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09cd4d48234869bc83e7761f130ce9ee40639eb2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I find exactly what files are included in my last Time Machine backup? I find that my Time Machine backup never passes an hour without backing up files, even if I haven't used the Mac. I've excluded .Trash and Downloads under my user folder. A typical hourly backup is 60-70MB, and I want to know exactly what files are being backed up here so I can possibly exclude them too.
After backing up, the Indexing of the Backup takes an extremely long time, and I don't know which is the cause and which is the result, or if this is unrelated to my mystery files being backed up.
A: More recent app (10.9+) that does the trick: TimeTracker
| Q: How can I find exactly what files are included in my last Time Machine backup? I find that my Time Machine backup never passes an hour without backing up files, even if I haven't used the Mac. I've excluded .Trash and Downloads under my user folder. A typical hourly backup is 60-70MB, and I want to know exactly what files are being backed up here so I can possibly exclude them too.
After backing up, the Indexing of the Backup takes an extremely long time, and I don't know which is the cause and which is the result, or if this is unrelated to my mystery files being backed up.
A: More recent app (10.9+) that does the trick: TimeTracker
A: You could try BackupLoupe: it will give you the size of each backup, the backed-up files and catalog the backups with colors to quickly identify the big ones.
There are also lists of files excluded by rule or that you add manually to exclusions:
*
*On OS X, what files are excluded by rule from a Time Machine backup?
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7c84d0bbe716af945db0315c177577b3a38b404a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Preserving mountpoint names in the Finder for NFS shares I am mounting a number of NFS shares, with a Terminal command akin to this:
sudo mount -t nfs -o soft,resvport,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=900,retrans=3,proto=tcp,nobrowse crbn-store-02.hectic.local:/mnt/raid/ /mnt/crbn-projects
The directory for the mount point ("/mnt/crbn-projects") is in place, and the mount command completes succesfully. However, the Finder shows me the name of the NFS directory on the server instead of the name of the mountpoint (it shows "raid" instead of "crbn-projects"). How can I force the Finder to not apply the "beautified" NFS directory names and sticking to the mount point names instead? In the terminal and on the FS all my mountpoints are named properly.
| Q: Preserving mountpoint names in the Finder for NFS shares I am mounting a number of NFS shares, with a Terminal command akin to this:
sudo mount -t nfs -o soft,resvport,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=900,retrans=3,proto=tcp,nobrowse crbn-store-02.hectic.local:/mnt/raid/ /mnt/crbn-projects
The directory for the mount point ("/mnt/crbn-projects") is in place, and the mount command completes succesfully. However, the Finder shows me the name of the NFS directory on the server instead of the name of the mountpoint (it shows "raid" instead of "crbn-projects"). How can I force the Finder to not apply the "beautified" NFS directory names and sticking to the mount point names instead? In the terminal and on the FS all my mountpoints are named properly.
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2c72a25b0e1416180074954840543534bc3fc438 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to sent the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination via iTerm2? We use the Apple "Pro Keyboard", which is a USB keyboard with model number M7803, and iTerm2 build 1.0.0 with "ipmitool sol activate" running.
Our goal is to sent the Control+Alt+Delete key combination to the remote host.
We tried this by: iTerm > Preferences > Keys > [+]:
*
*Keyboard Shortcut: ⌃⌥Del→
*Action: [ Send Hex Code ]
*Hex code: 1d 38
53 b8 9d
This configuration does not sent the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination to the remote host, Debian 6.0.6 running kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP, at least the machine does not reboot as it would do when pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del on a local attached keyboard.
How to issue a reboot command on the remote machine using Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination via iTerm?
| Q: How to sent the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination via iTerm2? We use the Apple "Pro Keyboard", which is a USB keyboard with model number M7803, and iTerm2 build 1.0.0 with "ipmitool sol activate" running.
Our goal is to sent the Control+Alt+Delete key combination to the remote host.
We tried this by: iTerm > Preferences > Keys > [+]:
*
*Keyboard Shortcut: ⌃⌥Del→
*Action: [ Send Hex Code ]
*Hex code: 1d 38
53 b8 9d
This configuration does not sent the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination to the remote host, Debian 6.0.6 running kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP, at least the machine does not reboot as it would do when pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del on a local attached keyboard.
How to issue a reboot command on the remote machine using Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination via iTerm?
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b32e8cea20a5ab76eb4526eae84e410bd6f7d585 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: In a school library I have 30 iPads to set up for teachers to use in their classrooms. In a school library with 30 iPads on a cart. Should one appleid be used for all 30 iPads? I will be the only one adding the apps, and then the cart will be taken to classrooms. The same apps will be on all iPads. Would it be better to just create a genric appleid or an iCloud id, or what's the best way to do this?
A: Apple has a tool, Apple Configurator, designed to help manage multiple devices in exactly this kind of scenario. I haven't personally used it, but it sound like what you need.
| Q: In a school library I have 30 iPads to set up for teachers to use in their classrooms. In a school library with 30 iPads on a cart. Should one appleid be used for all 30 iPads? I will be the only one adding the apps, and then the cart will be taken to classrooms. The same apps will be on all iPads. Would it be better to just create a genric appleid or an iCloud id, or what's the best way to do this?
A: Apple has a tool, Apple Configurator, designed to help manage multiple devices in exactly this kind of scenario. I haven't personally used it, but it sound like what you need.
A: No - if you try to use one Apple ID on more than 10 devices without some sort of management software layer, you will end up getting that account locked. It's better to reach out to Apple (or a consultant) that does this to learn the benefits and drawbacks of managing a cart of devices.
If you wanted to ask a more specific follow on question or edit some details to make your situation a little more narrow (where in the world your deployment is based, what you've tried to solve the issue, etc..) it's hard to offer anything other than links to places to start doing research:
*
*http://www.apple.com/education/resources/information-technology.html
The link above has videos explaining various enrollment strategies, how to use the configurator, white papers, volume purchase information (which means educational discounts) and more.
A: For our iPad distros we are using two accounts:one Volume Purchasing Program account and one regular apple ID and Apple Configurator.
Example: [email protected] buys the VPP app codes from apple and I download the excel sheet with the redemption codes. Then I would redeem one of the codes on [email protected] to download the .ipa file. That .ipa file gets loaded into Configurator along with the excel sheet with all the codes(their basic license mgmt) and allows you to apply the profile(Prefs and Apps) to managed devices.
A: why don't you try this..product
http://www.maas360.com/
MaaS360 provides a mobile device management solution and an enterprise appstore for managing apps
DISCLOSURE: This author is affiliated with this product.
A: You cannot use Apple ID in all those 30 devices. Instead, there are two ways in which you can achieve it.
The first method is using Apple Configurator. Apple Configurator is a tool that is available in Mac computers. With Apple Configurator, you can download apps from iTunes and can be deployed in devices if by hooking up the device with your Mac computer and deploying apps one by one.
If this sounds annoying, then there is a second option called Mobile Application Management (MAM). Enroll all the 30 devices in MAM and you can deploy apps remotely from another system.
Some Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions, like Hexnode MDM, also comes with a built-in MAM. MDM provides more options of security like locking device and wiping it down, just in case you need it.
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8d0d5b810f4e4719fc37ba27fdf149194e1395db | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does the search in Finder need spotlight? I just reinstalled OS X Lion and turned off the spotlight immediately.
I noticed that search in Finder stopped working. Is this because of disabling spotlight? Is there a way to get this back without turn spotlight on? I only need to search by file names.
A: Finder's search, as well as many other programs (Alfred, Outlook, etc.) use Spotlight's index files. If you have Spotlight shut off, you won't be able to get Finder search working natively.
There are a few free third party apps that you can use to search for files without using Apple's system:
*
*Find Any File
*EasyFind
These two do not use spotlight's index files and should work independently.
| Q: Does the search in Finder need spotlight? I just reinstalled OS X Lion and turned off the spotlight immediately.
I noticed that search in Finder stopped working. Is this because of disabling spotlight? Is there a way to get this back without turn spotlight on? I only need to search by file names.
A: Finder's search, as well as many other programs (Alfred, Outlook, etc.) use Spotlight's index files. If you have Spotlight shut off, you won't be able to get Finder search working natively.
There are a few free third party apps that you can use to search for files without using Apple's system:
*
*Find Any File
*EasyFind
These two do not use spotlight's index files and should work independently.
A: Spotlight is a search tool. So it needs an index. And that's what's build when there is a little black dot in the Spotlight icon.
It's like an index on a book. It's hard (if not impossible) to find a word without an index. Finder can't look for files if it has no index.
Once Spotlight has build it's index, Finder will be able to search for files. If you want, you can disable it if you want.
BUT, if you do so, new files won't be added to the index, so you won't be able to find them.
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038f42957c52c71c2094d518ddbd3a8f47014d0d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Non-recursive spotlight search? When using the Spotlight search at the top right of a finder window, I often want the search to be non-recursive, i.e. only look at files in that specific directory, not any directories within it. Is this possible?
A: As far as I know, unfortunately it's not possible to do this.
Strangely, I also set the 'Document Container' criteria within Spotlight and it wouldn't show any results at all.
This is extremely poor behaviour, I agree. You can give Apple feedback on OS X (from which you can post feedback on Spotlight) here.
| Q: Non-recursive spotlight search? When using the Spotlight search at the top right of a finder window, I often want the search to be non-recursive, i.e. only look at files in that specific directory, not any directories within it. Is this possible?
A: As far as I know, unfortunately it's not possible to do this.
Strangely, I also set the 'Document Container' criteria within Spotlight and it wouldn't show any results at all.
This is extremely poor behaviour, I agree. You can give Apple feedback on OS X (from which you can post feedback on Spotlight) here.
A: The command-line interface to Spotlight, mdfind, has no such capability. (There is an -onlyin flag but empirically it's recursive.)
Since it's extremely unlikely that the Finder would have more capability than the command-line interface, I think it's safe to say that this is not possible. Sorry. That does sound like it would be a very useful feature.
A: Not a solution for using the graphical interface, but i've started using the following in terminal to get the desired effect:
mdfind FOO | grep $PWD | grep -v ^$PWD/.*/.*$
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8f86f0f9cdc2e119ee849737b9e6f6a58f3a0ec9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can Third-Button Paste be emulated on the Mac? On Linux if you highlight a section of text then click somewhere with the "third button" (on some mice its the scroll wheel, often its just clicking the right and left button together) it will paste the selected text at your new location. I know it sounds like a small thing but if you get used to its work flow you'll notice just how annoying it is to have to click CMD-C, move mouse, CMD-V every time you want to copy / paste.
I'm using the touchpad on my MacBook Pro and with all the nice things you can do with three finger scroll, etc., I assumed there must be some way to duplicate this behaviour in the Apple world - can I configure my touchpad to paste?
A: Possibly a duplicate of this question: Can I copy by highlighting and paste by middle click on Mac OS X?
On this question, the highest voted answer suggests that you use BetterTouchTool (download from here: http://www.boastr.de/BetterTouchTool.zip)
| Q: Can Third-Button Paste be emulated on the Mac? On Linux if you highlight a section of text then click somewhere with the "third button" (on some mice its the scroll wheel, often its just clicking the right and left button together) it will paste the selected text at your new location. I know it sounds like a small thing but if you get used to its work flow you'll notice just how annoying it is to have to click CMD-C, move mouse, CMD-V every time you want to copy / paste.
I'm using the touchpad on my MacBook Pro and with all the nice things you can do with three finger scroll, etc., I assumed there must be some way to duplicate this behaviour in the Apple world - can I configure my touchpad to paste?
A: Possibly a duplicate of this question: Can I copy by highlighting and paste by middle click on Mac OS X?
On this question, the highest voted answer suggests that you use BetterTouchTool (download from here: http://www.boastr.de/BetterTouchTool.zip)
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005f0c245fa31f4f645f4101a6a91e51617bd949 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What iPhone maps app can I use if I don't have a SIM card? I'm going to be using my iPhone overseas without a SIM card, but I want to use turn-by-turn navigation to walk and drive around.
I'm willing to plot my route via wifi before I leave the house, but I won't have internet because my phone won't have a SIM card.
A: *
*Navigon
*TomTom
*CoPilot*
Navigon offers different apps for worldwide coverage.
Depending on where you are headed TomTom has several different apps for particular regions. Scroll down on the iTunes page to see some options.
*It appears that CoPilot offers directions when offline, but not turn-by-turn directions.
On all of these apps be sure to check and verify that they provide maps for the country (or countries) that you will be visiting.
| Q: What iPhone maps app can I use if I don't have a SIM card? I'm going to be using my iPhone overseas without a SIM card, but I want to use turn-by-turn navigation to walk and drive around.
I'm willing to plot my route via wifi before I leave the house, but I won't have internet because my phone won't have a SIM card.
A: *
*Navigon
*TomTom
*CoPilot*
Navigon offers different apps for worldwide coverage.
Depending on where you are headed TomTom has several different apps for particular regions. Scroll down on the iTunes page to see some options.
*It appears that CoPilot offers directions when offline, but not turn-by-turn directions.
On all of these apps be sure to check and verify that they provide maps for the country (or countries) that you will be visiting.
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abfe82d48a252e5c9afd8435dc2fb31e4847c4e1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: protecting keychain data when using Time Machine I plan to use Time Machine to back up by data.
If the backup is not encrypted, can someone with access to the TimeMachine disk access my keychain passwords? Do they at least need to know my system login password in order to be able to do this?
A: Keychain files are password protected, your login password is required to access their content. In the file itself only passwords and the content of secure notes are encrypted so a potential attacker could at least read the URLs and the associated login names for web accounts etc.
For details about Keychain see Wikipeda and the pages referenced from there.
| Q: protecting keychain data when using Time Machine I plan to use Time Machine to back up by data.
If the backup is not encrypted, can someone with access to the TimeMachine disk access my keychain passwords? Do they at least need to know my system login password in order to be able to do this?
A: Keychain files are password protected, your login password is required to access their content. In the file itself only passwords and the content of secure notes are encrypted so a potential attacker could at least read the URLs and the associated login names for web accounts etc.
For details about Keychain see Wikipeda and the pages referenced from there.
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f5949d458b0aabdc774902963b170e4a125230b2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Restore Default settings Apple TV, how do I pair a new remote? I lost my remote for my Apple TV, and we were using the Remote App, but we recently downloaded a new update for the Apple TV and the update kept us from watching Movies. I did a restore on the Apple TV, but now the Remote App cannot find my Apple TV. How do I fix this?
A: Have you deleted the original pairing from your Remote app to the Apple TV? I know I have had issues with my iTunes library not connecting after a OS reinstall even though I was connected to the same library, deleting the pairing and then reconnecting fixed my issue.
| Q: Restore Default settings Apple TV, how do I pair a new remote? I lost my remote for my Apple TV, and we were using the Remote App, but we recently downloaded a new update for the Apple TV and the update kept us from watching Movies. I did a restore on the Apple TV, but now the Remote App cannot find my Apple TV. How do I fix this?
A: Have you deleted the original pairing from your Remote app to the Apple TV? I know I have had issues with my iTunes library not connecting after a OS reinstall even though I was connected to the same library, deleting the pairing and then reconnecting fixed my issue.
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05906ac64d92de1325e9361a6c793dde2deb8398 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there an alternative to Messages? I'm having the problem of synced iMessages appearing out of order in Messages on my Macbook. I've even had messages sent to wrong people. I can't find any alternatives through Google. Is there a replacement that will still sync with iMessages from my phone?
A: The whole iMessage system is entirely proprietary, and there are no 3rd party clients available to use instead of the official ones, on either iOS or OSX. That's not to say it won't be reverse engineered in time, but I suspect that Apple will fix any issues way before anything like that happens.
I too get messages that appear out of order and occasionally ones that simply never show on one device or another, but anecdotally I only ever see this when devices are playing "catch up" with messages that I have already read elsewhere.
| Q: Is there an alternative to Messages? I'm having the problem of synced iMessages appearing out of order in Messages on my Macbook. I've even had messages sent to wrong people. I can't find any alternatives through Google. Is there a replacement that will still sync with iMessages from my phone?
A: The whole iMessage system is entirely proprietary, and there are no 3rd party clients available to use instead of the official ones, on either iOS or OSX. That's not to say it won't be reverse engineered in time, but I suspect that Apple will fix any issues way before anything like that happens.
I too get messages that appear out of order and occasionally ones that simply never show on one device or another, but anecdotally I only ever see this when devices are playing "catch up" with messages that I have already read elsewhere.
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82c7c5e37bb7e7292347f6d88338bb656e831710 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Every time I wake my Macbook it switches applications after wake. How do I fix this? Whenever I close my MacBook, and then come back after it's been asleep, I'll open it, and it'll make a sound while it's waking the harddrive, which is normal. But then after that it'll switch the whichever application is active with the second-most active on in the tab-switcher. Does anyone know what would cause this?
A: This Apple Support article overviews a similar issue. This is on a Early 2010 macbook pro, and OP on the linked thread tied the cause to the "require password after 5 minutes" setting in Security and Privacy. OP solved this issue by switching to "require password immediately"
Have you done all updates up to 10.7.5?
| Q: Every time I wake my Macbook it switches applications after wake. How do I fix this? Whenever I close my MacBook, and then come back after it's been asleep, I'll open it, and it'll make a sound while it's waking the harddrive, which is normal. But then after that it'll switch the whichever application is active with the second-most active on in the tab-switcher. Does anyone know what would cause this?
A: This Apple Support article overviews a similar issue. This is on a Early 2010 macbook pro, and OP on the linked thread tied the cause to the "require password after 5 minutes" setting in Security and Privacy. OP solved this issue by switching to "require password immediately"
Have you done all updates up to 10.7.5?
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71726c7aa763315776b1d5bab8d4c66bc8b62941 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use memory taken from a Macbook Pro in a Mac Pro? My Macbook Pro from around 2008 finally died. It has two 1 GB memory chips. (Specifically, two of this Samsung chip.) My question is: can I use these chips in my 2011 Mac Pro?
A: No, not directly.
The Mac Pro uses full-sized desktop DIMM modules, whereas the Macbook pro uses laptop-sized SO-DIMM modules. These cannot be directly swapped without a passive adapter, which I honestly wouldn't think makes much sense to bother with given how inexpensive 2 GB of RAM is these days for a Mac Pro.
| Q: Can I use memory taken from a Macbook Pro in a Mac Pro? My Macbook Pro from around 2008 finally died. It has two 1 GB memory chips. (Specifically, two of this Samsung chip.) My question is: can I use these chips in my 2011 Mac Pro?
A: No, not directly.
The Mac Pro uses full-sized desktop DIMM modules, whereas the Macbook pro uses laptop-sized SO-DIMM modules. These cannot be directly swapped without a passive adapter, which I honestly wouldn't think makes much sense to bother with given how inexpensive 2 GB of RAM is these days for a Mac Pro.
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130d0a87bd380b16560489bb822a00f5c29daeda | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Unable to start Dropbox due to permission errors I installed Dropbox 1.6.16 and am running OS 10.7.5 (Lion). I continue to get this message and don't know how to fix:
Couldn't start Dropbox
This is usually because of permissions error. Errors can also be caused by your home folder being stored on a network share.
I am the only person using this Mac and I don't have a network so this message doesn't make sense to me.
How can I get Dropbox to work for me?
A: Are you an administrator? If you are, try Chown and Chmod
Type the following into Terminal:
sudo chown -R yourUsername /Users/yourusername/Dropbox
sudo chmod -R 700 /Users/yourusername/Dropbox
If that doesn't work I'd run diskutil repairPermissions /
If those don't work, I would reinstall Dropbox.
| Q: Unable to start Dropbox due to permission errors I installed Dropbox 1.6.16 and am running OS 10.7.5 (Lion). I continue to get this message and don't know how to fix:
Couldn't start Dropbox
This is usually because of permissions error. Errors can also be caused by your home folder being stored on a network share.
I am the only person using this Mac and I don't have a network so this message doesn't make sense to me.
How can I get Dropbox to work for me?
A: Are you an administrator? If you are, try Chown and Chmod
Type the following into Terminal:
sudo chown -R yourUsername /Users/yourusername/Dropbox
sudo chmod -R 700 /Users/yourusername/Dropbox
If that doesn't work I'd run diskutil repairPermissions /
If those don't work, I would reinstall Dropbox.
A: From http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20130315064419386
It turns out that Dropbox has a hidden feature to fix such things. Open the Dropbox preferences, click on Account, then press the Option key. The Unlink This Computer button will change to Fix Permissions. Click that button and let Dropbox go through your files.
A: I had same problem. This helped me to fix issue:
Remove hidden dropbox folder '.dropbox' in user's root folder (Users/YourUsername/.dropbox)
You can do it by running this command in terminal:
sudo rm -r .dropbox
Then simply erase everything what is left in Applications folder and make a fresh install.
I found this solution here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6318381
A: I saw the same error message and had the same issue where Dropbox wouldn't start on my laptop so I couldn't access the hidden Fix Permissions feature. I tried fixing the permissions manually with Terminal. I also tried uninstalling and installing. I also tried removing the .dropbox folder in my root folder. Nothing worked.
Finally, unlinking and relinking my laptop remotely via the Dropbox website fixed it. When I started Dropbox again, I signed in and my Dropbox folder started syncing again. Article on Dropbox's help site walks through the steps and has suggestions for how to relink the files if the Dropbox location has changed.
Good luck!
A: Try starting Dropbox using the command line.
*
*Open Terminal (search for 'Terminal' in Spotlight).
*Type cd /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS then press Return.
*Type ./Dropbox then press Return.
*Report back with any error messages.
If you want to try something else while you are waiting for us to get back to you, repeat the above commands, with the exception of open Dropbox. Instead, continue on with the following steps:
*
*Type cd /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/. (Just press Return at the end of every command...)
*Type ls -la. You should see four records. We are interested in the bottom two. To the left of "Dropbox" and "python", you should see -rwxr-xr-x. These are the permissions for the files. If the pattern you see doesn't match what I have posted here, there is a problem with the permissions. (If so, report back here for the next step. If not, keep going through this list.)
*If the permissions were fine in the previous step, we can check a few other places. Type cd ../ to return to the above directory.
*Type cd Frameworks.
*Type ls -la. The top two files (with actual names) should have the permissions drwxr-xr-x. The bottom three files should have the permissions -rwxr-xr-x. (Report back if they are different.)
*Type cd ../ again.
*Type ls -la. The permissions this time shouldn't make much difference to the app, but we may as well check them. They should be as follows:
drwxr-xr-x 9 user admin 306 30 Jan 12:59 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 user admin 102 30 Jan 12:59 ..
lrwxr-xr-x 1 user admin 28 30 Jan 12:59 CodeResources -> _CodeSignature/CodeResources
drwxr-xr-x 7 user admin 238 30 Jan 12:59 Frameworks
-rw-r--r-- 1 user admin 2647 21 Jan 09:09 Info.plist
drwxr-xr-x 4 user admin 136 21 Jan 09:09 MacOS
-rw-r--r-- 1 user admin 8 21 Jan 09:09 PkgInfo
drwxr-xr-x 74 user admin 2516 21 Jan 09:09 Resources
drwxr-xr-x 3 user admin 102 21 Jan 09:09 _CodeSignature
*Once again, if you notice any of the permissions are different, let me know which ones are different, and I will give you detailed instructions on how to change them.
A: Have you tried any of the following?
*
*Reinstall Dropbox.
*Repair Permissions
*Create a new user on your
computer and try dropbox from there?
Otherwise a closer inspection to the System.log might help.
A: All you have to do is:
*
*Unlock home user
*Right click on home user name and click on Get info
*Go to General and un-tick Locked
*Hope your dropbox work as usual
A: A combination of two answers worked for me. The steps I had to take are:
*
*Unlink my laptop from the website dropbox.com
*Remove .dropbox folder using sudo rm -r .dropbox
*Delete the Dropbox application from the Applications folder.
*Re-download the Dropbox installer and reinstall Dropbox.
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20da15a67ff4773bedc35c5ed3200ea6d23cc275 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I take screen shots on DVD movies and protected content? I saw this awesome movie that I watched on DVD and wanted to take a screen shot of it, but when I did, it was transparent. I could only see my desktop taken but not the movie. Is there a specific program or hack that could let me take a screen shot of that content? I tried every screen shot software, but still leaves it transparent.
A: This is deliberate from Apple and you will not be able to take screen shots using DVD player.
You can either use VLC and then a screen shot program (Cmd-3 and Cmd-4 works for me), or transcode your DVD to a QuickTime movie using Handbrake (which may take too long for you to find it interesting). The latter will allow you to use QuickTime player which can do quite a bit.
| Q: How do I take screen shots on DVD movies and protected content? I saw this awesome movie that I watched on DVD and wanted to take a screen shot of it, but when I did, it was transparent. I could only see my desktop taken but not the movie. Is there a specific program or hack that could let me take a screen shot of that content? I tried every screen shot software, but still leaves it transparent.
A: This is deliberate from Apple and you will not be able to take screen shots using DVD player.
You can either use VLC and then a screen shot program (Cmd-3 and Cmd-4 works for me), or transcode your DVD to a QuickTime movie using Handbrake (which may take too long for you to find it interesting). The latter will allow you to use QuickTime player which can do quite a bit.
A: If you go to control & click 'use current frame as jacket picture'. Then click stop, your selected frame should come up - no matter where you stop the film from now on this still is what will show, that's what 'jacket picture' means.
Take a screenshot of the Jacket Picture & it should come up on your desktop like normal!
A: You should be able to capture screen shots by playing the movie in VLC and pressing alt+cmd+S. This is a more detailed guide for the windows version of VLC, but it should apply for the mac version as well!
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e026503e0d24045a52b539d822d5d799b8a549e3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: A modern and faster alternative to Disk Inventory X Disk Inventory X was kind of nice, but it is painfully slow.
Are there any modern and faster alternatives?
I only care about the disk space, and not about the file type stats and about the graph which Disk Inventory X displays.
A: Starting with macOS Sierra, macOS comes with an built in app from Apple called Storage Management, which is a part of the System Information app. In different tabs it shows you the largest apps installed, as well as a folder viewer with their sizes listed. A special tab shows the largest files over all of your folders, which I find very practical.
To launch Storage Management open Spotlight Search by hitting ⌘ Command Space, type "Storage Management" and hit ⏎ Return.
Pros:
*
*Free,
*Fast,
*Provided by Apple, so it knows what it's doing.
You can find more information here.
| Q: A modern and faster alternative to Disk Inventory X Disk Inventory X was kind of nice, but it is painfully slow.
Are there any modern and faster alternatives?
I only care about the disk space, and not about the file type stats and about the graph which Disk Inventory X displays.
A: Starting with macOS Sierra, macOS comes with an built in app from Apple called Storage Management, which is a part of the System Information app. In different tabs it shows you the largest apps installed, as well as a folder viewer with their sizes listed. A special tab shows the largest files over all of your folders, which I find very practical.
To launch Storage Management open Spotlight Search by hitting ⌘ Command Space, type "Storage Management" and hit ⏎ Return.
Pros:
*
*Free,
*Fast,
*Provided by Apple, so it knows what it's doing.
You can find more information here.
A: OmniGroup offers a free utility called OmniDisksweeper which lists files/folders sorted by size.
OmniDiskSweeper is really great at what it does: showing you the files on your drive, in descending order by size, and letting you delete them easily! It scans your disks as quickly as possible and shows you the facts — if a file doesn't make the cut to stay, just click the big Delete button and be done with it. It's a fast, easy way to find those large files cluttering up your drive and clearing them out for new, better things. Make sure you want them gone, though. There's no going back
A: Daisy Disk seems to be faster, but costs money. This process will always take longer than you want, though (I don't think OSX allows access to disk index files).
You can try one of the Linux based tools, such as PhileSight and see what happens too. Will be alot quicker if it works.
A: I can heartily recommend ncdu if you're looking for a text (ncurses) based alternative. One of the fastest I've found.
A: Use onboard tools:
Step 1: Open Finder
Step 2: In the menu bar select View → as List
Step 3: In the menu bar, select View → Show View Options
Step 4: Check the box next to Calculate all sizes
Source: https://9to5mac.com/2016/07/01/how-to-show-size-folders-finder-list-view-mac/
A: I think Disk Inventory is as fast or slow as any of the others. If the disk is big, it's slower than on a little one, and of course, on an SSD it is really fast. Although it is from 2006, I think it isn't bad coded, and it still works on my 10.9.
It gives more info than you need, but you can ignore that, as long as you find what you need. I guess what takes time is the reading of the disc, an app without the details of kind of info won't, as far as I think, really take much less.
I am using it for ages now, there was a time in Mavericks it didn't work, now it goes well. I recommend GrandPerspective, it seems to make the same (with more alternatives which you anyhow don't seem to need), but is fresher .
GrandPerspective: http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net
A: Disk Inventory X doesn't work on Big Sur anymore... :(
I just installed Disk Space Analyzer from the App Store and it's free and works like a charm on Big Sur.
A: Thanks to brew formulae,
I'd recommend ncdu (https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ncdu) for users who like a command line tool
and baobab (https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/baobab) for users who like a graphical user interface.
installation commands for quick copy-paste:
ncdu
brew install ncdu
sample screenshot for ncdu:
baobab
brew install baobab
sample screenshot for baobab:
A: The top alternative according to alternativeTo (as well as my own sample usage) is JDiskReport.
The thing I liked most about it is that it shows a clear status of the ongoing scan, as well as a time estimate for when it is expected to finish. The others I tried at best just show a "spinny" and you have no idea if the program is stuck or what.
This was actually a game changer in my case for two reasons:
*
*I realized I had an 8TB mounted network share those programs were scanning, which would have taken forever (assuming they didn't crash / run out of memory before).
*I had one folder with millions of files in it, which basically chokes out all such tools, but at least now I knew what that folder was so I could investigate further.
A: The App Store versions of both [Disk Space Analyser] (https://apps.apple.com/au/app/disk-space-analyzer-inspector/id446243721?mt=12) and Daisy Disk are limited functionality compared to the versions available from the developers' websites:
*
*Disk Space Analyser
*Daisy Disk
The paid download versions of both cost the same, USD $9.99.
The App Store version of Daisy Disk also costs USD $9.99, but if you've bought it from the App Store you can get the download version for free. The App Store version of Disk Space Analyzer is free, but it's unclear how much functionality is missing (ie. they don't say).
Neither App Store version include hidden files, so aren't going to find those leftover caches. For that you need the download version.
They look pretty similar in UI and functionality. Daisy Disk seems to have a higher profile, and includes the ability to scan your cloud storage for Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive. Disk Space Analyzer includes the ability to copy or move selected files as opposed to just deleting them, which could be pretty handy (noting that that comparison chart is on the Nektony site so use your own judgement there).
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69e04a281c5f56d1b0b22aa999dea74cdc678c32 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: To what application does com~apple~shoebox belong to? Looking at ~/Library/Mobile Documents I see a folder named com~apple~shoebox. What application does it belong to?
A: According to @Cocoanetics, Ole Begemann (under ShoeboxUISerice and WebViewService) and this SO-answer, "Shoebox" was Apple's codename/inside name for Passbook!
| Q: To what application does com~apple~shoebox belong to? Looking at ~/Library/Mobile Documents I see a folder named com~apple~shoebox. What application does it belong to?
A: According to @Cocoanetics, Ole Begemann (under ShoeboxUISerice and WebViewService) and this SO-answer, "Shoebox" was Apple's codename/inside name for Passbook!
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ad0164cf7e4324a767f6361b047285cb221b8008 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: /etc/launchd.conf setenv value containing whitespace In my /etc/launchd.conf file, I added these lines in an effort to figure out exactly how to create globally scoped environment variables whose values contain whitespace.
setenv foo1 123456
setenv foo2 "123456"
setenv foo3 123\ 456
setenv foo4 "123\ 456"
setenv foo5 "123 456"
setenv foo6 "123\\ 456"
setenv foo7 '123456'
setenv foo8 '123 456'
setenv foo9 '123\ 456'
setenv foo10 '123\\ 456'
To see what stuck and what the results were, I ran set | grep foo. The result:
foo1=123456
foo2='"123456"'
foo7=''\''123456'\'''
I'm out of ideas. Is this even possible? If so, what's the syntax?
A: Use export instead of setenv.
export foo1=123456
export foo2="123456" # foo2 should now have the same value as foo1
export foo3=123\ 456
export foo4="123 456" # foo4 should now have the same value as foo3
| Q: /etc/launchd.conf setenv value containing whitespace In my /etc/launchd.conf file, I added these lines in an effort to figure out exactly how to create globally scoped environment variables whose values contain whitespace.
setenv foo1 123456
setenv foo2 "123456"
setenv foo3 123\ 456
setenv foo4 "123\ 456"
setenv foo5 "123 456"
setenv foo6 "123\\ 456"
setenv foo7 '123456'
setenv foo8 '123 456'
setenv foo9 '123\ 456'
setenv foo10 '123\\ 456'
To see what stuck and what the results were, I ran set | grep foo. The result:
foo1=123456
foo2='"123456"'
foo7=''\''123456'\'''
I'm out of ideas. Is this even possible? If so, what's the syntax?
A: Use export instead of setenv.
export foo1=123456
export foo2="123456" # foo2 should now have the same value as foo1
export foo3=123\ 456
export foo4="123 456" # foo4 should now have the same value as foo3
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d4e4d3964dcc75d262f93e37a4db5922d0ad9540 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to create ISO from Application Bundle I have Mac OS X Mountain Lion as Application Bundle file. Burning the application to a disk is just like a data disk compilation on Nero.
How do I convert this application bundle into ISO image so that I can burn it on a disk and boot it from there?
A: Right-click your "Install OS X Mountain Lion.app" file and select "Show Package Contents".
Open Contents/SharedSupport and then you will find InstallESD.dmg.
Copy this file to your Desktop. This is the file that you need to burn OS X to a DVD. You need a Dual Layer DVD to burn OS X/or just use a USB flash drive.
It isn't an ISO, but you can convert to a 'cdr' from Disk Utility. A 'cdr' file is the same as an 'iso' AFAIK, and you can rename the extension so that it is an ISO.
| Q: How to create ISO from Application Bundle I have Mac OS X Mountain Lion as Application Bundle file. Burning the application to a disk is just like a data disk compilation on Nero.
How do I convert this application bundle into ISO image so that I can burn it on a disk and boot it from there?
A: Right-click your "Install OS X Mountain Lion.app" file and select "Show Package Contents".
Open Contents/SharedSupport and then you will find InstallESD.dmg.
Copy this file to your Desktop. This is the file that you need to burn OS X to a DVD. You need a Dual Layer DVD to burn OS X/or just use a USB flash drive.
It isn't an ISO, but you can convert to a 'cdr' from Disk Utility. A 'cdr' file is the same as an 'iso' AFAIK, and you can rename the extension so that it is an ISO.
A: sudo gem install iesd
iesd -i /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app -o Desktop/Capitan.iso -t BaseSystem
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33e1bd12459e97eb886524f30d75e6eef3088907 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Cleaned hard drive, reinstalled OSX- now all my iTunes purchased music is gone When I try to download already purchased songs I get this message:
Will I be charged once more if I click "Buy"?
Ps. When I click "Check for available downloads" I just get the message
Psps. It might just be that the new Itunes is buggy. I get this startup-screen, but when I click "scan for music", nothing happens.
A: Sign in to itunes, click iTunes Store. In the right hand column there is a link to "purchased"
This opens to a screen that looks like this:
You can re-download everything from there as long as its all on the single apple ID.
Good Luck!
| Q: Cleaned hard drive, reinstalled OSX- now all my iTunes purchased music is gone When I try to download already purchased songs I get this message:
Will I be charged once more if I click "Buy"?
Ps. When I click "Check for available downloads" I just get the message
Psps. It might just be that the new Itunes is buggy. I get this startup-screen, but when I click "scan for music", nothing happens.
A: Sign in to itunes, click iTunes Store. In the right hand column there is a link to "purchased"
This opens to a screen that looks like this:
You can re-download everything from there as long as its all on the single apple ID.
Good Luck!
A: When repurchasing from the iTunes store I was charged once more, so do not use the "repurchase" option.
Only US users are allowed to redownload music. Thank god for torrent sites.
Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3103354?start=15&tstart=0
Ps. iTunes refunded my money so all is well.
Psps. will update when/if I get to the bottom of this.
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7ff5fab17c0196c00bb47e61f0c7be44b178b863 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OSX ML Terminal - Switching tabs I am a terminal junkie and use it all the time...literally. Is there any way to be able to switch between tabs with Command+Number (eg. Command+1 for tab 1).
Yes, I know about iTerm, I'm just wondering if its possible to do this with stock terminal, since I am quite fond of it.
Thanks
A: You can move left and right through tabs with CMD + SHIFT + ] for right and CMD + SHIFT + [ for left.
Not necessarily choosing exactly which tab.
| Q: OSX ML Terminal - Switching tabs I am a terminal junkie and use it all the time...literally. Is there any way to be able to switch between tabs with Command+Number (eg. Command+1 for tab 1).
Yes, I know about iTerm, I'm just wondering if its possible to do this with stock terminal, since I am quite fond of it.
Thanks
A: You can move left and right through tabs with CMD + SHIFT + ] for right and CMD + SHIFT + [ for left.
Not necessarily choosing exactly which tab.
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2e177d0fb0e6ebc69cb7813511881c9641f75cb5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to find delay when launching new Terminal (iTerm) When I press CMD+N in iTerm2 to bring up a new iTerm window, sometimes it takes 10 seconds before I get my prompt. If I immediately repeat the process, the whole thing takes 1 second. To me this implies it is a slow read of a file that is then cached in memory. I put a timing statement in my .bash_profile and that takes about one second, so it is not something I have manually and intentionally done to slow it down.
How should I find out where the time is spent during the shell/terminal initiation?
I tried running sudo fs_usage -f filesys > fsusage.txt and then searching for login and bash and iTerm in the resulting file, but have not been able to determine what might cause the delay there.
A: I had the same problem and I fixed updating the setting in:
Profile/General
The option Command:
Instead Login shell you can pick the option command and write your shell path. In my case zsh: /bin/zsh
You can reveal this doing:
which -a bash
or
which -a zsh in my case
| Q: How to find delay when launching new Terminal (iTerm) When I press CMD+N in iTerm2 to bring up a new iTerm window, sometimes it takes 10 seconds before I get my prompt. If I immediately repeat the process, the whole thing takes 1 second. To me this implies it is a slow read of a file that is then cached in memory. I put a timing statement in my .bash_profile and that takes about one second, so it is not something I have manually and intentionally done to slow it down.
How should I find out where the time is spent during the shell/terminal initiation?
I tried running sudo fs_usage -f filesys > fsusage.txt and then searching for login and bash and iTerm in the resulting file, but have not been able to determine what might cause the delay there.
A: I had the same problem and I fixed updating the setting in:
Profile/General
The option Command:
Instead Login shell you can pick the option command and write your shell path. In my case zsh: /bin/zsh
You can reveal this doing:
which -a bash
or
which -a zsh in my case
A: You should also check on the Console.app < system.log section if there's any error log that could lead you to discover the causes of the error.
Also, does Terminal behave the same? Have you tried to wipe iTerm's settings using an app like Appzapper to check if there's any problem with them?
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97d4890a95bb8452696963e2323c95e681c44a6a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I change the default music player app on my iPhone? If so, how? I want to change the default music app on my iPhone from Music to Spotify. Is this possible? My first guess is that I would have to jailbreak my phone. Is there anyway to do it without jailbreaking?
A: Uninstall the default music app in iOS 11.
Restart. voila.
My headphone control now works with wynk music app.
control center also shows wynk music.
| Q: Can I change the default music player app on my iPhone? If so, how? I want to change the default music app on my iPhone from Music to Spotify. Is this possible? My first guess is that I would have to jailbreak my phone. Is there anyway to do it without jailbreaking?
A: Uninstall the default music app in iOS 11.
Restart. voila.
My headphone control now works with wynk music app.
control center also shows wynk music.
A: I would say there isn't really any default music player on the iPhone. You could say that Apple's Music-app is the one that opens when you press "Play" on the lock-screen or the "multitasking bar", but there's no real advantage in that.
To answer your question, no. You are pretty much unable to change any default things in the non-jailbroken version of iOS.
With that said, you can do some tweaks having jailbroken your device. If you would like to use Siri to play your Spotify music, there is a jailbreak app for that called AssistantLove.
Other than that, you could use the jailbreak app SpotiPlay. It makes the Spotify-application the one used on the multitasking bar.
A: There is no way to do this on a non-jailbroken iPhone. And even after jailbreaking, there is currently no tweak which lets you do this.
A: Ok so I found out how.
*
*Go to Spotify, don't play a song yet
*Plug in your headphones then play a song
*Now you lock your phone while the song is playing and now when you press the power button or the unlock button you should see the Spotify logo at the bottom left corner of the screen.
At least that's how I did it for Apple Music and then back to Spotify.
A: With iOS11 it seems like my iPhone changes back to the 'Music' app after a couple of minutes not using anything else. I did not like this since I hopped in my car and the music app started playing.
It's absolutely not the best option but for me it works quite well:
UNINSTALL the official music app
I have done this a couple of days ago and so far I actually like that scenario way better. Although it's still not perfect... I'd rather have the option to choose the default player. But my guess is we won't see that happening any time soon...
I'm aware that this only works if you do not have a library from iTunes on your phone. But I guess many people who use spotify as their default player don't have a giant library and any need to have the music app installed.
A: Uninstalling the default music app and restarting works on iOS 12.
One extra step I had to take to enable playback from the control center with the app closed was to go to Privacy > Media & Apple Music and enable access for the app.
As an alternative I use Evermusic Pro and I highly recommend it. I have no affiliation with the app or developer, just found it with search and after trying a bunch of other apps I think this is the best one.
A: Sorry for bumping old thread. iPhone users can now download "MusicTube" for listening YouTube music on lockscreen.
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49f5dd94bcc21ceab48796fc9c5b6068c6743f5b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why are the alias so big in filesize in Mountain Lion? I noticed the alias(es) that I create in Mountain Lion are very big in filesize (for example an alias to a folder is 5.8MB!)
Compared to Leopard, they were just about 500KB.
Why is this? and is there a way in the system where I can make them smaller without resorting to creating alias via the terminal?
A: Since Lion, in addition to storing Retina icons, it seems that an alias stores its many different sizes of icons in both the data and the resource fork (the xattr com.apple.ResourceFork). Possibly in a move away from Resource forks, while still supporting previous OSes (for now).
The alias I just created contained the follow formats:
is32, s8mk, ic11, il32, l8mk, ic12, ic07, ic13, ic08, ic14, ic09, ic10
They are described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Icon_Image_format
| Q: Why are the alias so big in filesize in Mountain Lion? I noticed the alias(es) that I create in Mountain Lion are very big in filesize (for example an alias to a folder is 5.8MB!)
Compared to Leopard, they were just about 500KB.
Why is this? and is there a way in the system where I can make them smaller without resorting to creating alias via the terminal?
A: Since Lion, in addition to storing Retina icons, it seems that an alias stores its many different sizes of icons in both the data and the resource fork (the xattr com.apple.ResourceFork). Possibly in a move away from Resource forks, while still supporting previous OSes (for now).
The alias I just created contained the follow formats:
is32, s8mk, ic11, il32, l8mk, ic12, ic07, ic13, ic08, ic14, ic09, ic10
They are described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Icon_Image_format
A: In High Sierra, the following works: just select the alias and run Finder command "Show Original" (command-R). This trims the alias size down to a minimum. This brought an alias that was previously 24 Mb down to 8 Kb.
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a4efe52007af4a4d7ecdddd2ee074a1b00c164cf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I use my US-iPhone in South Korea? I have an iPhone 4S and I will be going to South Korea for a year for my 1st duty station in the army. What should I do? Can I get it unlocked or should I just by a phone over there? I need contact with my family.
A: Before buying a CDMA SIM in Korea, check that your iPhone 4s is
*
*a CDMA phone, and
*unlocked
Calling stateside from South Korea using a Korea-issued SIM card may be expensive. You should consider getting iOS apps (e.g. Skype, WhatsApp) that relies on WiFi or data plan to communicate.
| Q: How can I use my US-iPhone in South Korea? I have an iPhone 4S and I will be going to South Korea for a year for my 1st duty station in the army. What should I do? Can I get it unlocked or should I just by a phone over there? I need contact with my family.
A: Before buying a CDMA SIM in Korea, check that your iPhone 4s is
*
*a CDMA phone, and
*unlocked
Calling stateside from South Korea using a Korea-issued SIM card may be expensive. You should consider getting iOS apps (e.g. Skype, WhatsApp) that relies on WiFi or data plan to communicate.
A: Call AT&T and have them unlock your phone. You're eligible for this process. Check out this link for more info. You qualify for the normal unlocking procedure, but you may also qualify for the military phone unlock as well. Double up for double power!
Buy a Koren Microsim Card of your choice from a cell service provider.
Use Skype, Facetime, Vyber, Whatsapp, or any of the other apps available on the market to have free international calling/text, as international calls with most providers are prohibitively expensive.
If you have a good data connection, you can send free iMessages to friends who own Apple products internationally.
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b4de1862d745d0d75e82d63ab262b4f2fd16d3b3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Rotating wallpapers of varying sizes I have several desktop backgrounds that I would like to rotate between, but one of them is vertically oriented. If I leave the backgrounds set to "Fill Screen," it chops off the top and the bottom of the vertical wallpaper, and that's not okay.
I'd like to know if there is a way to tell individual wallpapers to "Fit to Screen" while having others "Fill Screen," "Center," and et cetera.
Thanks!
A: No you can't, but you could edit the vertically oriented wallpaper to match the aspect ratio of your monitor.
| Q: Rotating wallpapers of varying sizes I have several desktop backgrounds that I would like to rotate between, but one of them is vertically oriented. If I leave the backgrounds set to "Fill Screen," it chops off the top and the bottom of the vertical wallpaper, and that's not okay.
I'd like to know if there is a way to tell individual wallpapers to "Fit to Screen" while having others "Fill Screen," "Center," and et cetera.
Thanks!
A: No you can't, but you could edit the vertically oriented wallpaper to match the aspect ratio of your monitor.
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7857a9fa2f2cfe3b355fb3bffa695427a2c582a9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I change the metadata of my songs all at once? I have a bunch of songs for which I'd like to change the metadata (really just want to change capitalization for all of them). I'm not changing a field in all songs to one value, so selecting them all in iTunes won't work. They are AAC files. Is there an easy way to do this? Not having to download a third-party app would be nice, but I doubt it'll be that easy (maybe someone can prove me wrong :)).
A: You could also run a script like this in AppleScript Editor:
tell application "iTunes"
repeat with t in selection
tell t
set name to my titlecase(name)
set artist to my titlecase(artist)
set album to my titlecase(album)
end tell
end repeat
end tell
on titlecase(x)
do shell script "ruby -rubygems -KUe 'require \"titlecase\"
print ARGV[0].titlecase' -- " & quoted form of x
end titlecase
The titlecase gem can be installed with sudo gem install titlecase.
| Q: How can I change the metadata of my songs all at once? I have a bunch of songs for which I'd like to change the metadata (really just want to change capitalization for all of them). I'm not changing a field in all songs to one value, so selecting them all in iTunes won't work. They are AAC files. Is there an easy way to do this? Not having to download a third-party app would be nice, but I doubt it'll be that easy (maybe someone can prove me wrong :)).
A: You could also run a script like this in AppleScript Editor:
tell application "iTunes"
repeat with t in selection
tell t
set name to my titlecase(name)
set artist to my titlecase(artist)
set album to my titlecase(album)
end tell
end repeat
end tell
on titlecase(x)
do shell script "ruby -rubygems -KUe 'require \"titlecase\"
print ARGV[0].titlecase' -- " & quoted form of x
end titlecase
The titlecase gem can be installed with sudo gem install titlecase.
A: So I've tried 3 ways to do this…
*
*Writing my own little terminal script that goes through all the folders of the artists/albums/etc and auto capitalizes it (too complicated)
*This handy little Automator trick I found online (I'm just gonna add the image tutorial here…
*This totally awesome (and the easiest of the three methods) I found online. Goto the following link ::
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=titlecaps
A: Capitalising each song title is not possible, but changing the common metadata among all of them works. For example, you can change the Album name and Album art for a number of songs.
There's an apple script that does specifically this (capitalise song name), but I haven't tried it yet: iTunes Capitalizer.
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87eb2275a456c56f14efc9ba0de4b9fd75f3351c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can malware move from Windows to Mac I recently got a Mac, and am transferring files from my old Windows laptop which had kept freezing with very high hard-drive activity, and may or may not be infected with malware. I'm wondering if there's a chance of my Mac being infected by malware from photos, documents, videos and music transferred from a Windows machine?
If so, which antivirus would you recommend me to get on my Mac? Are Sophos and Avira any good?
A: This answer reflects the situation at the time it was written (beginning of 2013) and may be different today. Please don't assume that it is still correct for current malware implementations
The short answer is "No, your Mac should not get infected".
The a bit longer answer is "it depends". You should be fine with photos, videos and music, but there might a very small risk with documents (depending on the format) and anything html-related (which might access a malware server or something). But given the current state of malware on OS X I wouldn't worry too much.
| Q: Can malware move from Windows to Mac I recently got a Mac, and am transferring files from my old Windows laptop which had kept freezing with very high hard-drive activity, and may or may not be infected with malware. I'm wondering if there's a chance of my Mac being infected by malware from photos, documents, videos and music transferred from a Windows machine?
If so, which antivirus would you recommend me to get on my Mac? Are Sophos and Avira any good?
A: This answer reflects the situation at the time it was written (beginning of 2013) and may be different today. Please don't assume that it is still correct for current malware implementations
The short answer is "No, your Mac should not get infected".
The a bit longer answer is "it depends". You should be fine with photos, videos and music, but there might a very small risk with documents (depending on the format) and anything html-related (which might access a malware server or something). But given the current state of malware on OS X I wouldn't worry too much.
A: While your Mac won't show any symptoms of infection by Windows malware, it can carry and pass Windows viruses on to other computers or networks. Think of your Mac like a Typhoid Mary if it is housing any Windows malware.
Your Mac can get infected with Mac malware, which is a growing threat these days.
I would't bother putting any Windows antivirus software on your Mac. I recommend Intego, an Apple antivirus company that focuses on protecting Macs. You can check them out here: http://www.intego.com/products
Hope this help!
A: It won't affect your Mac. But it may infect other Windows systems that your Mac comes in contact with.
A: Actually, there is indeed a low but very real chance to get infected.
There are 2 ways in which files on a disk can infect a computer:
*
*If the file is an executable e.g. .exe or .app, it contains code that is run on the machine if a user tells the computer to do so. Windows executables cannot run on a Mac and Mac executables cannot run on Windows, so a Windows executable cannot infect a Mac. Infected Windows executables are harmless on a Mac, and infected Mac executables are harmless on a Windows machine.
*If the file has to be opened by a host program e.g. Adobe Acrobat, or Flash Player, the file can use flaws in the host program to make the host program install and execute a virus. The same is the case for java files, several text document formats, some image formats, etc. It's possible that a Windows machine contains such files on a harddisk which can attack a Mac, as soon as the Mac user decides to open these files. See this question on security.stackexchange.
In any case, if you manage to infect the Mac with a Windows harddisk, or the other way around, the actual malware will be different. The same exploit will almost certainly never work on both Windows and Macs.
A: An experimental (very rare) kernel infection exists for the Mac, called
Thunderstrike.
It is actually still being developed as a proof of concept, along with some other experimental malware for OS X, but at its current stage (version 2) it is able to travel via thunderbolt storage devices and infect other Macs.
Some conspire that the NSA is behind many of the kernel vulnerabilities present in the OS X kernel, but that's just thoughts and speculations derived from (possibly) false rumours.
Anyway, I'll throw a few links and sources below and you can read some more 'in-depth' stuff if you're willing to.
*
*http://www.wired.com/2015/08/researchers-create-first-firmware-worm-attacks-macs
*http://support.apple.com/kb/HT202458
*http://digitaltrends.com/computing/flashback-lingers-despite-apples-fix-the-malware-remains-on-140k-machines
*http://digitaltrends.com/computing/former-nsa-staffer-finds-new-way-to-abuse-rootpipe-vulnerability-in-os-x
*http://digitaltrends.com/computing/can-macs-get-viruses
Don't worry, you're safe if you don't click on unknown links :)
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16c5960b06e0dfc58dfa5c5ab7cf80d9321a8a31 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to get an iPad to switch automatically to the strongest network? I work in an office that has 3 WiFi networks, the strength obviously depending on where you are in the building. All 3 networks have been set up on my iPad 3. I often move around in the office, but find that my iPad never switches to the strongest network, but always stays on the network I have manually selected (assuming there is even a slight signal of that network). I have to manually go to the Settings app to switch over to the strongest network, which is a hassle.
Is there a way to get the iPad to switch automatically to the currently strongest network?
A: Sorry mate, unfortunately no such thing exists.
| Q: How to get an iPad to switch automatically to the strongest network? I work in an office that has 3 WiFi networks, the strength obviously depending on where you are in the building. All 3 networks have been set up on my iPad 3. I often move around in the office, but find that my iPad never switches to the strongest network, but always stays on the network I have manually selected (assuming there is even a slight signal of that network). I have to manually go to the Settings app to switch over to the strongest network, which is a hassle.
Is there a way to get the iPad to switch automatically to the currently strongest network?
A: Sorry mate, unfortunately no such thing exists.
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f06b1a65ccba5b3ae00356072b4dffea5f1788c3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where can I find the Mountain Lion (Notification Center) notification sound? I've been searching around for the little sound (the default one) when a notification is presented (on Mountain Lion Notification Center) but I can't find it. Example: http://d.pr/a/P5xo (sound recorded)
Any ideas? Thanks!
A: In OS X 10.8 it's called burn complete.aif (or burn failed.aif–they are the same sound) and is found in /System/Library/Components/CoreAudio.component/Contents/SharedSupport/SystemSounds/system/.
To get into CoreAudio.component, right-click the file and select Show Package Contents.
| Q: Where can I find the Mountain Lion (Notification Center) notification sound? I've been searching around for the little sound (the default one) when a notification is presented (on Mountain Lion Notification Center) but I can't find it. Example: http://d.pr/a/P5xo (sound recorded)
Any ideas? Thanks!
A: In OS X 10.8 it's called burn complete.aif (or burn failed.aif–they are the same sound) and is found in /System/Library/Components/CoreAudio.component/Contents/SharedSupport/SystemSounds/system/.
To get into CoreAudio.component, right-click the file and select Show Package Contents.
A: The notification center uses the sound from your alert preferences, so you just need to check the sound being used in the system preferences and get it (or change it):
Go to the Apple menu;
Select "System Preferences" then "Sound";
The first tab shows the alert sound.
Note the name of the sound.
Go to /System/Library/Sounds and get/copy/change your file.
If you don't see any file in that location, and you do have sound files in the system preferences, that means you have the files hidden.
To show the invisible files, do this:
*
*Open Finder
*Open the Utilities folder
*Open a terminal window
*Copy and paste the following line in:
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
*Press return;
Now hold alt on the keyboard and right click on the Finder icon;
Click on Relaunch
You will now be able to see any hidden files or folders. When done, perform steps from the begining, however, replace the terminal command with:
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO
Notice that you can have more info about setting up the notification center here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5362
A: That sound file should be located inside /System/Library/Sounds. Go to that folder and have a look.
A: Found it! But not inside OSX. I searched on google and downloaded it from a sound pack of iOS system sounds and there was it. Boom!
If you're interested, https://sites.google.com/site/iphonesounds/iPhoneOriginalSystemSounds_WAV.zip?attredirects=0
It's called 'Voicemail.wav'. Have fun!
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b50413ae19b1c6d1e259cd8a3c2c795a1a2603e0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to have my iPhone 5 on silent except for one specific person? I want to have the phone on silent (no vibrate) and have it ring only for one or two specific people. Is there any way to do this?
I know how to turn the phone on silent (the switch on the left side above the volume buttons), but I can't seem to create a "profile" for this (I recall this being possible with Blackberry's).
A: There is a feature in the newer versions of iOS that is called "Emergency bypass". You can find it in Contacts > [person] > Edit > Ringtone > Emergency bypass.
Your iPhone will ring regardless of Silent or Do Not Disturb modes on or off.
| Q: Is it possible to have my iPhone 5 on silent except for one specific person? I want to have the phone on silent (no vibrate) and have it ring only for one or two specific people. Is there any way to do this?
I know how to turn the phone on silent (the switch on the left side above the volume buttons), but I can't seem to create a "profile" for this (I recall this being possible with Blackberry's).
A: There is a feature in the newer versions of iOS that is called "Emergency bypass". You can find it in Contacts > [person] > Edit > Ringtone > Emergency bypass.
Your iPhone will ring regardless of Silent or Do Not Disturb modes on or off.
A: This is possible using Do Not Disturb:
*
*Open Settings.app
*Go to Notifications > Do Not Disturb
*Select "Allow Calls From"
*You have several options. Either create a group, or have only those few people in your Favorites. The best is probably to create a group as that allows you better flexibility. After you have created the group with only the people that you want to allow to reach you, select it from the list.
*Now, to enable silent mode except for those two people turn on Do Not Disturb in Settings.app.
Creating/Editing Groups: This isn't as easy as it appears on iOS. See my question about it. As mentioned in the accepted answer, your best strategy for creating or editing groups is to go to iCloud.com on your computer. Quoting the answer:
"No, there is no way to create or edit contact groups on iOS. I share your frustration! The best workaround is to use iCloud.com (or your primary Mac, if you have it with you)."
But you can add contacts to a particular group, (though it isn't straight-forward):
*
*In Contacts, tap the Groups button in the top left
*Tap "Hide All Contacts"
*Tap the group that you want to add the contact to (making it the only visible group)
*Tap Done in the top right
*Tap the Add button (+) in the top right
So, the easiest is to just use a Mac (if you have one) or iCloud.com to create and add people to a group. After this is done, the new group with the people that you want to reach you should appear on iPhone.
A: For those that do not have DND, assign a memorable individual ring tone to each one in the group so you'll even know who is calling. Then assign a silent sound as the default ring for everyone else.
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5bc4d03d1e7b12c440dc0e7b384a824bd1574ea0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Have Automator add original path to Spotlight Comment for a file when moving to the trash Is there a way to add the original path of a document as a Spotlight comment in Mountain Lion?
I have created an automator workflow that automatically adds the Timestamp and user when a file is moved to trash. It also touches the file, so that its modified date becomes when it was moved (unless of course it is subsequently changed). This way I can find files I deleted by accident more easily. If I also have the original path to the document then I can put it back from where it came (for example if I deleted from search results).
A: I would just use Applescript to do it in a Run Applescript Action
on run {input, parameters}
set theDate to do shell script "date +%Y_%m_%d_%H:%M:%S"
tell application "Finder"
repeat with thisfile in input
set theComment to theDate & return & POSIX path of thisfile
set comment of (thisfile as alias) to theComment
return input
end tell
end run
This sets the date stamp and path.
It should be simple to add your touch and delete code to this.
| Q: Have Automator add original path to Spotlight Comment for a file when moving to the trash Is there a way to add the original path of a document as a Spotlight comment in Mountain Lion?
I have created an automator workflow that automatically adds the Timestamp and user when a file is moved to trash. It also touches the file, so that its modified date becomes when it was moved (unless of course it is subsequently changed). This way I can find files I deleted by accident more easily. If I also have the original path to the document then I can put it back from where it came (for example if I deleted from search results).
A: I would just use Applescript to do it in a Run Applescript Action
on run {input, parameters}
set theDate to do shell script "date +%Y_%m_%d_%H:%M:%S"
tell application "Finder"
repeat with thisfile in input
set theComment to theDate & return & POSIX path of thisfile
set comment of (thisfile as alias) to theComment
return input
end tell
end run
This sets the date stamp and path.
It should be simple to add your touch and delete code to this.
A: @dunxd The Trash in Mac OS X has an option
@BenjaminDobson wrote a tool using Foundation API that when added to your Finder toolbar tells you the path of selected item.
Source: SuperUser.com
You can explore adding this tool to your Automator toolchain to get what you want.
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739715308cbd9252a02e87caad7561ef1e53b70b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Execute a custom script when OS X 10.8 is in Power nap? Apple new feature of OS X 10.8 in new Macs "Power Nap" checks email and does make backups.
Is it possible to execute a custom script (bash, AppleScript,...) when OS X 10.8 is in Power nap mode? For example pull a git repository or download files.
A: As far as I know, it's not possible.
The reason is that Power Nap doesn't have an API that 3rd party apps can hook into (so apps could trigger a wake event or be notified when one occurs).
Whether this will remain like that in the future depends upon Apple. It would be interesting to see if there's a simple way to detect when one is in power nap mode, but doesn't seem to be available afaik.
If you leave a script that pulls from git every minute, in theory, since Power Nap is really a power on without graphics and audio state, maybe it would get executed (if it was running before). untested.
More info: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11692367/2684
| Q: Execute a custom script when OS X 10.8 is in Power nap? Apple new feature of OS X 10.8 in new Macs "Power Nap" checks email and does make backups.
Is it possible to execute a custom script (bash, AppleScript,...) when OS X 10.8 is in Power nap mode? For example pull a git repository or download files.
A: As far as I know, it's not possible.
The reason is that Power Nap doesn't have an API that 3rd party apps can hook into (so apps could trigger a wake event or be notified when one occurs).
Whether this will remain like that in the future depends upon Apple. It would be interesting to see if there's a simple way to detect when one is in power nap mode, but doesn't seem to be available afaik.
If you leave a script that pulls from git every minute, in theory, since Power Nap is really a power on without graphics and audio state, maybe it would get executed (if it was running before). untested.
More info: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11692367/2684
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8b94cf6397387c4a288e19e4cab39379748e85dd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I close all tabs on Safari for iPad after the app crashes My wife went to a site that tries to load a PDF that crashes Safari for iPad. After trying to load Safari again, it tries to open up all of the tabs again including the one that is crashing Safari. While its loading the tab it locks everything up so I can't switch tabs. How do I break this endless cycle? How can I close this tab or have Safari not try to reopen this tab? Is it possible to do this without losing the history?
A: *
*Force-quit Safari (double-tap the home button, then tap and hold on the Safari icon until it shakes, then tap the red minus sign).
*Go to Settings > Safari.
*Tap Clear History.
This should clear out all open tabs.
| Q: How do I close all tabs on Safari for iPad after the app crashes My wife went to a site that tries to load a PDF that crashes Safari for iPad. After trying to load Safari again, it tries to open up all of the tabs again including the one that is crashing Safari. While its loading the tab it locks everything up so I can't switch tabs. How do I break this endless cycle? How can I close this tab or have Safari not try to reopen this tab? Is it possible to do this without losing the history?
A: *
*Force-quit Safari (double-tap the home button, then tap and hold on the Safari icon until it shakes, then tap the red minus sign).
*Go to Settings > Safari.
*Tap Clear History.
This should clear out all open tabs.
A: I struggled through this last night and stumbled upon a solution. Go to Settings > Safari. Turn on private browsing. It will ask you if you want to close all tabs before turning on private browsing. Touch 'yes'. Next turn private browsing back off. Voila! The browser works again!
A: I know this question is nearly 5 years old, but in case someone else comes along with the same question... I've had this happen to me a few times, here's what you do.
Completely close Safari (i.e. after hitting the Home button, double-press the Home button to close it completely and remove it from memory). Then go into Settings and turn on Airplane Mode.
Now enter Safari, it will probably complain that it can't load the webpage either because it has no internet connection or because Airplane Mode is on. Since Safari has no internet connection, it can't load the tabs, including whatever code is blocking you from closing tabs, and including the code that's crashing Safari.
Now you can close the troublesome tab. All that's left is to turn Airplane Mode off again, and presto, the troublesome tab is gone while the tabs you want are still safe.
A: If you know what site froze Safari, go to Settings Safari Advanced, press Edit and scroll down till you find the site, then delete its data. If the site is YouTube or some similar "big" site, it will be easy to find. This worked for me.
A: Safari stopped being stuck when I began to recharge my iPad. And there was no need to reset anything, or to wipe the History. No open tabs were lost either.
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1297cbad7bf723f1965770b7d3f55c937e919d3d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's that site that frames screenshots in iPhone/iPad/Mac stock photos? Late last year in 2012, someone had launched a site that let you upload screenshots (or any image really) and it would embed them into nice stock photos of a Apple phone, tablet or laptop/desktop. It was basically designed for someone making a product web site and wanted to feature shots of the app or web site running on those devices. There was even a shot of a person holding an iPhone in their hands.
I can't for the life of me remember the name of the site though, and googling isn't helping me. A friend thinks it might have the words 'showoff' in it, but no luck either with that phrase.
Anyone remember?
A: PlaceIt is really powerful if you can afford it. But I like Frame App - it's free and fast and works well. No fancy backgrounds, just mockups.
| Q: What's that site that frames screenshots in iPhone/iPad/Mac stock photos? Late last year in 2012, someone had launched a site that let you upload screenshots (or any image really) and it would embed them into nice stock photos of a Apple phone, tablet or laptop/desktop. It was basically designed for someone making a product web site and wanted to feature shots of the app or web site running on those devices. There was even a shot of a person holding an iPhone in their hands.
I can't for the life of me remember the name of the site though, and googling isn't helping me. A friend thinks it might have the words 'showoff' in it, but no luck either with that phrase.
Anyone remember?
A: PlaceIt is really powerful if you can afford it. But I like Frame App - it's free and fast and works well. No fancy backgrounds, just mockups.
A: I use iSweetIt, it is an app that you can use offline too, and has a lot of templates like phones and notebooks but also print and posters. It's fast and it works.
A: It sounds like you’re describing PlaceIt.
A: Here's what I found. Some are free, some aren't.
*
*placeit.net
*agicmockups.com
*psdcovers.com/category/action/mockups/apple
*appdemostore.com/frameapp
*graphicriver.net/category/graphics/product-mock-ups/displays
*picapp.net
*Scenery
A: ScreenShot builder is free, and is very simple to use.
No iPad screenshots (in May 2015) - but it is great for iPhones.
A: I can also add these alternatives:
*
*http://iphone-screenshot.com/
*http://mockuphone.com/
A: mockupsjar.com - Create realistic mockups for your website and mobile app in 3 steps for free.
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decaa96277b8af129d9027ec9a52f0047d45595c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can GPS be used by more than 1 app at a time I'm looking at various apps which use GPS tracking, and was wondering if more than 1 app at a time was able to gain access to the GPS data?
For example I might want to use one app with route planning for cross country running in order to know where I should be going, and a second app to record where I actually went, and my speeds/splits/averages etc.
Because the apps are using the Background service for location data, does this limit which app is getting the data? Only 1 music app at a time can play in the background, is the location background service different?
I would test this myself, but the apps I am looking at are not free, and I don't want to pull the trigger if I cannot use them as I want.
A: Yes, GPS can be used by more than one app at a time. I frequently use Runkeeper in the background for tracking my movement, and Zombies Run or Geocaching in the foreground. I've never had any issues with any of them not getting the data.
| Q: Can GPS be used by more than 1 app at a time I'm looking at various apps which use GPS tracking, and was wondering if more than 1 app at a time was able to gain access to the GPS data?
For example I might want to use one app with route planning for cross country running in order to know where I should be going, and a second app to record where I actually went, and my speeds/splits/averages etc.
Because the apps are using the Background service for location data, does this limit which app is getting the data? Only 1 music app at a time can play in the background, is the location background service different?
I would test this myself, but the apps I am looking at are not free, and I don't want to pull the trigger if I cannot use them as I want.
A: Yes, GPS can be used by more than one app at a time. I frequently use Runkeeper in the background for tracking my movement, and Zombies Run or Geocaching in the foreground. I've never had any issues with any of them not getting the data.
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113f48b67341168005fce22c7d73a690cd5e53b5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Blue screen when booting from USB backup of Mountain Lion I've not been able to startup my MacBook Pro. I made a backup of Mountain Lion using Lion DiskMaker 2.0.2. When I press option and the power button then select the USB drive, the grey screen with the apple logo and spinner appears then shortly after I get a solid royal blue screen. Is there anyway I can boot from the USB drive backup to fix my computer?
A: Lion Disk Maker is a third-party utility. It’s likely that updates to OS X changed the startup behavior slightly for how your machine operates.
Any reason you wouldn’t use Recovery Disk? (Command + R on boot.)
You can also try booting to the USB drive, but enable verbose mode (before you select the USB drive, hold down Command + V) to see if there are particular errors shown when it is at that blue screen.
Last bit of hope: the author appears receptive to personal technical support questions by e-mail (that’s pretty cool).
| Q: Blue screen when booting from USB backup of Mountain Lion I've not been able to startup my MacBook Pro. I made a backup of Mountain Lion using Lion DiskMaker 2.0.2. When I press option and the power button then select the USB drive, the grey screen with the apple logo and spinner appears then shortly after I get a solid royal blue screen. Is there anyway I can boot from the USB drive backup to fix my computer?
A: Lion Disk Maker is a third-party utility. It’s likely that updates to OS X changed the startup behavior slightly for how your machine operates.
Any reason you wouldn’t use Recovery Disk? (Command + R on boot.)
You can also try booting to the USB drive, but enable verbose mode (before you select the USB drive, hold down Command + V) to see if there are particular errors shown when it is at that blue screen.
Last bit of hope: the author appears receptive to personal technical support questions by e-mail (that’s pretty cool).
A: This blue screen indicates that the user portion of the login process has started, and is hung.
How exactly did you get the InstallESD / Mountain Lion installer? What exact hardware downloaded the installer and is that the same hardware as you are trying to boot? If so, then you can conclude that either the copy process failed or drive / hardware is faulty.
If not, you might have a perfectly working USB to run an installer - for the hardware that downloaded the initial package but not the hardware you are now trying to install from this package.
It's not really an answer, but Apple hopes that everyone will avoid this tracking of InstallESD versions and hardware dependency by using a Recovery HD on each drive. That would be the ideal way to re-install your OS since it's more closely tied to the hardware and less likely to run into conflicts unless you take a HD from one Mac and move it to another.
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3cb9d2f698059698cfbe84b49cf62ed62f80d9d0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Weird screen fault My iPhone 5 has recently developed a screen fault: a line going from the bottom left to the top right with other lines and / or a mold-like pattern (the photos don't exactly convey the full effect).
The weird thing is that it is not permanent - it comes and goes (although the diagonal line always stays, it just varies in intensity).
Unless it's a symptom of a very strange cause, I'm fairly sure that this isn't software-based.
I'm very careful with my phone so, as far as I can remember, the device hasn't suffered any physical or water damage.
I do have insurance but I'd just like to know what people think so I know exactly what to claim on.
6th February:
11th February:
27th March:
A: As I can see from your profile: You live in the UK. How's the winter this year? I mean: How cold is it? And how are you carrying your iPhone around? Inside your trouser's pocket? Or inside your coat's pocket? So yeah, maybe it sufferd from extreme differences in temperature plus condensation.
| Q: Weird screen fault My iPhone 5 has recently developed a screen fault: a line going from the bottom left to the top right with other lines and / or a mold-like pattern (the photos don't exactly convey the full effect).
The weird thing is that it is not permanent - it comes and goes (although the diagonal line always stays, it just varies in intensity).
Unless it's a symptom of a very strange cause, I'm fairly sure that this isn't software-based.
I'm very careful with my phone so, as far as I can remember, the device hasn't suffered any physical or water damage.
I do have insurance but I'd just like to know what people think so I know exactly what to claim on.
6th February:
11th February:
27th March:
A: As I can see from your profile: You live in the UK. How's the winter this year? I mean: How cold is it? And how are you carrying your iPhone around? Inside your trouser's pocket? Or inside your coat's pocket? So yeah, maybe it sufferd from extreme differences in temperature plus condensation.
A: I would say from the cloudiness around the edges of your screen it looks like water damage and the fact that there are water droplets (or appear to be) on the phone in the pictures I would check the water sensors very closely (in the headphone jack and in the charge port) if they are even the slightest color of pink your probably not going to have much luck at the Apple store unless you get real lucky and get a newbe at the Genius Bar. Good luck with it though.
A: On August 25th, I made an appointment with a Genius and took the device to the Apple Store.
Weirdly, he said that there was no liquid sensor inside the device (I've never removed it) and that he would ignore that but that it does look like liquid damage. He said that there's no point replacing just the display, as other components may be damaged, and that I'd have to buy a replacement device for £180 (reduced, due to the fact that it was still in warranty).
A: It’s condensation, same thing happened to me after I left my phone next to the bath which I had really hot. Same cloudy effect and diagonal lines.
A: I think is due to temperature difference. I have no problem using it in Australia for many years. I was in northern Sweden (Umea) last year December and I found this weird screen appear. I asked Apple Sweden and they said it might be due to extreme difference in temperature that cause this. Northern Sweden was -11 on Christmas period. Well... I think if you read in the instruction, there is a certain temperature range for Apple iPhone to be stable . :)
I would definitely get back to Apple Australia and ask for opinion and help. Hope it helps.
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f54be0aec75895e200a43f3c1f7ce11b33877dc9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Compiling (NS/Cocoa) Emacs on OSX with SVG support Can anyone explain how to build Emacs --with-ns and SVG support on OS X?
Notes:
*
*--with-rsvg isn't working (when librsvg is installed, ie. via Homebrew)
*FYI, The Emacs Mac port uses webkit to provide SVG support, although that build adds far too many things I don't want.
I want to just compile in support for SVG on Cocoa Emacs, I'm not averse to patching, and if no answers are available, I'll see if I can patch over from the Emacs Mac port
(Assume latest stable version of Emacs 24.2, building from source)
Update:
I've tried running brew install emacs --cocoa --svg without success.
A: The installation of the Emacs latest version (25.0.50) works fine using this command:
brew install emacs --HEAD --use-git-head --cocoa --with-gnutls --with-rsvg --with-imagemagick
| Q: Compiling (NS/Cocoa) Emacs on OSX with SVG support Can anyone explain how to build Emacs --with-ns and SVG support on OS X?
Notes:
*
*--with-rsvg isn't working (when librsvg is installed, ie. via Homebrew)
*FYI, The Emacs Mac port uses webkit to provide SVG support, although that build adds far too many things I don't want.
I want to just compile in support for SVG on Cocoa Emacs, I'm not averse to patching, and if no answers are available, I'll see if I can patch over from the Emacs Mac port
(Assume latest stable version of Emacs 24.2, building from source)
Update:
I've tried running brew install emacs --cocoa --svg without success.
A: The installation of the Emacs latest version (25.0.50) works fine using this command:
brew install emacs --HEAD --use-git-head --cocoa --with-gnutls --with-rsvg --with-imagemagick
A: I was unable to get this working, and instead went with the Emacs Mac Port
Turns out it's much better than I'd thought.
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9f4ede9130a92d08f56a8de550e969ec6227a4fe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there an easier keyboard shortcut for taking a screenshot on OSX 10.5? I'm running OSX 10.5 and was wondering if there is an easier way to make screenshots which save to clipboard?
I know I can use:
CMD+CTRL+SHIFT+4
However this is hard on the fingers.
A: You can set up a custom shortcut, for example a key, for that purpose.
Open System Prefrences, go to Keyboard -> Screen Shots (or navigate to the Screen Shot-options), and double click on the shortcuts you want to change to change them to the keys you use less frequently. If you have a huge keyboard like me, you can for example set the F5 and F6 to be the shortcuts.
Here is a screen shot of the settings window where you set the shortcut (captured with those as well!) The "Copy"-screenshots are the ones with Control+Shift.
| Q: Is there an easier keyboard shortcut for taking a screenshot on OSX 10.5? I'm running OSX 10.5 and was wondering if there is an easier way to make screenshots which save to clipboard?
I know I can use:
CMD+CTRL+SHIFT+4
However this is hard on the fingers.
A: You can set up a custom shortcut, for example a key, for that purpose.
Open System Prefrences, go to Keyboard -> Screen Shots (or navigate to the Screen Shot-options), and double click on the shortcuts you want to change to change them to the keys you use less frequently. If you have a huge keyboard like me, you can for example set the F5 and F6 to be the shortcuts.
Here is a screen shot of the settings window where you set the shortcut (captured with those as well!) The "Copy"-screenshots are the ones with Control+Shift.
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083cfad82677b1415f953aa2e8b54a0a630d7957 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: I want to remove an entry in my $PATH I'm running OS 10.8. When I
echo $PATH
my terminal outputs
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/texbin:/Users/austinzuffi/Development/Android/adt-bundle-max-x86_64/sdk/tools
and i want to remove or at least edit
/Users/austinzuffi/Development/Android/adt-bundle-max-x86_64/sdk/tools
I can't find out where that string is entered. My /etc/paths shows
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
I'm assuming there's a file such as .bashrc that adds the entry upon login. I just can't find out which file is doing it. If you know which files might append my path environment variable, please let me know so I can check!
Also, if eclipse is modifying the system variable, let me know. I'm assuming eclipse doesn't have that power however I'm new to it.
Thanks guys
-Austin
A: Look in ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, /etc/bashrc for a line of the following form:
export PATH=$PATH:/Users/austinzuffi/Development/Android/adt-bundle-max-x86_64/sdk/tools
Also look to see if any of those files contain a line starting with either source or . (which is short for source). If they do then look in the sourced files too.
A quicker way might be to use grep. Open a terminal and, from your home directory run
grep -r "/Users/austinzuffi/Development/Android/adt-bundle-max-x86_64/sdk/tools" .
| Q: I want to remove an entry in my $PATH I'm running OS 10.8. When I
echo $PATH
my terminal outputs
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/texbin:/Users/austinzuffi/Development/Android/adt-bundle-max-x86_64/sdk/tools
and i want to remove or at least edit
/Users/austinzuffi/Development/Android/adt-bundle-max-x86_64/sdk/tools
I can't find out where that string is entered. My /etc/paths shows
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
I'm assuming there's a file such as .bashrc that adds the entry upon login. I just can't find out which file is doing it. If you know which files might append my path environment variable, please let me know so I can check!
Also, if eclipse is modifying the system variable, let me know. I'm assuming eclipse doesn't have that power however I'm new to it.
Thanks guys
-Austin
A: Look in ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, /etc/bashrc for a line of the following form:
export PATH=$PATH:/Users/austinzuffi/Development/Android/adt-bundle-max-x86_64/sdk/tools
Also look to see if any of those files contain a line starting with either source or . (which is short for source). If they do then look in the sourced files too.
A quicker way might be to use grep. Open a terminal and, from your home directory run
grep -r "/Users/austinzuffi/Development/Android/adt-bundle-max-x86_64/sdk/tools" .
A: You can take a look at this Superuser article for information about OS X path stuff. Of particular interest are the files in /etc/paths.d/ and ~/.bash_profile and the like.
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3c5d3509fb73eb9a100883d18f39b5babec7beea | Apple Stackexchange
Q: AppleScript: Open a new window in current space without switching to active window in another space I want to have an application open a new window in the current space without switching to a space in which a window is already open, but I want to keep the
When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows
for the application
setting in System Preferences > Mission Control.
In other words, I want to tell an application to open a new window directly, without first telling it to activate.
How can I do this with AppleScript (if possible)?
A: Mission Control is not scriptable as far as I am aware. Its actually one of things that Apple needs to correct in hindsight. I've been wanting to make a app that sets up my workspace and gets it ready for work for a week now.
| Q: AppleScript: Open a new window in current space without switching to active window in another space I want to have an application open a new window in the current space without switching to a space in which a window is already open, but I want to keep the
When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows
for the application
setting in System Preferences > Mission Control.
In other words, I want to tell an application to open a new window directly, without first telling it to activate.
How can I do this with AppleScript (if possible)?
A: Mission Control is not scriptable as far as I am aware. Its actually one of things that Apple needs to correct in hindsight. I've been wanting to make a app that sets up my workspace and gets it ready for work for a week now.
A: This is as close as I could get...
set APP_TO_OPEN to "Dictionary"
do shell script "/Applications/Mission\\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\\ Control"
delay 0.5
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Dock"
set countSpaces to count buttons of list 1 of group 1
click button 1 of group 1
repeat until (count buttons of list 1 of group 1) = (countSpaces + 1)
end repeat
click button (countSpaces + 1) of list 1 of group 1
end tell
delay 0.5
do shell script "/Applications/Mission\\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\\ Control 1"
tell application APP_TO_OPEN to activate
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56742403cb4f1f85251e46b58b622d4de06afd93 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to buy a replacement iPad screen of the same quality as Apple's? I've found a few companies that offer replacement iPad digitizers (the digitizer is the glass/touch screen part of your iPad), but I'm worried that they might be different to the official one.
Having broken the glass on my iPad 3 I initially spoke to Apple, but they wanted far too much to repair it ($400!). I then looked into third-party repairs (which were still quite pricey), and then discovered DIY repair kits.
Replacing the glass doesn't seem too difficult, based on the tutorials I've looked at, so my only concern now is the quality of the replacement kits.
Is it possible to buy a repair kit that has parts that are (more or less) identical to Apple's? I wouldn't want to replace the a part with something inferior :(
A: iFixit is a great resource for repair manuals and the corresponding parts. It appears they currently (2-13) have iPad digitizers for ~$100.
Personally I only have experience purchasing internal iPhone parts from them, but they are a reputable company and I would trust their quality if I were in your position.
| Q: Is it possible to buy a replacement iPad screen of the same quality as Apple's? I've found a few companies that offer replacement iPad digitizers (the digitizer is the glass/touch screen part of your iPad), but I'm worried that they might be different to the official one.
Having broken the glass on my iPad 3 I initially spoke to Apple, but they wanted far too much to repair it ($400!). I then looked into third-party repairs (which were still quite pricey), and then discovered DIY repair kits.
Replacing the glass doesn't seem too difficult, based on the tutorials I've looked at, so my only concern now is the quality of the replacement kits.
Is it possible to buy a repair kit that has parts that are (more or less) identical to Apple's? I wouldn't want to replace the a part with something inferior :(
A: iFixit is a great resource for repair manuals and the corresponding parts. It appears they currently (2-13) have iPad digitizers for ~$100.
Personally I only have experience purchasing internal iPhone parts from them, but they are a reputable company and I would trust their quality if I were in your position.
A: Through my personal experience I recommend you iPad 3 Screen Repair Guide. I like ifixit's stuff, but they always fall short. They just tell you to put it back together the way you took it apart. After successfully following this guide I can tell you that you definitely need to know the special tips to put it back together correctly. “iPad 3 Screen Repair Guide” they have a video as well as a step by step guide. I hope this helps you out!
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99c275ebbe08435a3821806d74e2d7362bde8483 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to connect an iPhone/iPad via WiFi Protected Setup (WPS)? I was wondering if anyone know if it is possible to connect your iPhone/iPad to a router via WiFi Protected Setup (WPS)?
I would like to bypass entering my password on my iOS device and speed pairing similar to how printers can get on the router with a PIN or first attempt.
A: No, you cannot do this (source). You should strongly consider not using WPS anyway, as it has a number of documented security issues. Apple has a page which describes recommended router setup for connecting an iOS device, which might help.
| Q: Is it possible to connect an iPhone/iPad via WiFi Protected Setup (WPS)? I was wondering if anyone know if it is possible to connect your iPhone/iPad to a router via WiFi Protected Setup (WPS)?
I would like to bypass entering my password on my iOS device and speed pairing similar to how printers can get on the router with a PIN or first attempt.
A: No, you cannot do this (source). You should strongly consider not using WPS anyway, as it has a number of documented security issues. Apple has a page which describes recommended router setup for connecting an iOS device, which might help.
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f0cf3812633aed77293c7f8d8e5813bae6fed302 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Use both Delete and Backspace in Macbook Delete key in my MacBook Pro works as backspace in other Windows keyboards and
Fn + Delete works as 'delete forward' as an ordinary delete key in Windows keyboard.
How can I change the keyboard setting so that I can use both 'delete forward' and 'delete backward' using only one key-in?
For example, Eject CD key is rarely used, so I'd like to use this key as 'delete forward' key and Fn+Eject CD for ejecting CD. Can I do something like this?
A: You can use KeyRemap4MacBook to remap the eject key to forward delete.
Partway down this List of Prepared Settings are details under "Change Eject Key."
| Q: Use both Delete and Backspace in Macbook Delete key in my MacBook Pro works as backspace in other Windows keyboards and
Fn + Delete works as 'delete forward' as an ordinary delete key in Windows keyboard.
How can I change the keyboard setting so that I can use both 'delete forward' and 'delete backward' using only one key-in?
For example, Eject CD key is rarely used, so I'd like to use this key as 'delete forward' key and Fn+Eject CD for ejecting CD. Can I do something like this?
A: You can use KeyRemap4MacBook to remap the eject key to forward delete.
Partway down this List of Prepared Settings are details under "Change Eject Key."
A: KeyRemap4Macbook is great, but it has way too much configurability and not very much documentation. I found this other tutorial that lets me play around with the default keymapping in ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict. This is both fast, and keyboard specific; which works very well for me
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5484f54adb524d05646469628753a17c5a091846 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable Mission Control shortcut? I often use IDE's for editing and the shortcut for mission control interferes with my shortcuts within aptana and or other editors.
Is there a way to disable the apple shortcut (control+▲) for osx 10.8.2 ?
A: Go to: System Preferences-> Mission Control and choose "-" in Mission Control shortcut
| Q: How to disable Mission Control shortcut? I often use IDE's for editing and the shortcut for mission control interferes with my shortcuts within aptana and or other editors.
Is there a way to disable the apple shortcut (control+▲) for osx 10.8.2 ?
A: Go to: System Preferences-> Mission Control and choose "-" in Mission Control shortcut
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494bd5fb267482a3fb2121a8f25e944de6b130bd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mail.app: Warning while pressing "Reply" instead of "Reply all" This happened to me a number of times: sometimes, when I reply to an email with multiple recipients, instead of replying to all, I reply to the sender. Is there any way to prevent to do it? e.g., a Mail.app plugin that warns you about such an issue?
A: A quick-fix way to avoid this error is to Control-click on the Mail toolbar, select Customize Toolbar ... and instead of accepting the Apple default where Reply, Reply All and Forward are joined in one big button, choose each one singly, dragging them to the toolbar as a single button, spacing them widely and not contiguous at all ... and Show Icon and Text makes it even more obvious which is which.
If Reply All is the one you use most often, set the spacers so it shows up in the middle, and place Reply to one side. I do the same with Junk and Delete as well.
| Q: Mail.app: Warning while pressing "Reply" instead of "Reply all" This happened to me a number of times: sometimes, when I reply to an email with multiple recipients, instead of replying to all, I reply to the sender. Is there any way to prevent to do it? e.g., a Mail.app plugin that warns you about such an issue?
A: A quick-fix way to avoid this error is to Control-click on the Mail toolbar, select Customize Toolbar ... and instead of accepting the Apple default where Reply, Reply All and Forward are joined in one big button, choose each one singly, dragging them to the toolbar as a single button, spacing them widely and not contiguous at all ... and Show Icon and Text makes it even more obvious which is which.
If Reply All is the one you use most often, set the spacers so it shows up in the middle, and place Reply to one side. I do the same with Junk and Delete as well.
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74153d6a7dfc3895a5833d00629ee93ae83f2c48 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I keep my iPhone screen off during voice navigation with Apple's Maps app? I have been using voice navigation in Apple's Maps app for iOS 6. I keep the phone in one of my car's cup holders because I am mostly using it in my home area where the maps on the screen aren't necessary. But when each navigation instruction is announced, I see the screen come back on. Sometimes I have my car charger, and sometimes I don't. But regardless of that, the screen coming on when I don't want to or can't look at it is just wrong for this usage scenario. Can I do something to keep the screen off and only use voice navigation?
EDIT: I reported this to Apple through bugreport.apple.com .
A: I know this doesn't solve the Apple Maps portion of the question but Google Maps does not behave like this and IMHO is better than Apple maps.
| Q: Can I keep my iPhone screen off during voice navigation with Apple's Maps app? I have been using voice navigation in Apple's Maps app for iOS 6. I keep the phone in one of my car's cup holders because I am mostly using it in my home area where the maps on the screen aren't necessary. But when each navigation instruction is announced, I see the screen come back on. Sometimes I have my car charger, and sometimes I don't. But regardless of that, the screen coming on when I don't want to or can't look at it is just wrong for this usage scenario. Can I do something to keep the screen off and only use voice navigation?
EDIT: I reported this to Apple through bugreport.apple.com .
A: I know this doesn't solve the Apple Maps portion of the question but Google Maps does not behave like this and IMHO is better than Apple maps.
A: I reported a bug to Apple through bugreport.apple.com. It looks like there isn't currently a solution for Apple's Maps app on iOS.
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8a67f2936187c733c55577147f1931ea88827d5f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: In iTunes Store, how can you view the full name? When I'm looking in the store (iTunes U, specifically), many of the titles are cut off, ending in "..." I thought the standard "hold the cursor over the text" would show a little window with the whole name, but no. The only workaround I found was making the iTunes window wider. Any way to make the column wider, or otherwise show the whole name? (There's no way to change the column width by dragging at the top, like you would in your iTunes library).
A: If you press the small 'i' button to the right of the description column, the information is shown again, in a pop-over box. This does seem to show the full name.
| Q: In iTunes Store, how can you view the full name? When I'm looking in the store (iTunes U, specifically), many of the titles are cut off, ending in "..." I thought the standard "hold the cursor over the text" would show a little window with the whole name, but no. The only workaround I found was making the iTunes window wider. Any way to make the column wider, or otherwise show the whole name? (There's no way to change the column width by dragging at the top, like you would in your iTunes library).
A: If you press the small 'i' button to the right of the description column, the information is shown again, in a pop-over box. This does seem to show the full name.
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3abc6cf62efc28c7d069d9c7c87ea397745965bf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Need offline iOS GPS app for Southeast Asia Looking for recommendations for a good offline GPS tracker for SE Asia (Singapore, Cambodia, and Thailand, specifically). I was looking at Gaia GPS, but I can't quite tell from their site if they support anything outside of the US and Canada.
The idea is that I want to have GPS tracks of my wanderings so I can later sync them up with the photos I take (it'll make it a lot easier to figure out what I'm looking at in my pictures when I go to work with them months after I get back). I'll be in areas with terrible cell reception, so ability to track solely on GPS is a must - otherwise I'd just be using RunKeeper.
I'm planning to take my 3GS just because it'll be easier to get a SIM card, so whatever it is has to support the 3GS. This should be mostly fine since the 3GS runs iOS 6, but figured it was worth a mention.
Thoughts?
A: Gaia GPS has many map sources that cover SE Asia. I am one of the developers, and you can email [email protected] if you have any questions.
| Q: Need offline iOS GPS app for Southeast Asia Looking for recommendations for a good offline GPS tracker for SE Asia (Singapore, Cambodia, and Thailand, specifically). I was looking at Gaia GPS, but I can't quite tell from their site if they support anything outside of the US and Canada.
The idea is that I want to have GPS tracks of my wanderings so I can later sync them up with the photos I take (it'll make it a lot easier to figure out what I'm looking at in my pictures when I go to work with them months after I get back). I'll be in areas with terrible cell reception, so ability to track solely on GPS is a must - otherwise I'd just be using RunKeeper.
I'm planning to take my 3GS just because it'll be easier to get a SIM card, so whatever it is has to support the 3GS. This should be mostly fine since the 3GS runs iOS 6, but figured it was worth a mention.
Thoughts?
A: Gaia GPS has many map sources that cover SE Asia. I am one of the developers, and you can email [email protected] if you have any questions.
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20978d37cf39ffb1577072b45a738c622a3f0781 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What are the “~orig” files in OS X? In the /etc folder of my system (OS X 10.8.2) I see a bunch of files named with the "~orig" suffix (e.g hosts~orig, passwd~orig, etc). What are these?
A: Those are the leftovers of OS upgrade.
The OS X upgrade saves previous configurations that's going to be changed.
The date of ~orig file should correspond with the OS upgrade.
| Q: What are the “~orig” files in OS X? In the /etc folder of my system (OS X 10.8.2) I see a bunch of files named with the "~orig" suffix (e.g hosts~orig, passwd~orig, etc). What are these?
A: Those are the leftovers of OS upgrade.
The OS X upgrade saves previous configurations that's going to be changed.
The date of ~orig file should correspond with the OS upgrade.
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64e5977b6b731dffb4305dbc88f5eac6f2dd26ef | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I export mail.app rules to other filtering solutions such as procmail? In the past I handled email filtering using Mail.app's Rules. I want to move my filters out of Mail.app and into another solution, such as a centrally-organized IMAP + procmail setup.
Is it possible to export apple mail.app rules for use with procmail?
If not for procmail per se, how about exporting to other formats that might be an easier intermediary between Mail.app and procmail?
A: You can find them in plist format (just an xml flavor) in:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/MessageRules.plist
You can write a script in the language of your choice to parse this file and produce rules suitable to procmail.
Here is a python draft:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import plistlib
pl = plistlib.readPlist('/Users/<user>/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/SyncedRules.plist')
for rule in pl:
print
print ':0:'
mbox = ''
for key in rule:
if key == 'Criteria':
for c in rule[key]:
print '^%s:.*%s' % (c['Header'], c['Expression'])
if key == 'CopyToMailbox':
mbox = rule[key]
print mbox
| Q: How do I export mail.app rules to other filtering solutions such as procmail? In the past I handled email filtering using Mail.app's Rules. I want to move my filters out of Mail.app and into another solution, such as a centrally-organized IMAP + procmail setup.
Is it possible to export apple mail.app rules for use with procmail?
If not for procmail per se, how about exporting to other formats that might be an easier intermediary between Mail.app and procmail?
A: You can find them in plist format (just an xml flavor) in:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/MessageRules.plist
You can write a script in the language of your choice to parse this file and produce rules suitable to procmail.
Here is a python draft:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import plistlib
pl = plistlib.readPlist('/Users/<user>/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/SyncedRules.plist')
for rule in pl:
print
print ':0:'
mbox = ''
for key in rule:
if key == 'Criteria':
for c in rule[key]:
print '^%s:.*%s' % (c['Header'], c['Expression'])
if key == 'CopyToMailbox':
mbox = rule[key]
print mbox
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baecb80a8f9e3f7216bbd2c28fba3f9dc990df3c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: When running a command from terminal, how can I know the full path of the command? Assuming I'm writing in Terminal: 'ctags', how can I know the full path of the command 'ctags?
A: $ type ctags
ctags is /usr/bin/ctags
$ type -p ctags
/usr/bin/ctags
The second form is useful for doing things like
$ file $(type -p ctags)
$ ls -l $(type -p ctags)
and is often aliased to which.
If you don't want to rely on bash functionality and prefer an external command, /usr/bin/whereis serves a similar purpose:
The whereis utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified programs, printing out the paths of any it finds.
Because whereis doesn't use $PATH but rather the result of sysctl user.cs_path it may lead to different results.
| Q: When running a command from terminal, how can I know the full path of the command? Assuming I'm writing in Terminal: 'ctags', how can I know the full path of the command 'ctags?
A: $ type ctags
ctags is /usr/bin/ctags
$ type -p ctags
/usr/bin/ctags
The second form is useful for doing things like
$ file $(type -p ctags)
$ ls -l $(type -p ctags)
and is often aliased to which.
If you don't want to rely on bash functionality and prefer an external command, /usr/bin/whereis serves a similar purpose:
The whereis utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified programs, printing out the paths of any it finds.
Because whereis doesn't use $PATH but rather the result of sysctl user.cs_path it may lead to different results.
A: Type the command as a parameter, for e.g. to find location of tar
ls -l $(which tar)
which in my case returns
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 Jul 26 2012 /usr/bin/tar -> bsdtar
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e3e12243f202e1f2d603c76a1d9a91c1db3e725b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to decode a .chm file? I'd like to extract content of old .chm file into individual html files.
Is there an app or command line tool for this?
A: Perhaps http://echoone.com/filejuicer/formats/chm will do the job for you.
FWIW, my chm to HTML workflow differs though. I use iCHM app (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/28171/ichm) for OS X to convert chm to PDF to preserve formatting. After editing it (using Adobe Acrobat) as necessary, only then do I convert to HTML.
| Q: How to decode a .chm file? I'd like to extract content of old .chm file into individual html files.
Is there an app or command line tool for this?
A: Perhaps http://echoone.com/filejuicer/formats/chm will do the job for you.
FWIW, my chm to HTML workflow differs though. I use iCHM app (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/28171/ichm) for OS X to convert chm to PDF to preserve formatting. After editing it (using Adobe Acrobat) as necessary, only then do I convert to HTML.
A: This is pretty easy to do for free you just have to use Terminal and install Homebrew and chmlib.
*
*Open Terminal. (/Applications/Utilities/)
*Install Homebrew by visiting http://brew.sh/ and follow the installation instructions. Or just copy paste this command into Terminal and run it.
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
*After the install is complete type brew install chmlib in Terminal and press enter.
*Move the file you want to extract to your Desktop.
*Go back to Terminal and type:
extract_chmLib ~/Desktop/name_of_the_file.chm ~/Desktop/name_of_the_file
Just be sure to replace name_of_the_file.chm with the actual name of the file. This will create a new folder on your desktop.
*Open the folder and double click the file index.html. This will open the document in your web browser.
A: For $1 (instead of $18 for FileJuicer) you might consider this app:
CHM Decompiler
It worked correctly for me. (I have no relationship with the developer, just a happy customer.)
A: Tubby.
From the website:
Tubby is no longer maintained or supported. It is a CHM file expander,
opening Combined HTML Help files and outputting their contents in a
folder of the same name. You can access the source on the side and use
as you see fit.
Requirements. Tubby runs on Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher.
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7afc50dfb024a00227a047036bf2ebda1c5391f6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Default search language in Safari? With OS X, how do I get Safrai's location-bar search to use a particular language? This problem arises because I live in Japan but I don't want Japanese results.
The following URL will let me do English-language searches regardless of my country:
https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en
But how do I get Safari to do the right thing for me (search Google in English) every time?
A: The Safari Keyword Search extension can help you define new search engines to be used by Safari. It can also change the default search engine Safari is using. You could then use it to put the Google search URL as the default search.
See the instructions on the extension website.
| Q: Default search language in Safari? With OS X, how do I get Safrai's location-bar search to use a particular language? This problem arises because I live in Japan but I don't want Japanese results.
The following URL will let me do English-language searches regardless of my country:
https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en
But how do I get Safari to do the right thing for me (search Google in English) every time?
A: The Safari Keyword Search extension can help you define new search engines to be used by Safari. It can also change the default search engine Safari is using. You could then use it to put the Google search URL as the default search.
See the instructions on the extension website.
A: You can install a "No Country Redirect" cookie simply by navigating to: http://www.google.com/ncr
This should prevent Google from displaying results in a language other than English.
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44bb02521e7c9a70d49a9b70d4d021a1a47885bd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why is my iOS not detecting Bluetooth device names? I am trying to list of bluetooth devices from my app.
My Bluetooth is enabled in settings but doesn't detect device names.
A: The BT device that you are looking for has to be in discovery mode, or set to always discoverable in order to be visible to such device searches.
| Q: Why is my iOS not detecting Bluetooth device names? I am trying to list of bluetooth devices from my app.
My Bluetooth is enabled in settings but doesn't detect device names.
A: The BT device that you are looking for has to be in discovery mode, or set to always discoverable in order to be visible to such device searches.
A: you can use apps like lightBlue or BLE scanner
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d096c8cfb4485fef3b80b5e209b71d94e71907b5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: hdiutil convert/rsize resource temporarily unavailable When trying to convert or resize a dmg image I get the error:
hdiutil: convert failed Resource Temporarily Unavailable error
or
hdiutil: resize: failed. Resource temporarily unavailable (35).
(hdiutil error code 35).
A: The problem appears to happen when you unmount the image using umount.
Remount the image (either using hdiutil attach or just double click the image) and use the command hdiutil detach it again. This will unmount and eject the image.
hdiutil detach /Volumes/<your image>
| Q: hdiutil convert/rsize resource temporarily unavailable When trying to convert or resize a dmg image I get the error:
hdiutil: convert failed Resource Temporarily Unavailable error
or
hdiutil: resize: failed. Resource temporarily unavailable (35).
(hdiutil error code 35).
A: The problem appears to happen when you unmount the image using umount.
Remount the image (either using hdiutil attach or just double click the image) and use the command hdiutil detach it again. This will unmount and eject the image.
hdiutil detach /Volumes/<your image>
A: In my case something was trying to access the image. What finally worked:
sudo lsof | grep ~/Unix.sparsebundle/
sudo kill -9 889
hdiutil resize -size 100g ~/Unix.sparsebundle/
A: Another possibility is that the disk image is still mounted (from previous work on it). In this case, just select the eject icon.
Afterwards, the hdiutil convert worked great.
A: If you are accessing a disk image over a network then it's possible to have various operations interrupted if you encounter any kind of network issue, which can result in the image becoming "temporarily unavailable" when you try to resume whatever you were doing.
This happens because only a single system can have a disk image mounted at once, otherwise corruption could/will occur, but the locking mechanism for preventing double-access can end up being left in an inconsistent state, so even if you only have a single system accessing an image, you can end up with this error, as hdiutil thinks the image is already open on another system.
As others have pointed out, a restart can resolve this; I'm not actually sure why, as I'm not clear on how hdiutil/macOS marks an image as in-use. For a sparse bundle this has something to do with the token file, and there's a handy workaround if you don't want to have to restart.
NOTE: You must be absolutely certain that yours is the only system accessing this disk image, fiddling with the token file while an image is already mounted could destroy your image completely! Always have backups wherever possible, and be very careful at all times.
*
*Open Terminal.app
*If your image is on a remote share, connect to it now
*Navigate into the sparse bundle in the Terminal (type cd (with trailing space) then drag your sparse bundle file onto the Terminal window, hit enter)
*Rename the old token (mv token{,.old})
*Create a new copy of the token (cp token{.old,})
*If necessary, correct the permissions on the new token (chown 'user:group' token, with the correct user/group, it should match the user:group of the Info.plist file in the same folder.
After copying the token in this way, you should now be able to use hdiutil attach /path/to/image as normal to attach and mount the image.
NOTE: Be very careful using this method; I move the original out of the way rather than discarding it, so that it is always possible to recover it if anything goes wrong.
A: Sometimes you can't explain whats going on. For my case, the error message was that they could not read my dmg file created with createinstallmedia. After reboot, i noticed that the process had been mounting some temporary file. I had been following these steps: How to Create a Bootable macOS Big Sur ISO
A: What worked for me when trying to create macOS install iso:
*
*Create new folder
*Add folder to Spotlight > Privacy
*Mount with hdiutil attach to the subfolder of the new folder
*Now it can be unmounted with hdiutil detach
*Profit
A: restart your machine and it run it again it should work.
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becdf804985d1ad2e857932641c237db0f922232 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Show hidden files when searching in finder I can see hidden files in Finder but when I search it doesn't find hidden files.
I have tried these two commands
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
I also change "File visibility" to "Invisible Items" when searching in Finder search
Can I make my searches easier than this?
A: In pre-2015 macs only:
There is a way to search also within hidden files:
*
*Open Finder
*Fill search box with searched text
*Click "+" button.
*Choose "File visibility" and your option.
| Q: Show hidden files when searching in finder I can see hidden files in Finder but when I search it doesn't find hidden files.
I have tried these two commands
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
I also change "File visibility" to "Invisible Items" when searching in Finder search
Can I make my searches easier than this?
A: In pre-2015 macs only:
There is a way to search also within hidden files:
*
*Open Finder
*Fill search box with searched text
*Click "+" button.
*Choose "File visibility" and your option.
A: Sadly, I never found a solution to this either. According to LifeHacker there is actually no way to do it except using comercial software. So the only other possible answer your question is 'use the Terminal'
*
*Open a terminal
*Enter this command:
cd <your_directory_of_interest>
*Find the files with a name starting with a 'dot'.
find . -name ".*"
*You can redirect the resulting list to a textfile by adding > textfilename to the last command. Then use that file to do whatever you need to do with the files.
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13a1b6df3a8a3fc914592597dae8cd983a3404f9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Exclude hours from Calendar? Is it possible to lock the position, or delete the options for earlier or later, of the Calendar app on OS X? I don't want anything before 8am or after 10pm, but the calendar moves too easily, so I may not always be aware of some entries.
A: Note: This answer assumes you're using either the day- or the week-display.
On OS X 10.7 and up, the calendar indicates that there are events that aren't displayed on the screen with a tiny "flob" better explained by this screenshot:
You can see that on both the 18th and the 19th there are some events not being shown. These will stay on the screen until you scroll far enough up (or down) to see them.
That said, you can't really "disable" the time interval of 10pm->8am, but you can make space for more events on one screen. To do this, open the Settings (Cmd+,), and select the desired amount of hours to fit into one calendar window. 8am to 10pm is 14 hours, so pick 14.
| Q: Exclude hours from Calendar? Is it possible to lock the position, or delete the options for earlier or later, of the Calendar app on OS X? I don't want anything before 8am or after 10pm, but the calendar moves too easily, so I may not always be aware of some entries.
A: Note: This answer assumes you're using either the day- or the week-display.
On OS X 10.7 and up, the calendar indicates that there are events that aren't displayed on the screen with a tiny "flob" better explained by this screenshot:
You can see that on both the 18th and the 19th there are some events not being shown. These will stay on the screen until you scroll far enough up (or down) to see them.
That said, you can't really "disable" the time interval of 10pm->8am, but you can make space for more events on one screen. To do this, open the Settings (Cmd+,), and select the desired amount of hours to fit into one calendar window. 8am to 10pm is 14 hours, so pick 14.
A: Have you tried on the preferences panel setting when day starts and ends. This should help.
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469dae7d1c81cd8379ed1d0a925c07430d3e0cd6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does AirDrop use up Bandwidth? I recently used AirDrop for the first time to send about 30GB of videos to a friend while we were both connected to my internet. Two days later I got an e-mail from my internet provider saying I was over 50% of my monthly bandwidth at 50.31GB, and this was only a couple days into the "new month". I haven't downloaded anything these first few days of the month, nor have I been browsing/streaming much over my network.
I'm wondering if AirDrop is the reason why I've burned through a bunch of data.
A: AirDrop sets up a direct connection between two computers on the local network, so it won't send anything over the internet. You might need to look elsewhere for the usage.
| Q: Does AirDrop use up Bandwidth? I recently used AirDrop for the first time to send about 30GB of videos to a friend while we were both connected to my internet. Two days later I got an e-mail from my internet provider saying I was over 50% of my monthly bandwidth at 50.31GB, and this was only a couple days into the "new month". I haven't downloaded anything these first few days of the month, nor have I been browsing/streaming much over my network.
I'm wondering if AirDrop is the reason why I've burned through a bunch of data.
A: AirDrop sets up a direct connection between two computers on the local network, so it won't send anything over the internet. You might need to look elsewhere for the usage.
A: AirDrop creates a direct connection to another Mac through it's wireless card and therefor does not transfer across your LANs wired network or wireless network and most certainly does not effect your internet bandwidth.
Here are 4 possible reasons for the high bandwidth.
*
*You are unaware of software on your Mac because someone else has installed it on your behalf. Perhaps Online Backup Software or you may have installed it yourself and not been aware of the repercussions. i.e. Crashplan/Dropbox etc.
*Your network has been compromised by a Neighbour via wireless. Reset your wireless routers password and make sure it is set to use a secure protocol i.e. WPA2
*You have another device on your network to do with streaming Movies to your TV like Netflix.
*You have signed up for iTunes Match and have synced Music and Movies to all your Mac devices.
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9cded81ff56d7ae0f83de8a3c83adc583243c855 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change mouse pointer in iTerm2 (or disable mouse pointer) In iTerm2 (fullscreen mode) my pointer is permanently a "text select" pointer. It bothers me, so I would either like to change it (to the regular arrow-type pointer) or disable it when in my fullscreen iTerm2 instance. Is this possible? I'm on OSX 10.7.
A: It's quite old, but...
Open finder (or mc or anything else) then go to /Applications/Iterm.app (press right mouse and choose "Show package content" if in Finder) Content/Resource/
IBarCursor.tiff and IBarCursorXMR.tiff are the cursor images. You can replace or delete them.
| Q: Change mouse pointer in iTerm2 (or disable mouse pointer) In iTerm2 (fullscreen mode) my pointer is permanently a "text select" pointer. It bothers me, so I would either like to change it (to the regular arrow-type pointer) or disable it when in my fullscreen iTerm2 instance. Is this possible? I'm on OSX 10.7.
A: It's quite old, but...
Open finder (or mc or anything else) then go to /Applications/Iterm.app (press right mouse and choose "Show package content" if in Finder) Content/Resource/
IBarCursor.tiff and IBarCursorXMR.tiff are the cursor images. You can replace or delete them.
A: The behavior is inconsistent between window mode and full screen mode, but this is not something that is configurable. You would probably have to submit a feature request to get this changed.
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60eb4873834d04c2ad9ad7f369d4ae82b17ff535 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: After typing sudo I can no longer autocomplete commands by pressing Tab In a Terminal, if I type beginning of any command by pressing tab I can see the rest of that command.
However this feature does not work with any words I type after sudo.
How can I complete command names even after I write sudo?
A: I did fix my problem by installing Bash Completion on Macports.
| Q: After typing sudo I can no longer autocomplete commands by pressing Tab In a Terminal, if I type beginning of any command by pressing tab I can see the rest of that command.
However this feature does not work with any words I type after sudo.
How can I complete command names even after I write sudo?
A: I did fix my problem by installing Bash Completion on Macports.
A: OS X has not turned ON as many completion possibilities at the guys behind Ubuntu. In order to add autocompletion to sudo, you should simply add to the file $HOME/.bash_profile
complete -cf sudo
The description of complete and its options is briefly defined in the bash built-in commands manual page (see man bash). Although the -c and -f commands are not obviously detailed, one can find their description under the "-A action" explanation.
A: It would help to know what shell you are using. This works for me in both bash and zsh. The completion in zsh is much better than bash.
One thing you could do is to type the command you want using tab completion, but before hitting return type control-a to go to the beginning of the line and then type sudo and hit return to execute the command.
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fe7acc00d50cdfcce23ff069ab340c60fb02780a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to force ejection of a DVD I have a DVD I was trying to rip, and handbrake froze up when scanning it. I tried to eject the DVD by dragging and dropping it to the trash, which trashed the icon, but didn't eject the DVD. I then forced Handbrake to quit, but without an icon on my desktop to select, how can I eject the DVD?
A: Reboot the computer while holding down the mouse button - if there's no physical issue preventing ejection, the disc will be ejected.
You can of course use terminal to try to force an eject, but this requires a little knowledge of text commands and is covered here:
*
*Is there a Terminal command that will force open the DVD tray?
| Q: How to force ejection of a DVD I have a DVD I was trying to rip, and handbrake froze up when scanning it. I tried to eject the DVD by dragging and dropping it to the trash, which trashed the icon, but didn't eject the DVD. I then forced Handbrake to quit, but without an icon on my desktop to select, how can I eject the DVD?
A: Reboot the computer while holding down the mouse button - if there's no physical issue preventing ejection, the disc will be ejected.
You can of course use terminal to try to force an eject, but this requires a little knowledge of text commands and is covered here:
*
*Is there a Terminal command that will force open the DVD tray?
A: Open terminal.
drutil tray eject
DVD ejected.
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a687d26dc0719c162796b82ef2ef1faea0b822d3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are there any global key combinations suitable or specifically reserved on OS X for user assignment? I'm trying to identify an appropriate global hotkey to set in iTerm2's preferences for showing/hiding it:
I'd like to avoid any conflicts with other applications' hotkeys or other future use. Are there any blocks of key combinations reserved for user assignment in OS X, or groups of key combinations which aren't generally used, which would be particularly suitable?
A: I have found that Cmd+Control+A-Z are usually available for your custom global shortcuts.
Two notable exceptions are:
*
*Cmd+Control+F, which makes apps full-screen.
*Cmd+Control+Q, which Immediately locks your screen.
Also note mac OS does not differentiate between Cmd+Control and Control+Cmd. So unfortunately you can't get clever and simply reverse the order of the modifier keys to get more available binding options.
I too would like to be able to access a complete list, however, which is how I arrived to this page.
| Q: Are there any global key combinations suitable or specifically reserved on OS X for user assignment? I'm trying to identify an appropriate global hotkey to set in iTerm2's preferences for showing/hiding it:
I'd like to avoid any conflicts with other applications' hotkeys or other future use. Are there any blocks of key combinations reserved for user assignment in OS X, or groups of key combinations which aren't generally used, which would be particularly suitable?
A: I have found that Cmd+Control+A-Z are usually available for your custom global shortcuts.
Two notable exceptions are:
*
*Cmd+Control+F, which makes apps full-screen.
*Cmd+Control+Q, which Immediately locks your screen.
Also note mac OS does not differentiate between Cmd+Control and Control+Cmd. So unfortunately you can't get clever and simply reverse the order of the modifier keys to get more available binding options.
I too would like to be able to access a complete list, however, which is how I arrived to this page.
A: This is regarding a EU (European) keyboard, however, I use ctrl and the key directly above it ( < ). It has yet to conflict with anything.
A: Here are Apple's official OS X Human Interface Guidelines for Keyboard Shortcuts.
The document appears to be a current, authoritative, and complete guide to assigning keyboard shortcuts. It covers both the conceptual basis for using particular modifier keys, as well as the nitty-gritty of exactly which keys and which combinations are reserved system-wide, or likely to be reserved in the future.
Here's second Apple page showing a complete summary of existing keyboard shortcuts.
A: This is something I've been (and still am) tremendously bothered with, and have sinked a considerable amount of time to find something that both works as I'd like it to, and not interfere with the myriad of shortcuts already existing in OS X.
I was pretty partial to using the cmd+alt+ctrl+some key combo for a long time, and it works pretty well across the board. But, if you want something almost bulletproof, and seek to increase your geek cred all at one fell swoop, take a look at this blog post by Brett Terpstra, the guy behind nvAlt, among other things. It walks you through replacing your Caps Lock key with the combo cmd+alt+ctrl+shift, so you can do a 5-key combo (Caps Lock+some key) with 2 keys, which is awesome. This method gives you a whole keyboard worth of shortcuts not used by any app.
PS: Look at the comment section of the blog post to disable the esc functionality.
A: To find all the currently-assigned system shortcuts, open System Preferences -> Keyboard and select Keyboard Shortcuts. You can then scan through the options and see if the combination you like has been chosen. If it has, you can double-click the assignment and change it if you want, or just pick a different set of modifier keys. With Shift, Control, Option, Command, and Escape to choose from, finding an easy-to-remember and sensible combination shouldn't be too hard.
A: Any application can use any keyboard shortcut. If the application isn't a windowed application, then the developers need to ensure that they're not conflicting with existing system shortcuts. For example, you don't want a faceless app using, say, Cmd+Shift+G, which is the Go To Folder command in Finder. (And I think that the system would override such usage anyway.)
I tend to use multiple modifier keys when creating custom shortcuts for anything that might conflict with the system. Within specific apps, you just need to find shortcuts that the app doesn't use. And System Preferences will tell you if there is a conflict.
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02773296baeda1e1d12da5734f153fca4618a4df | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone default Bluetooth music app How does my iPhone choose which music app to start when I pair with the Bluetooth unit in my car? I'd like it to automatically start Spotify every time, but sometimes it starts playing from the Music app, even if I've used Spotify earlier that day.
A: I don't know if there would be a way to change the app that plays but maybe in your car's Bluetooth settings there may be an option for disabling auto play.
Not exactly what you're looking for but at least the same song from Music won't keep playing?
| Q: iPhone default Bluetooth music app How does my iPhone choose which music app to start when I pair with the Bluetooth unit in my car? I'd like it to automatically start Spotify every time, but sometimes it starts playing from the Music app, even if I've used Spotify earlier that day.
A: I don't know if there would be a way to change the app that plays but maybe in your car's Bluetooth settings there may be an option for disabling auto play.
Not exactly what you're looking for but at least the same song from Music won't keep playing?
A: Delete the iOS music app and then play a song with any other music app, such as Spotify. This other music app will now be the default music app that will be automatically started when you pair your iPhone with the Bluetooth unit in your car, even after restarting your iPhone. As stated in the original question, this will not always be the case if the iOS music app is installed on the iPhone.
This technique is also detailed in an answer to a similar question.
A: I always thought that it was the last app which was used to play audio which was chosen for playback when you connect to bluetooth, and my experience until now supports that.
But, we know that IOS can relentlessly kill apps running in background if there is a critical RAM (memory) bottleneck in the system.
Could it be the case that while you were browsing the web and doing other things, there has been a memory (RAM) bottleneck in the system and spotify was killed while it was in the background? If that was the case, when you connect to the bluetooth and the car stereo commanded iphone to play something, since Spotify was already dead, the phone probably defaulted to its own music player.
What model is your iphone? If it has a model which has less than 4GB of RAM, this case could be more probable, depending on what you have did on that couple of hours while browsing the web.
Next time when you experience that, I recommend taking your phone and trying to open Spotify. If spotify launches from the scratch (full screen spotify logo is shown while starting), that supports my thesis. If it just opens as you closed it before (i.e. no full screen spotify logo while starging the app), that means that it wasn't killed by IOS, and my thesis is wrong, so something else should be going on.
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e329811ade74389ef840c8576b60fb39a9970489 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable Magic Trackpad while typing? Is it possible to get the external Magic Trackpad disabled automatically while I'm typing?
I do get a lot of cursor movements/clicks when just touching the trackpad accidentally.
A: You could just goto your Bluetooth icon in the menu bar and disconnect it till you wish to start using it again, then goto said menu again and reconnect it.
| Q: How to disable Magic Trackpad while typing? Is it possible to get the external Magic Trackpad disabled automatically while I'm typing?
I do get a lot of cursor movements/clicks when just touching the trackpad accidentally.
A: You could just goto your Bluetooth icon in the menu bar and disconnect it till you wish to start using it again, then goto said menu again and reconnect it.
A: If you mean the built-in trackpad, then you cannot disable it. But you can disable it if you connect an external mouse to your Mac.
To do, just open System Preferences > Accessibility (or Universal Access) > Mouse & Trackpad > tick on Ignore built-in trackpad when mouse or wireless trackpad is present
You're done.
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1eb082b4a38dad3037d9a9683f76eb348b0fab4f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Silica Gel stuck in headphone jack I have an unusual problem: I have a small ball of silica gel stuck on my Macbook Air headphone jack.
Any ideas how I might get it out of my headphone jack?
A: My sister is with the exactly same problem! She got a silica gel ball stuck her ipod touch 4 jack.
I used a needle (sewing one) and "destroyed" the silica ball. Took a while, but it worked!
| Q: Silica Gel stuck in headphone jack I have an unusual problem: I have a small ball of silica gel stuck on my Macbook Air headphone jack.
Any ideas how I might get it out of my headphone jack?
A: My sister is with the exactly same problem! She got a silica gel ball stuck her ipod touch 4 jack.
I used a needle (sewing one) and "destroyed" the silica ball. Took a while, but it worked!
A: This is the number one foreign object I've seen stuck in iPod / iOS headphone jacks and just like getting coins and business cards and CD's out of a stuck optical drive slot, your best bet is to get it in the hands of a trained technician to remove.
Now, if you can't get to a technician you trust, you'll have to use some ingenuity to decide if you are able to dislodge it.
If the bead rattles around when you gently invert the device, it's very likely you could get it out by mechanical means (centripetal force as you swing your arm) or light suction or very carefully getting a lever past the sphere.
Unfortulately, most cases the bead gets firmly wedged at the bottom due to force from a headphone jack and the force needed to crush the sphere usually damages the thin metal contacts that are designed to hold the tip of your headphone jack in the port.
You may want to consider the repair options and cost of a new jack before deciding to force out a foreign body such as a silica bead.
Good luck, and hopefully this doesn't end up in a costly repair or replacement for you.
A: *
*Take toothpick
*Put a very small amount of cyanolite glue at the flat tip (bottom) of the toothpick (diameter of the glue bubble MUST be much smaller than the ball or the socket diameter itself otherwise you'll glue your socket)
*very precisely direct the flat tip of the toothpick toward the ball and stay still while it sets. (pay attention not to touch sides of socket, if you do, remove the toothpick. Don't smear: you can still scrape the dry glue with some metal blade later)
*Pull! :)
A: I used a safety pin bent out straight and scrapped the ball and repeatedly tapped my laptop on the side of the table until it came out. Took about 5 minutes.
When the ball came out, it was not round anymore which was probably why it was able to wiggle out.
A: My friends and I had the same problem, where it was VERY firmly stuck- we used a paper clip, smashed it into a million pieces, and then shook the pieces out normally. :) IT WORKS
A: While this method also has its downsides (you can damage the black plastic connector casing) IMHO it is still the least destructive way.
I had the same issue and extracted the ball with a heated needle:
*
*Take a confection iron-headed needle/pin.
*Take one single piece of a terminal strip and attach it to sharp the end of the pin. This will avoid getting your fingers burned.
*Stabilize the iPad under a strong light source.
*Heat up the pin with a cigarette lighter.
*Insert the needle gently into the bead.
*Wait until the needle has cooled down.
*Gently pull the needle out.
*Relax, breath and take your time.
Be careful. Worked for me. If possible, get some beads-experience first by trying out on some other beads.
A: This is simple and protects your phone jack as well.
Roll a small piece of paper about 1/2" long and enough to wrap around an earphone jack 1+ times. This makes a small round sleeve you can push in the opening all the way up to the silica bead. It surrounds it and limits the adhesive.
Take a round toothpick or a round coffee stirrer (best) that fits inside the paper sleve (the toothpick needs to be cut so the pointed end is cut off) and touch the tip of the coffee sirrer with hot glue (you want a viscous adhesive so it can't leak inside the jack) and insert it in the sleeve and allow to cool.
Other adhesives would work ... paper/wood glue with water in it would be ok, but hot glue is fast and has great adherence.
Then slide out the sleeve and whatever you push in the center of the sleeve.
Out, out damn bead! (Shakespeare reference)
I have used this MANY times as this occurs too frequently.
A: Had two silica beads stuck in my iPad earphone jack at the same time. What a pain! Took a paperclip end and scraped the beads up and down, taking care not to touch the earphone contacts. The sides turned to powder within 2-3 minutes allowing for each one to fall out. Wrapped the paperclip with paper towel and wiped the inside.
A: Consider trying this:
Unscrew a two-piece ball point pen. Set aside the top of the barrel, the ink cartridge, and the spring. Place the tip of bottom section in (or around) the obstructed jack. Now.. well.. suck. I expect you won't be able to generate near enough suction to cause damage.
Just take care that the silica gel ball doesn't turn out to be smaller in diameter than the aperture of the pen tip. Silica may be inert as far as your digestive system is concerned, but your lungs aren't nearly as forgiving when it comes to aspirating a foreign body, not even one of that small a size. Come to think of it, it's probably prudent to cover the end of the barrel you'll be placing in your mouth with a tissue or thin cloth, as any prior efforts to dislodge the ball may have left it in fragments the eye cannot discern.
A: Shutdown the system then use a needle with a double sided tape stuck to it.
Use this needle to get the silica gel out of the socket.
A: you can also try using a thumb tac to break the ball in half
A: Somehow I got a silica gel ball stuck in my Android Samsung Note 3's audio jack port. I was able to use a small flat head screwdriver (the kind you use on eye glasses) and smash the silica ball by hitting it directly a few times. It turned into dust and I used an air blower to get rid of the particles. Works like a charm now.
A: I had this problem, the bead was stuck pretty good... no rattling. Scraping it with a pin/spike was the way it finally came out (and pretty easily too). I tried using superglue before that, and it was just messy and ineffective.
A: I just went ahead and got aggressive and poked it with a small xbox controller torx screwdriver
It turned to powder and I can use my headphone jack as if nothing happened.
A: Try below trick. It works like a charm.
*
*Apply 'superglue' or cyanoacrylate at the thick end of toothpick.
*Insert that end into the headphone jack & take out the tooth pick.
That's it.
A: I used a straightened out paper clip to grind the bead into pieces. Took about 3 minutes. Bead fell out in little pieces. Working fine now.
A: I just succeded getting out silica bead from my earphone port. I just crush them with the tiny screwdriver carefully, and the bead just crush to little pieces..and easily clean the port by turning the port inside down, to let the fraction out
A: This happened to me on my old Lenovo laptop as well as a MBP. The bead was stuck quite deep, tried a pin to break it but no luck.
At the end my dad came to the rescue with a chisel shaped micro screwdriver. Just insert the screwdriver into the jack till it touches the silica bead. Gently apply some pressure and keep rotating the screwdriver till the bead breaks (took about 2-3 minutes). Please note, use a chisel shaped screwdriver. Should be available at any hardware store for around $2 - $5. Image
A: You can use USB audio port until the issue is fixed by chipping silicon.
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556c4dcebe90796eb2d6ec7acb19d36ab36fbb9e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to automatically open files downloaded from Safari? When I download mp4 files from Safari, I'd like them to open automatically once they have been downloaded. How can this be done?
Safari Preferences->General->Open "safe" files after downloading is checked.
I want to automatically open file that might not be "safe".
A: You can add a file extension to the list of "safe" extensions. Once that is done, safari will launch whatever application is associated with that file type.
This is done by creating the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist containing the file extension you want opened.
Here is an example, which solves the problem for .torrent files:
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com-PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>LSRiskCategorySafe</key>
<dict>
<key>LSRiskCategoryExtensions</key>
<array>
<string>torrent</string>
</array>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
More info here.
If the file exists already, edit it and add the <string>torrent</string> line under the <array>tag
| Q: How to automatically open files downloaded from Safari? When I download mp4 files from Safari, I'd like them to open automatically once they have been downloaded. How can this be done?
Safari Preferences->General->Open "safe" files after downloading is checked.
I want to automatically open file that might not be "safe".
A: You can add a file extension to the list of "safe" extensions. Once that is done, safari will launch whatever application is associated with that file type.
This is done by creating the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist containing the file extension you want opened.
Here is an example, which solves the problem for .torrent files:
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com-PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>LSRiskCategorySafe</key>
<dict>
<key>LSRiskCategoryExtensions</key>
<array>
<string>torrent</string>
</array>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
More info here.
If the file exists already, edit it and add the <string>torrent</string> line under the <array>tag
A: This answer will describe how not to get the following message when you open a file downloaded from Safari for the first time.
Well, I'm not sure why you're seeing this, but if your files are going to the ~/Download folder, you will have to tell the Operating System that you want that folder out of the quarantine.
Open your Terminal.app (Spotlight for Terminal) and type:
xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads
You might have to do it as super user (in which case, use this instead of the above), so if the above fails try with sudo before the command:
sudo xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads
note: You will be asked for your password if you use sudo, this is normal.
What is xattr?
The xattr command can be used to display, modify or remove the
extended
attributes of one or more files, including directories and symbolic
links. Extended attributes are arbitrary metadata stored with a file,
but separate from the filesystem attributes (such as modification time or
file size).
WARNING: By doing the above, the OS will stop caring about files put in the Downloads folder. If you want to only do this for certain files, you will have to download your "safe" files elsewhere and execute the above command in that folder.
If you want to undo the operation, simply remove the -d
xattr -r com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads
The -r is to make it recursive (so existing files and folders are also modified).
UPDATE I've realized that new files will be put in quarantine when you download them, so although the above command will go file by file and remove the flag, so you don't have to tell the OS that the file is safe every time, in order to completely disable the mechanism, you have to execute an extra command. please make sure that this is ok with you, since you can't do this for single files, it's an all or nothing.
To Disable the warning dialogs completely for any files in the future, execute this command (Again, I'm not 100% sure if you need sudo, just try without it first.:
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO
And if you ever want to revert the change:
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool YES
I can't recall if you need to logoff/logon again or reboot.
Good luck and be careful with those downloads. :)
A restart IS required after these commands.
Link attached for further reading on the Quarantine.
A: One way is to use Hazel. I tried using it and it worked smoothly. However, Hazel isn't free ($25).
The second solution is to use Automator which is part of Mac OS X.
However, using Automator didn't quite work. Some of the mp4 files did open, but for unknown reason some didn't.
Also I'm not sure if Automator has to open the files as soon as they are downloaded, or there is a time frame which it could take to open them. Maybe some one more experiences with Automator could elaborate on this.
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dcb14a768dc3834ddb21c77e0efe75da1e076cbd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where is the New Oxford American Dictionary stored? I'm trying to build a command line tool to look up definitions of words, it's only a dummy app for me to practise my C++ skills.
I know there is a list of words stored at /usr/share/dict - but what I'm really looking for is the path to the New Oxford American Dictionary data, it comes bundled with the system, but I couldn't find it yet.
A: The dictionaries are stored in...
/Library/Dictionaries
~/Library/Dictionaries
| Q: Where is the New Oxford American Dictionary stored? I'm trying to build a command line tool to look up definitions of words, it's only a dummy app for me to practise my C++ skills.
I know there is a list of words stored at /usr/share/dict - but what I'm really looking for is the path to the New Oxford American Dictionary data, it comes bundled with the system, but I couldn't find it yet.
A: The dictionaries are stored in...
/Library/Dictionaries
~/Library/Dictionaries
A: In 10.14 (and possibly earlier), the dictionaries have moved to
/System/Library/Assets/com_apple_MobileAsset_DictionaryServices_dictionaryOSX/
There is one .asset directory for each downloaded dictionary; for example, my American English dictionary is located at: /System/Library/Assets/com_apple_MobileAsset_DictionaryServices_dictionaryOSX/69b7ab1cf0f75ad16bf6662b0a77fbfd36b7941f.asset/AssetData/New\ Oxford\ American\ Dictionary.dictionary.
UPDATE
In macOS 11.5, it seems to be a slightly different path:
/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_DictionaryServices_dictionaryOSX
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823a3e6fa28ba726aa42c71cf7a81c4f87ef469d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iTerm ZSH - Missing Right Prompt I'm using oh-my-zsh and iTerm2. I've also enabled the zsh-vim-mode plugin from oh-my-zsh. One of the annoyances I've encountered is my right prompt (RPS1 & RPROMPT) doesn't seem to show up. I'd like it to indicate what vim mode I'm currently in.
I'm using the robbyrussel theme. It seems my $RPS1 variable is set. I'm wondering if there's a configuration option I'm missing.
I'm running 10.7.
Same issue in 10.8.
A: Try wrapping your RPROMPT in single quotes. I've seen double quotes cause issues for others with their prompts before.
I would also ditch the precmd > setprompt process for the moment and just set RPROMPT directly to simplify for testing. Start with something like
precmd() {
...
}
PROMPT=$'\n$(rb_prompt) in $(directory_name) $(git_dirty)$(need_push)\n› '
RPROMPT='%{$fg_bold[cyan]%}$(todo)%{$reset_color%}'
and refine from there.
| Q: iTerm ZSH - Missing Right Prompt I'm using oh-my-zsh and iTerm2. I've also enabled the zsh-vim-mode plugin from oh-my-zsh. One of the annoyances I've encountered is my right prompt (RPS1 & RPROMPT) doesn't seem to show up. I'd like it to indicate what vim mode I'm currently in.
I'm using the robbyrussel theme. It seems my $RPS1 variable is set. I'm wondering if there's a configuration option I'm missing.
I'm running 10.7.
Same issue in 10.8.
A: Try wrapping your RPROMPT in single quotes. I've seen double quotes cause issues for others with their prompts before.
I would also ditch the precmd > setprompt process for the moment and just set RPROMPT directly to simplify for testing. Start with something like
precmd() {
...
}
PROMPT=$'\n$(rb_prompt) in $(directory_name) $(git_dirty)$(need_push)\n› '
RPROMPT='%{$fg_bold[cyan]%}$(todo)%{$reset_color%}'
and refine from there.
A: After investigating - I found a few things that fixed this:
*
*I had some oh-my-zsh plugins that were setting RPS1 instead of RPROMPT - it seems that setting both caused neither to be shown.
*Setting RPROMPT in precmd also caused it to disappear.
A: Make sure that $RPS1 or $RPROMPT is not defined in one of your plugins. For example, the plugin vi-mode defines $RPS1 inside an if statement. To test, disable ALL plugins inside your .zshrc and see if that fixes things.
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81f47ddb0c5fa201b948180a423ed87017d0f147 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to open .packproj files? I am unable to run an installer with .packproj extension. I am unable to find anything via Web search.
Can these files be handled natively by macOS? How do I install a package with this extension?
A: .packproj-files were files used by developers in the process of application development for OS X 10.2. They contain xml-strings – try editing the file in TextEdit or TextWrangler, you should see an XML-structure, or see this example.
It can't really be run alone, it's used to tell packaging applications how to pack the application into a real application.
To put it short, it can be used with the application Iceberg:
(.packproj): Creates a project file for use with Iceberg. This allows you to use Iceberg to edit package options before creating the actual package.
Do note that this is ancient code, and may not work (supposed to work from OS X 10.2 and up).
| Q: How to open .packproj files? I am unable to run an installer with .packproj extension. I am unable to find anything via Web search.
Can these files be handled natively by macOS? How do I install a package with this extension?
A: .packproj-files were files used by developers in the process of application development for OS X 10.2. They contain xml-strings – try editing the file in TextEdit or TextWrangler, you should see an XML-structure, or see this example.
It can't really be run alone, it's used to tell packaging applications how to pack the application into a real application.
To put it short, it can be used with the application Iceberg:
(.packproj): Creates a project file for use with Iceberg. This allows you to use Iceberg to edit package options before creating the actual package.
Do note that this is ancient code, and may not work (supposed to work from OS X 10.2 and up).
A: There is also the Packages tool.
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854818626b49fd60d35841ce40452c73f6de75d6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I restart an iPhone 4S with a broken lock button and frozen springboard? My springboard has frozen and the lock button is broken (two months out of warranty and it's not classed as a hardware failure).
How do I restart the phone given that I can't access any apps or settings?
Waiting for the battery to drain will take days, so that's not an option. Is there a way through iTunes to force a reboot or is there a program I can download to force a reboot?
A: Enable AssistiveTouch: Tap Settings, General, Accessibility, AssistiveTouch (near the bottom) and tap AssistiveTouch to ON.
You will now notice a small dark square with a circle in the middle (you can move this square anywhere). Tap the dark circle to open the AssistiveTouch menu, then tap Device and tap and hold the Lock Screen icon. This will bring up the iPhone's Power-Off slider - no need for a power button any longer!
I saw this when I was trying to figure out how to turn my phone off and it works!
| Q: How can I restart an iPhone 4S with a broken lock button and frozen springboard? My springboard has frozen and the lock button is broken (two months out of warranty and it's not classed as a hardware failure).
How do I restart the phone given that I can't access any apps or settings?
Waiting for the battery to drain will take days, so that's not an option. Is there a way through iTunes to force a reboot or is there a program I can download to force a reboot?
A: Enable AssistiveTouch: Tap Settings, General, Accessibility, AssistiveTouch (near the bottom) and tap AssistiveTouch to ON.
You will now notice a small dark square with a circle in the middle (you can move this square anywhere). Tap the dark circle to open the AssistiveTouch menu, then tap Device and tap and hold the Lock Screen icon. This will bring up the iPhone's Power-Off slider - no need for a power button any longer!
I saw this when I was trying to figure out how to turn my phone off and it works!
A: If you push the lock button (even though it doesn't work) against a hard surface (I used a counter) and hold home button the phone will reset.
A: *
*Download and install Reiboot.
*Connect your iPhone to your Mac.
*Run Reiboot on your Mac.
*It will detect your iPhone. Press Enter recovery mode button, and wait for it to take action.
*Press Exit recovery mode, and it'll exit recovery mode, rebooting your iPhone. Your phone will come back on after the reboot.
A: If you're lucky, you have enabled fast-switching to Assistive touch. Try triple-clicking the Home-button. If there's an option called Assistive Touch popping up, click it and you'll find where you can put it to sleep or power off by holding the lock screen button.
If not, there isn't really any other option. You could try these tips I got at Apple Support Disscussion:
You can squeeze (pinch) the Power Button top corner front glass to the back case while pushing the Power Button and the Power Button will usually function.
If you have jailbroken your iPhone and by chance enabled SSH, you could connect to it and reboot it from there, following this guide.
Barring that, you could run a game or other CPU intensive application like mapping to accelerate the battery drain and get the device to power itself off.
A: Go to settings general then accessibility. Turn bold text on and it will reboot your iPhone and fix a springboard crash. I was having the same problem and lucked out and found this!
A: The best way to eat the battery is press the Home button until voice option is on and put the music on until it empties the battery.
When iPhone is plugged in when the battery has depleted, it will turn on automatically.
A: Wait until the battery drains, and then plug into power adapter to turn it on. Otherwise, reset to factory settings from iTunes if you already had a backup previously.
A: I stuck it in the freezer for awhile. Makes the battery on my die rather quickly.
A: or gust press the home button and the power / lock button the same time until it reload.
its easy guys!
A: You can open your iphone, remove your battery and just plug it on again and then connect the usb charger cable and voila, done!
You can see the instructions to remove the battery and plugit in again here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYvjuWg06l4
A: My phone has the same problem. I looked it up, and it just said let it die out. So just let it die.
A: Remove the 2 screws next to the charging port and slide the back off. Carefully pry the battery clip out and your phone will shut off. Plug it back in and your phone will turn on again. NOTE: you can damage your phone if this isn't done correctly. Be careful!
A: I read that if you let the battery die it will be forced to turn off and if you plug it in and let it charge it wont be frozen
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8c61e275f8c7deb3f00f343e43d0893b28d08d38 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can photos taken with my iPhone (and Apple ID) stream to my husband's iPad (and Apple ID)? My husband and I have different Apple ID and iCloud photo stream.
When I take photos on my iPhone, registered to my Apple ID, can I have them automatically uploaded to my husband's iPad 2 registered to his Apple ID?
A: You could share a photo stream with him. Here's a youtube tutorial on how to set it up.
| Q: Can photos taken with my iPhone (and Apple ID) stream to my husband's iPad (and Apple ID)? My husband and I have different Apple ID and iCloud photo stream.
When I take photos on my iPhone, registered to my Apple ID, can I have them automatically uploaded to my husband's iPad 2 registered to his Apple ID?
A: You could share a photo stream with him. Here's a youtube tutorial on how to set it up.
A: Apple's solution isn't actually the easiest for this.
Yes, you could share Photo Streams, but you have to push each picture you take to the shared stream. At that point, everyone that subscribes gets all the pictures you have pushed, but you are on the hook to push each picture since you can't just turn on every picture and have them all go to the share.
I would recommend looking into dropbox which is designed to pull all photos and videos taken and place them in the cloud.
Both you and your husband could start with the same dropbox account - and if you didn't want to see his pictures, you could make two dropbox accounts and share your picture folder with his account and he would get all your pictures but you wouldn't get his.
Either way, once you had set up the app and the account(s), you have only to open the dropbox app on your device once you've taken one/multiple pictures and they will start pushing to your private shared storage on Dropbox for your husband to see and use.
A: Here is a video about sharing photos on the iPhone.
http://youtu.be/r6EN0Uo2xtg
A: No not automatically.
You could share Photo Streams, but you have to push each picture you take to the shared stream...every single time you want to share...without exception.
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a8a3748a96995d8b9b599948c3fe06e1f2e3f7e9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there any way to crack a password-protected disk image? I have created a .dmg file with password. Unfortunately I forgot the password and I my Google searches have not resulted in a way to reset the password of this .dmg file.
Please help me find a solution. I desperately need to access the contents of this .dmg file.
A: An article written by someone else who did that:
http://blog.whitehatsec.com/cracking-aes-256-dmgs-and-epic-self-pwnage/
The author did get his cracked, but had to borrow a supercomputer to do so even after he got custom software designed to use partial knowledge of the password he had chosen.
It shows how hard a general cracking effort would be, but also how choosing a short or known pass phrase makes it practical in some cases to hire an expert to bypass even a good solid encryption scheme.
| Q: Is there any way to crack a password-protected disk image? I have created a .dmg file with password. Unfortunately I forgot the password and I my Google searches have not resulted in a way to reset the password of this .dmg file.
Please help me find a solution. I desperately need to access the contents of this .dmg file.
A: An article written by someone else who did that:
http://blog.whitehatsec.com/cracking-aes-256-dmgs-and-epic-self-pwnage/
The author did get his cracked, but had to borrow a supercomputer to do so even after he got custom software designed to use partial knowledge of the password he had chosen.
It shows how hard a general cracking effort would be, but also how choosing a short or known pass phrase makes it practical in some cases to hire an expert to bypass even a good solid encryption scheme.
A: Because the files are encrypted using AES, it'll take a really really really REALLY long time to crack the password if your password isn't in the dictionaries, so it's safe to assume your files are gone forever.
However, applications such as Spartan will attempt to crack DMGs if you really want the files inside.
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cddb8f25631663d4446b307d2b289a093e45d189 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Right-click context menu not consistently "sticky" I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on a 2008 MBP.
The right-click on my mousepad activates the context menu. A single right-click displays the menu, and it stays visible until I make a selection or click away from the menu.
For the last several months the right-click is no longer consistently "sticky." I.e., the context menu will disappear unless I click and hold. This is a hassle because it means a more complicated multi-touch manipulation of the mousepad.
I've scoured this forum as well as Google without finding an answer. All help is greatly appreciated.
| Q: Right-click context menu not consistently "sticky" I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on a 2008 MBP.
The right-click on my mousepad activates the context menu. A single right-click displays the menu, and it stays visible until I make a selection or click away from the menu.
For the last several months the right-click is no longer consistently "sticky." I.e., the context menu will disappear unless I click and hold. This is a hassle because it means a more complicated multi-touch manipulation of the mousepad.
I've scoured this forum as well as Google without finding an answer. All help is greatly appreciated.
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81f018e8555f2f56d71f7a2bba54f78051bc9cfa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Changing app stores I have an iPhone 4S and I changed to the US store to view an app not available in the SA store. Now I cannot change back to the SA store. The message comes up that I need to change with no directions on how to do this.
How can I change stores?
A: this Apple support page would be a place to start.
In the Settings app:
*
*tap Store in the sidebar
*tap your Apple ID on the right
*tap View Apple ID
*enter password if required
*tap Country/Region
You will need a valid payment method on file for the country you're changing to, which I assume you already have.
| Q: Changing app stores I have an iPhone 4S and I changed to the US store to view an app not available in the SA store. Now I cannot change back to the SA store. The message comes up that I need to change with no directions on how to do this.
How can I change stores?
A: this Apple support page would be a place to start.
In the Settings app:
*
*tap Store in the sidebar
*tap your Apple ID on the right
*tap View Apple ID
*enter password if required
*tap Country/Region
You will need a valid payment method on file for the country you're changing to, which I assume you already have.
A: It's worth noting that changing stores and changing AppleID country are two distinct things.
If you changed stores just to look at another App, but didn't actually change your AppleID country to buy something in this new store, then you can revert to your original store by just trying to upgrade an App that you had installed from this original store. You should then be asked if you want to change stores again. This is the behaviour with IOS 11 at least.
You can switch stores to just look at Apps available there, but you'll not be able to install or purchase anything from it unless you also convert your AppleID account.
A: I've created an app to change the App Store Country with just a click.
Here you can find the app: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/app-store-country-changer-aso-hack
I only need to switch the country for my ASO strategy.
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3cb8fa8b22b61267b061ab05ab42cb29380fd1d6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac App Store update stuck (Installing - Calculating...) I opened GarageBand for the first time, to find that most of the loops required me to download the Apple Loops from Software Update. I agreed to this.
The App Store opened and gave me the option to install the update from Updates - I clicked Install and waited for the download to complete. It did, and then the installation began.
About half an hour later, the update is stuck on (Installing - Calculating...) This doesn't seem normal - the last time I installed the Loops, they were done in about ten minutes.
Force quitting and re-opening the App Store doesn't help, nor does a reboot. When I open the App Store, the update is still at the same process.
Is there anything that I could do to get the update to finish installing?
Here is a screenshot of the App Store in this state:
A: Try deleting the cache located here:
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/
And the prefrences plist, here:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist
And start the application again. It should have flushed whatever updates that got stuck.
| Q: Mac App Store update stuck (Installing - Calculating...) I opened GarageBand for the first time, to find that most of the loops required me to download the Apple Loops from Software Update. I agreed to this.
The App Store opened and gave me the option to install the update from Updates - I clicked Install and waited for the download to complete. It did, and then the installation began.
About half an hour later, the update is stuck on (Installing - Calculating...) This doesn't seem normal - the last time I installed the Loops, they were done in about ten minutes.
Force quitting and re-opening the App Store doesn't help, nor does a reboot. When I open the App Store, the update is still at the same process.
Is there anything that I could do to get the update to finish installing?
Here is a screenshot of the App Store in this state:
A: Try deleting the cache located here:
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/
And the prefrences plist, here:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist
And start the application again. It should have flushed whatever updates that got stuck.
A: This happened to me after updating to the Developer beta of macOS Sierra.
For me, the following solution helped.
Delete the downloaded updates:
sudo rm /Library/Updates
Kill the software update daemon:
sudo killall -9 softwareupdated
An additional note to analyze AppStore / softwareupdate problems is probably using the Console app or tail to have a look at /var/log/install.log.
A: I have encountered this issue a couple of times, lastly while trying to install Microsoft Word from the Apple Mac Store. The following steps solved the problem for me:
*
*Close the Apple Mac Store COMPLETELY.
*Wipe the contents of the App Store cache folders. To do so, enter the following in your command line:
sudo rm -R $TMPDIR../C/com.apple.appstore/*
sudo rm -R ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.appstore/*
sudo rm -R /Library/Updates/*
*Kill all the processes shown in the Activity Monitor being listed when searching for ‘store’:
*Delete your App Store Preferences and Cookies:
sudo rm -R ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.appstore.plist
sudo rm -R ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.storeagent.plist
sudo rm -R ~/Library/Cookies/com.apple.appstore.binarycookies
And that's it, just start your App Store normally, and retry to install your app.
P.D.: A reboot may be needed.
P.D.: Don't freak out if the RMs say these files/folders do NOT exist and therefore they can't be deleted, you just are where you wanted to be already
P.D.: I know, I know, some of these commands do not need SUDO rights, but it doesn't hurt to using them either
A: Related to Emil's answer, I just wanted to add that I had a similar problem updating xcode. Simply clearing the cache and restarting App Store worked for me.
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/
A: In an act of desperation, I managed to fix the issue by:
*
*Deleting /Library/Updates
*Doing
sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist RecommendedUpdates
sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist DidRegisterLocalUpdates
in a Terminal session
*Restarting the Mac
The update is re-downloading now.
Interestingly, before I tested these steps, I found the update ready to install in /Library/Updates, however when I tried to install the PKG file, Installer claimed that another installation needed to finish (?). Deleting it and restarting fixed the problem.
A: Had a very similar problem to this - updates stuck on the 'Checking for Updates' spinning icon. Reboot failed to fix problem.
Because I am a newbie, much of what was said above seemed difficult, so I thought I'd just try the one thing I could actually find on my machine, which was to delete:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.pIist.plist
This step alone seemed to fix things for me.
A: I had this problem and I quit the App Store, used Activity Monitor to kill the softwareupdated process, then restarted the App Store and I was able to download again.
A: just go to store option and click on reload page
A: An additional note to analyze App Store / software update problems is probably using the Console app or tail to have a look at
/var/log/install.log
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a331bb7ac82247a5dc59431bc8f95b42da9d8c58 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a good SQL Diagram Editor/Drawing Mac App Tool? Does anyone know a comprehensive Mac app to create SQL Diagramms?
I think http://ondras.zarovi.cz/sql/demo/ is quite good, but it's a little bit too basic.
I would like to create the database schema, the relations between the tables (including labels for e.g. n:m relations), add comments, export to SQL, and so on to run from my Mac.
A: The only Mac only tool I know (and I would love to hear of others here) is SQLEditor. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any support for Stored Procedures or other objects beyond tables and views.
There are also cross-platform solutions (mostly Java-based). In a recent search I evaluated DBWrench and DBVisualizer. When all was said and done, I decided to stay with a Windows solution running under Parallels.
| Q: Is there a good SQL Diagram Editor/Drawing Mac App Tool? Does anyone know a comprehensive Mac app to create SQL Diagramms?
I think http://ondras.zarovi.cz/sql/demo/ is quite good, but it's a little bit too basic.
I would like to create the database schema, the relations between the tables (including labels for e.g. n:m relations), add comments, export to SQL, and so on to run from my Mac.
A: The only Mac only tool I know (and I would love to hear of others here) is SQLEditor. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any support for Stored Procedures or other objects beyond tables and views.
There are also cross-platform solutions (mostly Java-based). In a recent search I evaluated DBWrench and DBVisualizer. When all was said and done, I decided to stay with a Windows solution running under Parallels.
A: MySQL Workbench is great, though I found that in a lot of cases OmniGraffle works wonderful, especially if you're not so much into "doing it painfully correct according to theory learnt at university" but rather getting the job done.
A: You might want to check out the Navicat line of products. I use Navicat Premium and it's a really great all-in-one tool for many DBs, including MySQL, Postgres, SQLITE, Oracle, and MS SQL Server. It includes a Model tab where you can view and edit existing DBs or create de novo ones, sketch everything out, define relationships, export SQL, have access to an auto-layout function, and all sorts of other goodies.
There are several versions stepping up to the Premium product, including a separate Data Modeler program, so you'll have to browse around to see what fits your needs. It will set you back a little bit of cash, depending on the version, but you can download a 30-day free trial to make sure it's what you need.
I hope this helps!
A: The free SQL tool of choice for me is SQuirreLSQL. It is a Java application, but very responsive, and you can install both DB drivers and plugins from it, and one of them allows for reverse-engineering and diagramming databases.
Aqua Data Studio runs on Mac OS X as a mixed Cocoa/Java application, with native performance, and includes Entity-Relationship modeling capabilities.
A: I also use Vertabelo and I can recommend it, too. It is 100% web-based. You can work on your models either in Chrome, or in Safari (the support for Safari browser was added a few month ago). Vertabelo's graphical tools for designing database models are simply amazing! Simple and intuitive, and yet very comprehensive and professional. There's no desktop license, no downloads and no installation. You can work remotely from any computer connected to the web. If you would like to get to know how Vertabelo works, you can try it without any registration: https://my.vertabelo.com/try
A: DBSchema is also awesome. Best thing is that you can do reverse engineering as well as modeling together at once. After you change the diagram, you change the database; you can import those changes back in the diagram.
The only flaw is ordering of column names in the diagrams - that do not necessarily match with the ordinality of the column names in the real database if you do so.
I would rate it to be one of the super nice applications.
A: MySQL Workbench is good enough for most programming demands. You can create EER Model and can also synchronize the model with DB Changes or vice versa. You can use it with no cost as it's a open-source application. I have been using MySQL for a year and it is very useful for me. I recommend it to you if you don't need any enterprise features and performance.
A: Check out http://www.yworks.com/en/index.html, might not be what you are looking for but it has ER modelling and others...
A: I recommend Vertabelo. Vertabelo is an online database designer working under Chrome developed by company I work for.
The most important feature of this tool is that it allow to share database models across the team and collaborate on them via web browser.
Others Vertabelo features include:
*
*Model versioning
*Support for PosgreSql, MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, SQLite, HSQLDB
*Dynamic/Visual search
*Live database model validation
*Reverse engineering
Vertabelo is free to use for smaller projects (up to 3 models and 20 tables within each model) and have commercial versions for larger database projects.
A: My preferred tool for modeling in OS X, is Visual Paradigm (VP-UML). They have a free community edition, which is great for creating ERD - but if you want to generate the DDL from your ERD, you'll need to purchase the standard edition.
It's also cross-platform, so that's another boon.
A: DBeaver, which is open source, does a good job of making ER diagrams and can connect to just about every database backend. It’s also a decent database viewer/editor.
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db6daeabfea47725e07ff9777017598a65ade4dd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can you send a message across the network? There used to be the ability, perhaps before OS X, to send messages accross the local network, which displayed a popup on the receivers machine with the message. Is this still possible? Or is there another way to send a message to another member of the network?
If this isn't possible, could a text file be sent, with a message, to a recipients Public folder?
Preferably with the terminal.
(I realise there are lots of aps which do messaging, but I was curious if this was possible without installing software or setting up iChat etc)
A: According to this metafilter post you can send a message using Applescript (pre-installed on every Mac) and Growl (old version is freely available).
The relevant part is quoted hereunder.
tell application "GrowlHelperApp" of machine "eppc://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
register as application "myapp" all notifications {"message"} default notifications {"message"}
notify with name "message" title "title" description "description" application name "myapp"
end tell
Here xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx should be substituted by the IP address of the sender.
| Q: Can you send a message across the network? There used to be the ability, perhaps before OS X, to send messages accross the local network, which displayed a popup on the receivers machine with the message. Is this still possible? Or is there another way to send a message to another member of the network?
If this isn't possible, could a text file be sent, with a message, to a recipients Public folder?
Preferably with the terminal.
(I realise there are lots of aps which do messaging, but I was curious if this was possible without installing software or setting up iChat etc)
A: According to this metafilter post you can send a message using Applescript (pre-installed on every Mac) and Growl (old version is freely available).
The relevant part is quoted hereunder.
tell application "GrowlHelperApp" of machine "eppc://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
register as application "myapp" all notifications {"message"} default notifications {"message"}
notify with name "message" title "title" description "description" application name "myapp"
end tell
Here xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx should be substituted by the IP address of the sender.
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c8b1e89b87296b33939018a3625b80cf3cba205b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: My cursor on my Macbook Pro has a box around it that enlarges everything One day I was surfing the web when suddenly a large clear square appeared around my cursor!
I honestly don't know what to do about it, but it seems like there could be a simple fix.
You can see in the picture below what the box around my cursor looks like compared to the normal screen.
Is there something I can reset or do to clear the box that encircles my cursor?
A: Could this be the Zoom accessibility feature?
It can be toggled with Alt-Command-8.
Also see System Preferences => Accessibility => Zoom for more details and options.
| Q: My cursor on my Macbook Pro has a box around it that enlarges everything One day I was surfing the web when suddenly a large clear square appeared around my cursor!
I honestly don't know what to do about it, but it seems like there could be a simple fix.
You can see in the picture below what the box around my cursor looks like compared to the normal screen.
Is there something I can reset or do to clear the box that encircles my cursor?
A: Could this be the Zoom accessibility feature?
It can be toggled with Alt-Command-8.
Also see System Preferences => Accessibility => Zoom for more details and options.
A: I just had this problem. I tried everything in Accessibility but I just couldn't figure it out. I was going to give up, but discovered I was leaving out one step.
This is what I did and it worked!!
Go to System Preferences => Accessibility => Zoom. Scroll down to Zoom style: You will see two frames. The first one has two options 1) Full screen or 2) Picture in picture. Next to that should be another frame showing OPTIONS. Click on Options. It will show a checklist. The first one is Show Preview rectangle when zoomed out. Deselect it. I did all the steps above and Poof, the rectangle disappeared. Good luck.
A: As Thilo said it is probably an accessibility feature, to expand a bit go to accessibility in system preferences, select zoom, towards the bottom is zoom style, make sure it is set to full screen not picture-in-a-picture.
A: Go to system preferences-accessability-zoom tab-and make sure you uncheck the box "use keyboard shortcuts to zoom" thats what worked for me.
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70783ee97f9781a1e52a00a4a1b15d4ce672f24a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Display protocol in Safari address bar Currently Safari shows the url of the open page without mentioning the protocol:
apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask
Is there a way to have Safari show the protocol in the address bar:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask
A: You can temporarily display the protocol by activating the address bar with ⌘ Cmd-L and copy-pasting the current URL back to the address bar with ⌘ Cmd-C, ⌘ Cmd-V.
The protocol will, however, disappear again as soon as you load a new page by following a link on the page or pressing Enter in the address bar.
| Q: Display protocol in Safari address bar Currently Safari shows the url of the open page without mentioning the protocol:
apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask
Is there a way to have Safari show the protocol in the address bar:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask
A: You can temporarily display the protocol by activating the address bar with ⌘ Cmd-L and copy-pasting the current URL back to the address bar with ⌘ Cmd-C, ⌘ Cmd-V.
The protocol will, however, disappear again as soon as you load a new page by following a link on the page or pressing Enter in the address bar.
A: Normally settings like these that aren't in the UI are sometimes available to change with the defaults command in the Terminal app. (this won't work on iOS AFAIK).
Unfortunately though, it doesn't appear there is any setting for this:
teak:~ mhp$ defaults read com.apple.Safari | grep -i protocol
teak:~ mhp$ defaults read com.apple.Safari | grep -i url
DidMigrateToMoreRestrictiveFileURLPolicy = 1;
teak:~ mhp$ defaults read com.apple.Safari | grep -i address
teak:~ mhp$ defaults read com.apple.Safari | grep -i http
I also looked through all the settings that other people have posted on the net and found no options.
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501deef37552897b2426139770cc60809f3195aa | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Need more pseudo terminals I'm running tmux and creating many sessions to various servers. After opening 128, I can no longer open new ones, or open new tabs in Terminal. The error messages is:
forkpty: Device not configured
Could not create a new process and open a pseudo-tty.
Is there any way I can increase the number of ptys?
A: (Tested on OS X 10.8.2; other releases may be slightly different.)
You can change the system’s limit on ptys with the sysctl command.
sudo sysctl -w kern.tty.ptmx_max=255
This should immediately let you open more ptys.
To set this automatically after each reboot, put the following line in the /etc/sysctl.conf file:
kern.tty.ptmx_max=255
(Note: I did not try this, but, from a look at the source code, it looks like launchd does process this file.)
This file may not exist; if you have to create it, you should probably be sure it has restricted ownership and permissions:
sudo chown root:wheel /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo chmod 644 /etc/sysctl.conf
Eventually, you may run into some other per-process or per-user resource limits (e.g. total number of processes per user, and total number of open file descriptors per process).
| Q: Need more pseudo terminals I'm running tmux and creating many sessions to various servers. After opening 128, I can no longer open new ones, or open new tabs in Terminal. The error messages is:
forkpty: Device not configured
Could not create a new process and open a pseudo-tty.
Is there any way I can increase the number of ptys?
A: (Tested on OS X 10.8.2; other releases may be slightly different.)
You can change the system’s limit on ptys with the sysctl command.
sudo sysctl -w kern.tty.ptmx_max=255
This should immediately let you open more ptys.
To set this automatically after each reboot, put the following line in the /etc/sysctl.conf file:
kern.tty.ptmx_max=255
(Note: I did not try this, but, from a look at the source code, it looks like launchd does process this file.)
This file may not exist; if you have to create it, you should probably be sure it has restricted ownership and permissions:
sudo chown root:wheel /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo chmod 644 /etc/sysctl.conf
Eventually, you may run into some other per-process or per-user resource limits (e.g. total number of processes per user, and total number of open file descriptors per process).
A: I had new terminal windows failing with
[forkpty: Too many open files]
[Could not create a new process and open a pseudo-tty.]
even though I had kern.tty.ptmx_max: 511 (the default setting for my computer running Catalina with 64 GiB memory). I also had kern.maxfilesperproc: 98304 so I knew it was not that limit, either.
I thought it might be ulimit since ulimit -n was 256, but discounted that because lsof -c Terminal | wc was 315, well over 256. Turns out it was ulimit but lsof lists more files than ulimit limits. I will skip the explanation, but what you want to look at is
lsof -X -c Terminal | wc
The -X limits lsof to showing just file descriptors, which what ulimit limits. That was 257 (the 256 limit, plus a header line in the lsof output).
So, in addition to the 2 sysctl settings, I needed to adjust the default ulimit with launchctl. That turns out to be harder than you would expect.
The command to use to view the ulimit soft and hard limits on the number of open files is launchctl limit maxfiles which on my computer output
maxfiles 256 unlimited
The command to change the limits is launchctl limit maxfiles <softlimit> <hardlimit> but you cannot set the hard limit to "unlimited" because the kernel converts "unlimited" to 10240. If you leave out the hard limit, it is set to the same as the soft limit, which is even worse. So what I did was use the value from sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc as the hard limit. I ran
sudo launchctl limit maxfiles 1001 98304
Well, that took care of ulimit, but unfortunately, it also reset the kernel parameters:
kern.maxfiles: 98304
kern.maxfilesperproc: 1001
which is definitely not what I wanted. I wanted the soft limit to change the default ulimit and the hard limit to change kern.maxfilesperproc but instead the soft limit changed kern.maxfilesperproc and the hard limit changed kern.maxfiles. So I ran it again, restoring the previous values from the kernel
sudo launchctl limit maxfiles 98304 196608
This sets the ulimit way too high, but I think that is better than setting the kernel limit too low.
These changes also do not persist after reboot. To get them to persist, now that /etc/launchd.conf no longer works, consider these solutions for persisting a single setting or restoring the launchd.conf behavior.
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9b0448e675d34fef672411d0a2505cac8a361973 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I modify an existing FAT partition without losing its data? I have a 1tb hard drive. Long a go I split it it into two partitions.
One I left as a Mac OS extended (journaled) with 990GB and one as FAT with 10GB. Now I would like to add about 100GB to the FAT partition.
I am using the Disk Utility but now it says "this partition can't be modified" (for both partitions). Is there a way to shrink one and expand the other?
A: Disk Utility doesn't resize FAT or ExFAT partitions on the fly, so you will need to take that drive to a Windows or UNIX computer or use another tool to resize FAT.
If you only have Disk Utility, I would create a dmg of the FAT partition and save it to the main partition.
Then you could delete the FAT partition, resize the HFS partition and recreate the new FAT section to your preference.
At that point you would choose the restore tab to place the contents from the disk image (.dmg file) onto the properly sized, but empty FAT volume.
| Q: How can I modify an existing FAT partition without losing its data? I have a 1tb hard drive. Long a go I split it it into two partitions.
One I left as a Mac OS extended (journaled) with 990GB and one as FAT with 10GB. Now I would like to add about 100GB to the FAT partition.
I am using the Disk Utility but now it says "this partition can't be modified" (for both partitions). Is there a way to shrink one and expand the other?
A: Disk Utility doesn't resize FAT or ExFAT partitions on the fly, so you will need to take that drive to a Windows or UNIX computer or use another tool to resize FAT.
If you only have Disk Utility, I would create a dmg of the FAT partition and save it to the main partition.
Then you could delete the FAT partition, resize the HFS partition and recreate the new FAT section to your preference.
At that point you would choose the restore tab to place the contents from the disk image (.dmg file) onto the properly sized, but empty FAT volume.
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ce2ad1cd9bfed265cd823a40f52f506dde512cff | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to create playlist from Up next songs in iTunes? How to create playlist based on Up next songs in iTunes?
Even better- how to save playlist you are currently playing, based on your history + Up next?
A: I haven't found any "one click" method, but these steps do the trick:
*
*Create a new playlist and give it a title. This playlist should now be open in the right sidebar in iTunes 11.
*Open the Up Next list via the blue icon to the right of the current song's title.
*Click on the first song you want to add to select it.
*Shift-click on the last song you want to add. All songs between and including the first and last should now be highlighted in the Up Next pane.
*Click and drag the list into the open playlist.
You'll need to switch to the History view in the Up Next pane and repeat the process of selecting tracks and adding them to your new playlist. Click "Done" in the playlist sidebar once you've finished adding tracks and putting them in the desired order.
| Q: How to create playlist from Up next songs in iTunes? How to create playlist based on Up next songs in iTunes?
Even better- how to save playlist you are currently playing, based on your history + Up next?
A: I haven't found any "one click" method, but these steps do the trick:
*
*Create a new playlist and give it a title. This playlist should now be open in the right sidebar in iTunes 11.
*Open the Up Next list via the blue icon to the right of the current song's title.
*Click on the first song you want to add to select it.
*Shift-click on the last song you want to add. All songs between and including the first and last should now be highlighted in the Up Next pane.
*Click and drag the list into the open playlist.
You'll need to switch to the History view in the Up Next pane and repeat the process of selecting tracks and adding them to your new playlist. Click "Done" in the playlist sidebar once you've finished adding tracks and putting them in the desired order.
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0143ee13a6ff35addacd4c1d8707f681e7337c5d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to set Mail.app to always open URL's in the external browser in the background? I'm on Mountain Lion and in Apple Mail whenever I click a link in an email it opens my browser in front of Mail.
I'd like to keep reading the email and open all links behind Mail, then switch to my browser and read the links later.
I'm aware of right clicking a link and selecting "Open Link Behind Mail", and I know of the "command-click" method to achieve that. But I want that to be the default behavior, so I don't have to do any extra clicking, I just want the links to always open in the background. How do I set it to do that?
A:
Is there anyway to make Apple Mail open all links in a browser behind
Mail without the need to right click?
Command-click the link (same thing in Safari will open links in a background tab).
| Q: How to set Mail.app to always open URL's in the external browser in the background? I'm on Mountain Lion and in Apple Mail whenever I click a link in an email it opens my browser in front of Mail.
I'd like to keep reading the email and open all links behind Mail, then switch to my browser and read the links later.
I'm aware of right clicking a link and selecting "Open Link Behind Mail", and I know of the "command-click" method to achieve that. But I want that to be the default behavior, so I don't have to do any extra clicking, I just want the links to always open in the background. How do I set it to do that?
A:
Is there anyway to make Apple Mail open all links in a browser behind
Mail without the need to right click?
Command-click the link (same thing in Safari will open links in a background tab).
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a721e47823abaa30add125c2fa83828c59451765 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to diagnose long start up My Macbook Pro (OSX 10.8.2) is taking a long time to settle down after booting. I am guessing there are some background processes/apps that are taking a while to start and hogging resources. What is the best way to diagnose this issue? Is there a tool that'll watch the processes as they startup upon booting up? I know about Activity Monitor, but because the system is so bogged down I can't open it until after things settle.
A: Have you tried disconnecting peripherals? I have a 30-60s delay before login items are opened, but it's removed if I unplug my Huawei USB modem.
Is there anything interesting in system.log (or the default view in Console)?
You could first try disabling login items in System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items. After that, try disabling launchd plists by just moving them away from {~,}/Library/Launch{Agents,Daemons}/, or kernel extensions by moving them away from /System/Library/Extensions/. You can use Consultant's Canary to print a list of other components that were not preinstalled.
| Q: How to diagnose long start up My Macbook Pro (OSX 10.8.2) is taking a long time to settle down after booting. I am guessing there are some background processes/apps that are taking a while to start and hogging resources. What is the best way to diagnose this issue? Is there a tool that'll watch the processes as they startup upon booting up? I know about Activity Monitor, but because the system is so bogged down I can't open it until after things settle.
A: Have you tried disconnecting peripherals? I have a 30-60s delay before login items are opened, but it's removed if I unplug my Huawei USB modem.
Is there anything interesting in system.log (or the default view in Console)?
You could first try disabling login items in System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items. After that, try disabling launchd plists by just moving them away from {~,}/Library/Launch{Agents,Daemons}/, or kernel extensions by moving them away from /System/Library/Extensions/. You can use Consultant's Canary to print a list of other components that were not preinstalled.
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725ea237ce38ba73c07fcb67f156dcdf744b41f4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to switch off subpixel antialiasing in Safari? Is there a way to permanently switch off subpixel antialiasing in Safari OSX 10.8?
A: Save this with a .css extension somewhere and select it as the custom stylesheet in Preferences > Advanced:
html {
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}
defaults write com.apple.Safari AppleFontSmoothing -int 0 would also disable subpixel rendering in the UI.
| Q: How to switch off subpixel antialiasing in Safari? Is there a way to permanently switch off subpixel antialiasing in Safari OSX 10.8?
A: Save this with a .css extension somewhere and select it as the custom stylesheet in Preferences > Advanced:
html {
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}
defaults write com.apple.Safari AppleFontSmoothing -int 0 would also disable subpixel rendering in the UI.
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d5c18f19fe9b116efd2f3878236c1e02857f8e42 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to convert a chain into a number In Apple Numbers I want a cell to have 4x8x7 (or 4*8*7) to show the detail of the volume, and in another cell I want that volume calculated 4*8*7=224 based on the first cell. But it doesn't consider the first cell as an operation. Which formula can help ?
A: You could use the string concatenation operator '&' and make a formula like this:
=B2&" X "&B3&" X "&B4
which would display "4 X 8 X 7"
then have another formula that actually calculates the function:
=B2*B3*B4
which would display "224"
http://i.imgur.com/9ggakhc.png
| Q: How to convert a chain into a number In Apple Numbers I want a cell to have 4x8x7 (or 4*8*7) to show the detail of the volume, and in another cell I want that volume calculated 4*8*7=224 based on the first cell. But it doesn't consider the first cell as an operation. Which formula can help ?
A: You could use the string concatenation operator '&' and make a formula like this:
=B2&" X "&B3&" X "&B4
which would display "4 X 8 X 7"
then have another formula that actually calculates the function:
=B2*B3*B4
which would display "224"
http://i.imgur.com/9ggakhc.png
A: I was given this answer on another website:
put =4*8*7 in the first cell, set it to text format, duplicate it and set it to automatic format so that it calculates the result
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/82701"
} |
91bc207daf90489c1b1a4cc13c9953fcbe032da3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to force iPad to show a mobile version of a website? I'm trying to access an internal website to view CCTV cameras with an iPad. It will only show the desktop version. I want it to show the mobile version, as it serves the camera streams in JPEG as opposed to the desktop version which uses ActiveX (which obviously doesn't work on an iPad). An iPhone views the mobile version and it works fine.
I know on Android tablets there is an option to "Request desktop site" and when unchecked will fetch the mobile version. I couldn't find anything within safari or in settings.
How might I get the iPad to be seen as an iPhone and retrieve the mobile layout of the CCTV web page?
A: In the URL, instead if "www" you can type "m".
For example, http://m.google.com/
**This does not apply to some websites.
| Q: Is there a way to force iPad to show a mobile version of a website? I'm trying to access an internal website to view CCTV cameras with an iPad. It will only show the desktop version. I want it to show the mobile version, as it serves the camera streams in JPEG as opposed to the desktop version which uses ActiveX (which obviously doesn't work on an iPad). An iPhone views the mobile version and it works fine.
I know on Android tablets there is an option to "Request desktop site" and when unchecked will fetch the mobile version. I couldn't find anything within safari or in settings.
How might I get the iPad to be seen as an iPhone and retrieve the mobile layout of the CCTV web page?
A: In the URL, instead if "www" you can type "m".
For example, http://m.google.com/
**This does not apply to some websites.
A: This ultimately depends on how the website was set up. If they are using "user-sniffing" to determine which version of a webpage to serve you, then it might be possible to workaround (this method uses the user agent of the device that you are on to determine which version of a page to display).
They can delimit which devices get served which versions of a particular web page at server level. One way is to use the same URL and just serve up a different version of the same web page. The other way is to redirect you to a different URL (m.yourcompany.com vs. www.yourcompany.com).
Chances are the best way to get around this would be to install an app that allows you to spoof the user agent. It looks like the full version of Atomic Web should allow you to do this (although I haven't tested it personally).
You could always try out Opera, Mercury and vBrowse, if Atomic Web doesn't work for you. However, I think these browsers likely won't work.
For completeness, there is always a possibility they have used an approach called responsive design, and if this is the case there is nothing you can do to remedy the problem. Responsive design serves the same page, but uses CSS to organize it differently based on your screen size (And it can hide some content and display other content). Based off of your situation, however, this approach is highly unlikely to have been used.
A: On your iPadOS device, Open Settings > Safari > Request Desktop Sites > Turn Off
A: I believe that if you use Chrome on iOS, the "Request desktop site" option is also available (with the same implication if its unchecked). That does require using Chrome, of course.
A: Look for a browser in the App Store that supports user agent faking. I believe Atomic does. (You could also jailbreak and use the UserAgentFaker tweak if you want to stick to using Safari or another browser that doesn't support user agent faking.) Then, set the browser to use an iPhone user agent, such as this one:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3
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79f723c79246a8899445cbf9965d105ce68d89bd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does Time Machine back up? Does Time Machine backup system files, kernel files and other OS-related files?
I have corrupted system drivers and files and I want to do a fresh install of OS X but I also want to back up my applications, files and folders.
I wonder if I should go with Time Machine or manually backing up each file.
A: Time Machine backs up EVERYTHING! That is why I recommend to use Time Machine to back up your system. If you decide to do a fresh install and only want to restore specific files or folders (like some apps, the documents folder, some music, but not the downloads folder...) you can do this via Time Machine too. You are not limited to take it all or nothing! You can pick what you like to restore, assuming you know where it is on your HDD.
| Q: What does Time Machine back up? Does Time Machine backup system files, kernel files and other OS-related files?
I have corrupted system drivers and files and I want to do a fresh install of OS X but I also want to back up my applications, files and folders.
I wonder if I should go with Time Machine or manually backing up each file.
A: Time Machine backs up EVERYTHING! That is why I recommend to use Time Machine to back up your system. If you decide to do a fresh install and only want to restore specific files or folders (like some apps, the documents folder, some music, but not the downloads folder...) you can do this via Time Machine too. You are not limited to take it all or nothing! You can pick what you like to restore, assuming you know where it is on your HDD.
A: From my experience, two of the things that it doesn't back up are:
1) My iCloud login;
2) My Dropbox settings.
When I do a full restore, I have to re-login to iCloud, Dropbox settings are set back to default and Dropbox does a full scan of my folder to confirm that it matches the cloud.
A: I think I can comfort you with the following statement on the website of Apple (Update: The information cited here has been removed, but you can still find it in this archived version)
Time Machine automatically backs up your entire Mac, including system
files, applications, accounts, preferences, email messages, music,
photos, movies, and documents. But what makes Time Machine different
from other backup applications is that it not only keeps a spare copy
of every file, it remembers how your system looked on any given day—so
you can revisit your Mac as it appeared in the past.
On the given page, there are even tutorials on how to restore your Mac from a Time Machine copy.
Please be aware those backups are not bootable. So you still have to manually install a fresh OS (from USB, DVD or other...)
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5c18c60fb2a5818c9d7699b17b587a211fdbde0a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to cleanly remove MacPorts I'd like to cleanly remove all changes made by MacPorts as well as MacPorts itself, to try my luck with homebrew. How can I do that?
A: The MacPort documentation advises to use your Terminal and type:
sudo port -fp uninstall installed
and with this command, all remaining items will be deleted:
sudo rm -rf /opt/local
sudo rm -rf /Applications/DarwinPorts
sudo rm -rf /Applications/MacPorts
sudo rm -rf /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.*
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg
sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup
sudo rm -rf /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0
sudo rm -rf /Library/Tcl/macports1.0
sudo rm -rf ~/.macports
Warning: Don't run a sudo command, especially a rm -rf one, unless you know what it's doing.
| Q: How to cleanly remove MacPorts I'd like to cleanly remove all changes made by MacPorts as well as MacPorts itself, to try my luck with homebrew. How can I do that?
A: The MacPort documentation advises to use your Terminal and type:
sudo port -fp uninstall installed
and with this command, all remaining items will be deleted:
sudo rm -rf /opt/local
sudo rm -rf /Applications/DarwinPorts
sudo rm -rf /Applications/MacPorts
sudo rm -rf /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.*
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg
sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup
sudo rm -rf /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0
sudo rm -rf /Library/Tcl/macports1.0
sudo rm -rf ~/.macports
Warning: Don't run a sudo command, especially a rm -rf one, unless you know what it's doing.
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0fcb0f7a0ab7748e5aff03842dc4aa9f3514f901 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to cleanly remove Homebrew How can I cleanly remove Homebrew. I might have a faulty older installation, and I'd like to have a fresh start.
A: While HomeBrew's install is prominently located on its front page, details are not.
https://brew.sh/
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
For a long time it was very difficult to find a reliable uninstall. Now, several clicks away in the docs, there is now an official method:
https://docs.brew.sh/FAQ
To uninstall Homebrew, paste the command below in a terminal prompt.
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall)"
| Q: How to cleanly remove Homebrew How can I cleanly remove Homebrew. I might have a faulty older installation, and I'd like to have a fresh start.
A: While HomeBrew's install is prominently located on its front page, details are not.
https://brew.sh/
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
For a long time it was very difficult to find a reliable uninstall. Now, several clicks away in the docs, there is now an official method:
https://docs.brew.sh/FAQ
To uninstall Homebrew, paste the command below in a terminal prompt.
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall)"
A: Here is a much better solution for removing Homebrew: https://gist.github.com/SteveBenner/11254428
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# Locates and removes Homebrew installation
# http://brew.sh/
#
# Author: Stephen Benner
# https://github.com/SteveBenner
#
require 'optparse'
require 'fileutils'
require 'open3'
$stdout.sync = true
# Default options
options = {
:quiet => false,
:verbose => true,
:dry_run => false,
:force => false,
:find_path => false
}
optparser = OptionParser.new do |opts|
opts.on('-q', '--quiet', 'Quiet mode - suppress output.') do |setting|
options[:quiet] = setting
options[:verbose] = false
end
opts.on('-v', '--verbose', 'Verbose mode - print all operations.') { |setting| options[:verbose] = setting }
opts.on('-d', '--dry', 'Dry run - print results, but perform no actual operations.') do |setting|
options[:dry_run] = setting
end
opts.on('-f', '--force', 'Forces removal of files, bypassing prompt. USE WITH CAUTION.') do |setting|
options[:force] = setting
end
opts.on('-p', '--find-path', 'Output homebrew location if found, then exit.') do |setting|
options[:find_path] = setting
options[:quiet] = true
end
opts.on('-h', '--help', '--usage', 'Display usage info and quit.') { puts opts; exit }
end
optparser.parse!
$quiet = options[:quiet] # provides access to option value within methods
# Files installed into the Homebrew repository
BREW_LOCAL_FILES = %w[
.git
Cellar
Library/brew.rb
Library/Homebrew
Library/Aliases
Library/Formula
Library/Contributions
Library/LinkedKegs
]
# Files that Homebrew installs into other system locations
BREW_SYSTEM_FILES = %W[
#{ENV['HOME']}/Library/Caches/Homebrew
#{ENV['HOME']}/Library/Logs/Homebrew
/Library/Caches/Homebrew
]
$files = []
# This function runs given command in a sub-shell, expecting the output to be the
# path of a Homebrew installation. If given a block, it passes the shell output to
# the block for processing, using the return value of the block as the new path.
# Known Homebrew files are then scanned for and added to the file list. Then the
# directory is tested for a Homebrew installation, and the git index is added if
# a valid repo is found. The function won't run once a Homebrew installation is
# found, but it will accumulate untracked Homebrew files each invocation.
#
# @param [String] cmd a shell command to run
# @param [String] error_msg message to print if command fails
#
def locate_brew_path(cmd, error_msg = 'check homebrew installation and PATH.')
return if $brew_location # stop testing if we find a valid Homebrew installation
puts "Searching for homewbrew installation using '#{cmd}'..." unless $quiet
# Run given shell command along with any code passed-in via block
path = `#{cmd}`.chomp
path = yield(path) if block_given? # pass command output to your own fancy code block
begin
Dir.chdir(path) do
# Search for known Homebrew files and folders, regardless of git presence
$files += BREW_LOCAL_FILES.select { |file| File.exist? file }.map {|file| File.expand_path file }
$files += Dir.glob('**/{man,bin}/**/brew*')
# Test for Homebrew git repository (use popen3 so we can suppress git error output)
repo_name = Open3.popen3('git remote -v') do |stdin, stdout, stderr|
stderr.close
stdout.read
end
if repo_name =~ /homebrew.git|Homebrew/
$brew_location = path
else
return
end
end
rescue StandardError # on normal errors, continue program
return
end
end
# Attempt to locate homebrew installation using a command and optional code block
# for processing the command results. Locating a valid path halts searching.
locate_brew_path 'brew --prefix'
locate_brew_path('which brew') { |output| File.expand_path('../..', output) }
locate_brew_path 'brew --prefix' do |output|
output = output.split($/).first
File.expand_path('../..', output)
end
# Found Homebrew installation
if $brew_location
puts "Homebrew found at: #{$brew_location}" unless options[:quiet]
if options[:find_path]
puts $brew_location
exit
end
# Collect files indexed by git
begin
Dir.chdir($brew_location) do
# Update file list (use popen3 so we can suppress git error output)
Open3.popen3('git checkout master') { |stdin, stdout, stderr| stderr.close }
$files += `git ls-files`.split.map {|file| File.expand_path file }
end
rescue StandardError => e
puts e # Report any errors, but continue the script and collect any last files
end
end
# Collect any files Homebrew may have installed throughout our system
$files += BREW_SYSTEM_FILES.select { |file| File.exist? file }
abort 'Failed to locate any homebrew files!' if $files.empty?
# DESTROY! DESTROY! DESTROY!
unless options[:force]
print "Delete #{$files.count} files? "
abort unless gets.rstrip =~ /y|yes/i
end
rm =
if options[:dry_run]
lambda { |entry| puts "deleting #{entry}" unless options[:quiet] }
else
lambda { |entry| FileUtils.rm_rf(entry, :verbose => options[:verbose]) }
end
puts 'Deleting files...' unless options[:quiet]
$files.each(&rm)
A: This rm -rf will not ask if you are sure when you delete, so be sure the cd command works to get you out of /tmp (the cd /tmp gets you to a safe place in case you copy/paste everything in one go so you don't delete files from your current directory)
Try this in your Terminal:
cd /tmp
cd `brew --prefix`
rm -rf Cellar
brew prune
rm `git ls-files`
rm -r Library/Homebrew Library/Aliases Library/Formula Library/Contributions
rm -rf .git
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew
More info about this topic can be found in the Homebrew FAQ.
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5101e6d79c553cd3285df492720774d3335da79f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: No new mail notification at apple mail dock icon when rules apply I've set a rule in apple mail. It's very simple. If a specific individual sends me mail it moves it directly to the destination folder. The problem is that it does not notify me that a mail arrived! If I open mail program I see that I have one new massage in the directory, but the apple mail icon at the dock have no notifications at all.
Is it possible to configure Mail.app so it shows unread count in specific other mailboxes, in addition to the inbox?
A: Mail does only look at one or all mailboxes for the count, it is set in Mail->Preferences->General, the field "Doc unread count"
You can make it look at a more complex setup by using Smart mailboxes.
In this case I would create a new Smart mailbox say Counter which would contain rules for any of Mailbox is Inbox and the destination folder.
| Q: No new mail notification at apple mail dock icon when rules apply I've set a rule in apple mail. It's very simple. If a specific individual sends me mail it moves it directly to the destination folder. The problem is that it does not notify me that a mail arrived! If I open mail program I see that I have one new massage in the directory, but the apple mail icon at the dock have no notifications at all.
Is it possible to configure Mail.app so it shows unread count in specific other mailboxes, in addition to the inbox?
A: Mail does only look at one or all mailboxes for the count, it is set in Mail->Preferences->General, the field "Doc unread count"
You can make it look at a more complex setup by using Smart mailboxes.
In this case I would create a new Smart mailbox say Counter which would contain rules for any of Mailbox is Inbox and the destination folder.
A: You could change the Dock unread count to count all mailboxes instead of just the inbox.
Go to Mail Preferences / General / Dock Unread Count.
Change from "Inbox Only" to "All Mailboxes"
You could also modify the rule that moves the mail.
Edit your rule that moves the mail. Click the + icon to add another action. You could then add an action to send a notification, bounce the dock icon or run an Applescript to alert you to new mail.
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e5a3971bca8f5894cbf68cdcae687b1ad81009f3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Shared Internet apply /etc/hosts How do I make those who connect to me via a shared internet connection use my /etc/hosts file? I was thinking something along the lines of creating a DNS server, but I was hoping maybe there is a simpler solution?
A: You will need to install a DNS server. If you need a DNS server that automatically synthesizes answers from the contents of /etc/hosts, use dnsmasq.
| Q: Shared Internet apply /etc/hosts How do I make those who connect to me via a shared internet connection use my /etc/hosts file? I was thinking something along the lines of creating a DNS server, but I was hoping maybe there is a simpler solution?
A: You will need to install a DNS server. If you need a DNS server that automatically synthesizes answers from the contents of /etc/hosts, use dnsmasq.
A: There's also Gas Mask that let you share some hosts through some file on the network, your users would have to install it and configure it to the right file.
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3610d666d9ab92a7e5d388e449190a6f79e62820 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Clean removal of Acrobat Reader After uninstalling of Acrobat Reader from OS X 10.8.2 Safari doesn't display pdf's. I suppose that Acrobat uninstaller didn't remove plugin from Safari.
My question is how to cleanly remove Acrobat Reader?
A: Remove this file to disable using Adobe Reader for PDFs in Safari:
/Library/Internet Plug-ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin
http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/troubleshoot-safari-plug-acrobat-x.html
If you used Adobe's uninstaller, then you would think it would have deleted that for you anyway.
| Q: Clean removal of Acrobat Reader After uninstalling of Acrobat Reader from OS X 10.8.2 Safari doesn't display pdf's. I suppose that Acrobat uninstaller didn't remove plugin from Safari.
My question is how to cleanly remove Acrobat Reader?
A: Remove this file to disable using Adobe Reader for PDFs in Safari:
/Library/Internet Plug-ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin
http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/troubleshoot-safari-plug-acrobat-x.html
If you used Adobe's uninstaller, then you would think it would have deleted that for you anyway.
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2de4c0ae8d10c2c32038d134ff0562c24d05372e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use 2 different Apple IDs with a single install of iTunes? I just got an iPhone 5 at work, and have discovered the only way to get a different ringtone on the device is via iTunes. However, work will not allow iTunes to be downloaded to Corporate PCs.
I have iTunes at home, and wanted to know if I logged off iTunes with my personal Apple ID and logged in with my work Apple ID, could I add a ringtone to iTunes and then sync it to my work phone.
I have no interest in using any personal music or apps on the work phone, so I don't need/want to authorize media on another device. I just want to get a darn non-standard ringtone on my iPhone.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
A: Yes, you can log in with multiple iTunes accounts. Log out of one, log in with the other.
| Q: Can I use 2 different Apple IDs with a single install of iTunes? I just got an iPhone 5 at work, and have discovered the only way to get a different ringtone on the device is via iTunes. However, work will not allow iTunes to be downloaded to Corporate PCs.
I have iTunes at home, and wanted to know if I logged off iTunes with my personal Apple ID and logged in with my work Apple ID, could I add a ringtone to iTunes and then sync it to my work phone.
I have no interest in using any personal music or apps on the work phone, so I don't need/want to authorize media on another device. I just want to get a darn non-standard ringtone on my iPhone.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
A: Yes, you can log in with multiple iTunes accounts. Log out of one, log in with the other.
A: Yes, you can. Keep in mind that you can authorize an Apple ID for use on only five computers at a time.
A: Yes, you can. See How to use multiple iPhone, iPad, or iPod devices with one computer:
Windows users
Look in your computer's Help documentation to learn how to set up other user accounts. To find this information:
*
*Click the Start Menu and click Help or Help and Support.
*Enter "new user" in the Search field.
*Press Return.
If you create multiple user accounts on one computer but want the same media to be available in iTunes for all users, you can share music between different accounts on a single computer.
You probably want to create separate libraries, see also this. It is too long for reposting, but it describes:
*
*How to create a new iTunes library.
*How to switch between iTunes libraries.
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46ec1fbedaa32f4d468d4909724e8c600719fd60 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I control my Apple TV from my Mac? I have two third gen Apple TVs and a Macbook Pro running 10.8. I use the remote app on my iPhone and iPad all the time, but it seems silly that I have to reach for them when my Macbook is right on my lap.
I'm not looking for a remote iTunes solution or home sharing, I want to actually be able to navigate the Apple TV menus from my Mac and do things like launch Hulu+ and Netflix.
I've searched around a little and can't find anything that claims to do this. Is it possible?
A: I don't think there's any way to do that since iOS apps don't run well off an iOS device.
On a recent model Apple TV and software 5.2.1 for it, you now have three methods for controlling an TV:
*
*Infrared Remote
*iOS Remote App
*Bluetooth Keyboard
So, unless you have software on the Mac that can control hardware that will send infrared signals to the TV you might be bound to the above control options.
| Q: How can I control my Apple TV from my Mac? I have two third gen Apple TVs and a Macbook Pro running 10.8. I use the remote app on my iPhone and iPad all the time, but it seems silly that I have to reach for them when my Macbook is right on my lap.
I'm not looking for a remote iTunes solution or home sharing, I want to actually be able to navigate the Apple TV menus from my Mac and do things like launch Hulu+ and Netflix.
I've searched around a little and can't find anything that claims to do this. Is it possible?
A: I don't think there's any way to do that since iOS apps don't run well off an iOS device.
On a recent model Apple TV and software 5.2.1 for it, you now have three methods for controlling an TV:
*
*Infrared Remote
*iOS Remote App
*Bluetooth Keyboard
So, unless you have software on the Mac that can control hardware that will send infrared signals to the TV you might be bound to the above control options.
A: I managed to control Apple TV from Mac with 1Keyboard application (http://www.eyalw.com/1keyboard) that turns Mac OS X into a bluetooth keyboard. Another app that does this is Type2Phone, probably there are even more of them.
A: find software that lets you use your computer as a wireless keyboard/mouse. then hook that software into the apple tv instead of a computer device. BAM, you can control your apple tv with your laptop
A: I can advice to try CiderTV app from Mac AppStore. It's a remote to control 2nd and 3rd generation Apple TV from your Mac.
The app works as a bluetooth keyboard and provides simple navigation between Apple TV menus. Quite easy to pair
With CiderTV for Mac you can manage without the native remote at all (detailed quick-step manual is given on the web page and in FAQ). Besides that, the OS X version lets you to pair other remotes (ex, CiderTV for iOS or Android) with your Apple TV. For more details go for AppStore or see the web page cidertv.com
Gotta try!
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89b4ef1971ba1efc27a7770c2628dfc392ab5bb4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What do I need to know to buy an SSD drive for a 2008 MacBook 5,1? I'd like to buy an SSD drive for my MacBook aluminium (MacBook5,1 from 2008). What do I need to know to buy one which will work fine with it?
I.e. years ago any IDE drive would fit any IDE slot, but I've never worked with SATA drives so I don't know if they are "just compatible" or there are some quirks, similar to what happens with RAM where you have to check the clock rate.
A: A partial answer: Other World Computing has extensive tables for their own use of what is compatible with what. They are also good at answering questions by email.
| Q: What do I need to know to buy an SSD drive for a 2008 MacBook 5,1? I'd like to buy an SSD drive for my MacBook aluminium (MacBook5,1 from 2008). What do I need to know to buy one which will work fine with it?
I.e. years ago any IDE drive would fit any IDE slot, but I've never worked with SATA drives so I don't know if they are "just compatible" or there are some quirks, similar to what happens with RAM where you have to check the clock rate.
A: A partial answer: Other World Computing has extensive tables for their own use of what is compatible with what. They are also good at answering questions by email.
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ddbe2d8347c9703bfeee61adb062cbc8719878ef | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Problem with empty spaces when executing shell commands in AppleScript The following code to purge a directory recursively does not work because I cannot get past the Application Support folder.
try
do shell script "rm -r ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Pepper Data/Shockwave Flash"
end try
*
*If I use ~/Library/Application Support/Google... nothing happens. Which is expected.
*If I use ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google... I cannot save the script due to the error message: Syntax Error Expected “"” but found unknown token.
How can I work around this error?
A: do shell script "open -n /Applications/App\\ Store.app"
Handle the space with \\.
For example replace App Store.app with App\\ Store.app.
| Q: Problem with empty spaces when executing shell commands in AppleScript The following code to purge a directory recursively does not work because I cannot get past the Application Support folder.
try
do shell script "rm -r ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Pepper Data/Shockwave Flash"
end try
*
*If I use ~/Library/Application Support/Google... nothing happens. Which is expected.
*If I use ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google... I cannot save the script due to the error message: Syntax Error Expected “"” but found unknown token.
How can I work around this error?
A: do shell script "open -n /Applications/App\\ Store.app"
Handle the space with \\.
For example replace App Store.app with App\\ Store.app.
A: You have to double the backslashes and also escape the other spaces:
do shell script "rm -r ~/Library/Application\\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Pepper\\ Data/Shockwave\\ Flash"
or escape the path some other way:
do shell script "rm -r ~/'Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Pepper Data/Shockwave Flash'"
quoted form of replaces ' with '\'' and surrounds the string with single quotes, so it doesn't work with paths that start with ~/.
A: Try:
set pathwithSpaces to "/Users/John/Desktop/This is a test.docx"
do shell script "rm -r " & quoted form of pathwithSpaces
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16b10912c9e563eebd5a8b629238cf8e9323e8ca | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can Apps be side-loaded rather than uploaded to the iOS app store? If I create a simple App, would it be possible for me to install it in any other devices without having to upload it to the Apple Store and wait for the reviewing process?
A: Yes, there a couple of ways this could be achieved.
*
*With a Enterprise Developer Account, you'll be able to Archive your App for in-house distribution, being eligible any device. Bear in mind that openly distributing your App this way will infringe Apple's agreement and your account could be suspended, as it's meant to be used for a company to distribute an App among its employees.
*With a Regular developer account you could send an ad-Hoc
version of your App, which could be installed into any device
which has been previously registered in your Developer Account. You'll only be able to register 100 devices, though.
With either account, you'll be able to build a version of your App in any device.
Here's Apple's list of their different Developer Programs.
| Q: Can Apps be side-loaded rather than uploaded to the iOS app store? If I create a simple App, would it be possible for me to install it in any other devices without having to upload it to the Apple Store and wait for the reviewing process?
A: Yes, there a couple of ways this could be achieved.
*
*With a Enterprise Developer Account, you'll be able to Archive your App for in-house distribution, being eligible any device. Bear in mind that openly distributing your App this way will infringe Apple's agreement and your account could be suspended, as it's meant to be used for a company to distribute an App among its employees.
*With a Regular developer account you could send an ad-Hoc
version of your App, which could be installed into any device
which has been previously registered in your Developer Account. You'll only be able to register 100 devices, though.
With either account, you'll be able to build a version of your App in any device.
Here's Apple's list of their different Developer Programs.
A: Yes, however you will need to set up a provisioning profile and add each device you are installing you app on (you are allowed to provision 100 devices).
You do need to join the iOS Developers program for this to work ($99 per year).
Once you join the developer program you can set up your provisioning profile from the provisioning portal (https://developer.apple.com/ios/manage/overview/index.action) there is an Assistant to walk you through the process (which IMO is a PITA).
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"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/83035"
} |
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