Notes (Mac) can't connect to IMAP account, Mail can

Lately when I try to use the Notes app on Mac OS X 10.8.5, I get a message saying "Notes can't connect to the account JW IMAP", and asking for my password. If I enter the password, then a minute later the same error comes back.

I'm sure this has to do with the fact that my mail moved to a different server. But where is Notes getting the old information? If I choose the Accounts... menu item in Notes, it takes me to the Mail, Contacts, and Calendars pane in System Preferences, which currently has nothing in it. If I click Add Other Account there, it takes me over to Mail, as if I were going to add a new Mail account. But Mail is already correctly connecting to the new server, I don't want a new account there!

I tried repairing disk permissions and it didn't help.

I'm tempted to nuke the Notes files in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes and see if it gets reconstructed.

yosemite with safari beachball

When I click on a link while in Safari - or put a query into the search I repeatedly get the beachball - this doesn't happen with Firefox or Chrome. What can I do?

I want advertise my apps but in particular apps only, is it possible?

I have an app that helps english learning, and I want to promote it only in the same sort of apps, what english learning people are using. Is it possible with iAd Banner to customize my need so? Is it any other 3rd party solution similar to Apple's iAd Banner?

How to differentiate between applications with the same name in applescripts

I'm trying to use tell application "Google Chrome" in order to script the OS X Chrome app, but this keeps being interpreted as referring to a virtual application with the same name which refers to the windows "Google Chrome" inside a parallels desktop virtual machine. (Parallels Desktop automatically creates dummy OS X applications corresponding to all of the windows programs, so that they can appear running in the OS X dock etc.)

How could I differentiate between applications of the same name in such tell statements, based on the application path or some other attribute?

Schedule a Mac to sleep, just one time

Is it possible to schedule a Mac to sleep just one time? I know I can set a schedule for it, but I want to have control over it.

So occasionally I'll go to bed but leave a file transferring, and I want the Mac to sleep about an hour from now. So how would I go about doing that, without setting a long-term schedule?

Network topology: Internet connected on a leaf node?

Before I go ahead and spend money on new kit, I'd like to run by you my proposed network setup to see if it's feasible:

Cable Modem <--> Airport Express <--> Airport Extreme (bridge mode) | +------> Clients +------> Another Airport Express ----> Clients

The Expresses extend the wireless network from the Extreme.

The reason for connecting the Cable Modem to the Express is because of it's location in the house. The Extreme is centrally located, and does a good job today, but I'm moving from ADSL to Cable, and that will be connected on the edge of the house rather than to the Extreme like it currently is.

a) Would this topology work? Would the Extreme route traffic through the Express to the internet? b) Are there any problems in this approach that you can envision?

SSD w/ brand new clean in stall of Yosemite fails to boot

I've just installed a new version of Yosemite on a third party SSD (Crucial). When I boot it up it hangs on a gray screen.

Steps that got me here: 1) Connect SSD to Macbook Pro (w/ existing HD) using usb 2) Install Yosemite onto SSD while connected to MBP 3) Complete installation -> at this point, I'm up and running with a working Yosemite running on the external SSD 4) Install SSD into internal port 5) Boot MBP 6) Immediately hangs on gray screen

I've read about issues with Trim and Yosemite, but to my knowledge I've never enabled or installed Trim on this SSD.

The Option key and Command-R are both non-responsive during startup.

Upload pics to iCloud from old iPhone not primary iPhone

I purchased an iPhone 5S and it was turned on at time of purchase. However, I did not completely back up all photos to iCloud from old iPhone 4. I cannot get the iPhone 4 photos to upload to iCloud in order to put them on new laptop. Help

Mac Mail has very slow to send/receive mail (plus other bugs too)

It's been worse since Yosemite.

From the same exchange account (office365) I will send and receive emails instantly on my phone, but they will take several minutes through the app.

Loading existing conversations also often takes a long time.

Conversations often get jumbled up and emails that don't belong will be added to a conversation.

And finally accepting event invitations is a little messed up. I click accept and nothing happens. Then a few minutes later the email will dissapear and the event will appear in the calendar.

I am having these issues on both my laptops.

I've tried offlining and enabling the account. Also tried reindexing.

Does anyone know if these are just Yosemite bugs? Or is there somethinng I can do to fix it?

Thanks!

How do I prevent Music app from using 1 GB of cellular data in less than 10 minutes?

I received 3 text messages within 10 minutes from my cellular carrier as I was driving in my car with iTunes Radio streaming music.

1. 10:20 pm - 65% of my 1 GB plan is used.


2. 10:22 pm - 90% used.


3. 10:28 pm - 100% used and a $20 fee for going over. The music got jumbled up at this point. It would play a split second, pause, and repeat.

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I went into Settings > Celluar to find the culprit. It was indeed caused by the Music app, so I immediately switched off its cellular usage. It had used up 1 GB in 10 minutes. This was the first time I attempted music streaming while driving.

In all the articles that I've read, they say iTunes Radio should only use 28 MB per hour - much less than what I just experienced. So what caused my meteoritic rise in data usage?

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The following screenshot shows that I have no local music collection, so the phone couldn't have been synching any music from the cloud. That infamous free U2 album that was uploaded to everyone's phone is not on my phone.

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More info:

• Background app refresh is turned off.


• iOS 8.1.1


• iPhone 6


• Music settings: "Genius" off. "Show All Music" off.

After i jailbroken my iphone my homescreen is now empty it just shows my wallpaper

please help me , i jailbroken my iphone using the new software , cydia has shown up , but when i cliked on it , it went black , then i clicked the home button and now my iphone homescreen is blank , none of my apps , or icons are shown , ive tried to reboot or restore nut itunes isnt helping.

2 macs with small ssds. One backup drive or multiple

So I have a new Mac Pro with a small 256gb ssd hard drive. I have a larger 2tb drive that i run backups.

My girlfriend also has a macbook air with a tiny 128 gb ssd.

Our problem is our iphones have 50gb of music / pictures / apps so backing them up on itunes on our boot drive would be suicide. right now I have an old mac pro with plenty of disk space i use for my iphone but i want to use my primary computer.

Whats the best way to have everything with iTunes/iPhoto just goto an external drive? And is it possible for us to both use the same set of drives or no? Could we just use an apple Time Capsule for both our machines? And then couldnt We just figure out how to make itunes and Iphoto look for that network drive to work?

Icon for CD drive disappears and reappears every few seconds

In one of our company MacBooks (MacBook7,1), the CD drive acts weirdly - any time a CD is inserted, the icon will appear for a few seconds in the desktop and finder, then disappear for another few seconds. This keeps happening, and the CD can't be accessed.

I'm totally new to the Mac environment and workflow, so excuse me if the answer is fairly simple.

How do i fresh install on used OSX 10.6.8?

I just bought a used macbook and i want to wipe it clean to start fresh. it didnt come up a dvd or anything.

I tried following another post on here that said to push Option on start up and it sounded like it could do a fresh install using an internet connection. However when i did it the only icon i got was the hard drive in the laptop.

It looks like you can purchase the dvd on the apple website (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard) though here it looks like it offers a free upgrade to http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/ 10.10.1

though Its not clear if that applies to me since im not the original owner. It's also not clear if i'll run into complications in general since im not the original owner (eg is the laptop tied to someone elses itunes account right now?)

its also not clear if itll allow for a "fresh installation". I'm more of a PC guy i'm not really familiar with macs. What route should I go to wipe the laptop?

thanks

How to change the Text Wrap default in Pages

When I add a picture to document in Pages, the Text Wrap is always Automatic. I want to set "Above and Below" to be default. How can I do this?

The version is 5.5.1(2111)

Writing to a samba share from Yosemite - v. weird

Yosemite 10.10.1 on a 2012 MBA

Samba 4.1.13 on a d-link NAS via the miracle of fun_plug

What works:

• Saving a file to the share from an app's save dialog


• Making new directories on the share from Finder


• deleting files and directories on the share from Finder


• Moving a file from one directory on the share to another in Finder

What doesn't work, and how:

• Copying a file from my mac to the samba share in Finder: Finder Error -36 and a 0-byte file


• Duplicating a file on the share in Finder: Finder Error -36 and a 0-byte file


• cp $file /Volumes/$share/$file: "could not copy extended attributes to /Volumes/$share/$file: Operation not supported" BUT file is created properly on share.

my smb.conf:

[ global ]
netbios name = stuffbox
server string = DNS-325
workgroup = workgroup
security = user
unix charset = UTF8
encrypt passwords = yes
hide unreadable = yes
null passwords = yes
guest account = nobody
max log size = 10
local master = no
log level = 0
dns proxy = no
ldap ssl = no
use mmap = yes
use spnego = yes
socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=131072 SO_SNDBUF=131072
max xmit = 131072
disable netbios = yes
strict allocate = yes
csc policy = manual
allocation roundup size = 1048576
create mask = 0777
directory mask  = 0777
force create mode = 0777
force directory mode = 0777
use sendfile = yes
deadtime = 10
smb passwd file = /ffp/lib/smbpasswd
disable spoolss = yes
nt acl support = yes
acl map full control = yes
strict allocate = no
load printers = no
admin users = sam
vfs objects = streams_xattr
unix extensions = no

[ Media ]
comment = 
path = /mnt/HD/HD_a2/media
browseable = yes
public = yes
oplocks = no
map archive = no
read list = "nobody"
write list = "nobody","sam","@utmp","@sshd"
invalid users =
valid users = "nobody","sam","@utmp","@sshd"

I've played around with the veto files setting, to no avail. Totally at a loss here.

IOS 5.1.1 Safemode problem

I jailbroke my old iPod Touch 3rd Generation, with IOS 5.1.1, using the latest version of absynthe. It worked for several months, but then it randomly stopped. It went into safe mode, but the touch screen wouldn't work. It showed the lockscreen, but nothing worked at all, except for the physical buttons. The only way to reboot is to follow the same steps as DFU mode (Hold power button 3 sec, then home button AND power for 10, then just home for 8)... However, it always boots right back into Safe mode.

I had to restore, and once rejailbroken, it worked fine, until I installed SBsettings. Then it did the EXACT same thing, and I had to restore and re-jailbreak AGAIN! The other day, I finished installing ALL of my extensive list of tweaks, and got it to about where I wanted it, when lo and behold, it booted to safe mode again. I have spent so much time on this, and I do not want to do it again. Does anybody here have any knowledge on the topic? Is there a program I can run from my computer to manually control the device or kick it out of safe mode? Is there some other method of doing this? I am looking for any solution OTHER than restoring. I have done that several times.

Also, I know the problem isn't with my jailbreak. It worked for several months before, then one day stopped. Now, it has the problem within a day of rejailbreaking, OR instantly if I install SBsettings. I re-installed the jailbreak, and applied the new one as well, and that didn't work. I have given up, and don't want to go through the painful process of restoring, rejailbreaking, and re-installing all of those tweaks again.

Also, because I can't get into my iPod, I can't provide a list of tweaks. I would if I could, but it just can't happen unless I can get in there.

Super slow browsing on rMBP until reboot

I've just experienced a couple of days of incredibly slow browsing (using Chrome mostly, but changing browser didn't help) on my home wi-fi. After trying many things like rebooting the router, removing devices from the network, diagnosing with iStumbler, requesting new DHCP leases, setting manual IPs, I eventually rebooted the machine and everything is back to normal.

What could cause this behaviour?

It's a mid 2014 Macbook Pro with Retina. The wi-fi is an ageing Dynalink that only supports 802.11b/g. I have a VPN installed but not active, and many apps:

It had probably been a few weeks or even a month since the last reboot.

Throughout all these problems, a Macbook Air on the same network worked just fine - so it's not a question of some weird network saturation.

Finder Problem - USB drive opening in separate window for every folder

Whenever I connect my USB drive or insert a disc and view the contents every folder is opened in a separate window, how do I prevent this?

'Open folders in tabs instead of new windows' in the Finder Preferences is ticked.

Im using a MacBook Pro Yosemite 10.10.1, I also experience the same issues when using my works iMac.

I should mention that the USB drive was formatted on my former computer which was Windows 7 and also the CDs that I have inserted have also been created on Windows.

Could this be the issue?

Best regards

Elbow

Macbook Pro, completely broken keyboard, can't login!

I have 15 inch macbook pro and the keyboard recently stopped working completely. None of the keys work. I got a wireless apple keyboard, to fix the problem. The issue is that I need to login in order to set up the external keyboard, and since the keyboard is broken, I obviously can't login. My trackpad still works though.

Is there a way to login if nothing on my internal keyboard works. Please note, the answer can't be some sort of reset for which I need to push any keys - I have tried these, and they don't work, because the keyboard doesn't work.

Thanks!!

FaceTime window jumps to unwanted position at start of call

Running FaceTime 3.0 on MacOSX 10.10.1, there's an annoying behavior that I can't seem to change:

When I first get an incoming call, the FaceTime window jumps to the far right of my rightmost display (an external 30" Cinema display), and can't be repositioned until the call is fully connected (at which point I need to move it more than a yard to the left to center it with the camera in the MacBook Pro).

Why can't the window just stay where I put it?

Completely new Time Machine backup?

I made use of Time Machine to restore my Mac's OS and data to a new drive after the old one failed. Time Machine doesn't seem to recognize that the new drive and the back ups are related. Is there a method to connect the two, or do I need to wipe that drive containing the old history, and just start a new TM backup?

Time Machine Strategy?

I just finished a tough weekend of getting my Mac back. For whatever reason, it would no longer boot. I am running 10.6.8 on a 2010 MacPro.

I installed a new copy of the OS, and migrated, then updated the OS, and it froze. Back to the install disks, loaded, updated OS first via software update, then migrated and I'm back in action.

The migration took hours as the drive had a lot of data including large iTunes files, etc. 3TB drive is my main drive.

Is there a better strategy for one's OS drive and data files that would make a re-build less time consuming? e.g. Use the OS drive, and keep it smaller, say 1TB, just for the OS and apps, and then a second drive for data only?

I'm grateful Time Machine worked so well, just looking for a faster way to get going next time.

(Note - I have too many apps needing Rosetta to jump to 10.10 full time. Not ready to drop $hundreds on updated software.)

Yosemite imessage not in sync with iPhone 6

I have latest software on both Macbook and iphone 6 plus. My imessage thread on Macbook is not in sync for a given phone #. Does anyone know why would that be ?

I want to ask about sim network

I have ipad air. It displays PK UFONE only but i want to send and receive text messages from SIM and want to call over local network using cellular SIM NETWORK. So, please guide me what should i do? How i can do a package from a SIM to use internet however ot does not allow to call any number from ipad?

iTunes/Applescript: get all tracks from (incomplete) album

I try to write an Applescript that would sort playlists by album. That is, a playlist P might contain 20 tracks split on 4 albums (A1, A2…). Each album has 10 tracks, in other words, on this playlist, the albums on average only contain half of the tracks.

I have found a lot of examples where you can query iTunes for all tracks that belong to an album on the library level, typically something like this

set albumSongs to (every track of library playlist 1 whose album is currentAlbum)

while I want to do something like this

set albumSongs to (every track of playlist myPlaylist whose album is currentAlbum)

but compiling my example returns an error message Expected class name but found identifier. pointing at the track keyword in the line above.

Update:

The unfinished function I try to write where I want to get all tracks that belong to a certain album

on sortPlaylist(albumList, currentPlaylist)
    repeat with currentAlbum in albumList
        set albumSongs to (every track of currentPlaylist whose album is currentAlbum)
    end repeat
end sortPlaylist

It takes a list without duplicates of all albums (albumList) and the playlist (currentPlaylist) I want to work with. I still have no code to actually sort it (input is appreciated!) but the plan is to sort albumSongs in track order and then add the tracks to the playlist in order.

Yosemite lock screen is trivial to bypass

This may be an issue that carries over from Mavericks, as seen in a related question.

However what I am experiencing is slightly different in nature from that question.

I have my setting set to 15 minutes (it's under Security & Privacy in the System Prefs). So, what I expect is that my Macbook will only show me a lock screen if I wait 15 minutes after I close the screen cover.

What's annoying is that I get the lock screen even if I close and re-open it immediately.

I looked at this answer: http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/148133/13465

There are no problems with the plist file. The contents of the plist are immediately kept up to date when I edit the system preferences.

But what's even worse than annoying is that I can get past the lock screen at this point by hitting Esc or waiting for the ~20 second timeout for the lock screen to time out, screen goes blank, and I hit ANY KEY on the keyboard. Then I pop back to my desktop. So much for security, huh?

Now, if I use the Lock Screen option from the task bar padlock menu (You have to go to the Keychain Access app's preferences to enable this, oddly enough) to do the locking, then I cannot bypass the actual lock screen in this way. It is impossible to visually confirm which kind of screen lock it is.

I also tested that if I set this setting to "Immediately", it will indeed not allow me to skip the lock screen with any keypress. I would still expect at this point that if I do close the lid or leave the machine idle for the time that we specify in the setting that I will also not be able to bypass it in this way. Still, i think many will agree with me that this is an actual big juicy bug, because WHY PRETEND TO ASK FOR MY PASSWORD AND WASTE MY TIME!

Effectively this means that (at least for me, on my machine that I've upgraded from Mountain Lion to Mavericks and then to Yosemite) the only practical way to go if I care about using the security that comes with the OS is to set the setting to "Immediately" because once the cover is closed I'm going to get the lock screen no matter what, and it's the only way to actually ensure that the lock screen is a real actual lock screen.

I would appreciate it if readers could try this out for themselves and relate to me if this is an issue that can be reproduced. It may be that my system is borked.

How to hide an app from launchpad

Is there any way to hide an app from launchpad in Yosemite? I don't want to delete it or something like that I just want to hide apps that I don't use frequently, and I have a lot of them, putting them in a folder that I ignore make the launchpad slow to process, any solution to get rid of them without deleting them?

How can I prevent a different account from trying to sync my iPod?

When I plug my iPod into my iMac, it suddenly starts saying it is syncing, and to not disconnect. Of course, I disconnect immediately because I don't want it to sync! In fact iTunes isn't even open and doesn't try to open. If I try to open it, I note that I haven't even accepted the iTunes license yet! So why is my iPod trying to sync with another user's account?

Just to be clear, this iPod has been synced in the past using a different login account, before the iPod was given to me. But I don't want it to do that anymore. At the same time, I can't just disable syncing on the other account, because the other user doesn't want it disabled for their own devices.

What is worse, when I do accept the iTunes license and then go to iTunes:Preferences:Devices I see that auto-syncing is disabled. But with iTunes now open, when I plug my device in, it still tries to sync!

So I try to temporarily disable auto-syncing on the second user account (strangely, their iTunes isn't open either, even though the iPod says it is syncing). But it still says syncing as soon as I plug it in. How can I stop this?! And what is it syncing with since neither version of iTunes appears to be running?

Can I download apps on my iPhone 4s without a SIM card installed in my phone

Was just wondering if I can download apps on my iPhone 4s if I haven't a SIM card in my phone at all just download the apps onto my phone

$600 for a sticky spacebar?

I spilt a little bit of juice on my Macbook Pro keyboard which causes the spacebar to stick (it still works but is not so convenient to use). I took it to a non-official Mac service where they told me that it needed some cleaning that would cost around $60. Then I took it to an official Apple service where the guy without any deeper investigation told me that a brand new replacement top-case is required for $600. The computer is otherwise completely functional. I still have a warranty until February that would probably be void if a non-official service fixed it.

Do you think the $600 offer is realistic and this much has to be paid just to fix a sticky spacebar?

Update: my girlfriend accidently spilt a half glass of water on my keyboard, and after drying it, the stickiness vanished :D Gotta admit, Macbooks are of high quality and I should care more about my computer.

Re: ITunes Radio

BTW, so happy to have found this forum. Anyway on iTunes radio I have been unable to find any new news channels with the exception of public radio in every city are there any other news stations on iTunes Radio? anybody?? Thanks. I use I tunes radio everyday and find switching channels to be very easy - would rather find a news station within the programming rather than have to switch to another app. Thanks again.

Root Device UUID Error while installing Mountain Lion on VirtualBox 4.3

While installing Mountain Lion on VirtualBox, it starts booting, then stops at the line "root device uuid: xxxx-xxxxx-xxxx". I've allocated all the required RAM and memory, but even after looking online and fiddling with my settings I still can't get it to work. Any thoughts on how to fix it?

broken iPod with good clash of clans and i have a good iPod 6.1.6

I have a good clash of clans signed into my game center but then my iPod broke and won't turn on, I got a new iPod and it is iOS 6.1.6 and it says I need to do a software update to get the broken iPod's clash of clans account on to thee new iPod but when I go to settings it says the iPod is up to date. How do I get the account on to the fixed iPod?

For 2.4GHz/5GHz wifi which is best for Apple devices: different SSIDs or same?

My WiFi router, a Netgear Nighthawk, can do 2.4GHz and 5GHz; and it can have the same SSID or different for those ranges.

We run MacBooks, an iPad, an iPad Nano and an iPhone 4 on the network. Does it make sense to have both ranges on one SSID and let the devices pick the right frequency or keep them separate?

Option key boot selector suddenly failing

I have an early 2008 Mac Pro (12 GB, several hard disks). On OS X I run Yosemtite, On Bootcamp, Windows 7. All works fine. Yesterday I installed a "new" Radeon 5770 to replace the aged (and very slow) Radeon 2600 that came with the system. Installation was easy and the system came up perfectly. The one weird glitch is that pressing the Option key during boot up no longer works. Worked before but not now. Id I do press Option during boot (before or after the chime) the system just hangs and it never comes up. I have to turn the system off and back on. I use the Option feature frequently as I am a software developer and need to use both Mac and Windows.

Everything else works perfectly. I can boot into any of the four bootable partitions using the System preferences (OS X) or Bootcamp options (Windows).

Ideas? Suggestions?

iPod iOS 5.1.1 safe mode without any touchscreen controls

I have a safe mode issue with my iPod touch fourth gen. IOS: 5.1.1. It was working just fine for about a year and then the other day I installed a tweak that allowed for vertical scrolling of the home screen from HYI repo (I tried to install the same tweak a few months ago along with another tweak and I got booted into safe mode but everything worked fine in safe mode, so I went into Cydia and uninstalled the two tweaks thinking that they were conflicting with each other. After that I re-sprang it and it worked like normal.) and I got booted like normal but this time it froze on lock screen and then booted into safe mode. (o_O) THIS time my touch screen wouldn't work. So I forced re-booted it by holding the home and lock button until the screen flashed white and then showed the apple boot logo. After that I uninstalled the tweak and it worked fine. Today I just installed two add ons and upgraded HTML Widgets related to SB Settings. The other two add ons were iOS 7 ringtones and notification alert sounds. Yet again I was greeted by my usual lock screen pic and then the safe mode black picture lock screen, again, my touch screen wouldn't work but the buttons would. So I just re-booted it by holding the buttons thinking it would solve the problems, but of course, it did nothing to solve it... Now this time I am actually stuck in safe mode and do not want to restore my jailbreak because I have a bunch of tweaks and settings I worked really hard on.

PLEASE could SOMEONE fix this problem with the safe mode and SB Settings tweaks?! I am clueless with what to do. Thanks!

Using TV as monitor for macbook pro while running bootcamp

I have a mid 2010 macbook pro (has thunderbolt port) and I would like to use a Tv as monitor . I understand this is possible if you are running OSX but what about windows ?

Alfred Terminal / Shell Command does not work

In Alfred, if I type > ls must open iTerm2 with that command. Well, does not work for me.

In Application if I select Terminal instead of iTerm2, works.

If I select Application → Custom, it shows the applescript code you can see below and works.

If I select Application → Custom and modify the tell application line replacing Terminal with iTerm, does not work.

If I open Script Editor and type the following applescript code, does not work:

tell application "iTerm"
    activate
    do script "ls"
end tell

If I remove do script line open iTerm.

Any ideas of why do script line does not work with iTerm?

How to mirror Mac Book Pro screen to AppleTV?

I have a Mac Book Pro with OS X 10.9.5. I would like to mirror its screen to an AppleTV via AirPlay, How can I do it ?

How to add iPhone to my product list if it's already registered to another apple ID?

How to add my telephone serial number, if it's already registered on another ID? I got this phone in exchange for my broken previous one in tech. service, so I think that it was used by someone and registered early.

Yosemite: can't get apps on Mac App Store

I upgraded from Mac OS Mavericks 10.9.5 to Mac OS Yosemite 10.10.1 and have issues with Mac App Store.

If I search for an item, I get results, but if I click a result, I get a blank page, whatever the app's page I want to see.

As you can see, the classic app background doesn't even appear.

I do not experience this issue on a fresh install of Yosemite in another mac, so I did bought my app on the other mac and used the search results's menu to install it on the right one, but that's quite tricky.

I tried to reboot, to reset the PRAM and other stuffs I seen over the internet, but didn't found any good answer.

FYI:

Copying Xcode.app to another location causes system lockup

Whenever I try to copy or compress Xcode.app on a computer (downloaded from the Mac App Store, currently version 6.1), the system completely locks up, just allowing me to restart with Ctrl+Cmd+Power.

It does not even matter where I try to copy it, to an external disk, to the internal disk, whatever.

Console.app does not show anything suspicious at the time of lockup.

However, when I try find /Applications/Xcode.app -type f -exec md5 {} \;, everything runs through and exits cleanly.

What the heck is going on ?

Is this some weird kind of copy protection from Apple ?

Do I have to fear some malware hiding ?

Anyone else having a similar issue ?

I have disabled any anti-virus software but the problem persists, even after I upgraded from Xcode 6.0 to 6.0.1 to 6.1, which curiously did not raise any problems.

AirParrot in Windows and AppleTV

I installed AirParrot in my Windows laptop. Then I played a video file and mirrored the screen to my AppleTV. Unfortunately I experienced a slow choppy video with no sound.

I thought it might be a problem of the home wi-fi. However when I run a YouTube app. in my iPad and mirror the iPad screen to the AppleTV everything is Ok. So, I think now that the wi-fi is not the problem.

Does it make sense ? What should I check ? How can I watch a video played in Windows in AppleTV ?

Bootcamp not working

I just tryed to install bootcamp for windows 8.1 on my mac new mac book pro retina and it was making my usb stick like 1 hour then it partitioned disc and after thath when it should restart it to install menu, it autmaticaly restarted back to Mac OS. So now my disk is split but i cant run installation since it has automaticaly booted into Mac OS. Any solutions?

Cursor selection goes wild?

It is really weird that now (after upgrading to Yosemite) I have great problems controlling my text selection.

For example, after selecting a word, I press command + c to copy it. Once command is pressed, the cursor wildly goes forward, selecting a lot of other words. It is really annoying.

Another similar problem is that once I select a word and press delete, the cursor also goes wildly forward, selecting a lot of other words and deleting them all.

Why is it so, and how may I fix it?

Turn on a iOS hotspot without 3G connection

Is it possible to turn on my hotspot on my iPhone 5s (running iOS 8) without wifi or 3G connection? I would like people to connect to my network to play LAN games while overseas. However, I do not want to turn on my 3G so as to save money from the data charges. Is there any way to turn on your hotspot while your 3G/4G is off without jailbreaking?

Is it possible to map doubleclick on folders in Finder List View to Expand/Collapse triangle?

I really hate all these windows cluttering the desktop, and spring-loading isn't a big help. So to have a more Windows-Exploreresque view, I try to use the collapse/expand triangles in List view only, to be able to sort my files properly in the folder hierarchy.

I installed XtraFinder to use Return for opening files (please raise your hands if you like cmd-o to do that) and Navigating back via Backspace. But my motor skills are very hard set on doubleclicking folders or hitting enter to expand them.

Is there any way, to never "open" folders in new windows/same window, but to toggle collapse/expand always instead?

Imessage from IMac to IPhone

I'm having difficulty with the IMessage app in the sense that I would like to be able to send an Imessage from my IMac @home to my IPhone @On the road? How do I do this without creating a different Apple ID for both? They are both mine- but I want to be able to communicate between the two. Is this possible? Thanks. Theresa

Mail.app on 10.10.1> Apple Mail 8.1> want combination of Classic layout +not

I want to set up my email view as what seems to be a combination of Classic and non classic views (as i use at work on 'another'brand of software!):

I would like the viewing pane of individual emails on the right (not the bottom) - such as is possible in the Not Classic view (Preferences>Viewing>uncheck 'Use classic layout')

BUT prefer the Classic Layout ability to see a one line preview list of all emails, (which shows more emails in the same space, rather than the subject line below the sender name taking up more space) along with option to utilise a columns view of from/ subject/date etc. (which allows for one-click choice of how to find emails, rather than two-click-plus-scroll as in Not Classic view.)

I hope that makes sense!? I hope its possible??

As a partial solution, (and not fully satisfactory really) a few other questions here suggest either setting up a toggle between Apple Mail 'Classic Layout' but either are for Lion (this is Yosemite). Would that apple script work the same with Yosemite?

OR, at very least, can I set up keyboard shortcuts to those columns (listing emails in order of from/subject/date) if i am in Not Classic layout?

thank you for any help anyone can offer.

Notes (Mac) can't connect to IMAP account, Mail can

Lately when I try to use the Notes app on Mac OS X 10.8.5, I get a message saying "Notes can't connect to the account JW IMAP", and asking for my password. If I enter the password, then a minute later the same error comes back.

I'm sure this has to do with the fact that my mail moved to a different server. But where is Notes getting the old information? If I choose the Accounts... menu item in Notes, it takes me to the Mail, Contacts, and Calendars pane in System Preferences, which currently has nothing in it. If I click Add Other Account there, it takes me over to Mail, as if I were going to add a new Mail account. But Mail is already correctly connecting to the new server, I don't want a new account there!

I tried repairing disk permissions and it didn't help.

I'm tempted to nuke the Notes files in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes and see if it gets reconstructed.

Macbook Pro strange boot after OSX 10.10.1 update

After updating my Macbook pro to OSX 10.10.1, the way the machine boots has changed.

When I press the power button, I get to the user login screen immediately (no loading bar). And after typing my username and password everything is loaded (the loading bar is back).

I have a MacMini running OSX 10.10.1, but it boots normally. (I get to see the loading bar before the login screen is shown)

Anyone knows any reason/setting might change this?

Backup mailbox of mail.app with applescript

I would like to automate, with applescript, the back up a mailbox of mail, which is manually done with the menu "Export mailbox ...", but: I can not set the folder where the mailbox will be saved; I can not set the mailbox to export, it works only with the mailbox that I've previously selected manually with the following command: Click menu item...

The lines of the script, which does not work, are:

tell application "Finder" --set mboxSavePath to "HD Macintosh:Users:simonepiersigilli:Desktop:e-mail:" -incorrect command to set the save path- --set mboxSavePath to "/Users/simonepiersigilli/Desktop/e-mail/" -incorrect command to set the save path- --set path POSIX to mboxSavePath -incorrect command to set the save path- end tell tell application "Mail" to activate tell application "System Events" tell process "Mail" --click menu item "cesare@appuntidigitali.eu" of menu "Entrata" of menu "Caselle" of menu bar 2 -wrong command to set the mailbox to export- click menu item "Esporta casella di posta…" of menu "Casella" of menu bar 1 -correct command to open the menu "Export mailbox ..."- -- Now click the Go (choose) button click button "Scegli" of sheet of front window -correct command to click the button choose- tell application "Mail" to close the front window end tell end tell

Can anyone help me? Cesare

Iphone 6: uninstalled apps consume Mobile data

Disclaimer: I am asking this question on behalf of a friend. I don't own any apple product. Iphone 6, IOS 8.1.1

My friend was so angry and he wanted to show me this picture. Two things made me laugh out loud, system services is consuming most of his mobile data, I asked about it previously.

What's funnier, is that the uninstalled apps are also using mobile data, everyday :) he had to upgrade his mobile data plan because system services and uninstalled apps used half of his Mb :) He's paying way more :)

In fact there's a joke in my country, that the carriers are offering iphone 6 and 6 plus users, additional 300 MB for system services and uninstall apps to use :) I think something similar is on 9gag too!

Now, I'm a programmer, I do apps all the time, and even I could not understand how an uninstalled app still use internet! Those aren't apps who used to used internet! no, those are uninstalled apps who are still today using internet! and everyday, the number of MB spent by uninstall apps increase :)

Notice, my friend is a whatsapp addict, unistalled apps are using less than half of what's whatsapp is using :) system services are using way more that whatsapp :)

Backup MacBook pro late 2011

My MacBook pro keeps restarting while booting. I showed it to Apple care. They said they will check. But I might loose my data while they do so. In hardware test they did everything was fine. Including hard drive. Is there a way to backup my drive?

Can spotlight do Int > Hex conversion ?

Spotlight is great to do some fast calculation and conversions.

But can he also do some geeky conversions like Integers <> Hexadecimals or Integers <> Binary ?

New Apple ID, Can't update previous apps on mac

So I have a macbook pro and I recently made a new apple ID account due to a muck up with the old one the whole family was using. I've changed everything on my mac to make sure that my apple ID account is the only one logged in and everything which is working fine, the only problem is, 2 original apps that come with the mac (iPhoto and iMovie) need to be upgraded but every time i try to upgrade them it asks for my old apple id which is disconnected so it won't let me update them.

Can I delete these original apps off my mac and re download them under my new account? if so how do i save all my photos on iPhoto?

I'm not great with technology so if you have any ideas to help please put every step and detail in.

Thank you.

Soace number in menubar

Is there a way to show the space number in the menubar so you can easily tell which desktop you are on in yosemite?