texts: Creating a URL that always opens in Chrome

texts:
If I want to ensure a URL, if clicked, will always open in Chrome (instead of the default browser) can I do that by modifying the header?

For example, I can get URLs that always open in Evernote, they start with evernote:///

Is this possible, for example to have something like chrome:///www.url.com


texts: How to turn off Mountain Lion's screensaver's password requirement?

texts: I have the current version Mountain Lion and set the Screensaver to 30 minutes, but since I am the only person that have access to this computer, I would like to turn the password off, but there seems to be no such method?


texts: Quicktime Mov with Left Stereo into Mono/Dual Stereo

texts: I recorded a screencast using an external microphone and quicktime.  However, the audio is only on the left channel.  Is there a way via an apple tool, command line, or otherwise to convert a left channel only quicktime movie into mono or copy to both channels?


texts: How do I backup my mac with Optimize Mac Storage

texts:
How can I backup my Mac when I have Optimize Mac Storage turned on?

Backblaze, Arq, and CCC all won't follow the offline file links. But I want a complete copy of my Mac backed up. The iCloud copy isn't sufficient. (iCloud protects against hardware failure, not accidental deletion.)


texts: Dvorak keyboard layout with international character support?

texts:
I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.3, and find myself switching between the Dvorak and U.S. Extended keyboard layout.  Ideally I'd want a Dvorak layout with the international character support of the latter (e.g. Option-u for umlaut, Option-6 for circumflex, etc), but such a thing didn't turn up during some quick googling.

Can I download such a keyboard layout somewhere or, failing that, is there a tool to create such a layout?


texts: SSH to VirtualBox Mac Host Linux Guest using NAT

texts:
How to configure ssh OS X host with Linux guest, so I can access my guest OS through SSH. I've tried:

But when I tried to ssh from host, it failed:

> ssh localhost
ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused

I've tried to set the ip (host 10.0.0.10, guest 10.0.2.15) on the port forwarding, it gives the same output.
I've tried to bind the host to higher address (2222), but got no luck, the host still doesn't listen on port forwarding port.
It doesn't work like this answer: VirtualBox Host ssh to Guest

I could not even ping the guest from the host:

PING 10.0.2.15 (10.0.2.15): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
^C
--- 10.0.2.15 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

But ping works fine from guest to host, ssh from guest to localhost is also ok, the PermitRootLogin is yes, the netstat result is ok:

EDIT after switching to bridged mode, it works fine.


texts: Taking payments for in-app products outside of the app using download codes

texts:
I have implemented in app payments for special content in my app.
I am curious if apple allows us taking payments through outside channels to unlock the same content with say a donwload code, as an alternate to the in-app payment method.
Is this against the terms?


texts:
I have an iPhone 4, and one of their recent updates added an 'always online' feature, where the user can receive messages even if Skype isn't open on their device.

Lately I've been using Skype on my desktop PC, and any message sent to me also appears on my iPhone, and it gets a bit annoying after a while.
Skype for iPhone has no settings, and I've turned off all notifications for Skype in the iOS notification centre, but however I still get notifications of the messages that I receive on Skype.

I've looked briefly for a solution to this, but I can't find anything specific to my usage case.
Two questions:

Can Skype notifications for new messages be switched off on my iPhone- Switching all notifications off for Skype does not do anything.
Is it possible to stop it from showing me as Online all the time? It's inconvenient because I recieve business messages when I'm trying to sleep, and I require to be contactable 24/7 so I can be contacted by my customers if they have a fault with their gameserver (I offer gameserver hosting)- but being able to IM me 24/7 isn't what I want.


texts: Internal iOS update server for iPads (any/all iOS)

texts:
Is it possible to setup an internal update server for iPads similar to the likes of OS X Server's update service (SUS)?

Current issues:

Bandwidth concerns
Do not want to jailbreak
iOS updates


texts:
I suspect my Macbook Pro has been hacked by sophisticated hackers who may have even customized some special malware for my computer.  Is there anyway to tell from looking at the MacBook Pro Activity Monitor like spotting hidden files and other potential unknown processes.  What can I do above and beyond installing an anti-virus program to identify if someone is hacking the computer?  Energy usage and server traffic statistics..?

Thanks in advance everyone.


texts: Is there a 64-bit version of Google Chrome for Mavericks?

texts:
Is there a 64-bit version of Google Chrome for OS X Mavericks?

I need to run NetBeans and it requires Java 7 Update 10 at least.


texts: Looking for a screen measuring app for macOS

texts:
I need an app to be able to measure distances at the very least that would correspond to real values. Let's say I have a graphic that has a few points on it instead of having to print out the paper and measure the distances between points by ruler, I'd like to do it on screen.

Could you suggest the best on screening measuring tool that there is? If it would come with other tools it would be really great.


texts: My 3 year-old son made an accidental in app purchase of around 270 pounds. I tried refund my money to my account but couldn't do it. Please help me refund my money because I can't afford to lose money that way.


texts: Contact picture not connect with Faces on Photo

texts:
Each time I'm going to select a face picture for my contact in the MacBook Pro (Mid. 2010 OS X 10.11) and I select the option Faces the window display the following message:

Find and organise photos of <name_of_the_contact> in the photo app using Faces.

The problem here is that I would like to choose a photo among the available pics in the Photo app for my contacts. Obviously I set one pics in the app Photo but these are not present in the list when I edit the photo in the contacts app. The two app appear to be not related each other.

Someone have had the same problem and maybe solve it?


texts: Help getting Nautilus running under MacPorts

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I have been trying to run Nautilus on OS X 10.6.8 without any luck. First, I installed MacPorts, then installed Nautilus. However when I try to run it from the command line, I am getting an error. I came to this thread and followed the instructions given. However I am still getting this error:

(nautilus:27170): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
    Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display "/tmp/launch-42nv45/org.x:0".

** (nautilus:27170): WARNING **: Can not calculate _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS

** (nautilus:27170): WARNING **: Can not calculate _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS

** (nautilus:27170): WARNING **: Can not get _NET_WORKAREA

** (nautilus:27170): WARNING **: Can not determine workarea, guessing at layout
nautilus: Fatal IO error 0 (Unknown error: 0) on X server /tmp/launch-42nv45/org.x:0.

And then X11 stops unexpectedly. Can anybody tell me how to solve this?


texts:
Sometimes my mac mini doesn't go into standby after the inactivity time specified in system settings. This happened with Yosemite, and continues to happen with El Capitan.

Quite sure, there is some application that prevents sleep, but I'm still unable to identify it. Is there a systematic way to identify the guilty application?


texts:
Macbook Air gets hot near its processor and gets sluggish for a while, whenever I make "heavy" tasks at the same time. I wonder if a fan under its base would make any difference since mac has no ventilation. In any case, would it help at all?

Edit: I consider the cases when the speed of the internal fan is quite normal but the area near the processor gets hot, since I can understand whenever fan speed is high, producing all that noise (e.g. when installing an OS).


texts: Is a 16GB iPhone supposed to only have 11GBs available?

texts: I have a iPhone 5S and it's reporting a capacity of 11.8GB. I would have thought that 16GB would mean 16GB?


texts: How do I send a file by Bluetooth from Android smartphone to an iMac running OS X Lion?

texts:
I am unsuccessfully sending a file from my smartphone Huawei Ideos X5 with Android 2.3.5 to my iMac. I paired the devices successfully. Android phone receives successfully anything from iMac, but iMac cannot receive anything. I disabled my firewall and disabled the stealth mode too but still problem persists.

How can you make iMac able to receive a file by Bluetooth from Android smartphone?


texts: Music App: order by album release date in iOS 9?

texts:
When I tap in the artist in the Music app, I see the list of their albums.
Is there a way to make this list sorted by year (release date)?
I'm on iOS 9


texts:
I can change the scroll bar behaviour to only show when scrolling:

 > System Preferences... > General > Show scroll bars

But I never want to see scroll bars.

How can I completely disable them? I just want to scroll with keyboard/trackpad, the scroll bars are ugly and get in the way too often, and I never have a need for them.

I want to turn off scroll bars 100%.


texts: On my contacts app it says "me" next to my mom's contact but I'm not entirely sure what that means. Does this mean she's using my number on her phone for imessage or is it simply that I am on the same Apple ID as her?


texts: For a given Location, I only want to connect to one specific WiFi connection. How?

texts: When I'm at a specific location, I want my MBP to connect to only one specific WiFi connection available.  Too many times it "automatically" connects to garbage WiFi signals like "xfinitywifi" or "CableWifi" that are nearby, and I always have to manually set the connection to the one I really want to use.  Is there a way to limit a macos WiFi connection to a specific WiFi signal?


texts: shell script gives error [: !-z: unary operator expected while execute

texts:
I've created a bash script to kill the active process searching by name

pkill.sh

#~/bin/bash
pro=`ps aux | grep $1 | grep -v sh | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
if [ !-z "$pro" ]
then
   echo $1 process is not running
else
  kill -9 $pro
  echo $1 process killed forecfully, process id was $pro.
fi

and execute this shell script in terminal ( v 2.8) as following

sh pkill.sh mongod

the job is done, but it gives the error too

  pkill.sh: line 3: [: !-z: unary operator expected kill: usage: kill
  [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l
  [sigspec] mongod process killed forecfully, process id was .

why this script gives an error?

I tried with

if[[ !z "$pro ]]

but no help.

Please tell me how to write exactly valid bash script


texts: Where can I find previous alerts or warnings?

texts: Where can I find previous iPad alerts or warnings?


texts:
I cloned a disk with dd on linux and want to be able to use the entire disk, but I'm not sure how as I don't think the OS is recognizing the free space that is unpartitioned. In Disk Utility, I can't select a size larger than 120GB (the size of my old SSD) despite the new one being 250GB.

diskutil list output:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            119.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

sudo gpt -r show disk0 output:

      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  232762432      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  233172072    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  234441608  253955560


texts: Setting up iCloud results in cloudd error messages

texts:
I am trying to set up iCloud on my work laptop (profile managed in an active directory domain from what I can tell).

It seems to be mostly going fine, but all of the icons stay grayed out:

Re-entering the password doesn't change this.

The console log is filled with these (about every minute or so):

10/9/15 9:04:28.985 AM cloudd[714]: Couldn't create a PCS identity: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-25300 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -25300 - SecItem failed to fetch ProtectedCloudStorage: keychain status: 0x7 auditInfo: asid=0x000186a5 auid=65655  flags=0x00006030 paths: 0:/Users/mseeger/Library/Keychains/login.keychain 1:/Library/Keychains/System.keychain )" (errKCItemNotFound / errSecItemNotFound:  / The item cannot be found.) UserInfo=0x7f9221ecd9a0 {NSDescription=SecItem failed to fetch ProtectedCloudStorage: keychain status: 0x7 auditInfo: asid=0x000186a5 auid=65655  flags=0x00006030 paths: 0:/Users/mseeger/Library/Keychains/login.keychain 1:/Library/Keychains/System.keychain }
10/9/15 9:04:28.985 AM cloudd[714]: Error creating zone PCS: <CKError 0x7f9221e111c0: "Unknown Error" (5000/-25300)>.
Identity (null)
PEM data was -----BEGIN PCS SHARE PROTECTION-----
YYIBTjCCAUowgYMCAQAxfjB8MCUCAQAEIFtrX73tnBmSvMRPWobn3YV8xaC9wB4M
IVfY0oKQ1vTpBFMBABI890SLKuN2fXUHvP9X4ABr3XUMeXGnvGsTmiaevdF6MEcr
0l9H6f/U2AXcoQ5OJYES0suH7ooOFFc/hdYn/iB/z69HFBp5obhKbwojoCD/7qCB
…=
-----END PCS SHARE PROTECTION-----
Zone PCS data <6182014e 3082014a 30818302 0100317e 307c3025 02010004 205b6b5f bded9c19 92bcc44f 5a86e7dd 857cc5a0 bdc01e0c 2157d8d2 8290d6f4 e9045301 00123cf7 448b2ae3 767d7507 bcff57e0 006bdd75 0c7971a7 bc6b139a 269ebdd1 7a30472b d25f47e9 ffd4d805 …>.
10/9/15 9:04:28.986 AM cloudd[714]: Error creating zone PCS for zone <CKRecordZoneID: 0x7f9221d8d6c0; com.apple.ScriptEditor2:__defaultOwner__>: <CKError 0x7f9221e111c0: "Unknown Error" (5000/-25300)>

Any idea what could be happening here?
I tried repairing permissions and rebooting in single user mode already.


texts: Offline (Python) documentation? (for ActivePython Mac or similar)

texts:
I'm a long-time user of ActivePython, and also own a couple of Komodo licenses.

I've recently moved to the Mac, and one thing that I'm missing a lot is the "offline" documentation (i.e., in Windows Help format) that was included with ActivePython.

Is there a Mac "equivalent" of that documentation? I'm not always online when banging away on some script (actually I've found that plane trips are great for some quick coding) so "googling it" doesn't work.


texts: Why does the file size change when you change the "open with" option in Get Info?

texts:
Create a plain text file with the string ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.
Check the file size. It is 26 bytes, as expected.
Go to Get Info, and find the pane labeled "Open with..."
It says "TextEdit" by default.
Change it to something else. I changed it to "Microsoft Word".
Boom. The file is now suddenly 1,364 bytes (8 KB on disk) large.
Now I will change the box back to "TextEdit".
It stays at 1,364 bytes.

So my question is, what exactly happened here?

Why did the file size grow when I changed the program that opens it?
And why did it not revert when I changed it back to the default? How do I revert it?

If you open the file, the string content is intact. So, how exactly are all those extra bytes being used? If OSX says that it is 1kb large, then surely there is 1kb of stuff in it?

OSX Mountain Lion.


texts: If I buy a iTunes card in Europe, Holland, could I (or anyone who has the key) use it in Australia?


texts: Permission errors, safari passwords disappear, dock resets and iCloud problems

texts:
I've searched a lot and cannot find a similar question for High Sierra. Whats irritating is that I hadn't upgraded to 10.13.4 but it happened on its own one evening. Once my MacBook restarted - the first problem was that passwords and autofill information in Sierra stopped showing up - and all fields were empty (in preferences). I tried to fix that and the only workaround without a full restore was to completely unlink my iCloud account from my MacBook - which isn't ideal or feasible - and viola - my passwords show up in safari (I don't know how). When I login to iCloud again (on my mac-settings), THE PASSWORDS DISAPPEAR AGAIN! Next, I noticed the dock resets to default apps, including those I'd hidden, after every restart. An app that stopped working with a "invalid license file" issue was witopia. I tried a few reinstalls to no avail.

I've done the permission repair fix as advised for earlier versions of sierra. I've also used the HD permissions repair utility. Other than a full restore which will take me back by about 3 months, I'm at my wits end as to why all these issues started and how to fix them. The only point of reference for me is that 10.13.4 install which I didn't even initiate!

In summary:
1. I cannot use iCloud without breaking safari stored passwords and autofill
2. My dock resets every start and its getting annoying
3. Some apps are now broke and can't work (a new install fixed one of these problems but this isn't right)
4. Everything else seems to be working fine: mail, safari, word, excel and powerpoint, some media apps

I'd ideally like to avoid a full restore or reset. I would like to clean up things and that includes fixing my iCloud account/keychain access if it has problems. By the way, my iCloud passwords are fine on my iPhone. I also checked keychain access but don't know how to check/fix any issues (if any) with that.


texts:
Hi i'm tryin to write a script to check software version.  I want to pass my own variables, which are name of the Application and Version.

Here's a copy.  It's not working for me currently... i'm a noob and i'm pretty sure it has to do with syntax.

Any input is appreciated.

Thanks,
Paul

#/bin/sh

#Enter the Name of the Application here
ApplicationName=/Applications/FakeApp.app
ApplicationVersionNumber=1.0
echo $ApplicationName

#Check if Directory Exist
if [ ! -d $ApplicationName ]; then
            echo $ApplicationName "is not installed"
            exit 123456
fi
echo $ApplicationName " is installed"

# Check Version
VersionCheck=`cat $ApplicationName/version.plist | grep $ApplicationVersionNumber`
echo $VersionCheck
if [ ${#VersionCheck} != 0 ]; then
echo $VersionCheck
echo $ApplicationName $ApplicationVersion Number "is Installed"
exit 0
fi
echo $ApplicationName $ApplicationVersion Number "is NOT Installed"

exit 1


texts:
I currently have to use my iPod to listen to music in the car for free.
I wondered if iPhone works like an offline iPod?

Is there a way use home sharing and play musuic without streaming it (data use) with an iPhone?


texts: Ejecting SD card takes a long time and CPU usage goes up

texts: I'm on Mavericks and after I eject most SD cards, it takes a minute or two and process UASysAgent is taking 80% of the CPU... quite annoying, does anyone else experience this? Something that can be done about it?


texts: Any way to reset volume level after unplugging headphones?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro, running Mojave, that I take between work and home.

When at home, I plug a set of speakers into the headphone jack and play music through the speakers. In order to get a reasonable volume level on the speakers, I need to crank the volume on the Mac all the way to the top.

I forget about that volume setting when I take it to work and put on some actual headphones, and then blow my ears out with the full volume!

Is there a way to make the Mac reset to a default (reasonably low) volume for the headphones after I unplug?


texts: How can I stop MacOS 10.14.4 Safari from automatically logging me in when I select a password?

texts:
When I go to a site that has a password saved and I select the password, Safari attempts to log me in immediately. However, this completely breaks functionality on some websites (ex adding accounts to RES etc). I believe this "feature" was added recently (10.14.4?).

I was able to disable requiring Touch ID to log in, which is a step in the right direction, but I want to disable the auto login completely, while still autofilling passwords. Is this possible/how can I do it?


texts: Macbook Air crashes/restarts when something doing something heavy on it

texts:
Might be a little confusing to explain but I'll try my best to give a detailed response.

Basically it's a Macbook Air (2014 model) running Yosamite 10.10.2.

I noticed this issue a while back and couldn't find an answer to it on Google.

Whenever I run anything that's a little CPU extensive like a game, a heavy website, or anything which activates the fan in the Macbook, it just crashes/restarts after freezing.

You can hear the fan just turning on and speeding up, but before it gets to full speed the Macbook just freezes and then crashes and reboots to the Apple logo.

In the past, it worked just fine. I played a few games on it even though the Macbook Air would be running its fan for an hour, it never caused issues like this before.

I'm just confused, could this be an OSX error, like maybe upgrading to Yosamite 10.10.2 caused this(was on 10.10 when things ran fine).

Could it be that something is damaged? (The fan seems fine because I used a fan control App to test running the fan on full mode and it ran just perfectly)

Anything would be greatly helpful guys...


texts: After loading 5-10 websites, Safari and all other browsers stop trying to load pages

texts:
After the recent macOS update, I am running into a problem where after browsing to about 5 different URLs, Safari is unable to load any sites. It doesn't matter if I use one tab or multiple tabs. This is not a network issue as I can still ping, etc. from the command line. In addition, it doesn't matter if I use Safari, Chrome, or FireFox. Once the problem starts with one it impacts the others as well. If I reboot the Mac then it resets.

Here is one of the weird things about it: Let's say I open Google in one tab. I then open another tab and after a few sites I can't navigate, in the tab with Google the search sometimes still loads a new page, but the suggestion auto-complete will still work, for terms I've never typed before so it is not something in the history. This indicates to me that it is not a network access issue as it is clearly still going to Google.

If I open Dev Tools and go to the network tab, then click a link or type in a url, nothing happens; the browser doesn't even seem to be trying to issue an HTTP request anywhere. The progress bar goes about 15% and hangs there for the page load.

This only started happening after the last macOS update.

Other things I've tried so far:

Checked to ensure I have enough free space on HD
Flushed the DNS Cache and cleared history
Disabled DNS pre-fetch
Tried a different DNS server like 1.1.1.1 / 8.8.8.8
Confirmed that the network still works
Confirmed I have no proxy, no browser addons/extensions
Confirmed no VPN

I am looking for some more suggestions or things to check besides the basics you see in every web article. It really doesn't seem like a network issue. Is there some system-wide service that would impact requesting or rendering of websites regardless of the browser?

Edit: Turned out the SOCKS proxy got re-enabled by something and this was causing another bug, when this was disabled then the other problem and the above problem went away.


texts: Safari 8 fails to play any (mp4) video in-browser

texts:
I'm using Safari 8.0.4 on OS X 10.10.2. Anywhere and everywhere, Safari refuses to play any (mp4) video on any website. Youtube and Apple's website are the only places where Safari plays any videos.

Even on my own Google Drive account, my uploaded videos fail to play.

This is what I see:

How can I resolve this?


texts:
I purchased a license for MAMP Pro and copy/pasted the license on the webpage when I ordered it.  But there is no record of the license key on the invoice or on when I login to their support system..  I am retiring this computer and transferring my work to a new computer so I am trying to find my license so I can reinstall MAMP on the new computer.

I've looked through the ~/Library/Application Support folder and /Applications/MAMP Pro/ but I can not find it in a plist file either.  Does anyone know where this is stored or where I can find it?

I've already submitted a support ticket but figured I'd see if someone knows rather than waiting around for them to get back to me.


texts: How are these Chinese spam iCloud Calendar/Reminders invitations sent to me?

texts:
Recently, I’ve received a couple of spam event invitations in Calendar on my Mac. The most recent had only Chinese text, and recurred at 5:46am every day.

I am able to decline these by clicking on the invitations button in the toolbar (that only appears when an invitation comes in). However, ideally I’d like to not receive these spam invitations at all.

As I’ve never received a genuine invitation through Calendar, I thought I might be able to turn off the invitation feature. However, I can’t see any controls for this in Calendar preferences or the Internet Account system preferences.

Through what mechanism do these invitation arrive? If I understood what mechanism it was, I might be able to turn it off. I have two Calendar accounts enabled: iCloud, and Facebook. I can’t see anything in my e-mail, so I presume they’re not regular e-mail spam.

Since first writing this question, I’ve had a similar invitation come through in Reminders:


texts: /Applications/Preview.app no longer exists but is visible in Finder?

texts:
I think this happened after Catalina.

sudo ls /Applications/Preview*

claims there is no such file, even though the file is perfectly visible in the Finder.

I have a script that relies on it:

function manp(){
  man -t $1 | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app
}

which I can fix by abbreviating to open -f -a Preview but still ... where did Preview.app go?


texts:
I am on iTunes 12.5.1.21 on OS X El Capitan 10.11.3. I would like to know where (by default) downloads are written (I am downloading many iTunes U lectures in sequence).

Window > Activity shows me active downloads which I can pause and cancel, but that isn't exactly what I need.  I can also click the tiny arrow at the top right of the iTunes navbar that shows up when you are downloading something, but it just gives me the same tools as Window > Activity.


texts:
I'm trying to enable calendar syncing for my work Gmail account (in System Preferences > Internet Accounts). I already have Mail and Messages enabled on the account with no problems. When I try to enable Calendars, it spins for a while and then gives me an error:

  A secure connection couldn't be established.Click "Continue" to continue creating the account. You can edit the account later in
  Calendar preferences if necessary.

If I do click Continue, though, it just does the same thing again, so I can never actually enable it.

UPDATE: we recently transferred our email accounts to a new custom domain (we use Google Apps for business, so we don't use @gmail.com), and I'm having this exact issue again. Some additional details:

If I try to enable Calendar syncing via Calendar.app (rather than System Preferences > Internet Accounts), I get a different, very generic error:

  There was a problem setting up the account.An unknown error occurred.

Using the same exact account info and credentials, I can enable calendar syncing on my iPhone, but my account never appears in Calendar as a group (alongside iCloud, etc.) and therefore I don't see any of its events. So it's still failing, but not giving me an error message like it does on the Mac, for whatever reason.


texts: External backup drive unmounted, then endless churn

texts:
I have a 5 year old Seagate USB2 drive for backups, used for a few months with time machine on my Retina MBP.

Lately, I've been getting an error that it was improperly ejected (I didn't actually eject it), and I can hear the drive churn endlessly on its own. I can't remount it, its power button doesn't respond, I have to power cycle it, then it mounts again and seems to work. Until the next incident.

Is it dying on me? It's old but has only been lightly used, until recently.


texts: Will there be a USB-C to thunderbolt 2 adaptor? I only need data transfer to be higher then USB 3.0

texts:
Right now USB C ports are just arriving in laptops and I unfortunately dedicated to go with a cheaper laptop (pc) but with thunderbolt-2.

The thing I don't like about thunderbolt 2 products is the premium price you pay for the Lacie external drives with thunderbolt2. I hope that in the future USB-C devices will come out that will be a bit cheaper as the PC world and mac are seemingly getting 1 standard thunderbolt3 and USB-C.

Long story short will the thunderbolt 2 connection be of ANY use to me in the future world of USB-C on my windows laptop in regards to my normal USB3.0 ports? If yes then what applications of USB-C will it work with?

The only application I really care about is if I could connect an external HD sold with the new USB-C to my Thunderbolt2 via an adapter.

I am thinking I will only get a benefit from thunderbolt 3 devices that are labeled as such to get an adapter to thunderbolt 2 ports for me to get a speed gain compared to USB3.0.

In short the whole idea behind these questions is to have a fast connection between disks and laptop as I am working on big files in Photoshop and TB's of photo's and film ect. Even if USB 3.0 is "fast enough" I would still like to have the Thunderbolt 2 speeds rather then the USB 3.0 speeds.

If it is compatible will the theoretical and effective speed of a USB-C to Thunderbolt2 connection surpass the USB 3.0 max speed?


texts: can I make a facetime call while blocking my number

texts: can we talk if someone calls me without identifying their number but I still accept the facetime call


texts: TimeMachine - Backup space vs Working Files space

texts:
I backed up 8TB of files to an 8TB TM backup and it didn't like it.

I'm wondering how much extra space (than what it's backing up) TimeMachine needs to operate best. Google suggested a minimum of 1.5x

So would that mean backing up 8TB to a 12TB disk is minimum ideal?


texts: Is there a possible way to recover a backup that i deleted from iTunes?

texts: When I tried to restore my iPhone from iTunes, it would give me an error code. So, I went into preferences and deleted the backup, thinking its just some cache that might be generating the problem. Is there some program or way to recover the deleted backup?


texts:
I recently upgraded to macOS BigSur, but after that my mac started to lag.
By lag I mean the transitions while switching between apps using the trackpad were very slow and the trackpad used to respond after 1-2 seconds!
It was a horrible experience, so I decided to downgrade it. I have done it before also from Catalina to Mojave as there were many bugs in it.
But this time I restored the data using a time machine backup.....
It didn’t go well
This was my dock in BigSur
Now, this is the dock in Mojave
Can't open any app, I even tried searching for messages in the spotlight search, but there also it isn’t opening.
And now when I go to about this mac and then storage, it says 48 GB is used by the system, isn’t it too much!!

Is there any way?
I think the reinstalling will work but is there any other way coz the reinstallation takes a lot of time
Thanks in advance
P.S: I am using a MacBook Pro Mid 2018 13" with touchbar


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I have recently moved from an android phone to an iPhone 5.  I have successfully moved all of my text messages from my android to the iPhone using the "Move to iOS" application from the Google play store.

I have made an iTunes backup of the messages, phones, etc. to my MacBook Pro.  Using 3rd party software, I am able to see all of my messages that are on my iPhone via the backup on my Mac.

Does anyone know of anyway to have the conversations imported to the Mac's iMessage application?  I know that the messages are found in ~/Library/Message/Archive/ directory with 3 database files found one level up from that.  I have attempted to save SMS.db from the iPhone backup and rename it chat.db.  However, it does not recreate the messages so I think there is more to the story than a simple renaming.

Thanks!


texts: Moving a window between Spaces with Slate

texts:
I'm currently using Slate as my main TWM but the only thing missing is moving app between spaces with key bindings.

I don't want to use the mouse, I know I can drag and drop the window and I can select the window and then switch to an other Space.

I want to do it with the keyboard, just switch the window on focus. Is it possible? Is there a better TWM for mac os than Slate?

Thank you.


texts: Mirror parts of screen to external monitor

texts:
I'd like to mirror/clone separate parts of my iMac screen to smaller external displays.

For me the best solution would be to draw a frame on top of the iMac display and let that special frame show up on a smaller external display.

Is this possible? How can I do this?


texts: Can I trust Apple support and share my password?

texts:
I have problem with iCloud backup on my iPhone. After several calls to the Russian department of Apple support they suggest me to change my AppleID password temporarily to an test password proposed by the support specialist to see what's going on with my account. Also they say that they get access to all my data stored on phone: messages, photo, apps data etc, and I should agree with this terms.

Of course they say usually engineers don't read/watch users data, but  I think it's weird to grant access to all my data.

Should I trust them and share my pretty photos, banking apps and personal chats? I'm pretty sure I have talked with the official Apple support, not scammers.


texts: Does the Apple Watch need an iPhone to be on the latest iOS to pair?

texts:
My S0 sport won't pair with my iPhone 6s on a 11.1.x version of iOS. I can't actually update my iPhone at the moment but this is the only suggestion the engineers have given.

The Apple Watch page doesn't mention series 0 anymore but for series 1 mentions Apple Watch Series 1 require an iPhone 5s or later with iOS 11 or later so I guess if they're compatible my phone meets the requirements. All I hear is "update, update, update", I wish I could but it's not an option for me at the moment. I'm not sure how updating my phone would fix the problem either unless this is a bug. The support engineers tell me it isn't a bug, at least not a known one which prevents iOS 11.1.x pairing with S0 Apple Watch. Maybe there's something I don't understand.

My iPhone says

  watchOS 3.1.3 Your software is up-to-date.

My watch says

  Please continue set-up on iPhone.

I've rebooted, powered off & on, enabled airplane mode etc. etc. etc. more times than I can count but I can't get the watch to pair. Even doing a clean reinstall of iOS and multiple factory resets of the watch didn't help. It's a 42mm Aluminium Sport (S0?) pairing to an iPhone 6S.

I can't see anything in Apple's advertising that says it won't work on a version of iOS that is 11.x but isn't the latest :(


texts: What has Apple done to make macOS partially closed-source?

texts: The macOS operating system is on nearly every Mac. What has Apple done to make sure that their users cannot see, and thus recreate or modify, the low level code that makes macOS, macOS, how have they done it, and why can't we, the users, get around their method of hiding parts of macOS?


texts: What determines the search attributes available when creating a smart folder?

texts: In other words, if I go to Smart Folder > Other... there's a list of search attributes that varies by system, but where do they come from?


texts: How can I make use of info from a `file-bookmark` entry in a plist?


texts: trying to figure out how to use App Switcher on Lion

texts:
I recently bought a used Mighty Mouse, the slightly older kind with a little button on top that scrolls. (could anyone tell me what to call this button?)

I set the button to use the App Switcher, which I had never used before.

App Switcher opens okay, no problem there. and I can go left and right between them. but I can't actually open or switch to the app or, for that matter, close them. I can use App Switcher using the keyboard, though, thanks to tutorials. but I can't figure out how to do it with the mouse.

so how I can actually use App Switcher using the mouse? FYI, I use 10.8.4.


texts: Euterpea and fluidsynth on a Mac: yet more problems

texts:
In a previous question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53977864/installing-euterpea-for-computer-music-applications-and-haskell (which relates to this question Euterpea and fluidsynth on a Mac too), on installing Euterpea on a Mac via the terminal, I was advised to enter the command

fluidsynth -s -a coreaudio -m coreaudio /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2

I was told that if I couldn't find the FluidR3_GM.sf2 file then it's likely it's been installed in a different location, and that, as a last resort, I could just download a soundfont file and use that rather than the one provided by FluidSynth.

When I search for the FluidR3_GM.sf2 file, I receive the following errors. What can I do? Also, how can I run the command above successfully?

 Mo-MacBook-Pro:app Mo$ sudo find / -name FluidR3_GM.sf2
 Password:
 find: /private/var/db/ConfigurationProfiles/Store: Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/tw/v9nkymhj461_yh7bl98n90k80000gp/0/SafariFamily:
 Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/tw/v9nkymhj461_yh7bl98n90k80000gp/0/com.apple.
 Safari/SafariFamily: Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/tw/v9nkymhj461_yh7bl98n90k80000gp/0/com.apple.
 LaunchServices.dv: Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/tw/v9nkymhj461_yh7bl98n90k80000gp/0/com.apple.
 nsurlsessiond: Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/tw/v9nkymhj461_yh7bl98n90k80000gp/0/com.apple.
 routined: Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/tw/v9nkymhj461_yh7bl98n90k80000gp/C/com.apple.
 QuickLook.thumbnailcache: Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000sm00006d/0: Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000sm00006d/C: Operation not permitted
 find:/private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000y800007k/0/com.apple.nsurlsessiond: Operation not permitted
 find:/private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000z000007r/0/com.apple.nsur.
 lsessiond: Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000z000007r/0/com.apple.routined: Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/dy/q51p3v595kbd8_wclmt80v700000gn/0/SafariFamily:Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/dy/q51p3v595kbd8_wclmt80v700000gn/0/com.apple.Safari/Sa
 fariFamily: Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/dy/q51p3v595kbd8_wclmt80v700000gn/0/com.apple.LaunchServices.dv: Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/dy/q51p3v595kbd8_wclmt80v700000gn/0/com.apple.nsurlsessiond: Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/dy/q51p3v595kbd8_wclmt80v700000gn/0/com.apple.routined: Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/dy/q51p3v595kbd8_wclmt80v700000gn/C/com.apple.QuickLook.thumbnailcache: Operation not permitted
 find: /private/var/folders/8m/0brzdqzx4vs_r1lj2n2qnk7c0000gq/0/com.apple.LaunchServices.dv: Operation not permitted
 find: /dev/fd/3: Not a directory
 find: /dev/fd/4: Not a directory


texts: Restoring a Boot Camp image with Windows 7 and making it bootable?

texts:
I have an image of Boot Camp with Windows 7, which was created by Carbon Copy Cleaner. I didn't realize that the image wasn't bootable until I had already deleted the partition.

I'd like to restore the partition with the image, and make it bootable, so that I can return back to where I was before deleting the partition. Is this at all possible to do?


texts:
I'd appreciate to be able to use my Linux colorscheme in Terminal.

Is there a way I can specify HEX-codes or maybe RGB-values?


texts: iPhone shows apple logo and iPhone is not restored gives unknown error 2001

texts:
my iPhone5 is dropped from my hand when i put from floor than it shows continuously apple logo i attached iPhone with itunes and try to restore after download whole software it gives error The iPhone "iPhone" could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (2001).

please provide me any solution. i'm so much worry about this. thanks in advance


texts: Intel Power Gadget causes kernel panics MacBook BigSur

texts:
Intel power gadget causes kernel panic in my virtualbox virtual machine.
I have an MacBook PRO 16 2019 (i9-2.4Ghz), OS 11.1, VirtualBox 6.16, Intel Power Gadget 3.7.0.
I use virtualbox with vagrant (and homestead)
If I uninstall power gadget everything works fine.
If I leave it installed, the virtual machine does not start, I see kernel panic.
Do you know any way to make power gadgets go? It is very useful!


texts: How can I silence the startup chime on El Capitan?

texts:
It's insane that in 2016 we still have to do with this, but since upgrading to El Capitan, previous solutions don't seem to work for me anymore. This is what I've tried.
silence.sh
sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume="%00" # does nothing
osascript -e 'set volume with output muted'
echo "run at $(date)" >> /var/log/silence_log.txt

1. LogoutHook
This is what worked on Yosemite
sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook /path/to/silence.sh

but ceased to work on my almost fresh El Capitan install
2. LaunchAgent
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN
http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>Silence</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/path/to/silence.sh</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

But running launchctl load silence_sysvol.plist doesn't write anything to the log, so the script doesn't seem to run and I haven't figured out how to have it always be loaded and run at logout.
I read that launchd will send SIGTERM to the agents on logout, so would something like this be a way to go?
#!/usr/bin/env bash

function silence()
{
   sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume="%00" # not working
   osascript -e 'set volume with output muted'
   echo "run at $(date)" >> /var/log/silence_log.txt
}

trap silence SIGTERM
silence

3. nobootsound
Tried this, didn't work.


texts: Stop Macbook from stealing Bluetooth audio focus on Bose headphones

texts:
I use Bose QC-35 headphones, which can be connected to two Bluetooth audio sources simultaneously and play audio from one at a time (the first one to start an audio stream wins). I frequently keep the headphones connected to my MacBook Pro and to my phone. However, the MBP seems to generate an audio stream almost all the time, even when nothing is playing. The headphones think that the MBP's audio is active, so I can't listen to audio from my phone unless I explicitly disconnect the MBP from the headphones.
I have not had this problem when connecting the headphones to my Windows machines -- Windows seems to accurately distinguish between playing and not playing audio over Bluetooth.
Is there any way to work around this on MacOS? (I'm currently on Catalina 10.15.7, if that's relevant.)


texts: Can not visit some sites because of too many ads! Is there any virus in my Mac?

texts:
I need to know that my mac was working perfectly fine till today. I wanted to visit same sites which i have visited yesterday in safari,and they were working perfectly fine, so today when i tried to open the page. It opened for few seconds and then went to another page of ads, where i couldn't see any cross option to close this ad. I have tried other sites to check ,but sadly same thing occurred. Only main site like mac,Facebook and this site working fine.

Need to fix this issue. Is there any virus. I didn't install anything in mac.


texts: "Add To Wish List" in the Mac App Store?

texts:
Does anybody know if there is a way to "add to wish list" some apps at the Mac App Store and get noticed when their price drops just as in the iTunes Store?

Thanks in advance!


texts: How to setup Indian rupee format in Numbers?

texts:
Indian rupee number format is different from US number format.
e.g. 1,00,00,00,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee

How do I setup a custom number format in Numbers?


texts:
I own an Early 2011 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.1. I have configured two email accounts with my mail app(one hotmail and another gmail), and both use imap. The problem is that when I send an email to a particular person, the app sends two mails(one duplicate) in place of one. Please help.

EDIT: Upon some troubleshooting I found that this is a problem only with hotmail, my gmail account is working fine.

EDIT: It has fixed by itself. All I can surmise is that there was a problem with the hotmail imap.


texts: Saw an app during a Apple video, i was wondering what it was called.


texts: MacBook Pro internal hard drive failure: Missing EFI partition

texts:
2 days ago as I opened my laptop (mid 2012 MacBook Pro running Catalina), it booted in recovery mode.

Disk utility was showing me my internal hard drive and its partitions : disk0s1 and BOOTCAMP. The disk0s1 was greyed out and when I tried to mount it, it would stay unmounted. So I asked Disk Utility to verify the hard drive and it gives me the error : "This disk doesn’t contain an EFI system partition. If you want to start up your computer with this disk or include it in a RAID set, back up your data and partition this disk." So I try to boot in Windows (BOOTCAMP) but get stuck at a black loading screen with an error.

Here is the output of various Terminal commands:

diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *320.1 GB   disk0
   1: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF               279.9 GB   disk0s1
   2:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                40.0 GB    disk0s2

sudo gpt -r show disk0
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34     409606
     409640  546609112      1  GPT part - FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
  547018752   78123008      2  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  625141760        655
  625142415         32         Sec GPT table
  625142447          1         Sec GPT header

I really don't know how I lost this EFI partition, the computer was working 8 hours ago...

After searching for an answer online it seems indeed possible to backup and restore the HD. Thus i install macOS on an external hard drive, and look for my data from there. But as you might have guessed, since disk0s1 is unmounted I can't find any files... (except for the ones on BOOTCAMP, which sadly I don't care about).

I then download 4 apps that pretend to be able to recover data from an unmounted HD ("iboysoftdatarecovery", "mac_drw", "StellarDataRecovery", "m3datarecovery"). They all end up launching a deep scan of the HD that takes 7 hours to complete, without even finding a single file (one of them did find around 30 system files or something)

Can someone please give me any leads to recovering my data? I haven't backed up with Time Machine since March 2019 (8 months ago) and have most of my work and studies stored there.


texts: Is there a way to make my sent emails show up in my inbox on the iPad, similar to how it is shown in the gmail web view?  I can do this in the Mac app by creating a smart mailbox that includes both inbox and sent messages. Is there something I can set up, either on the iPad or in gmail, that would let me do this?


texts: Can I use two additional Apple Thunderbolt Displays at 60 Hz with my MacBook Pro Mid 2014?

texts: Which is the maximal refreshment rate for two connected Thunderbolt Displays? I want to connect them via Mini-Display-Port to the Thunderbolt Ports of my MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2014. I want to use the maximum resolution (2560 px) on both TB Displays. Is it possible to run them both at 60 Hz and max. resolution?


texts: How to perform hard / cold reboot of iPhone or iPad?

texts:
I understand that when I press and release the power button on the top of my iPhone or iPad, it stays on but turns off the screen.

Whereas if I press and hold the power button, a "slide to turn off" control appears on the screen.

Sliding this, as I was told, does turn the unit off, but it does so by suspending the RAM to disk (flash memory, actually.) So, when turning on the iPhone or iPad, it isn't so much rebooting the OS as it is resuming it from flash storage.

How to force the OS to completely reboot on these devices?


texts:
I would like to disable resume for all applications  by default (including newly install applications).

I know the following command will disable resume for a specific application (Safari in this case)
defaults write com.apple.Safari NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false but I was wondering if there's a way to disable it permanently.


texts: How to get all apps restored to an iPhone from a backup in iTunes?

texts:
Just got new iPhone after backing up the previous iPhone I had. Set up the new phone as a "new phone" and then restored from iTunes backup. I found that many apps that I had on the old iPhone were not present on the new one now. (After a bunch of them sat there and said "waiting" right after I did the restore.) So there are a bunch of apps that are missing.

Then I went to iTunes and found some of the missing apps and clicked on "install" logical right?  Then I try to "apply" this and get the message "The app "Southwest" was not installed on the iPhone because the app could not be found". (And a bunch of other apps.)

Oddly this is the same exact problem I had when I upgraded my wife's phone too a couple weeks ago. Does anyone know how to fix this and also keep the apps on the same page and folder as they were before? I know already I can go to the App store and re-download the apps yes but major time suck and a lot of time to re-arrange the apps again like I had them organized before.

Is this a common problem?  It seems to keep happening to me. We just backup to the computer (not iCloud) since we would easily blow out the iCloud storage with the amount of data on the iPhones.

I would have a hard time believing that this is something I did wrong. I simply run the backup and expect the backup should work.


texts: How to specify path to libX11.6.dylib for XQuartz?

texts:
I'm trying to run Wine with x11 driver (because some apps only work with x11 driver). I had installed XQuartz and it works and runs xterm.

However, when I run Wine, it outputs:

err:x11drv:process_attach failed to load libX11.6.dylib: dlopen(libX11.6.dylib, 266): image not found
err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.

I have libX11.6.dylib in /opt/X11/lib/libX11. Specifying it with DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables when running Wine does not have any effect.

Applications bundled into .app such as Inkscape also don't work, but Inkscape does not output any error messages, just windows don't appear.

What can I do so X11 apps will be able to use XQuartz?

Mac OS 10.12.4, XQuartz 2.7.11.


texts: How can I rate Apple's Podcast.app in the iTunes App Store?

texts:
This is very odd and I just noticed this for the first time, but it seems, apple is not allowing ratings from customers for its own Postcast.app.

The entire section "Ratings and reviews" is absent for the podcast app:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/podcasts/id525463029

Other apps do have ratings and reviews. Below two screenshots: 1. showing podcasts app without the section in question and 2. showing soundcloud (as example) with the "Ratings and review" section.

I find this disturbing and unsettling. Apple does not allow ratings for it's own software or what? Can someone enlighten me about what's happening here?


texts: Odd bug in iTerm — Why is my name wrong?

texts: I opened up iterm and it says "jessica-s-phone" I'm not sure what the term for that is. I checked my profile and it isn't there.


texts: Login hangs on spotlight and no network is available

texts:
After upgrading to Lion, I boot up and most of my icons don't appear on the right side of the top menu bar and when I hover over spotlight, I get the spinning pinwheel and there's no network access.  The preferences open up fine but when I click on network, it hangs.

The only way I can get around it is to reboot while holding down the shift key.

I read about a fix (that didn't work for me) that clears the font caches by executing:

atsutil databases -removeUser
atsutil server -shutdown
atsutil server -ping

And another fix suggestion that said to use FontNuke & check the "Reset Spotlight" and "Repair Permissions" boxes before clicking "Nuke Font Caches".  However, FontNuke isn't available yet for Lion.

Has anyone else had this problem and found a way to fix it?

Update: The new version of FontNuke is out yet it didn't fix my problem.  Still SOL.

Anyone see this and have any ideas?


texts: automator: get a folder if it dropped or ask for one otherwise

texts:
I'm building an automator application that acts on a folder that needs to be specified.

Until now, I've been using the "Ask for Finder items" action to ask for a the folder to be used, but I would like to be able to just drag 'n' drop the folder on the application icon.

Can it be done in automator? I've been thinking to use some applescript to check if any input was given.


texts: Which method for comparing folders is more accurate, diff -r or md5?

texts: I need to compare a couple of folders to see if they copied correctly. The diff -r dir1 dir2 option seems the first obvious choice, but some comparisons that passed this way, didn't pass the test using the md5 tool. Why is that? Does that mean md5 is always the better option? And could there be an even better one?


texts: How to disable mouse acceleration in Yosemite?

texts:
I just upgraded to Yosemite and my current best interpretation of what's happening is that there's a new behavior that "helpfully" moves the mouse (and a window if you're moving one) closer to an edge of the screen when moving quickly enough.

I really dislike this, in great part because it causes very strange behavior when I'm playing a game.

Is this a setting that can be changed?

With additional testing, it looks like the mouse doesn't snap to the edge, but has tremendous acceleration in some cases (quick changes in direction?) which it didn't have before the upgrade to Yosemite.


texts: Setup Apple TV (2nd Gen) with neither a remote nor home sharing turned on

texts: How to pair Apple TV (2nd gen) without a remote and without home sharing turned on?


texts: Limitations on running Windows on latest Macbook Pro

texts: I'm strongly considering to buy latest Macbook Pro because of the hardware (i5 with Quad core) and design. I'm a Windows IT Pro and virtualization is a hard requirement for me, in addition to running Windows 10 most of the time. Would there be any limitations in terms of virtualization or other functionality in Windows I should be aware of or would it be just like buying any other high end computer?


texts: Can I delete the app that created my Passbook passes?

texts: I've created two boarding passes in Passbook using the Easyjet airline app. My question is: Can I delete the app now that the passes are in Passbook? Or will deleting the app remove the passes from Passbook?


texts: How to resolve: files which are visible in Terminal, but invisible in the Finder?

texts:
In Yosemite v10.10.3, I am trying to reinstall Skype, as it does not sign-in at all, following this link. In order to do so, I need to move some files and folders to trash as to totally uninstall Skype first. However, I cannot see these files and folders in the Finder, although they are visible in the Terminal !!

I've also tried the following two commands:

:...& defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
:...& killall Finder

The result is that I see many hidden files among which I cannot find the files and folders I am looking for.

Please help me with any of them: Skype sign-in problem or Finder Invisibility !!


texts: Can I reverse the scroll direction of my mouse?

texts:
I upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard and all of a sudden my scrolls in the browser window (chrome, Firefox etc) have reversed.

I need to scroll up to go down and vice-versa. Is there a way to change the direction ?


texts: Convert a date string for date or systemsetup command

texts:
I have a date in this format: 12 May 2017 09:04:26

I want to auto-update the time of my Mac from this string with a command line.

The first way I found is to use date command line, as explained in Apple's date manpage, the accepted format is [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss] (or {month}{day}{hours}{minutes}{century}{year}.{seconds}).

The second way I found is to use systemsetup command, with setdate or settime flags. Accepted formats are: mm:dd:yy (or {month}:{day}:{year}) for setdate and hh:mm:ss (or {hour}:{minutes}:{seconds}) for settime.

First question: what is the best solution to update time?

And how can I convert (with AppleScript or Bash Script or other method) the first string to a valid format for date or systemsetup?

The date manpage talking about strptime command but I don't know how can I use it.

Update (after @klanomath answer)

Here is the script I'm using to update my system time when it's wrong (in my case sometimes date go back to 2013). Script is checking some ntp servers with ntpdate and sntp commands and if not works, trying to get the date of google.com http header to set it with date and systemsetup commands.

#!/bin/bash

# Uncomment for debug
#set -x

# Check if bad year
is_2013() {
 YEAR=$(sudo /usr/sbin/systemsetup -getdate | cut -d '/' -f 3)
 if [ $YEAR == "2013" ]; then return 0; else return 1; fi
}

http_date_ud() {
 # First method, update system time with "date" command
 sudo date -f "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z" "$1"

 # Second method, update system time with "systemsetup" command
 if is_2013 $1; then
  NDATE=$(date -j -f "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z" "$1" "+%m:%d:%y")
  printf "$NDATE"
  NTIME=$(echo "$1" | cut -d' ' -f5)
  printf "$NTIME"
  sudo /usr/sbin/systemsetup -setusingnetworktime off
  sudo /usr/sbin/systemsetup -setdate $NDATE
  sudo /usr/sbin/systemsetup -settime $NTIME
  sudo /usr/sbin/systemsetup -setusingnetworktime on
 fi
}

# 1°/ Trying with ntpdate on Apple + NTP global time servers
if is_2013 $1; then ntpdate -t 4 -u time.apple.com; else exit 0; fi
if is_2013 $1; then ntpdate -t 4 -u pool.ntp.org; else exit 0; fi

# 2°/ Trying with sntp with Apple + NTP local time servers
if is_2013 $1; then sntp -s time.euro.apple.com; else exit 0; fi
if is_2013 $1; then sntp -s fr.pool.ntp.org; else exit 0; fi

# 3°/ Trying with HTTP header
HTTP_DATE=$(wget -qSO- --max-redirect=0 google.com 2>&1 | grep Date: | cut -d' ' -f4-9)
lc_tmp=$LC_ALL && LC_ALL=C
http_date_ud "$HTTP_DATE"
LC_ALL=lc_tmp


texts:
I have attempted to add, export PATH="$PATH:/Users/My_Name/desktop/My_Folder, to .bash_profile, .bashrc, and .profile. I executed the command source ~/.bash_profile, source ~/.bashrc, and source ~/.profile to refresh the $PATH and it does reflect that when I execute echo $PATH.
However, when I open a new terminal and execute echo $PATH it is unchanged.
The issue is my system (macOS Big Sur) will not recognize the updated $PATH when I open a new terminal unless I execute the source command every time to refresh my $PATH.
For context, I edited all three because I have scoured multiple sites for suggestions and have exhausted all my options.


texts: Cannot connect to App Store via iPhone - Wrong Password although password is right

texts:
So I have this weird problem. I can connect to the App Store via iTunes on my Macbook. However, if I try to connect via the  iPhone appstore using the same email and password I get:

  "Verification Failed Your Apple ID or password is incorrect" error
  message "

I have already tried resetting my password via Apple ID management and successfully changed my password with a new one. I still get the same error message.
Any Ideas?

Edit: The problem occurs in only one of the iTunes account I use (Polish Appstore account). I can connect to my other account thru both my iPhone and my Macbook without any problem. So, I do not think there's a problem with the iPhone or its settings. I also don't think that it has anything to do with my internet connection.


texts: Can employer install any software in Macbook to monitor activity?

texts: My work laptop is a MacBook. can my employer monitor my activity? I have to run a certain proxy config file via Tunnelblick( VPN ) the config file I had to take it from IT.thats it


texts:
I am running Mavericks on a Mac Mini. I was attempting to move my iPhoto library to a different Mac by copying it onto an external USB drive. The iPhoto Library is 98GB.

I left it running for 3 hours, when I came back it said it had 14 days to complete.  So I tried to cancel.  The Finder popup said "Stopping..." but stuck there.

I have since rebooted the Mac but Finder says the file is still on the USB drive. If I tried to delete it again it just says "Deleting..." and then Finder freezes.

It seems like the iPhoto Library that I tried to copy is corrupted on the USB drive and now it can't be deleted.  Finder says the file is 98GB even though it still had 14 days to run.

How can I get rid of this file?


texts: Can I tether with my iPhone 4 without jailbreaking my phone or paying for the additional service?

texts:
Basically, I want to be able to tether my laptop to my iPhone 4 but I don't want to pay for extra service or lose my unlimited plan.  I've heard there were some apps that had easter eggs but are no longer available.  I've also heard that you can do some things if you have a developer account.

So, are there any free, simple ways to do this without jailbreaking my phone?


texts: How do you enable cookies with the newest IOS?

texts: I was playing Pokémon go and for some reason it's signed me out and I had to log in again, it wouldn't let me play it because I haven't enabled cookies! I tried and tried but nothing would work,YouTube(Failed),settings(Nothing), asking the company(noresponse).nothing would work so I had to make a new account. Now the same thing has happend and I need help on how to enable cookies for my game to work! Please.


texts: I have an iPhone 6 and forgot my passcode!

texts:
I don't have a computer to use to reset it and when I hold the power and home buttons down it restarts and still asks for the passcode.

Will hard resetting my phone solve this? If not, what can I do?


texts: Unable to install Chrome or Safari extensions after creating new user account

texts:
Mac OS X El Capitan

This ordeal began when I was unable to connect Time Machine to a newly purchased Time Capsule; it still wanted to hang on to an older external drive which had died. I called Apple and they instructed me to create a new user account and try connecting the Time Capsule. This worked and I was able to back up to Time Capsule.

But. Reinstallation of Google Chrome extensions fails. First I see a dialog box I didn't see before:

Then when I click 'Save', it displays this:

And in the download bar, the item is tagged "Failed -- insufficient permissions".

Extension installation fails for Safari also.

I tried booting into the recovery partition and repairing the user permissions, but that did not solve the problem.

Any ideas?


texts:
I have not figured how to play prime video on Apple TV.
is it possible to watch prime video on Apple TV?


texts: How to know if Mac OS X machine is being remotely viewed?

texts:
Currently I have no way to know if my machine is being remotely viewed by our tech support, and would prefer to know, given the massive privacy breach that would entail should this be happening. I am running Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Running

ps -A | grep Remote

I know this service is running:

/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent

My knowledge of administration of Macs on a network is limited, so I don't know what tools allow this.


texts: How do I compile and install a Cydia app?

texts:
I have downloaded iSwipe from Cydia and I really like it, but it lacks a dictionary of italian words. I have found the original github repository of iSwipe and it gives access to the code.

I would like to modify it to allow for the use of multiple languages, but I have never programmed any iPhone apps nor I know how to compile them and run them as Cydia apps.

Apart from forking the repository and modifying the code to my fit my needs, which I know how to do, could anybody kindly guide me through the process of compiling it and installing it on my phone to test it?

I am using Windows and don't have access to an OS X workstation, is it still possible?

P.S.: if this is the wrong site for this question, please move it. Thanks.


texts: Is it possible to run Mountain Lion on older hardware by using a virtualization solution?

texts:
I'm wondering if anyone has gotten Mountain Lion to run on any hardware in virtualization (VMware Fusion, Parallels, VirtualBox or other...). If so, it would be interesting to know how well (if at all) attempting to run the 10.8 OS on Mac hardware that normally wouldn't allow an installation of the OS.

Has anyone taken a Mountain Lion VM and run it on older hardware?


texts: Mail on Yosemite 10.10.5 Can't stop Mail from downloading attachments

texts:
Simply trying to disable Mail from downloading attachments automatically.

So I went to Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced tab and turned off the "Automatically download all attachments" option. I did this for every email account on my system. I restarted Mail. It still downloads attachments from shady senders, many of which are being caught by Avira. Most of the time I right click and delete the message if it looks like junkmail, sometimes I'm quickly reading emails and forget, allowing the preview to start the attachment download. I suppose I could turn off the preview window, but I'd rather not if possible.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.


texts: Dilemma about replacing the battery in my 17" MacBook Pro mid-2010

texts:
After 3 years my mid-2010 17" MBP model is telling me it's time to replace the battery. The current one (model A1309, FWIW) has had ~1000 cycles now and can't hold the charge reliably anymore.

Being from a small EU country, I'm now facing a surprising dilemma. We only have one official reseller of Apple equipment and three or four companies that claim to service Apple devices, but I doubt they are all official. Nevertheless, I've sent an enquiry about the battery to all of them. One responded they can't deliver and another told me the price is €330, assembly included. I'm still waiting for the other responses, but I'm not optimistic.

In the mean time, a quick search of the web tells me there are plenty of EU-based sites that sell compatible batteries and deliver to my country. While some claim the batteries are OEM, it's obvious that most are knock-offs, otherwise they wouldn't cost sub $100, delivery included.

But my dilemma isn't so much about money (although $430 is a bit over the top for a laptop battery). It's about the fact, that there probably aren't any new OEM batteries available, because Apple moved away from 17" MBP models and user-replaceable batteries as a whole some time ago. Even at $430, whatever I get, probably won't be fresh from the assembly line. And I'm fairly certain I can't expect to get another 3 years out of a battery that's been laying around some warehouse unattended for 2+ years, OEM or not.

So I'm pondering... Is it better to try my luck with a much cheaper knock-off that's likely fresh, or trust the quality of an expensive and potentially quite old OEM battery?

What would you do given such predicament?


texts: Finder randomly changes language in sidebar favourites

texts:
I have a pretty weird problem.
I have an iMac and have just had my old HDD replaced with an SSD. The old HDD is now in my optical drive's slot.

I have a clean installation of El Captain on my SSD. Unfortunately, the guys who swapped the drives for me installed El Captain in Polish. Now I changed the OS language to English as I'm more used to it, and this is what my Finder does.

I still have an old OS installed on the other disk, which is not formatted yet. I thought that it might be by some miracle conflicting with the new installation, but Finder does this even after unmounting the old HDD.

I have absolutely no idea what to do with this, and it gets very annoying.

Has anyone had this problem before? Uncle Google brings no answers on this one :|


texts: Is there a GUI difftool that does symlinks?

texts:
Let's say I have some directories with symlinks in them.

.
├── dirA
│   ├── file013
│   └── file212
└── dirB
    ├── file013
    └── file212

2 directories, 4 files

The symlinks are pointing to directories with lots of files and directories that I don't care about, so I've used symlinks to isolate them.  I can edit them just fine, for example, and the changes are done on the actual files.

I want to compare say A.file013 <> B.file013

Oh, I and I mostly work from the terminal, so looking for

$ awesome_diff dirA/file013 dirB/file013 : diff 1 file pair

opendiff/Filemerge does do this, actually. ✅  so does ksdiff/Kaleidoscope.

and

$ awesome_diff dirA dirB : diff at directory level.

compare directory contents, drill down into directories, drill down into
individual file diffs....

opendiff/Filemerge fails this ❌ as it will then consider only the symlinks' own pointers.  ksdiff/Kaleidoscope also ❌

(still appreciate GUI-only answers)

good:

Gnu diff : does a fine job, but terminal-only.  Most GUI diff tools provide line by line copy functionality.

bad:

Apple Filemerge/opendiff compares symlink file pointers, not file contents.  actually, if you launch Filemerge, the GUI, from the start it does work, but the command line opendiff calls the Filemerge incorrectly.
Kaleidoscope - file type (symlink) not supported

unknown/install issues:

Kdiff3 - compares, but otherwise broken at 0.998 release, the menu doesn't work at all for example.
Meld - haven't gotten it to work on macos yet.
Diffmerge - haven't gotten it to work on macos yet.

env:  Mojave


texts:
Since the new MacBook Pros have been released and the "old" ones happen to be cheaper now, I decided to upgrade to the 2015 model.
On everymac.com, however, I saw that there are two different models of the MacBook: the "IG" (integrated graphics) and the "DG" (dual graphics). Since I'd appreciate higher VRAM, I'd rather go with the "DG" model. However, when configuring the MacBook Pro on Apple's official website, it doesn't seem to offer the "DG" option.

Is there any way to buy the "DG" MacBook Pro directly from Apple?


texts: How can I share a link to a folder on a Time Capsule drive?

texts:
We have a Time Capsule in the office.  I'd like to share a clickable link to a specific folder on the Time Capsule with my fellow employees.  Is there any way to do this?

Ideally, I'd like to be able to email out a link to people and they can click the link at it will open a Finder window in the specified folder on the Time Capsule.

Thanks.


texts: Cannot convert m4a files to m4b with AppleScript

texts:
I use Make Bookmarkable to convert some audio files to the m4b bookmarkable format. However, since macOS High Sierra, there is a problem when running the script with a batch of files.

tell (add loc) raises --> error number -1700 that number -1700 can't be converted to item

The conversion does happen but then stops executing, meaning files have to be converted one by one. I'm not not familiar with AppleScript but suspect that the problem maybe because of changes in iTunes.


texts: Are Photos from the Photos app in iOS backed up to iCloud? I basically make albums in iPhoto and they are saved in my Photos app on my device. I really hope these are getting backed up to iCloud. Can anyone confirm?


texts: How can I see an iPhone Smart Battery Case serial number using macOS console?

texts:
My iPhone XS Max Smart Battery Case's serial number is extremely difficult to make out due to the color and wear on the fabric.

How do I use macOS Console.app to connect to my iPhone to see what the Smart Battery Case serial number is?


texts: Can I display only battery percentage in menu bar?

texts:
I'd like to only display the percentage left in the menubar.  It seems that it is more useful than any other battery display option, but it isn't available.

Is there a work-around?


texts: Video out on iPod dock: pre-iOS versus iOS

texts:
I have an iPod dock with Video Out. It says on the box that it only supports pre-iOS devices for that (iPod classic and the like), and it certainly does not seem to do anything with my iPod Touch (audio and remote control work fine, though).

Is this something that can be solved with an additional (cheap) adapter, or are the two Video Out systems fundamentally different?


texts: Attempting to boot into Mac partition after Boot Camp results in a password lock

texts: I have just installed Windows on my Mac and it worked well, but after finishing and trying to go to Mac partition it is shown on the screen a lock icon with a password field. I tried to enter different password, but it didn't work.


texts:
Just went add a mail rule and it appears that the sierra upgrade has wiped all mail rules:

Is there any way to recover them, or do I need to set them all up again?
Staggers me that apple still can't get this right...


texts: Auto-fill username and password in Fluid.app webapp

texts:
I'd like to have my Fluid.app webapps auto-login to various sites (Gmail, DropBox, etc.) using passwords stored in AgileBits 1Password.app.

I'd appreciate directions or suggestions on how to go about this, if it is possible.


texts: Enable sound on some iOS notifications even on silent mode

texts:
How can I enable sound alert even on silent mode for some important events on iOS?

Devices: iPhone, iPad

iOS: 10.2, 11


texts:
My goal?
To tag emails in OS X.

What I succeeded into?
I use the Find command in /Users/MyMacAccount/Library/Mail/V3/ with a significative word contained in the email I am looking for, then I tag the email.

Note:
After this I can easily find all tagged emails with the find command in Apple Mail. I think this tip could please a lot of users.

How could it be done better?
To right click on the email and directly locate it in the Finder.

Note:
In past OS X (I am under 10.11.x El Capitan) it was possible to locate an email by command clicking on his title bar. A menu appeared with the actual path on the hard drive. It seems Apple disabled this so we can only see account's name.

What could I do instead?
To use the colored flags in Apple Mail… Frankly, who remembers why he or she colored one email in orange or purple ?

In the past, there was MailTags paid plugin, but it seem it wasn't updated for a long time.

I thought I could easily almost find recent emails if I sorted the V3 folder by Date but this is a slow process to be accomplished by the Finder.

Any better idea ?
Thank you.


texts: How do I change a calendar's color in iOS 4.2.1?

texts: This is very similar to this question however the only problem is that I'm running solely Windows OS on my PC.  I also only sync with google calendars and that's all.  However, it appears the sync doesn't match the calendar colors.  Is there anyway to synchronize or directly change colors on the iPod/iPhone?


texts: Easy way to permanently delete all photos and videos from iPad/iPhone

texts:
It seems really hard to me to permanently delete all photos and videos from iPad. I tried different solutions, like:

Transferring them using iPhoto and then deleting them by iPhoto
Using iTunes to sync the photos from an empty folder on Mac

While these solutions resulted in deleting some photo folders on iPad, some other folders (i.e. My Photo Stream) remained unchanged. Then I tried to remove them by selecting the photos on iPad but there were too many pictures. Finally the "Recently Deleted" folder on iPad remained full of photos! And iTunes shows there is a huge space on iPad still used by photos and videos.

So what's the easiest way to tell iPad I don't really want any more photos and videos on it?


texts: How can I print e-mails landscape from Outlook 2010?

texts:
Maybe I'm missing something but from the Print dialog in Office 2010 (OS X 10.7.3) I can't find where to set orientation?

It doesn't appear under Outlook, Layout, Color Matching, Paper Handling, Paper Feed, Cover Page or Printer Features.


texts: How to listen to the same song at the same time on 2 different iPhones?

texts: My girlfriend stay far way from me, but we have a habit that is listening to music together in the morning. But now we have to do that by playing loud by a Computer so that the quality is so low. I wonder that any IOS app can help us listen to the same song at the same time, i.e. when I press Play button, the song will be played at the same time in my iPhone and her iPhone too.


texts:
What is the maximum weight of "stuff" that I can place on top of a 2018 Mac Mini without damaging it?

This is not the weight of the unit itself — but the maximum weight of other units that can be placed on top of it to save desk space. I'm thinking to put a monitor on it (literally).


texts: Create image from the colorized terminal output

texts:
This will output a black and white image:

git diff --staged  . | convert label:@- diff.png

but I want the color of the text (as the red & green  is useful).  I guess to configure the background color.


texts:
I'm using script.sh in an OS X Mavericks terminal containing only the following:

echo ${1}
ls ${1}

Now, when I call ./script.sh "/Users/me/some\ directoy\ with\ whitespace/", the echo command prints /Users/me/some\ directoy\ with\ whitespace/, but ls still insists on splitting everything up, so the results there are

ls: /Users/me/some\: No such file or directory
ls: directoy\: No such file or directory
ls: with\: No such file or directory
ls: whitespace/: No such file or directory

Notice the \ at the end of the first three error lines. How do I do this correctly?

(I'm aware that using both "" and \ in the input argument leaves the \ in my variable, but I assume I would need those.)

I also tried using ./script.sh /Users/me/some\ directoy\ with\ whitespace/ without the quotes, then making the script

echo ${1}
ls "${1}"

but that made the echo output not contain any \ now, and the ls output looks like this:

ls: "/Users/me/some\: No such file or directory
ls: directoy\: No such file or directory
ls: with\: No such file or directory
ls: whitespace/": No such file or directory

Notice that all it did was add the quotes without seeming to understand them as syntax.

It is somehow related to the IFS (input field separator) since if I make the script

IFS=*
ls ${1}

and run it as ./script.sh /Users/me/some\ directoy\ with\ whitespace/, it correctly shows me the content of the specified directory. I'm not sure why, though.


texts:
I am trying to find a solution/plugin to remind me about adding attachments to an email on MacMail (using OS X El Capitan). I tried the "just double check your email, you idiot" option to no avail.

There is a deprecated plugin and wanted to know if any alternatives have been developed, or if there's a new sneaky setting that might do this for me.

I also found this post but given that's 3+ years old I would like more up to date feedback, in the hope that Apple has opened a new door.

Anyone know of a simple solution to this?


texts: How do I show an application only in the dock assigned to a desktop?

texts: You can assign the application in the dock to a desktop. But can you hide the application in the dock in the desktop where it is not assigned? That is, the dock in each desktop should show only the app icons that are assigned to that desktop. Possible? Within OS X or via an app?


texts:
I connected to the LDAP server with a special account and searching password using the Directory Utility.

When I set the LDAPv3 Service to RFC2307 LDAP Mappings, with SSL checked, I can move to Directory Editor and authenticate using the username and password for the LDAP directory. I cannot login to the computer however.

I did this:

Checked the box in Users & Groups - Allow network users to login ....
Clicked Options
Chose Only these network users
Clicked + and searched for my LDAP username
Selected the user name so it appears in the list.

When I try to login, the box only shakes and these log error messages arrive in the system.log.

Aug 31 10:35:58 MacBook-Pro SecurityAgent[1150]: User info context values set for
userid
Aug 31 10:35:58 MacBook-Pro authorizationhost[1157]: Failed to authenticate
user <userid> (error: 13).

Some guides on the web indicate error 13 to be so:

Indicates that the session is not protected by a protocol such as
Transport Layer Security (TLS), which provides session
confidentiality and the request will not be handled without
confidentiality enabled.

But I chose SSL and do not find a box or method to change this to TLS in the Mac Directory Utility. When I click Security in the setup section  (where I put the "use authentication when connecting" information) the Security Policy options are unavailable with the message "Server capabilities and requirements determine the availability of options."

So, I cannot choose to sign all packets or to Encrypt all packets...

When I choose other connection schemes, like Open Directory or Custom, I was unable to even authenticate in the Directory Editor window. (Error 500, 2100)

The "authentication when connecting" information is the same that I use for web applications that provide access by LDAP so it surely works in the field. Just not apparently from the Mac when trying to login.

Have any advice to allow users to authenticate on this mac by LDAP to access share folders?


texts:
i am new in the apple world. I'm coming from pc + ubuntu. I've just bought a Mac Book Pro 13" with 2.5 Ghz Inter Core i5 and ram 4 GB.
I am suspicious something is wrong because it i have only skype, chrome, safari, and some other software (a programming light text editor like Sublime text editor) and few other things I listen a continuously little whirr, like when data are read/writte from harddisk.
So i opened Activity Monitor and i've seen few peeks in Disk Activity.

I am suspicious that this is smothing wrong with my new mac book. how can i diagnosticate better what is happening? is it normal?


texts: How to ignore faces permanently in iPhoto?

texts:
How to tell iPhoto to ignore the specific faces permanently if I want to ignore them. When I click close button it doesn't work, because the next time when I find faces, THE SAME faces appear again and again.

Anyone knows how to fix this issue?


texts: Nsurl error domain (1012) subscribing MDM Server

texts:
I'm trying to manage iPads with an own MDM-server. I configured the ProfileManagement but it doesn't work (anymore).. I always get an Nsurl error domain 2012 when trying to prepare the iPad (on the device). I searched a lot on the internet.. It seems to be with https? Certificates? But nothing specific for Profile Manager / MDM.
So I don't have any idea what to do right now.

I'm preparing the iPads with Apple Configurator 2 (Version 2.2). I created a blueprint with the following settings for MDM:

Configuration: Manual
Server: https://mdmserver.domainname.be/devicemanagement/mdm/dep_mdm_enroll
(When I visit this URL in the browser, I get 405 Method Not Supported : GET)
...

There are a lot of certificates for the server, and maybe its because they aren't the good ones..

I don't have any Certificate for https://domainname.be..

Certificates of the server:

macServer > Messages (APN) (VPP appleid added):

mdmserver.domainname.be - apns:com.apple.calendar
mdmserver.domainname.be - apns:com.apple.contact
mdmserver.domainname.be - apns:com.apple.mail
mdmserver.domainname.be - apns:com.apple.mgmt
mdmserver.domainname.be - apns:com.apple.alerts

Under ProfileManager, I can add certificate.. But don't know how (where to download/find) and which one I have to use?

More additional information

Mac version: OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

OS X Server: Server 5.1

Hostname: mdmserver.domainname.be

Computername: macserver

Internet: Available on mdmserver.domainname.be

I opened port 80,443,2195,2196,1640 on the firewall (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202487)


texts: How can I change the volume of the notification sounds on the AirPods Pro?

texts:
Using Siri or the iPhone volume controls, it is possible to change the volume of the audio content being played through the AirPods Pro. However, so far I have not found a way to change the volume of the notification sounds that are being played when I receive a message, when I switch to Transparency mode and back, etc.
I tried to call up Siri and change the volume while Siri is on screen, but this didn't work.
These noises are incredibly loud, and I really would like to reduce their volume. Is this possible?


texts: Is it possible to let Picasa use a removable device as the Application Support folder using symbolic links?

texts: Picasa stores very large files in Application Support folder which consumes limited disk space in system disk. I wonder if I can use symbolic links in order to make Picasa use removable disk as storage space.


texts: Safari downloads sometimes continue, sometimes restart

texts:
I'll be in the middle of a long download (a software package or movie) and a network glitch will halt the download ("The network connection was lost").

In the Downloads icon on the Toolbar, I see the file(s) I was downloading with buttons beside them that have little orange circles to indicate "Resume." But sometimes the button continues the download and sometime it restarts the download from scratch.

Does anybody know why this happens and whether I can tell in advance which will happen? Also, the gray x "Stop downloading" button usually restarts the download from scratch, but if most of the download is complete, it might just suspend the download and allow me to continue it. Does anybody know the threshold for this behavior? Half-finished, perhaps?


texts: Safari URL search uses yahoo instead of DuckDuckGo

texts:
I have DuckDuckGo set as my preferred search engine in Safari in both Safari > Preferences and in the URL search bar. However, when I type a search in the URL search bar Safari always uses Yahoo.

How might I troubleshoot this problem?


texts: How to get input volume level value in mac?

texts:
As the title says, is there a way to get the input level in mac?

I want to get the value indicating in the input level bar(System Preferences -> Sound -> Input) in the pic.

Is it possible?

There are solutions on how to set the input and output volume but I can't find any solution to get the input level value.


texts: Globally move mouse pointer and click using VIM keystrokes?

texts:
I'd like to be able to hit a hot key, and enter a mouse movement mode where I can move the mouse pointer around the screen using VIM keystrokes - regardless of the app I'm in (ie globally for all apps)

For example, just say my mouse mode key was SHIFT+COMMAND+M

I hit SHIFT+COMMAND+M to enter mouse mode
I use h,j,k,l to move the cursor around the screen, and possibly some other keys to jump from monitor to monitor
I hit the enter key to click, and leave mouse mode, or hit esc to exit mouse mode.

Are there any apps out there that would let me do this? I'm aware of "Mouse Keys", but I really want to be able to customize:

the keys I use to move around
the amount of movement that's done by the mouse when a key is pressed.


texts: Is Siri is new for every device with iOS 5, or just for the iPhone 4S?

texts: I have iOS 5 on my iPod Touch 4, and I can't find Siri on it. Does it have Siri?


texts:
Is it possible to connect a single Dropbox Mac app with two or more Dropbox accounts?

Assume I have corporate and private account. How can I use a single dropbox app for them?


texts: Prevent iPhone from charging when plugged into a battery powered MacBook Air

texts: I would like to prevent my iPhone draining power from my MacBook Air while the laptop is not plugged in and relying on battery power. How would I do this? Note, there doesn't seem to be any "unpowered USB ports" on the MacBook Air, both of them seem to charge my iPhone even when the laptop is not plugged into a power socket...


texts: Cannot install MacVim 7.4 on OS X Maverick 10.9.4?

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I have brew installed (v 0.9.5) along with Xcode (Version 5.1.1 (5B1008)). When I attempt to install MacVim like so I encounter the following error message:

$ brew install macvim
==> Downloading https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/archive/snapshot-73.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/macvim-7.4-73.tar.gz
==> ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-multibyte --with-macarchs=x86_64 -
==> make
make[1]: *** [objects/os_mac_conv.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
1 error generated.
make[1]: *** [objects/os_macosx.o] Error 1
make: *** [first] Error 2

READ THIS: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/troubleshooting

These open issues may also help:
macvim failed to build on 10.9 because of x11 (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/30253)

How can I resolve this issue?

NOTE: Much of what I've found seems to state that I need to install some command line component to Xcode but I wasn't able to figure out what this actually entailed.


texts: Does purchasing IAP from abroad increase the risk of getting my account disabled?

texts: So I'm outside USA , and I want to buy the kingdom rush frontiers IAP. Can I do this safely or do I risk getting my account disabled because i use to buy IAP from USA Apple ID outside USA ?


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I have 3 groups on a slide that I want to highlight 1 at a time.  Is there a good way to do this?  My slide has a gradient background so putting a rectangle over the objects and faking it mucking with their transparency doesn't seem like a good approach.

Is there a way to make objects start out opacified?  If so, I can use the opacity action on the objects, but when I tried to use an opacity action, on transition, with duration 0, it didn't work.  Having a short (0.1s) duration causes kind of a jarring flicker.

I also thought about using multiple slides with magic-move handling the opacity changes, but I didn't see a way to change the opacity of a group.

I'm running Keynote 6.5.2 on Yosemite (the most recent releases of both I believe).


texts:
I have several star-finding apps on my phone.   The App library has some of them in the "Education" folder, and some in the "Information & Reading" folder.
How can I get them all in the same folder?   They do the same thing.


texts: Is it bad if Guided Access is always running?

texts: Since Guided Access restricts only one app to be opened, would it prevent other background processes like app updating, memory cleaning, data fetching and cause apps freezing? My old iPad 2 sometimes lags, and I'm not sure it's because it's designed as is, or because Guided Access is not exited regularly. It's also rarely restarted.


texts: How to make Apple Mail.app to use SOCKS proxy configured by a PAC file

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For some reasons, I have to use a SOCKS proxy to access Gmail, otherwise, the connection will be blocked.

I tried the global SOCKS agent, and the Mail.app worked fine. Nevertheless, when I turned to use a PAC file to configure system agent automatically, the Mail.app wasn't able to access Gmail.

My questions:

Is it possible to set proxy in Mail.app? That is, Mail.app passes its web traffic to the SOCKS proxy while other apps won't be influenced.
If the answer to the first question is NO, then how to modify my PAC file to make Mail.app possible to access Gmail?

Any clues or suggestions would be appreciated.

More info:

OS version: OS X 10.9.5

Mail.app version: 7.3 (1878.6)

The PAC file:

var domains = {
  "l.google.com": 1,
  "gmail-imap.l.google.com": 1,
  "googlepages.com": 1,
  "googlesile.com": 1,
  "google.co.jp": 1,
  "gaeproxy.googlecode.com": 1,
  "sshtunnel.googlecode.com": 1,
  "googleusercontent.com": 1,
  "goagent.googlecode.com": 1,
  "google.com": 1,
  "googlevideo.com": 1,
  "google.com.hk": 1,
  "tuite.googlecode.com": 1,
  "gfwinterceptor.googlecode.com": 1,
  "gtap.googlecode.com": 1,
  "googleapis.com": 1
};

var proxy = "SOCKS5 127.0.0.1:1080; SOCKS 127.0.0.1:1080; DIRECT;";

var direct = 'DIRECT;';

function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
    var lastPos;
    do {
        if (domains.hasOwnProperty(host)) {
            return proxy;
        }
        lastPos = host.indexOf('.') + 1;
        host = host.slice(lastPos);
    } while (lastPos >= 1);
    return direct;
}


texts:
Below is a screenshot for Macintosh HD drive storage.

It shows that I have 82.47 GB storage for "Other". How to delete and free up this space?

I checked ~/Downloads and ~/Desktop, both are less than 2 GB.

I also emptied out ~/Library/Cache and ~/Library/Cache folders.

I am running OS X 10.11.2.


texts: Mirroring iOS device app layouts, find apps more easily when switching devices

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As an iPhone and iPad user I have many apps in common and I spend a lot of time swiping back and forth on one device looking for an app that I know was in a certain place on the second screen... only I was thinking of the other device and it's actually in the third screen.

One scheme I thought of is to map the iPhone's 4x4 grid of icons onto the iPad's 4x5, showing the apps that appear on both devices on the same relative screens on the iPad with iPad-only apps displayed in the bottom row. That way when swiping between screens I could have the same apps on the same numbered screens, with the iPad apps that don't appear on the iPhone in a position that won't confuse things (in the fifth row, assuming portrait orientation - I realise this comes unstuck in landscape but I don't use that much).

Of course I could sit there for hours arranging manually or doing it the somewhat faster way in iTunes (though I find myself not doing a lot of device syncing since iOS 5.0).

Is there a way to automate positioning of these apps or could there be a way to Applescript this process? Could any of the enterprise device management tools be used to find apps from a list of known apps and to move them into groups or positions (and of course move the groups too) that are common across devices?


texts: How to compile gcc-4.0 on Mountain Lion?

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So far I've successfully launched the configure, but when I type make, I get the following error, after some time (there's a lot which compile successfully):

ld: unknown/unsupported architecture name for: -arch i686
/usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed
make[2]: *** [libgcc_s.dylib] Error 1
make[1]: *** [libgcc.a] Error 2
make: *** [all-gcc] Error 2

Is there a way to tell gcc not to compile itself for the i686 architecture?

Here's my uname -a if it can help:

Darwin Frizlabs-Computer.local 12.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

PS: I know gcc-4.0 is ancient, but I do need it.


texts: Drag and drop from Photos.app to Photoshop

texts: I can't seem to drag-and-drop photos from the Photos application into Photoshop, I could do this with iPhoto... How do I edit them in Photoshop?


texts: How can all formatting be removed from a sheet in Numbers so each cell only contains the text, with links no longer clickable?


texts: Continual problems with my Mac’s data volume

texts:
After getting a lot of weird behavior (Mac seems to crash when I shut down or restart) I started running Disk First Aid regularly from Recovery Mode.
What I’m seeing is that the data volume is continually developing problems (e.g., when examining snapshots I see errors like “Cross check: Mismatch between extentref entry reference count (2) and calculated fsroot entry reference count (1) for extent (0x4ddee8 + 8)”).
Disk First Aid is able to repair them and I can boot back into regular mode and work reliably. But the problems come back quickly, pretty much the very next time I restart into Recovery Mode.
It seems like I need to reformat the drive, though I wonder if this is possibly a sign of a dying SSD?
If the former, should I wipe everything clean and start over with a fresh system? Or restore from a bootable backup?
Any other advice on how to cope with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.


texts: Got a iPhone/ a pc without iTunes/WiFi - Needs to transfer files from iPhone to pc. How?

texts:
Like the title says
Got a iPhone/ a pc (w10) without iTunes/WiFi- need to transfer files (photos,zip,exe) from iPhone to pc. How?

Got usb cable and acces to WiFi on phone.

Would be very grateful if someone come up with something. I’ can’t find a solution


texts: Easiest way to transfer files from iPhone to Linux?

texts: What's the easiest way to transfer files from an iPhone to a non-Apple computer such as one running Linux?


texts: Stolen iPhone - check status of Find My iPhone

texts:
My iPhone 4s was stolen but im not sure if the Find My iPhone was switched on.
The phone number is still the same and active.

Is it possible to check the status?


texts: Why would identityservicesd want to connect to a non-existent private network address?

texts:
I saw a message from Little Snitch wherein identityservicesd has been trying to connect to a private network address that does not exist on my local area network. The IP address in question is: 172.20.10.1
Any idea as to why this would happen?


texts: How can I put the Dashboard icon on my dock in Mountain Lion?

texts:
I have no Dashboard icon in my Dock.

How can I put it on my Dock as there is no option to 'Keep in Dock' that I can find?