Dock on MBP Retina is using 80% CPU The Dock on my MBP Retina is constantly using 70 - 80% of CPU.

This happens on the two account on the machine, both of which were migrated from my previous Lion MBP.

I don't have Parallels installed, which can cause this issue
apparently.
I've deleted the Dock's plist and restarted it
I've rebooted several times

Any ideas on what may be causing this?

Here's a trace on the Dock.  I'm not a Mac dev so I find reading that hard.

I had this same problem on my new MBP Retina.  I do have Parallels installed, but the similar issue caused by Parallels has been fixed in a Parallels update (which I've installed).  Moreover, none of the workarounds (e.g. deleting the Windows Applications folder from the Dock) suggested on the Parallels forum fixed the problem for me.  I also tried to delete the Dock's plist, restart the process, and restart the computer several times.  None of these fixed the problem.  The Dock process would go back to using 100% CPU.

Here's what I did to troubleshoot and fix it:

Run this from the command line.  This command will list the files the Dock process is accessing or tying to access.

sudo opensnoop -n Dock

I found that Dock was repeatedly trying to access /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg, which is a symbolic link to /Library/Desktop Pictures/Galaxy.jpg.  The only problem was that /Library/Desktop Pictures/Galaxy.jpg didn't exist.  I'm not sure if the OS came without it at that location or if I deleted it or moved it mistakenly.  Regardless, to fix this I repointed the symbolic link to another desktop picture using the following two commands:

sudo rm /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg
sudo ln -s /Library/Desktop\ Pictures/Lion.jpg /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg

It seems that the problem was that Dock was repeatedly trying and failing to access the missing Galaxy.jpg file to set my desktop background via the DefaultDesktop.jpg symbolic link.  Once that symbolic link pointed to a real JPG file, Dock's high CPU utilization stopped. On earlier MBPs, DefaultDesktop.jpg was a real JPG file (of a galaxy).

Also this fixed another problem I was having where if I locked my screen and then typed my password to unlock it, my computer would hang while trying to log me in.  My hunch is that the Dock was trying to access the same missing file and was hanging on the login screen.

In addition to the good answers above, as you have migrated from another system, I would suggest the following:

Repair Permissions until all is well.
Make sure you have applied the software update fix that came out late last week for your system.
Send the computer to me, so I can play with it :)


This copy of the Install OS X El Capitan application can't be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading Macbook Pro 13" 2015 with OS X Yosemite on board. I've been trying to install OS X El Capitan, but always get the following message:
"This copy of the Install OS X El Capitan application can't be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading."

By the way this is not a date time issue, date is correct on my computer.

How can I fix this? Who knows the solution, please help.

Follow this tutorial. This applies to the reply from @Cazuma Nii Cavalcanti. In short once you are at the first install page go to tools in the nav bar and open the terminal, in the terminal type date MMDDHHmmYY replacing the letters as follows.

MM - 2 digit month  01 - 12
DD - 2 digit date   01 - 31
HH - 2 digit hour   01 - 24
mm - 2 digit minute 01 - 59
YY - 2 digit year   > 15

once that is done go through the install normally. I just tried it and it worked with a USB install of OS X (10.11 - El Capitan) and it worked like a charm!

If setting to correct date doesn't work. Set to a date just after the os release.

Here's what I went through. As long as I erased my Mac and "bootable usb El Capitan install drive" installation process complained with verification problem I decided to reinstall "Yosemite" using the built-in recovery disk, then I downloaded installer for "El Capitan" from "App Store". It was not possible to install through the "bootable usb drive" again, so I updated to El Capitan, oddly worked. And finally I erased my Mac and repeated reinstallation for "El Capitan".


How would one rotate a PDF? I have a scanned PDF document on an iPad 2 (iOS 6) that I need to rotate but cannot find any easy way to do this. How would I engage such an endeavor?

A lot of PDF viewers on the iPad allow rotation of PDF files. An example would be GoodReader which is a good app to have anyway if you need offline access to PDFs etc. To open a PDF in GoodReader e.g. from Mail use the "Open with..." button.

Use this free online website, it worked for me using one drive as a file holding medium, you could also try using google drive for this.

https://www.rotatepdf.net


How to configure mac book pro to act as an Access Point (and not a router)? I am connected to internet via ethernet cable on my MBP laptop. I want to have access to internet wirelessly on my iPad as well. How can I config my MBP (OSX 10.6.8) to act as an "Access Point" ?

I already tried the internet sharing via system preferences.
I could connect to my shared network on my iPad, but the problem is my ISP does now allow network sharing! On my iPad it shows the following error message:

"We have detected that you are using a router or a device that is performing network connection sharing. Sharing a connection with multiple devices is against out term of use."..."You can use a router on our network, however it must be configures to act as an access point."
Then it mentions that I should turn off DHCP in the router settings.

I am in a student residence and do not have access to the ISP's support staff.
The description of the my internet connection contract says that I have right to use two devices manually. There is one ethernet socket in the room.

How can I get internet in my iPad?

Thanks

Just replace the word router with your Mac.

  If you are living in student accommodation and you would like to use a
  router (in your case the MBP), then you must follow the below
  instructions to ensure it is correctly configured for use on our
  network. Using a router that performs the DHCP service is against our
  terms of use. Failure to disable the DHCP service of your router may
  result in your connection being suspended.

  If you are living in residential accommodation, your router does not
  need to be re-configured. Please see our FAQs for more information.

  1) Connect the power cable to your router, and connect your router to
  your PC using an Ethernet cable. This cable needs to go from one of
  the LAN ports on the router into an Ethernet port on your PC. Please
  see the diagram below.

Follow additional instructions here


How to automatically trigger a iOS Shortcut (based on location/calendar) I've done a lot of research and it looks like the only way to run Apple iOS shortcuts is manually - i.e. you have to manually do the trigger - either by pressing a button, getting Siri to do it (by 'manually asking') or by (manually) getting another app to run it. I've yet to be able to get another app to run it automatically (yes, I'm sure this is to do with security/privacy implications, but if it's based on a shortcut that's only on my phone, then I'm happy with the security/privacy).

I've looked at getting IFTTT to run the trigger (which it can do - for example, based on my location, or based on the start of an event in my Google Calendar), however the 'most' I can then do is to get that trigger to run an IFTTT Rich Notification on my iPhone - yes I can then click on that notification pop-up (which launches a shortcut via shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=[name]), but that still relies on me clicking the shortcut.

A couple of people have run iOS shortcuts as the trigger for an IFTTT action, but I'm trying to do this the other way around.

So what I'd like to be able to do is this:

run an iOS shortcut when I leave a location
run it with no manual intervention

Unfortunately this is not possible (yet). It's a known limitation of Shortcuts in its current 2.0 implementation.

Federico Viticci mentioned this in his (epic) iOS 12 review as something he'd like to see in the future:

https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-12-the-macstories-review/12/#content

It appears that you can now trigger events when you leave or arrive or leave a location. Check the Shortcut gallery.


Why can't ripped movies import to into iTunes on Windows XP when they work on Mac? I am unable to copy movies or videos into my iTunes library. I have had the concerned videos converted using Handbrake (version ??) with Apple presets but still when I try drag and drop to iTunes (10.1 on Windows XP) it shows no error (like "cannot be played" etc) and neither does it show up on the list.

I can copy songs/ebooks/apps got a problem with video only.

So I updated to iTunes v 10.5.3 still can't drag drop video/movies. I even tried adding the files to the Automatically add to iTunes folder (as suggested in one of the comments) but got a Not Added folder. The files work when copied to the library on a friend's, so I can't tell if the problem is iTunes or Windows XP or my computer.

Am I missing something?

I have been facing the same problem with iTunes (both 10.5 and 11). You need to upgrade to iTunes version 10.5 or 11, and you would need Quick Time to play older media or videos.


Will any files or apps delete after updating to Mavericks? I'm downloading the update right now and I would like to know if any of my files or app gets deleted after this update... I'm sure many people here already installed the update so what can you say?

The upgrade to Mavericks overwrote the config file for the Apache web server (localhost). It also overwrote the environment variable giving access to Java.

After upgrading to maverick a folder was deleted out of my dropbox.  I didn't notice it until a month later and Maverick was the only change I made to my pc so I'm blaming it.


How to install Dropbox on iPhone 3GS? How can I install the Dropbox app on an iPhone 3GS running iOS 6.1.6? THe newest version of the app is iOS7-only.

I've heard that if the app has been installed under your account, the App Store will let you use the last compatible version, but I have no devices running iOS7 to add it to my account with.

How can I get the Dropbox app onto this phone? The iPhone is jailbroken.

Indeed, it will let you download the last compatible version if you already have the app in your purchase history. You can add the app to your purchase history using iTunes on your computer, since iTunes is version-agnostic. Once you've downloaded the app on iTunes, it will be in your purchase history and attempting to download it again on your device should prompt you to accept an older version of the app.

If Dropbox is just compatible with iOs 7 then it would make a difference if you'll install it in your phone. It wouldn't run at all. Even your phone is jailbroken already, you can't find or install it from Cydia. It will just be from the Appstore.

I am using 4s running ios7.0.6 btw.


Is it possible to install OS X on an assembled desktop? I've recently purchased an assembled desktop (it has an i5 processor, and a intel DH67CL motherboard). Is it possible for me to install OS X on a separate partition, just to understand the experience of working in OS X? I don't mind if its a trial installation (which won't work after X days), but I need to understand whether working on OS X would suit me. I'm 60+, and have used Windows all my life, hence the hesitation before buying a MacBook.

1) OS X doesn't have any of that licensing/trial bs you're probably used to. There is just 1 version of OS X that you run, and that's it.
2) OS X can't just run on regular hardware without being "tricked" into thinking it's a mac
3) What's you're trying to do is against Apple's EULA, but is possible. You should see the Hackintosh project, and the OS X 86 project.
4) Running OS X on standard hardware is a very common feat, which is well documented on the internet… all you need is a simple google search query.

You can install Mountain Lion from the following link (doesn't even require you to burn a new DVD!):

http://geeknizer.com/make-bootable-usb-mountain-lion-install-disk-drive/


Could the Java Updater (com.oracle.java.Java-Updater) be the source of all my kernel panics? In the past few months I've been getting more kernel panics than usual. This is on my late 2012 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 Mac Mini, running OS X Yosemite (OS X 10.2.2) with 16 GB of RAM.

Looking at the console logs following the last panic, I can see that immediately before the crash, com.oracle.java.Java-Updater had been spamming my log. Here's a sample:

3/20/15 11:58:45.317 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.oracle.java.Java-Updater[77795]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 2: No such file or directory: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Resources/Java Updater.app/Contents/MacOS/Java Updater
3/20/15 11:58:45.317 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.oracle.java.Java-Updater[77795]) Service setup event to handle failure and will not launch until it fires.
3/20/15 11:58:45.321 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.oracle.java.Java-Updater[77796]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 2: No such file or directory: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Resources/Java Updater.app/Contents/MacOS/Java Updater
3/20/15 11:58:45.321 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.oracle.java.Java-Updater[77796]) Service setup event to handle failure and will not launch until it fires.
# CRASH HAPPENS HERE!!!
3/20/15 11:58:46.037 PM sample[77799]: assertion failed: 14C109: libxpc.dylib + 75491 [876216DC-D5D3-381E-8AF9-49AE464E5107]: 0x8d
3/20/15 11:58:46.037 PM sample[77799]: assertion failed: 14C109: libxpc.dylib + 34510 [876216DC-D5D3-381E-8AF9-49AE464E5107]: 0x8d
3/20/15 11:58:46.065 PM sample[77799]: assertion failed: 14C109: libxpc.dylib + 34510 [876216DC-D5D3-381E-8AF9-49AE464E5107]: 0x8d
3/20/15 11:58:47.076 PM sample[77799]: assertion failed: 14C109: libxpc.dylib + 34510 [876216DC-D5D3-381E-8AF9-49AE464E5107]: 0x8d
3/20/15 11:59:17.000 PM bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1426910357 0
3/21/15 12:00:33.000 AM syslogd[17]: Configuration Notice: ASL Module "com.apple.AccountPolicyHelper" claims selected messages. Those messages may not appear in standard system log files or in the ASL database.

From what it looks like, com.oracle.java.Java-Updater had sent around 77,000 message like this before crapping out.

I'm out of ideas — both regarding whether Java is actually responsible, and if so what to do. I need Java for a few programs I run, so deleting it isn't an option, unfortunately.

These message aren't being produced by Java. Launchd is part of OS X that manages scheduled jobs, amongst other things. The messages you are seeing here are launchd trying (unsuccessfully) to launch the Java Updater. It appears that the Java Updater is either partially or completely missing from your machine.

If you check the folder /Library/LaunchAgents/ on your Mac you should find a file called com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist. This file instructs launchd to run Java Updater once a week at a specific time.

If you need Java I would recommend uninstalling Java and then installing Java again from scratch. If you are using the Java Development Kit rather than the Java Runtime you can find uninstall instructions here and the install here.

Having said all this, I wouldn't expect this to cause kernel panics. This is simply a piece of software being repeatedly called to run and repeatedly failing. As klanomath mentioned you might want to check the kernel panic logs. You can find them in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports. They'll be called something like Kernel_DATE-TIME_COMPUTERNAME.panic.

Looks like it.

It seems as if Java Updater is being called, but the executable isn't there. Perhaps you need to redownload Java, or find some other way to get the executable again.


I have opened a program from a website, has my MBP been infected with a virus? I have opened a file on https://kickass.so/revenge-s04e14-hdtv-x264-lol-ettv-t10127520.html. I was supposed to click on a torrent file but I clicked on the big DOWNLOAD link.

And I had no idea that  I was not supposed to open a dmg file. Anyway, done is done. I opened it, and there was an install file, I double clicked on it. Then I was not asked to do anything, it just directed me to a website.

How do I make sure I do not have a virus or spyware? Running AIR'13 Yosemite.
The file name was macfest. The content looks like this:

I also used Sophos Anti-virus and it detected OSX/FkCodec-A in the dmg file that I trashed.

About the website you visited should give you some idea what you downloaded.

Here is Feb. 2015 Whois Record showing the site was banned (closed) by the Authorities.

So what ever you downloaded, get rid of it, it can not be trusted.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/09/kickasstorrents-goes-down-after-its-domain-is-seized-but-makes-a-quick-return/

http://kickasstorrents.eu/news/kickasstorrents-is-not-shut-down-kat-ph-domain-seized/

As long you only downloaded the dmg and not installed it your should be fine by just deleting that dmg package.


What are Mac OS X replacements for Visio? Visio is the most conspicuous example of a program that I found useful on Windows for which I have not identified a Mac-compatible replacement.

Visio's primary function is as a flowchart diagramming tool. It allows the user to construct complex information flows with smart objects and interconnect graphics that snap and bend as the user moves things around on the page. It's morphed over the years to support other diagram and information flow views like IT diagrams and UI mockups.

What's out there that can replace Visio on the Mac?

OmniGraffle or OmniGraffle Pro: http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/feature_comparison/

Check out Napkin. It's $39.99 on Mac App Store.


Why won't iTunes 12 add movies? I'm trying to add a movie file to iTunes 12. I've tried dragging and dropping and "Add to Library" from the iTunes File menu, but neither work. The movie isn't being sent to the "Home Movies" section, either.

Any ideas as to how I can resolve this?

There was no iTunes Library location set in iTunes preferences.

After you add the files, a tab will show up under Movies called "home videos." Your mp4s are there.


MAC OS X Mavericks 10.9.0 installation on VMWare Sphere Client 5.1 i want to test something on mac os x (Open VPN) and because i do n't have this os in my local machine i decided to install it on my dedicated server.
so i created a virtual machine on vmware sphere client 5.1 and installed mac using with it's iso file.
after installation i stucked on this page :

this is my first time installation of mac os x and i really do n't know what is that user name and password?
during installation i did n't create any user name and password and i think there should be a default user/pass like some linux os's. for example root and toor or something like them.

question #1 : what is that user name and password?

that image was from open console of vmware virtual machine in one of vps's in vmware and my big problem is i can not move mouse in this login page.
i really do n't know what is going on in this page for mouse move, but i can not touch apple logo or users logo with mouse.
also when i tried to use keyboard i only can switch between user name and password textboxes.

question #2 : how can i move mouse in this login page with keyboard or another way?

question #3 : what is your suggestion and how can i enter mac os x in my situation?

i can not open this console in my local machine becaouse my internet speed has problem to showing this login page and this is why i am using one of my vps's.

would be really appreciate to help me about that....

Sometimes the username is : admin
Password is : admin
Well, actually if this doesn't work a lot of times do not type in nothing, or you can type in "guest" as the username and password. Guest works for me. Sometimes writing nothing also works for me.

I think you should use an external mouse or another mouse and use a Mac mouse for example the mighty mouse or something like that because you are using a Mac Machine / VM.

My suggestion is that you should follow the steps I provided because, you never know, this might actually work out.

Notice :
If you think I posted something wrong on this topic or you need to edit / suggest something please leave a reply.


Is my mac book pro suitable for CUDA? After visiting this page:
http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-getting-started-guide-for-mac-os-x/

I don't know if my MacBook Pro is suitable for CUDA developement. After About This Mac I see this:

It does not seems to be a graphic card in this list:
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus

But I asked several times before buying this machine if it is capable for gpu stuffs. And I can correctly runs program that uses shaders. And, more important, I have installed CUDA driver and toolkit and they doesn't seems to give any error. But If I try to compile manually something with CUDA.. it doesn't work.

Your model has only the Intel HD 4000, so you can't use CUDA

Full specifications:
http://support.apple.com/kb/sp649


What OS X tweaks, hacks, or modifications couldn't you live without? What OS X tweaks or customization applications do you find indispensable?

Please search before posting in order to avoid duplicate entries. You can search within this question with inquestion:this <search phrase>.

Rules

Limit each answer to a single entry
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~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict

A property list that enables you to bind keystrokes to sequences of Objective-C methods. It can be used to define text editing macros that work in most standard text views.

{
    // copy paragraph (option-c)
    "~c" = (selectParagraph:, copy:);

    // convert selection to lowercase (option-minus)
    "~-" = (lowercaseWord:, moveForward:);

    // insert line below (command-return)
    "@\r" = (moveToEndOfParagraph:, insertNewline:,
    deleteToBeginningOfParagraph:);

    // insert an XML tag (option-shift-x)
    "~X" = (moveWordBackwardAndModifySelection:, setMark:, deleteToMark:,
    insertText:, "<></>", moveBackward:, yank:, moveWordBackward:,
    moveBackward:, moveBackward:, moveBackward:, yank:, moveForward:);
}

To get started, make ~/Library/KeyBindings/ and save a property list like the one above as DefaultKeyBinding.dict.

More information:

Cocoa Text System
lri.me/keybindings
github.com/ttscoff/KeyBindings

Moom is like "Fences" on windows but it is for mac
Link: http://manytricks.com/moom/


Fastest way to transfer a bunch of photos TO iphone camera roll? what is the quickest way to transfer a bunch of photos (and videos) that come from an iphone to another iPhone's camera roll?

Sync with iPhoto/Aperture is not an option: they wouldn't end up in the camera roll
Opening from email or dropbox one by one and saving them is not an option: too many!
A big email is not feasible

AirSharing and Dropbox apps are apparently of little help, since I couldn't find a “save all” command.

Any suggestion is welcome, third party apps too!

Phoneview - is a great option.  It's fast too.  Connect iphone, copy the files to your desired directory, disconnect.  Connect other iphone, copy files to desired location on iphone.  Boom!

Drag n drop ease.  Free download, and cheap too. edit: it allows you to see entire disk media folder :)

Bump https://bu.mp/ can do this.
Also try PhotoSync.


Connection is invalid error when running Applescript and Safari The following applescript waits for a page to load before continuing with the do javascript "document.body.innerText" part of the script. It seems to work really well except for one thing. If Safari is running but no window is currently open, running this script results in

  error "Safari got an error: Connection is invalid." number -609

Yet if I run this when Safari is closed it launches Safari, goes to the specified URL and once the page loads, runs the javascript portion. I don't understand why it gets an error if Safari is running with no windows open.

tell application "Safari"
    activate
    if not (exists document 1) then reopen
    tell front document
        set URL to "http://example.com"
        repeat until length of (source as text) is not 0
            delay 0.5
        end repeat
        do javascript "document.body.innerText"
    end tell
end tell

The error always highlights the source as text part of the script. I tried changing length of (source as text) is not 0 to repeat until name is "example domain" but the error still occurs if no windows are open and Safari is running.

You need to swap the position of the activate line of code with the if not (exists document 1) then reopen line of code.

Example:

tell application "Safari"
    if not (exists document 1) then reopen
    activate
    tell front document
        set URL to "http://example.com"
        repeat until length of (source as text) is not 0
            delay 0.5
        end repeat
        do javascript "document.body.innerText"
    end tell
end tell

The screenshot of the Script Editor, below, was run with Safari open and without any windows opened.

First I had to check "[√] Show Develop menu in menu bar" (Safari > Preferences… > Advanced) and then on the Develop menu click "Allow JavaScript from Apple Events". Next I copied and pasted your AppleScript code in Script Editor and clicked the Run the Script button and it ran without error and returned the text of the http://example.com web page. However Safari was closed when I ran the script the first time.

After reading your question again, I was able to reproduce the error by having Safari open without any windows open.  I then looked more throughly at your code and noticed activate was before if not (exists document 1) then reopen and activate needs to be after it to avoid the error.

Reseting my preferences file fixed this for me. To do that, hold down Command+Option+Control+Shift keys while opening Indesign application.
Indesign version 15.0.1
Mac OS Catalina 10.15.7


View laptop hardware statistics How can I return the temperatures, fan speeds, etc, using Terminal?

This website claims to have a free commandline tool to monitor temperature sensors.

http://www.bresink.de/osx/0TemperatureMonitor/details.html

  tempmonitor command-line tool

  Temperature Monitor

  version for the BSD command-line of Mac OS X, temperature sensors only

  yes

(Name of tool; part of package download; description; free of charge?)

Here's a website with a script:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20051021115356696

  While hunting around in ioreg I found a bunch of hardware sensor readouts, including CPU and GPU temperatures. I had no idea this stuff was available without a compiled app, so I excitedly whipped up a bash script (tp v0.1) to display the values.


Closing Preview documents without confirmation dialog AND without quitting Preview Is there any way to close "Untitled" Preview documents without getting the confirmation dialog box (where it asks "Do you want to save the changes made to the document ....?")?

I don't want to just quit, or force quit, the Preview program, because I often have some other documents open that I want to combine and/or save with different names LATER.

I've tried un-checking the General System Preferences option "Ask to keep changes when closing documents", but that didn't work, even after a reboot. And there doesn't seem to be anything relevant in the Preview preferences.

I just want to quickly close a bunch of untitled documents so I can free up some memory or reduce clutter, without having to mouse over to each individual dialog box and click "Don't Save".

If that isn't possible, here some ideas for other methods that would also be helpful - I just don't know if they're possible either:

A. Select a bunch of Untitled documents in a multiple document Preview window and:

Close them all at once without saving any of them.
(There is a File menu option for "Close Selected Documents", but it opens up a separate confirmation dialog box for each one.)
Save or Rename all of them all at once (i.e. Untitled1, Untitled2, etc). Then if I have the General Systems Preference "Ask to keep changes..." unchecked I could close them all at once by closing the multiple document window.
Combine them all into one document. (I know you can use Print to convert them into a single new document, but you still have to close the original separate documents).

B. Use a keyboard shortcut for the "Don't Save" button, so at least I can get through all of the separate dialog boxes more quickly.

Try using ⌘-⌫ (Command-Delete). I read the list of system keyboard shortcuts for documents, and it is near the very end, and I just tried it, as I have had the same question for a few years now. Previously, I had not read far enough before giving up.


Symbolic link icons don't update When a symlink is created, it gets the icon of the target folder (with the addition of a black arrow in the lower left corner). The issue I am having is that the symlink icon does not update when the icon of the target folder changes. Deleting and recreating the symlink does not fetch a new icon from the target folder: the symlink continues to show the old icon.

What's strage though is that if I right click and "Get Info.." on the symlink, it shows the correct icons in the information pane... but in the finder window itself, the icon is out of date. This leads me to believe there is some cache for the actual icon that is displayed in the finder window, and it needs to be refreshed.

The issue can be recreated fairly easily:

Create a folder on Desktop called "Target Folder"
Right click Target Folder, Get Info.. and paste any icon from another folder.
Create a symlink on the Desktop called "Symbolic Folder" that links to Target Folder. (Symbolic Folder will now have the same icon as Target Folder).
Right click Target Folder, Get Info.. and paste a new, different icon. (Symbolic Folder does not update and will continue to show the old icon)
Right click Symbolic Folder, Get Info.. the information pane shows the correct icon.

Any idea how to get Symbolic Folder to show the new icon in the Finder window?

This issue has come up due to Yosemite's change of the folder icon style. I use symlinks to link my main user folders (Pictures, Movies, Music, etc) to folders in Dropbox, and many of my symlink icons continue to show the old, pre-Yosemite folder icons even though I have updated the icons of the folders they link to. I'd like to be able to clear out all of the old folder icons.

This post seems relevant, but the solution did not work for me:

wrong icon of Unix symbolic link in Finder

UPDATE
The "caching" of the incorrect symlink icon happens only in the "view mode" where the icon of the target folder is changed. So if you follow the steps above in a Finder window where the view mode is set to "icon" then the issue will persist only in Finder windows where the view mode is set to "icon". If you are browsing in a Finder window where the view mode is set to "cover flow" or "list" then the symlink functions correctly and the icon tracks the icon of the target folder just fine (until, that is, you change this icon of the target folder in either the cover flow or list view modes). This explains why the information pane for the symlink shows the correct icon.

I had this problem and the following seems to have resolved it. I'm not sure if steps 2 and 3 are both required so you can try one and then the other if you prefer.

Remove symbolic links
Clear your icon cache:

sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \;
Clear your caches:

sudo rm -rf /Library/Caches/*

sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/*
Restart
Recreate symbolic links

If you don't mind changing the date on the symlink ... touch -h symlinkfilename.


Headphones unexpectedly stopped working? Recently, my Macbook Air (Mac OS Sierra) ran out of batteries. When I tried to turn it on, the screen was all black so I shut it off. When I turn it back on, the headphones don't work. I've tried to open Audio MIDI Setup, but it shows this:

As you can see, the boxes are unchecked when the volume is up, but they are checked when the volume is muted. Either way, I cannot hear anything through the headphones.

P.S.-- I've tried this before, but I don't remember what I did.

The headphones were broken; try different ones.


Resize APFS partition and move it to another hard drive I have a 500 GB external USB disk that contains a 465GB "APFS container", with Mac OS X Catalina, bootable (with the trick "Press and hold the Option (Alt) key immediately after turning on or restarting your Mac")
I need to use this disk for something else, and I need to move it to another 320 GB disk.
How to do that?

First how to shrink the 465 GB to 300 GB (only < 100 GB are used)? Is it possible from another Mac OS High Sierra computer or another Linux or another Windows computer?

Then how to copy the partition to the 320GB so that it will still be bootable?

Apple documentation states you should be able to replicate a bootable APFS container to a new drive. Unfortunately, the GUI based software from Apple is wrought with bugs. Below are the steps I preformed to successfully clone Catalina macOS 10.15.5 to a new USB drive. To be honest, I admit this was tested using a VirtualBox virtual machine.

Boot to macOS Recovery. I booted to the macOS Recovery APFS volume on the 465 GB USB drive.

Plug the 320 GB drive in a USB port

Open the Disk Utility.

Under the View pulldown, select Show all Devices.

Highlight the 320 GB Drive, then select the Erase button.

Use the selections shown below, then select the Erase button.

Quit the Disk Utility, then open the Disk Utility.

Highlight the MyNewUSB volume, then select the Restore button. From the Restore from pulldown list, select the existing external USB macOS volume, as shown below. When finished, select the Restore button.

Note: This will replicate the macOS, macOS - Data, hidden Preboot and hidden Recovery volumes.

When finished, quit the Disk Utility, then open the Disk Utility.

Visually, check the results.

Quit the Disk Utility.

Shutdown the Mac.

Unplug the 465 GB USB drive.

Start the Mac and immediately, hold down the option Key until the Mac Startup Manager icons appear.

Hold down the control key and select to boot from the 320 GB USB drive. Note: This first boot took longer than normal.

You can't really copy a partition, you just copy everthing thats in one partition to another partition of appropriate size. You should make a 320 GB partition on your new drive. Since you are only using 100 GB on the 465 GB partition you can copy everything in the 465 partition to the 320 partition. Just select everything and copy it using the Finder. To make the 320 GB drive bootable, you must install the system of your choice. You can istall the system in your 320 GB partition.
If your trying to copy to a different machine, after you copy everything to the 320 GB drive connect it to the other machine and move the data.


Can a Mac's model year be determined with a Terminal Command? Does anybody know a terminal command that gives me the model of my Mac?

For example -  "MacBook Pro, Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2013" or "MacBook Pro, Late 2009" or "Mac Mini, Early 2010".

That information does not exist in the SystemProfiler (/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType), but in OS X 10.7 and OS X 10.8 you can see that information when you click "More Info..." in the "About This Mac" window.

You can indirectly get this information from a web page and the curl command. In the past this URL has been taken down and rate limited and put behind some sort of captcha to prevent this use, so you might need to resort to other avenues like https://checkcoverage.apple.com/ in that case.

Depending on if your serial numer is 11 or 12 characters long take the last 3 or 4 characters, respectively, and feed that to the following URL after the ?cc=XXXX part. If your serial number was 12 character and ended in DJWR, you would issue this command:

curl https://support-sp.apple.com/sp/product?cc=DJWR

To get your serial number, use the following command:

system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Serial/ {print $4}'

Thus, you could have a complicated command to query the internet if you need a single command:

curl https://support-sp.apple.com/sp/product?cc=$(
  system_profiler SPHardwareDataType \
    | awk '/Serial/ {print $4}' \
    | cut -c 9-
)

and then run the output of that through sed to cut to the key part

curl -s https://support-sp.apple.com/sp/product?cc=$(
  system_profiler SPHardwareDataType \
    | awk '/Serial/ {print $4}' \
    | cut -c 9-
) | sed 's|.*<configCode>\(.*\)</configCode>.*|\1|'

There used to be a private library file with these mappings so you could consult it offline, but I noticed it was gone as of 10.8.3 (and perhaps earlier) so the above trick is the only one I know that works on the current OS without third party libraries.

Some nice third party libararies provide a look up of this:

python code https://github.com/MagerValp/MacModelShelf
JSON mapping https://github.com/krypted/swiftwarrantylookup/blob/master/src/swiftMacWarranty/model_snippets.json

Note that as of November 2017, Apple has forced the use of https over http for this service.

This should do it:

system_profiler | more
sw_vers
scutil --get ComputerName
sw_vers | awk -F':\t' '{print $2}' | paste -d ' ' - - -
sysctl -n hw.memsize | awk '{print $0/1073741824" GB RAM"}'
sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string


Import Safari Bookmarks from XML Export Awhile back, I set up a cron job on my wife's MacBook to automatically backup her Safari bookmarks to Dropbox every morning using the following command that I found online (I forget where):

/usr/bin/plutil -convert xml1 $HOME/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist -o ~/Dropbox/Backup/Bookmarks/wife.xml

This worked swimmingly until all of her bookmarks were lost. When I try to import this file using File > Import Bookmarks in Safari, it says that it can't find any bookmarks in the file. I've opened the file up and looked at it and while I'm not terribly familiar with the XML plist format, it looks reasonably complete/intact.

I've tried renaming the file to wife.html and doing the same import process, but no dice. I was about to start writing my own little parser in Python but I figured I'd ask you nice folks before spending the time.

Is this something I can fix fairly easily? She has a buttload of bookmarks and I'd love it if this were easy :)

Thanks in advance - do let me know if you need any additional information to make providing an answer easier.

I've carried my bookmarks with me after the first import ever since Safari 1.0 by just dragging/dropping the file into the Safari folder in ~/Library. Why did you go through the hassle of conversion?

Just backup the plist and drop it in place of the old or newly made plist whenever required.

Safari only supports importing from plist and html.

YOu can convert your xml file to html and try import again

link


Yosemite or Snow Leopard for 2008 MacBook? I have a 2008 MacBook which is getting slow, I need to do an erase and reinstall.

I have the choice to install Yosemite (online) or Snow Leopard (from a DVD).
But would Yosemite be too much for my old hardware? In which case could I easily get more RAM put in?

If go back to Snow Leopard, will that soon be completely outdated?

I am currently using Yosemite successfully with a very similar computer: 2008 iMac 2.66 C2D. I would strongly encourage you to upgrade to 8GB of RAM and swap your drive out for an SSD. After upgrading the RAM to 6GB and making a roll-your-own Fusion drive (I installed an SSD in the Optical drive bay), Yosemite runs very well. Unless you need to use Snow Leopard for Rosetta (i.e. PowerPC compatibility), I'd go with Yosemite.

To use Yosemite on ANY computer, you NEED to have an Solid State Hard Drive. This comes from painful experience on a mid-2009 and mid 2010 Macbook Pros. Yosemite is optimized for SSD, not spinning hard drives (this comes from a veteran Apple Genius who finally divulged this to me when the 2010 computer was glacially slow and unresponsive-in addition to freezing up constantly. DON'T use it with the stock hard drive! F%*#ing Apple won't tell you this like it won't tell you that updated Pages sucks big time. And Mail is a horror show. Just sayin'. I think Apple has lost its beautiful way with software en route to earning billions with the iPhone and iPad, etc..


Change Apple ID on iPhone without causing 'damage' to apps/app store purchases and keeping app data I have an old iPhone 5. It has lots of apps installed on it; there's a long message history in WhatsApp and other apps that I don't want to be deleted.

I have created a new Apple ID and want to use it on this iPhone.

How do I accomplish this without causing any damage to apps/app data? Also, if I change the ID, would I be able to update my apps?

It is possible to change the Apple ID on an iPhone. You can do this by going to Settings > iTunes and App Store and logout with your current Apple ID. After that, you can login with the new Apple ID.

When you download/purchase an app from the App Store, it will be connected to the Apple ID that is used to do the download/purchase. This means that if you start using a different Apple ID to download/purchase new apps, there's no problem to update them.

As you mentioned, you have for example WhatsApp installed. If there's an update for WhatsApp in the App Store, you are still able to update it, but you have to use the Apple ID password of your "old" Apple ID.

On a side note, you can make a backup from your WhatsApp history (texts and media) in iCloud. After this, you can delete and reinstall WhatsApp and restore the backup.

I don't know if other apps that are important for you have the same functionality to create a backup to iCloud.

I actually have apps on my computer that were purchased under two different Apple ID's, and the Mac simply asks me to enter the user-id and password that is associated with any app when it updates it.

Obviously, this id is "authorization to access a particular account on Apple's servers," not "authorization to run this app on your computer."

And, iPhones basically work the same way.


Can I see any information about which machines are authorized against my iTunes account? When I just opened iTunes and authorized my Mac against it for purchases, it told me there were two machines authorized against my iTunes account (therefore, one other one). However, I can't think which that other one would be - I've had various virtual machines etc. configured against iTunes in the past. Are there any ways to find out any more about it (hostname, OS, etc.) so I can check out the situation and potentially deauthorize it?

I'm aware of the limit of 5, and I'm aware of the ability to deauthorize all of them and start again. I'd just prefer to keep things clean and not have stray authorizations hanging around if I can.

I also have the same problem and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to view this kind of information at present. This is corroborated by several Apple Support Community threads here, here and here.

As you say, the only option seems to be to either try to figure out which machines are currently authorized and deauthorize them using iTunes (particularly difficult in the case of multiple VM's or machines you no longer have) or deauthorize all and start again.

There really is no downside to de-authorizing all systems and then authorizing the systems you currently use.  It only takes a few seconds to authorize, and you can just do it the next time you use any system you want authorized.  iTunes will prompt you to authorize by entering your AppleID email and password the next time you start it on any system that was deauthorized.  Enter it, it authorizes, and you're good to go.


Turn off WiFi if there is no user initiated network access I'd like to limit my exposure to the WiFi signal of my laptop while it is sitting on my belly or lower while being in bed.

Is there a way to auto-turn off the WiFi directly after a website has finished loading? And to only turn it back on when I click another link?

This is neither practical nor feasible.
Not practical.
So, in your scenario, the WiFi connection drops as soon as you load your webpage and theoretically, the computer is now waiting for you to click on something to reconnect.  Here are just two (off the top of my head) problems with that scenario:
Auto Refresh
A small piece of code embedded within the meta tags of the HTML code will auto refresh that page:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5" >

This is equivalent to hitting refresh.  How is the OS supposed to distinguish between a user generated refresh and one generated in meta?  That's a lot of keyboard trapping.
HTTP Sessions.  Depending on the website you visit, they may be employing the use of cookies that track user sessions - especially so if you log in.  Once you disconnect from the network, your session will expire requiring a new login.  There is no "trapping" on the client side for this because it's a server generated session/cookie.

Not feasible.
For all intents and purposes your network settings and your browser session are "sandboxed" from each other.  Could you imagine the chaos you could cause by having an app or (worse) a browser's extension with the ability to affect the state of hardware based on what you click?  This would be an attacker's dream scenario.
Additionally, WiFi (and Bluetooth) antennas are in the LCD enclosure, not the bottom of the laptop.  So, unless you are wearing shorts made of lead or lined with a highly reflective material (reflecting out, of course), you are fully exposed to WiFi signals since they are omni directional.

Use e.g. Icefloor to configure your computer to allow ports 80 and 443 only to block all non-http traffic. Disable javascript and flash etc. in the browser. This will result a behaviour very close to the one you desire. The amount of energy that is transmitted if your wlan is idle is minimal, and you shouldn't worry about that. Actually, establishing a connecion each time you click would put more energy into your abdomen. You may additionally want to use a browser that allows you to disable auto-refresh like e.g. firefox.


App store still showing beta release of El Capitan months after withdrawal from beta programs? Months after withdrawing from the beta program, following the guides for exiting, and then installing the production release of OS X 10.11 and installing 10.11 back when it was new, then restoring from a Time Machine backup prior to installing the beta release, everything was fine except app store still offers me beta releases. How can I stop this? Right now I am on OS X 10.11.2 the app store is offering me 10.11.4 beta though 10.11.3 is the current OS X version.

This worked for me! After unchecking the beta software enrollment in the system settings, I ran:

sudo softwareupdate --clear-catalog

man softwareupdate doesn't document this flag, but it seems to clear pending updates from the App Store, and on the next run of the App Store it will repopulate based on the current configuration of your system, therefore it will not show the beta update, but it will still show other regular updates for your system.

man page: https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/softwareupdate.8.html

Try following these steps, and no more beta software should ever show up in the App Store.

Open System Preferences and click App Store.
Find "Your Computer Is Set to Receive Pre-Release Software Update Seeds"
Click "Change"
Select "Do Not Show Pre-Release Updates."

http://www.macworld.com/article/2990027/operating-systems/how-to-leave-the-os-x-beta-program.html


Why iTunes updates get released so fast and why everytime the entire iTunes has to be updated instead of patched? I use iTunes on my Mac (OS X 10.6) but I wonder what's up with it's update.
I really want know Why iTunes updates get released so fast and why everytime the entire iTunes has to be updated instead of patched.

P.S: I have limited bandwidth with my internet then the size of update was important for me.

The reason why they release patches so often, iTunes is the app where all their management of iPhone and iPad occurs, which means they often need to update it to add support for new iPhone/iPad/iPod touch models, and to support new features in those products. The fact that it is also where they handle a lot of their DRM (which they may have contractual obligations to update in some instances) probably is part of the reason as well.

The fundamental issue with delta patches is that they are more complex, and have higher support costs for the vendor. A full updater can run against any version of the app that is installed, a delta patcher most be made against specific version. A full updater will work regardless of whether the app has been modified (user hacking the binary to do something, tweaking the artwork, etc), a delta updater will fail against a modified app.

Given the extra work involved in preparing a delta patch, and the increased chance that it won't work, they tend to only be used in very specific cases. Apple tends to create delta updates for software updates, but they only create a delta against the most recent released version of the OS, rather than making dozens of versions that work with every release they make the one that will get most people, and then for everyone else they do a combo update that is a full updater that also incorporates every previous software update as well.

For smaller things like iTunes, they don't tend to bother with delta updates at all due to the increased workload, support, the increased number of versions that exist, and the fact that iTunes is fairly small in the scheme of things (it is smaller than an OS update, or an iPhone/iPad firmware).

Please note that the following answer is valid for any application (Apple-specific or 3rd party).

It's the way Apple bundles all applications. In fact every *.app is a bundle (think - folder).  You can open it in finder (right click -> Show Package Contents) or cd to it in terminal. That's why any app is not patched like on windows systems where files of one program is scattered all over the file system, but sort of "replaced" as a whole.


iPhone 4 Stuck on Headphones Mode I took my headphones out of my phone after a run and I figured out that it is stuck on headphones mode. I've read the forums and tried...

to plug in and out my headphones (I even used two different pairs
I blew into the headphone port (similar to an old Nintendo system)

Something to note:
My alarm works and when I unlock the phone during the alarm I get the click sound.

I have this problem happen occasionally with many of my audio "gadgets".  I generally follow troubleshooting steps in this order and have always gotten it working again.

Step one is plugging/un-plugging headphones.  This almost always corrects it (but apparently it has not in your case).

Step two is power-cycling the device.  For an iPhone, I would recommend resetting it by holding down both the sleep/wake and home buttons until you see the Apple logo.

Step three is carefully checking the port for damage, or an object that might have become lodged in there.  And if it's not fixed by this point...

Step four is getting it serviced by the manufacturer.  Sometimes problems are simply beyond our ability to fix them ourselves.

To get out of headphone mode, try to turn on airplane mode and turn it off; or update your iPhone system.
Good luck.


How to cope with MagSafe "withdrawal"? I've relied upon my MagSafe connection to keep my laptop safe for almost a decade. I got a new MacBook Air and felt funny putting in the USB power cord, but didn't realize just why I felt funny until I tried to remove it by lifting it up instead of pulling it out.

OMG the MagSafe is gone!

I will have to work on trying to remember this every waking moment of every day; routing cords more carefully and keeping an eye on them so they don't get pulled by others or myself, etc.

Is there any published advice on safe behavioral changes that MagSafe addicts like myself can learn? Are there any special aftermarket connectors, magnetic or otherwise, that I can put in the power connection that will disconnect safely when pulled? If so, are there any special features or problems I should look for before choosing one?

How to cope with MagSafe “withdrawal”?

One should take pause when consider doing anything that Apple doesn't. @Allen's comment points out that the (relatively small) stub of an aftermarket magnetic connector sticking out is an opportunity to put stress on the internal connector when the laptop is stored or bouncing around in a backpack.
For users like me though, I have to weigh that against the benefits of having a safe disconnection if the cable is tripped on or otherwise pulled.
A medium ground might be to consider using an aftermarket magnetic connector but taking care to either remove it and stow it somewhere or just slide the laptop into the backpack with the USB side facing up.
But that also means taking care if putting the laptop into a case or sleeve.
The other option is to (try to remember to) take it out every tine. Some adapters have little plastic tools to pull it straight out and a case to stow it, and some vendors sell two tips for every one cable, allowing you to stow one at home and the other elsewhere, or to lose one forever.
It seems that there is no perfect workaround to avoid experiencing MagSafe “withdrawal”.


How can I test with Internet Explorer while on my Mac? I work on a Mac, but most of my users are on Windows. What's an easy way to test my websites in IE 7, 8, & 9?  Wine seems kinda buggy and unfriendly.

I have the perfect solution! In 2013, Microsoft released a free officially-supported solution to help Mac developers test with Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 on Macs:

Go to https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
Select your desired testing OS ("Mac")
Pick a virtualization platform from among VMWare, Parallels, and VirtualBox. If in doubt, choose VirtualBox (which you can download from the VirtualBox site)
Follow the directions to download VMs for the version of IE + Windows you want

Hope this helps.

A new, better answer.

First I used virtual box.
Then I used browserstack

Now I use parallels

Around for a few years but lately made robust and even friendlier.

It's even easier than the others, setup is easier, saving state is easier, keyboard-mouse integration is better.
Generally its better.

Only item of note is that it cost about $80

which should be petty change for most developer who are paid that in an hour or two.  Paid software is actually my preference - it gives me some confidence that it will actually be maintained going forward.  Plus I'm a developer... paying a... developer.  Seems like a good thing.


List all devices connected, lsblk for Mac OS X In Linux if I want to see all the devices currently connected to my computer in the command-line, I run:

lsblk

or

blkid

What's the equivalent command under Mac OS X?

NOTE

The goal here is to be able to obtain information about a device based on its label or other uniquely identifying attributes, even if it hasn't been mounted, thus df is not a viable option.

Examples of the kind of info I'm looking for are:

/dev/<dev-name>
uuid
label (if any)
mount point

NOTE

I need to be able to see network-attached drives as well!

diskutil list will list all disks with their identifiers, even if unmounted.

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Mac SSD                 150.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data Windows 8               100.1 GB   disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk1
   1:                  Apple_HFS George Garside          300.2 GB   disk1s1
   2:               Windows_NTFS GRGARSIDE               199.9 GB   disk1s2

For mounted disks only…

To find the raw device name (i.e. /dev/disk0s1) you can run df.

You can limit the results to locally-mounted filesystems, use df -Hl.
This results in a list of partitions and their raw device names, as shown below:

Filesystem     Size   Used  Avail Capacity  iused    ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2   150G   130G    20G    87% 31761475  4859615   87%   /
/dev/disk0s4   100G    83G    17G    83%   184667 17015601    1%   /Volumes/Windows 8
/dev/disk1s1   300G   282G    19G    94% 68771109  4529660   94%   /Volumes/George Garside
/dev/disk1s2   200G   172G    27G    87%   144125 26731127    1%   /Volumes/GRGARSIDE

The goal here is to be able to obtain information about a device based
on its label or other uniquely identifying attributes, even if it
hasn't been mounted, thus df is not a viable option.

If that is your goal, then you can obtain all of that info from a specified disk using diskutil info /dev/diskX where diskX is the disk that you want to obtain information about.
NOTE: In your goal, you did not say that you wanted to obtain all information about all disks all at once in one command. So I am not answering that question, as your originaly question seems different than your stated goal. You may want to make some edits to specify what you are trying to accomplish and how.


Are there iPhone applications like INFOMAPS? I am looking for iphone applications like this one.

What I am looking is an app that:
Shows me the map, with tram stops and metro stops.
And with hotspots or touristic places in the map, so that you know where to getdown of the tram and metro.

This is the best one I used it already for amsterdam, but they dont have many cities.

Anyone knows apps like these, let me know


a PDF reader which can read notes on PDF I am looking for a PDF reader on iPhone which can read notes on PDF.

I tried Adobe Reader(see below), which does not work in this way.

I found answers, two apps work, I provided the screenshots for each app as well.

Documents

Foxit pdf


2011 Macbook Air connects to WiFi but can't get Internet This 2011 MBA is updated to High Sierra.  I have tried to connect to 5 different WiFi networks but in all cases, the MBA can connect to local network but no Internet.

All 5 of these networks are professionally configured in hotels.

Running Diagnostics seems to say everything is ok.  Also, at the same time I can connect to the same networks with another Macbook Air (2013, Mojave) and two different iPhones (8 and 6s) with no problems.

If I turn on Personal Hotspot in either of the two iPhones, the 2011 MBA obtains Internet no problem and gives a fast connection.

The 2011 MBA used to work fine on wifi with no problems.  It may be that updating the OS has somehow caused a problem, but I'm not the primary user of the 2011 machine and am not sure if the problem appeared with HS or was there before.

Does anyone have any suggestions to troubleshoot a WiFi connection that doesn't get to the internet?

As you say this only happens with Hotel Networks.

Usually the process with Hotel networks is 2 steps.

1- First you log in to they WiFi

2- Once logged in, the Hotel Server will send you a "Captive Portal" web site, on which you must continue to get Internet access. I assume you do not get t this step (no portal showing)

Your Mac (for your protection) before that popup shows, will check the certificate revocations to verify the popup being shown isn't a fake one.

Fixing it:

Usually there is simple fix to show the Captive Portal by just entering cnn.com in your browser and it will redirect you to the Captive Portal, but not always.

Try with different browser open.

Alternative solution is to create a "new location" in the network system preferences window, name it Hotels if you whish, and remove all DNS servers.

Similar problem and solution described here https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/37851/46541


Cmd + PgUp/Down shortcut to navigate through terminal tabs is it possible to make Cmd+Page Up / Page Down shortcut performing switch tab in Terminal?

At the moment I can use Cmd+Shift+[ or Cmd+Shift+] shortcuts to do the thing, but this is horrible for me. I'm using external USB Keyboard and Karabiner, if that may help somehow.

Update:
The answer now reassigns Scroll to Top/Bottom to ⌥⌘PageUp and ⌥⌘PageDown.
This leaves Show Previous/Next Tab free to take over ⌘PageUp and ⌘PageDown.

Assuming your OS X runs in English, you can use this one-liner:

defaults write com.apple.Terminal NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add 'Scroll to Top' '~@\Uf72c' 'Scroll to Bottom' '~@\Uf72d' 'Show Previous Tab' '@\Uf72c' 'Show Next Tab' '@\Uf72d'

If your OS X runs in a language other than English, modify the command to resemble the exact menu item text for your language.

You can use System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Application Shortcuts to configure custom shortcuts for anything available in the menus of an application.

Just choose the application from the list or Other... to select an application not in the list (or leave it at All Applications for every application), type in the exact menu text and supply a keyboard shortcut.


iTunes sync stuck on step 5: Importing Photos When I'm trying to sync my iPad 4 (iOS7) using my Macbook (Mavericks) it stucks on the stage "Importing photos". It was syncing for more than 9 hours with absolutely no progress until I cancelled it. There are around 500 pictures to import.

The cord is good. USB port works well. I have the most recent iTunes, iPhoto. Already tried to rebuild iPhoto library. Nothing helps.

Please advice.

Deleting ~/Pictures/iPod Photo Cache and emptying the trash did the trick for me.

Just to be clear,

Quit itunes.
Go to your home folder in the Finder
Go to the pictures folder
Right mouse click on "iPhoto Library.photolibrary" and choose Show Package Contents
Move "iPod Photo Cache" to the trash.
Empty the trash.
Open itunes and run a sync

Clear all flies not photos. And run again. And add more photos. No just clean up.


Is there an iPad PDF Reader app that has autoscroll? I read stacks of PDFs on my iPad and I have downloaded (and paid for) a few PDF readers hoping to find an auto-scroll feature, without luck.

Does anyone know of any iPad app that can auto-scroll PDF's (preferably with Dropbox integration so I can get at my PDFs easily!).

Thanks

To date, I have found only one PDF reader that has Dropbox connectivity and has autoscroll(after a fashion.)

It is PDF Reader Pro iTunes Link. It is a universal app that works on both iPad and iPhone and ties to Box.net, Dropbox, Googledocs, and iDisk.  It has an "Autoflow" feature that allows timed jumps (from 5 to 100 seconds) of a preset number of pixels (20 to 400.)  I bought it at the low price of $0.99 and it performs, pretty much, as expected.  It has some basic annotation capabilities and "scans" documents using the camera in the iPad 2.  I have an original so I couldn't test that feature.

I haven't used it a lot as I like the annotative capabilities of iAnnotate, but the app is a good fall back if I need the autoflow feature.

For $0.99 it looks to be a solid reader that fits the requirements you laid out.

Try Filemagnet!  You can control autoscroll with the tilt of your device.


Very slow performance under Yosemite on Mac mini caused by systemstatsd I've got a late-2009 Mac mini that has begun to perform very poorly after some time on Yosemite. Safari takes about a minute to launch occasionally, as an example.

Granted, I've got a number of background tasks running (Dropbox, BitTorrent Sync, AirServer), but that's unchanged compared to before upgrading to Yosemite.

My main suspect is the very high network usage. The process kernel_task is using a lot of LAN bandwidth, occasionally downloading 60 MB (that's megabytes)/s for a few seconds before going down to zero, for no apparent reason. The total amount of bandwidth used has exceeded 14 terabytes (!) after a couple of weeks of uptime.

I've got a NAS that I use for sharing files and backups, but since the process using the bandwidth is kernel_task, I don't know what to think.

Update: As a temporary workaround I have setup a script to clear the systemstatsd files mentioned below regularly, but the root cause remains unresolved.

Today I noticed three things:

In three days, total downloaded data amounts to 3,300 GB.
Currently, approximately every 12 seconds there is a boost in network activity, where something maxes out the Ethernet interface for a couple of seconds.
Quitting the BitTorrent Sync app made item number 2 go away.

My theory is then: there's some bug in BitTorrent Sync that causes it to go nuts on the network, which in itself uses quite some system resources. This in turn causes systemstatsd to hiccup, which creates the final burden on the system.

The culprit was indeed systemstatsd. The way I understand it, that process both produces a number of system stats, dumps them into a file which it later analyzes. For some reason, that file never got reset, resulting in a giant stats file that took serious resources to analyze.

What I did was stop the analysis daemons,

sudo launchctl stop com.apple.systemstatsd
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.systemstatsd.analysis

remove the stats dump file (which was about 3 gigs in size at the time)

cd /private/var/db/systemstats/
sudo rm snapshots.db

relaunch the daemons

sudo launchctl start com.apple.systemstatsd
sudo launchctl start com.apple.systemstatsd.analysis

I never figured out why that dump file never got cleared, but suspect it'd something to do with the PRAM, so for good measure I finally reset it by rebooting and pressing CMD, ALT, P, R when the boot chime was heard until it was heard a second time.

The end result is a mac that is very much snappier than before. Here's hoping that zapping the PRAM did eliminate the root cause.

Further reading: What is the use of snapshot.db?

We have a late 2009 Mac Mini. I bumped memory up from 2G to 8G and it seems to have fixed the problem.  Of course it cost $90.  Ordered memory at Crucial.com and used this very clear video to do installation (requires some care and some technical aptitude, but not professional skill): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KaHNLR6Aac


How to disable PDF editing in Preview app? I am running OS X 10.10, Yosemite, and there is one feature which really annoys me. I know it must be useful for a lot of people but it's just not for me.

When I open a PDF document and, by habit, I keep clicking on the text while reading it. There are some areas where Preview thinks I would like to insert text.

As soon as this happens, the PDF document is marked edited in the title bar. When I close the document, it saves (or tries to save) it, changing the modify date and other side-effects such as triggering the DropBox sync etc.

I have accidentally inserted some text in many documents because Preview doesn't ask before saving the modified copy.

I would like to disable all PDF editing features unless explicitly invoked. Is it possible to do that?

According to me, the best way to resolve this, is to go to System Preferences -> General.
Make sure "Ask to keep changes when closing documents" is selected.

This will prevent accidental changes in PDF files, as well as other files when opened by other apps.

Go under File->Print, choose Save as PDF in the drop-down PDF menu in the lower left corner of the dialog box. Works like a charm.


Why is the Force Touch "taptic" TrackPad not clicking/selecting on 2015 MacBook Pro? I have a 2015 MacBook Pro running El Capitan with the new taptic force touch trackpad thing. Which, I must add, is fantastic!

However, this morning I started it up to discover it would not click/select anything. What is this madness? How do I fix it? How do I stop it happening again?

Things that work:

Typing with the keyboard.
Moving the mouse around.

Things that don't work:

Touch to click (I had enabled that setting)
Press to click (track pad makes a clicky sound but does nothing)
Deep press (track pad makes double clicky sound)
Two finger press (for right click)

Have Tried:

Restarting the Finder
Restarting my Mac
Making sure it is pugged in at the wall
Vigorously tapping the trackpad in frustration
Using expletive language

Unfortunately, I had no success with the above.

Previously, there were no issues with the trackpad. This mac is relatively new, I cannot think of any installed software that could be causing this issue. Any help much appreciated. Thanks.

My trackpad (MBP Early 2015) was working, but there was no haptic feedback, or any indication that force touch was working. Other functions (trackpad, single tap, scrolling, etc.) were working. Here's what my settings looked like:

For me, it was fixed somehow by an SMC reset with the charger disconnected, while powered on. Basically, I pressed Control + Shift + Option + Power button. The system instantly shut down without warning. Force touch and haptic feedback were back when the system turned on.

Do I recommend this? No. It's an unclean shutdown. Did it work? Yes it did.

Same issue here but I resolved it with a PRAM reset.


Little snitch and different network profiles Is there any way to have different "little snitch" rules set for different networking profiles ?
like for HOME one rule list
for WORK another etc ...

Little Snitch will tell you and allow you to do the following:

Informs you when an app or process trys to access "stuff" over the network
Allows you to set up and block communication by one of more of the following:

Protocol
Port
App or Process
destination address, IP address, or hostname, and more.

Unfortunately what it does not allow you to do is filter or create rules based on the "Location" or the current connection name as defined in OS X Network preferences (with the exception of "Local Network")

Other Firewall Software may allow you to do this, but this is a limitation of Little Snitch.

Littel Snitch 3 is now in preview mode, one among the new features is "Profiles" defined as follows:

  Profiles

  With Little Snitch 3, rules can optionally be arranged in separate profiles like “Home”, “Office” or “Internet Cafe”. Rules that are assigned to a particular profile are only effective if that profile is active. The active profile can be chosen conveniently from the status menu.

  This allows you to quickly switch between different sets of rules depending if you are at home, at the office or connected to a public network.

In Little Snitch 4.1.3, you can have a different profile that is connected to different wifi networks


Install a package .pkg into a custom directory I need to install the gcc3.3 on my OS X 10.5.8 to try something. For that purpose, I need to install it into a custom directory, such as /usr/loca/gcc-3.3
By default, the gcc3.3.pkg installs itself directly into /usr/bin To change that default directory, I've tried this command line:
sudo installer -pkg ~/Downloads/gcc3.3.pkg -target /usr/local/gcc-3.3

but that didn't work and the installer installed it into /usr/bin
So how can I install a .pkg into a custom directory?

Try unpkg. It has  worked flawlessly for me for several years.
unpkg solves the problem of installing a .pkg outside its intended location. You still have to figure out how to run gcc from that location. I assume it's a matter of setting the correct environment variables or setting symbolic links in /usr/local .

Several of the scripts for things like compiling and running GCC assumes the GCC app being in the /usr/bin directory and installing it elsewhere may require other scripts being rewritten or being run manually and/or your path being updated. Unless you have a compelling reason to put it in a custom directory I'd install it wherever it wants.


Shortcut to toggle EU Volume Limit With the Shortcuts app you can create an icon on your home screen that automates a task.  There seem to be plenty of options.  I'm looking for a way to toggle the Settings > Music > EU volume limit switch.  This would allow me to toggle it on for music but off for podcasts.

Which part of Shortcuts can toggle the volume limit?

There is currently no such feature, however, you could use the ‘podcasts’ app to listen to your podcasts.


Deleting multiple songs from new itunes playlist How do I remove multiple songs at once in a new iTunes playlist? I know how to remove songs one at a time, but is there a way to remove multiple songs at once?

Select the songs that you want to delete by holding Command, then either right click and select "Remove from Playlist", or press Command+Delete.


How can I play MTS videos from my Sony camera on my Mac? My family has used a Sony Cyber-Shot camera for several years. A few months ago, we replaced it with a newer model Cyber-Shot. To our dismay, however, the videos the camera records are not in the old familiar ".mov" format, but rather are in some strange ".mts" format that does not open when we double it.

Is there a way to enable iMovie, iPhoto, QuickTime, etc., to play said video files (and copy them from the camera automatically, as happened with my previous Cyber-Shot?

I use ClipWrap to rewrap the .mts file. then it can play without any problem.

VLC player plays all video from modern camcorders.


I need to examine an 82.7 GB (!) text file. What can open it? We recently had a meltdown of a Tomcat server, that produced an 82.7 GB "catalina.out" log file, which I saved for forensic analysis.

What macOS editors can open monster text files without consuming 80 GB of RAM or causing 15 minute freezes?

less filename

From the command line, it lets you view files straightaway without loading the full file into memory.

Open terminal and use vim to open it

vim filename.txt

P/s:

Type vim and drag the file to your terminal. Then hit enter.

To quit vim (without editing):

:q!


Reminders badge shows wrong count on different devices I have an iPhone, iPad, MacBook and Mac mini and am using Reminders on all my devices synced through iCloud. I have several lists created and no incomplete items at the moment. However, the Reminders badge count on MacBook shows "2" while on Mac mini it shows "1". On both iPhone and iPad the count is none ("0"), which is correct. If I check on my iCloud.com account the count is also none.
Where do these phantom alerts come from then? And how do I get rid of them?

TLDR: Launch the Calendar app, go to Settings, Alerts, then enable "Show shared calendar messages in Notification Center" and reboot.

Longer explanation follows.

I was having this same problem: no badge on my iOS devices, but a badge of "1" on my Mac.

After searching through the Console app, I found some messages from CalNCService that indicated it was requesting a badge count of "1" on behalf of a EKCalendarInviteReplyNotification. This suggested that the badge was the result of some activity on a shared Reminders list. It even printed out the name of the list in question - a shared list that I had "left" a while ago.

But, there were no notifications in Notification Center related to this list. Well, it turns out the notification was being filtered out by a setting in the Calendar app. I went to Calendar.app -> Settings -> Alerts and enabled "Show shared calendar messages in Notification Center".

That by itself did nothing, because the event was already filtered. So I went to Activity Monitor and force-quit the CalNCService. I restarted the Calendar app so it would restart the service (rebooting would do the trick too), and BOOM, the system presented me with the missing notification!

The notification was that I no longer had access to this shared list (sigh, who cares). I'm guessing the person who originally shared it with me had deleted it. So I simply dismissed that notification and the badge went away.

Bonus explainer:

Why does Calendar have anything to do with Reminders? It's because Reminders, internally, was originally (and seems to still be) implemented using "secret" hidden calendars. They did this because, in the days before iCloud, Calendar syncing was one of only a handful of ways to share data between devices. So you could sync and share your Reminder lists even if you were using Google or Yahoo or whatever else. Another way to share data was through email servers - which is exactly what the Notes app did. Reminders == Calendars, Notes == Emails.

Clever at the time, but I'm sure the engineers are quite sick of it now.

I had same problem on my new iPhone 7plus. Fixed it by doing the reboot by holding sleep wake  and volume down buttons and then turning back on.


Faulty iPhone 4S battery - how can I test a battery to measure its integrity? I bought an iPhone 4S two months ago. In the last couple of days I've perceived an average battery life of 12 to 18 hours with a light usage of the phone throughout the day.

I've followed every tip for battery preservation such as turning off Location services, I don't use Siri, I only download e-mails manually to the phone (no push or notifications), I set the auto brightness on, I try to keep only a few important applications running in background.

I would like to visit my carrier's technicians in order to get a replacement, but I would prefer to run some tests first to make sure that something's wrong with the battery.

Any suggestions?

I have always liked to test a battery by running the device until it shuts down and powers off.

When you connect it to the standard wall charger, it should take between 2 and 4 hours to charge. If your battery is done charging in an hour to 1:30, then it's not really getting the intended amount of current and should be replaced.

Similarly, if it won't charge fully (or very much close to full) in less than 4 hours - something also is amiss either with the charging, measuring or battery itself.

By timing the charge time, you eliminate any background task, GPS, WiFi drain, etc.. and just can see the time it takes a fixed amount of current to enter the battery and be stored chemically.

I believe it's pretty easy if you've jailbroken it, but for those who don't want to go there, there's an app called 'iBackupBot' for windown and mac, by a company called iCopyBot. It has a free trial and allows you to measure the current battery capacity, they have a guide here: http://www.icopybot.com/blog/check-ipad-iphone-battery-charge-cycle-count-without-jailbreaking.htm.

It worked for me with an iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.4- you do have to quit itunes and unlock the device for it to work.


Create a LAN between Mac Mini and two MacBooks without internet I have a Mac Mini (with USB 3.0 ports, one Thunderbolt port, and one Ethernet port) and two MacBooks (both with Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 but no Ethernet ports).

I want to use the Mac Mini as a central repository (essentially a NAS or external hard drive) for video footage that the two MacBooks can transfer files from at the highest possible speed.

I've considered and researched the following things and haven't found a solution:

USB 3.0 male to male crossover cables (don't exist)
Ethernet crossover cable network (MacBooks don't have Ethernet jacks, would this work with Ethernet to Thunderbolt adapters?)
daisy-chaining Mac Mini → MacBook 1 → MacBook 2 using Thunderbolt (not sure if this is possible, can anybody verify?)

If none of these options are possible, I guess I'll have to connect the Mini to the network via Ethernet and hope transfer speeds are decent.

I think this is what you're looking for as a cheap and easy solution:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC704ZM/A/apple-usb-ethernet-adapter

or:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD463ZM/A/thunderbolt-to-gigabit-ethernet-adapter

Get a switch, plug your three computers into it via ethernet, and configure them all with static IPs on the same subnet. You can also run a DHCP server on the Mini if you want, but it's not required for this sort of setup.

If you really want the absolute fastest, you'd need to use IP over Thunderbolt directly, but that's getting rather more complicated: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1657957 Not even sure there are Thunderbolt networking switches available yet.

I'd seriously recommend getting an inexpensive router and using it as your network base. TP Link makes very reliable and cheap gigabit routers, Asus makes modestly priced and even more capable routers, N18U would be a quick recommendation, available at around $60 right now. Just turn off the wifi and don't connect anything to the blue WLAN port.

In this case the DHCP management is done by the router, massively simplifying your network set up (no static IP's needed). You'd still need the Apple USB Ethernet Adapters for 100Base-T speeds (in which case a $25 100Base-T ethernet router would be enough, you almost certainly have one in your basement or attic). This would offer about 7 MB/sec transfer speeds. With the Thunderbolt to Ethernet Adapter, you'd see between 40 MB/sec to 70 MB/sec transfer speeds. The Thunderbolt to Ethernet Adapter costs the same as the Apple USB Ethernet Adapters (about $30) but it does take over your external display port.

You haven't said if you would still like to be be able to use Thunderbolt for either an external display and/or external storage (which often does offer a passthrough).


How can an old Apple ID be merged into the newer ID? When I first creed an Apple account, years ago, I used a password which I've been using ever since. Later I joined Me.com and I was assigned an email address that also became another Apple ID for me. More recently, with the new iCloud it looks like only my email address will be accepted as the ID t... So, how do I merge my now "old" ID into my newer @me.com address? Thanks.

As of now, you cannot merge multiple Apple IDs into one Apple ID. It has been rumored but it is not possible at the moment.

Here's an idea.  What you can do, if you haven't bought much or anything on your new ID.  You can change the email address on your apple ID once every 90 days (which is important, make sure you do this right the first time).

So change your me.com address to something else entirely.  Make a new temporary email on gmail if you have to.  Then change your old apple ID to your current me.com address.  And all your old purchases are now under your brand spanking new email address.


"Show Password" in Keychain Access doesn't work I am having a problem, as a program is requesting my RSA password but my Mac won't let me see it. As I check the "show password" (mostrar contraseña) chechbox, it immediately unmarks itself.

I already tried "Repair" and turning the computer off and on again (as if it ever worked) and of course, it didn't fix it.

Any suggestions?

To get the password from your keychain . You can right click on that item of which you need the password and click on "copy the password to clipboard", then you will ask to enter the login password , after that you can paste the password where you want.

PFA:

I had probably the same problem, I changed my Keychain password to my login password ie. they are equal now.

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201609


Wireless headphones on a MacBook running 10.4 — Does Bluetooth work? Can MacBooks (10.4) stream music to Bluetooth headphones? If not, is my only other option to purchase bulky/expensive wireless headphones, or is there another way?

The Bluetooth profile necessary for stereo audio, A2DP, is supported by OS X since version 10.5 (aka “Leopard”). As you use 10.4 (aka “Tiger”), the answer to the first part of your question is:

Bluetooth audio only works in 64 kbit/s mono quality via the headset profile in 10.4.

Probably not what you want for music listening, even if the headphones support it. As to the second part of your question:

You are stuck with wireless solutions working via the audio jack, USB or FireWire.

In the case of USB / FW solutions (if such wireless solutions exist), check these for 10.4 compatibility before you invest.

Yep, Bluetooth works. Take a look a this :) A bit expensive, but I'm sure there are a lot of alternatives around.


How to remove dataloading.net? On my father's mac, dataloading.net keeps popping up in tabs. It doesn't seem to be in Safari's extensions (at least not visible in preferences). He has clean my mac 3 installed. Can this problem be solved with that?

I'm having trouble recommending any virus scanner, because there's a lot of crapware out there.

If you suspect your Mac may have malware or adware installed on it, I would recommend trying BitDefender, a lightweight antivirus app for Mac (available for free on the Mac App Store), which I have found to be especially good at detecting both adware and malware and then removing it. BitDefender scans your machine when prompted (good for an ongoing issue) but does nothing in the background.

If you want constant protection in the future (that promises to block this kind of adware/malware from being downloaded onto your Mac in the first place, and has fulfilled its promise twice for me) you can try Avast, which is also free (but not available from the Mac App Store, just their website).

Hope this helps, let me know if this fixes the problem or not!

I just finished removing dataloading-net/j/pne from Safari 10.0.2 ( Sierra and all security updates done) this way:
- Shutdown your Mac
- Reboot with shift key down (disables all extensions other than OSX )
- Launch MalwareBytes anti malware, scan and remove the threads.
- Reboot, and hope you're done (it worked for me !)


F11 key changed functionality F11 on my Mac used to show Desktop. Something changed in my function keys and I cannot figure out what. The F11 key now decreases volume on my speaker, and the only way to see my Desktop is to now use the keyboard shortcut Fn + F11. This is very annoying.

My keyboard shortcut under System Preferences shows that F11 (by itself) is supposed to show Desktop.

The F12 key used to be set to a particular function in Adobe InDesign but is no longer working either. I didn't knowingly change my keyboard.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Go to System Preferences app → Keyboard → Keyboard and check Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys.

Same thing happened to me.  Not sure why but disconnect, then reconnect your external keyboard to fix the issue.


Can't download anything with enough storage? I have 478 MB available, and this game is 228 MB. Every time I try to download it, I get a message saying I don't have enough space. But I do. What am I supposed to do?! I really want this app!

You actually don't have the required space.

Apps are shipped in containers called IPAs. An IPA is actually just a zip file, and compresses some of the content. Each app, depending on how they are built, can achieve varying degrees of compression.

In the above image, you can see just how much disparity exists between the App Store's reported size and the actual install size.

Infinity Blade 3 is listed at 1.7GB by the App Store, but installs to 2.6GB. Additionally, Bastion reports requiring 534MB, but actually needs more than twice that amount of space (1.2GB).

Since it would be impossible for Apple to gather the required information from actual install size, they offer the size of the IPA as a guideline. To be safe, one should allow for 3x the existing space. In your case, you may require about 800MB free (ballpark).

And remember, you need some free space (for caches, app data, etc.). It's unwise to operate with absolutely no free space, typically leading to a negative impact on performance.

The best way to free up space is to go to Settings > General > Usage and to look at whats taking up your storage. You'll probably find apps that take up a lot of storage that you never even use! This is probably the best way to free up space.

For more information and tips, I wrote a little blog post about the subject here.


how do i use 2 whatsapp accounts in my iphone? I have only one phone, an iphone, but have to access 2 whatsapp accounts. In android, we can use parallel space and have two whatsapp installations. But, iphone doesn't have any such option. Pls help me out.

Unfortunately without jailbreaking the phone or using untrusted sources there are no methods to use two different whatsapp account on the iphone

install two whatsapp on iphone or ipad 2017 March

http://www.informationtech.co.in/how-to-use-two-whatsapp-accounts-on-iphone-without-jailbreak/


Restoring an OLD iPhone backup I recently made a full backup of my iPhone 4S to my computer. I was having some issues with it, so I went into DFU mode and did a clean install.

Unfortunately as soon as iTunes finished installing iOS 6, it automatically made a full back-up of my phone, and I now can't see the previous back-up I made. Please tell me it's still there!

How may I recover a previous back-up?

[I realize this is an older question and may not solve the problem for the OP, but this answer is intended to provide guidance to others.]

If you use iTunes backups, there is only one backup (the latest) maintained per device at any point in time. So in this case the new backup overwrote the older backup, and it would be possible to recover only if a copy of ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ was made before the clean install (through Time Machine or any other solution), restoring that folder on the system and doing a restore from iTunes.

You can see the device backups (with the timestamps) available in iTunes by going to iTunes → Preferences and then navigating to the Devices tab.

Some recommendations and points to note to avoid such a situation and have something to fall back to:

You can have multiple backups in iCloud for a device and choose which backup to restore from (assuming there are no device/iOS compatibility issues).
Use both iCloud and iTunes backups together (once iCloud backup is turned on, automatic backups in iTunes would be turned off; so a manual backup would have to be triggered in iTunes).
When using iTunes backup, trigger a manual backup in iTunes followed by a manual backup in Time Machine before major changes to a device, like re-installing iOS or jailbreaking or recovering from older backups.

See:
Choosing an iOS backup method (Should I use iTunes or iCloud to back up my iOS device?)

You can see all backups in Itunes settings -> backup
I think it keeps two or three latest backups


Has anyone else seen "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it"? Just now, upon taking my iPhone 4 out of my pocket where it lives, I was faced with a screen saying "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it" (see below - screenshot mysteriously still worked). The only thing it would let me do was dial emergency calls. The phone was not noticeably any warmer than usual when idle. Are there any known issues with this?

From the User's Guide:

  If the interior temperature of iPhone exceeds normal operating temperatures, you may experience the following as it attempts to regulate its temperature:

  iPhone stops charging
  display dims
  weak cellular signal
  temperature warning screen appears

  Important: You cannot use iPhone while the temperature warning screen is displayed except to make an emergency call. If none of the above measures succeeds in lowering the internal temperature, iPhone automatically goes into a deep sleep mode until it cools. You cannot make an emergency call when iPhone is in this mode. Move iPhone to a cooler location and wait a few minutes before trying to use iPhone again.

There have been numerous cases of all sorts of consumer electronics melting/exploding, and these have often been settled with lawsuits. It is appropriate that the iPhone take preemptive measures to avoid such accidents.

it is temp pin in battery just try to change your battery thats all


How do I get Messages on OS X to text to a phone number? I recently rebooted an OS X machine on which I had an ongoing conversation in Messages via text with a phone number on a non-iOS phone. Now, though I am able to continue sending texts from Messages on iOS to exactly the same number, I can no longer send texts to that number from Messages on OS X, instead messages fail to send, the two conversations are no longer synced between OS X and iOS, and I'm told that the "phone number is not registered with iMessage".

How do I get OS X Messages to remember that I can, in fact, text that number?

Check "Text Message forwarding" under phone Settings > Messages > Text. This must be on (and your iOS device and OS X machine must be on the same network) for text messaging from Messages on OS X to work.

(It's possible this was disabled disabled for his Mac after a reboot.)

On your computer, use AIM (AOL instant messaging, aim.com  .  it synchs with Imessages (just add the account), and it is happy with phone numbers. Enter the phone number there.


How can I control the Terminal in the current space with AppleScript? Working on building a Handler that passes the terminal window then calls the ID for a script I've run into mixed results and I'm curious if there is a cleaner way to get window 1

The handler:

on termHandler()
    set activeTerminal to ""
    if application "Terminal" is running then
        tell application "Terminal"
            if not (exists window 1) and not busy of window 1 then
                activate
                tell application "Terminal" to do script "echo snow" in window 1
            else
                tell application "Terminal" to do script "date" in window 1
                set activeTerminal to window 1
                return activeTerminal
            end if
            do script "echo foo"
            activate
            set activeTerminal to window 1
            return activeTerminal
        end tell
    else
        tell application "Terminal"
            activate
            do script "echo bar" in window 1
            set activeTerminal to window 1
            return activeTerminal
        end tell
    end if
end termHandler

Everything I've read and researched:

Applescript to open a NEW terminal window in current space
Open terminal via AppleScript
Applescript to open specific Terminal Style Windows
Script opens two terminal windows
Sending commands and strings to Terminal.app with Applescript

Suggests that AppleScript and Terminal do not get along.  My current OS is Sierra I'm writing this in but other boxes I have run Yosemite which would use this script. My end goal here is to identify a Terminal window in that particular space and fire some do script but I seem to be having an issue doing so.  Is there an easier way to identify if the Terminal is running, not create a new window and if it is running return the window 1 as a variable so I can pass it do script?

Do you need to actually have it input into a terminal window or is that just the way that you found it to work? I am not sure if you are aware of this or not but you can run shell scripts directly from an AppleScript by using this "do shell script" command. As an example:

do shell script "echo snow"


Is there a way to lock the volume & brightness on iPad/iOS 10 from getting changed by a child? My little boy watches stuff on our iPad all the time, the smart monkey figured out how to change the volume and the brightness by pulling up the Control Center and adjusting them via the slider.

My problem is that he sets them to the maximum no matter how many times I tell him not to do that. Is there a way to lock them on a certain level? or disable the Control Center?

Edit: Sadly redeagle's solution never worked, I have no idea what is "Volume Limit" in the restrictions used for but my kid can still control the volume using the control centre and/or the side switch

For brightness, you can go in Settings > Control Center and change if you want access to Control Center on the lock screen or within apps, it will always be available on the home screen, AFAIK.

To prevent him from changing the volume, change the volume to what you always want it to be and go to Settings > General > Restrictions and tap Enable Restrictions, then set a Restrictions passcode (something different than the normal passcode). Go to Volume Limit and check Don't Allow Changes.

Go to general/ display accommodation/ reduce white point.

Push white point to max.

Problem solved for brightness


What permissions to host website for OS X Server? I am trying to install Dropplet on my Mavericks Server. I have created the site in Server and copied the files to the root directory.

When I go to configure it, I get the following error, "It seems that your config folder is not writable, please add the necessary permissions.".

I believe it comes from this line,

// Check if the install directory is writable.
$is_writable = (TRUE == is_writable(dirname(__FILE__) . '/'));

I have searched all over for what owner/group/permissions are needed for a website so Apache can write to it.

Anyone encountered this?

This seems to have worked: http://francoisdeschenes.com/2013/02/26/enable-write-permissions-for-apache-built-into-mac-os-x

Strange that this is not on by default?