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• not able to put auto unlock option is not available in system preferences

  Update the end of 2015 to macOs Sierra iMac.

  Updated the Apple Watch at WatchOs3

  Removed the two steps of authentication and improved to two-factor authentication.

  Tried to set up the Auto Unlock in preferences/security system & Privacy panel.

  However, the "Allow your Apple Watch to unlock your Mac" option does not appear in the Panel.

  What other hoops should I go through to get this feature going? Thanks in advance for the help...

  The prices your Apple Watch the Mac on the same network Wi - Fi?  Sometimes the shows may use another network - its s trying to find a network, if the iPhone is not available.

  Is your set watch in place with an access code?

  Once you have changed your two-factor authentication, you disconnect from iCloud and vice versa, on the matched iPhone and Mac?

  See the specs here: automatically unlock your Mac with your Apple Watch

  Use Auto unlock with any Mac and Apple Watch that satisfies the requirements of continuity system:

  • Apple Watch (1st generation), Apple Watch series 1 or series 2 Apple Watch using iOS 10
  • Mid-2013, or more recent Mac using macOS Sierra

  Make sure that your devices are configured as follows:

  • Your Mac has Bluetooth and Wi - Fi enabled.
  • Your identifier Apple is using two-factor authentication.
  • Your Mac and Apple Watch are connected to iCloud with the same Apple ID.
    On your Mac, choose Apple () menu > System Preferences, and then click iCloud.
    On your iPhone, open the Apple Watch app, then go to general > Apple ID.
  • Your Apple Watch uses a password.
    On your iPhone, open the Apple Watch app, then type the access code.
  • Your Mac has "allow your Apple Watch unlock your Mac" selected in Security & Privacy preferences.

• Problems of system preferences

  I had this problem for some time. I tried all of the solutions that I can find online, without success. However, I noticed today that when I have open Preferences (Apple menu) system, it says 'Network' at the top rather than 'System Preferences '. It just freezes and finally gives the rotation color wheel, and I am obliged to Com/Opt/Esc out of it.

  Here are the recent logs:

  23/06/16 6:29:07.430 PM com.apple.preference.network.remoteservice [592]: objc [592]: class ANPTopLevelService is implemented in /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Network.prefPane/Contents/XPCServices/com.apple.preference.network.remoteservice.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.preference.networ k.remoteservice and System/Library/PreferencePanes/Network.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/Network. One of the two will be used. That one is not defined.

  
  23/06/16 6:29:07.461 PM com.apple.preference.network.remoteservice [592]: unable to connect (o_advancedMenu) out of (ANPNetworkController) (NSMenu): missing setter or instance variable

  And the screenshot:

  

  Please read this message before doing anything.

  This procedure is a diagnostic test. It is unlikely to solve your problem. Don't be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.

  The test is intended to determine if the problem is caused by a third-party software that loads automatically at startup or logon, by a device, by a police conflict or corruption of system files or some system caches.

  Disconnect all devices wired except those required to test and remove all the expansion cards from secondary market, as appropriate. Start in safe mode and log on to the account of the problem.

  Note: If FileVault is enabled in OS X 10.9 or an earlier version, or if a firmware password is defined, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can not do this. Ask for additional instructions.

  Safe mode is much slower to boot and run as normal, with limited graphics performance, and some things work at all, including an audio output and a Wi - Fi connection on some models. The next normal boot can also be a bit slow.

  The login screen is displayed even if you usually connect automatically. You need your password to log on. If you have forgotten the password, you will have to reset it before you begin.

  Test in safe mode. Same problem?

  After testing, restart as usual (not in safe mode) and make sure you always have the problem. View the results of the test.

• Several languages selected, but the spelling is always automatically changed

  Since I speak and write in three languages, I added two other languages in the preferences system, in addition to English. But for some reason when I type in the Pages or post or elsewhere, words are always automatically changed, because it is spelled "correctly", because it is not English, my primary language on my Macbook Pro. When I check the keyboard preferences, automatic spell checking is disabled, but it still happens. How can I fix?

  DaniqueTer wrote:

  When I check the keyboard preferences, automatic spell checking is disabled, but it still happens.

  Is this setting lower than on 'automatic '? And what are the settings in the Edit menu of Pages, with spelling and grammar?

• El Capitan loaded on my external hard drive disturbed my system preferences Maverick on my drive internal

  I currently use the most recent version of Maverick from an internal hard drive on my iMac. I needed to download the demo of Final Cut Pro X or under of El Capitan Yosemite and due to a limitation of version of FCPX. As I had an another Maverick boot on an external drive, I've decided to upgrade this drive to El Capitan. A few hours after the installation was successful, and I was able to download the trial of FCPX. So I planted my system and restarted with my boot Maverick my internal drive. So far so good, however, to my surprise, I can't the system preferences window because it gives me the following message appears "Unable to open the preferences system because of a problem.". Similarly, I get the same message when I load a DVD and the DVD player will automatically load.

  I need to go to my applications and open the program individual (Preferences system and DVD player to do what I want to accomplish.

  I restored tOSX recovery Mignot, but nothing has changed. I believe that El Capitan installation on another drive has created conflicts.

  I also discovered that my backup should be completely redone (i.e. backup lull in my go 530)... beautiful!

  Someone has a similar problem?

  If I can't solve this problem, I have to install El Capitan on my internal drive and maybe the problem will be solved.

  I would eject the external hard drive with the installation of El Capitan and see if it helps.

  FWIW, I have never known or seen reported when an installation on an external drive also changed the preferences on the internal drive.

  I suggest that you eliminate problems in your user folder by checking in the comments or in a new user.

  CREATE A NEW USER

  Go to system-> Preferences, create a new user in users and groups.

  Place in the new user by logging in under the Apple in the menu bar.

  Log in to the new user.

  You can ignore connect them with one identifier Apple. Hit continue and then jump.

  Only applications Apple will be on the dock.

  Go to Applications to open other applications.

  You still see the issue?

  If Yes, then the problem is with your core files.

  If not, then the problem is in your user folder.

  You have the time Machine and internal backups of your disk clone?

• How to set recent items in system preferences and have it stay with my setting

  Noticed that to happen just in the last few weeks.

  Use Pages and try to use Open > recent and all I was getting was clear Menu.

  Went into System Preferences > general and recent items is set to None.  I changed it to what should be the default value of 10, but he keeps changing to None.

  For the life of me, I can't understand how to do so that he can stay 10 or any other parameter as it keeps going back to zero.

  Appreciate the help of CIHI people!  Computer info below.

  

  Please, back up all data before proceeding.

  This procedure will unlock all your user (not system files) files and reset their ownership, permissions and default access controls. If you have voluntarily set special values for these attributes on any of your files, they will be be restored. In this case, either stop there, or be ready to recreate the settings if necessary. Do that after checking these settings that did not cause the problem. If none of that is meaningful to you, you need not worry about this, but do not follow the instructions below.

  Step 1

  If you have more than one user, and the one in question is not an administrator, then go to step 2.

  Triple-click anywhere in the next line to this page to select this option:

  sudo find ~ $TMPDIR.. -exec chflags -h nosappnd,noschg,nosunlnk,nouappnd,nouchg {} + -exec chown -h $UID {} + -exec chmod +rw {} + -exec chmod -h -N {} + -type d -exec chmod -h +x {} + 2>&-

  Copy the selected text in the Clipboard by pressing Control-C key combination.

  Launch the Terminal application integrated in one of the following ways:

  ☞ Enter the first letters of his name in a Spotlight search. Select from the results (it should be at the top).

  ☞ In the Finder, select go utilities ▹ of menu bar or press the combination of keys shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

  ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

  Paste in the Terminal window by pressing Command + V. I tried these instructions only with the Safari browser. If you use another browser, you may need to press the return key after pasting.

  You will be asked your password of connection that are not displayed when you type. Type carefully, and then press return. You can get a warning to be careful. If you do not have a password, you will need to configure one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your user name "is not in the sudoers file", then you have not logged as an administrator.

  The command may take several minutes to run, depending on the number of files you have. Wait for a new line ending with a dollar sign ($) to appear, and then quit Terminal.

  Step 2 (optional)

  Take this step only if you have trouble with the phase 1, if you prefer not to consider, or if this does not resolve the problem.

  Start in recovery mode. You may be prompted to select a language, then the OS X Utilities appears.

  If you use FileVault 2, select disk utility, then select the icon for the volume FileVault startup ("Macintosh HD", unless you have given it a different name.) It will be nested under another icon of the disc. Click the Open button in the toolbar and enter your login password when you are prompted. Then quit disk utility must be returned to the main screen.

  Select

  Utilities ▹ Terminal

  in the menu bar. It will open a Terminal window. In this window, type this:

  resetp

  Press the tab key. The partial order you entered will automatically end this:

  resetpassword

  Press return. Opens a window to reset the password. You do not need to reset a password.

  Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD", unless you have given it a different name) if not already selected.

  Select your username in the menu option allows you to select the account if not already selected.

  Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the reset button.

  Select

  ▹ Restart 

  in the menu bar.

• How to prevent the spell checker to automatically change the word I type?

  Hello

  I own a MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite 10.10.5.

  Processor: Intel Core i5 at 2.8 GHz
  Memory: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

  I was struggling with the spelling corrector assuming what I type is wrong and so it changes the word for another while I am always type, the result is that the mess this creates a bad word that will not be corrected because the editor already "fixed" it while "I screwed up".

  The fact is that I'm Brazilian, so my first language is Brazilian Portuguese, which uses a series of special characters such as to, a, a, a, e, e, i, o, o, o and c, Furthermore, we seem to have many more words in our vocabulary and verb time if compared to English. The corrector seems to get confused with that too, and some Word's closer to her I am writing.
  What seems to be the boss, is that in English, the feature is very useful, but when I type special characters, it assumes that this word should not be even with the input source for Brazilian Portuguese, which makes me wonder why I would fix it for my language if I have not noticed any difference at all. He gets it wrong in 90% of the time and a Word by a word it is delay my work and make me hate my computer.

  Please, don't you know any solution for this? Go to system preferences > keyboard > text and UN-checking the "correct spelling automatically" doesn't change anything, even after restarting the computer. It's stressing me out of having to correct this as the corrector mess every 5 minutes!

  Any ideas how to get rid of it?

  Thank you!

  kodimoto wrote:

  even with the input source for Brazilian Portuguese

  The input source has nothing to do with spell checking and AutoCorrect.  Dictionary used for this defined under Edition > spelling and grammar > show spelling and grammar (or in the system preferences, keyboard, text, spelling).  For best results, use the dictionary for your language and not "automatic".

• The sound system preference and Callnote

  I installed Callnote to record Skype sessions, but I found that it was interfering with the audio system so I uninstalled using AppCleaner. However, I have always had a rest of Callnote in the input and output peripheral windows from the Sound System Preferences: How can I get rid of him?

  Also (in the spirit of BOGOF - buy one get one free), it's annoying that my startup to open Safari, it starts but does not show a window - I always click on the Safari icon in the Dock. This started to happen with Yosemite, I think; until a window appears automatically. I presume that it does not show because "Hide Safari" is an inalterable permanent choice in the Safari drop-down menu, but why is this so when no other application has this selected permanently?

  Don't know about the first part, but for Safari, try going to system preferences/general and uncheck the narrow windows when you exit an application.

• My Mac system preferences won't allow me to update my iCloud password

  I cannot change my password to iCloud my Mac system preferences. There is no preferences available in iCloud system.  I recently had to change my Apple ID due to a possible hack.  I changed my Apple ID on all my other devices and updated my ID to iCloud on these devices.  While he was trying to do it on my Mac the wheel just sitting there turn for hours until I finally Force Quit System preferences.  Now I can not access my Mac iCloud.

  This isn't Apple (iCloud) how to change a password ID.

  Follow the instructions in this article to support > Apple - Apple supported change your password ID

• Not reflected in the network system preferences utility airport settings

  Airport Express model A1264

  Airport Utility 5.6.1

  Firmware 7.6.7

  MacBook OS 10.6.8

  Hello, I am trying to sort out why the Airport utility settings are not the same as the settings in system preferences > network > airport.  If I make a change in Airport utility, it does not change the settings in advance under network options in system preferences and vice versa.  Network names are the same and all other parameters, except the IP numbers are different. (Note: when asked to "Join other network" one and only network name I entered comes up.) All this occurred as a result of a new service by satellite being installed in our premises (I'm in Australia and we have a 'NBN Satellite' service).  IP address in system preferences > network seems to be the IP number, I received when the new system has been activated and the computer that is directly connected by ethernet cable to the modem.   The IP address of the Airport utility is the Airport Express IP number.  I guess that the first IP address is correct as I can connect the MacBook to the internet via Airport. To complicate things, it is that I have the additional problem of not being able to join the network using my MacBook Pro (OS utility 10.10.5, Airport 6.3.5). I get a message telling me to another computer is using IP number again xxxxxxxx test this last (or something similar).  I did originally a default zero value through the Airport utility menu using the MacBook (actually several times), but no change in system preferences > network settings. I think I should add the MacBook Pro Airport utility on the MacBook (which I have) to join the network created on the MacBook.   I use the MacBook for the e-mail and the spread of the internet, and the MacBook Pro should be able to join the network for software and other upgrades. The Airport Express has worked without problem for at least 4 years on our old satellite service. Thanks in advance for your consideration.

  I'm trying to sort out why the Airport utility settings are not the same as the settings in system preferences > network > airport.

  Setting affects only the Airport express airport utility. They do not change anything on the computer.

  Setting in the preferences of the computer only affect the computer... They do not change anything on the express.

  IP address in system preferences > network seems to be the IP number, I received when the new system has been activated and the computer that is directly connected by ethernet cable to the modem.

  Are you a public IP address on the computer? In the old system, you most likely have a private IP address.

  The computer really should NOT directly connect a modem... only a modem which has several ethernet ie is actually a router.

  That will tend to make it more difficult to set up the express. The express should plug a pure modem... and then the computer plug in the express. In this case, the express would be the main router. (I don't like this setup but because the Express is not powerful enough for this job). As far as your express is the old N a wireless with a single ethernet port.

  Honestly, do you a favor and buy another router from apple... the extreme... If you can't afford a new Gen6 then buy a Gen5 on ebay... around $60... immensely better.

  The express can then extend the wireless... or just simply do serve airplay etc. as part of the network.

  Tell us what model is the modem (+ router?) provided to you by your ISP?

  And if you get a public IP address or private on the computer directly connected to it. We can work out the rest from there.

  I'm in Melbourne... you can email me direct if you need to. Email is on my website.

  s https://sites.Google.com/site/lapastenague/a-deconstruction-of-routers-and-modem

• Can someone give me instructions step by step for my MacBook Pro to automatically change my desktop image an album of my own pictures?

  I need instructions to set up my MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan worm 10.11.5, with version 1.5 to regularly change my desktop picture of my own photos chosen from the photo album.

  1. Open system preferences.
  2. Click Desktop & screen saver.
  3. Select the desktop (if not already done).
  4. Click the Triangle next to 'Photos' in the list (it sometimes takes a while to build the list of Photos).
  5. Click the Triangle next to "Albums".
  6. Select the album that you want to use.
  7. Check your image and set the context menu on the desired interval.

• Apparently corrupt system preferences

  MBP of 2009, running El Capitan, with 512 GB of memory, no where near not maxed out.

  Last month, in spite of having nothing, added when I run my Carbonite backup - which I use since I got the computer, Carbonite, then System Preferences freeze freezes and crashes. I spent hours that both support online and on the phone with Carbonite, which was amazing. After hours of working with them, it is determined that it is preferences system that appears damaged. We've repeatedly uninstalled and reinstalled Carbonite. System preferences always freezes.

  I lost all my disks in the system, etc. in a forest fire last year. Is there a way to uninstall the system preferences and if so, how do I get it back? I really don't want to have to replace the computer right now, but if it is a symptom of a crash total imminenot, I'll do it.

  Help!

  Please launch the Console application in one of the following ways:

  ☞ Enter the first letters of his name in a Spotlight search. Select from the results (it should be at the top).

  ☞ In the Finder, select go utilities ▹ of menu bar or press the combination of keys shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

  ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

  Step 1

  For this step, the title of the Console window should be all Messages. If it isn't, select

  SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ all Messages

  in the list of logs on the left. If you don't see this list, select

  List of newspapers seen ▹ display

  in the menu at the top of the screen bar.

  In the upper right corner of the Console window, there is a search box to filter. Enter the name of the application crashed or process. For example, if Safari has crashed, you would enter "Safari" (without the quotes).

  Each message in the journal begins with the date and time when it was entered. Select the messages since the time of the last fall, as appropriate. Copy to the Clipboard by pressing Control-C key combination. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command + V.

  The journal contains a large amount of information, almost everything that is not relevant to solve a particular problem. When you post a journal excerpt, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.

  Please don't dump blindly thousands of lines in the journal in this discussion.

  Please do not post screenshots of log messages - text poster.

  Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

  Step 2

  In the Console window, clear the search box, and then select

  DIAGNOSIS AND diagnostic USE information reports ▹ user

  (not diagnose them and use Messages) in the list of logs on the left. There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points downwards. You will see a list of reports of incidents. The name of each report begins with the name of the process and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report on the process in question. The content of the report is displayed at right. Allows you to copy and paste to validate all of the content, text, not a screenshot.

  I know that the report is long, perhaps several hundred lines. Please report all this anyway. If the report is only a few lines, make sure that you have disabled the search box.

  If you don't see any report, but you know, he had an accident, you have chosen diagnostic and using the list of Log Messages. INFORMATION on the USE of DIAGNOSTIC AND choose instead.

  In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you change the UUID ' anonymous, ' a long string of letters, numbers and dashes in the header of the report, if it is present (it cannot be). "

  Please do not post other types of diagnostic report - they are very long and rarely useful.

  When you post the journal excerpt or the accident report, you might see an error message on the web page: "you have included content in your post that is not allowed", or "the message contains invalid characters." It's a bug in the forum software. Thanks for posting the text on Pastebin, then post here a link to the page you created.

  If you have an account on Pastebin, please do not select private in exposure menu to paste on the page, because no one else that you will be able to see it.

• Does not open the system preferences of the Apple menu

  Anyone know of a good solution for this?

  A few weeks ago I started noticing that I couldn't open my application system preferences in the Apple Menu bar (via the Apple logo > system, or via the WiFi icon Preferences > network, or even Preferences by right-clicking on the desktop to change the desktop background, etc.).

  WHAT WORKS:

  I can open the system preferences if I click directly on the application icon or you try to open it from the dock.

  I can open the app in the Apple menu if I register as another user.

  WHAT DOES NOT WORK:

  The problem does not go away when I restart in mode 'start '.

  The problem does not go away when I run disk utility.

  The problem does not go away when I remove the "Finder" and "System Preferences".plist file in the Preferences folder in the user's library.

  The problem does not go away when I remove the files "Preferences panel" bury of the Cache in the user's library folder.

  The problem does not go away when I zap the PRAM.

  The problem does not go far if I replace the system preferences application from a recent backup.

  I was about to just try and re-install the MacOS, but thought I would try the forums first, since the Apple Support site said that it should not be necessary if the problem is only limited to a user's profile. I found a lot of entries in the forums for this issue dated a few years ago and have tried most of the solutions, but I don't think that you can repair the permissions of the disc more on El Capitan.

  Anyone have any ideas? Thank you.

  Given all of the things you tried that don't work, over time it would take to troubleshoot more, you could restore OS X in 45 minutes to an hour on a broadband connection using OS X Recovery.

  Start your Mac while pressing the command + R keys. From there, you should be able to access the built in utility to verify and repair the disk from startup (if necessary) and OS X using OS X recoveryof restoration.

• Why open system preferences for the additional hours of bad screen

  Why the preferences system not open to the main screen. When I click on it and open the system preferences, it goes directly to the security and privacy, every time. It still works perfectly well. I can always click on the upper left button to return to the main screen. It is really annoying that he began to do this.

  I started doing after that I had to change some of the parameters for sharing so that I can get remote access to the work of this Macbook Air to my iMac at home when they are on separate networks.

  Im not sure what triggered the system preferences to do this, but the only reason why I ever went to this screen was to check some settings of the firewall. I don't change not even nothing in there, nor I have stayed there when I closed the system preferences. Nevertheless, I know has this annoying problem.

  < image edited by host to remove the serial number >

  Please, back up all data before proceeding.

  Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select this option:

  ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist

  A right click or Ctrl-click on the line and select

  Services ▹ reveal in Finder (or just to reveal)

  of the contextual menu.*, a file must open with a selected item. Quit the application runs. Move selected item to the office, leaving the window open. Restart the application and test. If there is no change, leave again and place the item you back where he was, crushing the that may have been created in its place. If not, remove the item you moved.

  * If you do not see the item context menu copy the selected text in the Clipboard by pressing Control-C key combination. In the Finder, select

  Go ▹ go to the folder...

  from the menu bar and paste it into the box that opens by pressing command + V. You won't see what you pasted a newline being included. Press return.

• Installed the new screen after updating system settings "Automatic" gray screen now get in XP

  When you connect a new monitor to my sisters unit, the resolution was wrong and could not be resolved. I changed the properties defining 'System' to 'automatic '. The change required a reboot. Now my screen is WHITE! No commissioning, the pointer of the mouse, just a gray screen! Help!

  Hello

  · What is the number and the model of the computer?

  · What is the service pack installed on the computer?

  · Don't you see the Windows logo on the screen?

  It seems that the problem is with the graphics card installed on the computer.  Your question does contain all the required information necessary for us to help you. Go back with these details to help you better.