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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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Intellij Idea: Importing Gradle project - getting JAVA_HOME not defined yet

Intellij Idea 14.1.4 Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 and later. From the IDE: Import Project -> (Chosen directory to import) -> Import project from external model, Gradle -> Gradle Home: /usr/local/Cellar/gradle/2.4/libexec Gradle JVM: Use JAVA_HOME (not…
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Hidden Features of Xcode

With a huge influx of newbies to Xcode, I'm sure there are lots of Xcode tips and tricks to be shared. What are yours?
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Install gitk on Mac

How can I install gitk on a Mac? From their official website, it seems gitk comes with Git, but the version of my Git (git version 1.7.12.4 (Apple Git-37)) does not come with gitk. brew install gitk does not work for gitk. Version information…
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What languages are Windows, Mac OS X and Linux written in?

I was just wondering who knows what programming languages Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are made up from and what languages are used for each part of the OS (ie: Kernel, plug-in architecture, GUI components, etc). I assume that there are multiple…
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Error when using 'sed' with 'find' command on OS X: "invalid command code ."

Being forced to use CVS for a current client and the address changed for the remote repo. The only way I can find to change the remote address in my local code is a recursive search and replace. However, with the sed command I'd expect to work: find…
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sed in-place flag that works both on Mac (BSD) and Linux

Is there an invocation of sed todo in-place editing without backups that works both on Linux and Mac? While the BSD sed shipped with OS X seems to need sed -i '' …, the GNU sed Linux distributions usually come with interprets the quotes as empty…
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How do I remove the "extended attributes" on a file in Mac OS X?

I have an AppleScript script that runs a stress test. Part of the test is to open, save, and close certain files. Somehow, the files have picked up some "extended attributes" that prohibit the files from being saved. That causes the stress test to…
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How to avoid "cannot load such file -- utils/popen" from homebrew on OSX

I'm getting an error when I run brew in the terminal: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- utils/popen (LoadError) from…
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Mac OS X Terminal: Map option+delete to "backward delete word"

Tried to map it from Preferences -> Settings -> Keyboard, but the "key" combo box has only "forward delete" but no "delete". My keyboard on the other hand has only "delete" and no "forward delete"! Is there some other way to do it except from the…
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Installing Java on OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

I have installed the JDK on Mac OS X v10.8 (Mountain Lion). When I upgraded it to Mac OS X v10.9 (Mavericks) and ran java -version in the terminal, it showed: No Java runtime present, requesting install. Then I manually installed the JDK (1.7) on…
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ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'

I installed MySQL on Mac OS X Mountain Lion with homebrew install mysql, but when I tried mysql -u root I got the following error: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) What does this error…
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Getting a "This application is modifying the autolayout engine from a background thread" error?

Been encountering this error a lot in my OS X using swift: "This application is modifying the autolayout engine from a background thread, which can lead to engine corruption and weird crashes. This will cause an exception in a future release." I…
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Delete node_modules folder recursively from a specified path using command line

I have multiple npm projects saved in a local directory. Now I want to take backup of my projects without the node_modules folder, as it is taking a lot of space and can also be retrieved any time using npm install. So, what would be a solution to…
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Core Data vs SQLite 3

I am already quite familiar with relational databases and have used SQLite (and other databases) in the past. However, Core Data has a certain allure, so I am considering spending some time to learn it for use in my next application. Is there much…
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gem eventmachine fatal error: 'openssl/ssl.h' file not found

Just installed El Capitan and can't install gem eventmachine 1.0.7. openssl is at 1.0.2a-1. Tried to use --with-ssl-dir but it seems ignored. Reported it to their github repo as well. Any suggestions are really appreciated. Thanks. $ ls…
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