in Boot Camp, it says "not charging".

As I see, the logic board is capable to deliver sufficient power. Why does this change under Windows? And what could I do about this, since I do need to use Windows sometimes and I'd like to charge my post-PC device then.

Despite the fact that your iPad says it's not charging under Windows, it will in fact charge if the display is off. Check your battery percentage, attach the iPad and turn off the display (standard locking by pressing the power button once); check back in 30 minutes or so and you'll see that you've definitely gained several percent, as much as 10% in that time.

As to why the iPad indicates that it's charging under OS X but not under Windows I cannot say. Fortunately it's lying. :)

If you look at your iPad charger you will see it has 2.5A and a regular USB port can only give you 500mA. So it's quite useless to charge your iPad from computer. If it says 'not charging', then there is not enough voltage (the voltage may get lower when you connect 'hungry' devices). But I can't get why it may be different in OS X and Win.


Copy range of files with same file structure I would like to copy range of jpg files from the multiple folders.
I have a lot of folders with *.CR2 and *.xmp, in addition, it has a jpg folder with *.jpg files. I need to copy only jpg files and save file structure.
example:

2018/folder1/jpg --> temp/folder1/jpg
2018/folder2/jpg --> temp/folder2/jpg

Can this be automated? not to go to every folder and copy the files?
I tried Unix command:
cp folder1/*.jpg to folder1/jpg and got *.jpg: no such file or directory

I would like to copy range of jpg files from the multiple folders. I
  have a lot of folders with *.CR2 and *.xmp, in addition, it has a jpg
  folder with *.jpg files. I need to copy only jpg files and save file
  structure. example:

  2018/folder1/jpg --> temp/folder1/jpg
  2018/folder2/jpg --> temp/folder2/jpg

If I understand correctly what you're asking...

You can change directory into the 2018 directory, e.g.:

cd "/path/to/2018"

Then use, e.g.:

rsync -aR */jpg ../temp/

This will copy the folder*/jpg directories in 2018 to temp so you'll have temp/folder*/jpg directories, where temp it at the same level as the 2018 directory.

In other words, as in your examples:

  2018/folder1/jpg --> temp/folder1/jpg
    2018/folder2/jpg --> temp/folder2/jpg

They will be created as you've shown.

You can try going to temp folder and typing

  cp -R ../2018/folder*/*.jpg .

and this should copy all jpg to temp but it won't copy folder1 to temp.

To copy folder1 and folder2 to temp again go to temp and type

  cp -R 2018/folder* .


How can I get files off of a Mac when the display is broken? I need to get files off of my mac, and SSH and RDP are both disabled. My screen is broken, and my SSD is encrypted by FileVault.

Now, I do have one advantage: An external monitor. However, it will not turn on until FileVault has decrypted the hard drive. I have a BIOS password on it as well.

If there is a way to automatically select a user at the FileVault screen by pressing Enter or so, then please tell me. What I think I need to do is boot into Single User Mode, but I need to know exactly what prompts I'll encounter until it will display on the external monitor.

The simplest thing to do is boot the Mac in target mode (hold the T key down) and connect it via Thunderbolt or Firewire to another Mac so you can have visibility without repairing your Mac's screen. Alternatively, you could just remove the drive from the Mac and use a cheap $5 USB to SATA connector to mount the volume on a Mac to enter the Filevault passphrase to decrypt the volume.

Presumably, your system isn't booting since even in the blind, you should remember if you have to type in a user name and then press tab or return and then type the password.

User selection works by arrow keys and the space bar will select the user (and if you only have one user enabled to unlock the FileVault drive, you boot to a password screen so you only need to enter the password and press enter).

You can type the first letter of the user account and then type the password to get logged in. This assumes your user doesn't share a first letter with another account that is sorted before yours. In this case type the letter and then arrow key over to the second, third account and then type the password.

I am assuming you have not used Time Machine to keep all data in case this happens.
I have just received my wife's MacbookAir with a cracked screen, she has backed up with Time Machine, all i do now is get a new machine and load it from her back up drive. First i connected it to an external screen then connected using Thunderbolt to HDMI port on my tv. Problem solved. Please use back up on your machines.


Will iOS backup include a paired Bluetooth keyboard? I have an iPad with a broken digitizer. This, of course, renders the iPad useless. Although I would still be able to use it for typing, etc, if only my Bluetooth keyboard was paired to it. But how to achieve that when the touch screen can't recieve input?

So I got an idea.

Can I pair the keyboard with another iOS device, backup that iOS device to my Mac, and then restore that backup to the iPad? Will that include the paired keyboard?

I am (barely) able to unlock the screen of the iPad, so I will be able to sync and restore it from the Mac.

Bluetooth pairing matches two hardware devices, so that pairing records are irrelevant if re-loaded on a different bluetooth adapter (on the new iOS device). Good thinking to get around a hardware repair - if you could somehow turn on assistive touch and try backing that up, you might be able to navigate - but I'm guessing that still needs some amount of digitizer functionality to restore the backup in the first place.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202658

I wouldn't expect network settings to be saved and transferred through backup, especially to two different machines, but I could be wrong.


How can I recover when my iPhone isn't responding to touch when using Guided Access on iOS 6? Is there a recommended solution for when Guided Access fails to respond to triple-click of the home button?  I set this up for a kids app for my son, and despite triple-clicking the home button several times, I am failing to get a response to prompt for my guided access pin number.

I tried holding the power button, and several other options, all to no avail.  Is my only option to let the battery die out?  Will that even fix the issue?

Seems like a solution is to hold home button + volume down + screen lock until device forcibly reboots.  After that, guided access began responding properly again and I was able to exit the app.

Edit:  Through trial and error, I felt this was home button + volume down + screen lock, but as comments  have noted, volume down is not necessary.

I've had better luck quadruple clicking.


Why is a Time Machine backup so slow over a fast network? Despite having a gigabit hardwired ethernet connection to my Macbook Air, when I have Time Machine backing up to an iMac also hardwired on the same switch in the same network, the transfer speed is often less then 1MB per second.
If/when I copy a file from the Air (Catalina 10.15.7) to my iMac (Mojave 10.14.6), I get a speed of about 65MB per second.  As it is, it takes about a month to get the 1Tb disk in my Air backed up, all that time sitting there with a wired connection and doing little else. If I could get 65MB/sec with Time Machine, it would take less than 5 hours to backup that 1Tb disk.
The backup disk is a 5Tb portable USB drive connected to the server (my iMac running Mojave) and configured to "share as a Time Machine backup destination".  Several Macs (High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina) are successfully (but slowly) backing up to it over WiFi.
How can I get the initial backup to go as fast as possible?

Time Machine is really poor at working over a network, and I’ve stopped doing this. The best way to run Time Machine now (macOS 11) is to give it a dedicated encrypted disk (which TM will reformat to APFS). The backups will be very fast and you will be hard pressed to notice them, but even backing up to an HFS+ local drive will be orders of magnitude faster than over your LAN.
(The reasons for this are somewhat opaque, but the backup process is very different when backing up over a network as your target is not a disk or even a network folder, but a sparse image file on the network and this makes, as you’ve seen, a huge difference. The behavior seems to have gotten worse in recent versions to the point where it’s just not worth it.)
Another option you might consider is to use a syncing tool to sync your data to a location on the target machine that is part of its regular backup. I’d do both, but then I’m a "three backups are the minimal starter set” sort of guy.

Virus scanning software can make Time Machine backups very slow. If you use Norton AntiVirus or a similar product, try to exclude your backup disk from automatic scanning. Also make sure you are running the latest version of the virus scanning software.


Clear Terminal command history I'm trying to clear the history of commands that have been run on Terminal, I found an article which said I can do it with rm ~/.bash_history

However, I am still able to see the previous commands that I've ran by pressing the up arrow

The correct command is history -c, as shown in the picture below.

So what you have to do is:

run "rm ~/.bash_history" (without quotation marks)
run "exit" command
quit Terminal and open it again
You can check that your history is cleared by running "history" command. All that should be left is the "exit" command and "rm ~/.bash_history" command.

Hope this helps!


Trouble accessing ntfs drives in mac os x I installed tuxera-ntfs in mac os x and am able to mount my external disks and use them without any issues.

I can delete files, copy files to my external disk and from my disk

But I am not able to cut the files(use the cmd+X) . Any files that I copied from my external disk to my mac, I face the same issue.

Also I am not able to change user permission by using chmod for any of the files.

I have two disks and the behaviour is the same in both of them

I want to know if this is a default behavior of using ntfs drives in mac or I am missing something.

i use this i have not problems http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26288/ntfs you can try !


How do I share my Internet connection wirelessly while using it on my MacBook Pro? How do I share my Internet connection wirelessly with other gadgets while using it simultaneously on my MacBook Pro?

I am using a Idea Netsetter 3g dongle for broadband Internet access. However, when I go to the settings to share it with other devices, the MacBook Pro is the only one left out of the connection.

I've used  Idea Netsetter Dongle and shared my internet over the Wifi.

First connect to the Internet with Idea Netsetter 3G
Open System Preferences > Sharing

Select the Network which you want to share ( In your case it's Ethernet Adaptor )
Select the network(s) which you want to share the internet to (In your case Wifi)

Don't forget to switch you're Wifi On

Now if you look at the Wifi Icon on your Menu Bar , You'll notice something different.

Now take any other device ( iPhone , Android Phone , iPad ) and connect to your WiFi Network.

Hope this is what you were looking for !

http://www.4shared.com/file/5-AHKzPA/Marywifi-EN.html
this apps help it's easy and simple to share your wireless


How to launch browser in iOS Simulator from command line? I want to launch the browser in iOS Simulator from the Terminal with specified URL.

Is there any command for it? So that I can write in a script which will take URL as argument and launch simulator with browser and URL open on it.

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iPhone\ Simulator.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhone\ Simulator -SimulateApplication /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator7.0.sdk/Applications/MobileSafari.app/MobileSafari -u "http://google.com/"

Yes this really is one long command — make sure to run it all. Replace google.com with actual website, and iPhoneSimulator7.0.sdk with the relevant version of the simulator that you're using.

Here's what to do : Go to Finder and run /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, and paste in the following code:

open /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iPhone\ Simulator.app

That should help if you use XCODE, or a iOS Simulator.


PuTTY Equivalent for Mac Is there a good PuTTY (free telnet / ssh client) equivalent for OS X?

I know that I can just use terminal and an ssh command, but I want some sort of application that will store connection info, passwords, logs, etc for me, much like PuTTY.

Does this exist?

PuTTY is a great Windows frontend, not to mention the need for an SSH client in the first place. On Linux, OS X, and most other UNIX-y based environments, SSH is generally purely command line, but still amazingly powerful.

The SSH client allows you to store an amazing amount of properties based on a given hostname, even global defaults, in the "ssh_config" client file. This file doesn't exist by default (per the comments on the question), but should be written at ~/.ssh/config.

That path equates to:
~, your home directory, it expands on my system to /Users/jason.
.ssh, the leading dot makes it hidden. If you're in Terminal and in your home directory, you can simply run cd .ssh and enter it.
config is the file name, it is a plain text file with configuration parameters.

I use this file to control tunnels I always use, the private key needed for the connection, the username (if it differs from my local username), etc.

See the manpage, either via man ssh_config on your own machine which will contain the most appropriate version, or you can view it online from OpenBSD's Site.

Some example contents from my ssh config file are:

ControlMaster auto
ControlPath ~/.ssh/sockets/master-%r-%h-%p
VisualHostKey yes

Host serve
    Hostname 8.8.8.8
    User        jason
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
    LocalForward 5901 localhost:5901

Whitespace is purely personal preference, it is not required except to separate Keys from Values.

The first three lines are global properties, they affect every SSH connection. The second section is a host-specific configuration.

The Host line specifies the host tag you will use when invoking ssh. Ex. ssh serve. When running that, it loads all the properties listed until the next Host line.

Since serve is not necessarily a DNS name, I specify the Hostname that it should actually connect to (no, not actually mine). User is self explanatory and there just to be explicit, and the IdentityFile is the path to the Private Key file it uses to connect.

Lastly, LocalForward sets up a port forwarding rule that I send through the SSH tunnel.

The various syntaxes are all documented on the man page.

There is no mechanism for defining a plain text password. Password entry is ALWAYS interactive when setting up the SSH connection. If you want to log in automatically, set up Private Key Authentication. Storing plain text passwords is stupid, always.

I use this to great effect. And the best part? All your SSH configurations are incredibly portable, it's just one file that you have to backup/retain, and move between system to system! Not so portable to Windows, but who really likes dealing with the registry anyway?

Yes. There is new kid in town:

http://www.royaltsx.com/main/home.aspx


Couldn't open device I can not partition nor use a removable USB disk without file system.
I obtained the following informations:
sh-3.2# diskutil info disk2
   Device Identifier:        disk2
   Device Node:              /dev/disk2
   Whole:                    Yes
   Part of Whole:            disk2
   Device / Media Name:      IC1100        CF

   Volume Name:              Not applicable (no file system)

   Mounted:                  Not applicable (no file system)

   File System:              None

   Content (IOContent):      None
   OS Can Be Installed:      No
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 USB
   SMART Status:             Not Supported

   Total Size:               8.0 GB (7994327040 Bytes) (exactly 15613920 512-Byte-Units)
   Volume Free Space:        Not applicable (no file system)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         Not applicable (no file system)

   Device Location:          External
   Removable Media:          Yes
   Media Removal:            Software-Activated

   Virtual:                  No
   OS 9 Drivers:             No
   Low Level Format:         Not supported

After following this guide, I am now able to see the disk in Disk Utility, but it is uninitialized, and when I try to format it, I get the error
Couldn't open device
EDIT: I tried the following:

Disk Utility > Erase
Terminal > diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS NAME disk2
Terminal > diskutil eraseVolume MS-DOS NAME disk2
Terminal > diskutil partitionDisk disk2 1 MBR MS-DOS NAME 7.8GB

They ALL lead to the same error: Error: -69877: Couldn't open device
EDIT 2: This is the partition table:
    sh-3.2# fdisk -e /dev/disk2
    fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
    The signature for this MBR is invalid.
    Would you like to initialize the partition table? [y] y
    Enter 'help' for information
    fdisk:*1> p
    Disk: /dev/disk2    geometry: 971/255/63 [15613920 sectors]
    Offset: 0   Signature: 0xAA55
             Starting       Ending
     #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     1: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
     2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
     3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
     4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

EDIT 3: If I type fdisk /dev/disk2 , this is shown:
sh-3.2# fdisk /dev/disk2
Disk: /dev/disk2    geometry: 971/255/63 [15613920 sectors]
Signature: 0xD913
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: D5  843 125  41 -  856  48  15 [3289417632 - 1579849264] <Unknown ID>
 2: B0  380 233  63 -  580 252  34 [1433382022 - 2359874114] <Unknown ID>
 3: 21  542 173  50 -  368 171  22 [ 805962412 - 2236752874] <Unknown ID>
 4: C1  311 233  33 -  417  95   7 [3864719105 - 4292535645] DRDOSs FAT12

How can I solve? Thanks
(I'm using Mac OS X 10.11.3)

Restore a DMG (maybe an OSX InstallESD.dmg or any other application) to the disk/drive via Disk Util. This will overwrite it (deleting all data). Then you can partition again how you like.

I have encountered this several times myself with USB pen drives as well as SSDs inside a MacBook Air. Formatting and Erasing brought up the exact same errors you describe. DD didn't work out, Resizing the partition gave me an error about corruption on the disk. First Aid/Scanning & Repairing the volume didn't yield any results, the tool completed with the message that there wasn't anything to repair.

Only the Restoring of a random DMG to the drives made it manageable again.

Hope this helps!

Worked for me too. I had a volume inside a container inside a disk. I was able to erase the volume but not the other two. They all passed First Aid with only the Overallocation remark. The DMG failed at first because I was trying to restore the disk. I then changed to the Container and that solved the problem. Thank you!


Are scratches on a MacBook covered under warranty? I found this tiny deep scratch on my MBP and I don't know how the heck did it get there. Is there way to fix it or does my warranty cover it?

It is near the ESC also near the charger input.

Warranty generally excludes any scratches to the machine as they are normally cosmetic issue that arise from normal wear and tear as opposed to a functional defect. By extension, Apple Protection Plan will not cover it since it generally follows the warranty guidelines but for a longer time.

You could always ask for service - especially if there is some functional concern like usability or you want a second opinion if the device was made properly. I have had things covered like where a hairline crack could be something that would fail to protect the insides (on an iPhone) so it wouldn't hurt to ask even if you are aware the answer may be no.

Warranty covers it

After Warranty period is over, get Apple Protection Plan too.


Are there alternative ways to interface with Mavericks tags? My company hosts quite a large amount of reference material (images, video, pdfs) on a server, and we're looking for a good way to organize these assets by tags. Searching for these tags in Finder is very slow.  Are there any other ways to interface with any of these tags/files?

Launchers, like LaunchBar 6, can be a great way to navigate tags. Type the name of your tag and then right arrow to navigate the files. Alfred may offer something similar.

Just try Leap: best way to manage finder tags