Calendar events are deleting by mistake, without me deleting them?

i cal events delete without me deleting them? how do i stop this and can i find a list of deleted events; I'm running a shop and using ical for scheduling appointments for several people.

How can I get my videos from a camera to OSX?

I have Sony NEX 3N. I can find AVCHD file when camera plugged to the computer

that fires QuickTime where I can export videos to different social services such as YouTube but I cannot find the video files itself. I want videos to directories by times taken or some video management software in OSX that automatically extract timestamps make it easy to extract specific videos to Dropbox.

screensaver causes error "share does not exist on the server" to endless loop

I've been trying to learn to automate my home Mac environment with Applescript. I've had some success, but am running into seemingly inconsistent and troublesome errors. In order to diagnose the errors, I've broken the scripts down into their component parts and narrowed the most troublesome issue down to the Screen Saver. When I activate the current screen saver via a script, or if I access the Screen Saver control panel via the System Preferences, I get

I can click the "OK" button and it dismisses, sometimes for good, but most often it loops endlessly and my only option is to force a restart by holding down the power button. I've tried force quitting all open apps, and relaunching the finder and the error message/dialog box loop remains running.

Oddly, starting the Screen Saver with the Hot Corner does not seem to trigger the error.

To me this indicates that the issue isn't with my script, but that there's a problem with my Mac.

For what it's worth, I've also had issues with connecting to my Time Capsule backup which is the only drive on that server.

The machine is a MacBook 13-inch Late 2007 running OS 10.7.5.

Thoughts?

Update -

I thought that the Screen Saver might have been trying to call up images from a drive that used to be connected to the Airport Extreme but that is no longer there. I reset the Screen Saver control panel to one of the built in Screen Savers (after many tries at dismissing the irksome dialog box) and I deleted my user defined Screen Savers. This did not resolve or change the issue in any way. I've tried the same AppleScript on two other Macs without incident. Both of these other Macs are running 10.9.5 though, so that may or may not indicate anything.

Is there a way to re-install just the Screen Saver, or should I try to re-install the entire OS? Is there something else I should try?

Thanks!

Update 2

Well, re-installing the OS did not resolve the issue. I tried deleting the preferences plist from both the user library folder and the library folder at the top level of the hard drive. This didn't resolve it either. Perhaps it's an issue with the Airport Extreme, though I can't imagine why the Screen Saver in a re-installed OS would need to access the Airport Extreme. I'm really stumped here and beginning to wonder if I'm going to have to pay for more expert help. Thoughts?

How do I force OS X to treat a file as a Folder?

I happened to name some of my photo folders "*.Playground" (e.g., some date plus the ".Playground"), it got picked up happily by Xcode and now OS X treats it like a file associated with Xcode, even changing the filename doesn't help.

Does anyone know a way to force the file to be treated as a Folder?

Dictionary lookup wider and taller

It's possible to change the font and the font-size for 3-finger lookup popup. You just need to edit css file for dictionaries you use, e.g.:

sudo vim /Library/Dictionaries/New\ Oxford\ American\ Dictionary.dictionary/Contents/DefaultStyle.css 

find html.apple_client-panel body { and edit properties

Now I actually want to go further and make the entire popup area bigger - little wider and little taller. How can I do that?

I have an idea for an APP .. where can I search to see if it already exists?

I have an idea for an APP but it may already exist. I have already tried Google; using a variety of search string combinations but have so far found nothing.

Can anyone suggest a more comprehensive way? I know you can contact patent lawyers / people who can look in patent databases for you, for a fee. This I am unsure of.

Thanks a lot.

Luke

I removed the battery icon from the toolbar. How do I add it back?

Here are the links to the screenshots: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m6nhxv403s4717o/Screenshot%202014-12-28%2000.10.45.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/wpmccaacmnzjqv1/Screenshot%202014-12-28%2000.10.24.png?dl=0

As you can see the battery icon is missing because I accidentally removed it by CMD+Click+Dragging it off of the toolbar. Also, the customize toolbar button is not clickable.

Global Proxy - Tunnel All Traffic to Proxy

How do i make OSX go through a proxy server for all the applications that use internet?

The system preferences proxy network setting only routes depending if the application supports it, but an ideal solution would be a way to tunnel everything to a proxy.

iPhone 5c charger works in wall but not in computers?

My second charger did work in my computer and then one day just would not. It still worked in the wall perfectly fine. I wanted to sync it though so I went ahead and bought a new one. It worked in my computer fine until yesterday I was charging it on a computer and it just randomly stopped. I know it's not my computer because it doesn't work on any computer. The charger still works in the wall but it's really frustrating that I can't sync my new music :/

How to unblock extensions in Safari so I can install adblock?

I'm trying to install AdBlock Plus so pages like beliefnet.com won't have so many ads. Safari says my extensions are blocked. HELP?

Starting Preview without opening previous PostScript documents

I'm running the latest version of OS X and Preview is hanging whenever I try to start it.

It attempts to open the documents which I previously had open, which is ~10 PDFs and ~3 PostScript files, and it seems to be permanently get stuck whilst "converting" those PostScript files (even though opening them was no issue before).

Hence my question is, how do I start Preview without opening those documents?

Installing chatjax bookmark on the iPad

I have an Apple iPad Mini and am unable to install the bookmark found here that renders LaTeX in the Math StackExchange chat room. I can't find a browser with a bookmark bar to drag the given link to.

Other users in the room have also been unable to render LaTeX with their iPad.

Terminal Not Working After Yosimite Installation

I installed Yosimite now and after the installation the terminal is not working. It used to work before, but after installation of new MAC OS X on Mavericks (old MAC OS X). Can anyone help me with this?

If I open the terminal this message is showed:

Last login: Sun Dec 28 00:42:15 on ttys000
login: /usr/local/bin/bash: No such file or directory

[Process completed]

Infection (according to ClamXav) in "/private/var/db/PreviousSystemLogs.cpgz"

How do I fix this? What does it mean?

I'm not sure what do to, I am very good at OS X and Mac Software, but I've never gotten an infection notice by ClamXav and let alone in /private/var.

Can't connect MacBook Air to LED TV anymore

I'm not sure if it was that recent security update, or the fact I've bought a new television, but it seems my Macbook Air no longer wants to play with the television at all.

It's a little old, Late 2010, 1.4gHZ Intel core 2 duo macbook air, and i'm trying to get it to connect via MiniPort/HDMI cable to an LG55LB650V. It was previously connected to a two year old LG 42" television without any problem via the same cable i'm using here (or not using infact)....

So, i'm not sure if it's just the TV doesn't like computers, or if it's something about the software on the Macbook Air? What is weird is the screen flashes in and out once when I plug the miniport cable in, so it knows it's there I guess, but in the system preferences menu it doesn't seem to even acknowledge that there is an external device, the display preferences no longer asks about other displays, or infact I just noticed it also doesn't have that tick box it used to have about showing display preferences in the menu bar? So, i'm wondering if Apple have been tinkering around and this is whats causing the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The best way to sandbox programs in OSX?

I know that this question have been discussed before on AskDifferent, but none of the threads really satisfied me. For Windows you have a wonderful program called Sandboxie http://www.sandboxie.com/ that let you easily set up sandboxes with different rules and privileges. What is the eaisest and most secure way of sandbox really malicious programs?

Unknown backups on main hard drive

On my MacBook's 'About This Mac' pane there is a section that is taking up a lot of storage it is titled 'Backups'. Now I do use a Time Capsule but I don't know why it would be labeled under my MacBook's hard drive. Can anyone help me identify and solve this problem? Here is a screenshot of what I see.

Icon only view option for iOS

How do I set a view option so that my iOS apps appear in the main menu with only their icon, no name?

How can I change how often iCloud data gets synced on my iPhone 6?

When I make changes to Contacts on my Macbook, they tend to take a while to get synced up with my iPhone 6. I was wondering if there was a setting on the iPhone (or perhaps even on iCloud.com) that would allow me to set a more frequent synch schedule.

How do I set a localized name for a folder?

I want to give a folder a localized name. In one of Apple's articles, I found out that the ".localized" file (e.g., in ~/Downloads) is responsible for indicating this, but all of the .localized files are empty (length 0). I can't find any documentation for the content of this file, or even if it can have any at all.

How can I make a folder whose name is "One", but whose Spanish name is "Uno"?

How do I fix the admin login dialog box?

Ever since upgrading to Yosemite, I've had an issue with the admin login screen. It looks like this:

It's not a huge problem because I know what it is and I just enter my password and move on. But does anyone have ideas on how to get this fixed other than reinstall Yosemite?

iTunes wont recognise iPod classic

I'm using osx 10.10.2 beta and iTunes 12.0.1. When connecting my iPod classic the os recognise the device (I see it on the desktop and "disk util") but iTunes won't. Other devices work fine using the same cable and other macs can recognise the device. Any idea what should I do?

Thanks :)

Force boot usb in erased macbook

Out of frustration from Yosemite, I booted macbook in recovery mode, and erased the Macintosh drive from my retina macbook pro 13 inch. But I am not able to boot into ubuntu usb installer I made earlier. If I keep the alt key pressed while booting, macbook shows "Internet Recovery" option, on clicking, shows "24 hours" in text. How do I force boot into usb?

Mac OSX Lion - Windows 8 bootcamp

I'm trying to install Windows 8 on my Mac (10.7.5) but I'm running into some big issues. First I'll explain what I already did.

1. I created a partition with the Boot camp assistant (151 GB)


2. I installed a ISO on my external hard drive.


3. I rebooted my Mac holding the option key so I could choose a start drive disk


4. I selected EFI BOOT


5. I entered my serial number and continued.

And here does the trouble begins:

6. Now a see a list of drivers and my partition but I can't select my Drive 0 Partition 4: Bootcamp

The error I get:

"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks.

Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. Windows must be installed to a partition formatted as NTFS.

Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu"

I already tried to run this command(s)

diskpart
select disk 0                      (assuming 0 is the disk where you created the bootcamp partition)
select partition 4                 (assuming 4 is your bootcamp partition)
format fs=NTFS label="Windows 8"   (I didn’t use QUICK)
exit
exit

Note: Drive 1 is my external hard disk.

Notes iCloud sync fail Yosemite and IOS8

Notes appear not to be syncing reliably. There are other questions but appear to be about older versions.

No two of iCloud, IOS and Mac seem to be fully in sync

All my old notes seem to be OK. Probably sync by wire under iTunes

My email seems to sync correctly

iCloud shows all notes over a year old in its list (but then shows ion screen the one I just typed in on my IPhone)

iPhone and Mac seems to be in sync for up to last Monday (Note as Monday 22nd now it looks odd for iPhone to show Monday for notes update on 15th Dec)

How do I force a sync

How do I debug this - what logs etc

WD Passport 1TB USB 3.0 Time Machine external HD not being recognized on Yosemite

After upgrading to Yosemite my external HD is not being recognized. My HD is a WD My Passport 1TB USB 3.0 and I have a MacBook Pro Late 2011

• It does not show on Finder


• It does not show on System Information


• It does not show on Disk Utility (even after using the Debug menu)


• It does not show on /Volumes

Do you have any ideas why is this happening? Should I reformat my drive?

Thanks!

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.

Printing pictures from camera

How can I print out the pictures I took with my camera? I would like to print some of the pictures I have taken, especially those of my daughter, can this be done?

Why won't my late 2014 Mac mini output 4k video?

I have a Samsung U28D590 plugged into a Late 2014 Mac mini (with Iris video graphics) via Thunderbolt 2 to DisplayPort.

In the display options it does not give the option for 3840x2160, even after holding the option key while clicking on "Scaled"

Both the monitor and Mac mini support this resolution according to their documentation, so I wonder if I need to install some extra drivers or something like that.

Is my refurbished iPad 2 a Model A?

I recently acquired a refurbished iPad 2 WiFi and, being an iOS developer, I would like to use it as a test device and load beta iOS versions on it. Apple offers two different downloads, one for an "iPad 2" and one for an "iPad 2 (Model A)." I'm not sure which one I can safely use. This Ask Different answer states that iPad 2's with model number MC979 are not Rev A, whereas A1395 MC954 (black) or MC989 (white) are Model A's. My iPad 2 has "Model A1395" written on the back, however in Settings -> General -> About, it lists the Model as FC769LL/A. Is mine a Model A or not?

MBP not detecting external monitor

I have 2 MBP. A private (late-2013) and a work (mid-2012). My private MBP can detect the external monitors instantly without any issues. My work MBP can only detect one of the monitors..

The monitors are exactly the same (Fujitsu Thor) and I use a mini-DP -> DP cable.

I've tried resetting PRAM and SMC.

Closing 128 "new" documents in Preview

I opened 128 .png files in Preview, hoping to use it to create a PDF out of them. I think this was possible in earlier versions using the 'New from clipboard' trick. Now I'm on Yosemite. So I copied all of the files to the clipboard, created a new document, and no, it's not possible to make a PDF out of it. (The 'Print' option works, but creates a PDF inflated 3 times in size.) Now I try to close the newly created documents, and apple wants me to click 'Don't Save' 128 times manually?!?!? Most of the time waiting for the slooooooow animations for the dialog. Any way around this?

Script to remove image orientation

I need to remove the orientation "flag" of a batch of images (jpeg images), without changing the displayed orientation of the images.

Trying to make it clear : if I have an image in portrait orientation with an orientation flag, I want it to keep this portrait orientation, but get rid of the orientation flag, as it seems some application are not able to handle it correctly. It's a kind of fusionning the image with its orientation flag.

I guess this means recompressing the image, but that is not a problem.

I tried to do it with automator, but was not able to do it. Is it possible ?

My NTFS formatted external Toshiba drive is unreadable since update to Yosemite OS X 10.10.1

My portable external Toshiba hard drive is now unreadable on my MacBook Pro early 2008 aluminum computer. Since updating to Yosemite OS X 10.10.1, I cannot recover my files stored as Time Machine backups on my external drive. In the finder, it cannot be see under devices, however in Disk Utility, it is visible. The mounted partition is not viewable, however. My own native hard drive is 200 GB while the external hd is 500 GB. There's no creating a 500 GB image on my hard drive, in other words. I've tried the latest versions of Paragon NTFS and Tuxera NTFS with no avail.

How am I to recover my files, most importantly my Time Machine backups, from my external drive?

MacBook

Move files if file name doesn't exist considering extension

For example, in folder A, I have foo.jpg and bar.jpg. In folder B, I have foo.png and foobar.png. I only need one version of the file regardless of the extension, so I only want move foobar.png to folder A. How can I do this? This is a simple example, there are almost 2,000 files in folder B, so comparing manually would be very tedious.

OS X DVD app does not accept external drive

I replaced my MBP's optical drive with the original HDD and put an SSD in its place and have the optical drive in an external USB enclosure. Consequently, I receive the

A valid DVD drive could not be found. Error -70012

Error when opening the DVD app. I used the alleged fix described here (modifying one of the dvd framework files), but to no avail. The instructions seem to work for most people, so I'm wondering what my problem could be. Has anyone else experienced this issue? I can use VLC and it works just find, but I'm curious if there's a fix for it. I use OS X 10.10.1.

How to get 2 Mac mini displays to have their own unique open apps, a set on A, and diff on B?

I've successfully got two monitors running on a 2012 Mac mini. But how do i get each screen to have it's own 'identity?' That is, how do i get 2-3 windows open on monitor A, and windows 4-6 open on monitor B?

They should be able somehow to have separate and distinct displays, right? Email responses greatly appreciated to:

jcrowconsult@gmail.com

Thank you in advance, fellow Mac mini users. ...

is there a shortcut to expand folders in Finder while being in Cover Flow mode?

in Finder I can use the arrow keys to go up and down and with "left arrow" and "right arrow" I can expand a folder while being in List View mode. However, when I'm in Cover Flow mode the "left arrow" and "right arrow" do the same as "up arrow" and "down arrow", i.e. just go up and down in the list. How can I expand a folder while being in Cover Flow?

Getting addresses on my iPad

I recently got an iPad and and iPhone 6. I successfully transeferred all my email addresses from my PC (which is not an Apple product) to my phone but cannot get them onto my iPad. I followed the same steps that I did with my phone but they won't transfer over. Is there something else I need to do? Or do I have to manually type in all my addresses?

Change children's Apple ID

I accidentally created an @icloud.com address for my kid's (under 13) Apple ID, and now I want to change the primary email to his correct address. However, there is no option for setting a new primary email when I sign into his account at appleid.apple.com. The correct address is listed under Alternative Email Addresses I thought maybe I'd have to change it through my account, but I couldn't find any help there either. How can I change his primary email address?

Migration assistant runs forever

Using Migration assistant over wifi, both source and target machines spin wheels and don't find each other. Both machines have firewall off and set to IVP6 automatic. Target is Yosemite and source is 10.6.8 Any ideas

Lost 6 gb upgrade to IOS 8.1.2

Lost 6 gb of pictures when upgrade to IOS 8.1.2. They where in my iClould, After ungarske they dissappeared. Where are they?

How to use wingdings' arrow in Pages?

Do you know how to custom a bulleted list with a wingdings arrow please ?

I managed to insert the arrow, but I can't write in calibri after it.

I think the best solution would be to use a image bullet, but I dont know where I can find agood quality wingdings'arrow picture.

How to remove imessage from ipod from computer [duplicate]

This question already has an answer here:

• Steps after buying a used iPhone 2 answers

I sold my Ipod on Gumtree and the guy that wanted it gave it to his 9 year old Sister for Christmas.

On Christmas Eve it got a phonecall from him and he said that he is still receiving messages that i get sent - to the ipod aswell meaning he is receiving all my messages and personal info... Worrying.

My iphone i currently have its off as i lost my charger and so i need to solve this issue asap via my computer. How do i do it?

Any help appreciated. THanks

How to ignore faces permanently in iPhoto?

How to tell iPhoto to ignore the specific faces permanently if I want to ignore some. When i click close button it doesn't work, because the next time when i find faces, THE SAME faces appear again.

Anyone know how to fix this issue?

Early 2008 Mac Pro Random wake up and other oddities

When I first purchased the machine in 2008 it ran flawlessly under Tiger I believe was the OS at the time. Ever since I upgraded to later iterations of OS X, my machine would randomly wake up from sleep but it's not a full on wake as the monitors don't turn on, just the audible click sound from the Mac and a few minutes later will go back to sleep again. Happens 3-4 times through the night when I'm sleeping.

Secondly, when I wake it from sleep, my optical drive will no longer be available. I have to do a full hard restart to gain that functionality again only to lose it again if my machine goes to sleep. One last thing is when I initiate the sleep process, it takes a good 30 seconds before it actually goes idle. Never had these issues with Tiger (could have been Leopard).

Thanks for any insights.

Aperture overwrites files with same name

My canon camera was setup with filename numbering to 0001. When the camera reached the 9999, it restarted the numbering to 0001. I didn't noticed the file names since I just import my picture with aperture.

Now after some time I figured out that the old files, like first 0001.jpg version is no more available and 0001 is always the last one picture imported.

It looks like I lost a lot of pictures! Is weird!

There is anyway to get back all pictures out of aperture?

Sign with specefic apple id without entering apple id and password for remote devices [on hold]

I have an apple id wish hundred apps what I purchase. I send my apps (Ripa files) to my friend. They want to use my apps and they can install it. But they can’t open my apps because after opening app it need my apple id. Is there any way without giving my apple id to them? For example making a certificate and send to them. In other way I want to authorize their device with my apple id without giving them my apple id.

thanks

How To Open COC Game center ID with bluestack?

recently my IPhone 4 has fell and right now it's in repair.. because Im worry about my COC account i installed bluestack on my laptop but what i need to do so i can load my game center COC id on the bluestack.. not a MAC user..

If bluestack is a software means for android, How about apple created a software for IOS users..