How do I prevent Calendar from draining my iPhone battery? Recently, Calendar on my iPhone has started to cause my battery to drain rapidly by using 20%-40% of the phone's battery with "background activity". Calendar did not to this in the past, but the problem is now pretty consistent.

How do I prevent Calendar from draining my iPhone battery?

(Note that disabling sync, or using low power mode are not answers.)

One of your Calendar\Mail\Contacts accounts is in an endless loop. Maybe a corrupted event or something of that sort.

What iOS are you using? I remember something of that sort in iOS 8, no idea if this was fixed yet.

First I would suggest removing one account at a time and check after a day of usage if Calendar is still going crazy. If it does, move on to the next account. Once you figured out which account is the problematic one, add it again and configure it as new. This should fix it.

Go to settings - passwords & accounts - outlook -
Turn off ( delete calander) problem solved


Can I direct audio from a single app to a particular output? For example, I would like for iTunes to play thru my iMac's speakers, but iChat's notifications thru my headphones.

If the software you're using doesn't support specifying an an audio output, you'll have to rely on a third-party utility. Someone else already mentioned Ambrosia's WireTap products, but there is one other I'm aware of: Audio Hijack by Rogue Amoeba. At $32, it beats the pants off WireTap for price.
Update for 2020  …
Audio Hijack is current, but now $70.
A simpler yet still effective solution targeted towards this very use-case by the same company is now SoundSource & is about half the price.
[Prices [& tax] vary by territory]
There's also a piece of software called SoundSiphon by Static Z Software that provides the same functionality as Soundflower, plus single-application audio capture. Priced at $29.
*Update for 2020 …
Soundflower no longer includes Soundflowerbed, which was the component allowing this type of routing.
Unfortunately, there are no free utilities for this. Not even Soundflower can capture audio from individual pieces of software. I think Rogue Amoeba's relies on the same underlying magic that allows them to hijack audio from individual pieces of software for their AirPlay utility AirFoil (which allows you to route any application's audio to any AirPlay device, as well as any device running their AirFoil Speakers app).

I tried this to stream each app output to different sound channel
https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/


What is the benefit of using flash memory in the Macbook Air? I don't understand why Apple does not use SSD drives in the Macbook Air like some other manufacturers to (e.g. Asus, Samsung). The technical specifications of the Macbook Air on Apple's website never mention the use of SSDs.

Apple only speaks of flash memory in the Macbook Air.

How does the use flash memory compare to SSDs? What are the benefits?

Edit:

Does dropping the SATA interface improve the theoretical throughput and latency of I/O operations to the hard-disk?

They are pretty much the same. The only thing that differentiate SSD with a flash is the fact is housed in a big case. And the MacBook Air flash memory is attached to specific card inside the MacBook Air.
To save space for starters (there is simply not any space left for a real SSD) and I thought is served better cooling too.

Most confusion comes from not knowing what the diffrence is from magnetic memory which comes from hard disc drives and what flash memory is in standard flash drives, memory cards ect... If your device is not spinning a hard disk it is using some form of flash memory. Flash DOES NOT MEAN SPEED (I.e. Flash Gordon) Flash is the way the data is saved to the memory. Example: flashing a new operating system to a android phone. The data is pushed together and flashed to the memory card. Flash generally used low current electricity for reading and writing data where as hard disk drives use magnetism. writing data to a flash memory card is actually slower than a hard disk drive f.y.i. Although reading from a flash drive is faster. The notion that flash means faster is rediculous and there are some major things left unknown about flash drives. The main thing you need to know about flash memory is that it does and will run out of memory. It won't matter what you do with it. Flash drives can only be overwritten so many times before it completely runs out of memory corrupting your data. Hard disk drives can be overwritten unlimited times. You can save and delete as much as you want without ever having to worry. It's seems extremely rediculous to me to run flash drives in all our technology in today's world, phones, tablets, notebooks, etc... They know when they put the flash drives in there that it will not last more than a few years with standard use. Some laptops last 10+ years with hard disk drives. You will not find that kind of long term use from a flash drive. It will run out of memory eventually. Flash memory is best used for read only files you never need to move, delete, change, add stuff to, etc. doing those things on flash memory cards wears them out. The worst part about it is you won't know when flash drive has run out of life. One day you turn your device on and it says "data corrupt" no way to save it either.

Think of flash memory like a photo album. You save your pictures in the photo album and can look at them (read) them whenever without any harm done. Well say you want to delete a photo from your photo album. The way flash works instead of taking the photo out of the album it will just stack a blank photo on top of the one already there. So now you have 2 photos on that stack. Keep adding photos to that stack and deleting (remembering photos is any information saved in this example) and eventually the stack gets too full. Then when it is too full you will try to save a new photo on it but can only get part of the photo in there and end up ripping the photo. (This is where data corruption comes in) flash memory actually does work just like camera film in a sense. Take too many pictures on top of eachother and eventually you can't tell what the pictures are.


My Macbook Pro's headphone jack is buzzing/humming I have an audio problem with my new macbook pro 2017.

If there is an audio playing my headphone jack starts to buzz (headphones unplugged). When I stop playing audio, after a short period of time, it stops humming. When I plug the headphones and start playing the audio, headphone jack is not buzzing/humming. This is super weird. It looks like macbook for some reason thinks that it has plugged headphones even when it doesn't

Does anyone know how to deal with this problem?

Ok, I have fixed this problem by reinstalling the OS.


How to drag folders from Finder into Final Cut without mouse [automator/applescript] Hello guys I'm trying to create a Service to do some repetitive tasks that I have to perform every day. Most of the things I figured out how to automate, but there is one move that seems to be impossible: dragging two folders into a Final Cut Pro 7 project.

I tried using Applescript to tell Final Cut the menu commands File/Import/Folder... But apparently the program is not scriptable. Furthermore the parent folder always change, so I can't hardcode the location, although I can tell the current path to the script using automator.

I can't upgrade to Final Cut X for professional reasons, so that's not an option.

Any insight would be appreciated, even to say "You can't do that".

I think you should try keyboard shortcuts through which you can drag folders from Finder into Final Cut without mouse    https://support.apple.com/kb/PH12724?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US


Using Variables with AppleScript Action in Automator Hoping someone can help me figure this out. I'm trying to build a Quick Action in Automator that copies three text values, stores them as variables, then pastes them when directed. Right now I built it where it runs AppleScript to copy the first value from a spreadsheet to the clipboard, gets the contents of the clipboard, sets the value of the variable, then repeats that another two times. That part seems to work, but the next step has not. I tried to run an AppleScript where the variable is passed in, the input is set as the value of a new variable, then System Events keystrokes the variable. I either get the error that the variable isn't define or that the keystroke can't continue.
Any Suggestions? Screenshots of my workflow:

Keystroke means it will send a "C" to the program and not actually press the C key. Try using key code 8 using command down.
Also, you may want to add a line with activate after the "tell Excel" command to ensure the program is the frontmost application.
Finally, use delay 0.5 between commands, so the program has enough time to process the information before firing the next step.
You can get a list of full key codes here:
https://eastmanreference.com/complete-list-of-applescript-key-codes
Other possible issues: make sure the get value of variable is ignoring the preceding action, otherwise sometimes Automator will pass more than one variable ahead. You could also use item 1 of input as string, because sometimes it will get the wrong kind of data.


Can I safely uninstall iTunes from my Mac? The only use I ever had for iTunes was updating and syncing my iDevices, but since the introduction of over-the-air updates and iCloud, I no longer have that need.

My question therefore is if I can safely remove iTunes from my Mac? Or are there other applications that depend on iTunes being available?

Thanks!

In order to uninstall iTunes, you need to delete (drag to the Trash) a lot of items:

The application's icon.
/Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes....plist (a lot of files) and drag them to the Trash.
Look in /Library/ folder for an iTunes folder and if you find one drag it to the Trash.
Look in /Home/Library/ folder for an iTunes folder and drag it to the Trash.
Last, in /Home/Library/Preferences/ByHost/ folder look for two files with names com.apple.nnnnnnn.plist and drag them to the Trash.

Open Activity Monitor (Utilities folder) and in the process list look for iTunesHelper. Select it, then click on Quit Process icon. Quit or Force Quit the process. Now open the Accounts preference pane, click on Login Items tab, look for the iTunesHelper entry and select it, then click the "-" button and remove it from the list.

Empty the Trash. This should fully remove iTunes and its associated files/folders.

You can find all the information on this page.

But, there is no harm in deleting iTunes, except other iLife apps (iMovie, iPhoto,...) won't be able to get music out of the iTunes library for compiling their things (movies, slideshows,...)

So I'm seriously wondering why you want to delete iTunes at all. My advice is to leave it as it is and just ignore it.
You won't do any harm by it if you just leave iTunes there.

$ cd ..
$ cd ..
$ cd Applications
$ sudo su
>>> enter password at prompt
$ rm -rf iTunes.app


If I leave my chargers plugged into the wall socket at all times, do they consume energy or present a safety risk? This is something I always wondered about: when I leave my charger plugged on the wall socket but not charging anything, is it still consuming energy?

Some notebook chargers have a led that is always on, so I guess it's consuming at least a bit. But what about Apple chargers? I want to leave my iPhone and iPad chargers always plugged under my desk (so I can just connect my device when I want to charge) but I'm worried they shouldn't be plugged all the time due to safety risks or phantom power consumption.

Is there any way to measure this to be sure?

It does consume energy. Feel it, it will feel warm or even hot. It doesn't use much, but it is still a good idea to not waste this. Unplug it, or buy a power strip and turn off the power strip when it isn't needed.

To find out exactly how much, you could use a Kill-a-Watt, or read the MacBook Environmental Report (PDF). The current version (MacBook, May 2010, White) says the no-load power draw is 0.010 W. The older version (MacBook, 2008, Metal body) draws 0.15 W at no load. This is quite a difference.

0.15 W means if you left it plugged in for a year you would use 1.314 Kwh. Given a price of roughly $0.20/Kwh this would cost you about 25 cents per year. If the computer is on the whole time (at 14 Kwh) the cost would be about $25/year.

I wouldn't recommend doing this. Also, never keep your devices plugged in constantly... This will reduce its battery life. It's a good idea to do a power cycle every month to keep a healthy battery (let the battery go down until it dies, then recharge fully).


iMac HDD fan running full speed. What is wrong? My iMac (27" Mid-2010) and the HDD fan is spinning full speed with a measured HDD temperature of 50 °C. I have removed the dust and dirt from inside and it is pretty clean. Nevertheless even when at idle it starts at 48 °C.
I've tried to use software to control the fans in order to decrease temp but the lowest it gets is 47 °C. I checked every single connection inside and everything seems to be ok. I also tried resetting the SMC and PRAM but with no luck.
Specs

27" Mid-2010
2.93GHz
Stock HDD 1.5TB Seagate st1500dl003
OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 and Windows 8.1 under Boot Camp

Looks like the drive experiences overheating issue. Unfortunately it's a common issue for Seagate drives which happens with time (had exactly the same problem with iMac 2010 21.5`` and stock 500 GB hdd). I used free Macs Fan Control tool to cool down the HDD (specially in Boot Camp, where the drive was even hotter). The article is about HDD replacement but it also explains how to use the app.

But the best solution I think is to replace the drive with some 2.5`` drive. They are known to be much cooler and quiter (though slower)

Have you tried an SMC reset? The SMC controls fan speed and operation. Give it a shot.

SMC reset (how to perform) and symptoms needing one described in this kbase:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964


Word for Mac: how to increase/decrease font size with (laptop) keyboard? Again, title says it all.

On a normal Mac keyboard, shortcuts for font increase/decrease are:

SHIFT CMD < - decrease
SHIFT CMD > - increase

However, on a laptop keyboard the latter doesn't work. I just can't reach the ">" key while CMD pressed. Turn on the keyboard viewer and see for yourself.

I press SHIFT, the "<" turns to ">", so far so good... but once i press CMD (while still holding SHIFT), it goes back to "<" so I can only decrease font size, but not increase.

These shortcuts are speeding up the workflow tremendously, I wan't 'em! :-)

Any suggestions? Thanx...

Microsoft Word for Mac 2019 now has built-in shortcuts for this:

⌘ Command+] increases the font size by one step

⌘ Command+[ decreases the font size by one step

Increase the font size : COMMAND + SHIFT + >

Decrease the font size : COMMAND + SHIFT + <


Anyone know of a timecard app that uses GPS? I'd like to log the hours I'm at work using the GPS on my iPhone. (It'd start logging when I get to work, then stop when I leave for lunch, etc)

If possible, I'd like to be able to log the time at multiple locations, so I could see for each day time at home ~12h, work ~9h, commuting ~3h

Another app that does this in a more generic, passive, long-term fashion is Placeme.

busybusy is a great app if you need a GPS time clock. It has great features and for one user it's free.


Downgrading (user homes) to macOS Sierra Because of having issues with High Sierra, I had to downgrade to Sierra. My macOS is on an internal SSD (of my Mac Pro) and my user homes are on an external SSD. When downgrading using a backup, Time Machine only replaced macOS (on the internal SSD), but not the user homes (on the external SSD).

Looks like Sierra is not happy with my High Sierra user homes:

Messages hangs
identityservicesd and callservicesd are constantly crashing
my screen turns black, sometimes every few seconds. possibly having to do with the crashes.

Essentially the same problems like in this thread (which is locked):
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8105075

The user of the post above said he could solve his issues with a reinstall of Sierra (which I cannot do and I am also not convinced this changes anything) plus “restoring files by hand from my time machine backup drive with rsync and other command-line tools”. Any idea how to do this or which files need replacement? Deleting ~/Library/Caches did not help. I also restored these with Time Machine which also did not help:

~/Library/Messages
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.identityservicesd.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TelephonyUtilities.plist

Any other idea?

Some detail on the crashes:

Process:               identityservicesd [803]
Path:                  /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IDS.framework/identityservicesd.app/Contents/MacOS/identityservicesd
Identifier:            identityservicesd
Version:               10.0 (1000)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           identityservicesd [803]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2018-02-01 10:00:56.010 +0100
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.12.6 (16G1212)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        F9C97F8F-70BD-CA59-5E14-105C64D05D82

Time Awake Since Boot: 57 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: '-[__NSCFData count]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fa61a012200'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called

and

Process:               callservicesd [996]
Path:                  /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/TelephonyUtilities.framework/callservicesd
Identifier:            callservicesd
Version:               1.0 (1.0)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           callservicesd [996]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2018-02-01 10:09:25.222 +0100
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.12.6 (16G1212)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        F9C97F8F-70BD-CA59-5E14-105C64D05D82

Time Awake Since Boot: 560 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: '-[__NSCFData count]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fd24b86e800'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called

Update: Trying to restore ~/Library/Preferences completely with Time Machine essentially resulted in a deletion. Now the problems are gone but my preferences are also gone. Luckily I have copied the folder before doing so. Thus if I knew which of the preferences needed replacement by the Sierra ones I could restore the rest by hand. Any idea?

It will be very difficult to isolate the issue to individual preference files, since there could be several subtle issues.

Better to take the opposite approach - start with no preferences and only copy the old preferences over one by one as you come across them. That is, as you discover that you have a preference that needs updating, find the single preference file that will give you that preference, and restore it. Re-test and only proceed if things are still stable. Will be a drawn out process, but necessarily so I think. When you can no longer add individual preferences, consider the restoration finished and many set the remaining preferences.

This complex relationship between the OS, Applications and user files is why Apple created Migration Assistant. It might not be help here but it is useful to know just how intricate the process is of "migrating" from one OS version to another.

Thanks, MickM: that provided me the impetus I needed to finally correct that problem on my Mac Pro Sierra server. I had made the mistake of simply accepting the High Sierra upgrade, and when I backed it out ofter seeing how much was broken, it left me with no Messages or iCloud sync and with (literally) gigabytes of log junk about crashing identitysrvicesd and callservicesd. After reinstalling Sierra several times, deleting my iCloud account several times, ripping out ~/Library/Messsages several times, rebooting many dozens of times, and trashing the plists mentioned by the OP several times, I found your post. When I finally deleted the facetime plists, and also in a fit of disgust deleted all the identityservices plists (to let Sierra recreate them cleanly), I was finally able to get it working again.

I don't really care that much about iMessage, but the cloud sync is important to my business- and any Unix system that is generating that much log stuff is seriously sick. It is clear that Apple didn't intend for anyone to back out of that transition... I've now created the files in Applications ("Install MacOS High Sierra.app" and "Install MacOS High Sierra.appdownload", both chmod'ed a-rwx) to keep the App Store from nagging me about High Sierra on any of our machines. Think I'll stay put where I am.

Anyway, thanks for the info. And before anyone else jumps on me: I don't recommend this course of action for anyone who doesn't know exactly what they are doing. It worked for me; but you do this sort of thing at your own risk, with many redundant backups ready at hand. Your mileage may vary. Post no bills...


How can I activate the 'say' command from the keyboard? I love the 'say' command in OS X. It's quite possibly the most fun little part of the Mac that I've seen in a while.

However, having to go to Terminal every time I want to use it is a bit of a drag. I'd like to make it a keyboard shortcut.

So: How can I tell OS X to 'say' whatever text I have selected with a keyboard shortcut?

Go to System Preferences, click the "Speech" icon, then click the "Text to Speech" tab. Then simply check the "Speak selected text when the key is pressed" box.

Text you have selected will be spoken when you press the selected key combination.

With macOS Big Sur 11.3.1, to read any written text (in your browser, text editor program, pdf ..), you first need to enable it in System Preferences > Accessibility. In the left pane, select Spoken Content. And select Speak selection.

You can also choose the shortcut to activate this function: click on Options and choose the Keyboard shortcut you prefer.

Then, to use Speak selection, just select any text in a document (text, doc, in your browser, in a pdf … ) and use your shortcut. It should read your text out loud and display a pop up menu where you can pause, stop, control the speed …


Can spyware affect the iPad? I tried to login to my gmail, hotmail, and facebook accounts today. I could not login to those three because they said that my password is incorrect. So I tried to think what I did yesterday. I only used those three websites on my iPad.

One thing I noticed with iPad's safari is that it does not warn me for suspicious websites like Chrome or Firefox do.

I concluded that either someone hacked my facebook account and found primary email accounts from facebook and hacked my emails (since they all use same passwords) or my iPad has been hacked. Is it possible that my iPad was hacked?

Don't be so quick to jump to conclusions, there are other possible attack vectors. iOS Safari is one of the most secure browsers because of the sandbox design of iOS.

First and foremost, do you use the same password for all three? Password reuse is a dangerous problem, because if one account is compromised an attacker can try that same password on other websites to see if you have the same password there.

Secondly, how complex is your password? If it's a word (or combination of words) from the dictionary, attackers can run automated login attempts to guess short passwords. If your password is short and only contains words then it's much easily guessed using this method.

Thirdly, there's no guarantee that the passwords were compromised in the last 24 hours, it could have happened in the past week.

In any case, change those passwords soon and promptly, make sure they all have different passwords, and try to use numbers, symbols, or uppercase letters to prevent a dictionary attack. Also don't use common tricks like "password1" or "abc123" or "blink182" because attackers keep common passwords like that on file for dictionary attacks.

To date, there has never been a spyware issue on any iPad. Apple's OSes are generally highly secure; even the desktop OS has few such issues.

So, rest assured your iPad is highly secure, much more so than any Android tablet.


MacBook: Prevent mouse from switching to external monitor placed above main display So I got an external monitor witch is positioned above my MacBook. Sometimes I want to use the Menu bar of my MacBook, and I often move my mouse too quickly and it goes to the secondary monitor.

Is there a button I can press to prevent my mouse from going to my secondary monitor, but instead trigger the menu bar to pop up in fullscreen mode?

May I suggest simply changing the arrangement of the screens (in the dialog seen in your screenshot, not physically).

You can either place the screen to the side, or even just place it at an offset. Say you place it as far to the right as possible (while remaining above the main screen). In that case, you could move the mouse from one screen to the other by going all the way to the right edge of the screen and up.

To keep your mouse cursor from jumping to the above external screen when trying to access the menu-bar on the screen below you could employ a 'sticky-cursor', or 'cursor bounce' feature so there is a pause, or bounce before your cursor moves to the screen above. Your idea of a button you can press to achieve this is also doable using a feature on Edgecase—an app created for your type of situation.

EdgeCase is available at the Mac Store for about 5 dollars.

I set up a cursor pause between screens on a Ubuntu desktop connected to my Macbook Pro desktop by using a Ubuntu feature that was practically built-in, which is how I knew there had to be a solution.

Good luck!


Macbook Pro Won't Boot off of USB Flash Drive Model MacBook Pro 2010 6,2

OS X version  Yosemite 10.10.3

I used createinstallmedia to format and create an install USB stick.  This step went fine.  Command used was:

/Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/HP-8 --applicationpath "/Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app"

(One comment was that I need to do this as sudo.  The line before was 'sudo bash' so I end up with a root shell.)

Note that if you backslash the spaces inside the quotes it doesn't work.  Basic shell stuff, but I'm rusty it took me a bit to figure it out as the message talks about "not a valid installation package."  Unhelpful...

When I attempted to boot it, it starts up, I can select the USB stick.  When it boots I get the apple logo.  The progress bar gets a little over 1/4 of the way, then the screen goes to a grey barred circle ("No") and nothing more happens.

Edit: Booting verbosely the boot fails with [SearchForTransportEventTimeOutHandler] -- Missing Bluetooth Controller Transport!

Searches for this message find mostly forum posts related to hackintoshes.

The copy of installer is one that I've used on several macs, but before I've always been doing upgrades, not install from scratch.  (I suspect malware on this one, so I want to zero out the disk before reinstalling.

Note also that this mac has a superdrive.  I've vague recollections of a firmware  'feature' that prevented booting an installer off of a memory stick.

Tested the USB stick with 3 other laptops, all of which had superdrives.  Same failure mode.

Tried a second image on a new stick.

Rebooted the mac with the jump drive not plugged in.  Got a grey folder with a question mark -- I think that's 'no system folder'

On a whim plugged the new stick in.

Booted off of this stick just fine.  I am now in the process of doing a 3 pass secure erase of the hard drive.  Odd results in Disk Utility.   Claims that this disk has 19 folders, 59 files, and that 630 MB are in use.

I will add to this answer as I find more information.

The command has to be executed with sudo, as otherwise it will not be able to make system level changes.

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


MacBook Pro crash after sleeping for a long time I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016) running macOS Sierra 10.12.1 (16B2659). Recently I found out that if I left my machine sleeping for a long amount of time (about 15+ hours), it will cause a kernel panic and restart itself so when I open my computer the next time it will tell me the computer have shutdown unexpectedly. Is this a software bug or my computer have problem?

EDIT:

I got this problem today. The shutdown cause is -128. Maybe a hardware failure? Also sometimes instead of a crash, I also have this problem. (I posted that as a separate question since it's not a crash). Here is the crash report.

Occasional kernel panics are more nanannoyance than something to be fixed.

How serious are occasional kernel panics?

However, if you can make them happen, there is a process to resolve them:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT200553

It just happened to me today, out of the blue so to speak. Anyway, after powering down and restarting several times (with no success) I powered back up in Safe mode (holding the Shift key down). That didn't help because my MacBook froze again. BUT, when I powered up again (without Safe mode), the problem was solved. Go figure.


Sometimes background image for lock screen doesn't show on iPhone I have seen this several times that the image I have for my lockscreen does not show. It is just black with the battery indicator shown in foreground and the unlock slider at bottom.

In iOS 6 and lower (which was the current version at the time this question was asked), iPhone does not show the background image while the phone is charging. This is by design.

If I have a reminder from reminders app that came with the phone that is overdue and is showing up on lock screen can't see the lock screen picture. So when that reminder is finally checked off will see pic again


Securely erase deleted files? I was wondering if it's possible to make sure that some files I've deleted in the past on my mac are really gone?

I know about the option in Finder (Finder -> Secure Empty Trash...), but what if I already emptied Trash the standard way, and now want to make sure the files are fully wiped off?

Cheers.

You can erase free space using Disk Utility. (/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app).

In the sidebar of Disk Utility, select “Macintosh HD” (or the drive where you’d originally stored the file). At the top of the window, select the “Erase” tab. Towards the lower left-hand corner of the window, there’s a button labelled Erase Free Space. This lets you overwrite all of the free space on the drive (which is where your deleted file currently resides). You can choose a one-pass, three-pass or seven-pass erase — hopefully that’s more than enough. And if not, I guess you can just do it multiple times.

As always with Disk Utility stuff, be a little careful. I did this a couple of years ago with a three-pass erase, something screwed up and I had to restore from a backup :(

Are you using an SSD?

I don't believe it's possible to erase anything securely from an SSD, unless it was only stored encrypted. The easiest way to do this for new files is with FileVault.

Update: Apparently there's something called TRIM that allows the system to securely erase files on an SSD. It may not be on by default. See this answer for more information.

I'd still use FileVault, but it looks like you don't have to. (:


Cannot enter password to reset keychain I'm trying to reset my keychain (Yosemite 10.10.4).

When I enter my wifi password I get "A keychain cannot be found to store my_wifi_sid"
I click "Reset to Defaults"
I get "Are you sure you want to reset your keychain? This will delete all your saved passwords, keys, and certificates. You cannot undo this operation" and click "Reset"
I get "Please enter your login password. This password will be used to create your new keychain." with a password field.  Attempts to type in this field interact with whatever app is in the background (browser, desktop).  I can click the "Show password" checkbox.

This issue has also been reported at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6788761.  Upgrades did not help.

Deleting keychain folders via the command line ends up with the same result (not saving passwords and the above dialog).  This started about a month ago and does not appear to be associated with any system update.

Any tips on troubleshooting, logs to look at would be appreciated.

Update

tl;dr: disabling the Guest User and upgrading to El Capitan seems to have done the trick.

Not what I'd call an answer since I can't tell you which action is the fix, but here are two things,  one or both of which may have solved my problem.

I tried to log into the Guest User on this machine and learned that somehow I got a not-managed Guest User account.  This Guest User was asking for a password (which I did not know).  So I disabled the Guest User account.

Disabling the Guest User account seemed to solve this issue for some (but not all) of the users.  Next I downloaded the El Capitan installer to a thumb drive and installed it on my MacbookPro.  Now all of my keychain issues appear to be fixed.

I had the same problem.  Following the steps in this article helped me resolve my issue:

Open Keychain using Spotlight (⌘-Space)
Go to Keychain Access → Preferences
Click Reset My Default Keychain
Restart your Mac


How do I set up a Mail.app rule for removing attachments? While Mail.app offers a menu item for removing attachments from e-mail, I find myself wanting to make a rule for removing attachments from e-mails. Anyone knows how that can be done? AppleScript, perhaps?

So basically, a Mail.app rule that works like this:

If sender is suchandsuch and attachment type is executable (this is already possible).
Remove attachments from e-mail

I just made a screencast how to do this (however, you have to delete the message in order to remove the executable):


"Hold Cmd-Q to Quit" from Chrome Has anyone else noticed that Chrome refuses to quit instantly when using CmdQ?

Happens with one or several tabs open...

All the other apps I run can be ended by typing / tapping briefly CmdQ, but Chrome insists that I have to hold for an appreciable period of time.

This is becoming annoying, any ideas?

This is a change - Chrome thinks this is correct default behavior and shipped this enabled.

You can double press the Q - hold command and press and release Q twice as quickly as you are comfortable - ⌘ Q Q
Or change the default to match your expectations and all other programs - see below to change the default setting

Select Chrome in the menu bar and select to un-check Warn before Quitting (⌘Q)

This can also be found in Chrome's Preferences (Cmd,), in the Appearance section:

It's Apple failure in design. I agree with Google. What the h*ll Apple! An easy shortcut and all your work is gone. AltF4 on Windows or GNOME (Ubuntu/Linux) is really way better.
Here is a Google explanation of this, I prefer the Workaround of bad design by Apple:
https://googlemac.blogspot.com/2011/06/q-i-didnt-mean-to-do-that.html


Prevent external monitors to be shut down when sleeping I (think I) remember that with previous OS X versions I could have the display turn off while connected to external monitors, but the latter wouldn't be turned off. So, when I would turn the display back on, all the windows would still be in their monitor.

Now, when the display goes off, all external monitors are shut down (?), so all windows are moved to the small mac screen and i have to drag them into position by hand.

Any hint on how to solve this?

I have an early 2015 retina mac book pro and El Capitan installed. My external monitors are Dells. The energy saving preferences already prevent the mac from sleeping when the display is off.

I don't have any experience with El Capitan, but I'm on a MBP (pre retina) right now with an external monitor and when the displays go to sleep and are woken, everything is as it should be.

If I unplug the external monitor, all windows revert to the internal screen. Plugging the screen back in reverts the windows back to their second monitor positions once again. The change from dual monitors to single and back to dual again is obvious with the internal monitor physically blinking during the transition.

This occurs whether I unplug it at the monitor end, MBP end, or in between (ie I'm using a display port to DVI adapter).

If I turn the monitor off (via the soft power button on the front), nothing changes.

Physically unplugging the external monitor's power cable, also changes nothing (I actually thought it might).

My initial thought with your scenario is that maybe when your model monitor turns off it could physically cut the video connection (electrically) internally at the monitor. Although I would think that's unlikely.

If there's anything you'd like me to test/compare at my end, feel free to ask.


Why can't I run `su`? (and how should I do?) Whenever I try to issue su I get this:

$ su
Password:
su: Sorry

Needless to say, I'm entering the correct admin password which does work with sudo. What I want is not having to enter sudo each time.

In MacOS X, the root user is disabled by default, therefore su will not work. As others have stated, it's best to use sudo.

If you must enable the root user, see Apple's technote: Enabling and using the "root" user in Mac OS X.

Try the password alpine?! Legend has it that alpine was the root password on macOS for many years! You can get to root from an admin account shell with:
sudo su

I recommend then changing the password for root with:
passwd

After this I can just run su and type the actual root password. Handy for going root from a regular user account.


My mac is not booting I was on my macbook today, and suddenly a flashing file with a questions mark appeared, and now i cant start my mac. It says ( support.apple.com/mac/startup) . I've tried diferrent ways, first aid the drive, but i got an error (something that is failing ), i've tried to reinstall the macos but it says " disk locked" . What can i do, really need what i have on the mac..
Note: dont want to erase may data from the mac .

To do a First Aid on your System Volume, you can try to mount/unlock it before, because il you have a crypted volume (Filevault) you can't do anything on before unlock it and give your admin password.


cron lacks permissions to run a script I have a script (which backs up, using rclone) that I can run from the Terminal  or Automator after chmod a+x, with no permissions problems.

However, when this script is run in cron (or launchd), stderr shows  "/bin/bash: /Users/joshua/script.sh: Operation not permitted."

I am more familiar with Ubuntu, where this approach works fine.

What do I need to do here?

Edit: The above question remains relevant, but note that launchd is the favored cron replacement for Mac, while Automator is available for application-level scheduling.

It looks like the proper two programs to give full access to are:

cron
terminal.app

See rsync in cron on Catalina no longer working

There is two solutions that you can try. The first one I recommend however the second one might also help but it is not an ideal solution.
First Solution:
Assuming, you are on macOS higher than 10.12

Choose ‘System Preferences’
Choose “Security & Privacy” control panel
Now select the “Privacy” tab, then from the left-side menu select “Full Disk Access”
Click the lock icon in the lower-left corner of the preference panel and authenticate with an admin-level login
Now click the [+] plus button to add an application with full disk access

Navigate to the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and choose “Terminal” to grant Terminal with Full Disk Access privileges

Relaunch Terminal, the “Operation not permitted” error messages will be gone

Second solution (I personally don't recommend this)

Reboot your Mac into Recovery Mode by restarting your computer and holding down  Command+R  until the Apple logo appears on your screen.

Click Utilities > Terminal.

In the Terminal window, type in:
  csrutil disable

Restart your Mac.


Where are Address Book group definitions stored and how can I delete them all? I know Address Book metadata is stored in Library/Application Support/AddressBook.

I wonder, however, what's up with Address Book "Groups".

They are peculiar items. For example, I quit LaunchBar (it prevents deletion if it's running), then I removed all items from AddressBook, emptied trash, then started Address Book and watched Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Metadata get repopulated with the .abcdg files that define Groups.

Clearly, Address Book was getting them from somewhere! I was not logged into iCloud. I have the sense Apple doesn't like Address Book 'groups', I wonder if this is very old code.

I'm trying to find a way to clean them all out because of an iCloud Debacle related to EOL termination leading to a cascading and comical failure chain (which established, in my mind, that iCloud is a regression from MobileMe, which is saying a lot - details here -- http://tech.kateva.org/2012/06/icloud-transition-went-as-expected.html).

One aspect of the failure chain is recursive Group creation (hundreds of replicated groups).

Any advice appreciated!

Update: one guess. I think they may be coming in from somewhere in a local cache of iCloud data that's not being fully cleaned out even after logging out from iCloud.

I think I can answer my own question, based on further experiments.

Once you sync an Address Book with iCloud, the data is, in a sense "gone" from the local drive. You can still see it all in the usual location, but it's a cached version of the iCloud data. (You can "move" contacts back to the local drive, but Groups are gone forever.)

On startup, even if you're not logged into iCloud, there's a process (a bug?) that recreates at least the Groups, probably from some local iCloud data store. (I do wonder if Apple has 'social' plans four our Groups.)

If you truly kill all iCloud accounts, including from both System Preferences AND from Address Book, and restart, it is possible to delete all from Address Book and not have files magically reappear.

There are many tedious details on this and other iCloud topics in a long personal multi-update blog post: http://tech.kateva.org/2012/06/icloud-transition-went-as-expected.html.

Suffice to say, these are coming from iCloud. If you never mess with iCloud (personally I'm going to wait for Mountain Lion!) you won't run into this bizarre behavior.


How does one type an "É" (capital e acute) in the French keyboard layout in Mac OS X? I've searched the web for a method to type an "É" character with a french keyboard layout in firefox.

It appears I'm supposed to type ⌥+E, and then ⇧+E to achieve this, but as soon as I press ⌥ and E simultaneously, an

ê

character appears. Why, and what should I tried instead?

I'm using Lion.

French layout?

Press caps lock ⇪.
Press the é key (that's the 2 on a QWERTY).
Press caps lock ⇪ again.

But you need to make sure you're using the French layout, and not French - numeric (“Français - numérique”, French flag with “123” beneath it).

Otherwise, you're explicitly asking the system to use the caps lock key as a shift lock for the numbers bar on the top of the keyboard!

In French grammar, the rules are that there are no accents on upper case letters. This error was introduced with Microsoft word which enforced accenting upper case letters and was fixed since then. The rules never changed and it is still grammatically wrong to put an accent on an upper case letter in French.


Macports: switching back to the system default version of Python I'm trying to use Macports to switch back to the system default version of python.

When I run this command:

port select --list python

I get back :

Available versions for python:
    none
    python26-apple
    python27
    python27-apple (active)
    python34

So for example, I want to switch back to the usr/bin/python (which is the apple version of python), I would enter this into the terminal:

 sudo port select --set python python26-apple

It says:

  Selecting 'python26-apple' for 'python' succeeded. 'python26-apple' is
  now active.

But, when I run which python, it gives me this:

/opt/local/bin/python

Which is not the system default version of python. That is the Macports version of python as Macports installs all their python versions into the /opt/local/bin directory.

I want to type in which python and get back this when I switch to the apple version of python:

/usr/bin/python

When I type into Terminal type -a python, I get back these two versions of pythons installed on my mac. The first one is where all the Macports versions of python get installed. The second one is the system version of Python:

python is /opt/local/bin/python
python is /usr/bin/python

I have read this post: How do I change back from MacPorts Python to system default version? however, it doesn't seem to address this problem.

/opt/local/bin/python is a symbolic link to the active version of python. You can view the structure with the following command:

ls -l /opt/local/bin/python*

Since /opt/local/bin is before /usr/bin in your PATH variable then the symbolic link will be listed first but it points to the version in /usr/bin.

Select none as a variant
sudo port select --set python none

This will remove the link /opt/local/bin/python, therefor /usr/bin/python will be selected instead.


How to block updates to Mac OS X Catalina? Mac OS X Catalina will be released in a few days, so how can I block updates to that OS so it doesn't get downloaded and, ideally, I don't even get prompts to upgrade.

I have 32-bit software I intend to keep on using, so I can't update since this version of OS X will support 64-bit apps only.

You can not block major updates after 10.15.5

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210642

Before that update (and similar Summer 2020 updates to older OS - namely the 2020-03 update for High Sierra and Mojave, this command no longer works), you can ask Apple’s Software Update to ignore specific available upgrades to macOS Catalina:

Open Terminal (in the Utilities folder in the Applications Folder)
Run sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --ignore "macOS Catalina"
Enter your login password if asked, hit Enter and you should get confirmation that “macOS Catalina” updates will be ignored.

Later, when you decide you want to allow the updates again, you can use:

sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --reset-ignored

(With the Software Update preferences pane open, you can see the effect straightaway.)

Not sure if this works in macOS Catalina, but in Mojave you can uncheck Install macOS updates in System Preferences > Software Update > Advanced.

With this method you'll still be notified that macOS wants to update to the next OS release, but you won't be forced.


Split View same app twice? Is it possible to view 2 apps at the same, eg. 2 × Mail, in Split View?

This is not possible in iOS 9. Only one instance of an app can run at any given time.

There is a small change in iOS 10 allowing two instances of Safari to run concurrently, but that is a special case. To do that, long-press a link, and select Open in Split View.

This can be done only on a newer iPad or iPhone 6 Plus. running iOS 9 or higher.  You will notice that these apps are not contained into 1 app, they are each running independently of the other.  You can view each app and interact with each app but they can't communicate with each other (other than what's already allowed by the app itself).


How do I disable Safari-only mode? I have no desire to enable Lion's Safari-only mode. I have disabled the guest account but still see the guest login item when I reboot my system.

Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing for disabling the Safari-only mode?

You can disable the Guest account at startup in System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Advanced (the button at the bottom of the screen. The checkbox says "Disable restarting to Safari when screen is locked". I believe that it leaves the iCloud settings unchanged.

This works without changing iCloud.

to disable Safari-only mode and the guest account go to
system preferences
iCloud
and then uncheck  (Find My Mac) <--  thats mean you will disable this fissility .
Reboot

Thats all
GL


Options to use iPad as remote photo viewing client As it says here, I can use an iPad as a remote photo vieing client if I buy the WD My Book Live NAS. But I have an old NAS already and I wonder if there are any generic iPad apps that give similar function, but without restriction on a specific NAS?

Thanks.

I use Remiew

I can view any photo I saved on my PC from iPad as it gives full control on folder navigation, i.e. I can browse all folders of my pc without any restrictions.

One restriction it that it shows images only, no other file types are shown.

It was a bit tricky to set it up at first, but it works fine for me and it's free.

AirPhotoViewer Can lets you view photo form your pc over wifi with out sync  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/airphotoviewer/id524118762?ls=1&mt=8


Mail shows 2 unread but there are no emails Recently my Mail app is giving me the 2 unread badge, but there are no mail messages in the inbox:

I do not remember when this started. I am on 9.3 beta but it started on 9.2 before I upgraded (using OTA).

Also, the hotmail I use does not sync trashing so my hotmail inbox includes all emails that I have deleted from my inbox.

Go to your Inbox, drag messages down slightly, Search field will appear. Start typing 'Unread' and filter will appear.
Use it. Probably it will help you locate those two unread messages.

settings-passwords & Accounts- select account that has the phantom emails - turn account off - re start phone - go back and turn account on again - messages should now be gone


Redirect traffic using PF along with Internet Sharing The short version:

How do I redirect all traffic from en2 port 80/443 to 127.0.0.1:8080 when I have enabled Internet Sharing in OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)?

Some background:

I am doing a master thesis where I will evaluate communication security for various smartphone apps. I have chosen to use my new MacBook Air as the router.

I have connected my Air to the Internet with USB Ethernet and setup Internet Sharing to my Wifi. This works fine. I can connect other devices to my Air via wifi and access the Internet. Great!

Now I want to intercept this traffic and modify it on-the-fly. I figured I need a proxy to do this but I need a transparent one, where I don't have to do any configuration on the device. I found that mitmproxy offers exactly these features. So I have it running on 127.0.0.1:8080, ready to intercept traffic.

Unfortunately I am stuck trying to redirect my traffic coming in from the wifi (en2) on port 80 and 443 to 127.0.0.1:8080. The mitmproxy docs suggest a config for pfctl but it doesn't work. I noticed that Apple has provided some config for Internet Sharing, enabling NAT. So if I don't use their configuration then the Internet Sharing stops working. And when I try to add the rdr lines to their config it doesn't take effect (tried several places in the file /etc/pf.conf). My traffic just passes on to the Internet, bypassing the mitmproxy.

I found the answer.

I loaded my rules as part of the anchor com.apple/100.InternetSharing/natpmp which is the one used for Internet Sharing.

The file mitm.pf.conf contains the rules:

rdr on bridge0 proto tcp from any to any port 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8080
rdr on bridge0 proto tcp from any to any port 443 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8080`

Load it using the Internet Sharing anchor:

sudo pfctl -a com.apple/100.InternetSharing/natpmp -f mitm.pf.conf

In a similar situation I have used the firewall to redirect traffic from one NIC to the proxy. You could use something like that:

$ sudo ipfw add fwd 127.0.0.1,8080 tcp from not me to any 80 in via en1
$ sudo ipfw add fwd 127.0.0.1,8080 tcp from not me to any 443 in via en1

If worked ok for me.

You can also use the free WaterRoof program as a GUI to configure the firewall. It does not add anything to the ipsw command, it just gives you easier access to all the options.

This page helped me a lot in setting up my configuration:

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/1/6/osx-wifi-proxy/


Import RSS into iCal I have an online calendar in an RSS-format. Is is possible to import it into iCal and will it be kept synced automatically?
An example of such a calendar is: RSS-Calendar

Generally speaking Calendar supports CalDAV and Exchange calendars. I am not certain what an "rss-calendar" is but if it can be converted to or supports CalDAV or Exchange calendar formats you are golden.

I have not had to import a or subscribe to a calendar in quite a while so Calendar in the last couple of versions of Mac O/S may have some new supported formats. You may want to try just pointing Calendar to the URL of your "rss-calendar" and see what happens.

The other possibility is if you can export an ICAL compatible file that can then be imported into Calendar. It's not automatic syncing but it may be better than nothing.


Git Config Error in Xcode When I opened xcode and tried to make a macosx app, this weird message came up.

Is this a glitch or a virus, as Apple wouldn't say something like this. It does not look like a system message.

No, this isn't a virus1.

It seems that your name and email address are not set up properly in Git. Go to Xcode Preferences and then Accounts, select the repository, and check the username.

You can also do this via the command line:

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"

1: The message content can be found in /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/libexec/git-core/git (git version 2.7.4 (Apple Git-66) lines 11416-11424).

When you are done configuring git with

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"

you can type git config --list to check the content:


I can't download Xcode because my Mac mini is not up to date. However, there are no updates for my Mac mini. Is there anything to do? My Mac mini is currently is version 10.12.6. Xcode requires "version 10.14.4 or laterV. However, when I check for available updates for my OS, there are none

You can get earlier versions of Xcode from here:

https://developer.apple.com/download/more/?=xcode

This may be an option if you can't upgrade the OS.

If you can't upgrade to Catalina you can load an earlier version of XCode. The last system I could upgrade to is 10.13.6. The version of Xcode I'm running is 10.1. You should be able to find this version.


iTunes Store says my card is invalid My iPad is telling me that my card is invalid and I've used it before. When I go to the payment method my security number is gone from the info. When I input the number it says my payment method isn't valid. I don't know what I need to do. My card works and I've used it before. Why can't I use it now?

You need to check your subscriptions or recent purchases for an outstanding charge made to your account.

Check your subscriptions on your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch- https://support.apple.com/en-ph/HT202039

Check all of your recent downloads by visiting:
http://reportaproblem.apple.com and signing in.

If both subscriptions and recent purchases arent showing a charge then you should contact AppleCare via 1-800-MY-APPLE and ask to speak to iTunes. You should expect a 15-25 minute wait since iTunes is always busy. If you can call in the morning between 8am-11am, not too many people call Apple that early.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem like a problem that we can solve.  If you're sure you're entering the card details correctly, and that the card is still active and you can use it elsewhere you need to call your card issuer and possibly get in touch with Apple.


Yosemite upgrade causing Mail to crash I upgraded to Yosemite on my 2011-12 iMac, from system 10.6.8.
It worked to a point, but with major problems with the mail - crashing and not working, basically.My Mac tech said it "should work"...but we tried reinstalling 3 times to the same result.
Given Mavericks is no longer available, does anybody have a suggestion other than a clean install of Yosemite? Or is that the only option?

Yosemite mail is horrible, if you have a large inbox it just kills an older machine.  I have a 3ghz mini with 16gb of ram and it STILL crawls.  I am on day 3 of it saying "incoming messages" and slowly the count grows larger and larger. Two apps is all I ask for, Safari and Mail, really people FIX IT.

On my 2009 27" imac I had to restore from time machine back to mavericks.  If you start a restore it will show you what os version was backed up.  Just know it erases your drive so save all of your newer files elsewhere.


No sound from mac, how to find the problem? Good day, I have Macbook Pro 2012 with el Capitan 10.11.3.

The problem - no sound from my mac.

I have listen the music, after that I decide to insert headphones, when I'm taking out the headphones sound from Mac disappeared and there is red light from audio jack. Between that I have made an update from 10.11 to 10.11.3, maybe the problem is with that?

There was not any sound from my mac on startup, but when I have use disk utility repair the sound on startup appears..

How can I diagnose myself where is the problem and fix it ?

Your MacBook believes you've plugged in an optical audio cable when you haven't.

Turns out, that headphone jack is actually a combo jack that has both optical audio and analog audio. There's a little lever in there that detects when you've put a cable in there that's probably stuck. Try fiddling with a toothpick or repeatedly plugging and unplugging.

Try holding down option and clicking on the sound icon in the menu bar at the top of the screen. It'll give you a few options you can tweak.

My guess is that you're most likely AirPlaying your sound to muted speakers.


Why are some apps greyed out when Command+Tab'ing through programs? Sometimes when I switch through programs using the Command+Tab shortcut certain programs appear to be greyed out. I can switch to the program in question with no problems nor is there anything happening with the program to indicate why it would be greyed out.

I'm just curious as to what it means...

(its a little heard to tell due to me having to screen capture with my phone :p but the quicktime icon is greyed out)

I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8

I recently read that the command+tab switcher no longer strictly shows a list of running apps, but is instead the combined set of running apps AND recent apps. The Mac OS now (much like iOS) kills off apps that have no open documents or otherwise don't need to be running (in its infinite wisdom). My GUESS is that the greyed out apps in the switcher are recent-but-not-running apps.

Annnd ... I just read that you're running 10.6.8. So, yeah, never mind that answer.


Open Text File From Finder In Vim I do a lot of programming and just starting to do a bit of web development. At the moment I am going to be making a few files and folders, because of this, is there a way to open a application in vim (in terminal not visual vim) when double/right clicking the file in finder?

Thanks

Create an Applet. The script below should get you started. Save that Applet to place of your preference (/Applications/). Select any text file and press ⌘+I(nfo) > Open With: > Other > Select you Applet, then click change all. Now whenever you open any text file that applet will run, which will open the file in vim.

on open theFiles
    tell application "Terminal"
        activate
        -- If there are no open windows, open one.
        if (count of windows) is less than 1 then
            do script ""
        end if
        set theTab to selected tab in first window
        set filePath to POSIX path of item 1 of theFiles
        do script "/usr/bin/vim " & quoted form of filePath in theTab
    end tell
    return
end open

on run
    --  Handle the case where the script is launched without any dropped files
    open (choose file with multiple selections allowed)
    return
end run

I created a github project with two versions of these apple scripts. One can open files and one can edit any selected text in place (e.g. in Mail, Safari etc.).

https://github.com/normen/vim-macos-scripts


Whats the last OS X that supported Power PC? I still have an old Power PC machine and was wondering what the latest OS X build I can install on it?

Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) is also the
  first Mac OS release since the
  introduction of System 7.1.2 that
  does not support the PowerPC
  architecture, as Apple now intends to
  focus on its current line of
  Intel-based products.

Thus OS X supported PowerPC up to and including version 10.5 (Leopard).

Snow leopard does support PowerPC applications, this function was dropped with Lion. I base this on one MacBook with Snow Leopard on it works fine with Microsoft Office X, Quake II (OS XVersion), Halo, Roxio Toast Lite 5.2.2.

However on my upgrade MacBook running Lion they are tomb stoned and when you try to run them the message you receive is PowerPcC no longer supported!


Unable to re-enable Spotlight on Volume I've been trying to debug a "Waiting for index to be ready" issue with my Time Machine volume, and one piece of advice that I've encountered is re-creating the Spotlight index on the volume.

To do this I ran the following commands (as sudo):

mdutil -i off /Volumes/Backup
rm -R /Volumes/Backup/.Spotlight-V100

However, I'm now trying to re-enable Spotlight with the reverse of the first command, but this is what I'm getting:

mdutil -v -i on /Volumes/Backup
/Volumes/Backup:
    Indexing and searching disabled.

It simply doesn't want to do it, and I can't figure out why. I've tried manually recreating the .Spotlight-V100 with ownership set to root:wheel and mode set to 700 (exactly as the folder on other volumes is configured), and while mdutil has now created a VolumeConfiguration.plist file, it still won't enable indexing.

I can't find anywhere to get more information; the -v option of mdutil doesn't give any additional output, and nothing extra seems to be logged anywhere. There doesn't appear to be any physical problem, as the drive is new and reporting no I/O errors or other issues; aside from the "waiting for index" slow-down, Time Machine is otherwise working perfectly and I can view the contents of its backups without any problems.

Anyway, are there any other steps that can be followed to force Spotlight to re-index the drive, or find out why it's failing to do-so?

There are typically user immutable flags set on Time Machine backup volumes so that even root can't directly chown or chmod. You can look at these with:

ls -laeO /Volumes/*
ls -laeO /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/

Mac:~ me$ ls -laeO /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@  7 root  wheel  -  238 Mar  3 04:40 .
 0: group:everyone deny add_file,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,writeattr,writeextattr,chown
drwxrwxr-x  20 root  wheel  -  748 Mar 25 12:29 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  -  102 Mar 27 12:04 .RecoverySets
drwx------   7 root  wheel  -  238 Mar  6 10:47 .spotlight_repair
drwx------   2 root  wheel  -   68 Mar 27 14:28 .spotlight_temp
drwxr-xr-x@ 40 root  wheel  - 1360 Mar 27 18:31 Mac
 0: group:everyone deny add_file,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,writeattr,writeextattr,chown

Cross reference with diskutil list to double check your mount points and volume names. My experience is that since Time Machine requires spotlight to make hard links is that if you tamper with the stores where those databases are resident on the filesystem you can't put "humpty dumpty" back together again and should archive off the snapshot backups you need using Finder/rsync or by making a dmg of those instants and then wiping the drive to start with new slate of .dotfiles and .dotdirectories with associated stores.

Clearly, someone with internal knowledge of how Time Machine and spotlight self check might step up and explain things, but I've not seen this level of detail publicly documented by Apple so far. I'd start at http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html if you haven't checked there for any community knowledge on the innards of Time Machine + Spotlight

I had the same problem, but fixed it by taking the affected volume out of the privacy list in the Spotlight system preferences pane. A simplistic approach, but it worked.


My iPad won't text to phone numbers my iPad Air 2 used to text to all apple products and now I can only text to iPods and iPads that use email. I looked at what everyone else did but it didn't help. I get the red error when ever I do try. Please help!

It sounds like the iPad is having difficulty associating numbers with the Apple IDs associated with the people you're contacting. Back up everything via iCloud or by connecting to iTunes and then restore your iPad https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201252

Restore information from your iCloud and iTunes backup and make sure that iMessage is activated in the settings of your iPad and try to send your messages again.

If it's still not working then restore the iPad again but set it up brand new.

Maybe you need a service in order to text phone numbers. Try viewing emails in contacts.


How do I re-associate HTTP links with my browser in OS X? I installed iTerm2 the other day, and was playing around with it. In the process I seemed to have messed up the handling of HTTP hyperlinks on my system. Sometimes (annoyingly, not every time, which is very confusing - I can't spot a pattern) when I click an HTTP link in the Twitter app, MS Word, and so on, it opens a new iTerm2 terminal window or tab, and the webpage doesn't open. How can I get back to the original behavior and have the link open in the default web browser?

I've already checked the iTerm2 preferences - under "URL schemes", no scheme is selected:

Check the file associations for both HTTP & HTTPS, make sure both are set to Safari.

A simple way to do this would be using RCDefaultApp

 Answered as Community Wiki just so we don't have a dangling question when there's a perfectly good answer in the comments.

Set Safari to be your default web browser.


Is there a way to toggle VPN in iOS shortcuts? Is there a way to toggle VPN trough shortcuts in iOS 12?

Looked into it, but can't really find anything.

First, you need to have a VPN app installed. When you connect to the VPN for the first time (via this installed app OR configuration URL), iOS enables a hidden tag in settings named VPN. This tile isn’t enabled by default, so check if you were connected before to any service or not. This setting was just created to manage an existing connection.
and my second solution is this url : prefs:root=General&path=VPN . but to use this url you need to connect existing app or shortcut (going there with safari does nothing and url is very unstable). here is download of my version of shortcut and sorry for google drive but i'm logged out of icloud :/ . and here is printscreen of code (i'm doing that due to security reasons and people just don't trust me so...) here it is:


Rename the "Terminal" app in OSX Is there any way to rename the Terminal app?

When I try to rename it by right-clicking it, that option is greyed out.

Apple doesn't allow user to rename any app that comes with the O/S


Launchpad Search Field not working - cannot type The launchpad search field suddenly no longer accepts text input for me.

Any idea how to get this to accept text again?  Searching for an app was so very useful.

Hit the tab key a few times. Worked for me.

You need to hit Tab once the launchpad screen comes up. The tab will then put focus on the search bar, and then pressing it again will remove it. Pressing it ~20times seems to cause some sort of reset. Once you visibly notice the cursor, things should be good.

Other things to try:

terminal > defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock
logout / login
restart

In the Launchpad, press Cmd + Shift + esc. The pad will fade and zoom, and when you hit it again it works so you can type again.


MIgration Assistant from HFS+ (case sensitive) to APFS (case sensitive) I have a new 2018 MacBook Pro, OS X Mojave 10.14.2, hard drive formatted as AFPS (Case-sensitive) and an old 2009 MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite, hard drive formatted as HFS+ (Case-sensitive, Journaled).  I believe OS X on the old laptop cannot be upgraded any further.

I am attempting to use Migration Assistant to move the files over from the one user on the old laptop to the new one.  When I get to the "Transfer Information to This Mac" step of OS X install on the new laptop, I fire up Migration Assistant on the old, and see it appear on the new as a transfer source, but with a yellow caution icon.  Selecting that icon displays a pop-up with the message:

**The selected source cannot be used for migration.**
This source is not using a Case Sensitive filesystem, while your Mac is.

I have confirmed in Disk Utility and About This Mac that both hard disks are formatted case-sensitive.  There is a big difference in that the old drive is formatted HFS+, and the new AFPS.

Initially, I was able to use migration assistant to transfer the files, up until I discovered that the new drive was not formatted case-sensitive, which of course caused problems with filenames that differ only by case.  So I used command-r to boot the new system into recovery mode, formatted that drive as AFPS case-sensitive, and reinstalled OS X Mojave, only to run into this issue.

So, how do I get the user and all their files from the old laptop to the new?

I was able to restore from a time machine backup.  Just had to manually do a up-to-date backup on the old laptop.

Still don't know why I was unable to do a system-to-system (both with case-sensitive volumes) migration.

By default, both APFS and HFS+ volumes are "case-aware", but NOT case-sensitive. So the file system will save a file called "MyBigTextFile.txt", and retain the case as written. But it won't distinguish it from "mybigtextfile.txt", which will over-write it.

Choosing a case-sensitive file system can cause problems and is not usually recommended, unless you have particular needs. Unless you specifically set your drive up to be case-sensitive, then it won't be. Some versions of Adobe apps don't work on sensitive volumes, for example.

If you are absolutely sure that both are case-sensitive, then it seems likely that the flagged error is either a bug, or some limitation of 'matching' files from one file system to the other.

Was your TM backup also Case-sensitive? Presumably so, as the source and backup would need to match.

Also, your 2009 should be able to run El Capitan, 10.11.


"XfinityWifi" and "PublicWifi" are being added to my list of networks without my knowledge or consent (OS/X El Capitan ... MacBook Pro)

From time to time, when I go to *System Preferences...Network...WiFi...Advanced," I find that two network-names have been added to the list without my knowledge or consent:

XfinityWiFi
PublicWifi

How do I know this?   Heh ... "Because I happen to live in a hole."   That is to say, "a little corner of Northwest Georgia (USA)" where there is exactly one wireless network: "Mine!"   I work from my home, so my computer rarely leaves it.

I have turned off "Remember networks that this computer has joined," and in any case I can positively say that this computer has never encountered, let alone "joined," either of these networks.

So ... what's going on here?!

Wireless networks are synced across iCloud, so if any other device such as an iPhone connects to these networks and is also signed in to the same iCloud account as your Mac, the networks will appear in this list.

An article posted on dslreports.com last December stated:
In June of last year Comcast announced that the company was launching a new, Fon-like effort that involved new router firmware that turns your gateway into a publicly-accessible hotspot. More specifically, updated routers would now offer two signals: one being yours, and the other being a "xfinitywifi" SSID signal providing free Wi-Fi to other Comcast users in your general area.

The article also adds: Fortunately, users can disable this functionality if they don't want to share their bandwidth with strangers, but Comcast says this functionality is enabled by default. The public usage also thankfully doesn't count against your Comcast usage cap (if you have one in your market), and Comcast will push more bandwidth your direction to compensate for additional strain on your line.
However, as we've been noting the program's opt out functionality doesn't always work and appears to reset after firmware updates.

So unless you buy your own cable modem/gateway device, you're going to have to live with this turning itself back on after every firmware update to your rented cable modem even after you opt-out.


Can I delete files and folders in /private/var/tmp folder? I ran into the situation where using simultaneously Google Drive File Stream (DFS) and Code42 Crashplan and some other Corporate SW like CrowdStrike's Falcon, Bitdefender, etc... which seems are not liking each other (see this article).
Anyway, there turned up two issues:

one which was manageable in user accessible space (DFS cache was ~60GB)
the other beyond standard user access, where in /private/var/tmp folder occupied 210+GB

Resolving issue #1 was relatively "trivial" still not sure how to go around it in the future.
Resolving issue #2 took me several days of investigation and trials.

The solution now, seems quite straight forward possible to achieve in 5 or 6 main steps.
Not to repeat myself here again, I'd rather post link to Apple forum where I post similar question: How to safely delete a content of /private/var/tmp


New File Action in Finder Why finder doesn't have 'New File', but 'New Folder'?
Is there any way/tool for having 'New File' in Finder?

ADDED

Pathfinder provides the feature of making 'New File'. I need this function in Finder.

The idea in OS X is, that you open an Application and create the file while you are working. This simply because creating the file beforehand is kind of awkward:

  Create file > open file > edit

Of course if you just need dummy files, then you can make those from Terminal.app, but I'd be careful with that if you are not used to it already.

The command is: touch filename

proseek you can add to finder the extension "shellhere", that's great!


How can I password protect files in macOS? I want to start a private journal on my Mac, but I want to make sure that the file can only be opened by me.

How can I put password security on my file without it slowing down my computer?

You could put it in an encrypted disk image.

You can create an encrypted disk image in Disk Utility:

Open Disk Utility.
Go to File > New Image > Blank Image (Cmd+N).
Enter a filename, and choose a location. You can also choose the size of the disk image. Make sure to set Encryption to either 128 or 256 bit AES encryption (256 bit is more secure than 128 bit, but it's also slower.) You can keep all other settings the same.
Enter a passphrase for your disk image.
Ensure you have read/write disk image selected for Image Format (otherwise you won't be able to write to it)
You can now create the image. Once it's created, the disk image will be mounted. Copy the files you want to keep safe to the new disk.
Once you're done, eject the disk by dragging it to the Trash.

Now, whenever you want to access your encrypted files, just mount the image from wherever you saved it to earlier. Once you're done with your files, eject it as described earlier.

One can just export as pdf(or other option if suitable) while doing so encrypt it, if its just something you want encrypted not for any further changes and keep on the computer for safe keeping like passwords.


Language mismatch in Apple menu bar The default language on my iMac is Italian, however, after restoring from a time machine backup, the language of the shutdown and reboot options from the menu bar have mixed language.

The "countdown" is in Italian but the other text is not, as you can see. Also, the text of the password prompt of the lock screen is in English too, "Enter password". I tried switching the language to English and back to Italian but it didn't work. I'm running OS X 10.11.6.

Solved by running

sudo languagesetup

Solution from the ‘If there’s more than one user account on your Mac’ part from the Apple KB article Change the language used at the login screen on your Mac.


Spotlight: Unable to index network SMB share I'm trying to turn on spotlight for my NAS drive. I have it mounted in OSX 10.8.2 as the following:

 /Volumes/Trogdor (smbfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by soltrain)

mdutil returns the following:

mdutil -as (removed non relevent parts)
/Volumes/Trogdor:
    Indexing and searching disabled.

When I try to enable it I get the following:

Noahs-MacBook-Air:~ soltrain$ mdutil -i on /Volumes/Trogdor/
                              /Volumes/Trogdor:
                                  Indexing and searching disabled.

I've looked for a .metadata_never_index file on /Volumes/Trogdor/ but do not see any such file. I've also added/removed the volume from the privacy preferences in the spotlight pref panel with no effect. Any ideas? I'd rather not use a separate util if spotlight should be working.

Try going to System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy, then adding in the share to the list not to index, then removing it again. It helped with a similar issue I had.


Duplicates in contacts in iphone I am using icloud, but always sync my contacts using itunes. Still have a lot of duplicates. How do I get rid of the duplicates

On your Mac, open the Address Book and goto Card → Look for Duplicates.

You'll be prompted with something like this:

After merging the contacts in the Address Book you should choose to replace the contacts on the iPhone. This option can be found under the iPhone in the iTunes sidebar.

Your problem obviously comes from the fact that you use both iCloud and iTunes to sync your contacts.

There is a bit of a complicated solution but which works. First switch off your iCloud contact sync. Next, go to iTunes and set up a Gmail iPhone contact sync.

If you don't have a Gmail account, create one. Next, sync all of your iPhone contacts with your (new) Gmail account.

Finally, select "Find and merge duplicates" from your Gmail Contacts settings (by clicking on the "More" button).

Make sure you effectuate a sync between your Gmail contacts and your iPhone once again (via iTunes). All of your duplicate contacts are now gone (and whenever needed - merged).

Go to Gmail (from your web browser), and navigate to your Gmail contacts (all of your iPhone contacts should now live in your Gmail too).


How can I reset a device with broken lock button and touchscreen? I have an iPhone 4s on iOS 7. My lock (sleep/wake) button has been broken for months now and I've been using the assisted touch service to lock my phone screen ever since.

However, just over an hour ago my touch screen has decided to pack in also. I can bring up the menus from swiping up and down but anything else will not work, at all. So obviously I can't restart my phone by holding the power button and home button at the same time since the lock button doesn't work and I also can't turn it off as you must swipe the screen to select "power off". Has anyone got any ideas on how I can try to fix this?

You can go into your settings and turn on Assistive touch to turn your phone off.. The only way to turn it back on though is by using your charger.. If your phone decides it doesn't want to turn on anymore or charge like mine does then your stuck with a phone that wont turn on..

take out the battery you guys really go around this the hard way lol.


Is it possible to install Mac OS 9 on a VM? Recently I got hold of a Mac OS 9.2.1 retail CD and would like to test drive it in a VM.  Is that possible?

SheepShaver will be your best bet. There's several tutorials laying around on getting OS 9 running in SheepShaver.

it would not work in vmware/virtulbox but it would work in qemu manager


Will this RAM work for me? (Late 2009 iMac) I have a 27-inch iMac late 2009 desktop computer and i'm looking to upgrade my ram. The best RAM I can find is a Kingston 2GB, DDR3-1066, PC3-8500, CL7, DIMM.

What I currently have is 4GB 1067 MHz Ram

Will this be suitable? Or is this the wrong one?

You can find out the memory summary by going to:

 > About This Mac > More Info > Memory

Screenshot example

You can also go to Technical Specifications, click "Browse by Product", and enter the serial number of your Mac to see the specs.

It's always a good idea to read the return policy from the vendors, in case the RAM that you bought was not compatible with your computer.

it should work.  i would just make sure you can return it just in case.  when you put the new ram in the mac will beep if the ram is not acceptable.


iPhone 4 won't charge with wall charger after iOS 6 update After updating to iOS 6.0 my iPhone will not charge on the wall charger.  My phone will charge in the car and on a stereo dock.  My wall charger still works and charges my iPod touch fine.  I have even tried my husband's wall charger and my phone still won't charge.  When I plug it in the wall charger just starts blinking and my phone starts alternating charge/off/charge/off.  I have restarted phone, held home and power key, even updated to the new iOS 6.01 and still nothing!  Help!

Check the dock connector on the bottom for dust, and clean it out very carefully.

The wall charger uses a different pin for the faster charge rate (12V I think), USB only carries 5V of power, and has a dedicated pin on the dock connector for 5V charging.


Why is the iCloud Photostream option not available in iOS preferences? My iPhone 4 runs iOS 5.1.1.

When I go to settings > iCloud, the Photostream option is not available.
I've tried to restore my phone, but the option is still not available.

How can I activate this setting when it's missing from the preference?

Just looked a little closer at my settings....
Settings -> General -> Profiles -> [Work Profile] -> More Details -> Disable Documents in the Cloud, iCloud backup, Photo Stream.

There's my answer, my company supplied configuration that was loaded on the phone limits this option.

C'est la vie...

Photos are no longer in the CAMERA.  They are in the Photos. (the blue background with the flower).


Changing iCloud email I need to change the iCloud email address associated with my iCloud. I can't update any apps. I can't check the current email address as its no longer active. How do I change it?

Open the Settings app on your iPad
Go to the iCloud tab
Scroll down, tap Sign Out.
In your case, tap Delete from my device, then  enter your password.

To get a new iCloud account on your iPad, go to back to the iCloud menu, then sign in by following the setup prompts.


How can I remove an autocomplete suggestion from Safari's address bar? A site that I visit frequently used to be located at:

http://www.site.com/sub/dir

But now it's just located it:

http://www.site.com/sub

The problem is, I visited the original location so often that Safari suggests it as the Top Hit and autocompletes it, even though it no longer exists (it returns a 404). So I start typing http://www.site.com/sub... and Safari fills in the rest with the old URL that no longer works.

How can I remove the old URL so Safari no longer autocompletes it? I already went and found the URL in my history and deleted it, but it still suggests it as the Top Hit.

Open Safari.
From the “History” menu, choose “Show All History”.

keyboard shortcut: ⌘ Y

In the Search field in the top right corner, enter the web site you want to remove.
In the list of search results, click on the web site you want to remove.

To select multiple sites, hold the command ⌘ key while clicking on the sites you want to delete.  Or, to select a range, hold the shift key, click the first item to delete, then click the last item to delete.

Press the Delete key on your keyboard.

Go to Settings -> Autofill -> Other Forms, Tap Edit and remove your site and restart browser. It helped me.


Is there a way to convert dimensions to inches in OS X? When I Get Info on a pdf or an image it gives me the dimensions in points, which is great. I need to know how big an image would be, at full size, in inches. Is there somewhere in OS X where that info is available? I found this question where you can get that info via Preview, but having to open each file is painful.

Open the file in Preview. Press command + I to open the Inspector window. You'll find the DPI of the image.

You should get the required DPI in of the image.

Now launch Spotlight and divide image size in each dimension with the DPI. You should get your answer.


What's the quickest way to get a graphic on the clipboard saved to disk? I have a graphic on the clipboard on OS X.

What's the quickest way to get it onto disk as a png or jpg?

Maybe the File | New From Clipboard menu of /Application/Preview.app.

I like to use the command line:

pbpaste > myfile.png

The pbcopy command is useful as well. See this post for details.


How can I mirror my Mac display on my iPad? I don't know why i can't seem to find any info about this or even anyone asking the same question. I have an iMac and a new iPad. I want to mirror my Mac display on the iPad, so I can sit in another room with the iPad, the wireless keyboard and mouse. Since I'm using the keyboard and mouse, I don't need touch events to be translated. Also, since the iPad's resolution in landscape mode is 2048x1536, the Mac's resolution of 1920x1080 should fit in it without scaling. Letterboxing is okay.

I'd prefer to do this via AirPlay Mirroring, if possible. I have AirServer installed, but it doesn't show up on my Mac (10.8.2) display settings page ("No devices detected"). Also, AirServer used to be what i needed (if you check the description on Cydia), but for some reason, the website is now only advocating the exact opposite of this.
I checked out Reflector, but it only does the opposite, and that's what everyone else in the world seems to be asking.
There's also an app called Air Display which does do Mac -> iOS, but it requires a server-client installation. I don't want that. The maximum I'm willing to install is an receiver client on the iPad.
I don't want to use a VNC server and client.
I'm okay with an AirPlay receiver app for the iPad, because the iPad doesn't natively receive AirPlay, it only broadcasts it.
AirView would have been it, but it's been taken off the store by Apple.

How can I do this?

The Xscope mirror, a free tool works without needing VNC but you need a paid companion app on the Mac to send the data.

I prefer to use screens on the iPad. VNC is the way that OS X sends it's video remotely to another display. If you don't use it, someone else needs to re-write that entire stack and it works very well for local networks.

As for why the app I recommend, it has an observe mode and seems to scale the screen much better than the Xscope app since it is designed primarily for designing, not mirroring. The same program works on iPad, iPod, iPhone of all sizes and retina or not displays. It is very fast and has an observe only mode so that you don't accidentally send touch events.

If you do decide to use it on the go for remote access, there is a free location app (similar to how Back to My Mac works) and works over ssh tunnels if you prefer more security than speed. It has great soft keyboard support and of course works with Linux and Windows as well. There is nothing I can say bad about it in terms of missing features os bugs or design.

It's a quality piece of software all around.

If you really must avoid VNC, there is another option. The Xscope app for software designers has a free companion app that runs on the iPad and will mirror your screen. It's more designed for counting pixels and looking at mockups you design on the Mac for eventual use on the iPad, but you can use it as a mirroring solution. It lacks any input from the iPad and simply sends the screen from the Mac to iOS.

It also is very high quality software - and is well designed, all around and fast.

You can remotely use your Mac through Chrome on your iPad, free and clean.


Cannot export vCard on iCloud I need to export my contacts to my Google account but whenever I select all of my contacts and click export vCard, the website does not do anything.

It can work using Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer :

With Chrome: do a right click on the menu option 'export vcard'

With I.E.: do a SHIFT-Click on the menu option 'export vcard'

Just Install latest Safari Browser, wow it will work with perfect.

sam


iPhone 6S storage issue I have iOS devices since the 3GS but this happened to me for the first time tonight.. I have the 16GB model. It's quite enough for me. I had 2.2GB free. This afternoon I performed 3 updates and 2 hours after that my storage started declining and went to 0 bytes. Since then it stack 0 bytes for no reason. Any opinions?

I've talked with Apple Support, and they determined that it is probably a software glitch. The only solution is a reinstallation of iOS.

Restarting the iPhone will clear temporary files and caches. That should clear up anything that was left over from the updates you've performed.

You can force a restart by holding the home button and the sleep/wake button simultaneously for 10 seconds until the device powers off.


How to have sshd re-read its config file (without killing ssh connections)? How can I get the ssh server to re-read its configuration file (/etc/sshd_config), without killing existing ssh connections?

EDIT: If I run kill -HUP <SSHD_PID> I kill the connection.

sshd doesn't "re-read" it's configuration file, it restarts itself (refer to man sshd(8)), however, it shouldn't kill the child/connections if you sent the SIGHUP to the PARENT of them all. That is when you are talking about sshd that binds to port 22, as in the "usual" with Linux/FreeBSD/etc. [there are exceptions and sysadmin reasons why to follow the MacOSX type route]

HOWEVER MacOSX have launchd as the one that listens to and handles port 22 (from my 10.10.4 machine):

BlackYos:~ hvisage$ sudo lsof -i :22
Password:
COMMAND  PID    USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
launchd    1    root   57u  IPv4 0xdb59a664e4b34941      0t0  TCP blackyos:ssh->hvs:39093 (ESTABLISHED)
launchd    1    root   58u  IPv4 0xdb59a664e4b34941      0t0  TCP blackyos:ssh->hvs:39093 (ESTABLISHED)
launchd    1    root   62u  IPv6 0xdb59a664c78cd671      0t0  TCP *:ssh (LISTEN)
launchd    1    root   66u  IPv4 0xdb59a664c78d2e21      0t0  TCP *:ssh (LISTEN)
launchd    1    root   67u  IPv6 0xdb59a664c78cd671      0t0  TCP *:ssh (LISTEN)
launchd    1    root   68u  IPv4 0xdb59a664c78d2e21      0t0  TCP *:ssh (LISTEN)
ssh     1262 hvisage    3u  IPv4 0xdb59a664e59313b1      0t0  TCP blackyos:51628->hvs:ssh (ESTABLISHED)
sshd    1272    root    4u  IPv4 0xdb59a664e4b34941      0t0  TCP blackyos:ssh->hvs:39093 (ESTABLISHED)
sshd    1272    root    5u  IPv4 0xdb59a664e4b34941      0t0  TCP blackyos:ssh->hvs:39093 (ESTABLISHED)
sshd    1274 hvisage    4u  IPv4 0xdb59a664e4b34941      0t0  TCP blackyos:ssh->hvs:39093 (ESTABLISHED)
sshd    1274 hvisage    5u  IPv4 0xdb59a664e4b34941      0t0  TCP blackyos:ssh->hvs:39093 (ESTABLISHED)

It is launchd that might need to be "restarted" on macosx, or told about different ports to listen on for sshd, as launchd will spawn a new sshd for each port 22 connection that comes in.

check the following:

BlackYos:~ hvisage$ sudo ps -ef |grep -i ssh
  501  1263     1   0  6:46PM ??         0:00.06 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -l
    0  1272     1   0  6:46PM ??         0:00.40 sshd: hvisage [priv]
  501  1274  1272   0  6:46PM ??         0:00.03 sshd: hvisage@ttys004
  501  1262   570   0  6:46PM ttys001    0:00.05 ssh -v hvs
  501  1303  1275   0  6:50PM ttys004    0:00.00 grep -i ssh
BlackYos:~ hvisage$

I've ssh'd to my router and back to demonstrate the issue, and you'll notice that the two processes are already "owned" by me.
Compare this to a Linux system (my roouter) where you'll notice the third "real" sshd that is owned by root:

hvisage@hvs:~$ ps -ef |grep -i ssh
root      4053     1  0 Jul11 ?        00:04:22 /usr/sbin/sshguard -i /var/run/sshguard.pid -l /var/log/auth.log -w /etc/sshguard/whitelist -a 40 -p 420 -s 1200
root     16244 30219  0 18:46 ?        00:00:00 sshd: hvisage [priv]
hvisage  16249 16244  0 18:46 ?        00:00:00 sshd: hvisage@pts/0
hvisage  16563 16250  0 18:52 pts/0    00:00:00 grep -i ssh
root     30219     1  0 Aug09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
hvisage@hvs:~$


What do I need to set up two DVI monitors on a 2011 Mac mini? As a software developer who recently bought an iPhone, I knew it was just a matter of time before I started dicking around in the iOS apps space. Today Apple released a new line of Mac minis and I am going to buy one. I'd like to just buy a KVM switch and flip between my current two monitor PC setup and the Mac. What kind of adapters do I need for the Mac mini to be able to take two DVI outs?

I've been told that I can use a mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter with the Thunderbolt port then just a HDMI to DVI in the HDMI port, is that possible?

I've been told that I can use a mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter with the Thunderbolt port then just a HDMI to DVI in the HDMI port, is that possible?

That's what I do with a 2010 mini (MDP instead of TB).

Yes, it works perfectly.

The tricky part comes if you want three monitors. For that, you need to be sure to buy the video-boosted Mini model that has discrete graphics, or use a (slow) USB video adapter for the third screen. But for two, any modern mini is fine out of the box.

I was just looking into hooking up two displays to my yet to arrive Macbook Air and found a Mini DisplayPort | Thunderbolt to DVI (2 DVI Output) Converter.

I don't see why this wouldn't work for the Mac mini as well.


When I reset my iPhone, will it deactive my service with my carrier? I have the iPhone 5s that is 16 GB. I deleted many apps and photos, but I still have no storage and memory. My only option is to restart my iPhone completely, meaning to erase all my data and media on it. I'm
wondering if this was disconnect the service with my Verizon carrier...

The phone is connected to Verizon via the SIM card, not the phone itself. So, no, reseting your phone will not deactivate your service.

The other two answers are false when restoring my old iPhone once it did deactivate it. My carrier advised I had to call to reactivate it. Take it to the Apple Store if you really need it restored it sounds like the part that reads the memory storage has gone wonky. It only won't if you restore from a back up its advised to use an iCloud back up rather then iTunes
Note:I just restored it as new and I did deactivate it my phone number was gone so please spell me you didn't listen to them


How can I make unlocking my Mac with my Apple Watch more secure? I have turned on the feature to allow my Mac to be unlocked via my Apple Watch. However, there is no interaction required from me - if I am home and asleep with my watch on, my roommate can go to my computer and it will unlock. I'd prefer if I had to tap something on my watch to allow it. This is how 1Password works - it prompts me on my watch and I have to accept

I think that you should approach situation in more generalized way.
I don't think that requirement to interact with watch will improve your security. Why? If your roommate have access to your computer and to you while you are sleeping there is nothing that stops him/her interacting with your watch.
Possible solutions as I see it (in no particular order): change roommate, take off watch while sleeping, disable unlocking with watch.
But keep in mind that if you have fingerprint access on your notebook and it's enabled it should be relatively easy to press your finger on sensor without waking you up. So you may consider turning it off as well.
If your computer is off then in order to unlock with watch or with fingerprint to work you should first log in with password. So if you go to sleep with computer off neither of these options work without password.

Set bedtime mode may help.
referenece:https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/iciyy3/mac_will_not_automatically_unlock_when_apple/


Is it possible to jailbreak an iPad 2 (A1395) after updating to iOS 6.0.1? I have a jailbroken iPad 2 (A1395) running Version 5.0.1 (9A405).

If I update to 6.0.1, can I jailbreak untethered?

Will I have to re-install all my Cydia apps & settings, or do they get backed up and restored?

Confused by too many Google results!

This is no longer true; Both answers were written before evasi0n came out. Now it's more than possible to JB 6.x devices, in fact up to 6.1.1/6.1.2.

As for backing up, you don't need to back up Cydia - it gets reinstalled anyway. What I would back up are any manually installed (i.e. hackulous-type) apps you may have (cd to /var/mobile/Applications, then do a tar)

Dont do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you upgrade you will kill any chance (at present of jailbreaking).
I did mine last year without thinking and have regretted it ever since. stay with ios 5.1. Trust me there is no benefit at all in upgrading only losses