The personal settings which control the configurable options on your Mac or iOS device. Examples include what wallpapers are displayed, when a screen saver will be displayed, or whether or not Time Machine is enabled and how it is configured.
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Cannot enter nvALT options anymore
I changed nvALT to be displayed in the menu bar and set the option that it is not to be displayed in the Dock anymore.
I wanted to change the settings back and unchecked the options that nvALT is ...
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How do I set the home page for Safari on the iPad2?
This is driving me crazy .
I'm trying to set the Home page on the iPad.
The instructions I've seen indicate there should be a bar at the bottom of the browser with an arrow. There isn't. There also ...
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Sync apps preferences between multiple Macs
I tend to keep all my stuff in Dropbox. Now that I bought a second Mac, I thought that keeping also my applications preferences in Dropbox would have been a good idea.
I managed to sync some of the ...
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How to Reset Full-Screen Terminal.app Preferences to Factory Defaults
On an iMac running Mac OS X version 10.7.5 I have accidentally resized Terminal.app to full-screen (272 x 76) and am unable to resize Terminal.app to a smaller size. How do I resize Terminal.app to ...
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How can I restrict access to certain Preference Panes?
Several of the preference panes on my Mac at work have are translucent and when I hover over them I get the following message:
Your system administrator has not given you access to this preference ...
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Desktop Background with multiple displays
I user a single external display at work with my MacBook Pro, running 10.8.2. I have the displays set up in extended desktop mode (as opposed to mirroring). I have the external monitor set as the main ...
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Show desktop keyboard shortcut doesn't work
I have F5 key bound to the show desktop shortcut in keyboard shortcuts. However when I press F5 on the keyboard (with fn on the built in keyboard, or with/without fn on the Apple wireless keyboard), ...
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How to stop an app from launching on Login?
I have created an app, that sets itself to launch at Login using SMLoginItemSetEnabled. Here is the code it uses. My question is, how can I manually remove this app from launching at login?
The app ...
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Apple Mail Preferences are not highlighted. Can't set up Mail.
I am trying to set up Mail on a brand new latest model IMAC. It will not let me past incoming POP settings. When I look at preferences option, it is not lit up and I can not click on it. When I try to ...
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Get rid of little circles on Teleport
I've installed Teleport in order to use two macs with one keyboard and mouse, but when I change of screen there apper some little red circles like a trail of the mouse. Is it possible to get rid of ...
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Where does OS X store mouse preferences?
I couldn't figure out where the settings I change with the "Mouse" system preferences are stored. Neither plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple..plist nor /Library/Preferences/com.apple..plist changes ...
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Deploying default Wifi settings and Passwords
I am building a default 10.8 image for our corporate Mac users. We have a local Wifi network which should be set up by default on this image. I have used PackageMaker to set up all the other ...
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How to set up Safari to always show status bar
I am using Safari 6.0.2 (8536.26.17) within Mac OS X 10.8.2.
I would like to know how to set Safari so that, whenever a new window is opened, the status bar is always turned on.
I think this used ...
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Disable Genre Art in iTunes 11?
New iTunes bumps up the font size and adds Genre images to Genre column view. I make custom Genres for sorting and don't need the visual hinting. Anyone know how/if I can disable this? I'm not able to ...
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Removing the font toolbar in a new message
In the mac (mountain lion) mail.app (v 6.2), when composing a new message, im looking to hide the default font/styling bar that appears beneath the standard toolbar at the top of the window.
I've ...
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Cannot disable three finger tap look up after migrating to a new computer
I recently moved to a new MacbookPro and migrated my old computer's files/settings over to the new one.
For some reason I am unable to disable the ability to look up the definition to a word by using ...
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Hidden file in root directory, what is it? (.com.apple.backupd.mvlist.plist)
There's a hidden file in my root directory and I'm curious to know what it is. It's an empty plist (the size is about 181 bytes, and there's absolutely no keys in the root when opening this plist in ...
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Why don't property lists use more XML-element types? [closed]
Most software would store information in XML rather like this:
<book>
<title>Generic Examples, the Internet, and You</title>
<length pages="43" />
<authors>
...
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Default background color in Textedit
How do I set default background color in Textedit?
Preferences -> New Document -> Font doesnt help.
That black on white isn't too good in nights.
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How do I set iOS 6 iCal start of week preference to Monday?
Since I installed iOS 6 on my iPhone and iPad, iCal shows Sunday as the start of the week, rather than Monday. These iOS iCals are synced over iCloud with iCal on my Mac OS X desktop, which has a ...
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Can I stop the optical audio out from entering 'time out' when idle?
In my office I have a surround-sound receiver, and I have my MacBook Pro (6,1) hooked up via a TOSLink cable and adapter, and it works beautifully, except this: if there are no sounds playing for a ...
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Notification Center preferences shows duplicate apps
I was running the Tweetbot for Mac Beta, and still had it installed when I installed the full release from the Mac App Store.
Now I have 2 entries in my preferences for Notification Center, and I ...
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Screensaver changes images too quickly – is there a way to adjust it?
I like to display my own images using the Mac OS X screensaver, but it seems that Mountain Lion has shortened the duration for which each image is displayed. The duration is too short for my tastes – ...
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AppleScript/Automator Workflow to restore OS X to “mint” condition
Under Mountain Lion, I wanted to create an AppleScript that would essentially restore my OS X install to "mint" condition, if possible even to the point of showing you the ML welcome screen asking you ...
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Thunderbolt display fails to play audio
I'm running a MacBook Pro (late 2011 model) that has a recent OS X upgrade to version 10.8.1. For some reason, when the MacBook Pro is docked to the Thunderbolt display, it no longer sends sound out ...
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Is it possible to set Magic Trackpad option via Terminal?
Is it possible to set the magic trackpad options with the menu topics:
Point click,
scroll & zoom,
etc.
by using the Terminal?
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Textual.app (IRC client): is it possible to suppress channel topic being displayed in the message window?
When joining a new channel in Textual, the topic is shown twice:
In the 'top section' of the message window and
in the message text when joining
I want to only display it in the 'top section', as ...
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Mountain Lion: Use standard keyboard function keys, F1, F2, etc.?
I'm having issues with Mountain lion in which I am unable to use my non-Apple keyboard's function keys, i.e. F1, F2 etc. Upon firing up System Preferences ➤ Keyboard, this is what I'm greeted with.
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Where is the config (application properties) file for TimeMachine settings and the path excludes?
Where is the config (application properties) file for TimeMachine settings and the path excludes?
You know, that what you might click and add in TimeMachine Settings > Options ...
Can't find ...
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How do I set a custom avatar for my account profile in Mountain Lion?
I just got Mountain Lion. On previous versions of OS X, I could choose a photo from the filesystem as my account avatar. This doesn't seem possible under the Users & Groups section of System ...
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How do I prevent TGZ archives from being automatically un-gzipped upon download?
I use Safari on Mac OS Lion, and one behavior I find rather annoying is that it insists on automatically un-gzipping TGZ archives when I download them. It doesn't untar them; it just uncompresses ...
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Where does Mountain Lion's Calendar.app store its preferences?
The program Calendar.app clearly has some preferences that are settable.
However, when I type defaults read com.apple.Calendar (and various permutations on capitalization), I get the message Domain ...
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How do I enable “Announce the time” programmatically?
The "Date & Time" System Preferences pane has an option to "Announce the time". I'd like to be able to turn on this preference option by invoking a shell script. Is this possible?
(It's fine if ...
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How to set “Input Sources” for all users at the same time
In Lion OSX, changing the keyboard layout "Input Sources" setting in the "Language & Text" only changes the setting for the current user. Is there a way to populate the setting to all existing, ...
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Are apps that use LSUIElement in their plist causing google account problems?
I've noticed a pattern with some apps not logging into my Google account when they are hidden. After some digging, I think I have identified a common thread - the LSUIElement which is basically a flag ...
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How do I disable Lion's Resume feature?
Some of my software will be loaded at login, but I don't want it to be loaded as-it-was when I closed it. How can I disable this feature?
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The system preference panes will not load
When I open System Preferences and click on an item it says 'Loading Users & Groups' at the top of the window, but will not load the pane.
I've tried deleting the property list file:
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What is the Aliases pane in Sparrow?
I've just installed Sparrow on my brand new iMac. I found the Aliases pane in Sparrow:
I've Googled it and found some source say it similars to Shortcut in windows.
What the Aliases pane for?
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How to make iTunes stop prompting me for my username and password
OSX Lion iTunes keeps prompting me to enter my u/n, p/w to "sign in to enable this computer for automatic downloads." In the past I tried checking the box to remember password etc. but it kept ...
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Where can I find a list of Apple preferences/plist files & what they're used for?
Does anyone know of a resource that lists the Preferences files/plists (pertinent to OS X and Apple applications, not third-party apps) found in ~/Library/Preferences (and the other locations too, but ...
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How can I hide the privacy tab from Spotlight.prefpane?
I am using spotlight search on my MacBook, and am excluding a few folders from spotlight search. My problem with Apple's method of excluding the folders is that excluding them actually calls attention ...
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How to change tap to click using “defaults write” from command line?
I want to change the trackpad tap-to-click property from the command line. Graphically, I can do it by clicking System Preferences -> Trackpad -> Tap to Click. How can I do it from the command line?
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Spaces preferences carried into Lion - can't get hash symbol
In Snow Leopard I used to use Option + cursors to move around spaces (not Command - this was because I liked Command + cursors for 'Home' and 'End').
Therefore I also used Option + 1, Option + 2 etc ...
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Why can I no longer open the Security & Privacy pane of System Preferences?
Problem
Since April 2012, one user of my MacBook Pro can no longer load the Security & Privacy pane.
When I click the icon, a sheet drops down:
Translated from Chinese to English:
Error
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How can I change scroll direction in Snow Leopard?
I've gotten so used to the Lion natural scrolling that using (for lack of a better term) unnatural scrolling in Snow Leopard and earlier is very annoying. Is there any way I can reverse it for OSes ...
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Does using a brightness reducing app save battery?
I installed the app Brightness Slider on my MacBook because the lowest brightness setting in the System Prefs isn't low enough at times. When I choose a brightness setting below what the System Prefs ...
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Increase font size in OS
I have a 17-inche Macbook-pro, the resolution is at the moment 1920x1200, the font size of the system looks very small. Is there a way to increase the font size without changing the resolution? It ...
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How do I completely disable automatic keyboard backlighting on Macbook Pro with OSX Lion?
I have the system pref "Automatically illuminate the keyboard in low light" disabled. However, when I wake the computer from sleep and the login prompt appears, the keyboard backlight turns on. ...
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Why does a “SAMSUNG_Android” network service keep appearing?
I recently noticed a strange service in the Network preferences called "SAMSUNG_Android", which seems to be configured as a modem:
I don't have an Android or Samsung device and I've never plugged ...
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Is there a setting to force Adium to open a new chat in a new window?
For Adium, a single window holds many chats.
from official link (http://trac.adium.im/wiki/TabbedMessaging)
"A single window might contain 10 different tabbed chats"
Is there any setting where I ...
