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macOS (formerly known as OS X or Mac OS X) is the desktop operating system from Apple, found on Macintosh computers. Use this tag only if your question relates to using macOS APIs or macOS-specific behavior, not because you happen to run your code on macOS. Questions relating to using or troubleshooting macOS are off-topic and belong in the Ask Different community instead.

macOS (formerly known as OS X until 2016 and Mac OS X until 2012) is the desktop operating system from Apple Inc., found on Macintosh computers.

Use this tag for questions about writing and debugging programs on macOS. Questions relating to using or troubleshooting macOS are off-topic (use apple.stackexchange.com instead).

macOS() consists of a Mach/BSD-based kernel, operating system interfaces primarily based on FreeBSD (), and additional frameworks (written in C (), C++ (), Objective-C () and Swift () providing user interface and application-level services.

It was the successor to Mac OS 9. macOS is based upon the NeXTSTEP and OpenStep operating systems developed in the 1980s and 1990s by NeXT Inc., which Apple purchased in 1996.

Versions

  • Current macOS Big Sur
  • macOS Catalina 10.15.1
  • macOS Mojave 10.14.1
  • macOS High Sierra (10.13)
  • macOS Sierra (10.12)
  • OS X El Capitan (10.11)
  • OS X Yosemite (10.10)
  • OS X Mavericks (10.9)
  • OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)
  • OS X Lion (10.7)
  • OS X Snow Leopard (10.6)
  • OS X Leopard (10.5)
  • OS X Tiger (10.4)
  • OS X Panther (10.3)
  • OS X Jaguar (10.2)
  • OS X Cheetah (10.1)
  • OS X Puma (10.0)

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Any good tool for browsing archives(Ear,War, Jar) on OSX

On Linux i can use file-roller and open an browse the content of an EAR file without manually open it, can even dig into contained WAR file and within that JAR files quickly. This is another of those must have tools I'm missing on OSX (along with…
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Restoring deleted 'root' user and password for MySQL

I accidentally deleted the root user on my local dev setup of MAMP/MySQL running on OS X. There are no other users created to get back into MySQL. This is a mild nightmare can't seem to do anything without root. Found this:…
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Xcode logging: "Metal API Validation Enabled"

I'm building a macOS app via Xcode. Every time I build, I get the log output: Metal API Validation Enabled To my knowledge my app is not using any Metal features. I'm not using hardware-accelerated 3D graphics or shaders or video game features or…
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SSL module in Python is not available (on OSX)

I'm having trouble running pip install in a virtualenv on OSX 10.13. I already have run brew install openssl and the path /usr/local/include/openssl points to ../opt/openssl/include/openssl. Does anyone know how to fix this? This started happening…
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Creating static Mac OS X C build

How can i create a static build of a .c file on Mac OS X ? When i try: gcc -o test Main.c -static I get: ld: library not found for -lcrt0.o collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
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Vue command not found

Trying to install Vue, but I am getting an error -bash: vue: command not found. Everything is installed per Vue instructions and I'm not sure why I am getting this issue. Thanks in advance!
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Mercurial error *** failed to import extension hggit: No module named hggit

I installed Mercurial on my Mac, and it's wonderful. For me it's easier to grasp than Git so I wanted to use it to manage git-repositories. Therefore I installed hg-git with the following instructions: http://hg-git.github.com/ However, each time…
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Homebrew will not run wget command (Library not loaded)

I received the following message when I try to use wget command after installation on Homebrew (running Mac High Sierra 10.13). dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/gettext/lib/libintl.8.dylib Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/wget Reason:…
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OS X Terminal: Meta key + alt functionality at the same time

Is there a way to use an alt / option key as a meta key but still be able to use it to make some characters which need it? For example, in my local keyboard layout: @ is alt + 2 \ is alt + shift + 7 | is alt + 7 etc. So, if I set alt as a meta…
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Mac App Store - link to App Review Page

In the iOS versions of our software we prompt users to submit reviews using the well know "viewContentsUserReviews" URL. We'd like to do the same thing in the Mac OSX versions of the apps. Is there a similar URL that can be used for the Mac App…
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How can I make another button highlighten on popup window on Mac by using Keyboard

On the above shown asking popup window on Mac, how can I select another button (left button) by using keyboard. Without clicking mouse button, I want to make left button highlighten. Is there any shortcuts?
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Where is the default vimrc located on Mac

Where can I find the default vimrc on Mac when there is no ~/.vimrc. On some Linux its located in the /etc/vimrc
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Extract .xip file into a folder from command line?

Apple occasionally uses a proprietary XIP file format, particularly when distributing versions of Xcode. It is an analog to zip, but is signed, allowing it to verified on the receiving system. When a XIP file is opened (by double-clicking), Archive…
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Emacs question - hash key

I have a Mac Laptop and I am connecting to server running Linux. As Alt+3 is already bound in EMACS to a command, so I cannot insert the hash symbol in a file. I have tried the following solution I found online: (global-unset-key (kbd…
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ImageMagick: No decode delegate for this image format `' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/504

Problem: ImageMagick convert is unable to crop image. It looks like it doesn't recognize the image type? What I've Tried: I've searched around online and I've seen several similar issues but not mine. I've attempted their solutions…
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