How to save a shared video to my Camera Roll on iOS? I have the app Photos on my iPad mini, on iOS 7.

I am viewing a stream shared by a friend.

When I am on a photo, I can save it to my Camera Roll.

But, when I am on a video, I cannot save it to my Camera Roll. The feature is missing.

1) How can I save a video to my Camera Roll ?

I want preferably a solution that do not need a computer.

2) Bonus question : Why has Apple limited this feature to photos ?

Apple doesn't have a solution on iOS to accomplish this. I've not found any third party app from the App Store that will read the shared stream videos or receive a paste event (you can copy the video from Photos app on iOS, but pasting it anywhere seems to not work for me on iOS 8.x)

I use iPhoto on OS X to view the shared video and then import them into my library. From there, I can get the videos onto iOS. Not exactly your preferred solution, but it works well enough for me.

There are now apps that can download these online videos directly into your camera roll. Most are free for basic functions and the ones that I have used include Video Download.


What are the pros and cons to updating iOS with a full install via iTunes versus a delta update via the Settings app? I can think of a few reasons to do it each way, but I'd like a complete list of them.

Advantages of full install via iTunes:

Device will be synced and backed up automatically during the update process
If at location without Wi-Fi access (and without an unlimited data plan), won't use up (large?) portion of the monthly quota
Device will be charging during the update

Disadvantages of full install:

Tethered to computer for the duration of the update (unless using Wi-Fi Sync)
Full update could be significantly slower due to the large upgrade file download

Advantages of delta update via Settings:

Convenient - no need to be tethered to a computer while updating
Delta updates are smaller - with potentially shorter total update time

Disadvantages of delta update:

Users might not back up devices if prior to running the delta update - a potential issue if the update fails
Update process might use significant portion of the device's charge on the battery, running risk of corruption if the battery dies during the update
If device isn't at 50% power, the device can't be updated via the update process unless plugged in (per this article):

  To install these updates, however, you need to have at least 50
  percent battery life on your device, or have it plugged into a power
  source.

I'm sure this list isn't comprehensive, but it contains most of the issues that I can think of.

I agree guys I keep making the mistake with 64Gb Iphone 5 and Ipad Mini. I see the update in the setting and run off and do the update over wifi relying on my back up in the cloud. I forget if it fails the full backup over the air is very laborious, if it even works (especially beta) or it will be very very slow. I too would recommend full back up to your local computer via itunes and then diasble wifi/cellular and do the back up over cable through iTunes. I just need to follow my own advice...


Is it a good practice to create a desktop shortcut on mac? I have been installing some popular software for Mac and observed that installation packages do not create a desktop shortcut as they often do on windows.

What is good practice to follow: Should I create a desktop shortcut for my application which i have developed?

I would say desktop alias creation at install time for an app is an anti-pattern and bad practice for developers to implement as default behavior.

The desktop belongs to the end user and macOS is designed to install apps for every user account and to consider more than one user per computer. To accomplish this, you’re either escalating the installer to root privileges to change multiple desktops or you’re ignoring / short cutting the way apps can (or possibly should) get installed for all subsequent users.
The launchpad and dock and spotlight / Siri are the bespoke app launch tools and idioms so you can assume your customers are very familiar with how to start an app they just chose to install.

The most kind way to do this would be to onboard the user and ask if they want any shortcuts the first time they launch the app. Apple recommends you have a very light onboarding, so even this is against "best practice" but I would see it as the best way to make an alias if you feel it's the right call for the majority of the users of your app.

I would encourage you to read over the HIG - Human Interface Guidelines and the many free WWDC videos on app packaging and installation - your question is a good one and thinking how people see your app during installation is super helpful to make your app succeed with many customers.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/

The Desktop is Dead
It has been dead for decades, but thanks to the purveyors of OSs and naive users, it remains as a killer zombie.
Reasons NOT to use the desktop

You can't organize by date, size, and all the other attributes you can in a Finder or Explorer window
You can't even see the entire file name if it's long
At least in Windows, there's an annoying overlay of "Public" and personal desktops, which makes tracking down the actual file a royal pain
Apps belong in Apps or ProgramFiles directories.  Period.
the Desktop is not navigable the way a Finder/Explorer window is, nor  does it have quick-navigation sidebar.

Reasons TO use the desktop

Idiot developers put a link icon there
You never learned that directory windows (Finder/Explorer) exist.
You like wasting minutes trying to find the icon you want, especially as it blends into that funky background art you put on your desktop.


Macbook pro trackpad works but not detected in system preferences My macbook pro's trackpad is working normally, but when I check up the system preferences > Trackpad, I find that NO trackpad is found!
I use macOS Catalina Version 10.15.7,
and this is the mac I use
https://support.apple.com/kb/SP747?locale=en_US
And I have the same problem in safe mode.

open up system prefs and click the 'view' drop-down options (Next to the apple logo on the upper left corner of your monitor its the third option) > go to 'customize'
and check to see if there are any disabled preferences...(such as your touchpad or whatever...)


Can Notification Center be made black/dark in macOS Sierra beta? How do you get Notification Center to be dark/black in macOS Sierra beta? I had it that way in OS X El Capitan but cannot find how to do it in new beta.

Since the macOS Sierra update (Including Betas) the Notification Panel no longer uses the Dark Mode option, therefore it is permanently in light mode. This is an intended feature.

When Dark Mode is enabled on macOS Mojave or later, it will appear dark:

Do Control+Command+Option+8. It usually inverts the colors.


Lifespan of 2011 iMac I have a 27" 2011 (i7 3.4ghz 24GB RAM) iMac that I just replaced the drives (1 SSD and 1HDD) in 2 years ago. It runs pretty well now, but is just starting to slow down (and pales in comparison to my 2017 MBP). I'm considering dumping about $400 into it to add an SSD (and run both in RAID0), max out the RAM an replace the thermal sensor. I'm wondering if anyone has done any similar upgrades on a machine with close specs (specifically the age)? If so, did you get the boost in performance you were hoping for or is it just asking too much from a motherboard that old?

**EDIT/UPDATE**
there are some awesome answers/comments/info here - thanks everyone... much appreciated. My main goal is to have 2 high-performing machines. Like i said, I have a 2017 MBP that is great and this iMac is still pretty good for my purposes (no gaming or 3d animation). But once this iMac starts having trouble opening big Photoshop files while I have a bunch of files open elsewhere or performing operations in Illustrator on complex drawings (which I'm just starting to see the beginnings of), it's no longer "high performing".
I really like the idea of the Mac Mini, but I can't justify the $800-$1000 expense. I could sell the iMac for probably around $500-$600 (and would have no problem justifying the $200-$400 expense), but then I'd either have to buy another large monitor or live with just 2 24-inchers... which would make me sad, I think.
I am convinced that putting the $400 into the iMac is not the best idea. So thanks for helping me get there.
Decisions. Decisions. Gotta mull it over a bit more.

Given you’ve already done the work once, you will be the best to know.

SSD - always a great investment, plus they are almost always fungible - you can put them in newer gear with little to no degradation on speed if they still have life.
RAM - low risk upgrade as well. Especially if you don’t need to max it. Add it only when your benchmarks prove you need it - it’s almost always cheaper to delay buying and only buy when your time to fix the software causing RAM to blow up is worth more to you than the cost of more RAM.

That being said - the $800 Mac Mini will run circles around your 2011 iMac performance-wise. Especially if your software stack can transition to 64 bit speed and run in Catalina. Some old software, when migrated to new Mac hardware simply can not run. New outclasses substantially in every other way including power efficiency, GPU, storage, CPU, memory, expansion.
So for me, the tie breaker is the display - if you love and need it, upgrade or sell to buy a newer but used 27” iMac for value. Also, I have a hunch, a lot of people will want to sell their perfectly good iMacs very soon. This includes Apple if you have cash for new and want to make a deal when the line eventually refreshes. Apple will put machines on the refurbished / clearance rack starting immediately when a new model releases and then again when they claw back all the unsold stock from distributors and retail stores globally. With this bump, I wouldn’t wait and I’d shop to price what you need before next Monday and then have your card ready to buy if you get a short-sale opportunity.
With a Mac this old - there will be a very compelling reason to choose to upgrade, decide trade up to slightly less old or “break the bank” for the latest CPU with a T2 chip. Investing in newer everything can be a great value even if you don’t go new at the $400 range.

Since you are doing it for a performance boost - Two things that really give you a performance boost that you will not be able to tap into with your current machine are:

Faster processor;
Faster RAM.

You must be already very well aware of your processor. So I don’t think I need to elaborate on that. But your RAM would be somewhere around 800-1600 MHz. The RAM in the latest MBAs and MBPs is 3733 MHz.
For that itself, I’d recommend investing in a modern machine rather than in your older one.


Streaming local content from iPhone to Apple TV without WiFi or data connection I'm going on a trip abroad - where I will not have a data plan - to a place where there is no wifi. There is a TV, however, and I was thinking of bringing my 3rd gen Apple TV to be able to watch some media on the screen. The plan is to create a local hotspot on the phone; let the Apple TV connect to it and then use Airplay to play already downloaded content from my phone.

Will this work? I can't test it without the data plan without leaving the country.

This post discusses a similar issue, but they seem to have a working data connection.

Yes this works!
You must switch on Bluetooth on both devices.
Afterwards go to the Control Center and check if AirPlay is diplayed. When the AirPlay Button don't show up you might restart and try it again. When it's working you have to turn on 'Mirror'. That's it.

It works. As long as you can turn on a local hotspot on the phone, you can let the Apple TV connect to it and use AirPlay to stream content from the phone to the TV. Furthermore my friend could connect his iPad to the hotspot and stream video from his device to the TV.


How to take care of an iPod touch with a broken screen? I have a 4th gen iPod touch that recently managed to escape my hand and embrace the floor. While the situation was rather comical, now the glass screen is broken. Everything else works fine, including the touchscreen, but it has the so-called "Spiderman" cracks all over half the screen.

I've called Apple to see if they'll fix it, but it's too expensive, so I'm not going to do it. I also don't think I'd trust myself or an unofficial repair shop to do it. So my question is, what can I do to prevent further cracking? There are some places where it looks like pieces of glass could fall off easily. Is there any way to protect what's left of it while making sure the touch sensitivity still works on the whole screen?

Unless you are going to never flex the device, you'll want a clear adhesive cover or clear tape to prevent the glass from easily falling out and cutting your fingers or lying in wait in a pocket or bag.

Something like a Otterbox case with a more substantial plastic barrier might be appropriate (or even both clear tape and a thicker plastic sleeve depending on how likely the glass is to fall out.

If you run your finger nail lightly over the surface, you should be able to tell if the underlying layers are cracked or if the surface digitizer layer is cracked and proceed appropriately.

In cases where the digitizer is intact, I have known people to baby a phone for 6 or more months without any glass pieces falling out, so it really depends on how bad your drop was.

it works really well if you just put clear boxing tape on it


ls -axi (what does it do)? So I was messing around in terminal, and when i opened it, I typed cd applications .

Nothing bad here.

Then, I typed ls -a\ in applications (or maybe /, I don't know, but it opened the > thing after for a multi line command.

Not remembering how to exit, I tried to type exit but instead typed xi and hit enter on my MAcBook Air. It said that it was doing something, but i tried to quit the terminal seeing it was deleting/restoring something (pls don't question my logic here).

Have no idea what it did, but when i go up in terminal, it says i typed ls -axi

What did this do?

ls -axi would have performed a regular directory listing, but with more contents (-a showing dot-files), a horizontal sort (-x) in columns, and with the inode number present (-i).

From the man page for ls:

-a

  Include directory entries whose names begin with a dot (.).

~ $ ls
Desktop     Downloads  Movies  Pictures
Documents   Library    Music   Public

~ $ ls -a
.          Downloads  Pictures
..         Library    Public
Desktop    Movies
Documents  Music

-x

  The same as -C, except that the multi-column output is produced with entries sorted across, rather than down, the columns.

-C

  Force multi-column output; this is the default when output is to a terminal.

~ $ ls -ax
.          ..         Desktop
Documents  Downloads  Library
Movies     Music      Pictures
Public

-i

  For each file, print the file's file serial number (inode number).

~ $ ls -axi
686312 .          643912 ..         686338 Desktop
686325 Documents  686327 Downloads  686313 Library
686390 Movies     686333 Music      686336 Pictures
686386 Public

Have no idea what it did, but when i go up in terminal, it says i typed ls -axi

The backslash is an escape.  Take the next character literally.  So,  It seems you type ls -a\ then pressed return  which gives you the prompt.  You must have then typed xi.  The history command doesn't remember the line continuation sequence, so you get ls -axi

My experimentation with \

mac $ touch hi\"there\"
mac $ ls
containsBill  containsBob   containsJoe   hi"there"
mac $ ls -la hi\"there\"
-rw-r--r--  1 mac  staff     0B Dec 19 19:56 hi"there"
mac $ ls -la\
>  hi\"there\"
-rw-r--r--  1 mac  staff     0B Dec 19 19:56 hi"there"
mac $ # press up arrow to get the previous command
mac $ ls -la hi\"there\"
-rw-r--r--  1 mac  staff     0B Dec 19 19:56 hi"there"
mac $ ls -\a\l
total 40
drwxr-xr-x    7 mac  staff   238B Dec 19 19:56 ./
drwxr-xr-x+ 143 mac  staff   4.7K Dec 16 19:32 ../
-rw-r--r--@   1 mac  staff   6.0K Dec 19 15:05 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r--@   1 mac  staff    56B Dec 19 15:11 containsBill
-rw-r--r--    1 mac  staff     4B Dec 19 15:07 containsBob
-rw-r--r--    1 mac  staff     5B Dec 19 15:08 containsJoe
-rw-r--r--    1 mac  staff     0B Dec 19 19:56 hi"there"
mac $ # press up arrow to get the previous command
mac $ ls -\a\l


how to reactive the lost mode on iPhone 5 I upgraded my phone to iPhone 6 and in the process of erasing data etc on my iPhone 5, i somehow put the lost mode in find my phone.  I have since sold my iPhone 5 and now it is still linked to my current apple id.  How do i deactivate the lost mode lock on my old phone?

It's explained in http://support.apple.com/kb/ph2702:
Remove an iOS device you no longer have
If you no longer have the iOS device because you gave it away or sold it, you need to remotely erase it before you can remove it.

Sign in to icloud.com/#find with your Apple ID (the one you use with iCloud).
If you’re using another iCloud app, click the app’s name at the top of the iCloud.com window, then click Find My iPhone.

Click All Devices, then select the device.

Click Erase [device], then enter your Apple ID password. Because the device isn’t lost, don’t enter a phone number or message.
If the device is offline, the remote erase begins the next time it’s online. You’ll receive an email when the device is erased.

When the device is erased, click Remove from Account.
All your content is erased and someone else can now activate the device.


Pages for iOS won't let me insert or replace pictures (images) When i click on the "insert stuff" button, the window pops up with the tabs that let me pick pictures, shapes, tables, etc.

If I select a table, shape, or anything but a picture, I can pick a specific one, and it appears in the doc, as it should.  But if i pick pictures, I get to pick from my albums, images, etc, but when I select one, nothing happens - the thumbnail gets darker to reflect that I clicked it, but the app just hangs - no image appears in the doc.

The same thing occurs if I use a pre-made template with a pic in it - I can click on the embedded image icon, and get to my images to pick one to select the generic one, but nothing happens when I pick one.

Any ideas?   I already tried a reset.

Either Pages can't read the type of image file you are trying to use, or there will be a bug fix in later update. Try holding your'e finger over the screen and moving it about, the image might be there just pulling a little trick on you.

Another possibility is a corrupted plist file. Quit Pages.
Go to Preferences in your Library folder and delete com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist and relaunch Pages.


Bash executes only ~/.profile but neither of ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc I have a strange problem with bash:

I switch my default shell to /bin/sh from zsh and it doesn't execute ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc when I open a new terminal, it only executes ~/.profile.

What could be the problem?

I could probably source ~/.bashrc from ~/.profile but that does't seem like a good idea, e.g. it would break if I changed to another shell again.

I suggest that you read the bash manual under the heading INVOCATION which states:

   If bash is invoked with the name sh, it tries to mimic the startup behavior of historical versions of sh as  closely
   as  possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as well.  When invoked as an interactive login shell, or a non-
   interactive shell with the --login option, it first attempts to read and  execute  commands  from  /etc/profile  and
   ~/.profile,  in that order.  The --noprofile option may be used to inhibit this behavior.  When invoked as an inter-
   active shell with the name sh, bash looks for the variable ENV, expands its value if it is  defined,  and  uses  the
   expanded  value as the name of a file to read and execute.  Since a shell invoked as sh does not attempt to read and
   execute commands from any other startup files, the --rcfile option has no effect.  A non-interactive  shell  invoked
   with the name sh does not attempt to read any other startup files.  When invoked as sh, bash enters posix mode after
   the startup files are read.

A new terminal session in OS X/macOS always starts as a login shell.

/bin/sh is not bash. It is Bourne Shell. Bash (Bourne Again Shell)'s location is /bin/bash. Change your default shell to bash to use ~/.bash_profile instead of ~/.profile


Can I send an iMessage via iCloud? I logged into iCloud.com but there is no option to send an iMessage.

Is it possible to send an iMessage through iCloud or any other website?

No

For the moment Apple has been extremely quiet about how to access the protocol, and there has been no confirmed plans for iMessage to for the Mac. However, they will most likely release a version for every Apple platform.

I don't think however, they will create a web interface, since no one else has really come up with one that works well.

Aha!
Look this website: http://www.imessageweb.com, it can send an imessage through webpage!


Repair Time Machine sparsebundle that will no longer mount I messed up my Time Machine backup in some way. I'm no longer able to mount the sparsebundle file as I get an error stating that there are no mountable filesystems.

I used the hdiutil command to attach the sparsebundle file:

hdiutil attach -nomount -readwrite flattop.sparsebundle

which resulted in the following /dev/ devices:

/dev/disk2              Apple_partition_scheme
/dev/disk2s1            Apple_partition_map
/dev/disk2s2            Apple_HFSX

Afterwards I ran the fsch_hfs command to check the main volume (/dev/disk2s2):

fsck_hfs -drf /dev/disk2s2

This resulted in a notice that the Time Machine Backups volume is corrupt and needed to be repaired:

Unable to open block device /dev/disk2s2: Permission deniedjournal_replay(/dev/disk2s2) returned 13
** /dev/rdisk2s2 (NO WRITE)
    Using cacheBlockSize=32K cacheTotalBlock=32768 cacheSize=1048576K.
   Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-540.1~34).
Non-empty journal:  start = 66310144, end = 94912512
   Journal need to be replayed but volume is read-only
** Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
** Detected a case-sensitive volume.
   The volume name is Time Machine Backups
** Checking extents overflow file.
   Unused node is not erased (node = 3568)
   Unused node is not erased (node = 3574)
   Unused node is not erased (node = 3575)
** Checking catalog file.
** The volume Time Machine Backups was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
    volume type is pure HFS+
    primary MDB is at block 0 0x00
    alternate MDB is at block 0 0x00
    primary VHB is at block 2 0x02
    alternate VHB is at block 2865568974 0xaacd1cce
    sector size = 512 0x200
    VolumeObject flags = 0x07
    total sectors for volume = 2865568976 0xaacd1cd0
    total sectors for embedded volume = 0 0x00

As you can see there is also an error saying "Unable to open block device /dev/disk2s2: Permission deniedjournal_replay(/dev/disk2s2) returned 13".

I thought this might be due to not running the fsck_hfs command as a su, so I tried it with sudo but this had the same result.

My sparsebundle file is on a Synology DS408 NAS and has been running without a problem for about 2 years now :(

Anyone an idea how to take this further?

Kind regards,
Niels R.

UPDATE: As I suspected while writing this question I probably have a problem with read/write permissions. I now see the volume appearing in the Disk Utility and when I click on "Verify" I get the following output:

Verifying volume “Time Machine Backups”
Checking file systemJournal need to be replayed but volume is read-only
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Detected a case-sensitive volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Unused node is not erased (node = 3568)
Checking catalog file.
Keys out of order
The volume Time Machine Backups was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.

Can I simply chmod the sparsebundle file to set the right permissions?

I have a write up on how to try and repair NAS-based sparsebundle errors on my blog.  In summary:

hdiutil attach -nomount -noverify -noautofsck /Volumes/{name of your disk}/{name of}.sparsebundle

You will then see something like

/dev/diskx Apple_partition_scheme
/dev/diskxs1 Apple_partition_map
/dev/diskxs2 Apple_HFSX

Where x is the disk id for the external disk. x might be 2, 3, 4 or
higher. You are interested in the one labeled Apple_HFSX or Apple_HFS.
fsck_hfs -drfy /dev/diskxs2 using whatever relevant device was located in Step 1.

Hopefully, you will eventually see

  The Volume was repaired successfully

hdiutil detach /dev/diskxs2

However, since OS X 10.6.3, Time Machine will refuse to write to a destination volume that fails its verification.  Even if the process above succeeds in recovering the backup, you may still need to remove the black marks that Time Machine wrote when it failed verification.

Unlock the sparsebundle

chflags -R nouchg /Volumes/{name of your disk}/{name of}.sparsebundle

Move it back to its original location

mv /Volumes/{name of your disk}/{name of}_YYYY-MM-DD.sparsebundle /Volumes/{name of your disk}/{name of}.sparsebundle

At the top level directory of the sparsebundle, edit the file com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist.

Remove

<key>RecoveryBackupDeclinedDate</key>
<date>{whatever-the-date}</date>

Change

<key>VerificationState</key>
<integer>2</integer>

to

<key>VerificationState</key>
<integer>0</integer>

I just had the same problem

** /dev/rdisk2s2 (NO WRITE)

when trying to fix a currupted TM-sparsebundle on a QNAP 419II.

I "ejected" the TM-mount using Finder and run

hdiutil attach -nomount -noverify -noautofsck ...

command (found here Fix Time Machine Sparsebundle NAS Based Backup Errors) again, which (in contrary to the first run with which it printed "/dev/disk2s2   Apple_HFSX") this time it gave

/dev/disk1s2            Apple_HFSX

Checking the sys-log with

tail -f /var/log/fsck_hfs.log

No showed

/dev/rdisk1s2: fsck_hfs run at Sun Feb 17 17:53:20 2013
/dev/rdisk1s2: ** /dev/rdisk1s2
/dev/rdisk1s2:    Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-540.1~34).
** Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
** Detected a case-sensitive volume.
... LOTS-OF-OUTPUT ...
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN

Never the less, re-activating TM still resulted in currepted-backup-message :(

Good luck!


What features in iOS 7 make a difference? Share your experiences on exploring iOS 7 with us..

Whether you found hidden or little-known feature of iOS 7 or can explain how a big feature makes a difference, we're looking for objective reports of how the new OS affects your workflow.

Also provide details on how to achieve that feature, and if possible, include a relevant image too (hold Home and Lock for a screenshot on your iOS device).

Please post one tip per answer. Please also check to see if your answer has already been posted - duplicate answers will be deleted in favour of the original answer on any given topic. To search answers for this question use inquestion:101382 (or inquestion:this, directly from the question page) in addition to your search terms in the search box in the upper right hand corner of this page.

Within Messages.app, you can (finally!) check on the exact time every message was sent and received by swiping message bubbles to the left.

source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/18/4741412/the-best-hidden-features-in-ios-7

Apple also updated their Tips and tricks website page for the iPhone 5s as they used to do it in the past. Check it out!
http://www.apple.com/iphone-5s/tips


How to skip Safari's "Do you want to allow this page to open X" dialog? I'm pretty sure I haven't changed any setting or installed anything other than software updates, but today I've started getting this dialog when I clicked a magnet link:

How do I get rid of this dialog? I've clicked okay once, but then I've clicked another magnet link and got the same dialog again. Why did it suddenly start and how do I get rid of Safari constantly asking about it?

I'm on macOS 10.12.2/Safari 10.0.2

If the application you want to use is already running (or is in the dock), you can drag and drop the magnet link onto the application's dock icon to avoid the dialog.

There's also a discussion on the Transmission forum on this. The dialog that appears when clicking on such a link seems to be a Safari security feature that currently can't be disabled.

I have a set of interactive displays to control my entertainment center via calls on iRed.  The change in Safari rendered these useless.  I tried to circumvent the warning dialog but finally gave up.  Until this warning can be avoided, I switched to the Vivaldi browser.  It works perfectly and I'm able to use my entertainment center again without a multitude of remotes.


How to download the Command Line Tools for Xcode without the Downloads for Developers webpage? I'm trying to install the Command Line Tools for Xcode so that I can use homebrew to install some packages I need for some rudimentary programming exercises; I would rather not install the entirety of Xcode (again) as it's pretty bulky for something I rarely use, and I prefer a minimalistic IDE. Supposedly, Apple has released the command line tools separately, but for whatever reason, when I sign into the Downloads for Developers page, I get some sort of weird error where the page will not populate with downloads the majority of the time, and even when it will (rarely) I can't find the command tools I'm looking for.
Apparently you can also download the OSX GCC Installer from Kenneth Reitz's blog, but it seems to be obsolete now that there's an official Apple version.

Are there any other avenues I can pursue? What could be going on with the website?

The command line tools aren't offered via Xcode 5.0.1, but I was able to install them via this terminal command.

xcode-select --install

It will prompt you that it needs the command line tools and will offer to install them.  Worked like a charm for me.

I had a similar problem in Firefox, but just cleared the cookies, and it was good.


How secure is Activation Lock on iOS 7 (and later)? Apple showed this new feature in iOS 7 called Activation Lock, that if you enable "Find My iPhone" on a device that is lost or stolen, a person that finds/gets the iPhone will not be able to wipe it or reset it. I'm curious whether the lock is designed to prevent these avenues to defeat the lock:

Can they completely drain the battery and leave the phone in that state for a couple of months and then try it?
Or, can they use any third-party software that can access iPhone from outside the iTunes and wipe it that way?
Or, can they simply "jailbreak" it and forget about this Activation Lock?

By what methods can this lock be defeated or bypassed?

Any method to restore a device, bypassing iTunes restrictions either by using DFU/Recovery or by not using iTunes, would still require that the device go through the setup process. It is during this process that the device is connected to Wi-Fi and verified with Apple servers. This checks the database of Find my iPhone devices, making sure that the device is not listed. If the device is linked to an Apple ID, with Find my iPhone enabled, then the device will show the Activation Lock screen, and the Apple ID of the account with Find my iPhone enabled on the device will need to be entered.

Completely draining the battery would not fix this, since the Apple ID and Find my iPhone state is stored on Apple servers and retrieved during setup, not from the device itself.

Theoretically yes, 3rd-party software could gain access to a device and restore it, however as mentioned earlier the Find my iPhone state is stored on Apple's servers, so this would be of no benefit, and would not be different to restoring using iTunes when the device is in Recovery mode.

Even though a jailbreak has now been released for iOS 7, a device with a currently active Activation Lock can't be jailbroken.

Actually, some legit users of the new iOS 7 are not very happy with this new feature. Some users forgot their iCloud account, which makes it very annoying for them as well as frustrates them. I have read so many complaints on this.

Anyway, this feature is still not secure. In my country, some hackers can bypass the activation process. You just have to pay around $200 or less. So, the thief can still gain from the stolen iPhone by just spending that little amount and selling it to a very high price. Also, what if that hacker is a thief? He gets more profits from it.


Keynote on the iPad does not to the projector (VGA output)? On an iPad, when we hit play for a Keynote presentation while connected to a projector via VGA cable, the app closes down.

What tricks are there for getting iPad-Keynote to work with a projector?

we called Apple they said we need to re-set the iPad

Turn off the iPad (shut down) and then turn it on again. It worked for me.


Finder Tags not working for any SMB files I'm having an issue with Finder Tags and SMB share? I can tag a file with a colour. But when I go view in the tags it does not show for any SMB shared files? I have tried everything. Finder is creating a DS file. I have opened up the permissions etc. Just refuses to show the coloured tags? Anyone know why? If this does work for you please could you share you config.


On login, I am only given the Guest user option. How do I log into my account? I tried to add a guest account to my laptop and when I restarted the computer, the only login option I have is the Guest Account.  Choosing this account restarts the computer into the Safari-only configuration.  There is no Systems Preferences available in this mode.

I did not unchoose my administrator account.  How did this happen?  And how do I get it back?

I think safe mode would work better. Here are the instructions, from the Apple Support website

  To start up into Safe Mode (to Safe Boot), do this:

  Be sure your Mac is shut down.
  Press the power button.
  Immediately after you hear the startup tone, hold the Shift key. The Shift key should be held as soon as possible after the startup
  tone, but not before the tone.
  Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple icon and the
  progress indicator (looks like a spinning gear).

Once your in, go to System Preferences and disable Find My Mac (iCloud settings) and Guest User (Users and Groups). Reboot. You should be able to login normally. If you would still like a guest user, just go back and enable Find My Mac.

Try restarting the computer by clicking at the Apple logo () in the upper left screen corner and choosing Restart.


Photos not deleting off iPad when deleted from iPhone When I take a pic on my iPhone it syncs to my iPad as well, but when I delete a pic from my iPhone, it doesn't get deleted off my iPad.

iOS 8.1,
iPhone 5c,
iPad Air

The following settings are enabled:

Settings > iCloud > Photos > My Photo Stream and Photo sharing

Settings > Photos and Camera > My Photo Stream and Photo sharing on the iPhone

Settings > Photos and Camera > My Photo Stream and Photo sharing on the iPad

Does anyone have any idea how to fix the issue?

My opinion that you had better make format to your ipod.I don't know exactly whether will be ok or not.you do as well.


Synchronise folders on different Macs using rsync I am trying to synchronise two different folders using rsync. I have copied all the data worth 4Tb from a network share to an external hdd using rsync -v -r /source /destination. Now I need to run regular backup to sync both the locations. Can anyone suggest rsync command which I can use to synchronise both the folders.

The best way is to continue to use rsync so as to maintain /destination synchronized with /source.

1st run:

rsync -avE /source /destination

next runs:

rsync -avE /source /destination

The -a option = --archive == -rlptgoD.

The -E option means copy extended attributes and ACL, and is mandatory on HFS+ filesystems.

Warning: the standard version of rsync on OS X, version 2.6.9 (see rsync --version) still
have problems with extended attributes.
These problems will be shown thanks to the -v option.

A verification of the output of rsync is mandatory.

This version 2.6.9 is too old and causing too many problems.

I advise any user willing to maintain in sync directories between
different Macs (or between a Mac and another Unix machine) to install
rsync version 3.1.2.

Here is the method I use:

install MacPorts: MacPorts home page

go to the Quickstart section, install Xcode
choose the right version to install (Mavericks, Yosemite or El Capitan)

Upgrade your PATH so as to find the port command in it
for example, I installed it in /local/bin and modified my PATH
like this:

PATH=/local/bin:${PATH}
export PATH

Install rsync 3.1.2:

port install rsync

With this version of rsync, the right options to use will be:

rsync -avAX /source /destination

and if you read me thus far, you are pretty good enough now to read

man rsync

to get the light from the source.

Easiest way to update rsync on MacOS Mojave as described at the following link.

https://bayton.org/2018/07/how-to-update-rsync-on-mac-os-high-sierra/

Open the terminal and paste the command:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Now you are ready to install the new Rsync version, and can do so as follows:

brew install rsync
Once completed, you should sign out and back in to MacOS.

When entering the command below, you will see now that you are using rsync 3.1.3 (at time of writing), instead of rsync 2.6.9. You are no longer running a 12 year old version of Rsync!

rsync --version
rsync  version 3.1.3  protocol version 31

As simple as that.


Prevent iTunes from opening when connecting bluetooth headset Every time I connect my bluetooth headset to my Mac, iTunes decides it's time to launch.  Is there a way I can prevent this behavior?

I found this thread, but there is no solution: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2570254?start=0&tstart=0

OS X 10.8.3
iTunes 11.0.2 (26)
Using Beats Wireless

Update

Even after removing iTunes from my computer, it stills prompts me to "find iTunes" whenever a bluetooth audio device is connected.

I've got this figured out.
On OSX, the "RCD" (remote control daemon) is responsible for the naughtiness. It has hard-coded list of actions to do when it detects certain "events" - one of them being connecting to a bluetooth headset.
To disable this behaviour (minimal loss of functionality, possibly your apple remote won't work), use the following two commands:

launchctl stop com.apple.rcd
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist

This should stop rcd from being launched by OSX. No rcd - no auto-magic multimedia. Your volume keys should continue working, but things like play key (or bluetooth) auto-starting iTunes should stop. With -w option the change should be persistent.
PS: The following is the nuclear option. In Terminal, enter:

sudo chmod 000 /System/Library/CoreServices/rcd.app/Contents/MacOS/rcd
sudo pkill -9 rcd

To stop rcd from even being started by any app. To restore your rcd, use:

sudo chmod 755 /System/Library/CoreServices/rcd.app/Contents/MacOS/rcd
launchctl start com.apple.rcd

so i was having this issue with my macbook where it was launching Itunes as soon as my headphone jack was plugged in.....i called Apple and they helped me disable it... here is how.

OPEN FINDER
GO TO APPLICATIONS
HIGHLIGHT ITUNES
RIGHT CLICK ITUNES AND CLICK "GET INFO"
UNLOCK SHARING PERMISSIONS BY CLICKING ON THE "LOCK ICON" BOTTOM RIGHT AND PUTTING IN YOUR LOG IN PASSWORD
WHERE IT SAYS "EVERYONE", SELECT THE DROP DOWN BOX AND SELECT "NO ACCESS"
LOCK THE "LOCK ICON"
RESTART (not necessary)AND PROBLEM SOLVED (FOR ME).

P.S. you will not be able to open itunes until you undo this process, hopes this help.


Are there any gotchas with using two Apple IDs for one user in the App Store? To date I have had an Apple ID tied to my personal email address. It uses my personal paypal account for the purchases, and currently it has a credit balance thanks to some Christmas iTunes gift cards.

With the App Store recently being released, I'd like to buy an OS X app for business purposes. I don't want to use the credit balance on my personal Apple ID account, so I was thinking about creating a new Apple ID just for when I buy apps that I use for business. This way I could have the business Apple ID tied to my business paypal account.

However, I'm concerned that there might be some gotchas with using two different Apple IDs on the same MacBook by the same user. Before I just try this blindly, does anyone have any experience or know of any gotchas?

There are a couple of gotchas I'm aware of.

If you buy apps on both iTunes accounts, they all get listed together when updates become available, not just the ones on the account you're currently signed into.  So if you click 'download all free updates' iTunes will only download the updates for the account which is signed in.  This can be confusing because you've told it to download all free updates and it doesn't tell you why it hasn't downloaded the others.
If you have an Apple TV and you want to use Home Sharing, then you can only share the content for one account at a time.

just add additional profiles (users) on your mac.


Unable to sign out of iCloud on OSX Yosemite or disable Keychain Background

This appears to be an ongoing problem with many people.. In short, I'm getting a ton of errors in my system.log along the lines of:

CloudKeychainProxy[307]:  __39-[UbiqitousKVSProxy doSyncWithAllPeers]_block_invoke_2 <UBK-s-pC---> syncWithAllPeers (null), rescheduling timer

This happens once every 5 seconds - kind of silly, right?

The first thing I wanted to do was to sign out of iCloud because something has obviously gone wrong there. I open the system preferences, navigate to iCloud and try to hit Sign Out. One by one the iCloud services are all disabled, each asks me if I want to keep a copy of the data locally. This process finishes, and then I get an error stating:

Your iCloud account couldn't be removed at this time.

Turn off all iCloud services and try again.

The one holdout in the iCloud preferences pane is Keychain. When I uncheck the box, it immediately re-checks itself, the moment I answer the keep or delete data question (and regardless of the answer selected).

A look in system.log via Console shows this error appearing the moment the box is rechecked:

com.apple.preferences.icloud.remoteservice[645]: [AOSAccounts] : [SetEnabled] : Did not call SSRemoveSyncedKeychainData as we had an error in SOSCCRemoveThisDeviceFromCircle for account myaccount@site.com  error: (null)

(actual email address replaced with "myaccount@site.com")

So. I can't sign out of iCloud since I can't disable iCloud Keychain. WTF?

Ideas that did not work

Repairing permissions, both in Disk Utility, and my home directory permissions from the Cmd-R-on-boot Recovery system. No effect.
Checking for disk errors - there are none.
Booting in safe mode - No effect.
Clearing every cache possible (via OnyX), including LaunchServices, dyld, XPC, kernel, boot, and system components. - No effect.
Changing my password on iCloud.com - this results in a prompt for a password which is never accepted, and attempting to cancel out of it results in System Preferences crashing!! After reloading it, it appears that my modified password was accepted, but no other changes have been made. No effect on the problem.
Removing all third party kexts (anything that shows in a kextstat | grep -v apple). Only stuff I had in there was Virtualbox and Little Snitch, both of which were uninstalled totally. No effect.
Signing out of all other iCloud devices, including another Mac, an iPhone, and an iPad. No effect.

Ideas that are not acceptable

Creating a new user account. This is a workaround, and does not fix whatever's been broken. The same problem could happen again, and just abandoning my account anytime it does really isn't a tenable solution.

Other notes

iCloud appears to work fine except for the keychain bits. New passwords saved in Safari do not synchronize across devices. Mail, notes, calendar, etc, work fine.

Apple Support was useless on this matter, suggesting everything I tried above, with the only other option being a full iCloud reset, which is both the nuclear option (all my synced data goes away), and may not fix the problem on the mac anyways.

Signing in in my iPhone and enable iCloud Keychain did the trick to me. So I restored the keychain in my iPhone and then the keychain switch in my Mac changed to  off state as magic

Try this:

Disable keychain on all of your devices.
Sign out of iCloud on your Mac.


Milliseconds delay after unlocking phone causes unresponsiveness Does anyone realise a delay after unlocking the iPhone screen on iOS7 ? You cannot swipe left or right until the animation finishes at 100%, rendering the phone unresponsive till then.

This is kind of annoying, albeit a small issue, but it affects the whole snappy experience I'm having with iOS7.

Any fix for this ? I expected it to be fixed by iOS 7.0.3 update, but it isn't.

It looks like you have to just wait for the animation to finish.

By turning on 'Reduce Motion' you get another animation, which looks like it is a bit faster. But this function changes the whole feeling from iOS 7. You can find it at General - Accessibility -  Reduce Motion.


High CPU usage by a process called PTPCamera On my Macbook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) is a process, called PTPCamera, using a lot of CPU-Time . I already have killed this process but it spawned immediately again.

85% of CPU usage eats my Battery so I would be happy if anyone could help 😊

I found out that the process is a "Picture Transfer Process for a Camera" in Short PTPCamera it will be launched by iPhoto.app and also with the newer Photo.app. But still does not explain the high CPU usage without a Phone connected.

So what is this process for and how can I control its behaviour? Anyone else has this problem and how did you solve this?

So we found the Solution:

Connect your iPhone/Camera and reopen Photos.app or iPhoto
Close iPhoto or Photos.app
Disconnect your iPhone/Camera
Open Photos/iPhoto again

now the PTPCamera Process should be terminated gracefully and won't spawn again in a busy waiting loop.

You do not have to do this steps all the time, only necessary to terminate the process graceful and kick it out of the busy waiting state. How to come in this state, we (AppleDev and I) do not know.

I would just force quit the process, and if that doesn't work, I'd make a command line script to constantly send the "kill" command.


Messages restarts to login screen after a few seconds I'm running Big Sur (11.0.1) on a Late 2014 Mac Mini, and the Messages app refuses to stay logged in.
I recently created a child account for my eldest. Signed into her account on Mac Mini, I have successfully signed into her account in Apple ID in System Preferences, and into iCloud too.
When I open the Messages app, it prompts for credentials. I enter her creds (that I just created), and all seems to go well. I tried sending a message to my account, which was never delivered. Then, within a matter of seconds, the app appears to either restart or decides that authentication needs to be re-performed, almost like her account is being logged out. This repeats no matter how many times I try, or whether I restart the machine.
If I log into my Mac account, open Messages and log in with my Apple ID, the same thing happens. When I just tried, it lasted seven seconds before restarting.
If I open Messages using my Apple ID on a 2018 Macbook Pro, also running Big Sur, everything is fine and I can send messages to friends with iPhones, using their phone number. Similarly if I log in as her account on my MBP, I can send messages.
If I try to send a message to my child's account using my MBP, I get "Not delivered" errors.
Any ideas?

What i can recommend for you is to download “iMessage debug” Its a terminal Applcation,just unzip it and double click it to run in the terminal. You will have to goto system preferences and click on the security and privacy icon and allow it to run because it will blocked because of the “unidentified developer crap” But anyhow just run that and see if that fixes your problem. If there was a known good imessage configuration on the said Mac at one point then this app will be able to restore that configuration automatically. Your ethernet in your Hardware config will have to read as “en0” and “built in”. And your nvram must be working as well. In terminal you would type the command “sudo -s” enter your password and then “sudo nvram -p” hit enter. “sudo nvram -c” now type “sudo nvram mymac=1234” where 1234 can be whatever you want to put there and then just hit enter. Then reboot and then go back to terminal and just type “sudo nvram -p” and it should bring up some data on the screen along with whatever you named the 1234 above and that way you will know if your nvram is working. If it doesnt show the 1234 rename then its not working and that would be the problem. Anyway hope this helps


How can I get OSX to appear as a wifi router without sharing internet I want to use my Mac as a wifi-router on a private network (no internet access). I want users to be able to connect to the network by selecting the SSID on their iOS devices.

Is there a way to do this from the command line? I can select "Create Network..." from the networking menu but that has 2 problems.

The created network shows up under a special section "devices" on iOS. I want it to appear  in the normal list of wifi hotspots. How do I do this? I'm assuming maybe I can do it manually I can set whatever needs to be set so iOS can't tell the difference between my mac and a normal router
When selecting it in iOS is says it's not connected to the internet. I want to avoid that message. I get that I'm not actually letting them connect to the internet. The question is, how and I fool iOS into thinking it is connected to the internet. I have a feeling this is related to #1 because how does iOS know there's no internet when it hasn't actually connected to the network yet (I haven't selected it).

Note: any pointers into apple docs would be great as well. I've even tried looking at how something similar would be done in Linux in the hopes that it might lead to ideas about OSX but my Google foo is weak for this topic.

What you are trying to do is indeed possible, but it requieres a lot of work to get it working.

I thought about that for a while and it is a great Idea to use a mac as Wifi-Router, especially in Virtual-Test-Environments. But Mac OS X does not work like that.
The reason for that is, that Mac OS X only starts the service, if you really have Internet connection. Why would you share your internet, if there is no internet. Simple as that. Simple as a Mac ;D

But you can work around this by setting up virtual Network Interfaces, that would simulate internet.
There is a nice discussion about Virtual network interfaces on Stack Overflow, meantoning your problem in a comment :

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/87442/virtual-network-interface-in-mac-os-x

(especially the long post by "bmasterswizzle" with the comment : "I've tested it and yes, it does. I was able to share my OpenVPN tun0 device (from my Ethernet connection) over my WiFi using this method. ")

You get this problem often with Virtual Machines, because there OS X also shares ethernet via the NAT-Bridge, but in fact does not need to have Internet Access to make it work.

It is a bit of an efford and I think you could easily go around it, if you have a script that fakes the Internet Traffic on En0 so you can share the En0 to the Wifi-Adapter. But I have no clue how to talk to the en0 interface via command line and faking traffic.

And as long as there is no traffic, your Mac won't share the Connection.

This type of network is know as an Ad-hot network. The procedure to create one is listed here: http://www.maclife.com/article/columns/maclife_101_how_create_adhoc_network

After creating an Ad-hoc network, you will see it listed in the list of wifi networks on your iOS device.

Note that you wont be able to connect to the internet using your WiFi connection if a device is connected to the adhoc network. But since you dont want the other device to access the internet, this should be ok.

I don't think the act of just connecting to a wifi network results in the message you stated. I have only seen that message, say, if you launch the browser or open an app that requires an Internet connection and as far as I know, there is no way to disable that message on an iOS device.


Stop VPN Disconnecting when going to Sleep When the iPhone (4) goes to sleep, the VPN will disconnect.
Is there any way to disable this behavior as it's sometimes a bit annoying.

I am jailbroken, and the server I'm connecting to is Windows Server 2008 R2 which I can edit settings on.

The VPN will disconnect because your WiFi disconnects.

Therefore you would have to...

either reconnect your VPN connection when on 3G (How?)
or enable your iPhone to keep connected to WiFi (requires jailbreak)

To keep WiFi on in sleep mode you need to install KeepAwake via Cydia.

See this step-by-step guide.

http://www.cultofmac.com/225244/apple-decides-not-to-kill-always-on-vpn-for-ios-devices/

hopefully this will help you.


iPad 1 can't install a new app I want to install Qi Dian on my iPad 1 but I can't. I've tried to download from my Mac first but this app can't be download by Mac, only iPad device or iPhone. How can I install this on my iPad 1?

The original iPad (iPad 1) can support iOS 3.2 up to iOS 5.1.1 - source here: the iOS Support Matrix.

According to the link you provided for the app, the app you want to install requires iOS 8 or above.

This means that you can not install the app on your iPad, since it requires iOS 8, but your iPad can only run up to iOS 5.1.1.

Since you're using a Mac, you can go to the iTunes App and search for the app to download it there. After it's downloaded, connect your iPad to your Mac and then you can sync the app to your device.


When connected to VPN using the built-in VPN service, is all my internet traffic routed through the VPN connection? I have configured a VPN service using only the built-in options from OS X. I have configured it as follows:

Interface: VPN
VPN Type: Cisco IPSec
Service name: ...

I don't have any settings under Advanced, so I have entered no DNS Servers, no Search Domains, and no Proxie Servers or Proxy Configuration file for any of the protocols.

When am I connected to this VPN, does all my traffic go through the VPN connection? In other words, if I am using a messenger, searching on Google, sending email or browse the web, can the provider of the VPN service see all my traffic?

Edit:

Here are the default entries in my routing table (output from netstat -r -n):

Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
default            192.168.1.1        UGSc           10        0     en1
default            gway#5             UCSI            0        0   utun0

There are a whole bunch of IP-addresses that list specific gateways. I checked some of those IP-addresses, and they are related to the network that I use the VPN for.

Does the fact that the first default is my own modem/router mean that in fact not all internet traffic passes through the VPN?

Yup when using the VPN everything goes through your VPN.


Why are emails not updating on my iPad but are on my iPhone My emails are not updating on the iPad. They are ok on iPhone and on my pc. I have tried resetting, deleting account on iPad, turning on and off, resting broadband, nothing works.

Just had exactly the same problem ... BT mail worked fine on my iPhone and PC but NOT on the iPad.   Solved the issue by simply deleting the 'Mail' app and reinstating from the app store .. re-entered email and password and away it went fine.  I can only assume that there may have been a corruption in the iPad mail app.

I had same thing tried everything, deleting accounts, adding again, turning off ipad numerous times. I had open email on safari.i went back in and open the email again on safari and the actually logged out before X out. This worked for my app and everything updated.


New WD External Drive Can't Eject & Files Won't Display on MacOS I cannot see the files or folders on this external hard drive and I am unable to eject the drive. I must not lose this footage.

The drive is a brand new WD My Passport 25E1 Media 2TB External Hard Drive. I'm using it to store large amounts of video footage. It's only a few days old. I've had no problem transferring and opening files on the hard drive until now.

When I first purchased the drive I formatted it for MacOS using Disk Utility. It is currently a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition. It has never been plugged in to any other Mac or PC.

Current Problem

The hard drive is plugged in to my iMac.

When I view it in Finder non of the hundreds of gigs of footage display. No files, no folders.
I cannot eject the drive. If I attempt to eject the drive I get this message:

  The disk "My Passport" wasn't ejected because one or more programs may be using it. I have not tried to Force Eject.

There is valuable footage on this drive I cannot lose. If I view the drive in Disk Utility it shows 318.15 GBs used and 1.68 TB free. This indicates the files are on the drive but not visible.

Steps I've Done So Far

Attempted to Eject the Drive
Confirmed Storage is Used in Disk Utility
Closed All Open Applications & Attempted to Eject the Drive
Logged Out of my MacOS User Account & Attempted to Eject the Drive
Opened WD Drive Utilities and Clicked "Run Drive Status Check" and "Run Quick Drive Test" with No Effect, Results, or Message. It doesn't do anything.

Right now I'm seeking guidance because this footage is essential and cannot be lost.

How do I confirm the files are still on the drive?
Why does the drive not display the files or folders it should?
Why can I not eject the drive?
Should I attempt a "Force Eject", and if I do, do I risk
losing the files on the drive?
How do I identify what programs are
running that are preventing the drive from ejecting?
How can I eject the drive?

Help in this matter is immensely appreciated.

Restart your Mac

At the risk of stating the obvious (as you didn't say you've tried this), have you fully shutdown your Mac and then rebooted to see if the drive appears and functions okay then?

Use a different port

Shutdown your Mac and try connecting the drive to another port. What happens?

Safe Mode

If restarting your Mac and trying a different port makes no difference, can you restart your Mac in Safe Mode and let us know how that goes?

Follow these steps boot your Mac into Safe Mode:

Fully shut down your Mac
Restart your Mac
Immediately press the Shift key and keep it down
Let go of the Shift key when you see the login window (NOTE: If you have FileVault enabled you may need to log in twice).
Take a note of what happens (i.e. could you boot your Mac okay, is the issue still present, etc)
To exit Safe Mode just restart your Mac as normal

Once you've booted into Safe Mode, let me know how you went and we'll go from there.

BACKUP

Finally, you really should have a backup of your data. You've made it pretty clear you have valuable footage on this drive you can't risk losing, so you really should have a second drive for backup purposes.

The SAME exact thing happened to me. Including storing a lot of video files on my drive and it being vital that I didn't lose any of them. I tried shutting down my MacBook and when I restarted it, the files were showing again in my WD EastStore 10 TB drive. THANK GOD.


Why is OSX telling me I can't open a document from an unidentified developer? I thought this feature was only for apps, not for documents.

This is a C# script file, and I've told it to open it with Visual Studio Code. I can open VS Code with no problem, so it doesn't seem to be the permissions on that.

This answer applies if you set the app for that particular document, not for all documents of that type (e.g. by using Get Info on the document, and changing the "Open with" pop-up menu, but not clicking the "Change All" button).

There are two critical pieces here. First, if you set a document to open in a particular app, what it actually does is attach some metadata to the file (think of it like sticking a post-it note onto the file) that says to open it with that particular app. Second, if a document is quarantined (because it was downloaded from the internet, or created by a sandboxed app, or some other reasons), it's considered untrusted, and the gatekeeper security policy will be applied to anything like executable in the file.

These two features can interact in an unfortunate way: that "open with" note is an instruction about what to do, and therefore (sort of) executable code, and therefore the gatekeeper security policy applies to it (even though you created the note, it's "part of" the untrusted file, and therefore untrusted). Thus, double-clicking a document (with "open with" metadata) can get you the untrusted app warning/error.

Fortunately, as long as you want all files of that type (.cs in this case) to open in the same app, there's a solution: in the Info window, Open with section, select the app you want (e.g. Visual Studio Code), and then click "Change all". This removes the metadata from the file, and instead makes an entry in your Launch Services preferences saying that you prefer to have files of that type open in that app. Since the setting is now a personal setting rather than a note attached to an untrusted file, the problem goes away.

Try right clicking on the file and choosing "Open with...", and opening it with the application you want to use. This time, you should get an "open anyway" option. After you've done that once, you should be able to change the associated application for that file (alone) and have it open without problems.


Optimization notice after installing Yosemite After I installed Yosemite I got a notice saying that performance may suffer until my Mac is optimized. What exactly does it mean and do I have to do anything?

It's updating the Spotlight index.
There's nothing to do, just let it happen.

Try using below links, both worked well for me

http://www.cultofmac.com/299974/os-x-yosemite-tips/
http://www.hightechdad.com/2014/10/23/13-tips-optimize-mac-yosemite-installation/


How can I set program associations in mac? I know the way to change association per extension (get info => open with => change all) but is there a way like in Windows to change association of all video extensions to be opened by VLC like this:

With on-board GUI tools this isn't possible. But you can download and install RCDefaultApp which is a PrefPane.

Open System Preferences > Default Apps. Choose the Apps tab, scroll down to VLC in the left panel and choose it. In the right panel scroll down to Extensions and hit the (cycle) button...

This works for other apps too - VLC is just an example also used in the question!

You have to right-click on the file that you want to open, let's say it's and .avi, then go to info and then you should see a menu that says "open with" expand it and choose the software that you want to use to open that type of file format.


Backing up networked iMacs I have an iMac connected by wire to an external (non-Mac) hard drive which is used to store back-up images via Time Machine.  I want to buy a second iMac and network the two together.  As far as I understand it, this will mean that (subject to permissions) any user can sit at one of the machines and see/use the contents of both hard drives.

How do I now back-up both iMacs to the same hard drive? I can't afford to buy the expensive Time Capsule.

Suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

You can use one USB drive to back up multiple OS X Macs. Just connect the drive sequentially to each.

You could cycle the drive daily, weekly, monthly or hourly.

Each backup is kept separate and yes, anyone can read the backup files from either computer if they are an administrator of either Mac.

You could also make use of Crash Plan software to back up each Mac to the other over the network. That way you could have Time Machine on one Mac cover both of the computers - one directly and the other backing up the crash plan data.

I know this is not an answer, but i can't comment yet.
Try this link, it worked for me.
http://code.stephenmorley.org/articles/time-machine-on-a-network-drive/


default application to open folders with Back in the days I used to run Path Finder for a while, but then removed it from the system and went back to regular finder. Now when entering i.e. open Desktop/ in the terminal, it opens up Finder showing the Desktop directory.

Today I mounted a drive that holds backups, including a copy of an old Path Finder.app which obviously had been detected by the system immediately, because when running open Desktop/ it then tried to use this copy of Path Finder to open up the folder. When the drive was unmounted, it just went back to using Finder.

I assume, this is some fallback, and deep in the system there is still a setting to open folders in Path Finder. When opening the cmd+i window on a folder in Finder, there is no such thing as "open with…" like it is for a file.

So I am wondering, where I can unset Path Finder completely?

This might be useful:

mcnesium@mcobst:~$ rgrep "Path Finder.app" Library/
Binary file Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.RecentApplications.sfl matches
Binary file Library/Application Support/Dock/F1ABBC0A-23A3-4B6A-BAC7-849CDA1F021A.db matches
Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Mnemonics.plist:            <string>/Applications/Path Finder.app</string>
Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Mnemonics.plist:        <key>/Applications/Path Finder.app</key>
Binary file Library/Caches/com.apple.nsservicescache.plist matches
Binary file Library/Preferences/com.apple.ServicesMenu.Services.plist matches
Binary file Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist matches

To resolve the issue expressed in the OP, I'd follow the directions as shown by the developer of Path Finder using information in How do I completely uninstall Path Finder?, which is quoted below, for your convenience.

Also note that if for some reason you what to keep that backed up copy of Path Finder, first I'd archive it to a zip file, then delete it per the directions below.

Quoted from the link above:

  Before removing the Path Finder application, make sure to reset all
  preferences that tell the system to use Path Finder by default. After
  that, make sure to relaunch all running applications, logout or reboot
  so applications can re-read the default settings.

  From Path Finder's preferences window, make the follow changes:

  Path Finder 6 & 7 preferences:

  In the Finder tab, disable these options:

  Hide Finder's desktop
  Quit Finder when Path Finder launches
  Enable Finder's "Remove from Dock" menu option

  In the General tab, disable these options:

  Launch Path Finder at login
  Set as the default file browser

  Path Finder 5 preferences:

  In the General tab, disable these options:

  Launch Path Finder automatically after log in
  Quit the Finder automatically at launch
  Hide Finder's desktop

  In the Reveal tab, disable "Set Path Finder as the default file viewer"

  To remove all traces of Path Finder, delete the following files and
  folders (some of these may not be on your system).

  FreeMacSoft's free application AppCleaner is an excellent tool for
  automating this process. Just
  make sure to disable the settings listed above before using
  AppCleaner.

  /Applications/Path Finder.app
  /Library/Application Support/Path Finder/
  /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Path Finder/

  /Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/com.cocoatech.pathfinder.plistv
  /Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/com.cocoatech.PathFinder.plist.lockfile
  /Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/com.cocoatech.PathFinder.LSSharedFileList.plist.lockfile

  /Users/<username>/Library/Caches/com.cocoatech.PathFinder/
  /Users/<username>/Library/Caches/QCCompositionRepository-com.cocoatech.PathFinder.cache

  /Users/<username>/Library/Contextual Menu Items/Path Finder CM.plugin
  /Users/<username>/Library/Saved Application State/com.cocoatech.PathFinder.savedState/

  /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.cocoatech.pathfinder.SMFHelper[#]
  /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.cocoatech.pathfinder.SMFHelper[#].plist

  [#] Can be a number, eg. 6, 7, etc.

If you use Quicksilver you can select any folder and then "Always open type with..."
This set the default app to open folders system wide.
For example it changes the app used by Dock/Downloads/more


Notifications on dual monitors: how can I specify which monitor? I would like to have notifications on my left monitor and not my right monitor. It's hard to see them when I'm looking at the left monitor (since they're all the way on the right side and they're rather large monitors).

Is there any way to keep the screens in this order but have the notifications appear on the screen I want them to appear on?

You should be able to do this by choosing the monitor on which the menu bar is active.
Try:

System Settings -> Displays -> Arrangement

and drag the little white bar to the monitor where you want the notifications to show up.
In the picture below, the bar is being dragged from the left to the right window.

The notification side-tray should appear on the screen which your cursor is currently positioned;  it need not be the screen with the active menu bar... I've found that it isn't always consistent, and sometimes appears on whichever screen it last appeared. I was able to sync it up to the expected behavior by opening and closing the tray from the menu bar icon rather than trackpad gesture.


How do I disable screen dimming *only during sunset*? Screen dimming is a great feature when moving to differently lit rooms. However, if the MacBook is facing a bright window, and the user is thus backlit, then the sensor goes haywire.

I need to create some of script to disable auto-dim during sunset hours.  How can I access the dimmer feature from bash, AppleScript, or any other language?

This AppleScript may or may not work on your system.  On my Mac book Pro running the latest version of Sierra, this following code enables the "Automatically adjust brightness" checkbox If your current time is between 6 am and 6 pm, Otherwise it disables that checkbox If it is already selected.

if hours of (current date) is greater than 6 then
    if hours of (current date) is less than 18 then
        tell application "System Preferences"
            reveal anchor "displaysDisplayTab" of pane "com.apple.preference.displays"
        end tell
        tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences" to tell window "Built-in Retina Display"
            tell checkbox "Automatically adjust brightness" of group 2 of tab group 1 to if value is 0 then click
        end tell
    else
        tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences" to tell window "Built-in Retina Display"
            tell checkbox "Automatically adjust brightness" of group 2 of tab group 1 to if value is 1 then click
        end tell
    end if
end if
tell application "System Preferences"
    quit
end tell

You can adjust the hours values at the top of the script to suit your needs

If your display preferences looks like this picture... This script should work for you.

You can do it by following the instructions from here provided by daviesgeek

Dimmer:

tell application "System Events"
        key code 107
    end tell

Brighter:

tell application "System Events"
        key code 113
    end tell

You can save these as .script files and then run them from the CLI like this:

osascript ~/Path/to/File

You can also do it this way, but that requires more setup.


iPhone 5s slow on wifi I have an iPhone 5s that was bought several months ago. For some reason, it is quite slow on the wifi in my house - noticeably slower than 4g/LTE speed - and has been this way from the beginning. Other devices (Macbook, iPhone 4) do not have this problem when used from the same location. Also, the phone seems to work well on other wifi networks. Are there any ways to troubleshoot this?

You might want to follow Apple's steps in troubleshooting generate Wifi issues.

In addition, try resetting the iPhone's Network Settings by navigating to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings, then restart the iPhone and re-connect to the WiFi network.

What I found that really helps me is getting the app called battery doctor and it's free of course it works so well when I clean my junks files the iPhone immediately starts working fast


iOS7 Contacts Have All Disappeared I upgraded to iOS 7 yesterday. Today, all my contacts suddenly vanished. They were working in iOS 7 this morning, but have since disappeared.

I'm not syncing contacts with an external system (Exchange, iCloud, Google, etc.). All of the contacts were on my phone only. They are still in my computer's Address Book, but when I sync to the phone and check the Contacts box under "Replace Information on This Phone," no contacts show up on the phone.

Phone favorites and text messages still exist, but as numbers only.

I could manually reenter them, but if there's an underlying problem, I don't want to spend the effort and then lose them again later.

Most Googling has returned no help for the current version. And solutions are to use things like iSync, which doesn't exist on Lion.

Finally found the solution. If this happens to you, try turning on (or turning off/on) the iCloud contact syncing, even if you don't think you're using it.

I turned it back on (I never realized it was on) and all my contacts came back. I guess the phone was using iCloud to sync contacts all along and I wasn't aware of it.

IOS7 is only compatable with latest iTunes, so as I had not updated recently the cloud contact synch could not work at all- now updated and contacts returned


Missing artist's artwork in iTunes I last iTunes Apple have changed algorithm of displaying picture for Artist. How does it works? Why almost all my Artist's doesn't have artwork?

As I see Alice Cooper have the image:

But why I can't see it in my list?

Update: As I see I can not perform "Show in Apple Music" for this artists. Can it be related with that fact that I have created my own album (Collection) for this artist?

For me it shows only artwork for .m4a files. All the artist I have in mp3 format doesn't show artwork image.


How can I access my Photostream on Windows? I'm trying to swipe a couple photostream pictures onto a borrowed windows laptop, but I can't find any way to do that via the web.

Can I access my photostream in any way other than iTunes? I'd rather not install it on someone else's PC.

On a Windows system you can access Photo Stream by installing iCloud Control Panel for Windows.

Based on the description it allows you to access all the features within iCloud. Though this is only supported in Vista and Windows 7.

  The iCloud Control Panel is required to use Photo Stream, Mail,
  Contacts and Calendars (Microsoft Outlook 2007 or later required) and
  Bookmarks (Safari 5.1.1 or Internet Explorer 8 or later required).

Just go to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam 2\userdata\94328772\760\remote\107410\screenshots


Is AirDrop possible between iPad, iPhone and MacBook? A new MacBook came with something called AirDrop and worked between many MacBooks such as MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. Can I also use AirDrop to exchange data between Macs and iOS devices?

You cannot use AirDrop with iOS devices. It is a feature that is exclusive to supported Macs (and unsupported Macs through a hack, as you've pointed out).

If you are interested in sharing files with your iOS devices, I recommend a solution such as SugarSync or DropBox, or a Wi-Fi tool such as Instashare.

Apple intends for you and developers to use iCloud to get documents from PC to iOS, but it's not widespread yet and perhaps ever.

The best choice to share with macs, Windows, Linux, NAS servers, FTP, Dropbox, Google Drive,Time Capsule, etc is Quick Explorer.

I used instashare before and its similiar to airdrop but it works only with pictures (not bad, but not enough ) If you want to share andy file, mp3, wav, video, doc, pdf, and otherwise file formats Quick Explorer is the best choice. I've found that it's the best tool for this purpose as it handles different file types and platforms.


How do I zip a folder using the command line while maintaining its file structure? For example, if I want to zip /Users/admin/Downloads/Backup, and I am at /Users/admin/, I could:

zip -r downloads.zip /Users/admin/Downloads/Backup

and if I unzip downloads.zip I would get a Users folder and have a Users => admin => Downloads => Backup structure.

This is particularly undesirable behavior if I want to create an installation zip file for TWRP.

So instead I will have to:

cd /Users/admin/Downloads/Backup; zip -r /Users/admin/downloads.zip .; cd /Users/admin/

This doesn’t feel like what a pro would do.

What can I do to zip a folder while maintaining its file structure?

A "pro" would first read the manual. Now, the zip manual is full of cruft but long into the read you'll find- " zip will store the full path (relative to the current directory).". Further into the read you will find an option to remove all paths in your zip archive but that is not a great idea, since you can create a "bomb" archive that will pollute the directory in which it is extracted. It's best to contain your archive within its own directory.

cd /Users/admin/Downloads
zip -r downloads Backup
mv -- downloads.zip some/other/location
cd -

First we change directory to /Users/admin/Downloads
We name the archive (downloads) and .zip will be added to the archive name
We recurse through the Backup directory adding all files including the parent directory to the archive
move the zip archive to another location
Finally, we call the environment variable OLDPWD to get back to the original directory- cd -

Not sure if this is really what you want, as you may use the command line or a script but there are options.

First, don't supply the entire path for the archive

 cd folder; zip -r ../zipped_dir.zip *

Or for a script you might use cd or pushd and popd to move into the directory that will be the root of the archive before issuing the zip command. How you do this exactly will depend on how the script knows what to zip up. But, if for example you want admin/Downloads/Backup/folder zipped with internal paths of just ./folder, you'd need to do this:

pushd /Users/admin/Downloads/Backup
zip -r /path/to/out.zip ./folder/
popd

That will result in your out.zip containing the relative paths you want.


IOS 7, enable to setup personal hot spot After Updating latest version of iOS 7. I am not able to setup personal hot spot in my iPhone 4.

I use BSNL (India) carrier. I was told by the carrier that the problem is an issue with the iPhone update.

I use BSNL for 7 years with a 3G data plan. Until now, I have not had any hot spot related issues but after updating to the latest version of iOS 7 this problem began.

How can I solve this problem? Any hints or suggestions are most welcome.

setting- cellular- cellular data network.
Cellular data
apn: test
username: test
password: 12345678
Personal hotspot
apn: test
username: test
password: 123456789

have good day


I can't find a list of all apps I've ever purchased ( paid $ free). From my iPhone I'm trying to find a certain few apps that I know I purchased but I can't remember the name of. I don't have access to my computer right now & there's an app that I really could use right now but I forgot the name of it so I can't just go to the app store and re-install it simply because I can't find it.

I don't, and won't have access to my computers iTunes for a few days. Otherwise I could just plug in my iPhone to my PC boot up iTunes and go through my list of thousands of apps that I've purchased and sync it to my iPhone. So if anyone knows ho I can get a list from my iPhone of every app I've purchased it would be very helpful.

If you are running at least 4.3, you can use the iCloud beta to see every app you ever purchased. If you open the Updates tab of the app store, there should be a Purchased button at the top. Tapping on this will give you a list of every app you purchased on your current account. I would suggest choosing the "Not on this iPhone" tab so you don't have to look through as long of a list. Once you find the app, tap the cloud icon to download it.

Goto updates for apps and touch the purchased


iWorks no longer free after fresh install of El Capitan I just installed a fresh copy of El Capitan on my MacBook Pro Retina (2013 model), and iWorks are no longer free in the App Store, as has been the case in Yosemite. See the screenshot:

What are the possible causes and solutions?

I also changed the Apple ID on this computer, if that may be relevant.

The Apple business model is the opposite to that of Microsoft.

Purchases are tied to you & your Apple ID, not to the machine they run on.

This makes migrating to a new machine very simple, but juggling purchases across multiple IDs difficult. Apple doesn't want you setting up multiple IDs just on a whim, it wants one user tied to one ID.

Once you start juggling IDs, you will find that each time you need to update anything, you will need to logout of your current ID & log back in with the one used for that particular purchase.

Either that or set up Family Sharing with all your IDs as the members of the 'family'.

I had to log out then log back into the App Store.


How to share photos from Photos.app to Flickr retaining title, description and tags? In the new Photos.app application, the export of photographs to other services is via the OS X extensibility feature. Sharing one picture to Flickr shows the picture's filename as the title and empty description and tags even though the pictures had these three fields filled in the 'Info' window. This metadata was exported fine with iPhoto which had its own sharing mechanism so this issue is either with Photos.app or with the extensibility feature of OS X. How can I upload pictures from Photos.app to Flickr without having to retype all the metadata for each one of them?

Nearly a year later you would expect Flickr integration to have improved. As of February 2016 I have the exact same experience. To investigate further I opened this forum thread:

https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157665235195925/

have you tried Flickr Uploadr?
you can download it from here: https://www.flickr.com/tools/

I just tried... it automatize the uploading but as far I'm see did not export tags and titles.


What does the 2 temperatures mean in the Weather app? In the Weather app, there are 2 temperatures for each day. What does these mean?

That's the day's forcasted high and low temperature

There is 2 temperature which showing highest and lowest.

Lowest mostly midnight
Highest mostly middle of Day like 1 AM to 2 PM

Thanks


Child's account as default login user I'm a complete newbie at macOS.

Bought a new MacBook Air for my eight year old child as that is what the school specified. Followed the online instructions for setting up family sharing then created a child's account. However when I boot it up the initial login screen only shows my own account and not my kid's one.

If I logout then both our accounts are shown on the login screen, but as it's my young 'un's laptop I'd like for his picture to come up at the initial login screen, and preferably be the only account showing there.

I have done some searching and found the Default login drop down in the Users and Settings page but it's greyed out at the moment.

I wondered if it could be to do with the fact that when you set up the account it gives it a user@icloud.com address, so is not a local account. But I can't figure out how to make it a local account, or if that is even part of the issue?

Hide a User Account in macOS
This works in OS X Yosemite (10.10 and newer). The general syntax to use to hide an account is as follows, replacing admin with the user home directory of the account to no longer display:
Hiding from User Menu
For example, to hide the user account “admin” on a Mac with the given user directory being /Users/admin, the syntax would be:
$ sudo dscl . create /Users/admin IsHidden 1

then reboot for the change to take effect.
Hiding in Finder
You can move the hidden user's home directory to a place that's not visible from the Finder. And you can remove the hidden user's Public Folder share point.
This command moves the home directory of "admin" to /var, a hidden directory:
$ sudo mv /Users/admin /var/admin

This command updates the user record of "hiddenuser" with the new home directory path in /var:
$ sudo dscl . create /Users/admin NFSHomeDirectory /var/admin

This command removes the Public Folder share point for the user with the long name "Hidden User”:
$ sudo dscl . delete "/SharePoints/Admin's Public Folder"

Unhiding
$ sudo dscl . create /Users/admin IsHidden 0

Changing the number from 1 to 0 changes the hidden status of the account. You must reboot for changes to take effect.

Source:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203998

It sounds like the initial login screen is not a login screen at all, but the "decrypt" screen. It sounds like your drive is fully encrypted, and so it needs your password right away when you power up the machine so you can boot. It may be that non-admin accounts do not have drive decrypting permissions.


Track number missing after iPhone upgrade to iOS 8.4 Before the upgrade to IOS 8.4, when I was listening to music, it would have the track number at the top of the screen (i.e. "1 of 14") but with 8.4 I can't seem to find a way to put that back on, if it's even possible.  Any help/suggestions?

Apple has removed the track number feature from the Music app and it is not known if or when it will return.

When there are more than 15 new and excellent changes in the new music app and great upgrades still waiting, no one is caring for a option which shows track number.

The Apple Music doesn't have the track number feature because it can then update Albums with no remix tracks.

Every album has got some songs and they also add some remixed versions of the songs to the album itself.Some call them as Deluxe versions while some add them in original album as well.

In Apple music, at present doesn't allow the remixed tracks to be streamed ( maybe later ) So in order to not have a contradiction with the Track number, they removed the option.


Can I install Linux and Windows on a Mac to triple boot the hardware? I'm quite the newbie at operating systems etc., so forgive me if my question is dumb. Is it possible to install Linux and Windows on a Mac, to run side by side with OS X? I'm about to start a new study, and I would like the new retina MacBook Pro for it, but for my study I'm definetely going to be programming C# and for that I'll prefer Windows. And I've recently started exploring C++, and I really love Linux and would like to make some apps for it, so that's why I'd like to have Linux on there as well.

Question summary: On a new retina MacBook Pro, is it possible to install Windows and Linux next to Mac OS X so I can choose which OS I want on boot?

It's possible to install them in multiple partitions and multiboot. But the resulting setup will be a little "rigid".

Doing OS X and Windows is easy. Adding Linux to the mix is a little more complicated.

I suggest you do not multiboot and only install OS X as the main OS and then use a virtualization solution, like Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion. With those you can basically run a whole operating system, like Windows or your favorite Linux distribution, as if they were OS X applications.

There are several methods. The easiest way is to use a program like rEFIt which is a 3rd party boot menu manager.
But that is NOT the best option, in my opinion, because during every boot you would need to pass through the new boot menu. I made a tutorial using a slightly more complicated method, but the results are worth it as this method does not require any 3rd party apps. By creating a hybrid Master Boot Record (MBR) for the boot camp partition, you will be able to add Two or more OSs to your bootcamp partition.

To boot into Linux or Windows, you would just need to press alt/option key to access the bootcamp partition, as usual. Otherwise it will boot to Mac OS X.

But before you start be sure you have a good backup. It's a safe method if you are careful, but you never know…

If you have time, and are comfortable using terminal, there is a better way of triple booting your Mac.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O40UG1guLeo


Macbook pro stuck on 'About a second remaining' for an hour I'm trying to upgrade my Macbook pro late 2011's hard disk to an SSD from Corsair.
 I have inserted the USB stick with the OSX Mavericks installer, and everything went great: I made a GUID single partition table, and then erased the disk as Mac OS X Journaled. Then I clicked Install OSX Mavericks and selected the SSD. After 13 minutes, the blue bar is complete, and on top, it says: 'Preparing to install. Your computer will restart automatically.'. Below the blue bar, it says 'About a second remaining'.

It's stuck on this state, with the mouse on the spinning wheel mode, for over a full hour. I'm really starting to worry.
I looked online and found a guy with a similar problem, but he only waited for half an hour. What should I do? Thanks!

The problem with the upgrade script is the timing only estimates how long it takes for Apple's software to install.

You can (and should) open the log file while upgrading/installing and press Command-3 to show all logs, not just the errors.

⌘+L
⌘+3

You can see that during this "about a second" it's really migrating user files and handling all the things you've brought to the Mac that isn't part of the base system.

Basically, let it run as long as you can stand - especially if the log file shows progress being made. If progress isn’t being made, consider connecting to the internet via a wired connection if possible or making sure the wireless network is operational before interrupting what looks to be a paused or stopped installation.

Had the same issue.

The installation can be sped up by deleting files stored in /usr/local/bin. (by rm -rf /usr/local/bin in Terminal app)

It went even faster for me by using a USB stick with OS X and erasing the disk before installation. For USB stick (need stick > 8GB) see: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201372

After reboot press alt then select the USB stick, then select Utilities → Disk Utilities.
Here you can erase your disk (careful not to erase the stick!) and format it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Now just continue the install process (5 minutes for me, after previous 8h+ aborted).

Worked with Yosemite 10.10.4 Beta


Installed Safari Extensions disappear after restarting Safari I have a problem with my Safari. I can not install any extensions. Whenever I install one they work fine, but the next time I open Safari, the extension is not there. So I have to reinstall them at every launch.

I have tried to clear my Safari stuff, like plists and Library folders. Im using Safari 8.0.1.

Is the login keychain locked or otherwise inaccessible? Apple now stores the list of installed Safari extensions in that keychain. See the link below for more details:

Deploying & Installing Safari Extensions on Safari 6.1+ & 7.2+

try running disk utility and repairing permissions on that drive.


How can I block specific telephone numbers on my iPhone 4? How can I block specific telephone numbers on my iPhone? I don't want to get call from specific numbers. if anyone call to me from the blocked number, he should receive a message that "this number does not exist" or "this number is busy" always.

There are applications that do this if you have jailbroken your iPhone.  Without jailbreaking however there isn't a way to block a single or specific incoming number.  I've known people that have requested their provider to block a certain number and without a very good (usually legal) reason, they won't do it.

The best thing you can do is record 30 seconds of silence in garage band and then use that as a ringtone for that specific number.  Then at least the phone won't alert you.

Why don't you record your own message and have that respond to unwanted calls. Could be fun eg :  "All calls from this number are traced by the authorities as part of an ongoing investigation."  or  "Calls from your number are subject to $100 per minute surcharge. You have 5 seconds to hang up before charges commence."


2010 15" MacBook Pro unable to recognize internal display, works fine with external Today I walked over to my 15" Mid-2010 MacBook Pro (which I had been controlling via VNC not long before) and attempted to use it. I was greeted with a screen that would not wake up.

After much rebooting (by holding down the power button and over SSH), I plugged it into an external monitor, logged in, and opened up System Information (formerly System Profiler). To my shock and horror, only the external monitor was detected and the internal "Color LCD" wasn't listed.

Does anyone know anything about the pathology of a problem like this? Does fixing something like this (probably) entail a logic board replacement?

I'm inclined to believe that the problem lies somewhere in an LCD controller or power supply rather than the panel (because I'd assume that a broken panel would still show up).

Again, the general functions of the machine work just fine—just not the internal display.

I had similar symptoms on my MBP 13 (mid-2010). Internal display died suddenly and external display worked fine. None of the software or startup tricks did not bring the life back to in-built screen.
Disconnecting and re-connecting the battery connector from the logic board fixed this problem.

Here is the instruction:
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Unibody+Mid+2010+Display+Replacement/4293#s7329

I had same problem on my MBP 13 (mid-2012) which i solved buy doing this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GlETDBybqI&t=1s


Free up unused memory from kernel_task I am a web developer, and sometimes I encounter software bugs that has runaway threads or used up available memory in a browser process. Terminating the offending Chrome process will free up the memory usage, but kernel_task still use up a huge chunk of memory

Running sudo /usr/sbin/purge does not make any impact on the used memory.

How can I get kernel_task to free those unneeded memory?