I have a GPU issue with my MacBook Pro late 2011 which requires 3 weeks in repair (until the required parts come in). I took out the hard drive and put it in an external casing.
Can I safely use this hard drive on another MacBook Pro (late 2009) and still use my data/applications/OS X?
I just purchased a MacBook Pro and the Mail app will not let me enable a Gmail account. Whenever I type in my email info and password and click enter, it just erases and nothing happens. How can I add my account?
I've selected the {bold text in braces} using my keyboard, starting at the bottom line and moving up (the | character indicates where the cursor currently is):
AAA |{BBB CCC
DDD} EEE FFF
Now, I would like to change the selection so that it starts at the end of the first line, i.e. so that it looks like this:
AAA BBB CCC |{
DDD} EEE FFF
The natural way to do it would be via Shift + Control + → , and many decent text editors work as expected (for instance Sublime Text2).
Native OSX apps, however, ignore the fact that the cursor is currently at the start of the selection, and moving it to the right should remove the selection there. Instead, they always extend the selection from the end of it until the end of the line:
AAA {BBB CCC
DDD EEE FFF}|
Is there any way to make also native OSX apps behave the expected way?
I am seeing some strange behaviour... As you can see here: http://ift.tt/1BgoXvR I have lots of folders I don't see on my Mac (shown here): http://ift.tt/1AbvvZz Not sure why this is. When ever I make a new file or folder on either my Mac or on iCloud.com I see the file/folder. It's just I don't see those default Quicktime folders etc... weird any ideas? Thanks
I lost my copy of a downloaded audio book from ITunes. I also accidentally deleted my computer copy. I am willing to rebuy the audio book but ITunes will not let me rebuy the audiobook. It just tells me I have already bought it. Is there any solution to this issue?
I would like to record my voice, guitar and an electronic drummer through a mixer into garageband. When I click on 'New Project' I am not sure what format (piano, voice, etc.) I should be using?? Can you steer me in the right direction? Thanks. Larry.
So when using full screen on any app is there a way to disable the top menu from auto showing when you hover over it? It's pretty annoying because when it pops open it shifts down the entire screen.
I have a 2014 MacBook Air running Yosemite.
I've finally figured out how to install Windows without any stray network connection errors or invalid .iso file errors, but I've run into a bit of an issue. The Windows partition doesn't have any drivers. Its' resolution is 640x320 and I don't even know if I can change that. I've downloaded the Boot Camp drivers for my machine (Late 2013 MacBook Pro 15" with Retina Display) and I'd installed the Windows-run partition with those drivers in the .iso, but somehow none of those drivers were installed.
I'd downloaded them again to my Macintosh HD partition, but I can't copy them to my Windows HD partition because of file system incompatibilities or whatever. At that point I'd decided to copy them to an NTFS flash drive, then copy them from that drive to my Windows HD partition, but I'm still not allowed to do that. I'm given the not-allowed cursor when I attempt to drag the drivers folder over. I'm pretty sure I can launch Setup.exe in Windows HD if I can figure out how to copy those files over and everything will be okay, but I can't figure out how to do that.
One last thing I'd tried (the first) was to connect to Ethernet via Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter. This did not work and I'm assuming that's because I don't have an Ethernet driver, either. I couldn't even connect to the network.
I've never been through so much trouble just to play a game from The Sims series. Why can't they hurry to the release of a Mac version? :(
Thanks for reading.
I currently have Yosemite on my Early 2009 IMac. This Imac has a 2 GHZ CPU and 2 GB of ram. However, whenever I try to run Xcode 6 on this Mac, it is slow-very slow. When monitoring my cpu, it hovers around at most 25% use when I'm running it. However, the RAM on the other hand is using 1.99 gb out of 2.00 gb. My question is will my slow Xcode problem be solved if I upgrade my Imac to 8gb of ram?
My mid-2012 MacBookPro (Model 9,2) has developed an issue with power in the past few weeks. When it is left awake for several hours, but is idle, it powers off. When I turn it back on and log in, it does not give the typical message about being shut down unexpectedly.
I have noticed this in clamshell mode with lots of USB devices and an external monitor attached as well as when it is left open, but told not to sleep in the Energy Saver Preference Panel.
It always happens when left on over night and today happened after it was left idle for about 2 hours.
The problem has just started happening, but I cannot remember if it started right after I upgraded to 10.10.2 or not.
I am a junior-level developer beginning to work on a project that requires me to use Apache 7.0.x, and I'm running Yosemite with a Windows 7 VM. When I did some research on how to get Apache, I discovered that Mac comes with Apache pre-installed. However, it seems that the version is 2.4. Since Apache runs on JRE, it seems to me that I should be able to have Apache 7 so long as I have Java 7, but the version numbers are throwing me off.
Why is the versioning so far off, and what do I need to do to be able to run apache 7 on my Mac? Developing on my Windows VM is an option, but I prefer to keep everything on the Mac side.
EDIT: It seems that I misunderstood: what I need is Apache Tomcat, which I now embarrassedly know is something different than Apache. If I have further issues I'll update accordingly.
I like to set up unison through Automator to run in the background to sync up two of my folders in a dropbox-like manner, but Automator apparently fails to run unison through shell script. I have tried both the regular terminal command:
unison /folder1 /folder2
and the full path for unison:
/usr/local/Cellar/unison/2.40.102/bin/unison /folder1 /folder2
Terminal.app
Here are the my preferences settings:
!/Users/Parker/Desktop/0.png !/Users/Parker/Desktop/0.5.png !/Users/Parker/Desktop/1.png !/Users/Parker/Desktop/2.png
Here is the contents of my -bash_profile:
alias unhide='chflags nohidden' alias hide='chflags hidden' alias lock='chflags uchg' alias unlock='chflags nouchg' alias la='ls -A' alias phone='sshpass -p thisismypassword ssh root@myiphone.local' alias vlc='/Applications/VLC\ http://ift.tt/1AFeMzJ' PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin if [ -f $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion ]; then . $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion fi alias up='cd ..' alias install='sudo apt-get-install' alias update='sudo apt-get-update' alias lock='/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/http://ift.tt/RewxCw -suspend'
When I launch Terminal.app, I get this:
!/Users/Parker/Desktop/Screen Shot 2015-02-15 at 10.25.50 AM.png
That is, how can I change the keyboard shortcuts for the application commands (I say application commands in an attempt to avoid confusion with the use of the term "command" in the shell command sense, given that the application under discussion here is Terminal…), that, by default, are accessed using the cursor up and down arrow keys?
I would like to be able to move back and forth through my shell command history using some other pair of keyboard shortcuts than the arrow keys. I just know somebody will (misguidedly) ask, so I'll state in advnace that: the reason is that the unmodified cursor keys have been repurposed (their new employ is no one's business but mine, and it certainly has no bearing on the answer to my question), and the shortcuts I'd like to use instead are ⌥-↑ and ⌥-↓.
I got this message when trying to back up my Macbook Pro using time machine:
The disc image MAMA'S’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle is in use, try ejecting the disc image.
How do i do it?
I'm using Google Chrome and whenever I want to login to a forum site, a dropdown with a list of misspelled and wrong names gets displayed as soon as I click on the username field.
How do I delete the list of the different usernames, leaving only the corect one there?
I want to encrypt some folders on my Mac.
I know there is a way of doing it by making a dmg file, but I also want to keep editing those folders. So I just want to encrypt that folder while being able to add more things in the encrypted folder. You know, it should act as how the password works on a user account, if that makes any sense :P
I moved a folder and now the dock item cannot find the application.
How can I view the path of the pointer in a Dock item?
I followed the turning energy saver advice given by you to prevent the ipod nano from sleeping. Changed it in the registry but is not helping
Occasionally I get the message about TouchID needing my password after reboot. Problem is, I haven't been rebooting. So I'm concerned my phone is rebooting itself in my pocket without me knowing it. I want to know for sure if my phone is rebooting by itself, or if the TouchID message is just erroneous. How can I find out if my phone is rebooting?
iPhone 5s, iOS 8 (latest)
I bought an iPhone 5 off craigslist not too long ago (about a year) and recently it's been asking me for an iCloud passowrd to an account I've never even heard of. I'm guessing it was the iCloud of the previous owner. Up until now it's been working fine but now that I've been experiencing these issues I can't even use the phone because I have barely a second in between each pop up. I've tried contacting the person I bought it from but it seems that they have changed their number and email and all other sources of communication. I don't know what to do, I really need my phone to work. My friend was able to fix it for me last weekend, but it died on my again this morning and it's happening again. It happens every time I restart the phone. I already tried the thing where you click reset but don't actually reset anything and then click home button. This worked for me for some time, but now instead of the little window that pops up it takes me to an iForgot website and when I clcik home, my efforts are futile. The pop ups still appear. I'm about in tears now because I'm so frustrated. Someone please help me. Thanks in advance for anyone who is able to solve my issue. I am truly grateful.
I use an audio interface (namely a Roland Edirol UA-5, but that doesn't matter) which does not support volume control. I can only control the volume with the physical volume dial on the audio interface.
Now, by combining two freewares from RogueAmoeba, Soundflower and LineIn, I am able to enable volume control on any audio interface by:
Thus enabling my native volume to control my audio interface.
This is my question now: is there a native modification I could make to OSX (a flag somewhere, a special kext) that could make this process easier?
I recently had my phone iPhone 5C replaced (SIM Card Problems). As soon as I got this new one, I went home and synced it. All of my songs were duplicated, and I had no idea what had happened to it. I reset my phone a few times and, if I remember correctly, it worked.
So about two weeks ago I wanted to sync my iPhone again, and all of my songs got duplicated again. I left it alone (until now) and just listened to Pandora. I don’t want to have to reset my phone yet again. I looked up ways to fix it, but it only works for my iPhone. They’re still duplicated on my iPhone library in iTunes.
My iPhone library on iTunes:
My actual iTunes library:
My iPhone looks like it should, but that’s only because I turned off the feature that shows the music from iCloud. My phone’s weird and sometimes deletes songs, so I don't want to keep this feature on forever…
Short Question: Versions of iTunes 12 previously allowed users to use the “old style” iTunes metadata editing window layout when clicking alt/option and selecting “Get Info…”. That has disappeared with a recent update to iTunes 12; specifically version 12.1.0.50. Is there any way to re-enable the “old style” metadata editing window in this new version of iTunes 12.1.0.50.
Long Question: So, when iTunes 12 was released the interface was changed a bit; which is expected. But unlike older releases, it included a change to the metadata editing window which made it more compact and altered the user experience.
Some of us still like the “old style” editing window layout and the user experience connected to it. Heck the “old style” window has been like that for years. But prior to iTunes 12.1.0.50—and still using iTunes 12—one could access the “old style” metadata editing window by doing a “Get Info…” on media while holding down the alt/option. This blog post explains the simple trick nicely and below is a screenshot of the “old style” metadata editing window for reference.
Now with iTunes 12.1.0.50 it seems that this somewhat hidden—yet easy to access—functionality is gone. Unless I am missing something? Does anyone know how to reenable the “old style” metadata editing window in iTunes 12.1.0.50? Or is it simply gone and ripped from the core code forever?
When trying to send a picture to a non iMessage contact on my iPad Air (WiFi only) it says that MMS must be enabled. Am I not able to send MMS on WiFi only?
I have Do Not Disturb on, with setting for Favorites calls to come through, and they do ring. Is there a way to have text alert audible for Favorites? I'm missing texts from Favorites.
Probably 3 or 4 times now I've gotten some spam that made it through the various filters and into my inbox. I then mark it as junk using either built in mail application on my Mac or iPhone, and the next time I check it is back in my inbox.
This isn't just a lag in the IMAP update between devices, I've seen that happen, but this is a separate issue. It occurs even when I check later on the same device. There is a similar question here but it seems to be dealing with the iOS/Mac mail interaction.
I check multiple accounts, and I'm not able to tell which account these messages are coming to because the "to" field is spoofed.
I'm using iOS 8.1.3 and Yosemite 10.10.2 but I'm not certain that this behavior didn't begin before these updates.
I can't get flash to work properly on an older version of Mac OSX (10.5.8) running the latest version of chrome I can run on it (21.0.1180.90).
There are several of posts that have no real resolution on this, and none of them have a clear solution that works.
What I'm running
10.5.8 21.0.1180.90 10.3.183.19 I can't actually update the plugin-in, Adobe doesn't support 10.5.8.
At this point, I'm fine with not using chrome. I just want flash to work.
I'm using Gmail and Google Apps on my OS X (10.10.2) Messages app. Sometimes when I open the Messages app, the Google accounts go online. Other times they will not.
I have tried to "Login" from the "Messages" menu and that sometimes works. I have also set my status to Available and that sometimes work.
But nothing I do works all the time. Currently, I cannot get any of the Google accounts to switch from "Offline" to online and available.
My internet connection is good (Verizon FIOS), I'm able to access Gmail and the chat window on the browser.
Just a very strange problem.
In the Music app there are some tracks (in gray) which I can't play or even delete. How can I either play or delete these tracks?
I see the answer for printing from an iPad to a Windows enterprise, but I just want to print from an iPad Air to my home printer (HP Officejet Pro L7590) that is running on my network from a Windows desktop. Is there a solution simpler than Presto?
I recently bought a 3tb time capsule primarily to back up my macs, but I presumed that it would extend my wifi network as well to another floor of my house. As it turns out this is quite challenging.
What I want to do is a Virgin Superhub as my primary router, power-line to my other floor then the apple airport time capsule as a wifi extender. Since the TC will be connected to the main router via powerline there shouldn't be much loss of speed/ping.
Any help is appreciated.
Anyone found a way to set up a dual-boot environment (Mac OS X 10.9 and Windows 7/8) in a Mac OS X VM using a type-2 hypervisor like Parallels or VMware Fusion with Boot Camp Assistant?
Starting Boot Camp Assistant in a Mac OS X 10.9.5 VM to add a Boot Camp partition just throws an exception:
Process: Boot Camp Assistant [411]
Path: /Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp http://ift.tt/1CvCIEI Camp Assistant
Identifier: com.apple.bootcampassistant
Version: 5.1.2 (484)
Build Info: BootCampAssistant-5706000000000000~80
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [266]
Responsible: Boot Camp Assistant [411]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2015-02-15 12:38:05.984 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '*** -[__NSArrayM objectAtIndex:]: index 3 beyond bounds [0 .. 2]'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called
Application Specific Backtrace 1:
0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8aaae25c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff96328e75 objc_exception_throw + 43
2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8a98c4f5 -[__NSArrayM objectAtIndex:] + 245
3 Boot Camp Assistant 0x00000001036fdbd6 Boot Camp Assistant + 76758
4 Boot Camp Assistant 0x00000001036f9dc8 Boot Camp Assistant + 60872
5 Boot Camp Assistant 0x00000001036ece71 Boot Camp Assistant + 7793
6 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8a9ce309 -[NSSet makeObjectsPerformSelector:] + 201
7 AppKit 0x00007fff8b71fafd -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 1157
8 AppKit 0x00007fff8b7145ce loadNib + 327
9 AppKit 0x00007fff8b713b6c +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 288
10 AppKit 0x00007fff8b71395c -[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:topLevelObjects:] + 197
11 AppKit 0x00007fff8b71374b +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:] + 357
12 AppKit 0x00007fff8b70f597 NSApplicationMain + 448
13 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff8b4e85fd start + 1
...
I need such an environment for testing purposes and to illustrate or solve Boot Camp related questions here at apple.stackexchange. The spare Mac I used previously died.
2 days ago ive lost my iphone 5s, it could be stolen probably. Ive reported it to my carrier and police yesterday as stolen.
I got a find my iphone enabled, but when im login on icloud there is no informations (offline) i hope someone will start a phone and... there is my question:
If guy who stole/ found, my iphone will try to connect to itunes and try Restore a iphone, do find my iphone show me a localization of the phone? Im a little scared because i found a way to disable activation called icloud Bypass. If it possible i will not find my phone even in thousand years ;( but if my iphone send me a localization during this (bypass process) or even if someone will try (restore process by itunes) i will find a thief. Does anybody know anything about that Find my iphone functionality? Please help i hope i will find iphone or those f***er who still my phone...
I have installed RedQuits on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). Unfortunately, it is not working at all.
I have made sure that RedQuits has access to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility, but it seems to not work.
Currently, the RedQuits website states it works with Mac OS X 10.6.
Does anybody know how to get RedQuits working with Yosemite, or of any alternatives that will cause the close button to quit an application?
How might I display dialog("test") using AppleScript only if the "Finder" Application is currently in focus/active.
I have a system with integrated graphics to which OS X has assigned 1.5gb (out of 16gb) of RAM, however iStat Menus is currently reporting this at around 95% full, even though I'm not currently running anything that should be making much of a demand of the GPU.
Of course it's possible there's something I'm not aware of that has been using the GPU, but only restarting has completely cleared it. I was playing Civilisation V yesterday, but even while playing it didn't fill my video memory, and that was over 10 hours ago (my computer hasn't been asleep since then, as I'm still running through a large initial backup of a huge volume).
I'm just wondering if there's an easy way to determine what's using up all this video memory, similar to using Activity Monitor to track main memory? If it happens again I'd like to figure out what's at fault so I can avoid the problem in future and/or report any memory leaks or similar issues.
We have three Linux development servers which are available through SMB/CIFS, and I mount them on my Mac (using an Automator script in my Login Items).
The problem is that the SMB shares are username based, so all three shares show up as the same name in the Finder. If one looks carefully in the Volumes folder, then of course they are given different names, but those names are arbitrary, based on the order of successful mounting, I suppose. And anyway, the different names don't show up in the Finder.
I would like to be able to easily know which one is which - even a colored label would be nice, but I can't seem to be able to edit tags or labels directly on volumes.
Right now I can do one of these two things:
So, what can I do to be able to tell which volume came from which server?
I am using Yosemite.
I'm thinking about buying an iMac 21,5 inch. It would have an i7 QuadCore (3,1GHz up to 3,9) with a GeForce GT750M 1GB graphics card and FusionDrive.
Would this be enough for After effects/Photoshop/Adobe in general? In After Effects, I create things like intros etc. So many effects and stuff. With my current computer (i5 and GT640M 512MB) it judders very often. Each frame has to load for a pretty long time. And rendering lasts hours. Will the i7 and the better graphics card (and maybe FusionDrive?) improve this so that I can work better with it? And is the improvement noticeable?
Also, I heard about CUDA in AE. With my current graphics card it doesn't work. Will it work with the new one?
Thank you
Should I, or do I need to, disable memory swapping when my OS is installed on an SSD? I run OSX 10.10.2 with 16GB of memory. Currently, Activity Monitor reports I have 16GB of virtual memory allocated, with 0Bytes actually being used. 5,28GB of Memory is in use.
I understand that it's beneficial for the longevity of as SSD to reduce the amount of write-actions to it, which leads me to believe it's also beneficial to not have a swap-file on that drive. If I really need one, can I move it to my internal HDD? If so: how?
Thanks!
How can I turn on my MacBook Air model A1370 mid 2011 without a keyboard? I need to find the power on pads for the Mac:
I recently bought a new iPhone 6, because my iPhone 5 had some weird battery issues: when I was on 3G or 4G, the battery would literally go down from 50% to 10% in like 10 minutes. On the Wi-Fi, it was pretty OK.
Right now, with my new Phone, I was expecting way better battery results. But weirdly enough, it's still pretty bad, though the phone is new.
I went to the Apple Store a couple of weeks back with my iPhone 5 and the guy told me that it may be a software issue (related to my backup, which I put on my iPhone 6) and not a hardware issue (don't worry I didn't buy the new iPhone just because of that).
Anyways, I was wondering if that could be a logical explanation? And then, I would like to try completely factory restoring my phone to check but there are some settings like the wifi passwords, etc. that I'd like to keep...how can I transfer them without the backup?
Thanks a lot!
I want my wiki to be in a certain language that is in Mac OS X's language list, but not supported. Can I make my own language pack?
The new Apple Photos app has been released in a Beta stage. Developers are testing and playing with the technology.
Based on feedback from Apple, developers and magazines, there has been no mention of whether Events and Smart Albums will work after the migration from iPhoto to Photos. Albums will be migrated but it isn't clear if Smart Albums will be.
This makes me believe I should be converting all my events and smart albums into simple, static albums to ensure I don't lose my organisation systems.
Can any tester or product manager answer this question?
This isn't my screenshot, but this is what is happening in Photoshop CS6 after updating to Yosemite, the top of the open dialog gets chopped off. We've tested and this only happens when the second monitor is plugged in. We've adjusted the resolution of the second display and switched it back again which works to resolve it, but once you close Photoshop it returns to the broken dialog behaviour.
This Apple discussion is the best discussion I've found but doesn't have any suggestions outside of the resolution one we found.
If I click an RSS feed in Safari on iOS 8, ie. from this page, the Podcast app is mysteriously opened, showing the feed as if it were a Podcast. The feed cannot be read however.
I would expect the feed to open in Safari itself, since it has the same "Shared Links" section as Safari on OS X. But there seems to be no way to use this section for reading RSS feeds.
I can't even delete the Podcast app either, as it seems to be an integrated part of iOS now.
So how can I read RSS feeds using native iOS functionality (save from installing a third party RSS reader)?
I've a Mac Mini Server (Yosemite server) where is located the folder: 'Studio'. This folder is shared in the same network.
I've a Client iMac (Yosemite) that access to that folder 'Studio' located on server.
Spotlight on Server is able to search in that folder. Sporlight on Client is NOT able to search in that folder.
I've run on Client terminal:
sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/Studio
And have this error:
/Volumes/Studio:
2015-02-14 11:53:22.017 mdutil[4611:159875] mdutil disabling Spotlight: /Volumes/Studio -> kMDConfigSearchLevelOff
Error: unable to perform operation. (-403)
Server search enabled.
Any hints?
I travel a lot to the same 5 cities for work. Sometimes, if I have a spare hour or two I explore and sometimes on those explorations, I find great places. I'd like to tag those places on a map with an iphone app. But google map app doesn't allow that. I can't find software for this.