Archive for the ‘Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/01
To view a WiFi password on OS X for an SSID you have been connected to before (you don’t need to be connected to it now):
- Open “Keychain Access” (for instance by first finding it in Spotlight)
- Sort on “Kind”, as the WiFi passwords are of kind “AirPort network password”
- In the find box, type your WiFi SSID. Note that – unlike Spotlight – it is:
- case sensitive
- need to match from the start
- Double click the matching entry for keychain “iCloud” (preferred) or “System” (needs additional step)
- Put a checkmark in front of “Show password”
- Depending on the keychain type:
- If it was an “iCloud” keychain
- then enter your keychain password
- If it was a “System” keychain
- Enter your system password
- Enter a username and password for the “System” keychain
- The password is shown
–jeroen
via: osx – How to find wifi password on my mac which is already connected – Ask Different.
Posted in Apple, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, SpotLight | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/30
On Mac OS X, bare route and ifconfig give way too much information to view the most important things at once.
So I used an alias for this:
route -n get default | grep 'gateway' && echo && ifconfig | grep '\: flags\|inet\|inet6'
Later I needed IPv6 support, so I changed it to:
netstat -nr | grep 'Internet\|Gateway\|default' && echo && ifconfig | grep '\: flags\|inet\|inet6'
So you get something like this:
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default 192.168.178.1 UGSc 23 0 en4
default 192.168.71.1 UGScI 7 0 en0
Internet6:
Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire
default fe80::3631:c4ff:fe47:13f1%en0 UGc en0
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::6203:8ff:fea2:4814%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 192.168.71.40 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.71.255
inet6 2001:982:2345:1:6203:8ff:fea2:4814 prefixlen 64 autoconf
inet6 2001:982:2345:1:4011:119a:e527:e021 prefixlen 64 autoconf temporary
en1: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
en2: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
bridge0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
p2p0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
en4: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::426c:8fff:fe44:95ea%en4 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
inet6 fd00::426c:8fff:fe44:95ea prefixlen 64 detached autoconf
inet6 fd00::74a7:8f26:cd22:20b7 prefixlen 64 detached autoconf temporary
inet 192.168.178.22 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.178.255
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/16
The only reliable way to create a remote print-screen is by using the Windows On-Screen Keyboard. It even works with Alt-Prt+Sc to make screenshots of individual Windows.
Just run OSK to start the On-Screen Keyboard.
–jeroen
via: osx – How to print screen in Remote Desktop Client (RDS) on Mac OS X? – Super User.
Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/15
LOL:
The if syntax of your script was a bit…well, iffy.
Indeed it is:
#!/bin/bash
#toggle AppleShowAllFiles
current_value=$(defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles)
if [ $current_value = "TRUE" ]
then
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
else
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
fi
killall Finder
Even the alternative if statement is:
if [[ $(defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles) == TRUE ]]
–jeroen
via osx – Toggle AppleShowAllFiles with a simple bash script? – Stack Overflow.
Posted in Apple, bash, Development, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/09
When you’re not a frequent iTunes user, and recycle computer systems, then every once in a while you will get you in to a situation where you have Music on your iPod, but not on your PC any more.
Whereas iTunes is great at putting music on an iPod, it cannot get it back.
There are numerous paid tools to get the music from your iPod, but doing it manually is not that hard. Below are a few links to get you started, but they all come down to this:
- Your iPod has a hidden folder called iPod_Control in the root
- Inside the iPod_Control folder is a folder called Music
- Inside the Music folder, there are folders named with letters and numbers like F00
- Each numbered folder has media (music, video or even photos!) files with a strangely encoded name like B00N.mp3 or 3DUN.m4v with supported media extensions including mp3 m4a m4p jpg gif tif m4v mov.
- The media files contain meta data with song, artist, album, etc.
The steps to copy them back
- Do not erase your iPod when opening it in iTunes!
- Ensure you can mount your iPod as a disk (the “enable disk use” option in iTunes)
- Mount your iPod as a disk in Mac or PC
- Ensure you can view the hidden files
- Copy the Music folder including all subfolders to your Mac or PC
- Unhide the Music folder and all
Music and Music/F* folders inside it using this chflags trick from Unhiding Unix Directories | Apple Support Communities:
chflags nohidden Musicchflags nohidden Music/F*
- Add these to your iTunes library and have iTunes re-generate the correct filenames from the meta-data
Some links explaining this in more detail:
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, iPod, iTunes, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9 | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/11
During the last update of Microsoft Remote Desktop for my Mac, I noticed there is a beta available with a feature very familiar for users of visionapp – ASG-Remote Desktop: it allows you to manage common credentials.
Note the uncommon URLs of both the beta page redirect and the download:
In the mean time, I learned that “Microsoft has acquired HockeyApp. This is a tremendous opportunity to continue to provide developers with the best app development tools and users with the best app experiences.”, but the aka.ms is new to me. Anyone knows what it is about? A successor of go.microsoft.com/fwlink redirects?
New Mac OS X beta of Microsoft Remote Desktop announced.
I’m keeping an eye on this, as future features interest me much: Multiple monitors, Clipboard redirection, Remote Desktop Gateway, Remote Resources (RemoteApp and Desktop Connections), and Azure RemoteApp preview.
BTW: I wasn’t aware Remote Desktop made it this many platforms yet, as I’m mainly a Windows 8.x/7, Mac and Android user, but here you go:
- Windows 10 Universal Windows platform (Preview).
- Windows 8.1.
- Windows Phone.
- iOS.
- Mac OS X.
- Android.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/31
Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/17
I like how MaylorTaylor formulated his question around this topic on superuser:
“USB Deivces Disabled: unplug the device using too much power to re-enable USB devices.“
Basically he regression tested many permutations of devices, cables, ports, rebooting, etc.
I had a similar problem, and found it hard to track down as it was intermittent. In the end it was not 1 but 2 USB cables being not completely reliable.
So the warning can use some improvement:
- sometimes it is not a device but a cable
- it doesn’t indicate on which USB port this happens
–jeroen
via: mac – USB device Disabled Mavericks – Super User.
Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/21
fseventer is a great tool for investigating Mac OS X file system events. Like many low-level tools, it requires admin privileges.
This is apparent through the use of the tool “fseventer” which monitors what files on your hard drive are being accessed.
–jeroen
via: Intermittent but frequent OS X pauses may be from iCloud syncing | MacIssues.
Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »
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