MacBook Pro (mid-2012) Microphone Input Here, it says how to use the audio jack as in input. On my MacBook Pro 13" (mid 2012), It doesn't seem to have the option in settings. Is it not possible with these computers?

All PowerBook and MacBook models support analog audio in via the headphone jack.
In your specific case, it is possible to use external microphone on MacBook pro and Air 2012 Models.
It looks like Apple has redesigned it to be a multifunction plug, without telling us in plain English. What they do say is you can use the Apple iPhone headset with microphone! Now that is a Hint !

Since there are multiple options to connect a microphone lets take a look.
1 - For stand alone microphone with cable you could use a USB connector type or Audio to USB converter.
2- You could use a BlueTooth type microphone/Headset.
3 - And last not least, you could actually use your Headphone (as marked) the 1/8 inch plug, but NOT with standard audio plug.
Here is the how: The plug is like the headphone port on iOS devices, this jack supports audio input as well as output—with as described in Apple specification.
Looking under the hood of Apple "About this Mac" you get the answer (it says it does support it).

The microphone or headset in question must be of the three-ring variety, just like Apple’s headsets. The fourth pin (ring) is for the microphone !

OK, what now? Lets assume you insist on using your microphone!!!
Get the 3.5mm 4 Position to 2x 3 Position 3.5mm Headset Splitter Adapter - M/F

... this headset splitter adapter breaks the audio port out into two distinct ports - one that can be used for a microphone input connection, and the other for connecting external (output) speakers.
I found stores in Europe (for about €10), but sure you can find it where you are.


Does anyone know why I've been getting thin rectangular outlines all over my desktop? These lines have been appearing and increasing in number.

Sounds like an OSX Failure. You should try to reinstall the operating system.


Is it possible to remove cell borders from Numbers? I imported an Excel spreadsheet that contained a few cells with black lines as their border.  Is it possible to remove these outlines through Numbers (iOS)?

I have tried copying and pasting, the Format > Cells > Border Style, and deleting the contents, but the black border always remains (and actually spreads if I copy and paste the contents elsewhere).

It's not iOS but this is how they've done it on OSX:
Under the "Table" tab, uncheck "Grid Lines"

You might also set "Table Outline" to "None" and play with the 3 buttons to the right to add/remove grid lines from the headers.

Right click the cell and click on Reapply Table Style.


How to change turn-by-turn navigation voice language in Google Maps for iPhone? I have my iPhone's language set to English in Settings, but I live in a non-English speaking country. As such, when using turn-by-turn navigation, street names are pronounced as though they were English words, and are barely recognizable.

Is there a way to get Google Maps' navigation feature to speak my language without changing the systemwide language setting?

Unfortunately, Google Maps doesn't have Language controls built into the app. It cues off of the settings in Settings.app > General > International.

The only way to have Google Maps speak a different language is to change the actual settings in Settings.app > General > International > Language.

Of course, this doesn't take long to change, and it may be desirable to change it before using turn-by-turn for perhaps a long trip.

It would be a good idea to request that feature from Google by opening the Google Maps app and tapping the person icon in the upper right corner. Then tap "Send Feedback" and compose a request to Google.

Minor Update

You can now set voice search language in the app. There is a mic icon on the right in the search box that you can tap to basically dictate the location. While that doesn't apply to your question, perhaps that would be a first, mildly helpful step.

I changed the phone language settings and it is the easiest fix, and will help you improve your Spanish, or you could try a different GPS app


Uploading an edited preferences plist to a non-jailbroken iPhone running iOS 7.0 I want to change a setting in one of my iOS device's plists, and upload it to the device without doing a full restore from backup.

How can I extract the file from an unencrypted backup on my Mac?
How can I upload the modified file to my device?

You can do it with i fun box for mac. Go here http://i-funbox.com/ifunboxmac/


Can you dictate Emoji on iOS? iOS (and presumably OS X) understands the underlying Unicode descriptions for Emoji icons. When reading iMessages back to you, Siri can use these descriptions to translate Emoji into words.

For example, Siri is able to describe all of the following:

 is read aloud as "happy face with open mouth"
❤ is "red heart"
 is "sushi"
 is read as "poop"

Is there a way to do this in reverse? That is, when I dictate to Siri or keyboard Dictation, translate what I say into an Emoji? Something like:

  Let's go to the movies exclamation point emoji happy face with open mouth

and iOS would dictate that as:

  Let's go to the movies!

I've tried various command words but have not been able to find a way to do it. It may not be possible. Does anyone know for sure?

No, you can't.

Because there is 2 different keyboard sets, what can't be mixed in one dictation process. That could be the same like you'll try to dictate on 2 different languages in one time. That's hard enough.

But... It's just now, and who knows what kind of updates we will get with new iOS versions and new devices.

By the way. You can use some common text emotions on english keyboard. At least one:

:-)

All that you need to say, it's just: "Smiley".

Two more I know of the top of my head:

:-(    =   'frowny'

;-)   =   'winky'

Using text replacement (General>>Keyboard>>Text Replacement>> you can type various key combos and get emoji characters.

For example you can type keys for:
exclamation point right paren <> and get

or

colon hyphen rt. paren

but sadly, dictating these does not work.


I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite I wanted to check if it's possible to use emoji in a password for my Account on OS Yosemite. It worked but I didn't realize that the login screen has only native keyboards, so I can't type emoji there.

So the situation is that I know my password but I can't type it. The machine has rebooted to the Recovery HD and I don't see a way to enable the emoji keyboard there. In effect, since FileVault was turned on, I can't restore the password easily.

I see three possible options here, but would be happy to hear anything else:

Find a way to type emoji in the password field, this would be ideal.
Access my Account from external machine that will allow me to type my password from there so I can type emoji (not sure there such a thing)
Restore the password even though I used FileVault.

If you have "Other Input Sources" available at the top right of your login screen, select the one called Unicode Hex Input.  This can be used to input emoji (or any other character) into the password field, as long as you know the Unicode Hex number of the character.  This number can be found in the Character Viewer or on the internet.

Some items you find in the  "emoji" category have Unicode hex numbers with just 4 characters, such as Airplane U+2708 ✈.  With the Unicode Hex Input keyboard, you input this by holding down the Option key while you type 2708.

Other emoji have Unicode hex numbers with 5 characters, such as Grinning Face U+1F600 .  For these you need to find the two corresponding UTF-16 Hex codes (sometimes called "surrogates") by consulting Character Viewer or using an internet source like fileformat.info.  For 1F600 these are D83D and DE00.  You can input 1F600 by holding down the option key while typing D83DDE00.  You may see two dots in the field, but it is still just one character.

I am not a Mac user so this may be nonsense. However since the situation is desperate, I'll offer it anyway.

  Unicode Hex Input

  You can use the utility in OS X to generate many Unicode characters by
  manually inputting the hexadecimal code. Other options include saving
  word processor files as Unicode or UTF text.

  Make sure you have activated the Unicode Hex Input keyboard. See the activate keyboards section for more details.
  Open an application which supports Unicode HexInput such as TextEdit. TextEdit is installed with OS X and can be opened from the
  Dock or the Applications folder.
  Switch keyboards to the Unicode Hex Input from the flag icon dropdown menu on the upper right. If the Unicode Hex Option is grayed
  out, then you are in an application which does not support this
  utility. Note:  Most current applications support this keyboard, but
  some old versions of software may not.
  To input a specific character, hold down the option key, then type in the four-digit hexadecimal Unicode value (e.g. 044D = Cyrillic э).
  Charts listing Unicode values for different scripts are available at
  www.unicode.org/charts.

  http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/keyboards/mackey.html#unihex


Migrating iTunes library when replacing the hard disk I am replacing my Macbook's hard disk and I have already a copy of all files I want to transfer over except for my iTunes library.

Since I sync my iPad with it, and have some apps, what is the best approach to backup and migrate my iTunes library to the new disk?

I don't have a 2nd computer, so I can't use the migration assistant.

The simple answer is iTunes has really only stores two types of data:

iOS backups
playlists, ratings, music, books, apps, movies, etc...

If you don't just want to plug in your iPad and other iOS devices and transfer purchases, then you'll want a $8 drive connector to connect your old drive as an external to bring over the media, the backups or both. Yu can also get these files from time machine or other backup (offsite or local)

Even after swapping the old drive, you can still start iTunes pointing to the old backup library and run / restore or export parts of the library playlists and move over just part of your library.

It really depends on what exactly your setup involves (sync data over USB like calendars or photos) may require you to migrate some other data or watch/control the first sync to ensure your iPad doesn't lose unintended data.

If you have an external storage device with enough free space, all you need to do is copy your iTunes folders from home/music/iTunes and home/library/iTunes and replace those folders on the new drive.

After that, when you open iTunes, everything will be as it was on your original hard drive.

If you haven't got an external HD with enough free space, you can connect your original HD through a caddy, and transfer the files like that! You can buy caddy's from various retailers, I'm not sure where you are based but you can get an idea here
http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?client=safari&rls=en&q=disk+caddy&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=9272701352248655613&sa=X&ei=2qElTqChNs-XhQed2KyBCg&ved=0CGMQ8gIwAw

Make sure you get a 2.5" SATA Caddy/Enclosure for a laptop HD or a 3.5" for a desktop!

(I'm assuming you're using a mac here, in regards to the file paths, not too sure what they would be on a windows machine, but shouldn't be too different!)


What does lsboxd process do on os x? My firewall asked me for a connection from lsboxd (module com.apple.ls.boxd, ) to one another computer in my network to the port tcp 548. What does it do? I found that it is a part of sandbox technology of a OS X, but what is it more specifically? I found it in my launchctl list output:

com.apple.LaunchServices.lsboxd

lsboxd is part of the OS X Sandbox.

It allows communication between sandboxed applications.

lsboxd is in the Launch Services API. It is the Launch Services Sandbox Daemon, which governs what apps can launch apps in the OS X sandbox. You can peruse the App Sandbox Guide for more information about sandboxing.

PDF: App Sandbox Design
Guide

Isboxd behaves as spyware, because it is spyware. The fact that it is part of OS X does not "explain" or justify its spyware function. It snoops for more PERSONAL info about you, the MAC user - nothing new, I hope...


How do I exclude a hard drive from Time Machine backup history? I've just found that a hard drive I don't need to backup has been include in Time Machine backups for a while.

Is there a way I can exclude that drive from the backup history, or all I can do is avoid it being backup in the next runs?

Once you’ve excluded the drive from future backups using System Preferences → Time Machine, open Time Machine on your computer, secondary-click on the disk to delete and choose ‘Delete All Backups of disk’.

http://osxdaily.com/2015/07/27/delete-old-backups-time-machine-mac/

Open Time Machine in System Preferences and click on the padlock icon in the lower-left corner of the pane. See image below.

Now click on the Options key in the lower right. You can select which files/folders/Volumes to exclude from your backup. See image below


Access Time Capsule from Android phone Can I access the contents of the "Data" folder on computers other than Macs? For instance, can I access the Time Capsule from my Android phone?

What do you mean by "access"? If you mean editing files and/or copying files to and from Time Capsule, you might not be able to do that since the hard drive in Time Capsule is formatted using Mac Journaled file system. If all you want is to view files, some Android apps might be able to access the device over network.

use x-plore app to acces files on time capsule hdd


How to get postfix send mail (with Gmail smtp) under macOS Catalina? I have tried everything (I guess), such as writing my sasl_passwd and editing main.cf in the /etc/postfix folder (as described in 1).  I also copied my LaunchDaemon plist with a different name to my /Library/LaunchDaemons folder (as described in 2).

While those people managed to get postfix to send smtp Gmail messages from their terminal under Mojave and El Capitan, respectively. I haven't managed to get their solutions to work under Catalina.

Any suggestions?

Take a look at https://gist.github.com/loziju/66d3f024e102704ff5222e54a4bfd50e
Some people stated it works for them.


GitSupport.sh permanently running, apparently hangs I have a niggling process that sometimes runs persistently, somewhat randomly, and sometimes cannot be cancelled. In the screenshot, there are three processes of the same running simultaneously. I'm wondering if anyone has seen this before. I'm not able to locate the process in the command line. I have Git installed for local web development, so it obviously relates to that, but I'm wondering what it's searching for, and why it hangs, and what I can do to make the process work and quit, instead of sometimes running perpetually.

I had the same problem, in my case it was caused by the Right Click Booster app.

com.HobbyistSoftware.RightClick.RCPlugin/GitSupport.sh

Yessiree, I too had this happening on my beloved machine. Low and behold, Right Click Booster was the culprit. Actually, to be more specific, I started seeing this happen after I removed Right Click Booster from my system's startup list. I guess it got offended or something! After I uninstalled it the problem went away.


How to tell why macOS thinks that a certificate is revoked? I cannot access Wikipedia on both my Macs. macOS says that the intermediate certificate used to sign Wikipedia’s certificate (GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2) has been revoked.

I don’t believe that the certificate in question has been revoked, so I checked manually GlobalSign’s CRL and OCSP service and both tell me that the certificate is OK.

Are there other sources of CRLs that macOS can potentially use? Is there a way to ask Security Framework to tell me what exactly is wrong with the certificate in its opinion?

I tried crlrefresh rp and also manually deleting the OCSP cache with sudo rm /var/db/crls/*cache.db as documented by GlobalSign.

However, the cache seems to be in a different location on macOS 10.12 Sierra. The following command worked for me and resolved the problem:

$ sqlite3 ~/Library/Keychains/*/ocspcache.sqlite3 'DELETE FROM responses WHERE responderURI LIKE "%http://%.globalsign.com/%";'

I also tried deleting the whole database, but it does not seem to come back automatically.

If unsure, better just restore ~/Library/Keychains/*/ocspcache.sqlite3* (including -shm and -wal) from a backup before the OCSP servers started to give wrong replies, for example from yesterday.

The other option is to go to a site that you never use that uses globalsign, for example (for any english speakers) https://it.wikipedia.org (italian wikipedia) and when it comes up saying invalid cert explicitly trust the globalsign certificate until this CF is fixed properly


Trying to delete a program that's not open, but says it is? I've recently become nigh on obsessive with cleaning out extra space on my hard drive, and I'm trying to delete a program called "Rowmote Helper." Whenever I try to delete it, it says it can't be deleted because it is open. But when I open the "force quit applications" window, it's not running. What can I do to quit the program if it's running, or force delete it anyway? How do you force-delete an application that says that its running, but when you try to force quit it, it doesn't show up?

Go to Applications > Utilities and open up Activity Monitor. Scroll down until you find your application. Highlight it and click the "Quit Process" button in the upper left. Now it is no longer running and can be deleted from your computer.

On Microsoft Windows 7 just type %appdata% in the Start Menu and find the program. Delete it from there and it will be gone.


Mobile data not turning off for some apps iOS 8.4.1 I am unable to turn off mobile data for some apps.  Facebook, Cotap, Youtube and some others.  Yet some of the apps I can turn mobile data off for e.g App Store.

I recently upgraded to 8.4.1 on my iPhone 4s.

Any one have any ideas?

There's a bug which occurs sometimes where the CellularData.db is corrupted/malformed and iOS can't write the preferences to it.

You can fix this by deleting the file, located in /var/wireless/Library/Databases/CellularUsage.db.

Source: Fix cellular data app preferences not being saved on iOS 7


How can I contact the owner of a lost iPhone who has a password lock? I want to return their phone, but can't access their contacts, etc.

1) Find the phone number, then find the owner

I think the iPhone is locked but not the SIM card. If this is the case, pop the SIM card out. Put it in another phone. Find the number. Now, use the web to do a reverse lookup, find them, find their email or alternate phone, and call them.

2) Find someone who knows the owner

When you set the password, by default the "Voice Dial" is still active. Try holding down the home button for 4 seconds. Even when locked, you might be able to say "Call so-and-so". Try some random names. If someone picks up, explain the situation. They will probably have an alternate means of contacting the owner.

3) Turn the phone on and see if there are recent callers - then use any of these names to try voice calling as in 2 above.

plug the phone into iTunes to get data like the name or other identifiers!!


Can I remove the Dymo Label Webservice and still use the Dymo Application? I don't like an unnecessary permanent open port from the Dymo Label Webservice when I use the Dymo Application every few weeks.

Is it possible to remove the web service and still use the Application to print a label every now and then?

All I found on the web were instructions to remove the Dymo software completely, which is not my intention.

I have installed the newest version 8.6.1 of the Dymo Label software.

Method 1: Unload Launch Agent.

The Dymo Label Webservice is started by a launch agent while booting (or better: logging in with a user). You should be able to simply unload the related launch agent:

sudo launchctl list | grep dymo #check if agent com.dymo.dls.webservice is loaded
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/com.dymo.dls.webservice.plist

You may have to use the force switch: ... unload -w ....

Method 2: Set RunAtLoad to false.

If you are not successful you can try to change the RunAtLoad key in /Library/LaunchAgents/com.dymo.dls.webservice.plist with

sudo nano /Library/LaunchAgents/com.dymo.dls.webservice.plist

from

<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>

to

<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<false/>

Reboot and check if your Dymo label printer also works without the open port of the webservice.

Open your startup options and disable it from Startup.


Deleting iCloud photo duplicates After downloading my phone to a MacBook Pro I have experienced multiple photo duplicates in iCloud. 30,000 plus photos are now on my iCloud and the duplicate photo fixer only scans 2200. Any advice?

I have Photo Fixer Pro and guessing the lite version you have may have a limit.  My icloud photos have over 80,570 photos and videos and if I scan weeks to months it scans way over 30,000

my first try it crashed because I have so many but it scanned 53,204 the first time until I narrow my search down.


How to Attach Picture to Existing Email How do you attach a picture to an email you've already started composing? Instead of going to the picture first and sending it that way. I want to be able to attach it while I'm writing an email.

I am assuming you are using iPhone 4 from your tag.

Press Home button
Go to the Photos app
Long hold on the picture that you want to attach to the email. A 'Copy' pop up will appear, copy.
Go back to Mail.
Paste your photo into Mail.

Note that the photo will be in full size and might make the size of your outgoing mail quite large.

Yes I tapped the screen where I wanted the photo to go. And copy/paste comes up. Press copy and scroll along bar at the top of page until you get insert photo or video. Press that and choose from you camera roll. Paste and hey presto it's done. Actually I don't think you even need to do the C & P. Just press the screen and scroll along the top bar.


Stop "...wants to use keychain" password prompts Because of Xcode bug I had to reset my default keychain, and since then I'm getting annoying messages like this:

Here is what does not work:

unlock keychains
reset default keychain
change keychains password
remove ~/Library/Keychains.

It keeps popping once in 15-30 min, sometimes multiple times in a row.

Note that there are no "fix keychain" or "keychain aid" anymore in macOS Sierra Keychain Access app.

Here are two old questions with outdated answers.

I would prefer not to create access exceptions for all items, and it's not allowed for iCloud keychain ("Access for this item cannot be edited").

Your Mac keeps asking for the login keychain password and this means
The password of your macOS user account might not match the password of your login keychain.

It might also tell you that the system was unable to unlock your login keychain. That's because your login keychain is still using another password.

If you don't know your this password, the solution is to create a new login keychain or reset to default.

Open Keychain Access, which is in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder.or Launchpad > Utilities > Keychain Access
From the Keychain Access menu, choose Preferences.
Click General, then click Reset My Default Keychain.
Add your account login password.
Quit Keychain Access then Restart your computer.

  From Apple support

  If you know your old password, use that password to update your existing login keychain:

  Open the Keychain Access app, which is in the the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. or Launchpad > Utilities > Keychain Access
  From the Edit menu, choose “Change Password for Keychain 'login.'”
  Enter the old password of your user account in the Current Password field. This is the password you were using before the password was reset.
  Enter the new password of your user account in the New Password field. This is the password you're now using to log in to your Mac. Enter the same password in the Verify field.
  Click OK when done, then quit Keychain Access.

For signing in to the App Store use the login keychain password.


Can anyone recommend an app for creating flowcharts and diagrams? I'm seeking a Mac app for creating basic flowcharts and similar diagrams.

Google has been no help; I've followed dozens of links to apps that either don't exist anymore, I can't find any real reviews of, or that won't run on OS X 10.6.6.

What I'd really like:

A simple and clean interface
Basic shapes
Automated connectors that stay linked as you move shapes around
Inexpensive, preferably under $30 but definitely under $50

What I'm not looking for:

Hundreds of shapes
Default styles that have shadows and textures and such that I have to keep removing
Dozens of amazing features that allow you to automatically map databases and draw UML diagrams from code and such (I'm looking at you, Visio) that I have to constantly navigate around to make a few basic diagrams
A mind-mapping app with all the features such a thing entails, one that happens to also let you make basic diagrams
A full-fledged drawing app where, once again, I have to maneuver around a whole bunch of features and options to get to the basic functions I need.  (I have Illustrator, I love Illustrator, but it's crap for basic flowcharts and other simple diagrams.)

I wouldn't actually use it for flowcharts, but rather basic similar diagrams to show data flow between apps, information flow in a company or other places, that kind of thing.

I recently found out that the drawing portion of Google Docs actually does a pretty good job with the types of diagrams I need to create, but the UI is pretty poor and it obviously requires a constant net connection.

For free online diagramming there's diagrams.net, which I am a developer on. It supports the automatic connection and dragging of components you're looking for. Also, it's free (and open source), which meets your under $30 requirement.
There is also a Desktop version available.


Connecting dual 27" Apple thunderbolt displays to PC I have two of the Apple 27" thunderbolt displays, and a Dell M3800 laptop running Windows 7. The laptop has a thunderbolt port, and can run one of the Apple displays just fine. When I daisy chain another Apple display, the display on the far end of the chain works, but the one on the near end of the chain goes dark.

Is there any way to connect two of these displays to this computer?

Note: The ports on both displays, and the PC are thunderbolt, not displayport.

The Thunderbolt Display does not support daisy-chaining Mini-DisplayPort.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204154

I did see a report somewhere that computers that can drive two monitors over were able to get around this be inserting another Thunderbolt peripheral in the middle. I.e., Mac > Thunderbolt Display > Thunderbolt RAID > Mini DisplayPort monitor.

This product may help. However, it costs much!


keyboard shortcut is driving me crazy, how do I get rid of it? I use the keyboard shortcut CommandOptionL to lock my machine. For the most part this works, but not if Chrome is in focus. In Chrome, when I use that combination, it opens the "Downloads" page in a tab. I have tried everything I can think of to prevent this.

There is a menu item for "Downloads": Window -> Downloads. I have used the  System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts to attempt to set it to something else, but it doesn't seem to matter, I can add a new shortcut for Downloads, but no matter what I do CommandOptionL still opens Downloads. The only difference is the shortcut I configure highlights "Window" in the menu bar momentarily, while CommandOptionL does not. Although it does highlight if I set the shortcut to CommandOptionL.

I have even gone so far as to set defaults write com.google.Chrome NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add 'Downloads' '\0'.

When I read:

defaults read com.google.Chrome NSUserKeyEquivalents
{
    Downloads = "";
}

and yet CommandOptionL still opens the Downloads page.

Global keyboard shortcuts in macOS  have always been frustrating, but it was possible to override each conflicting app, but this one is driving me crazy.

EDIT: I also went through the chrome extensions and no keyboard shortcut was set to CommandOptionL. I also tried disabling all extensions; it did not work.

There is already a system wide keyboard shortcut to lock your display. It's CommandControlQ for High Sierra and higher and ControlShift⏏ on other systems, to let your display go to sleep (which is effectively the same when password protected).

With this keyboard shortcuts in mind you can be sure, that they don't interfere with any application.

Note that on newer MacsBook Pros with Touch ID only the first keyboard shortcut works.

CommandOptionL is a system shortcut defined by Apple that (as you've found out) opens the ~/Downloads folder.

Apple mandates that App Developers respect those shortcuts.

  Respect standard keyboard shortcuts and create app-specific shortcuts
  for frequently used commands. Keyboard shortcuts let people activate
  menu items and actions by pressing specific key combination.

Why Chrome devs chose to hard wire in CommandOptionL as opening the downloads location is something only they can answer.  (IMO) The downloads folder configured in Chrome can be entirely different  from the system's ~/Downloads folder.  Doing a simple test, I changed my download location in Chrome to my Desktop and pressing CommandOptionL opened my Desktop folder (as expected).

So, the Chrome devs decided to re-map a system shortcut which is something Apple frowns upon:

  In general, don’t override standard keyboard shortcuts. Users may become confused if the shortcuts they know work differently in your
  app. Only in very rare cases does it make sense to redefine a common
  shortcut. For example, if people spend a significant amount of time in
  your app, it might make sense to redefine a standard shortcut that
  isn’t applicable to your app. Another option might be to let the user
  choose their own keyboard shortcuts.

So, the problem is with Chrome and not with macOS.  That said, there's no "lock" (like in Windows).  I don't recommend attempting to re-map keyboard shortcuts to mimic their Windows counterpart (WindowsL, in this case).  With a small amount of practice, you can easily switch between both systems.


How to determine which files are on SSD on Fusion Drive? My question is:

  How can i determine which files are on the SSD "partition" on Fusion
  Drive?

I have an iMac with 1TB Fusion Drive, and it would be good to know which apps or data are on which partition.

  Is these information included in the file information or where do i
  have to look?

Terminal is no problem, so i'm not searching for a easy answer.

EDIT: diskutil list shows me my partitions. But i cannot navigate through /Volumes/... into the specific SSD partition. There must be a way to navigate into each partition, right?

OS X does the same.

Because the Fusion drive is one logical volume, there are no separate "partitions" to browse to determine this. You can however check which drive an given file is stored on with some command-line utilities.

Determine Your Drive Setup

First we have to figure out how the SSD and HD portions of the Fusion drive are identified in your system.

Run diskutil list in Terminal.
You should see output similar to this:

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 121.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 999.3 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *1.1 TB disk2

Take note of labels of the disks with a GUID_partition_scheme line. In this case, that's disk0 and disk1. These are the two physical disks, and we can see by the sizes, the smaller one (disk0) is the SSD, meaning disk1 is the HD while disk2 is the logical volume.

Monitor Disk Activity

Now we need a way to monitor disk activity for each device.

Open Terminal, enter iostat -d disk0 disk1 1, replacing the disk numbers with those you found in above.
Run the command, and leave the Terminal window open. You should see output similar to this:

       disk0           disk1
 KB/t tps  MB/s     KB/t tps  MB/s
 26.52  13  0.33     9.35   0  0.00
 0.00   0  0.00     0.00   0  0.00
 0.00   0  0.00     0.00   0  0.00
 0.00   0  0.00     0.00   0  0.00

This shows you the disk activity on a per-device basis, updated every second. The MB/s columns are the most relevant.

Read a File

Now we'll read a file, and use our monitoring solution to discover which drive it resides on.

Open a second Terminal window, and run dd if='/path/to/some/file' of=/dev/null. Replace the path with the proper path to the file (be sure it's quoted if it has unescaped spaces or other special characters).
In the terminal window running iostat, watch the to see which disk shows some activity when dd is running. That's the drive the file resides on.
For large files (especially those on the HD, the dd process may run for a while, you can safely quit it with control+C

Readings like this indicate that disk0 (the SSD in this example) contains the file:

       disk0           disk1
 KB/t tps  MB/s     KB/t tps  MB/s
 28.49  13  0.37   113.92   0  0.00
 31.70 4500 139.29     0.00   0  0.00
 31.64 3870 119.56     0.00   0  0.00
 31.58 3294 101.58     0.00   0  0.00

Whereas these readings indicate that the file is stored on the HD:

       disk0           disk1
 KB/t tps  MB/s     KB/t tps  MB/s
 0.00   0  0.00   128.00 275 34.33
 0.00   0  0.00   128.00 255 31.83
 7.62  53  0.39   126.90 178 22.03

If you want that much control over which files go where, it's easy enough to break up the fusion drive and just have two separate volumes you can navigate separately. It's also very easy in OS X to have the OS including applications on one drive (the SSD) and have the user account live on a different drive (the HDD). Then you can manually manage where you want other files, the SSD or the HDD.


How to disable background blur effect on macOS Sierra login screen I've replaced /Library/Desktop Pictures/Sierra.jpg with a custom background image. Now, macOS Sierra applies the blur effect on my custom background image as well. I am looking for a reliable solution to turn it off e.g. overwriting a plist preference file or any non-hacking workaround?

How can I completely disable the login screen background blur and show a crystal clear login image?

Do this:

Go to /Library/Caches/
Rename the original com.apple.desktop.admin.png file to com.apple.desktop.admin1.png
Add a new image in its place with the original com.apple.desktop.admin.png name

This will replace the blurred original image with the new one unblurred.

i've found this somewhere :

The file in /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg is an alias that points to /Library/Desktop Pictures/Sierra.jpg.

so i changed the picture called "Sierra.jpg" by mine & i get this picture in login window.
but it still blur effect.
i do not know how to remove it !

another page here, but i can not understand anything !
https://onemoreadmin.wordpress.com/2016/09/24/apples-efi-logonui-managing-macos-sierras-wallpaper/


Creating A Bootable USB Of Windows 8.1 On OS X? Reasons for wanting create such a usb include:

PC is unbootable and you want to prepare a bootable USB using the ISO file that you have on your external hard drive.
to install Windows 8.1 on Mac without Boot Camp.

What are the necessary steps to create such a Windows 8.1 bootable usb on a Mac ?

I am not really sure why you would want to install Windows 8.1 without BootCamp.

The USB stick needs to be a little bigger than the .iso file you are going to be burning. It doesn't matter if there is any data on it, this will totally erase the whole thing.

Steps To Achieve Victory

Download the ISO you want to use
Open Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities)

2.1 Navigate to the path where the .iso file is located

2.2 Use ls to list all the folders

2.3 cd /path/to/iso to dive in to folder or cd .. to go back the path
Convert .iso to .img using hdiutil:
hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o /path/to/target.img /path/to/source.iso
Rename if OS X gave it a .dmg ending:
mv /path/to/target.img.dmg path/to/target.img
Type diskutil list to get a list of currently connected devices
Insert USB drive you want to use
Run diskutil list again to see what your USB stick gets assigned
eg - /dev/disk3
Run diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN (where N is the number assigned to your USB stick, in previous example it would be 3)
Run sudo dd if=/path/to/target.img of=/dev/diskN bs=1m (if you get an error, replace bs=1m with bs=1M
Run diskutil eject /dev/diskN and remove your USB stick
The USB stick will now be ready to use

IMPORTANT For the step #9 you can use the destination to /dev/rdiskN to reduce the copy time.

NOTE: Sometimes, not always, Step #4 will be necessary. Not all the time. I am not sure why it will add the .dmg ending and other times leave it alone.

NOTE 2: Might I suggest you learn the name of the .iso you downloaded, or just rename it win8.1.iso or something, and put it on your Desktop folder. That way, when you are typing commands like #3 and #4 etc, etc, you can type it like this:

hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/Desktop/win8.1.img ~/Desktop/win8.1.iso

and

mv ~/Desktop/win8.1.img.dmg ~/Desktop/win8.1.img

and step #9 would look like this:

sudo dd if=~/Desktop/win8.1.img of=/dev/diskN bs=1m

IMPORTANT - You can track the progress by pressing CTRL + T It will show the process info and records in and out, since we use the bs=1m each record is 1Mb in size so you can easily track the progress.

I don't mean to be insulting with Note and Note2, I am just making sure that you know what all these commands mean. It's the simplest method. Unless someone else comes up with something better.

This is terrible, but abandon all efforts to create this from OSX Mojave 10.14.4.  I tried all the methods, I am a proficient power user and nothing worked.  While I was continuously able to create a bootable usb drive, it failed on the windows installation with A media driver your computer needs is missing.

I verified the downloaded iso, redownloaded etc, to no avail.

What did work:

Boot into parallels in a windows os, use the windows media creation tool and create the usb drive.

Booted, installed without issue.

TL;DR it is absolutely ridiculous that you cannot use osx native commands to make this work, but clearly Microsoft has failed to make this process easy from a mac.  Use the windows media creation tool from any available windows os, including parallels will get you a bootable usb that will install without driver problems.


Siri shortcuts voice input Is there a possibility to make voice input with Siri shortcuts? I haven't found it. What I want to do is to create a new todo item on my todo app in my case trello, but I don't want to manually type the todo item in, but dictate it via voice. Say "trello new card: [INPUT]" and then it creates the card. Is this possible? Also to send a message it would be nice to be able to have voice input.

Yay my first Shortcuts question!

Use the Dictate Text action.

This action will convert words you speak into to text and pass that text to the next action.

Currently, there is a bit of down side: You will not be able tell Siri in one sentence "Tell [Shortcut Trigger], Apples are cool" Instead you need to do it in two parts "[Shortcut Trigger]" wait... "Apples are cool".

Warning: Make sure to pick a language or it will silently fail.

I passed through a calculation adding 0 to the text to convert from text to a number


How to delete downloaded iOS 6 update? I have an iPhone 4 with iOS 5.1.1, and the other day I found that it had downloaded on its own the iOS 6 update and it was sitting there in my phone, ready to be installed and taking about 2 GB of space. Since I have no interest at all in iOS 6 right now, I'd like to delete that update, but I don't know how. Does anyone know if it can be done?

I had exactly the same problem: OTA will download software updates and they take up space on the device until the user installs them. Then when the next one is released, it takes up more space. You notice them under 'Other' on the capacity graph in iTunes.

To fix I jailbroke and installed the package called "Software Update Killer". It not only prevents future automatic downloads, it deletes the software that's awaiting installation. Notice the shrink in 'Other' next time you sync. For me both 6.0.1 and 6.1 were downloaded and I recovered almost 1.5 GB.

I would imagine restoring the iPhone via iTunes would work (as long as you have a copy of iOS 5 (a *.ipsw file) on your computer). You might want to sync your iPhone with iTunes and/or iCloud before restoring the software.


Macbook air, 11 inches backlight not working after lcd replacement I just replaced the screen of my macbook air and now the backlight does not work. When I turn on the laptop, the screen works but the backlight does not turn on. I've tested with a couple of screens but no success.

Is the problem with the backlight LED, or fuse or logic board, is there any solution?

Model: Macbook air, 11 inches model A1370, 2011.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

You'll have a much better vantage point than us on the internet to guess.

First, reconnect all cables and hope it's that.

If not, you'll need to start replacing parts one by one. The odds of a new LCD being faulty are low - but the circumstances of the repair might help.

Was the LCD out the reason you swapped the panel?

You might need a second machine to isolate each part - test whether it's the cable, inverter, logic board LCD or something else.

The backlight cable to the lcd control board is connected wrong way round. Common mistake.


Folder cannot be deleted from Trash I have three nested folders in my trash: folder1/folder2/folder3. They were on an external FAT32 drive but were deleted, along with all the files inside them, a while ago.
When I try to empty the trash on Yosemite, I get a "file in use" error. I get this even after reboots, with no programs open, and nothing which could be using it.
Navigating to /Volumes/External_name/.Trashes/501/folder1/folder2/folder3 with Terminal gives me a very weird error: I call ls and obtain:
username-Mac:folder3 username$ ls
Filename_with_ö.mp3
username-Mac:folder3 username$ ls -l
ls: Filename_with_ö.mp3: No such file or directory

I strongly suspect it's something to do with the interaction between OS X, FAT32, and that ö, but I have no idea how to delete a file which doesn't seem to exist... any ideas?
Solutions tried
Finder > "Secure Empty Trash" still gives me the "file in use" error. "Disk Utility" > "Repair disk" doesn't fix it either. Also tried:
username-Mac:folder3 username$ sudo rm -r F*
rm: Filename_with_ö.mp3: No such file or directory

and
username-Mac:/ username$ sudo rm -r /Volumes/external_name/.Trashes
rm: /Volumes/external_name/.Trashes/501/folder1/folder2/folder3/Filename_with_ö.mp3: No such file or directory
rm: /Volumes/external_name/.Trashes/501/folder1/folder2/folder3: Directory not empty
rm: /Volumes/external_name/.Trashes/501/folder1/folder2: Directory not empty
rm: /Volumes/external_name/.Trashes/501/folder1: Directory not empty
rm: /Volumes/external_name/.Trashes/501: Directory not empty
rm: /Volumes/external_name/.Trashes: Directory not empty

and
username-Mac:folder3 username$ mv Filename_with_ö.mp3 safe.mp3
mv: rename Filename_with_ö.mp3 to safe.mp3: No such file or directory

and
username-Mac:external_name username$ sudo mv .Trashes /external_trashes
mv: .Trashes/501/folder1/folder2/folder3/Filename_with_ö.mp3: No such file or directory
mv: /bin/cp: terminated with 1 (non-zero) status

Still no success.

I have two suggestions. My first is to try creating a folder called .Trashes elsewhere and moving it such that it would overwrite the original folder; it's possible that this would leapfrog the problem (I used a similar method to fix a problem I was having a few months ago).

Alternatively, if the external drive is FAT32, have you tried booting a Linux distro from a USB drive and using that? Alternatively you could plug the external drive into a Windows machine (Boot Camp/VirtualBox?) and see whether that can delete the offending folder.

Try "trash it", the program claims to remove sticky items from trash http://www.nonamescriptware.com/downloads/


Can retina display features be enabled on older (non-retina) displays? I have an older iMac, without a true retina display. I want to be able to scale the user interface like the retina macs do, but I can't seem to find a way to do that.

Does anyone know a way to trick the computer into thinking it has a retina display, so the options are available in the Display PrefPane? That, or some utility that might let me access those settings.

Note, I'm not really talking about HiDPI mode, I've done that, it only has the option of pixel doubling. I want the variable scaling that is available on true retina displays.

I'm running mountain lion on a 2.5 GHz i5 iMac, about 1.5 years old.

I don't see how this would be possible, its a hardware limitation.

The 15in Retina comes with a resolution of: 2880x1800 but the resolution is set to 1440x900 by default and has its pixels doubled.

That is why when you do doubling of pixels you get a smaller resolution because there is only so many pixels on the screen in which everything can be displayed.

The Retina mac's scale the UI by removing the pixel doubling. The screen it self has a high densit of pixels, meaning that a particular window can take up a smaller area by filling in those pixels.

However with a 1080p there are far fewer pixels/lower density and it is not physically possible to scale things to fit.

Theoretically it is possible but would require real time rendering of everything which would take time + processor usage. As compared to the Retina which has a hardware solution.

It is not the best explanation but I hope it delivers the point.
--EDIT

UI is designed based on pixels, so a button is placed on a form and it dimensioned to take up say 100 pixels wide and 20 pixels high.
On a lower resolution screen it will look much bigger because of the density of pixels, as compared to a higher resolution
where the user has the option to allow the UI to take up single pixels so its small or more than 1 pixel so it looks big.

So with that 100 x 20 pixel button, on a 19in screen: At a resolution of 100 x 20 it would take up the whole screen because there are
only 100 pixels for the UI to be able to fill up horizontally and 20 vertically.
If you had a higher resolution screen the UI is able to take up less space because of the higher pixel density. So the same monitor with a resolution of 400 x 80 will have the button take up a quarter of the screen, and if you allow it to double its pixel then the button will take up 200 x 40 pixels, looking bigger but better/more crisp because of the extra pixels.

That is why higher resolution screens have smaller UI, because the pixels are super close together and theres a lot of them allowing us to decide how we want it scaled, ie. how many pixels we allow for each designed pixel.

When Developers design UI they set anchors on everything, that is why when you change the size of the form it dynamically adjust the size of the buttons, boxes etc.

When I say hardware rendering I mean the pixels are placed per pixels or simply multiplied by the current ratio. So at full resolution 1 pixel is 1 pixel on the screen. At a different resolution 1 pixel might be allocated 2 pixels.

No, its missing the requisite hardware support.


Put Lion "Recovery HD" on USB In an attempt to save some space on my ssd, I used SuperDuper to clone Recovery HD to a USB drive. But when I booted up my Mac holding the option key I only got the ssd and Recovery HD as alternatives.

Does anyone have an idea as to how I can clone Recovery HD to an external drive/memory stick and then remove it from the boot drive?

The best answer is one supported by Apple.

Why not use the new Lion Recovery Disk Assistant to make your USB bootable media.

The only requirements are listed as:

A Mac running OS X Lion with an existing Recovery HD
An external USB hard drive or thumb drive with at least 1GB of free space

Detailed, step by step instructions are updated at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848

Caution

Whilst Apple makes it very easy to create a disk/volume from an image (.dmg):

if straying from what is recommended by Apple, you should not expect the result to be good for all purposes.

Recommendation

Wait for Apple to provide Lion on a USB thumb drive (announced on the day of Lion's release, scheduled for August 2011).

Background

Experimental uses of .dmg files relating to Lion (burning to USB flash drive, DVD, external hard disk partition etc.) have been publicised by well-meaning hackers since February 2011, and continue to be promoted (not by Apple) without due caution for Mac OS X 10.7 (Build 11A511). Bootable media produced in this way may be good for some uses but please, proceed with caution: other uses may leave a system unusable.

Be aware of the known risks, and unknowns, associated with straying from what is recommended by Apple. Consider this recent conversation in Ask Different Chat:

home-produced bootable media for Lion: known risks and unknowns around 10.7 (Build 11A511)


Destroy old Apple IDs from my iPhone I created three Apple IDs on my iPhone. I have signed out of all three IDs one by one. However now I am not able to create a new Apple ID on my iPhone.

You cannot 'destroy' Apple IDs, they last forever.
You only need one ID. You can change the associated email address if needed.
The ID used to set up the phone or to download any software is the only one that can ever update or restore it.
Giving someone else your ID & password details is a security nightmare & foolish in the extreme - open to abuse at any time in the future.

I suggest creating Apple ID via web page instead of iPhone. The sign in page:
https://discussions.apple.com/login.jspa (click 'create one now' on the right).

P.S. If you should sign out all the apps associated with Apple ID, including iMessages, iTunes Store, App Store, etc...


MacBook Pro 2012 Bootcamp problem I was trying to install windows 10 on my MacBook Pro 2012,  I was following apple tutorial (https://support.apple.com/pt-pt/guide/bootcamp-assistant/bcmp09f5f773/mac)(or in English). I chose 100GB to windows partition. Everything was going great until I came across "no bootable device insert boot disk and press any key" message.
I went back in MacOS to remove the Bootcamp partition to repeat the process again, but I couldn't find it.
Here are some prints from disk utility:

what can I do to undo and resize the original MacOS partition to try to do the bootcamp again?

Thank you in advance and have a great weekend!

diskutil list:

This is a very common question. To reclaim the lost space, enter the command given below.

sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0

Some of the Windows 10 ISO files released by Microsoft can not be transferred by the Boot Camp Assistant to a flash drive as described by the document you referenced in your question. This is either because the flash drive is too small or needs to be ExFAT formatted.

If you are still failing to install Windows though the use of the Boot Camp Assistant, then consider using the following steps to install Windows.

Use the Boot Camp Assistant to download the Windows support software. In this case, you are prompted where to store the files to be downloaded.
Use the Disk Utility application or the diskutil command to create space for Windows.
ExFat format and 16 GB or larger flash drive and copy the files from the Windows ISO and Windows support software download.
Boot from the flash drive and install Windows. Basically, you are installing Windows the same way as anyone who owns a PC.

An example of one user who recently successfully installed Windows 10 using this method can be found at the question Mojave bootcamp assistant limits partition size.

UPDATE: I tried a different flash drive, TOSHIBA 16GB USB2.0, and it worked!


How to disagree to iTunes privacy policy? I accidentally pressed that I agree to iTunes tos when I opened the app on Mac os Sierra. The fact is I don't agree to the tos. How can I get the dialog option back? I don't plan to use iTunes.

When you open iTunes for the first time and agree to the license agreement, it creates the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist file with a dictionary entry called license-agreements. You can just delete the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist file if you have no intension of using iTunes and it will be as if you never agreed to the license agreement.

In Terminal:

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist

If you just want to delete the license-agreements use:

defaults delete com.apple.itunes license-agreements

If you want to remove the iTunes app in macOS, you should be able to just move it to the Trash and then empty the Trash. I was able to do that in macOS 10.12.3, however you might have to disable System Integrity Protection and if so, do the following:

Shutdown your Mac.
Start up from macOS Recovery using: Command-R
Select your Language and press Enter.
At macOS Utilities, select Terminal from the Utilities menu.
In Terminal type, csrutil disable then press Enter.
In Terminal type, reboot then press Enter.
Once back in normal mode macOS, in Terminal use the following command:

sudo rm -fr /Applications/iTunes.app

Then press Enter, type your password, then press Enter again.

Don't forget to enable System Integrity Protection afterwards. Repeat the necessary steps, however use csrutil enable.

It is likely that the only way to un-ring that bell would be to back up your files and create a new account on your Mac, migrate those files, and delete the old profile. You could then launch iTunes and disagree but I believe all that does is just quit the app, so if you launch it again it will ask, again, if you agree.

And iTunes like most of the apps that come with macOS can't be deleted.


FileVault2 command line commands in Mojave? I've been reading about using the fdsetup command to manage FileVault2 from the command line. But I can't find it in Mojave (or High Sierra for that matter).

Is there a command line interface to FileVault2?

The command you want is: fdesetup

From its manual page:

  fdesetup(8)                    BSD System Manager's Manual

  NAME
          fdesetup -- FileVault configuration tool

  SYNOPSIS
          fdesetup verb [options]

  DESCRIPTION
          fdesetup is used to enable or disable FileVault, to list, add, or remove
       enabled FileVault users, and to obtain status about the current state of
       FileVault. Most commands require root access and need to be authenticated
       with either a FileVault password, a personal recovery key (if enabled),
       and in some cases the private key from the installed institutional recov-
       ery key.  Some status related commands can be run from a non-root session.

fdesetup help
  Sets up FileVault for the current boot volume.
  Usage: fdesetup <verb> <options>
  Use the man page for expanded help.
  Verbs:
      help
      enable            Enable FileVault and optionally add user(s)
      disable           Disable FileVault
      status            Return current FileVault status
      add               Add user(s) to existing FileVault
      remove            Remove user from FileVault
      list              List users or locked volumes
      changerecovery    Change or add recovery key
      removerecovery    Remove recovery key
      sync              Synchronize existing FileVault user information
      haspersonalrecoverykey            Checks to see if a personal recovery key has been set
      hasinstitutionalrecoverykey       Checks to see if a institutional recovery key has been set
      usingrecoverykey                  Checks to see if a recovery key is currently in use
      supportsauthrestart               Displays 'true' if the system supports the authenticated restart option
      authrestart                       On supported systems, restarts computer and unlocks FileVault one time
      validaterecovery                  Checks to see if the recovery key is valid
      isactive                          Displays 'true' if the volume is encrypted.
      showdeferralinfo                  Displays any deferral configuration information.
      version
  Options:
      -certificate <certificate path> Path to a DER encoded certificate file to use during enabling.
      -defer <filepath> Defer enabling FileVault.
      -device <bsd, mount path, or locked LVF UUID> FV context information location.
      -dontaskatlogout When defering enablement, don't prompt at user logout.
      -extended Show extended information.
      -forceatlogin <bypassValue> When defering enablement, force user to enable at login after n times (0=next time, 9999=only request, not force).
      -forcerestart Force a restart without confirmation immediately after successfully enabling FileVault
      -inputplist Reads configuration info from stdin.
      -institutional Option to specify an institutional recovery key.
      -key <keychain path> Path to the authentication keychain private key file.
      -keychain Use the FileVaultMaster.keychain to add an institutional recovery key when enabling FileVault.
      -norecoverykey Do not return a recovery key when enabling FileVault.
      -offline Displays offline, locked volumes.
      -outputplist Outputs key and computer info to stdout.
      -personal Option to specify a personal recovery key.
      -prompt Always prompt for authentication information.   Does not work when using -key
      -quiet No status during enable.
      -user <username> Short user name.
      -usertoadd <username> Additional user name when enabling or adding users.
      -uuid <uuid> User UUID.
      -delayminutes <minutes> Number of minutes before restart.
      -verbose Enable verbose mode.


Xcode 7.2 downloading but not installing I went through the tedious download process via App Store. The row in the App Store Updates tab said Xcode was installed. But no sign of it in Applications folder.

When I go to the Purchased tab of App Store, the Xcode row has a button labeled "Install". So Xcode was not installed? OK, click this button. This just starts another 4 GB download. It seems that "install" means "download" and nothing actually installs.

What's up with the App Store? I poked around in the /private/var/.../com.apple.appstore folder but didn't see anything enlightening. I am now downloading the .dmg file directly from the Developer website. (Slow connection: 16 hr download!)

Download it from here: https://developer.apple.com/downloads/

Just log in with your Apple Account and download Xcode 7.2

you need to delete Xcode in local machine and then login Appstore to download this app.


Minecraft Immediately Crashes On Launchup I'm running Mavericks 10.9.5.
This is my java version:

Whenever I started Minecraft up, it would immediately crash.

I tried:

Reinstalling Minecraft
Deleting the minecraft folder in Application Support
Reinstalling Java

Hints for the problem:

Downloaded the most recent Java. Version 8 Update 45.
Ran this command in terminal:

sudo mv /usr/bin/java /usr/bin/java-1.6

Ran this command in terminal:

sudo ln -s '/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java' /usr/bin/java

I was having troubles with running a plugin, so I thought it was my java. After I did all of that, java wouldn't work at all. I tried to enter "java -version" in terminal, and it would say "unknown command".

After that happened, I went to Apple Java, and installed the most recent build, found here: https://support.apple.com/downloads/java

I installed "Java for OS X 2015-001 Beta.

After that, I could type in "java -version" with no problem. After I restarted my computer, Minecraft wouldn't launch. When I try to run my own server, it starts up, and then it fails and crashes.

Note: Java Control Panel also crashes on launch.

Do you have mods? Delete those first then try. To delete them go into application support then minecraft then mods and delete them.

Have you tried to Delete Minecraft on your computer and reinstalling it?
(Not sure if you need to buy it again)


The contents of a folder disappeared The strangest thing just happened. I accidentally moved some files around within a folder on my desktop. I pressed command Z to try and un-do the action (I may have accidentally hit some other keys in the process, I don't know,) but instantly the folder was wiped of it's contents and even the name of the folder changed to "Untiled Folder." It seems my files have just vanished into thin air and I can't get them back. They did not move to the Trash Bin.

If that isn't odd enough, the size of that folder now is 16kb and typically, the size of an empty/new folder is 0kb..? Before my content vanished, it was more than 16kb so I have no idea where that figure came from or what data it's referring to.

HELP Please, I just need my files back...

I'm on a 13" macbook pro running OSX 10.8.2

Do you remember some of the filenames?

Try to enable Spotlight to search documents, and use it to find the file you misplaced. You should be able to find it if it’s still inside your Documents folder.

Using Terminal

My last attempt would be using Terminal to list all the files containing your files content keywords. Run Terminal and enter command below (replace your file content with some of the unique keywords in your lost documents:

grep -R 'your file content' *

It should display all the file it can find on your User folder. If it still can’t find the files, they’re most likely gone forever.

I had this happen because I'd moved a file to a folder in the public subdirectory of the guest account. Unfortunately it didn't occur to me to duplicate it, and the guest account deletes all its files when it logsout. It was particularly frustrating because I had it locked in Keynote so I could still see the presentation, but I couldn't save or even copy & paste from it except for the text.  Figures & movies were apparently stored as resources and deleted.


How to control volume on Philips monitor So I just installed a 48" monitor with extended display in my home office, however, I can no longer use the f10 - f12 keys to control the volume.

I a colleague provided this guide:
https://www.lifewire.com/select-audio-in-and-out-from-mac-menu-bar-2260855

This did place the volume icon in the menu bar, but its greyed out. I still cannot change the volume.

Any suggestions?

The volume for most displays can only be controlled externally (i.e., from the monitor itself).

However, there is a workaround that is documented at Lifehacker.

I was able to go behind the display and use the small joystick/button to lower the brightness of the display.


Thumbnails for old photos are wrong in Photos app I imported a large number of old photos into iPhoto, and I then updated to the new Photos app recently. After the update, the thumbnails on the old photos are incorrect. They are just thumbnails of different pictures.

I cannot find a way to fix this. I tried launching Photos with CMD and Option held down and allowing the repair to complete. The problem persisted.

I have added an image that shows a thumbnail that doesn't match the selected photo. Any ideas?

To Rebuild the Photos.app Thumbnails:

Backup your library before following these instructions.

Delete the old thumbnails and various parts from the library:

Quit the Photos app.

Open Finder, and go to the Photos.app Library, on my system it is called Photos Library and is found in the Pictures folder.

Now right click the library and click Show Package Contents.

Next delete the folders called Previews and Thumbnails.

Then delete the files called ImageProxies.apdb, ImageProxies.apdb-wal, Library.apdb and Library.apdb-wal from the database folder.

Lastly delete the folders RKCloudResource, RKImageProxyState, RKMaster and RKVersion from the recovery folder.

Now rebuild the library

Open the Photos app while pressing ⌥+⌘. It will ask you to if you want to repair the library, click Repair. It will do a repair, then your photos will go through a reprocess/reimport process. Once finished the thumbnails will start rebuilding.

P.S. I tried this on my own Photos library, and it worked.

Try changing the shape of the thumbnails.
There is an option "Display Square Thumbnails in Split view" under the View menu option. I can't be sure, but this may cause the app to redraw the thumbnails, and may resolve your problem (lets hope so anyway).


web request failures in curl I have a macbook pro running Catalina 10.15.1. However this issue has been present since at least Mojave.

After a reboot it runs fine for a while (up to about an hour but I haven't measured) and then most web requests start to fail. This does not affect Chrome which is my main browser, but for example running:

curl https://github.com
curl: (35) LibreSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to github.com:443

Running:

curl http://example.com
curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer`

A restart will fix both these issues temporarily.

I've tried using brew to update curl and libressl but they're both up to date.

curl 7.64.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin19.0) libcurl/7.64.1 (SecureTransport)
LibreSSL/2.8.3 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.39.2

How do I fix these connection issues?

This can happen because of network or connection issues.
You have to find out where the issue is coming from.

First try connecting through a mobile or a 4G connection to see if the issue is in your machine or the local network.
If the issue is with the machine, try disabling firewalls, Anti-virus programs etc to find the root of problem.
It can happen because of an incorrect IP v6 configuration. Try disabling IPv6 locally.
Go to System Preferences > Network  > TCP/IP > Change Configure IPv6 to Link-local only.
If you have access to the router, try disabling IPv6 network. If that solves the issue, then there's a misconfiguration on router.
After you found the cause, fix it and enable firewalls and anti-virus programs.

There are two options that you can try;
First, try to run this command
export HOMEBREW_FORCE_BREWED_CURL=1

And second, run the following command from your terminal:
networksetup -setv6off Wi-Fi

Reboot the machine and check it.


iCloud Photo Library not fully syncing on iOS iCloud Photo Library appears to be working great between iMac and an iPhone 5c, but has been stuck on "13 items to download" for over a week on iPhone 5s, plus no photos taken with that phone have been uploaded in some time. Any ideas?

Turn your iPhone off and the back on. If that doesn't help, disable iCloud Photo Library and then turn it back on. If that doesn't help, logout entirely out of iCloud and then re-enable it.


VLC video doesn't play in main window After upgrading to 2.2.1, VLC videos plays in a separate window, but I want the controls to be in the same window as the video (just the way it was before I upgraded).

Am I missing something?

Yep they changed it.

Now there is no more within the Video screen popup controls, unless you are in full screen mode.

Option is to use the media keys on your keyboard, or right click to control it.

Not sure I like the change.

don't ask me how cos i really hardly understand these things, but i fiddled about for a bit and suddenly it worked. maybe this screensave can help


No text alert for one person only - iPhone 8 My wife bought a new iPhone 8 and her text alerts work for everyone in her contacts except me. I've checked the phone, and hide alerts is not activated, and do not disturb is not turned on. There are no moon icon's anywhere to disable. When I text her, the little dot next to the message in her message list isn't there to signify a new text. We've tried switching on the DND and then turning it off, switching on hide alerts for that conversation only and then turning it off. Powered the phone off and on, deleted and re-added my contact to her contacts - nothing works. Any suggestions?

Did you add yourself as a new contact then choose what ringtone you want and text tone? Alert tones is on, and vibration?

Im sure you checked to make sure you are not blocked by going to Phone app, Recents, finding your number then scrolling down to see Block or unBlock this number. I do not know very much about Wi-Fi Calling, but check to see it that is on. Then check Messages to see if iMessages is on, because it could be set to use your Apple ID that you can be reached at. Or if you are in a separate list of people not in the contacts list and being filtered. I also just now noticed a setting in Messages Audio Messages with option of Raise to Listen and Expire after 2min or 30days. Then check Messenger if she has it.


Opening apache conf file with write permissions I'm trying to open the /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf file to make some changes. I thought I'd be able to open this with the correct permissions from the command line, so I tried:

cd /private/etc/apache2
sudo open -a TextEdit httpd.conf

This opened the file in TextEdit, but TextEdit gave me this message:

  You don't own the file "httpd.conf" and don't have permission to write to it.
  You can duplicate this document and edit the duplicate. Only the duplicate will include your changes.

Fine. Apparently using open even with sudo opens the app as the user. So I tried this:

sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit httpd.conf

But I immediately get this popup:

  The document "httpd.conf" could not be opened. You don't have permission.
  To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and choose File > Get Info.

This makes TextEdit hang too, so I have to force quit it.

I also tried to open the file using my Komodo text edit, which is my normal development environment:

sudo -b /Applications/Komodo\ Edit\ 8.app/Contents/MacOS/komodo httpd.conf

The terminal spits out this strange message:

  2014-09-24 11:48:29.583 komodo[30647:507] * WARNING: Method userSpaceScaleFactor in class NSWindow is deprecated on 10.7 and later. It should not be used in new applications. Use convertRectToBacking: instead.

And Komodo opens, but doesn't open the file. How do I edit this file with my program of choice?

The reason these applications can't write to that files is to do with application sandboxing feature of OS X, which you can read about here if you are interested.

One GUI application that can write to these files is TextWrangler which you can download for free here. There is also a version of TextWrangler in the Mac App Store (MAS) but it doesn't have the ability to write to system files by default (MAS guidelines don't allow applications with those abilities), but you can find an update here that will update the MAS version of TextWrangler so that it can.

Alternatively you can use command line tools to edit these files. For example sudo nano https.conf works okay, and nano is relatively user friendly.


Installing US International Keyboard Layout in Mountain Lion How can I install US International Keyboard Layout in Mountain Lion (step by step, please!)?

OS X comes with a version of the layout preinstalled, but it just has to be enabled in System Preferences.

Take a look at this link, it really helped me:

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/keyboards/mackey.html


Edit file names as text file Is there a way to select multiple files and edit their file names as a list in a text editor?

I'm asking because I want to copy the names of x files over to another folder containing the same number of files. Being able to edit the file names as a text file would be the most convenient way to do this

This is possible using Total Commander on Windows; any way on Mac?

I was thinking about using Automator for this, but it doesn't seem that easy...

I really want to help you tho so I am ready to make an application for you to do this! Tell me if you need it :)


iOS 11: How to change DNS settings for cellular/mobile data? Is it possible to change DNS for cellular internet? How can it be done without a jailbreak?

I've tried Apple Configurator, but didn't find suitable settings.

Build your own VPN using OpenVPN & easy-rsa on a digital ocean cloud server ($5/mo for cheapest VM & 2TB monthly transfer), configure VPN to tunnel/forward all traffic, set up Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 on VPN, then use Apple Configurator to set an always on VPN connection.

Can confirm this is how I do it, I set up Ubuntu 16.04 server instance and the above and never shut my vpn off.

Try this app : DNS Override set DNS for Wi-Fi and cellular


Can i decline iphone call when the screen was locked AND power button Does not work? Can any body help? i use iphone 5, the power button does not work, what shall i do to decline the call when the screen was locked? are any software? or some combinations?

on your iPhone, go to: settings > general > accessibility > assistive touch
turn it on, it will then put a touchable dot overlay on your screen (even at the lock screen) which will open a popup, allowing you to select "lock screen".

there is a reminder dot on locked screen, it has two options 1. in an hour; 2. when I leave, choice anyone, incoming call will be declined.


I forgot the Password for WPA/WPA2 Personal where can I get it I'am trying to set up a wireless connection to my HP OfficeJet printer. For this I need to enter the password to my WLAN which I forgot.

How and where can I retrieve it?

Open the Keychain Access app (located in the Utilities folder, within the Applications folder).
In the search box (upper right corner), type in the name of your Wi-Fi network.
Double click the corresponding entry in the main panel. If there is more than one, look for the most recent one with a type matching "AirPort network password".
Click the checkbox labelled Show password, and enter your user account password when prompted. The password will be displayed in the text box, where you can copy it as needed.

take a backup of the router config file and use nirsoft tools to view the config file in order to get the password in text format.


Screensharing slow, even over gigabit ethernet When I connect from my laptop to my server with Apple Screen Sharing, it is extremely laggy, even over gigabit ethernet.

Files copy at expected speeds (~100MB/s) but Screen Sharing is terribly slow.

Any way to speed this up?

Some (all?) Macs when run without a monitor turn off the video circuitry so they do not waste energy, even though this circuitry is used by screen sharing to dramatically speed up screen stuff.

There might be a way to turn this circuitry back on through software, but I have not foud a reliable way to do so. What works very well is to plug in something into a video port to get the Mac to think it has a monitor connected.

You can build one yourself:
https://macminicolo.net/blog/files/build-a-dummy-dongle-for-a-headless-mac-mini.html

Buy one to plug into a HDMI port on some MacMinis:
https://macminicolo.net/blog/files/an-hdmi-adapter-for-a-headless-mac-mini.html

Buy one to plug into the MiniDisplay Port:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/CBLMDPHEAD/

Instructions for a resistor added directly to the video card:
http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=11

I picked up a handful of the HDMI ones a while back, they are very useful.

A similar question/answer is at Force the resolution on a headless mac mini server

The answer is simple, stop using Screen Sharing and get Apple Desktop Remote.  Apple Desktop Remote App is as fast as Microsoft Desktop Remote.  Screen sharing is not the same and quite slow and choppy and presumably intended for occasional usage as opposed to ADR which is for serious use such as headless displays and file transfers.


How to enter home address so that Siri recognizes it and can direct me home It asks for me to touch my name and then there is no place to put it. I added it as a note on the contact page but this does not work.

Siri knows who you are and where you live based on an contact card in your Contacts application that you keep up to date for yourself.

Open the Contacts application on your iPhone. Add yourself as a contact. In the address section add an address and set the type to home. Save the contact information.

Open the Settings application a go to General -> Siri. In that settings page there's a field that says My Info -- click on that field and select your contact entry from your Contacts application.

Now when you ask Siri to find a route home for you, it will use the home address saved in the contact that you said was you.

You can add other places to this contact card and Siri will recognize them like work. You can also set up relationships in this card. For example: if you create a contact card for your spouse, you can in your contact card link to this other card as a relationship with type spouse or wife or husband. Now when you Siri to "Call my spouse" it will use this relationship in your contact card to determine who your "spouse" is and what numbers are available to be called.

Just go in to your contacts find you and go to home and enter your address and siri will know it :)


Friend with Android phone and Mac computer defaults to iMessage in Messages I have a friend who uses an Android mobile phone and also a Mac. My iPhone contact page for him shows a FaceTime icon which I suppose is correct because it would go to the Mac when available but if I choose the speech bubble next to his phone number my iPhone goes to Messages and shows "iMessage" in the empty box. There's no speech bubble next to his email.
The messages that I send him are delivered succesfully via iMessage (blue bg) but how can I explicitly send him a regular text (sms) message to make sure that it's delivered to the Android phone and not to the Mac? I'm using iOS 9.3
Please note that I don't want to disable iMessage altogether.

Thanks

This is an old thread, but I found it while trying to solve this myself...

The only way I have found to work around this is:

Open iMessage
Start typing the contact's name
When the iPhone displays the contact you want, tap the ">" icon on right of the name.
The iPhone will drop down and show all of the contact options.
Tap the contact's phone number to select the delivery method.
Carry on as you normally would typing and sending the message.

The only way to be sure the message is being sent to his Android is to use a 3rd-party text service like Viber.  These services are designed to be device agnostic and are good solutions for people looking for cross-device (android to iphone, for example) communication.  They can also tell you when messages are delivered and if they are read by the recipient.


El Capitan can´t see or remove partition but it shows up in Terminal EDIT: managed to reformat the partition to JHFS+, after accidentaly creating another partition i merged the new and the old one i dint want, then it let me merge all of them together.

I created a partition to originally use for linux. I gave it 30 GB and installed Linux no problem. Now I am in need for space in El Capitan and I can not remove the partition to give me more space. I managed to reformat it to HFS+ and it is not a corestorage(?) unit.

Here are screenshots of Disk Utility and the output of diskutil list:

It is because the Linux file system is something that OS X cannot natively read.  The easiest thing to do is to is load up a live Linux CD and change the partition to something OS X can read like ExFAT, or MSDOS.  Once that change has been made, OS X should be able to see it; allowing you to manipulate the partition.

The other option is to load up FUSE for OS X which will allow you to read/write ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems.  I am not a fan of loading up applications for one time use, but I wanted to let you know about it.


Is there a way to make "find my iPhone" not work? Is there any possible way to disable find my iPhone without just turning it off?

My parents are extremely clingy (in a very bad way) but luckily I am at least privileged enough to have my own iPhone.

Every once in a while my parents use the "find my iPhone" app when they're nosing even though they promised to only use it in emergencies.

I'll be grounded if I turn it off, but they wouldn't know if there was somehow a way to just say "iPhone cannot be found" or something. Perhaps if I jailbreak it?

Remove an iOS device or Mac by turning off Find My iPhone

Remove a device from Find My iPhone by turning off Find My iPhone on the device.

On an iOS device: Go to Settings > iCloud, then tap to turn off Find My [device].

Note:   You can also remove your device by turning off iCloud completely on that device. Turning off iCloud turns off all iCloud features on the device.

You can read Apple's full article for more details, iCloud: Remove your device from Find My iPhone

Put the phone in airplane mode and only turn that off when you actually want to use it. That will at least cut down a lot on the time when you can be found, although of course you won't be able to receive incoming calls or texts, or push notifications.


Mail.app - keyboard shortcuts to move mail and jump to folder I'm coming to Mail.app with a background using both Outlook (on the PC) and GMail. In every mail client I've used, there are easy keyboard shortcuts to do these:

jump to any folder I want, just by typing a substring of it in an easy to launch dialogue
move currently selected message(s) with a similar dialogue

In Gmail, for example, which has labels, I can easily move and archive something ("l" to label it, then "e" to archive it), and I can easily jump to any label ("g" then "l"). In Outlook I hit ctrl-Y and then type a folder to jump; Ctrl-Shift-V to move things.

I'm happy with Lion so far, but do I really have to spend all this time dragging messages around to folders with the trackpad and clicking folders when I want to look in them? I've never been slower with a mail client.

I'm aware from some Googling that I can assign dedicated keyboard shortcuts to every single folder on a case-by-case basis (for moving not jumping), but that seems like a lot of effort, hard to organize (I want to type the folder I want, not memorize 30 different keyboard shortcuts) and not very flexible.

Am I missing an undocumented feature here?

To do this, you need to display the Favorites Bar, which you can enable by going to Mail » View » Show Favorites Bar.

You can add any folder to this bar, which you can then easily switch to with Command1, Command2, etc.

CtrlCommand1 moves the currently selected email(s) to the respective folder.

Vincents answer is helpful and was unknown to me. I also was looking for an answer and found this to be helpful for me:

Add a move-to button to the mail-app tool bar by right clicking in the toolbar area and selecting "customize toolbar".

easy :)


When I changed permissions on an NTFS drive, all files are hidden in Finder. How do I make them visible again? I have a Seagate external hard drive which is formatted in NTFS. The hard drive came with this Paragon NTFS driver. It works great, but when I clicked "Apply Permissions to Enclosed Items" in the sharing preferences panel (shown below for clarity), all the files on that drive are now invisible in finder. This happens no matter what I select for the permissions.

I know the files are all there, since lsing in the terminal shows them, but they just don't appear in the finder. Also, all the directories on the drive do appear, so only single files are affected.

I'd rather not reformat to HFS+ since this drive is sometimes used by Windows computers. Is there something else I can try?

Open Terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true; killall Finder. As suggested in the command, it shows all hidden files.

I had this same problem, and a user over at reddit helped me solve it. look here (this isn't spam) http://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/2d4809/applied_sharing_to_all_subfolders_files/


Why is the accountsd process eating so much CPU? Why are the accountsd and securityd processes using so much CPU on OS X 10.10.3?
I am on a Early 2011 Macbook Pro.

What are these processes for? Is it safe to kill them? The machine has only been up 4 hours so has been rebooted recently.

In Mail.app's application's preferences, I deselected "Accounts > Advanced > Automatically Detect and Maintain Account Settings" on two Google accounts, and CPU usage returned to normal.

I solved increasing the space on iCloud.


iOS 13 on iPod Touch 7th generation I develop mobile software. I have an iPod Touch 7th generation (A2178) which I need to update to iOS 13 in order to test a compatibility issue that some users have reported with an app. iOS 13 was released several days ago, and Apple and all news sources report that the iPod Touch 7th generation is compatible with iOS 13. However, both the Software Update section of iOS and the iTunes app on my computer are telling me that the iPod is "up to date" with iOS 12.4.1

Does Apple use delayed rollouts for certain devices? Is there another way to update to iOS 13?

Source:

  The supported device for iOS 13 as follows:

  iPhone 11
  iPhone 11 Pro
  iPhone 11 Pro Max
  iPhone XS
  iPhone XS Max
  iPhone XR
  iPhone X
  iPhone 8
  iPhone 8 Plus
  iPhone 7
  iPhone 7 Plus
  iPhone 6s
  iPhone 6s Plus
  iPhone SE
  iPod touch (7th generation)**

But checking the fine print with ** for the iPod touch states that it won’t be available on the iPod touch until the 24th or 25th of September (depending on your location).

Your best bet is probably to try installing a developer beta or a public beta.

iPod Touch 7th generation is supported by iOS 13. Sometimes software update is slow to catch because of caching or similar behavior. Try restarting it and go to

Settings -> General -> Software Update

on the device, it should work.

In the picture you can see a restore image for an unreleased version being available for ipod touch 7th Gen


How can I mount SFTP/SSH in Finder on OS X Snow Leopard? My Question is seemingly simple. I need to mount an SSH/SFTP volume and make it visible in finder to be able to use it as if it were a local volume (think SMB share). I have tried everything I could find (MacFUSE + sshfs (whatever version), Macfusion (couldn't install),...).

Is there anyway to do this seemingly simple thing? It feels like I'm missing something here. Also, I'm not looking for an SFTP client for download/upload. My personal machine is an Ubuntu box, and that's easily doable on that.

The best solution I've found today (2017) is to use Homebrew and Cask to install osxfuse and sshfs:
brew install --cask osxfuse
brew install sshfs

And then:
sshfs username@hostname:/remote/directory/path /local/mount/point -ovolname=NAME

It works! :-)

I use Filezilla, its free, connect as sftp.


Can I record a phone call on an iPhone? Nothing more to say than "Is there an app to record the current phone call ?" :-)

Beware of legal issues.

You can but you'll need to jailbreak, use extra hardware (plug a mic into the headphone jack), or use 3rd party SIP software. For example, Google Voice has an iPhone app, and Google Voice supports call recording. Google Voice does announce to both parties that it is recording the call.

The best way is to have Google voice account and download there app.


missing /usr/bin/gnutar on Mavericks (MacPorts) MacPorts is complaining about missing /usr/bin/gnutar on Mavericks

:info:extract sh: /usr/bin/gnutar: No such file or directory

gnutar is indeed not there anymore.

As suggested here I tried to change the tar command in /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf:

tar_command=/usr/bin/tar -0

with no effect.

Any suggestion? Did I configure tar_command in the wrong file? Is there another workaround?

The problem is that your version of MacPorts was not built on Mavericks and assumes the tools that were there when it was installed are still available. Since this is no longer the case, you should re-install MacPorts, which will automatically fix this issue.

Since there is no binary installer for Mavericks at the moment, you will have to build from source instead. Make sure you have installed the Command Line Tools using xcode-select --install before you attempt to run ./configure in the MacPorts source tree. See http://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.subversion for a how-to.

If you don't want to build a development version from source, a binary installer will be made available in the next few days.

Edit: A binary installer for Mavericks (for the 2.2.1 bugfix release) is now available: https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.2.1-10.9-Mavericks.pkg.

Note that you should still run xcode-select --install in any case, even if you do have Xcode installed and use the binary installer.

Since this keeps getting referenced: If you just updated to Mavericks you should also follow https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration.

Use Terminal.app (under /Applications/Utilities) and run the command:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/bsdtar /usr/bin/gnutar


Flash doesn't appear in my Chromium "chrome://plugins" page I recently upgraded Chromium manually from http://build.chromium.org

I tried loading some Flash content and it won't load.

First I was thinking that maybe there's a problem with the plugin so I went to "chrome://plugins", it wasn't there, I tried installing, still wasn't there.

Went to /Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/Versions/42.0.2286.0/Chromium Framework.framework/Internet Plug-Ins/, there was no PepperFlash directory.

I copied from Google Chrome, reloaded Chromium, still nothing (No content and nothing appears in chrome://plugins).

Tried installing the Pepper Flash specifically from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ (Selecting My current Mac version and the PPAPI plugin from the other list below).

Still not working.

Any additional ideas? I'm really frustrated.

You can try to use the system-flashplayer, but you have to enable "Enable NPAPI Mac, Windows" in about:flags first.

I set "Enable" to Enable Input IME API Windows, Linux in chrome://flags/ on my Win 64 Chromium and got the Flash Player in chrome://plugins/


Fake Webcam / Webcam Emulator Mac Os 10.7.4 64Bit running as a Virtual Machine. I am looking for fake webcam solution for Mac OS 10.7.4 64bit running as a Virtual Machine.

What I tried:
ManyCam - only works with 32bit Browser and then not with all flash applications
CamCamX - crashes on startup
CamTwist - Crash

Is there any other solution out there?

OS X's Quartz Extreme video processing framework and services are not available under OS X 10.7.4 when running inside any kind of Virtual Machine.

Have you tried iGlasses? It's not free but I think there is a demo.


How can I change subtitle color, background or font used by iTunes? In iTunes subtitles background is black and font Courier New (and rather big). How can I change this preferences?

A quick googling of iTunes skin's yields quite a few results on changing the look and feel of iTunes. I don't know personally how to change individual aspects of iTunes though.


How to set a default application to open a file in mac? In a mac (10.14.6) I want to set the default application to files of type  'err' (i.e. files like test.err or output.err) to be TextEdit.

For that I follow the description given here, and set the default application to be TextEdit.

However, when I double click on that exact same file in the finder, I see the following text box:

So what am I missing? Why does it nor work?

I don't know why the existing two methods are not working - they both should.

Alternatively try RCDefaultApp which as far as I'm aware still works in Catalina. [I can only test up to Mojave.]

I added this manually using the + button & it actually suggested TextEdit itself. I'd suggest also checking 'Override file creator' & see if that might help.

The simple process goes as:

Right click on .err file and press Option , then Open with will change to Always open with.

Then select the appropriate application you want to open. It will open and then close it.
Test it by double-clicking and then it should work without any issue.

Reference for it as a screenshot:


What tools allow for creation and editing of a PDF document on OS X? I would like to create a PDF document with images, text and table of contents.
I have also other PDF documents that I would like to merge in this new PDF.

Do you know some tools/software for creating PDFs?

You can actually merge multiple PDFs right from Preview.app. Just open two PDFs in two separate windows, turn on the sidebars, and drag pages from one sidebar to the other. This won't provide you with a table of contents, but you can always just make something in TextEdit, export it as a PDF, then add it to the beginning of the document.

Microsoft Word 2011 does a solid job of creating content and saving to PDF.

File > Save As then change Format to PDF.


How to listen to the same song at the same time on 2 different iPhones? My girlfriend stay far way from me, but we have a habit that is listening to music together in the morning. But now we have to do that by playing loud by a Computer so that the quality is so low. I wonder that any IOS app can help us listen to the same song at the same time, i.e. when I press Play button, the song will be played at the same time in my iPhone and her iPhone too.

There are couple of young coders who met at 2013 WWDC after getting a scholarships from Apple who had the same idea you describe. They brought out an app called
Audibly

Description
Audibly plays your music in sync across nearby iOS devices. Just
choose the songs you want, link up some devices, and you're ready to
go.
Hanging out with friends and want to play a song, but your phone’s
speakers aren't loud enough? Instantly create a wireless surround
sound system and forget messy headphone cables.
Features: • Create a playlist of songs from your own library • Control
the volume across all the devices • Music kept in sync as you listen •
Use filters to change the pitch of the music • Favorite what’s playing
to come back to it later • No Internet connection required*
Audibly was first created at WWDC by a group of Student Scholarship
Recipients: Nick Frey, Chris Galzerano, and Veeral Patel.

Music can be streamed over Peer-to-Peer Wi-Fi on newer, supported devices, anywhere you are without an Internet connection. Devices can
also connect over a Wi-Fi network.

They still have some bugs to iron out but I have used it and it works well.

AMPME is the exact Application that fulfill your requirements.
iOS - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ampme-play-music-louder/id986905979?mt=8
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How to remove a partition with terminal? So basically I partitioned my HDD on my MacBook Pro so that I could install Linux and dual boot. But I realized I don't really need Linux anymore but it doesn't appear on my regular disk utilities, only my one MacBook HDD does.

I type diskutil list in my terminal and this shows up

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            91.0 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:                        EFI                         29.3 GB    disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +90.6 GB    disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 B0DF20B2-B674-46B3-B337-57F6A89A500F
                                 Unlocked Encrypted

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *248.4 GB   disk2
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS 256 GB                  248.3 GB   disk2s3

I'm basically trying to remove 4 under disk0.
Any help would be appreciated.

The command
sudo  diskutil  eraseVolume  jhfs+  MyVolume  disk0s4

should make the partition visible in the Disk Utility application. This command will erase the contents partition 4. You should probably quit the Disk Utility application before entering this command.
Once disk0s4 becomes visible in the Disk Utility application, you can remove the partition and reclaim the space.

diskutil eraseVolume does NOT remove any partition data
eraseDisk format name [APM[Format] | MBR[Format] | GPT[Format]] device
                Erase an existing disk, removing all volumes and
                writing out a new partitioning scheme containing one new empty file system
                volume.  If the partitioning scheme is not specified, then an appropriate
                one for the current machine is chosen.  Format is discussed below in the
                section for the partitionDisk verb.
                Ownership of the affected disk is required.

What you want is zeroDisk
zeroDisk   [force] [short] device
                Erase a device, writing zeros to the media.  The device can be a whole-disk
                or a partition.  In either case, in order to be useful again, zeroed
                whole-disks will need to be (re)partitioned, or zeroed partitions will need
                to be (re)formatted with a file system,
                e.g. by using the partitionDisk, eraseDisk, or eraseVolume verbs.

Taken from the man pages of diskutil
If you had sensitive data, you may even wish to use secureErase and use an option to make the data irrecoverable (like if you're giving away/donating your PC/Mac/HDD/SSD)