Terminal stuck at error won't accept any commands.

I was trying to install CLI package from github but I messed up during the process and ended up getting this error. It is persistent and won't go away. Terminal wont accept any commands like mkdir, ls, clear screen. To fix this error I ended up deleting the info.plist file for the terminal ( I am not a very smart person) which somehow bricked terminal and it won't start anymore. I decided to download iTerm, and it still launches with the same old error. What am I supposed to do. Please help me .

I can't find my file in Propellerhead Reason 8. HELP!

I made a song in propellerhead reason 8 and I named the file ".cubicle..reason" but now i can't find the file. I was wondering how I could use terminal to locate the aforementioned file.

iPhone connect usb client to wireless clients

I'm using my iPhone 4 as a hotspot for a few laptops I have at home. Generally I'm only using one and I connect it to the iPhone via USB. But, from time to time I need to share files or perform other network related tasks. So I connect my other laptops via the wireless connection.

When I do this however, I am unable to get the computer that's connected via USB to talk to any of the computers that have connected via authenticated Wireless. And vice verse, none of the authenticated connections can talk to the USB machine.

Is there a way of making the USB connection talk to the wireless connections directly? (Finder is able to see the networked (Windows) machine, but I can't connect to it. (Even though the shared folders are accessible to ANYONE.))

my system seems stuck on Optimize hard drive in FileVault

just upgraded to Yosemite going through the process it asked about file vault i said yes to encrypt it, so it started to optimize hard drive it seems to be stuck on 2 hours left....probably been 3 hours since it started? what do i do? thank you in advance ( i am new to Apple products btw)

One user can't open anything after Yosemite upgrade

My Mac mini (early 2009) was getting slow, so I decided to do some upgrades. I got 8 GB of ram and a 128 GB SSD from crucial that their wizard verified as being compatible. I downloaded Yosemite from the app store and made a bootable USB drive following Apple's instructions. Then I did a time machine backup to an external drive. Finally I did the RAM and SSD install. I inserted the Yosemite USB drive I made earlier and did a fresh installation. On startup, I migrated files and settings from my time machine backup. I logged in to my primary account and did the software updates from the app store and rebooted. At this point my family started using the computer and is very happy with it. Startup, login, and application loads are very fast. There's no more freezes or beachballs.

However, one of the four user accounts is problematic. It takes several minutes to login and load the dock/ menu bar, versus seconds for all the other accounts. Clicking on anything in the menus/desktop/dock/dialogs results in a beachball for several minutes. No applications or files will open. Occasionally I'll get a "the application ... could not be opened" error dialog 10-20 minutes after trying to open something from the dock. How do I fix this account?

How to install the 2014 NTP security fix on 10.6.8 Snow Leopard

For 10.6.8 would it work to open the 10.8 NTP update.dmg with pacifist and put in the new versions of the following 6 files?: /usr/bin/sntp

/usr/bin/ntp-keygen

/usr/bin/ntpq

/usr/sbin/ntpdc

/usr/sbin/ntpdate

/usr/sbin/ntpd I am not sure about including the ntptrace file that was in the 10.8 sbin. What does it do? Also what would the appropriate chown command be to get these files properly recognized?

Typing 'paral' into Spotlight suggests 'Pages' instead of 'Parallels Desktop' - how to fix?

If I type any of these in Spotlight (Yosemite): par para parall parallel etc

Parallels Desktop is suggested as the program to launch - which is what I want.

However - if I type 'paral' - what you would think was a good short bet to load the app - it suggests 'Pages.

I endup typing 'paral' a lot as it used to work.

I found nothing on Google.

This makes no sense. How can I fix this?

Install OS X Applications and Library directories on external drive

Wondering how could I set some sort of partial OS X installation on an external drive, I searched Google only to find that I may be the only one looking for this. The goal is to get both the Applications and Library directories (those from OS X installation's root, not user's) to run them on any Mac, always keeping the applications' preferences in the Library directory, on the drive.

You may see that as some sort of partial OS X installation.

Is this possible and, if so, how ?

iTunes and iPhone disagree on memory usage

There is a large discrepancy between the memory usage as reported by my iPhone and that as reported by iTunes - as well as between iTunes' Settings pages for the iPhone and the iTunes memory bar at the bottom of the screen. iTunes reports that the iPhone is set to sync my entire music library,

but also claims that only about one third of my songs are actually stored on the phone.

(I'm old fashioned; I still buy and rip my own CDs, and I don't use any cloud services.) Furthermore the phone itself reports that the amount of memory being used for music is three times as much as shown in iTunes.

(I don't know how to get the phone to show a count of songs.) Does anyone know what I need to do to get these numbers to agree?

Figuring out what IP's and Ports a program is accessing

I play poker semi-professionally online and live. When I play online I have a hard time limiting the amount of time I play. There is a free application I found called self-control. It allows you to block domains, ip addresses and ports to applications under what it calls a "blacklist" for a specified period of time. I entered into the blacklist the name of the poker website hoping its client side poker software connects through its main domain and even when self control program is blocking access, the program program still connects to its server.

Question-Using terminal or some other utility how do I determine what servers or ports to block to prevent the poker software from connecting to its severs?

How can I retrieve files from a Time Machine backup done with Snow Leopard when my current OS is Mavericks?

I have a Seagate GoFlex home 2 Tb external drive that was installed on my Snow Leopard Mac and configurer with Time Machine. A year ago, due to issues with my Mac, the (internal) hard drive was erased and I subsequently installed Mavericks and re-configured Time Machine with the external drive. I would like to retrieve the files from the Snow Leopard backups, which included many photos for example but I am unable to see them in Time Machine. I can only see the Mavericks backups. Here are additional things I tried:

• I tried accessing the external drive via Finder but nothing appears in the Time Machine backup folder. I obviously also looked in the other folders and for hidden files but nothing relevant appears.


• I looked at the Seagate GoFlex applications that were included with the drive but none of them allow me to access the backups, including the Mavericks backups.


• I tried the Migration Assistant (under Utilities) and I can only see the Mavericks backups.


• I checked my Time Machine settings and "tell me when old backups are deleted" is enabled. I would have been noticed (which isn't the case). I also read that new backups can override older ones but my disk still has 1.5 Tb free.

Thank you for your help!

RAM Disk Fusion Drive?

I've recently started reading up on RAM disks, and they really do sound like they could boost a computer's speed. However, I was wondering if there was a way to go even further and make a RAM disk one of the volumes in a DIY Fusion Drive. Is there a way, keeping in mind the fact that RAM loses its data upon losing power, to safely make a DIY Fusion Drive featuring a RAM disk?

Best practice to connect two monitors with my Macbook Pro

currently i am asking which is the best practice to connect two HDMI monitors on my Macbook Pro. I have on HDMI slot and one Display Port. It is possible to chain the monitors via one display port or i have to connect one via hdmi and one via the mini display port?

Thanks in advance.

how to preview text files with custom file extensions in Finder

When I have .txt files or .py files, I can preview those files in Finder. I have .jl files that are codes written in the Julia Language. Of course they are text files. They will open in a text editor like Sublime Text. How can I preview these .jl files in Finder?

Will Home Sharing work without a running iTunes instance?

This is the idea: if I move my iTunes library to a NAS and enable Home Sharing, will this feature continue to work if I then turn off my PC?

I would like my Apple TV to access my music and videos but without having to keep my PC running, ideally only the NAS should be running. Is there any way this could work?

Airport Extreme and 10/100 Ethernet Switch

I have an Airport Extreme (with Gigabit Ethernet) connected up to my cable modem, my Mac, and my PC. I have one spare port on the AE and thought about hooking up a spare 10/100 Ethernet Switch I have (D-Link DES-1105). I could hook up the Blu-ray player, etc, to this.

Will hooking up a switch like this (and 10/100 Ethernet devices to that switch) drop the Gigabit Ethernet on the rest of the AE to 10/100? Or, will the AE keep the Gigabit devices running at full speed, and keep the 10/100 Switch running at 10 or 100 Mb/s?

Force contacts to sync with iCloud right now

I just updated a contact's phone number in the Mac Contacts app. Now I want to call them on my iPhone (4S), but my iPhone does not have the new number. Both the Mac and the iPhone are configured to sync to my iCloud account. How do I force them to sync now, one after the other, so I can make this call?

No java installations was detected, although I have Java

$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_65"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.65-b04-462, mixed mode)

$ which java
/usr/bin/java

$ ls /usr/libexec/java_home
/usr/libexec/java_home

But when I run some application from the terminal, is says in terminal:

No java installations was detected.
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How do I clone my old mac to a new one?

I have a MacBook Pro running Lion 10.7.5. I just got a new mac running Yosemite. I have everything from the old mac backed-up on Time Machine. How do I transfer all my files, apps, email, photos in iPhoto, music, etc., to the new mac? I want to get everything I have on my old mac, plus anything new on the new mac, such as new apps.

Music stops during movie in Keynote

I've inserted music into the presentation and the song is 5 mins long. There are 21 slides. After exporting the presentation to a movie, and then playing the movie, the song stops playing at 41 seconds, at about the 4th slide. It doesn't matter if I move the slides arounds - the music always stops at 41 secs when saved as a movie.

When I am in Keynote the song continues throughout if I play the presentation from the start. I want the music to play in the movie through all the slides.

The music file is 5 mins long. It is set to play continuously per slide.

Does apple review apps during the holiday break?

I had assumed they wouldn't be reviewing apps during this Dec 22-29 break (ARGH!) but on appreviewtimes.com there have been several postings both today and yesterday.

Does anyone know if they still review apps? iTunes connect is supposed to be shut down.

Admin privileges requiring for installing a package build though Packages

Using osx 10.9 and packages for making package installer.

While installing a package made using Packages in /Applications location on a osx 10.9 machine, installer is asking for Admin password. Even though I had unchecked 'Require admin password for installation' while package making.

So, how to avoid this i.e a non-admin user should install this package. Package should install in /Applications location, so that non-admin user can use the app.

I check this and this

IPhoto List View

I'm using IPhoto 9.x and was wondering if there was such thing as a list view (much like details view in finder) so that I can easilly see modified date on photos that I have yet to import.

Anything of the sort?

time capsule with 3com officeconnect router

I would like to connect my time capsule to my 3com officeconnect adsl modem router and connect my computers to the wifi provided by the time capsule.

In my 3com admin page I have a bunch of settings for PPPoE.

In order for this work, I understand I should I put my 3com to bridged mode? (how?)

Do I have to re-enter all the PPPoE settings in the mac time capsule utility?

How do I get this to work? The light is currently flashing amber in the TC.

Thank you.

I can't view photo's in Mail on my iMac, but they can be viewed on my iPad and iPhone email

I can't view photo"s in Mail on my iMac, but they can be viewed on my iPad and iPhone email...

Backup apps in ipa format on iphone no PC

I need to restore my iphone firmware on my work computer, without installing any other program other than the iTunes already installed on it. I'm wondering if there's some kind if app or jailbreak tweak I can install on the iphone and use to back up all my apps into ipa, copy to PC, then install later again.( I could always use appcake to install back )

Open iMovie '09 .rcproject in iMovie 10

I have a vintage 2009 iMovie project (.rcproject) I rescued from an old Time Machine backup, and I'm trying to open it in iMovie 10 under Yosemite. It's large enough that I'm pretty sure it does actually have the video in it.

Unfortunately there's no just "open a file" option and everything I can find on line about the '09 -> 10 transition is about upgrading your iMovie "library". I haven't got a library, just one .rcproject file. How do I convince iMovie 10 this is something it can upgrade / open?

(Additional info: I do have iMovie 9.0.9 on this machine, but under Yosemite it refuses to launch.)

Reminders app cannot be opened nor killed

The Reminders app used to work correctly for a time, but now it seems to have become a ghost. It shows up in the dock as if it was running, with a "not responding" label in the contextual menu, but there is no Reminders process anywhere in Activity Monitor or ps output.

Since there is no way to kill a process that is not open, I am stuck with this ghost.

I tried to kill the Dock and restart the system, to no avail.

If I manually start the Reminders executable that is inside the app package, it spawns a new Reminders icon in the dock and I can use the app, but the original icon stays there with the "not respoding" label.

What can I do?

How can I send audio to airport speakers from a stereo system, not a computer?

I have some speakers connected to an Airport Express, and can easily send audio to them from a computer. So far, so good. However, I also have an actual stereo system (receiver, CD/tape decks, etc.), and I'd like to be able to send the output from that system to the Airport speakers as well.

I could probably do this by attaching a computer to the system, but it seems like overkill, and makes for a complex process (something like 'start computer, set up audio output', rather than 'push the button'). Is there some other, simpler piece of equipment that can take an audio input and send it to the Airport-connected speakers on my network?

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MAC: I have Garageband 6.0.5. Why does updating to Garageband 10 (next version, don't get fooled by numbers) cost money?

I have Garageband 6.0.5. Why does updating to Garageband 10 (next version, don't get fooled by numbers) cost money? I thought updates were free!!!

How to install MacPorts on user-only account?

On my Mac I use an Admin and an everyday User account (without admin / sudo privileges). Currently I am setting up a new Yosemite system and found that after installing MacPorts (using its installer), I cannot do sudo operations, such as sudo port selfupdate. In the user account it tells me that it does not have sufficient privileges and on the admin account the command port is not found.

So I am wondering what is the correct way to set up MacPorts on OS X? Should I install it rather on the Admin instead of the User account? Or is there some other way to use it from the User account?

iPod classic 160gb showing NO music or any files at all

I just finished making a Christmas playlist in iTunes when I moved my laptop and iTunes thinks I removed my iPod without ejecting it properly first. I think I'm using a crappy USB cord but that's besides the point. So at this point I ejected it from "MY COMPUTER" on Windows and disconnect it from the USB cord and the iPod says "NO MUSIC" and shows none of my playlists etc; it looks like everything is gone on xmas EVE! :(

So now I plug it back into iTunes on my laptop and it says "iTunes cannot read the contents of your iPod. Go to summary tab in iPod preferences and click restore to restore this iPod back to factory settings."

But I know that will erase everything for sure and I definitely don't want to do that.

When I go into "MY COMPUTER" on windows it still shows that's there's 15GB of SOMETHING on my iPod (I had about that much music on my iPod) but iTunes cannot recognize it.

What can I do? I've spent hours in the past reorganizing, renaming files and making various playlists and I don't want to have to do all that again, especially not on Christmas eve.

When I go into "settings>about on my iPod, it says 133GB free" on a 160gb iPod so SOMETHING is there.

I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium.

2009 MacBook Pro (5,5) won't load OS X installer from USB

I have a mid 2009 MacBook Pro that I believe to be the 5,5 model. I tried to install Ubuntu 14.10 over the old OS (OS X Mountain Lion). It seemed like everything went well with the install. When I went to reboot, however, I was greeted by a purple screen, but cannot get to a terminal or a log in screen.

No worries, I'll make an OS X Yosemite USB and boot to that. I used a newer MacBook to create a USB, but the 2009 MacBook Pro in question is not booting. The "Install OS X" option comes up when holding option at boot, I double click on the orange hard drive, and the apple logo comes up with a progress bar. The progress bar hangs at ~25% and did not move at all in the past 7 hours. How can I get OS X back on this machine?

Upgrade logic board of Macbook Unibody 4.1

I've recently found a (factory refurbished) logic board from a Macbook Unibody 5.2 (mid-2009; 820-2496-A) and want to replace the logic board of my Macbook Unibody 4.1 (early-2008) with it, so my Macbook can run a newer OS. I've already upgraded my Macbook with a 240GB SSD and 4GB 800MHz RAM.

Comparing pictures of the logic boards it seems like the connectors are the same, as well as everything else, except for the graphics chip (X3100 is my current, while the one on the new logic board is the x64-based GeForce 9400M). So visually it seems like the 5.2 logic board is perfectly compatible with the 4.1 version.

I'll probably receive the logic board just before Christmas (never know exactly this time of year), so I can try swapping the logic boards. Once I've succeeded (or failed) I will report to you guys here.

Has anyone tried doing this before? If it works, does my current OS X installation work with the new logic board or do I need to reinstall OS X?

How to text, as a blind carbon copy, multiple phone numbers at once?

http://ift.tt/1xLAWzG explains as it claims in its title: 'How To Send Text Messages to Multiple Recipients Using iPhone'. However, what do I do if I want to prevent each recipients from seeing all the other recipients in the address field (ie I want this to be a Blind Carbon Copy)? For my iPhone 5s, I already tried http://ift.tt/13EnKjc, which claims:

The option you're looking for is located at Settings > Messages > Group Messaging. Turning this off will send all messages individually to their recipients.

I do see and can access (iPhone Home Screen) > Settings > Messages, but just like the commenters below that answer, I can't find Group Messaging?

postfix login with alias domains

I've set up a mail server with yosemite's server app which hosts my two domains, say myfirstdomain.com and myseconddomain.com where myfirstdomain.com is the canonical domain name of my server.

Assumed i have a user "peter" i can now login to IMAP with peter@myfirstdomain.com and peter@myseconddomain.com but only if i use "plain" as authentication method. It doesn't work if i use for example "MD5 Challenge Response" where i can only login with peter@myfirstdomain.com. And SMTP login doesn't accept peter@myseconddomain.com as user name at all, only peter@myfirstdomain.com.

Can somebody explain me this behaviour? And how can i achieve that i can login with both domains? (Sorry for the bad english)

UPDATE

I think i have figured out why it doesn't work: I thought that postfix will just look at the username in the login string when you authenticate what in the example above means that it will just look at "peter" and not "peter@whateverdomain.com". But that is wrong. Postfix also looks at the domain name because you could for example have two different mailboxes peter@myfirstdomain.com and peter@myseconddomain.com. If postfix wouldn't look at the domain name it wouldn't know which one of the two mailboxes you want to login to.

The graphical interface of yosemite's server app lets you create virtual aliases but not virtual mailboxes (see here for the difference). In my example above i created the virtual alias peter@myseconddomain.com of peter@myfirstdomain.com which means that all incoming mails to peter@myseconddomain.com will be forwarded to peter@myfirstdomain.com. That is what a virtual alias does. So i makes sense that i can't login with peter@myseconddomain.com because it is a virtual alias and not a virtual mailbox.

I've also made a wrong statement: I said that i can login with peter@myseconddomain.com if i use "plain" as authentication method. That was wrong. Seemed to be a mistake of my mail program.

Hope that helps ... If you have more questions on this topic you should look at postfix and dovecot authentication and how i works. You do could change the authentication system to let it work like you want it.

my Mac is frozen

My Mac is a laptop and it is white, I really don't know much about because I just got it for my birthday. My Mac is working although the mouse if frozen so I tried turning it off, and now the turn off menu is frozen with it, then I tried to just force quit it, that didn't work, now the last thing to do is to let it die, is that the only way to pet unfreeze?

Are iPhones and iPads TAA compliant?

The Trade Agreement Act (TAA) of 1979 was designed to improve trade agreements, foster an open world trade system, expand US commerce opportunities, and improve international trade rules.

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Are iPhones and iPads TAA compliant?

Use Different network for different applications! [duplicate]

This question already has an answer here:

• Is there a way to use different network connections for different apps 5 answers

is there a way to use different connection for different application ? for example Safari will use "WifiRouter 1" and i like to change the wifi that will VLC Use "WifiRouter 2" i mean using different wifis for different apps!

How to copy data from non starting MBA?

My old MBA (2008) is not booting anymore from hdd. I tried to repair it with disk repair and with a DiskWarrior CD-ROM, but nothing. I need to copy some data from the hdd, before replacing it.

Any ideas on how to do that?

IOS: Bluetooth not auto connecting to previously paired device

Neither my iPhone nor iPad can auto connect (auto-pair) to a bluetooth audio device. However it works on Android and OSX Yosemite.

I have a bluetooth stereo system receiver: beewi bbr100. http://ift.tt/1vbsrqM

Steps on iPhone/iPad are: 1. Turn on Bluetooth 2. Select and pair beewi bbr100 device (unknown until now) 3. Works fine 4. Turn off Bluetooth 5. Turn on Bluetooth 6. Does not automatically pair it. (I expect it to. Android and OSX work fine)

Summary of my testing: iPad OSX 8.1.2 - No iPhone OSX 7.0.5 - No Android (Lollipop) - Yes Macbook Air (OSX Yosemite) - Yes

I did go through the Apple troubleshooting guide. Yes I did reset network settings. Yes I did log out of icloud. Yes I did do a Hard reboot.

Is there something I don't understand?

Script Editor crashing when running Applescript

I need to extract the phone number of all the contacts in a particular group and for that I am using the following code -

on run {input, parameters}  
    tell application "Contacts"
        set thePeople to every person
        repeat with i from 1 to number of items in thePeople
            set this_person to item i of thePeople
            set inGroup to name of group of this_person
            if inGroup is "Technology" then
                set x to properties of phones of this_person
            end if
        end repeat
    end tell
end run

But whenever I run the code, the script editor crashes and asks me to reopen it even though I have only one contact in that group. What's happening here?

System failed to reboot and stuck at gray screen

I have an early 2011 MBP that came with Snow Leopard. I have now upgraded it to Yosemite. Yesterday, when I tried restarting the computer it did not recover from gray screen (kernel panic?). I tried the SMC reset, PRAM reset. Safe reboot does not work. I went into the recovery mode and tried to do disk repair. I get an error message which states that the disk cannot be unmount. When I try reinstalling OS X (through Internet) I get an error saying OS X failed to download. Any suggestions?

Suggestions for objective-c to login via code into mac osx [on hold]

Please help me in assessing this feasibility

I need to enhance a daemon (running as root) on macOSx in such a way that if my client sends username and password over socket to daemon then it makes that user to log in, who is currently logged out (not just locked) without making user to go via system login window

I understand that for locked window it is possible (NameAndPassword/ knock to unlock etc. ) but not sure about for the user who is logged out.

Can you please let me know some pointers if it is at all possible?

How do I change my rescue email if I forgot my security question's answers?

I had my rescue email to my old email that I deleted later. Then I realized that I forgot my security passwords and the only way to find it was to send an email to your rescue email. I didn't know what to do since its been a long time since I deleted that email. What should I do?