I have recently enrolled my Mac to a company that I am working with. After the enrollment the performance of the machine drastically degraded.   When I decided to un-enroll, I contacted the helpdesk and their suggestion was to save the necessary documents and go back in the time machine. Which I did not like as a method.  Now I am trying to understand what has been pushed to the machine so that I can check and rollback them one by one.  Up to now what I have figured was some profiles and the filevault disc encryption.  Other than these two what kind of things are typically pushed to Macs when a machine is enrolled to a company?  PS: As of now the profile status shows DEP as No.   MB-22F1FWW4:~ mehmetkaplan$ profiles status -type enrollment Enrolled via DEP: No MDM enrollment: No
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I just bought a used macbook air 2015 I made a system restore... and was confident the mac is not stolen because of these checks  1- there were no icloud on the computer, and I was able to add my own iCloud normally.  2- the mac firmware had no password  but now, I see something that I have never seen before  I keep seeing this message, always skipping it    1- what are the consequences of allowing DEP, and is it reversible?   2- how to contact the person who has DEP and ask them to remove it from the program?  3- when buying a new mac, how to know if it's on DEP? (the most important question)  4- someone on IRC said that if i was unable to authorize my machine from itunes then the machine is on DEP.. is this correct?  5- the same person on IRC says that there could be a previous owner, and this owner can format my computer and see all of my files even if i have my own icloud on it, is this correct?  the person who sold it to me imported 60 macs from a closed startup in sweden, I can return it to the seller and get my money back, but I really need an answer for these questions...
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I accidentally turned off FileVault on my MacBook when trying to allow downloaded Canon driver software to be opened. FileVault is currently decrypting and I want to stop it as soon as possible. How do I stop FileVault decryption?
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Are iCloud backups encrypted, both when transmitted and stored? Is it possible for someone at Apple to access any backup made to the data enter?  I have heard that when apps have been pulled from the app store they have also been removed iCloud backups, so if they can be modified by apple then surely they aren't stored securely?  I have a lot of my passwords for websites and apps saved, so I assume these are stored in the backups as well?
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I recently installed 11.10 on a fresh disk using entire disk encryption.  Can someone tell me how secure the encryption algorithm is?  Has there been any recent breaches with said algorithm?  I use a 36 character random passphrase so I know thats not a weak link.  What are the chances my client's data could be compromised if the hard drive was stolen?
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I scheduled and ran CHKDSK after restart, but it took a long time, so I left it to run all night. In the morning, it had finished and the computer had logged in, but I had no way of knowing if it found bad sectors or anything.  Is there a log file I can look at?  This is what CHKDSK looks like when running before login:
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I'd like to know to see which files are getting backed up by my time machine? I often see a large amount of data being transfered and I'm not sure sure what it is.
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I have a Mac Mini with Mac OS X 10.6 Server installed. It has two external drives attached to it. One is for Time Machine and other contains data. I have bought the latest Mac Mini with Mac OS X 10.7 and two new hard drives. I want to migrate to the new hardware (the new Mac Mini and the new hard disks). Can Migration Assistant do that for me or do I have to transfer the data in the external drive manually?
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After turning on encryption with FileVault on my MacBook Air with Mountain Lion my login screen went gray. Is there a way to go back to the default one?  The grey one    The default one
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I erased my Macintosh HD from Disk Utility with a journaled encrypted format and I wanted to install OS X 10.7 Lion. I left it to download and install overnight because it took about 16 hours.  When I checked it again it gave me a weird screen that has a circle with a slash inside it, like a stop sign. What can I do?
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I had a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro that recently stopped booting. I narrowed this down based on troubleshooting of the boot device to likely the SATA/hard drive connector/cable no longer working for whatever reason.  I have decided to sell the system. I'd like to know if I remove the hard drive (or in this case, an after-market SSD I've installed) from the system, will there be any other data (i.e. iCloud data) stored on the system on any other chip that I can reset in any way? I plan to reset the SMC/NVRAM before I sell the system off of to someone else.  Additionally, if I remove the hard drive, is the system still associated to iCloud (specifically Find My Mac) or any other service? If so, how do I disassociate it? The system will no longer boot even if I put in my boot device.  Thanks!
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I have a Mac OS X and VMware Fusion.  I did a fresh install of 12.04.  I do not have VMware Tools installed.    I read that I do not have to log in at the command window, that I have to wait for VMware Tools to get installed. It seems like something is wrong.
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I have verbose mode turned on always so I can see if a kernel panic or some error happens. After having it on for a few times, I started to notice that most of the boot was happening after the login. I can't show a picture as it is in boot, but the login screen loads before most of the OS. This is only after a cold boot but I can't seem to find any information on this. All I want is some information on this. EDIT: Basically, the machine starts to boot, the apple logo pops up, a small box of text scrolls down, where the rest of the monitor is not used, it shows the login screen, and after I type the password, the login screen goes away. now the whole screen is used and the rest of the machine boots up. EDIT 2: There is no firmware password. I have not locked the firmware.
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I'm trying to decide on an uninstaller that does before and after system scans.  So far, I've come across these three:   CleanApp (syniumsoftware.com/cleanapp/) - which I saw someone recommend in  Yank (matterform.com/mac_software/uninstaller/index.html) Uninstaller (macmagna.com/)   So I was hoping if anyone on here has any tips or recommendations on these or any others.  Thanks!
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I went to their site, and downloaded a .bundle which automagically turned into a .txt file after downloading.   Long story short, I can't run the txt file because I guess Mountain Lion Mac os X isn't a strict Linux box and is missing some core components to do that type of installation.  Does anyone know how to install VMware?
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(Updated answer choice for High Sierra. See the old answer if you are still on Yosemite)  I'm running OS X Yosemite, and I want to disable the notifications from Time Machine. I rarely do a hard-drive backup because all of my essential files are in the cloud. I don't need to run timemachine as often as it suggests/warns/annoys me about.  How do I disable the notifications? Time Machine is not in the Notifications preferences, and I don't want to stop using it entirely.
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I suspect I know the answer to this, but...  In 10.7, versions of a document are saved automatically. You can also explicitly save a version by selecting "Save a Version".  When I wish to revert to a previous version, in the Time Machine-like display that appears, there seems to be no way to identify which versions it's showing me were saved automatically by the system, and which were (what I consider to be) the "milestone" versions that I saved explicitly.  Am I missing something? I know you're given the opportunity to revert to the last-saved version when you select File->Revert, but what if I just want to look at that version first, or revert to the last-but-one saved version?
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This piece of advice is old but is coming back into fashion. I have seen it a lot recently, on a number of Mac websites or forums. "Your ‘everyday’ user account should not be an admin account. It should be a standard account created for this purpose, and you should log to the admin account only to perform actual admin tasks. »  This seems to be common advice in the Windows world, but for an up-to-date OS X system, I just cannot understand what kind of benefits it brings. Let’s dig into it:   OS X admin accounts are not root accounts. Any app wanting to go root will ask for your password anyway, so I see no additional security layer here. Try to put /var into the Trash. Deep OS modification or code injection into most critical files has been prevented by SIP from El Capitan, whether your are admin, root or nobody. What’s more, in sensitive places where they are still allowed, such modifications would require a root password at the very least, even from an admin account, bringing us back to the first argument. For spyware, privacy concerns and this kind of stuff, using standard accounts provides little additional protection, if any. As far as I know, even when used from a standard account, apps have full access to the user’s personal files and have full network access (minus any firewall, etc.). If a bad app wants to send home your docs, it can perfectly do so from a standard account. Basic lines of defense (firewall, running trusted apps, and so on) are system wide. On the other hand, it is a pain to switch to your admin account, then switch back to your standard account, back and forth. This may actually end up with the user delaying updates or admin maintenance, just to save time and postpone dealing with the hassle.   So, why not use an admin account? I hope this won’t be marked as duplicate, other questions related to this issue didn't address these arguments.  Edit: the question applies to a computer that you own and control.