Ask Different Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, April 30, 2015

Top new questions this week: How do I copy a Mac volume using cp? I have researched this for hours. In Single User Mode, I used: cp -Rpvn /* /Volumes/MyBackup My external USB is mounted on /Volumes/MyBackup The issue however is that after 24hrs it still has not ... osx mac backup single-user   asked by ermSO 6 votes answered by CousinCocaine 14 votes Get my computer's current city and state from terminal How can I get my computer's location to the granularity of city and country using the command-line? I know I could get the IP of the correct network interface and do an IP lookup but I wonder if the ... geolocation   asked by SimplGy 4 votes answered by Mateusz Szlosek 3 votes How to disable face detection in Photos for OS X I don't like the feature that automatically detects faces in Photos for OS X because of the unnecessary CPU and disk space consumption. A photo library of 360 MB generated 50 MB of face detection data ... osx photos photos.app   asked by marcosatanaka 4 votes answered by IconDaemon 3 votes Mavericks HDD swapped while in sleep mode is now unreadable Recently I was attempting to upgrade from mavericks to Yosemite and was having difficulty getting Yosemite to run. I left the machine running rather than shutting down and it went into sleep mode. ... sleep-wake   asked by badders 3 votes answered by bmike 1 vote Document Container vs Folder Name Please refer to the Mac OSX search attributes mentioned below. Any idea what's the difference between "Document Container" and "Folder Name"? Also what's the expected value of "Containing Folder ... osx spotlight   asked by Ronixus 3 votes answered by tubedogg 1 vote OS X terminal "open" command and keeping focus on the command line I appreciate the "open" terminal command to launch OS X apps. When invoking the open command for any purpose, it is overwhelmingly likely that I will have at least one other command I would like to ... osx terminal command-line   asked by ProductionValues 3 votes answered by ryebread 7 votes How can I expose the faces data from OS X Photos to iOS Photos? I've spent some time teaching Photos on my Mac to know which face belongs to what name and now have a nice set of groups. I'd like to be able to access that metadata on iOS - preferably through ... osx ios icloud photos face-recognition   asked by bmike 3 votes answered by Harv 1 vote Greatest hits from previous weeks: Ctrl + Alt + Delete: Mac Equivalent? Ctrl + Alt + Delete on Windows provides a variety of functions, the main one of interest being the Task Manager. Is there an equivalent keyboard shortcut & indeed Task Manager for carrying out ... osx keyboard   asked by Simon 43 votes answered by Mathias Bynens 58 votes How to combine two images into one on a Mac? Say I have two photos (or any images), for example with the following dimensions: +----------+ +----------+ | | | | | | | | |320 x 428 | and ... osx software-recommendation image-editing   asked by Jonik 43 votes answered by jstarek 29 votes Can you answer these? How to make Final Cut Pro created DVD disc playable on DVD players? I am using Final Cut Pro on Mavericks and Yosemite. Even though the one on Mavericks says: the latest version cannot run on the current OS -- must install the latest compatible version instead. ... final-cut-pro dvd-burning   asked by 太極者無極而生 1 vote Is there a way to insert the current date in Notes? In iOS8, is there an easy way to insert the current date (or current date/time) in Notes? ios-8   asked by Joe Casadonte 2 votes How do I shut down Pandora completely? I have been shutting down Pandora using swipe-to-close to deal with its high battery usage. However, I've recently found that it's still somehow active in the background. I have my phone synced to my ... ios audio bluetooth   asked by Kevin Matheny 2 votes

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