High memory usage on iMac MacOS Catalina I'm not a Mac power user by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm hoping for some help from someone here that is.  There are similar questions being asked, but the answers seem to all be similar... that the person asking the question doesn't have high usage.

I have a iMac Retina 5K, 27in, 2017 with a 3.4Ghz i5. Purchased a year ago and barely use it, so it's basically brand new. I just recently upgraded to Catalina version 10.15.3. my iMac has been unbareably slow since the Catalina install. it barely worked with 8GB of RAM and an Apple support person took a look at my iMac and saw that I was using 7.6GB of memory and suggested I downgrade to Mojave or install more RAM, so my first step was to remove the 8GB and install 32GB. My iMac is running only slightly faster with the 32GB installed. It stopped crashing on a daily basis, which is great, but things still take a while to open after I click on them. I still get the spinning beachball and if I look at Activity Monitor my memory pressure is in the red even when I have nothing running (except for Activity Monitor).

The attached screenshot is taken about 5mins after turning on my iMac and the only thing I have running is Activity Monitor.

Is there something wrong with Catalina? Is something wrong with the memory I installed? Why  is my memory pressure in the red?  Does it have something to do with sharingd or suggestd? They are always at the top of the list.

Any suggestions on what I should do?

Thanks

I too started experiencing this problem after I installed Catalina on my 2019 iMac Retina 5K with 3.6 Ghz 8-Core I9 processor and 32 GB memory (4 days ago).  I had no such problems prior to my upgrade.  I turned off Airdrop with no effect.  Unfortunately, I can't disable remote disks as I'm very much in need of icloud and screen sharing.  I tried turning off all my other icloud devices, but that didn't seem to have any effect either. My CPU usage by the "sharingd" processis 15 times higher than my next most CPU intensive process.  It also appears to be cycling up to 100% plus CPU usage for about 5-10 seconds every 20-30 seconds.  Fan speed is also varying in line with the cpu temperature,  as would be expected (1200 RPM goes to 2400 RPM).

I tried taking the issue to Apple Support, but even after getting pushed up to 2nd level, they were no help.  They seemed clueless about what sharingd does and how to troubleshoot it.  They basically ran me through POPO and SMC Reset and then gave up.  They suggested it must be a hardware problem even though diagnostics ran clean and no other evidence supports that conclusion.

I've also tried shutting down all my 3rd party apps and no effect from that either.

I am now wondering if possibly Apple is running some form of file conversion/tweaking on my icloud stored photos, movies, or music in background as part of the upgrade and maybe this is causing file sync issues. If so, hopefully it will eventually finish and go away! But I'm not hopeful.  Personally, I think it is a Catalina bug that Apple is not yet acknowledging.

UPDATED 4/19/2020  (PROBLEM PARTIALLY IDENTIFIED and TEMPORARY FIX)

After further investigation, I found that turning off icloud on my system (or turning off the network so it couldn't talk to icloud) caused sharingd to go quiet (vs. near 100% CPU utilization).  I also started to notice that the process AddressBookSourceSync is also running (at moderate levels) when sharingd is running at high CPU.  On a hunch, I turned my icloud back on, but just disabled Contacts (in System Preferences > AppleID).  With Contacts off, my system is back to running quietly.  Therefore it appears that the high CPU utilization of the sharingd process somehow relates to trying to sync with Contacts (address book) in icloud.  So at least I have a temporary fix (i.e. turning off contacts, except when needed), but caution, losing contacts has negative impacts on identifying people in imessage threads, etc.  So admittedly this is a very limited fix.

FIXED 5/3/2020  (at least on my system)

Realizing my above temporary fix was not cutting it for me and still being suspicious that my address book system (Contacts) was somehow corrupted during my upgrade to Catalina, I decided I needed to completely unload and reinstall my local copy of my address book system.  Not knowing exactly how to do that, I searched and found this article https://ugetfix.com/ask/how-to-fix-addressbooksourcesync/ which walked me through the process.  This procedure should work as long as your local address
book is synced with iCloud.  Although the article addresses symptoms I didn't have, it did the trick as far as allowing me to unload and reload my local address book system.  Once I performed this procedure it was immediately apparent that this fixed my problem with high sharingd process CPU usage and the corresponding high memory usage by addressbooksourcesync. My sharingd process is now only using small amounts of CPU, somewhere approximately in the range of .1% to 4.5% CPU (vs 100+% CPU previously).  AddressBookSourceSync's memory use also is much lower now too, about 300MB vs. Gigbytes prior to the fix (sorry I forgot to record the exact memory usage initially).  I don't know if this will help others, but it might be worth a try.  Just make sure your local addressbook (Contacts) and icloud addressbook (Contacts) are in good syncronization before you start. I also added one step to this procedure as an added measure of safety.  I exported all my Contacts to a PDF file prior to starting.  I did that just in case something went horribly wrong and I had to re-enter them manually. Fortunately, that was not necessary!  One last comment: for whatever reason, I found no .plist file (the one that the author of this procedure mentions) in my ~/Library/Application Support/Address Book/ folder, either before or after performing the procedure.

I experienced this problem when I installed Catalina. I had to revert back to Mojave to solve the sluggishness. Thank goodness I had a backup on Time Machine, but it was a long and nail-biting process. I also had upgraded to 32GB, which is what allowed me to remove Catalina. I think. My Mac is an early 2014 and is happy without Catalina. It would be nice to hear that Apple is working to solve this problem. No word, so far. I am considering moving to the latest iMac.


How many times can i charge iPad2 Battery? I want to know how many times can i charge iPad2 Battery.
I heard that iPad Battery can recharge 1000 times.
if recharge 1000 times over,that battery will be damage.
Is that right?
Please tell me about ipad battery.

Apple has a great page on batteries and it does say that they are designed to still have 80% of their capacity remaining after 1000 charge cycles.

Not all batteries are perfect, so you could have problems even on the second charge. Heat, always having it charged and deep discharge can also cause them to fail or wear out before you get to 1000 charges.

Don't confuse an isolated failure or anecdotal evidence for the overall statistics for a million devices seen as a group. Also, damage like wetness or other failures of the electronics can bring down a perfect battery so it's hard to know what might cause a specific failure without taking it apart.

I have been using a the battery in my ipad for ten years and I still get a good 8 hours out of it :-)


How to refresh Messages on Mac after hibernation? I've set up iMessage on my iPhone correctly (apple id) with Messages on my Mac (OSX Mountain Lion), and it syncs.

But the syncing isn't flawless.. Everytime I wake up my Mac after hibernation, it won't update my messages. I first have to restart the app a few times, to get all my messages. Sometimes even the order of the messages isn't correct.

From my experience the syncing is still quite buggy.

Does anyone have the same issues, and maybe a workaround?

ps: I don't use wifi on my Mac, if that's relevant.

The closest solution I found is to ping one of your connections.

restart your computer and just keep clicking on and off the message icon


Make the green full screen window icon on Yosemite maximize windows On Mac OS X Yosemite the green icon in every window:

is by default used to make the application full screen.

How do I make it work the same way as in previous versions of Mac OS X, i.e. to maximize the window?

As the below mentioned solution is application-based (i.e. only works for apps like Google Chrome), another way to approach this problem is to ignore the maximize button entirely and to install the open source app spectacle which offers the keyboard shortcut:

⌘ + ⌥ + F

It also has some other nice features, too. And it works for all apps.

In order to maximize the window so that it fills the visible window content, use:

⌥ + Click on green icon

In order to maximize the window both in width and height to the current desktop for applications like Google Chrome use:

⌥ + ⇧ + Click on green icon

You notice the change of behaviour of the button in the way it changes its content from two the arrows to a plus sign.

So, pre yosemite, holding "Shift + Left Click" would alternate between the current dimensions and what they'd be if you were to maximize the window to the fully available dimensions.

The "Option + Left Click" alternates between window sizes (the last and the full-height of the screen (less the dock). Also, regardless of where the page is focused, after using the option click, the focus reverts to the upper left of the page (fun-fact).

Another thing to note is if you have more than one window open the "option + left-click" will maximize the secondary window, and depending its current dimensions, adhere to the same scale as if you were to hold down the Option key when click-dragging the corner of the window to manually resize the frame (scales on a fixed ratio).

To answer your question try "Option + Left-click" and/or "Shift + Left-click". Then perhaps try them together ;)


Where can I find the unicode symbols for Mac functional keys? (Command, Shift, etc.) Is there a list of key-symbols that I could reference?

If you are talking about something like this: &#8984; (the ⌘ key), then you are looking for this chart:
HTML Entity     GLYPH  NAME
&#63743;              Apple
&#8984;         ⌘      Command, Cmd, Clover, (formerly) Apple
&#8963;         ⌃      Control, Ctl, Ctrl
&#8997;         ⌥      Option, Opt, (Windows) Alt
&#8679;         ⇧      Shift
&#8682;         ⇪      Caps lock
&#9167;         ⏏      Eject
&#8617;         ↩      Return, Carriage Return
&#8629; &crarr; ↵      Return, Carriage Return
&#9166;         ⏎      Return, Carriage Return
&#8996;         ⌤      Enter
&#9003;         ⌫      Delete, Backspace
&#8998;         ⌦      Forward Delete
&#9099;         ⎋      Escape, Esc
&#8594; &rarr;  →      Right arrow
&#8592; &larr;  ←      Left arrow
&#8593; &uarr;  ↑      Up arrow
&#8595; &darr;  ↓      Down arrow
&#8670;         ⇞      Page Up, PgUp
&#8671;         ⇟      Page Down, PgDn
&#8598;         ↖      Home
&#8600;         ↘      End
&#8999;         ⌧      Clear
&#8677;         ⇥      Tab, Tab Right, Horizontal Tab
&#8676;         ⇤      Shift Tab, Tab Left, Back-tab
&#9250;         ␢      Space, Blank
&#9251;         ␣      Space, Blank

You also can copy the glyphs directly!

If you're using TextExpander (and if not, why not?! It's only $45. ), you can just import the "Keyboard" snippet group from Dr. Dang (see the second part of the post) and get the symbols you're likely looking for:

To insert   Type    Key name
    ⌘       ;cmd    Command
    ⌥       ;opt    Option
    ⇧       ;shift  Shift
    ⌃       ;ctl    Control
    ⇥       ;tab    Tab
    ⌫       ;bs     Backspace
    ⌦       ;del    Forward Delete
    ⌅       ;enter  Enter
    ↩       ;return     Return
    ⎋       ;esc    Escape
           ;apple  Apple
    ←       ;left   Left Arrow
    →       ;right  Right Arrow
    ↑       ;up     Up Arrow
    ↓       ;down   Down Arrow
    ␣       ;space  Space

He also has a few other interesting "set of snippets" you might want to have a look at:

Currency icons and Fractions - See here for info.
Miscellaneous Symbols - see here for info.

Hope this helps!


How can I use Automator to open a website & log in everyday at a certain time? I need to set up an auto log in for an Intranet web site so I can get right to work with no delays. I want Automator to open safari, go to the page, input log in and password credentials and hit log in (enter) on a daily basis (9am daily) I'd like to use Automator or AppleScript if at all possible. I've heard that lastpass or 1password may have this functionality and I have both paid versions and cannot find any way to use them either.

I have read a lot of questions posted on this topic previously and have not found a solution nor has Google been my friend this time around. :)

if you can use firefox instead of safari you can use:

set firefox with iMacros
set a cronjob with croonix that launch firefox


Messages on Macs don't work I've tried every suggestion I could find on Apple forums. Deleted .plist files, removed message caches, reset passwords, coordinated sign on/offs between my iPhone and my Macs, reset iPhone and reinstalled Mavericks on my Macbook Air. All pointless exercises.

I suspect it all started because I jailbroke my iPhone using Pangu. It may or may not have been the culprit, but my problems started a couple of days after I did it. All my phone conversations went green and stopped synchronizing with Messages apps on my Macs. Trying to send a new message from Macs would result in either "Your message could not be sent" error with a warning icon next to it, or:

  XXX is not registered with iMessage.

So I restored my iPhone to factory defaults using iTunes. That didn't help immediately, but in a day or two, my conversations with other iPhone users went blue. So I am happy that works.

So now I sacrificed my Macbook Air to try and make messages work on it. I reinstalled Mavericks several times, each time trying different approaches: not immediately signing into iCloud, not associating an iCloud profile with login profile, etc. Nothing helps. I launch Messages app, it asks me to sign in (and I do, successfully), and then nothing goes through.

Sending messages to myself also works inconsistently. Yesterday, whatever I sent to myself (using phone number) would appear delivered to the same window, but not on my phone. Today I get "... not registered with iMessage" error.

I had a similar problem, with the culprit being that iCloud got confused, and continued to send text messages as iMessages, so that my new phone (non-iphone) never got them.

Turns out, in order to turn off iMessages settings, you must disable iMessage EVERYWHERE. If you turn off iMessages on a phone, and leave it on your iPad, it won't reset (this was my issue).

So, I suggest you try this: iDevices (all of them): Settings>Messages. Turn off Messages. (on your iPhone, you can turn on sms message so at least you still get texts).  On Macs, remove any accounts in iMessages by clicking '-' by them in the account preferences.

Make sure you have de-registered on ALL your devices. Give it an hour or so. Then create accounts on messages on the devices using your Apple ID. See if it works.

If this does not work, call AppleCare.  I found that if you go to the AppleCare link in the website, it warns that it will charge you $$ per min for help if you don't have an AppleCare plan. Call the number anyway, agree to whatever. When I called, Apple did not charge me for the iMessages issue, as it is a known issue. (mine was slightly different, I will admit).

I had a similar problem. I believe this starts when you connect both you iOS device and your Mac to the same iMessages account. I never bothered to fix it on mine (I just stopped using it on my computer LOL).

But I actually think I know what will fix it though. You can make a new Apple ID account for your iCloud and messages (still keep the old one for iTunes and the App Store though).

When you sign in to the new account, any problems that you had with the old one should be gone – I'd expect. But I wouldn't recommend connecting both your computer and your phone until you're sure it works on one of them.

Hope this helps :)


Where are the MacOS startup boot icons located? Where is the exact location of certain icons like the internal storage drive icon you often see in the startup boot manager and other boot icons like it located on MacOS?

MacOS Catalina 10.15.2

The specified directories

/System/Library/Extensions/IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/
 and
/System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/

do indeed contain the .icns files used by the startup boot manager or at least it contains replicas of the .icns used.

In macOS you can find boot loader(boot.efi) in /System/Library/CoreServices/, you can locate boot.efi there.


Zero-width characters embedded in phone number whenever they are copied from the macOS address book Whenever I use Contacts.app to fill out a form on a website, I have a problem with any phone number field.

Contacts.app adds unicode "left-to-right override" (U+202D codepoint: E2 80 AD in UTF-8 contexts, 20 2D in UTF-16 contexts) before the first digit, and "pop directional formatting" (U+202C codepoint: E2 80 AC in UTF-8 contexts, 20 2C in UTF-16 contexts) after the last digit. Many websites get upset by this, because those are not recognised as valid phone number digits. As they are zero-width symbols, the first few times I saw this problem I didn't even understand what was going wrong.

Note that this still happens if I turn off JavaScript or use a desktop text editor like TextWrangler (TextWrangler is how I originally found out which zero-width symbols were being inserted); as it happens, I only care about websites because websites are the only thing which validates that phone numbers match a pattern such as the regex [0-9()+\s]*

This happens with all phone numbers in Contacts, regardless of whose (some are formatted as UK, some as USA, some as German).

Method: open Contacts.app, select any person, double (or triple) click on a phone number to select all of it, ⌘C-⌘V to copy-paste; if I paste into an app which shows non-printable characters like TextWrangler then I can see their existence, if I paste into a web browser it's present but zero-width, as arrow keys 'stick' at those positions and the delete key does in fact remove them.

It happens as described in both Safari and Chrome. In Firefox, it behaved slightly differently, and seemed to automatically delete the extra characters as soon as I pass through them with my arrow keys (?!).

How do I stop Contacts.app from adding these unicode symbols?

update 11/2020: It seems like this may be finally fixed in macOS 11. When I just tried it, copying a phone number using the normal ⌘command + C did not add the extra gremlins. Can anyone else confirm?

This isn't an answer but I wanted to add a screenshot as some people have requested it.
I noticed this bug as well (as recently as 10.15.7) and was glad to find this already reported, and surprised it hasn't received more attention.
I filed bugs #47763641 & #5235503 with Apple, hopefully they will notice. I encourage others to report it.
Here are steps to repro & a screenshot that shows the issue:

From Contacts.app, right-click → Copy on a phone number.
Paste into Sublime Text or any other plaintext editor.
Save as test.txt
Open in a Hex Editor, I used Hex Fiend in this example
You can now see the extra bytes (I highlighted them below)

a couple of bits of information:

This seems to only affect phone# fields. Others such as email, addresses, notes etc don't exhibit this bug.
If, instead of using ⌘command + A (select-all), you very carefully select just from the start of the phone# to the end and then copy, the unwanted zwsp characters aren't copied.

My workaround for now is an Alfred workflow that I mapped to ⌘⇧C that copies the selected field and trims the whitespace. Not exactly elegant, but it works well enough until Apple fixes this (which they may have as of 11.0)

Contacts.app does not do that.

It is the website(s) you are visiting and filling out the forms.

They are the one adding the hidden character.

Article:

Make them visible in Chrome

Why ??

Zero-width characters can be used for fingerprinting !


Script or workflow to modify find and replace backslashes in clipboard I need to do a lot of copying filepaths written by people using a PC (which uses backslashes) to a Mac (which uses forward slashes), and I'm tired of manually switching them every time.  I have to copy the filepath from our shared web browser, paste it into my file browser, and then go in and manually remove the backslash and replace it with a forward slash.

That last part is really what's killing me since basically every filepath I copy has several backslashes in it that I want to paste! What I want is something that will modify the contents of my clipboard so I can just paste it into my Mac file browser without having to manually replace the slashes every time.

In short, I want any "\" in my clipboard to change to a "/" before I paste it. Can anyone please help me with this?

Using an Automator Service and AppleScript code, here are two examples of how you can change backslashes to slashes in a string.

The first one takes the selected text passed to the Automator Service, makes the replacements and sets the output to the Clipboard. Which from there you can manually paste wherever you desire that can accept pasted text.

The second one takes the selected text passed to the Automator Service, makes the replacements and then replaces the selected text passed with the modified text in place, that is providing the source selected text is editable.

There is a slight code difference between the two, in the on run subroutine and a single setting difference between the services. Both require first selecting a text string and then either a right-click to select the service from the Context menu or accessing the service from the Application_Name > Services > menu. The on replaceText(find, replace, textString) subroutine is the same in both examples.

AppleScript code for the Clipboard method service:

on run {input}
    set the clipboard to replaceText("\\", "/", input as string)
end run

on replaceText(find, replace, textString)
    set prevTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to find
    set textString to text items of textString
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to replace
    set textString to "" & textString
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to prevTIDs
    return textString
end replaceText

AppleScript code for the replace selected text method service:

on run {input}
    set input to replaceText("\\", "/", input as string)
    return input
end run

on replaceText(find, replace, textString)
    set prevTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to find
    set textString to text items of textString
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to replace
    set textString to "" & textString
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to prevTIDs
    return textString
end replaceText

To use the AppleScript code in an Automator Service:

In Automator, create a new Service with Service receives selected text in any application and Input is entire selection, then either leaving unchecked the [] Output replaces selected text check box for the clipboard service (AppleScript code for the Clipboard method service:) or checking the [√] Output replaces selected text check box for the for the replace selected text service (AppleScript code for the replace selected text method service:)
Add a Run AppleScript action to it and delete the default code.
Copy and paste whichever code for the method you choose to use.
Save the Service with an appropriate name, e.g., Replace backslashes with slashes on Clipboard for the first one and or Replace backslashes with slashes in selected text for the second one. Or of course whatever you prefer.

Now select some text that has backslashes in it and then select the service's name from the Services Context menu (right-click) or the Application_Name > Services > menu.

If using the Clipboard method, then paste the now modified selected text wherever you want or if using the replace selected text method, it's already replaced having selected that Service.

Keep the Windows quoted path entries into a plain text, name it to paths.txt, such as

 "C:\Program Files\xyz"
 "C:\Windows\System32"

Then do it in Terminal:

cat paths.txt | sed -e 's#\\#\/#g' > converted.txt

The result such as

"C:/Program Files/xyz"
"C:/Windows/System32"

if you want to get posix paths, try

cat paths.txt | sed -e 's#^\"\([a-zA-Z]\):#\"\/\1#' -e 's#\\#\/#g' > converted.txt

the converted result will be:

"/C/Program Files/xyz"
"/C/Windows/System32"


Where and how are the extra columns available for list view in Finder defined? In an answer to an earlier question I found out that the available columns for Finder's list view are relative to the folder path. This means that one could choose to add a Dimensions column when browsing under ~/Pictures or Artist under ~/Music or Codec under ~/Movies.

Where and how these are defined?

Is there a centralised file that links a path ~/Pictures, column Dimensions and action "get file's dimensions" together?

Or is the column and the action defined in a centralised location and then a folder's property (like "this is a folder for pictures") enables the columns?

Or are these all defined relatively under the folder path? Or something else?

I think I'm indirectly asking whether or not it is possible to customise the columns (add own) and enable them for different locations.

Try renaming the folder to "Pictures" or moving it into a folder named "Pictures" -- that did the trick for me.


How to rollback macOS Sierra Developer Beta back to El Capitan (without time machine) I can't reinstall El Capitan from AppStore because of this:

and CmdR only suggest to reinstall macOS Sierra.

macOS is not designed to be downgradable, and as such you cannot downgrade it through an installer like this. You will need to create a bootable install disk (Apple support), e.g. by running

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app

to install on a drive called MyVolume. Running this will lose you all your content, so you will need to have a backup if you want to retain your files. Otherwise, wait Sierra out…

this may seem like a bit of a hack, but you could try to use Unibeast to create a fresh OS X El Capitan installation disk, and boot your mac from it to install.
Here is a step-by-step guide on creating this disk :
http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/unibeast-install-os-x-el-capitan-on-any-supported-intel-based-pc.172672/
This is basically intended for Intel-based PCs but it works like a charm on the Mac to perform rollbacks.


Who controls the contact picture on iOS in address book? My son has a inappropriate picture of a girl as her contact photo... When I questioned him about it he said that she had made it her outgoing contact photo and he had no control over it... Is this possible or am I being lied to?!

Yes, it's possible. If you go to the iOS settings app and sign in with either Facebook or Twitter, there is a button to retrieve contact pictures from those services for each contact on your device.

So, your child has the option to change that photo on a case by case basis, but what they said could be entirely true.

At is point, it gets less clear with syncing your address book with Facebook (or other). Presumably it could use each person's Facebook picture, set by them, as their photo in your address book.

I've never seen a picture I assign get overwritten, but it's clearly possible that might happen.

as Mike Scott says, you can sync and take pics online and set is to your contacts information, however, there is no sutch thing as a "outgoing contact photo"

this means if i have a picture of a pony as MY profile picture, you wont se a pony when i call! unless i have that picture online, like on Facebook, and you synced and downloaded that picture and made it my contact information photo!

however, this should be added, there could be third party apps, where you decide what pictures others see when they call! like whatsapp (only texting), but if it was the native phone app on iOS (was the slide to answer visible?) its not possible!

so he can change the pic, if its not a third party "phone" app


How to run/manage websites on macOS versions *after* High Sierra? High Sierra (10.13) is deprecated now that Big Sur (macOS 10.16/11) is out.
High Sierra was the last version of macOS which supported websites (technically Apache, I believe) being managed through the Server.app in macOS.
I am now looking for another way to run a 24/7 web server on macOS.
“Why not use MAMP (Pro) or VirtualHostX (Pro)?”
I have tried both MAMP and VirtualHostX (both regular and pro versions) as possible replacements; however, neither app is designed for this. They are designed to be a service for web developers who want to check their web development locally before it is deployed to a remote (usually Linux-based) server.
That is not what I am looking for. I am looking for apps/utilities/tools/whatever to help me configure and run a web server on macOS, ideally compatible with Big Sur.

You could run NGINX and Apache via Homebrew on Big Sur as far as I'm concerned.


MacBook shows it is charging when MagSafe is green My MacBook currently shows this  even though the MagSafe charger has a green light.

Does anyone know why this is?

If it helps I am on a MacBook Air late 2010 with 819 cycle counts, 4,995mAh (currently), max capacity is 4,995mAh and the original capacity is 6,700mAh. I am also running make in terminal which has set my fans on and is making my computer lag a bit since it has a lot to install.

Could the issue be the process it using a lot of power?

Edit

Just clicked on my battery in the toolbar while pressing alt and found out it says service battery could this be a reason as well? (the message keeps appearing and disappearing)

reset SMC
 look up how to reset SMC on macbook's without removable battery


Is there an easy way to make Apple Watch chime or tap hourly or more? One of my planned uses of the Apple Watch was to use the Haptic technology to make a discreet tap on the hour and 20 minute marks, to gauge appointment times. But I was dumbfounded to see that Apple has not built any kind of a chime into the Apple Watch!

Does anyone know of an App or strategy that can do that without setting up hundreds of reminder or calendar notifications?

By using the recurring event feature, you can manage them as less than 24 events. iCloud manages this efficiently. If you wish to delete one, you can delete all future events at one time.

Creating a recurring calendar event

Create a calendar event for your first Chime with these settings:

name: Chime
starts: 4:00
ends: 4:01
repeat: Every Day
alert: At time of event

Since there are 24 hours in the day, you will need to create 24 of them for each hour in a single day.

Uncheck that calendar in your Calendar app to hide it so you don't have to see it:

Perfect! Now your calendar still looks nice and clean.

Deleting a Chime

If you want to delete a chime, check the Chime calendar to make it visible again. Select an event and press the Delete key:

Click Delete All in the prompt:

Now your Chime is removed from all future days:

There is an hourly chime app that says it works with Apple Watch, and I am currently looking for one as well, so I'm trying it out. I just installed it, but if you don't already have it it's Diii - hourly chime and custom sound alarm reminder by 推荐精品.  There's a free version, or the paid version is $2.99, which I think is rather steep, but if you have the free version,which  is pretty lame, because you'll only have a limited amount of sounds, which you'll likely hear on your phone  if it's unlocked.  You can't set it to chime on the 20 minute mark though, only on the hour and the half hour.
https://appsto.re/us/q8bS7.i


Is it possible to change the app launched by the Calculator button in iOS 7? iOS 7 introduced the swipe-up Control Center which has a dedicated Calculator button (on iPhone, but not iPad). For those of us who consider the default four-function Calculator app inadequate, is there a way to make that button launch a different calculator app instead?

If applicable, jailbreak answers are valid but I'm looking for a non-jailbreak solution.

No.

These apps would then also accessible from the lock screen which would open a whole can of worms about security. Even the standard Apple apps do have problems with that sometimes, it would be even worse with 3rd party apps.

You can't change the button but... Open the calculator then turn your phone sideways to landscape view. Voila, scientific calculator!


Vertical colored lines on broken screen -- is it just my screen? I cracked my iPhone 5S screen on pavement. It's currently not covered under AppleCare. I'm wondering, though, if it's worth it to take this to one of those companies that replace broken screens. From what I know, they just replace the glass -- am I wrong in thinking that it's not just the glass that's broken here?

The glass and screen are fused together at the factory. Replacement kits, such as those sold by iFixit, include the glass, LCD/digitizer (screen), and other parts. Cell phone repair stores/kiosks use this same type of thing when repairing devices.

It's possible that additional parts inside the device were damaged, but it's also just as possible (and probably more likely) that the screen is simply too heavily damaged to display anything.

Also of note - Apple will fix a broken screen for $129 out of warranty, so keep that in mind when comparing prices if you move forward with repairs.

well for me that happened and i dropped it again after the lines showed up and it got a little bit better but still is kind of bad


Finder Replacements? Since it appears to be impossible to disable the creation of .DS_Store files in Finder I'd like to know of alternatives to Finder.

Ideally this would be a Community Wiki with one piece of software per answer and a description of the software with instructions for installing would be great.

Possible duplication:  Are there any free alternatives to the finder.  (Note that one non-free alternative is discussed as well.)

I don't know if any of the alternatives mentioned there help you evade the metadata issue.

Go for quicksilver @ http://www.blacktree.com/.
This might be what you want.


ios Photo never finish upload after switching app At the bottom of 'Photos' in my photo app, there is some status text that says

35555 Photos, 2152 videos, 1 item
Uploading 244 Photos (12.1MB of 389.3MB)

The upload starts when the Photo is running in the foreground.

However if I switched to another app and back, the uploading line will become:

Uploading 244 Photos (0MB of 389.3MB)

and slowing climbing back to the previous high watermark.

I think these 244 photos are waiting for upload for at least a week now (since I last take note of the text)

How can I make the Photo app to continue even though it is running in the background?

I have to run the photo in the foreground, connect the iphone to power and let it run for the whole night. The message is finally gone in the morning.

However now the message has become "Uploading 38,160 items". It is attempting to re-upload everything from my iphone. My older photo are not accessible now (a exclamation icon is shown on the lower right corner on all my older photo)

There must be a more serious problem with icloud.

You mean Google Photos, right?

If so, I would recommend to restart your iPhone, click on the Photo app and let it upload remain pictures & video.


Is there a way to capture part of a screen in full screen mode? I am playing a game that's called Bookworm on the Mac, and it runs in full screen mode.

If I press ⇧ shift+⌘ cmd+4 to capture part of the screen, it won't work.  Usually, I can press space and click to capture the whole window, but that doesn't work, either.

⇧ shift+⌘ cmd+3 works to capture the whole screen, but I'd like to find out how to take a partial screenshot.

Just use commandshift4 as usual. It just won't display its color overlay for the selection frame. The crosshair cursor should still show up and the screenshot should still be of the selected area.

Check SnappyApp - is a very useful tool for screenshots for Mac OS, more powerful than the system screen capture functionality and it's free.


How can I restore photos and videos from an iPhone back up? How can I get my photos and videos that were backed up from my iPhone 5 onto my iPhone 6?

Use your iCloud ID or send via Bluetooth coppy your file ent back up and go to settings choose erase all content restart your phone login your ICloud ID restore it .


Disable Esc shortcut to quit Fullscreen Some apps (Safari, iTunes...) quits fullscreen mode on Esc keyboard shortcut. Is there a way to disable it? It interferes e. g. with web apps control resulting in unintentional quitting fullscreen when you just hit one more Escape than you should.

Good question. Before browser makers figured out cmd-q was awfully dangerous without at least a prompt that the user really wants to close 60 tabs, I always changed the keyboard shortcut for the Quit command on my main browser. You can disable shortcuts via Keyboard Shortcuts.

Open System Preferences: Keyboard.
Click Keyboard Shortcuts in the top pill shaped tab.
Click the Applications Shortcuts icon in the left hand column.
Choose Safari from the drop down menu of offered applications (looks like the default list is applications which have been opened in the last  three months).

Enter the exact name of the menu item you wish to disable. In this case "Exit Full Screen".
Add an alternative keyboard shortcut (in this illustration, I added Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-c)

This is what the finished result looks like.

Test (alternative Application Shortcuts do now always work exactly as planned).

You can do the same thing with Keyboard Maestro (and much much more). Apple's feature is probably taken/adopted from Peter N. Lewis's implementation (which existed for many years before Apple came up with the feature in Snow Leopard). In Keyboard Maestro, you can also assign the same shortcut to multiple applications. In Keyboard Maestro, you can also take over keyboard commands which do not have menu items (complex applications like Photoshop come to mind: there are so many commands that many of the commands have no menu equivalent). It's also easier to move these preferences around from computer to computer if you are using Keyboard Maestro.

On the other hand the Apple version exists on all Macs past 10.6.8, including your less technical girlfriend's MacBook Pro. I use both depending on whether I want a quick fix or if I'm building permanent tools/shortcuts for an application I use professionally on multiple computers. Keyboard Maestro does far more than just substitute keyboard shortcuts: you can write sequential macros with pauses to automate what would otherwise be five or ten keypress and click type actions, i.e. redirecting, address and send email to someone else in the company with a single keyboard command.

To avoid the situation when the whole app quits fullscreen mode when you accidentally hit ESC twice you can learn to use a different key.

Cmd-. will quit web apps that are in fullscreen (e.g. YouTube) but will not perform any undesirable actions when used twice.


Is there no such thing as Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac OS X? This is my first Mac and I'm wondering: is there no Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac OS X?

I am a web developer and I need IE (not really lol) but so as I Google it, I see some questionable websites coming up on my Google search but none of them the actual Microsoft site.

My main reason is that I need it for browser testing and whatnot and so I see Firefox, Chrome, Safari obviously, but no IE.

So the question is: is there/where do I get Internet Explorer for Mac?

Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac is not available for the latest OS X versions (beyond OS X 10.4) as it was effectively replaced by Safari in 2003. As the Wikipedia page for Internet Explorer for Mac explains:

  As a result of the five-year agreement between Apple and Microsoft in
  1997, it was the default browser on Mac OS and Mac OS X from 1998
  until it was replaced by Apple's own Safari web browser in 2003.

  On June 13, 2003, Microsoft announced that it was ceasing further
  development of Internet Explorer for Mac and the final update was
  released on July 11, 2003. The browser was not included in the default
  installation of Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" which was released on April 29,
  2005. Microsoft discontinued support for the product on December 31, 2005 and removed the application from their Macintosh downloads site
  on January 31, 2006. Microsoft recommends "that users migrate to more
  recent web browsing technologies such as Apple's Safari."

Your best bet is to download the Windows version of IE and run it in a Virtual Machine (using something like VMware Fusion or Virtual Box).

Alternatively, the OSXDaily article on Internet Explorer for Mac the Easy Way: Run IE 7, IE8, & IE9 Free in a Virtual Machine describes a way to do this (I've not used it myself, but this does appear to circumvent the Windows 30-day trial period by using snapshots and possibly to comply with the EULA you should purchase a Windows licence and use that in a VM with a downloaded version of IE, as above, instead):

  We’re going to walk you through how to install Internet Explorer 7, 8,
  or 9 in a virtual machine running Windows, directly in Mac OS X – for
  free. This is achieved by using the freely available VirtualBox
  software from Oracle, and combining that with free Internet Explorer
  testing virtual machines from Microsoft, the trick is converting these
  free IE vm’s so that they work flawlessly under OS X (or Linux,
  technically), and that is all handled automatically with this method.

Some useful information to you may also be the 'develop menu' that can be unlocked inside Safari.

Display the Develop Menu In Safari

Launch Safari, located at /Applications/Safari.
Open Safari’s Preferences by selecting ‘Safari, Preferences’ from the menu.
Click the ‘Advanced’ tab labeled.
Place a check mark next to ‘Show Develop menu in menu bar.’

  The Develop menu is particularly handy for web developers, but casual users may also find the first two items extremely helpful in their daily browsing. The ‘Open Page With’ menu item lets you select any installed browser to reopen an open web page from within Safari. The ‘User Agent’ menu item lets you see how an open web page looks in a variety of Mac and Windows browsers and versions.

Hope that helps


tlsv1 alert protocol version when connecting via SSL to OS X Server How can I re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.0 on server 5.3 with macOS 10.12.4 in the short term while I evaluate all the clients that aren't ready for TLS 1.2?

If you jump to the bottom, attempts to change comfiguration files have failed so far to restore backwards compatibility

SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1 +TLSv1.1 +TLSv1.2

After having updated our server to macOS 12.4 and the Server app to version 5.3, using curl to connect to a macOS server https site from a Linux machine ceased to work, issuing the following messages on the client side:

$ curl -v --insecure -o "output.file" https://myserver.domain/path/page.php
* About to connect() to myserver.domain port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 192.168.xxx.xxx... connected
* Connected to myserver.domain (192.168.xxx.xxx) port 443 (#0)
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*   CAfile: none
  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs/
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
} [data not shown]
* error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version
* Closing connection #0

The connection worked well before the update of the macOS server. So it seems that the update switched off a connection option which curl relies on. I googled a lot, but I am still uncertain about what exactly the cause is.

The same curlcommand works when issued from another Mac. The linux machine has

$ curl --version
curl 7.19.0 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8h zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.10
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap http file https ftps
Features: GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz

while on the Mac client

$ curl --version
curl 7.51.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.0) libcurl/7.51.0 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.8
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz UnixSockets

Unfortunately, it is not an option to try updating curlon the Linux machine.

Some resources claim incompatible cipher suites to be the cause, but after some testing, I haven't been able to find a solution using the --ciphers option, and also I am not sure how to find a compatible cipher suite.

I have tried to find out what changed with macOS Server 5.3, but the Apple change log does not give me any hint about it. So the question is:

What has changed in macOS 12.4 and/or macOS Server 5.3 and how can I re-configure my macOS server so the curlconnection works again?

Update 1:

I have temporarily exposed port 443 to the public, so I could perform the SSL Labs tests. The results show that my macOS server supports only TLS 1.2 and nothing else any more. For several simulated clients, the test report Server sent fatal alert: protocol_version - including, for example, IE8-10/Win7 and Java7u25.

I have tried to reactivate TLS 1 and 1.1 in

/library/server/web/config/apache2/sites/0000_127.0.0.1_34543_myserver.domain.conf
/library/server/web/config/apache2/httpd.conf
/library/server/web/config/apache2/httpd_server_app.conf
/library/server/web/config/proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf (multiple instances here)

changing

SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1.2

into

SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1 +TLSv1.1 +TLSv1.2

or even

SSLProtocol All

but it did not make a difference when fetching the URL with curl.

Update 2:

The service proxy error log shows

[datetime] [ssl:info] [pid n] [client x.x.x.x:38805] AH02008: SSL library error 1 in handshake (server myserver.domain:443)
[datetime] [ssl:info] [pid n] SSL Library Error: error:1408A10B:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:wrong version number
[datetime] [ssl:info] [pid n] [client x.x.x.x:38805] AH01998: Connection closed to child 11 with abortive shutdown (server myserver.domain:443)

To me, it looks as if my attempts to activate TLS v1 do not work.

So the question is: How can I reactivate TLS v1 in macOS Server Apache?

curl 7.19.0 ... OpenSSL/0.9.8h

This is a very old (and unsupported) version of OpenSSL you are using here which has no support for modern protocols like TLS 1.2 and modern ECDHE ciphers. Chances are high that after the upgrade your server now requires such protocol and/or cipher and thus connecting with your old OpenSSL version will fail.

  * SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):

This might also indicate that your client is trying to use SSL 3.0, which is usually disabled today because it is an insecure protocol. You might try to enforce to use TLS 1.0 (which is supported by OpenSSL 0.9.8) by using curl -1 or curl --tls1 in the hope that the server still supports TLS 1.0 and has ciphers configured to be usable by the old OpenSSL version.

I also need to enable TLS 1.1 on Sienna Server 5.3
There are a few emails that aren't getting through due to it.

/library/server/web/config/apache2/sites/0000_127.0.0.1_34543_myserver.domain.conf

/library/server/web/config/apache2/httpd.conf
FILE NOT ON MY SERVER

/library/server/web/config/apache2/httpd_server_app.conf
editing (in bold) and restarting did nothing

  IfModule mod_ssl.c
  SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1.1 +TLSv1.2  --DIDNT WORK
  SSLProtocol All  --DIDNT WORK

/library/server/web/config/proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf (multiple instances here)

sorry I'm not using this right, but hopefully when I am done it will be an actual answer


Remove locations from list in Reminders app I am trying to remove the locations listed in my Reminders app on my iPhone 5c (iOS 8.2). I have several that I no longer use/need but cannot work out how to delete them? I have the 'home' one and that's the one I use the most.

I have removed locations within the Maps App thinking this may help, but to no avail. Can anyone suggest another method?

Try this:

On your iPhone, open the Reminders app.
Select the "Home" reminder list.
Tap "Edit".
At the bottom of the list, tap "Delete List".


Devices not showing up for AirDrop I have

iPhone 5 (with iOS 8.3)
MacBook Pro Early 2013 (with OS X Yosemite 10.10.3)
iPad Air (with iOS 8.3)

My iPhone is paired with the MacBook, so e.g when my phone rings, I can see it in my computer. But when I want to AirDrop photos from my iPhone the MacBook, then I can't see the MacBook in my iPhone AirDrop targets.

I can see the iPad, I can see my wife's iPhone, but not the MacBook.

On MacBook, I can see the iPad, my wife's phone and even my iPhone and I can drop to there, but not the other way around.

Before I started troubleshooting, the iPhone and MacBook were mutually invisible (I only saw iPad from both). After a while of trying things and sending files back and forth, my MacBook started to see the iPhone, but I did not manage to make it work from the other way. Still, the iPhone seems to be much "less" visible than the iPad - which I see almost instantly and always, the iPhone only seems to appear after a while.

Just to make it clear:

both iPhone and MBP have BT turned on
both have AirDrop visibility set to Everyone

I would be glad for any suggestions to fix this - what settings to check, logs, whatever.

Steps 3 and 4 are the trick!

Similar issue:

Can send file from MBP to iPad.
Can not see MBP on iPad* airdrop screen.

Fix that worked for me:

On iPad: turn on Wifi, Bluetooth and AirDrop (share with Everyone)
On Mac: turn on Wifi, Bluetooth and AirDrop (share with Everyone), then try to share the file(s) on AirDrop
On Mac: Bluetooth > Browse files on Device; select Jeff's iPad, then 'Browse'; notice it connects, but then it drops right after with the message "The device does not have the necessary services" and
On iPad: observe that 'Mike's MacBook Pro' shows on AirDrop
MBP', despite of the error (another error message might be shown under the MBP's name)
On iPad: send pictures/videos to Mac.
[extra] On iPad and MBP: for security reasons, turn off AirDrop (and maybe Bluetooth too) once you're done!

*Obs: it should work on iPhone too;  I upvoted this answer since it helped me to find this solution .

try to remove the stealth mode on your firewall settings and uncheck the block all incoming connections in that same window on top. it should work then


Disk Utility won't allow me to delete and resize partitions I'm running OS X 10.9, and I had a linux partition when I updated from 10.8. Since I updated I can't boot on linux, which is no big deal for me. However, I would like to delete the partition that is left (Linux swap) and merge the free space that was created during the update with my mac partition.

But Disk Utility won't let me delete the Linux Swap and it won't let me change the number of partitions. I'm stuck with this configuration:

I haven't found a solution for this issue browsing the web and I don't want to "break" my disk, so thanks for your help!

i would try this:

first boot up you mac with a linux live cd.
then use gparted to remove those un needed partitions. (without resizing just delete what you don't need anymore).

now reboot into os x and now you schould be able to resize the os x partition case there is only free space no other partition formats wich os x can't handle.

"erase" the disk as MSDOS then you can delete it.


How do I lock the screen using a keyboard shortcut on OS X Mountain Lion with a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000? Title says it all: how do I lock the screen using a keyboard shortcut on OS X Mountain Lion with a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000?

You do not need to use Third Party Apps to set a global short cut.
You can use Automator Services,System Preferences keyboard Shortcuts and the CGSession -suspend command that switches to a login screen.

Use the Applescript :

do shell script "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend"

in a Automator 'Service' like this with the set up as no input and all applications.

Save it and then go to the Keyboard System Preferences. -> Keyboard Shortcuts tab.  Select Services on the right. And scroll down to the bottom on the left to 'General'. There you will see your service. Click the addShortCut. And give the service a shortcut. Clost system prefs.

You may need to quit some apps and re open them first for them to pick up the short cut for the first time. You can see the ones that have already picked it up..

Now try the shortcut from the keyboard.

There's a little app which does the trick — http://keylock.io


Can Library folder on iMac be moved to iCloud Drive? My disk in my iMac, High Sierra is about full. The biggest culprit by far is the /User/myname/Library folder which is taking up 96 GB. Since I have over 100 GB of icloud storage could I move the Library folder to the icloud drive and create a link? How do I do that so iMac still can access the Library.  If this is a stupid question I apologize.

OmniDiskSweeper says ~/Library is 73.9 GB. Don't know where the other 22 GB went.  From OmniDisksweeper the storage hogs in ~/Library are:

Application Support - 20 GB with MobileSync being the major player
Containers - 18 GB  with com.apple.mail being the major player
Mobile Documents - 18 GB with com~apple~CloudDocs being the hog.

No.

Firstly, relying on an internet connection to access preferences, caches, and other system/user 'working' files is likely to be problematic. As mentioned in the comments, iCloud is handled locally by a folder in the user Library, so having this itself in iCloud might be confusingly recursive.

It's worth checking whether all of that 96 Gb is necessary: it may include iPhone or iPad backups, which are frequent culprits for taking up space. Use an app like OmniDiskSweeper to search the library, sorted by size. That will show you what is taking the space, and you can then make a decision about whether it can be moved or deleted.

The only way to do this would be to disable SIP first.

And then when you reboot into normal mode, you'll find a lot of things broken.

But there are probably things in ~/Library that can be deleted.  How to know what's safe to delete is too complicated to put here.


Slight delay when bringing up spotlight since booting from an external drive I copied all my data to an external hard drive and used that as my main hard drive for a few days. After that I noticed a slight delay when bringing up spotlight, so that when I search for "Safari", it searches for "fari" instead, as I am used to being able to start typing close to instantly.

I just associated that with the fact that booting from an external drive is slower, however, even now when I have copied the data back to my internal drive and boot from that, the delay persists. I have reindexed my drive twice.

The problem also exists on the Guest user and my other user, so the problem does not have anything to do with my user/home folder. I am on macOS Mojave 10.14.3.

EDIT: Even after updating to 10.14.4, the problem still exists.

EDIT: Also on 10.14.6

Note: I can't take credit for these solutions, however a few of them have worked for me in the past.

Solution #1: Kill SystemUIServer

Launch ‘Activity Monitor’ (located in /Applications/Utilities/)
Locate the process ‘SystemUIServer’, highlight it, and click the red button “Quit Process”
Within a few seconds the menubar will rebuild itself and often Spotlight will magically work

Solution #2: Rebuild the Spotlight Index manually

Launch ‘Terminal’ (located in /Applications/Utilities/)
At the command prompt, type this exactly:
sudo mdutil -E /
You will be asked for your password, provide it, as this command requires administrator privelages to run
You will receive a confirmation message saying that index will be rebuilt
Wait until index is finished rebuilding, this can take a while depending on the size of your hard drive, amount of files, etc.
Note: You can also rebuild the Spotlight index with MainMenu, mentioned in Solution #4

Solution #3: Change Desktop Resolution

This is a strange fix but it works everytime for me when my Spotlight menu icon highlights but the search form doesn’t appear
Open “System Preferences” via the Apple Menu
Click ‘Displays’ and select a resolution smaller than what you are currently using, 640×480 seems to always work
Select your native resolution again, changing your screen resolution back to normal
The Spotlight search tray will magically become available again

Solution #4: Clear caches and preferences

Clear caches and preferences relating to Spotlight, this is best done through either the free tool OnyX, or the free tool MainMenu, I recommend MainMenu because it’s easier for novices

Note: Some users discover that just cleaning the Font caches is adequate to repair a screwy Spotlight, but it won’t hurt to clear them all

Solution #5: Reboot your Mac

This should almost be listed as #1 just because sometimes a simple reboot will fix Spotlight, but if I can avoid a reboot I will, and often, a reboot isn’t good enough
What do MDS and MDWorker have to do with Spotlight?
The MDS process and mdworker processes usually run concurrently on your Mac when Spotlight is indexing your Mac. Let the processes finish running to complete a relevant search index of your Mac filesystem.

Here's a simple solution that I believe will remove the dramatic pauses you're experiencing.

In System Preferences, go to Spotlight, then select the Privacy tab and add (+) the external drive's name to the list of locations that Spotlight will be -prevented- from scanning.

Then wait for a minute and do a system restart from the Apple menu.

When it comes back up, I'm betting that all will be well.

I'm guessing that the root cause for the pauses is Spotlight checking for the existence of the external drive's own index before it begins showing results from your searches.


Can I hide purchased music from the Music app in iOS 10? At some point or another, I bought some albums on iTunes. In some cases, I've also ripped these CDs and imported them into iTunes. In older versions of iOS, I could hide purchased music from the Music app, but now that purchased music shows up, leading to duplicates like this:

Is there a way to hide purchased music in iOS 10?

This Apple Support page describes how to hide/unhide purchased music.

  Hide your purchases

  You can hide music, movies, TV shows and apps in iTunes on your Mac or PC. You can hide books in iBooks on a Mac or iTunes for Windows on a PC.

  To hide purchases on an Apple TV, use the iTunes steps.

  You can hide apps in the App Store on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch if you use Family Sharing.

  In iTunes

  Open iTunes.
  If you’re not signed in, sign in with your Apple ID.
  From the menu bar at the top of your computer screen or at the top of the iTunes window, choose Account > Purchased. If you use Family Sharing, choose Account > Family Purchases.

  If you’re using Windows and can’t see the menu bar, learn how to turn it on.
  Depending on what you want to hide, click Music, Movies, TV Shows, Apps, or Audiobooks at the top of the window, then click All. All of your purchased items appear.
  Scroll to find the item that you want to hide. Hold your pointer over the item and look for the x icon  in the upper-left corner. Click the   icon.

  When prompted to confirm that you want to hide the item, click Hide. The item hides.

any of above ways doesnt work for me. The only solution for me is just sign out your itunes account in you iphone (settings > itunes & app > tap your account then sign out


X takes a long time to load under Lion I recently upgraded to Lion.  X now takes a couple of minutes to load.  Anybody know what to change to make this go faster?

As per the Lion technical specifications, there must be at least 2GB of RAM. Do u have ?
If yes, then there may be some other unnecessary applications using the resources of OS. These must be either stopped or removed from your Mac.

To keep your Mac clean and remove unnecessary data, you can use Stellar Speed Up Mac software.

Please make sure you have enough free space in your disk.


Migrate Google Authenticator to new iPhone 7 Just got a new iPhone 7, but when it restored it lost all my Google Authenticator two factor auth codes. I still have them all in my old phone, how can I port them to my new iPhone 7?

This is quite frustrating.

First, two things.

Keep your backup codes
Keep your old phone

From what I have found, you will need to use the "change" option on each of your 2-step verification enabled apps/sites. This will most likely require you to log into each account using your current 2-step verification process first (hence the use of backup codes or your old phone).

If you have trouble transferring the authenticator application over, try the following tutorial.
https://www.brianckeegan.com/2016/09/how-to-transfer-googles-2-factor-authentication-to-a-new-iphone/

I was in the same situation when I was upgrading from iPhone 6 to iPhone 6s. Unfortunately, I can't tie all of those to my google account and sign in on the new device. Even if you plug in you're iPhone via iTunes and make a back up, then restore the back up, it will not carry the data to you're new device.

You have to manually re-add them to you're new device.

Since then, I stop using Google Authenticator and tried Authy. I like every single aspect of it.


Does iOS 4.2 improve performance on the iPhone 3G? I've "inherited" an iPhone 3G from a friend who upgraded to iPhone 4. He had complined about the slowness of iOS 4. Although I personally have no problems with it, I was wondering if iOS 4.2 offers any noticeable performance improvement. Does iOS 4.2 improve performance on the iPhone 3G?

From the iLounge article

  Thus far iOS 4.2 appears to perform as
  well as iOS 4.1 did under similar
  conditions. Performance even on older
  devices such as the iPhone 3G is the
  same as iOS 4.1 and thus far we
  haven’t observed any significant
  changes in battery life.

My wife's 3GS which has 3.1.3 runs much faster than my 3GS with 4.3.5(BL1). However I cannot backup her unit in newly purchased MacBook Pro with Lion, but I can backup mine. I see it as Apple's way to force us to upgrade to their latest iOS even if that means to sacrifice performance. I don't like that at all, therefore I chose to backup 3.1.3 to a WinXP machine.


How to change mc (midnight command) bash prompt on OS X? I observed that my custom bash prompt does not work on mc. How do I customize it?

The issue is that .bash_login files are only read when bash is run as the login shell. mc probably just calls a new shell which will read its startup from ~/.bashrc See bash documentation for details.

To make the shell run in a common way it is often suggested that you call .bashrc from .bash_login e.g.

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
   source ~/.bashrc
fi

Read the INVOCATION section of the man page, it's there for a reason.  MC is most likely not launching a login shell and you are only configuring your prompt for login shells.


I can't change country/region of my Apple account! I can't change country/region of my Apple account. The steps I followed:

Tap on the App Store icon in your home screen
Tap on featured on the bottom left corner of screeen
Scroll all the way to the bottom where your Apple ID info is
Tap View Apple ID, you may have to enter your password
Once the page loads change your country/region

I do not seem to have the option to change country/region, it is there it is shown but I can't select and change it. It happens both on my iPhone and on my PC application of iTunes.

Is there any other way I can change it?

Go to https://appleid.apple.com/#!&page=signin

Login with your Apple ID
Enter your security answer if asked for
It will open a page with account settings
Click edit on first section where your address is shown
Modify your address and click Done

Vola... Your country is changed in Apple ID :) enjoy

Login to another iCloud acc and then log back in. It will set it to its default country unless the other account had the same country.


2018 Mac Mini 4k Scaling issue I just bought a 2018 Mac Mini (3.2 GHz i7) and three 4k monitors (one 32 inch and two 27 inch). The setup is great, but there is one flaw. 4k is too small! This is a common complaint and while Apple lets you scale them to a more usable size, there must be a lot of graphical interpolation going on as the scaling is not 1:1. So when I scale my monitors, everything is much more readable, but when I type, the characters are delayed when being written on the screen. It’s as if it is lagging behind and can’t keep up drawing the letters as I type them.

So my question is, if I got an eGPU, and connected all my monitors to that, would it solve this problem?

Bonus points, does anyone have an eGPU set up they recommend or have had success with? My guess is I don’t need much power as I am an Android developer (but still use iPhone because it’s just better…), and all I want it to be able to type smoothly again.

If you had a larger monitor, the problem would go away. I also have a 2018 Mac Mini. I am using a 49" 4K TV as a monitor. There's no scaling going on, and it looks great. The TV is a TCL brand. Maybe the 49" size is a bit extreme -- I guess the 43" model might be better for most people. But, text is large enough without any scaling, and typing is responsive. The display is 3840x2160, and the Mac thinks it is driving a 36-inch display.

I'm driving the TV using HDMI. The MacMini only has one HDMI port, so if you want three of them, you'll need some adapters.

Figuring out where to put three 40-something inch monitors where you can see them all is another problem, I guess.


El Capitan incompatible with Mad Catz Editor I upgraded my Macbook Pro to OSX 10.11 El Capitan but sadly the mapping software for my Mad Catz Mouse (M.M.O.7) does not start anymore.

Crash Report

Process:               editor [33209]
Path:                  /Applications/Mad Catz Editor.app/Contents/MacOS/editor
Identifier:            com.madcatz.MadCatz.editor
Version:               1.0 (1.1.69)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           editor [33209]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2015-10-07 13:41:42.846 +0200
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.11 (15A284)
Report Version:        11
Anonymous UUID:        8B5B6605-7448-4DDA-627C-11145BEF80FE

Sleep/Wake UUID:       4D337680-5145-4CF7-B785-93E78B39BE4D

Time Awake Since Boot: 100000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       17000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[MCProfile profile]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x10042c350'
abort() called
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException

Application Specific Backtrace 1:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8b3a7bd2 __exceptionPreprocess + 178
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff866ac4fa objc_exception_throw + 48
2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8b4110ed -[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 205
3   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8b3183d1 ___forwarding___ + 1009
4   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8b317f58 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 120
5   MCDeviceLib.dylib                   0x0000000100041587 -[MCProfile checkName] + 119

The result is that I have a lot of hovering problem (hover event does not fire anymore) and shortcuts macros do not work at all.

Does anyone have a workaround ?

I contacted the Mad Catz team via Facebook and Twitter 2 days ago and I still have no answer.

I'm having the same issue, in a chat with Madcatz support they stated to come up with a new driver by end of this year - still a bit to suffer unfortunately.

Installing USB overdrive and controller mate are too much for me to achieve a little bump in functionality.

You asked for a workaround and I am giving you a WORKING workaround

Uninstall Mad Catz Editor
Install USB Drive (I am not sure if this step is optional)
Disable everything in USB Drive
Click on Status, see Mad Catz R.A.T.9 Wireless Mouse in the list of currently handled by the USB Overdrive window
Launch Controller Mate. See how you can know remap the wheel (favorite thing about the mouse!) to anything you want.

I have the wheel remapped to zoom in/out, and the side buttons to Volume Up/Down


Process was killed -- why? How can I find out? I have written a computer program in C++, compiled it and ran it within terminal using the command line. This program has run fine many times, but it appears that whenever its accumulated CPU time exceeds 60 minutes (which occurs after about 9 minutes as it runs at ~700% on eight threads) it is killed by the run-time system (at least that is suggested by monitoring it using top).

There is no error or other message, but merely the word "Killed" printed to the command line:

MacBook-Pro-8:~/directory> ./program_name options
Killed

Is there a limit on the accumulated CPU time for such processes? How can I find out what killed my process? How can I avoid this?

Following the suggestion to run this in a debugger, here is the result:

Process 90937 stopped
* thread #1, queue = 'com.apple.main-thread', stop reason = signal SIGKILL
frame #0: 0x000000010001fc50 captureISO`tbb::interface9::internal::start_for<WDutils::Parallel::details::blocked_range_terminating<unsigned long>, (anonymous namespace)::simulations::sampleSome(bool)::$_2, tbb::auto_partitioner const>::run_body(WDutils::Parallel::details::blocked_range_terminating<unsigned long>&) [inlined] tbb::concurrent_vector<(anonymous namespace)::simulations::initialCondition, tbb::cache_aligned_allocator<(anonymous namespace)::simulations::initialCondition> >::push_back(this=0x00007fff5fbfebd0)::simulations::initialCondition const&) at concurrent_vector.h:846 [opt]
   843      iterator push_back( const_reference item )
   844      {
   845          push_back_helper prolog(*this);
-> 846          new(prolog.internal_push_back_result()) T(item);
   847          return prolog.return_iterator_and_dismiss();
   848      }
   849

Thus, the error occurred within tbb_concurrent_vector.h in a call to placement new, suggesting a lack of memory. Though I'm still mystified why this should result in a kill signal. But this appears off topic here. I have asked on Stack Overflow.

In general there’s no limit on accumulated CPU time for processes on macOS.

It seems likely that your program stopped due to issues such as bugs in the program, lack of memory, or similar. In order to find out what happened, try starting your program in the debugger and look at the backtrace.

In addition you should replace the signal handler in the program with one, that prints out which signal it receives. You could potentially also change the program not to kill itself when receiving the signal, but instead do something - like for example freeing up memory. It depends on the signal you’re receiving whether or not it can be ignored.

Here I put the final solution. I tried many, the best method is reinstall brew.
Step1:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall.sh)"

Step2:
Install homebrew
cd /opt
mkdir homebrew # if not exist, just create one.
curl -L https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C homebrew

Then, problem solved.


How to disable Finder's "is available on your computer" message I've set up an SSH tunnel to SMB on a remote Windows server, and want to access it using the Finder.  I set up the tunnel using the command:

ssh warren@sshserver.local -p 3484 -L 1445:windowsserver:445

(445 is the default Windows file sharing port, which I haven't changed.  My SSH server is configured to use port 3484 instead of 22).

The tunnel sets up all fine and dandy.  Then, in Finder, I click "Go -> Connect to Server," enter "smb://localhost:1445" and hit return.  I immediately get the error "The server 'localhost' is available on your computer.  Access the volumes and files locally."  Except, of course, that's a dirty lie, since localhost:1445 is a tunnel, not the ultimate destination.

Is there any way to suppress this behavior and force Finder to actually connect to the tunnel despite the fact that it has "localhost" in the name?

You should be able to mount the server from the command line with mount_smb:

mkdir /Volumes/sharename
mount_smbfs //smbusername@localhost:1445/sharename /Volumes/sharename

I'd make a symlink for this. Link the smb:// address to a local folder, so you can go into that folder and see what's on the share. I haven't used symlinks for this specific purpose, but I think they should work. Interested in hearing if they do.


Send an email as an attachment from iPhone This may be the most easy question to answer but I have struggled for few days now to get a proper view on how to achieve attaching an email on another email in iPhone 7.

I am a new iPhone user and would like to achieve

Attach existing email onto new email
Attach existing email to a reply/forward email

Is this at all possible?

While you still can't attach emails from the Mail app in iOS 11 on iPhones, you can now drag and drop emails onto an email draft that you're editing on iPads that are running iOS 11 (so far I've tested on an iPad Pro 10.5 and an iPad 5th Gen running 11.2.1).

Create a new email (or forward or reply to an existing email)
Swipe down on the email title bar (where it says "New Message" or the subject line) - you should now be able to interact with Mail again
Tap and hold on the email in your inbox list that you want to attach (it will appear to pop up)
Drag that email to the title bar of the draft email at the bottom of the screen until the edit window pops back open
Continue to drag that email to the body section of the email draft and a green circle with a plus sign will appear on the email that you're dragging
Drop/release into the body of the email you're editing - you should now see a .eml file attached

Hopefully this means there's hope this will come to iPhones in the future!

You can take a screenshot of the original email. This will save in Photos. You can then attach it to the new email.


Why doesn't my MacBook recognize my USB keyboard when it wakes from sleep? I have 13-inch, early 2008 MacBook running OS X 10.7.3, and recently, the trackpad started developing some problems, so I attached an external keyboard and mouse.

It works great, except that when the computer wakes up from sleep, about 50% of the time the keyboard is unresponsive until I unplug and replug the USB connection. Any idea why this would be?

The keyboard and mouse are attached directly to the computer, not going through any USB hub.

I sometimes have this problem with my built-in keyboard (and trackpad).  It seems to be related to static electricity build-up (in me).  In dry environments prone to static generation (e.g., carpeted offices, fabric-covered chairs, etc.), I always try to ground myself on something (say, a filing cabinet or a metal wall) after I sit down but before I touch the mac.  If I forget and I zap the keyboard when I start to type, there's a very good chance that the keyboard and trackpad will be unresponsive. Based on my recovery action, I'm guessing that the macbook's internal USB controller has sensed the transient voltage spike as an over-current condition and has shut down (suspended) the offending devices on the associated port.

To recover the keyboard and trackpad, I either plug in an external keyboard (or vnc in via an ssh tunnel) and run the USB Prober app (part of the Developers tools, under /Developer/Applications/Utilities).  Inside Prober with the Bus Probe tab selected, I then check Probe suspended devices and hit the Refresh button; my built-in keyboard and trackpad immediately start working again. My assumption is that the probe causes the suspended devices to re-negotiate their bus membership --which, if I remember the USB protocol, means that they are essentially new devices and not subject to the previous suspension -- and lets things go back to normal.

This doesn't happen often enough for me to automate the recovery, but I'm guessing there are associated system events/messages that could be used to drive an applescript-controlled probe.

I seem to have had the same problem (USB keyboard and mouse freeze OS X when being reconnected (MacBook Air)).

I did see an error appearing in the OS utility USB Prober under the USB Logger tab (Level: '7 - Most Detail' and hit the 'Start' button).

The issue has vanished upon upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2).


Blank temperature in iOS 8 Weather app (showing just underscores) Since upgrading to iOS 8 on iPhone, the Weather app will occasionally show a "blank" temperature (using an underscore: _ for each empty digit, so two underscores: __). The blank temperature also appears in Notification Center.

It is like this about 40% of the time. I imagine this doesn't affect everyone, but that it is instead affecting only temperature data for certain cities? Has anyone else experienced this and know how to fix it?

It's been like this ever since iOS 8 first came out on September 17, 2014, and since then I have tried killing the Weather app, restarting my device, etc. and none of those worked.

If the blank temperature is associated with a page that also has a blank city, then the problem might be that you have not allowed the Weather app to "always" access location data.

You can check the setting by going to "Settings" --> "Privacy" --> "Location Services".

on my iphone 6 . ios 10 . I have my privacy > location services > weather > never .

Clear off all cities from widget first. Then go to
settings > cellular > weather > toggle on .
From your home screen swipe right > Go to the weather widget and tap set up weather > enter the name of the city .

After the first city loads > Tap the city name > In the bottom right you can add more cities.

To change the order that the city appear > hold the bottom one and drag it upward


Mid 2014 Macbook Pro Retina 15" monitor daisychain I recently bought 2 Dell U2715H monitors to use in a daisy chain configuration to save on thunderbolt port usage. Everything I read said it would work with my Macbook, but so far I have not had any success.

My specs are: 2.5 GHz i7, 16GB DDR3 memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB for graphics.

The first monitor is connected to my laptop via mini-dp to display port in of the first monitor. The second monitor is connected from display port out on the first monitor into the mini-dp in port.

I have enabled DP 1.2 on the first monitor, but I'm not sure if it should be on for the second. I did try it in both configurations but neither worked.

Based on the support pages I've read, my Macbook has DP1.2 support via Thunderbolt 2 and MST was allowed in update 10.10.3 (I'm on 10.10.5). My graphics card can handle this setup based on my research. Am I missing anything obvious?

All I get is a blank screen on both monitors.

Should I try updating to El Capitan?

MBP.MiniDisplayOut > Monitor1.DisplayPortIn > Monitor1.DisplayPortOut > Monitor2.DisplayPortIn

NOT:  -> Monitor2.MiniDisplayPortIn

Manual HERE, page 25


How can I type a backtick (accent grave or "`") on a European (Dutch) keyboard? How can I type a backtick (accent grave, or "`") on an European (Dutch) apple keyboard ?

According to this image from Apple's KB article, it appears to be between the Z and shift.


Typing into Safari on iPad extremely slow We have an iPad mini 2 running iOS 9. Ever since upgrading, any text field in Safari is painfully slow, generally taking 2 to 4 seconds before responding, and then doing so in fits and jerks. This does not appear to happen anywhere else that I have seen.

I'd like to fix this, but I'm not sure where to start. There do not appear to be any Safari extensions, so it seems to have something with the Safari install itself. Is there any way to do a clean re-install Safari.

If you are only running iOS 9 or 9.1, upgrade to the latest version, iOS 9.2.1. This version improved performance on older devices. If you do happen to be running this version, I would suggest restoring the device and not restoring from a backup such as iCloud or iTunes.

Go to settings>safari and uncheck open new tabs in background. Sorted.


How do I download Youtube videos for offline viewing on an iOS device? I have just tried 28 different apps that claim to download youtube videos for offline viewing/listening, including Instapaper and Pocket.

None of them do it; they all expect there to be an internet connection.

Is there just .... 1 app .... that works?

YouTube currently offers this within their app if you pay the premium of $9.99 USD per month for what they call YouTube Red

Key Features according to their marketing is:

YouTube Music
Ad free & offline video
Orginal Shows

As pointed out, this is for macOS, not iOS...

Recently I have had good results with Bigasoft Video Downloader ... the non-"pro" free version works great (but cannot download multiple videos unattended)


How do I turn off push notifications without turning off notifications in iOS 6? I want to turn off push notifications for a single app (Skype, in this case) because I accidentally said "Yes" when it prompted me to receive push notifications.

I do not want to turn off notifications.  When I have Skype open, I want to receive notifications.  When Skype is closed, I do not want to receive notifications.  My understanding is that push notifications are the type that come when the app is closed.

How can I do this?

Update - clarification

I want to receive notifications from Skype, but only when Skype is running.

Go to Settings > Notifications. Scroll down until you find Skype and tap on it. Then you'll be able to set the notification settings for that app without turning notifications off entirely.

I found the answer here: How to turn off push notifications


Install Tiger in VMware Fusion I've got 10.6 running on a 2006 MacBook Pro.  I want to run some older software that was meant for 10.4 and earlier, so I figured I'd install Tiger in VMware Fusion, but it isn't working.  Any idea how I'd go about it?

What I've tried:
When creating a new VM, there's no option for Tiger.  It only offers 10.5 server and 10.6 server.  I tried using the 10.5 server option with a Tiger disk image, but with no luck: gives me this error:

  Mac OS X is not supported with software virtualization.
  To run Mac OS X you need a host on which VMware Fusion supports hardware virtualization.

Any thoughts?

This article references VMware Workstation 6 as being able to run OS X with some hacks, but it's slow. But more importantly, that article runs down what I thought was the only known solution to running OS X in a VM: VirtualBox. So you aren't going to be able to do this with Fusion, but you can do it with VirtualBox.

Also: Apple does allow virtualization of OS X Server (check the date on that article - circa 2007). It honestly wouldn't stand much of a chance in the big, corporate IT world if it couldn't be legally virtualized these days.

You are not allowed to run Mac OS in a VM (check the license). :)


How to transfer screenshots from iPhone to OS X? I dont' want it done automatically, I just want to get a bunch of screenshots from the phone to the Mac (OS X El Capitan). I plug in the phone but only iTunes starts up and I can't find any photos in it.

Connect your iPhone to your Mac via with the lightning cable
Open Image Capture app
Select your iPhone under on the left sidebar

You can now select all the screenshots taken on your iPhone and import to your Mac.

Select picture on iPhone -> Export icon (box with arrow pointing out) -> Scroll through options where to send (ex. email or google drive)


Iphone 4 won't update past a 7.1.2 I have a IPhone 4  model number A1349 an it won't update past a 7.1.2 it says my software is up to date but I know the latest software is at the least a 8.4.
Why is that?

The latest iOS version supported by iPhone 4 is 7.1.2. There is no official way to install iOS 8 or newer on older iDevices.

You can find a compatability list on Wikipedia.

I have tried many times to install/update my iPhone 4 by computer, laptop, etc. All of those tries did not work, because the other updates cannot be supported by the iPhone 4 for example; iPhone 4's screen is too small for the updates , some apps might have more GB which your iPhone 4 might have 32 GB or less which is not enough for the other apps in the update. Also that's why you can't download some apps for your phone.


Sleeping Apple Devices Responding to ARP Requests for the Default Gateway Hoping to get some insight regarding a bizarre issue that is being seen at a few of our networks, as well as others (based off reddit and NANOG posts). The short story of what is happening is that Apple devices (primarily MacBooks as well as some iMacs) that are sleeping will hijack the default gateway IP for the wireless VLAN that they are in, as well as responding to ARP requests asking who the default gateway is. This behavior makes the AP's log a message "CAPWAP detected next hop MAC changed from correct_DG_mac_address to apple_mac_address."

We have tickets open with Cisco who is blaming Apple, and Apple who is stating we need logs that are utterly impossible to get as we cannot recreate this behavior. Apples current workaround? Push out a script to completely disable sleep on all Apple devices.

More specifics:

This is only affecting 3802i WAPs that are in flexconnect mode, and
we are seeing this at multiple sites, on two different wireless
controllers. The 3802i's do not reboot - they lose connectivity,
recover, repeat.
Wireless subnets are generally as large as /20 and contain the AP's
as well as all clients. We plan to move AP's to a different subnet as
a test, but we are hesitant due to the fact that if AP's no longer
log the CAPWAP message/drop from Prime - then we will not know when
this behavior occurs making it harder to track.
The ARP entry on the switches NEVER changes. For this reason, I
believe DAI/DHCP snooping would not be an effective solution as I've
seen others suggest.
We think this behavior may be related to sleep proxy that can we seen
with out of the box Apple TV's, but have yet to prove that.

My question is - has anyone ran into this type of behavior before. In addition, does anyone have any suggestions as far as how to remedy this behavior so it no longer occurs?

We've been experiencing this issue and we're running Cisco 3802 Flex Connect with a WLC 8500.

We are going to attempt DIA This weekend but from both Cisco and Apple they are saying there isn't much we can do. Cisco is saying they will have a patch for the Wireless Controller to introduce ARP security for this in about a month and Apple won't release to the public what is the issue or when their patch would be out to fix it.

Some Options that have been floated to us as a Temp Solution
-- Downgrade the WLC to 8.2 from the current recommended version 8.5.140
-- Upgrade the WLC to 8.5.140.11 a special release not provided without support consent that will require DHCP reassociation on every device when roaming. Not a great Trade off.
-- Remove Flex Connect and re design your WLAN to Central which would tunnel the ARP traffic to the WLC and use built in security for ARP protection. "We are not going to do this"

What we will be trying!
Enable DIA on the Switching platform and log the drops. The hope is if this is from a sleeping Macbook then the getting dropped won't matter and we'll see some kind of containment.

This is our last option.

Seeing exactly the same issue here with meraiki APs.

There was a recent firmware update. OTOH apple has updates all the time. So we are not sure if it was the FW upgrade or not at this stage

Meraiki 25.13
OSX 10.14.4

We managed to mitigate the problem by enabling client isolation on the SSID.

Muttley.


How can I print a booklet from a pdf file? I have a pdf document, and I want to print it as a booklet, i.e. two pages of the document on each side of a sheet of paper and so that (when printed) the entire thing can just be folded in the middle to create a small booklet.

How can I do this easily?

For a free and universal alternative you can use the pdfbook script, part of the pdfjam collection which is usually included in LaTeX distributions (notably MacTeX). It's simple to use from the command line:

pdfbook mypdf.pdf

If the above doesn't work, then /Library/TeX/texbin isn't in your PATH (or /usr/texbin for older versions of MacTeX). The best course of action is to ensure PATH is correctly set (lots of command line programs will fail if the PATH variable isn't correct and pdfbook is one of them); this isn't trivial under OS X if you want a consistent behavior between applications launched from the dock and applications run from a terminal so you definitely should search a complete solution to this specific problem. As dirty work-around, you can run export PATH="$PATH:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/texbin" every time before you use pdfbook (including in the service below).

If you don't want to use the command line, you can create a service easily.

Launch Automator (on Yosemite it's in Applications/Others)
Create a new document and select "Service".
On top of the right frame, for "Service receives selected" choose "PDF files".
Search "Run Shell Script" from the bar on the top of the left frame and double-click it. Select to "Pass input" as "arguments" in the newly created window.
Enter a simple script running pdfbook, for instance pdfbook "$@".
Save it as "Create booklet" (for instance).
In Finder, select a PDF file, then in the menu go to Services/Create booklet.

My complete script also creates a temporary file and opens the resulting PDF:

TMPF=`mktemp -t bookletXXXX`
mv "$TMPF" "$TMPF.pdf"
pdfbook -o "$TMPF.pdf" "$@"
open "$TMPF.pdf"

The most obvious problem is the several GB download and installation of a LaTeX distribution if all you want is the pdfbook script.

This capability has been added to the native preview app within macOS Catalina - no need to download anything else.
In the print dialog, click "Show Details" (if you haven't already), then change the selector from "Preview" to "Layout". You should now see a setting for "Two-Sided" and you can select "Booklet". I also like to select a thin border to see that proper printed pages. Although the preview window doesn't actually show what will print, it does seem to print properly.


MBP shut down and will not power back on My MacBook unexpectedly shutdown and not responding to power button or even battery status button, the lights on battery status isn't showing too. What happened? What should I do?
Edit : the charger light is dim and it's blinking amber and green light.

After searching the net and not coming up with any solution, i went to Apple Care Center and they had it diagnosed, turned out, it was full of dust. They recommended me having it serviced every 6 months. Phew, now its working fine.

We get this all the time, just wiggle it and it will turn red ;)


Wi-Fi Disconnects When Locking iPhone I want to use Google Photos to back up my photos from my iPhone SE running iOS 10. I'm connected to Wi-Fi. I start the backup process and I connect my phone to power and then I lock it. It should just sit there and happily back up my photos. But if I come back to it after a few minutes, it seems like it had disconnected from Wi-Fi and that it only just reconnected after I unlocked it again. When I open the Google Photos app, it has to start backing up all over again.

How can I keep my iPhone connected to Wi-Fi while it's locked? (Like it should be!)

I've found that ios devices tend to drop connection when they are locked if your 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz networks share same name.

Try changing one of your network's name.

Turn wifi on (doesn’t matter if you connect to a wifi network now or later, but the wifi toggle must be on). If your ios device supports mobile data, turn it off for now.
Turn off the device (by keeping the sleep button pressed and then swiping)
Wait 30s
Turn it on
After the home screen loads, reset it (hold the home and sleep buttons down and keep holding until you see the apple logo)
That’s it.


iPod touch stopped playing the Pandora app with the following error: "Cannot Connect to Pandora" An iPod Touch with the following specs:

2nd Generation
Version 4.2.1 (8C148)
Model: MC086LL

Stopped playing the Pandora app. with the following error:

Cannot Connect to Pandora
Please check your network connection and try again later.

This iPod Touch was working fine 2 weeks ago then starting getting this error. I'm connected to the internet and other apps like Safari work fine.
How can I resolve this?

I found the solution! The solution was to set the Date to the correct Date. It was set to 1969 for some reason:-/

Settings->General->Date&Time

I had the same problem with my iPhone (3rd gen) and iPod Touch with Pandora.
Cured both with simply powering off, waiting about 30 seconds then powering back on.