texts:
I have an iPhone 4 loaded with data (apps, contact, and photos)
iOS 4.x (not using iCloud), This phone was synced with my iMac and worked fine...  Suddenly, my hard drive crashes. All my data was on a server, so no need to backup the mac, just buy a ned hard drive and reinstall all the apps.

Now the problem, my old iPhone synced with the old (now dead) Mac does not want to sync with the new iMac. It needs to update to iOS 5 and it wants to delete all my apps because it's synced with another Mac....

How can I sync my old iPhone and all his apps with my new iMac and no apps without losing it all?


texts: What is AppleCameraAssistant and why is it using so many CPU cycles?

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I noticed in top that AppleCameraAssistant is one of the most CPU-intensive processes currently running (well, technically it's sleeping, so it has 0.0% CPU, but it's still near the top of the list and the fact that it's on the list at all is raising my hackles). It's also taking up 960KB of memory, which just feels wasteful.
Specifically:

/Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/AppleCamera.plugin/Contents/Resources/AppleCameraAssistant

I don't use the camera on this thing. I keep it covered at all times. I have iTunes open and playing music, but that... really shouldn't be relevant.

So my question boils down to three key subquestions:

Should I nuke from orbit?
Why is this process active and,
If it's benign but unnecessary, how do I disable it?

There's are a few (optional) followup questions of course (If this is intentional, what unscrupulous developer should I slap for automatically loading and running a module that has no earthly utility to me? Does this developer think CPU cycles grow on trees? How do they sleep at night? Who told them that the better part of an entire megabyte of resident memory is an acceptable thing to cavalierly waste? If I slapped them, would that be legally defensible? Ethically justified? Emotionally satisfying?), but those are secondary in importance.


texts: Stuck during High Sierra installation and now no startup disk found

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I was upgrading my MacBook Air from Sierra to High Sierra, but the installation failed and the last line of log window was an error about directoryd.

I restarted and then came across the blinking folder with question mark. So I tried recovery mode (Command + R). Disk Utility shows my Macintosh disk properly and there is no problem with it (I checked it with First Aid), but I cannot see any disks on Startup Disk window. what can I do to bring it there?

I have "Install High Sierra.app" on my external drive, can I use it somehow to install the OS?


texts: Why system-wide socks proxy doesn't work for Chrome?

texts:
First of all, I'm not asking how to enable proxy in Chrome. I've already done it with SwitchySharp extension.

The question I'm about to ask, is the mechanism under OSX's network preference setting and chrome's mechanism.

The phenomenon:

I used ssh -D 7001 my_user@my_host to build a local socks server.
And I set System Preferences -> network -> current_wifi -> Advanced -> Proxies -> "Select" SOCKS Proxy -> "Input" 127.0.0.1:7001
At this time point, when I use safari to open a website, it use this 7001 socks proxy, but when use chrome, it doesn't.

So, when I set that socks proxy parameters in System Preferences, what did OSX do? And how did Chrome bypass this socks proxy setting?


texts:
MacBook Air not starting after SMC reset.

Earlier, my Mac was not starting after SMC reset or NVRAM reset. The charger light was green. Nothing was happening on SMC reset. Battery Status was Service Required. But due to covid-19 lock down in India, I can't take it to an Apple Store for another 10 days.

I left the Mac as it is. Today, after 6 days, randomly, I plugged it in and the charger light was Amber. So I tried SMC reset again and the light color changed to green for a moment and again changed to amber. But it still didn't turn on.

My query is:

Does it mean SMC reset is working?
Are there any troubleshooting steps I can do?
What do you think the problem could be?


texts: Upgrading to a SSD, any possible issues with the OS X upgrade?

texts:
So I had thought that my AppleCare lasted until September, so today I visited the Geniuses to try to squeeze a new hard drive out of them. Unfortunately, my warranty ended a couple weeks ago, and so I am shopping for a new SSD instead.

Newegg has some great deals, and it looks like I will be getting off pretty easily price-wise. My one question is, however, how does changing out my hard drive (myself theoretically) change the Mountain Lion upgrade issue? Are there any involved problems with a new drive and upgrading?


texts: After Using LP Printer Utility "unable to communicate"

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I tried using lp to print to our HPLazerJet P1102w from the command line. Items were added to the queue, as returned by lpq:

macbookpro1:~ mikekilmer$ lpq
HP_LaserJet_Professional_P_1102w is ready
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
1st     mikekil 26      (stdin)                         0 bytes

But the OS seems to think the printer is set on manual feed. Now the printer utility returns: "unable to communicate with the printer at this time."

lpstat returns:

HP_LaserJet_Professional_P_1102w-26 mikekilmer           0   Wed Nov 12 10:05:13 2014

And it seems maybe I need to add a user to the ip and sys groups.

hp-toolbox and hp-setup both return command not found and I'm not even sure what I would do with them if they worked.

Based on macbookpro1:~ mikekilmer$ cat /etc/group | grep lp, thinking the relevant groups would be:

_lp:*:26:
_lpadmin:*:98:
_lpoperator:*:100:

Also read that:

"This can also be caused by printers such as the P1102 that provide a virtual CD-ROM drive for MS Windows drivers. The lp dev appears and then disappears. In that case, try the usb-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch-data packages, that lets one switch off the "Smart Drive" (udev rules included in said packages).

This can also occur with network attached printers if the avahi-daemon is not running. Another possibility is the specification of the printer's IP address in hp-setup fails to locate the printer because the IP address of the the printer changed due to DHCP. If this is the case, consider adding a DHCP reservation for the printer in the DHCP server's configuration. "

But I'm not really sure what any of that means. I could, of course delete and reinstall the printer, but would like to get more of an idea about being able to configure it properly so that command line printing can work along with GUI methods.


texts: PDF annotator with pen support that works well

texts: Is there a PDF viewer for Mac that supports drawing freehand lines in a way that allows you to actually write text? The built-in Preview app almost supports it but it's completely unusable because if you try to draw over an existing line (e.g. if you draw an H, you first draw | and then -), then it just selects the existing line. Infuriating.


texts: Refreshing the Dock without actually killing it?

texts: Is there a way to change Dock preferences and make the Dock app read the new one without using killall Dock command? Like to maybe force a refresh with some AppleScript or so?


texts: How can I listen to my mp3 audiobooks on iPhone?

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I have a collection of seminars recorded as mp3. In iTunes, I marked them as audiobooks.

I have an Apple music account, so I can access my music library through iCloud, including those I recorded myself or ripped from my CDs.

My audiobooks do not show up on the iCloud and I cannot access them on my iPhone (iOS 12.3.1).

I do not see them in the Music app, I do not see them in the Books app -although it has an audiobooks section.

I found some 3rd party apps on the store that play mp3 audiobooks, but I'd prefer using the Books or Music app.

Is there a way to do this? If so, how?

Note: I asked this question in Apple Communities but it did not attract much attention.


texts: Is there a separate GPS chip in the iPhone 6?

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My mapping apps in my iPhone 6 have become almost completely useless.  Both Google Maps and Apple Maps are unable to track my location with any kind of accuracy, often placing me on side streets or not updating my position at all after the initial setup.

However when I kill those apps and use Find My IPhone app, it almost always locates me exactly, and very quickly.  This leads me to believe they are using a different circuit or method to find my phone as opposed to the mapping apps that fail.

My question, and I've seen opposing opinions, is does my IPhone have a separate GPS chip that could possibly be replaced and restoring my mapping functionality.  OR has anyone found a reliable way to reset and restore these mapping failures (I've tried everything I can find online with no luck)?


texts: The 0 (zero) key on my Mac keyboard does not work anymore. Is there some kind of ascii code to type this character?


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My spouse and I share a Thunderbolt Display but we each have our own MBP, I work from home in the daytime and she uses it in the evening for online night classes in school.

This works great because all of the peripherals are attached to the display. Keyboard, printer, external drive, etc - just plug in a single cable and good to go. The exception to this is the Magic Trackpad. We eventually broke down and got two because of the hassle of unpairing and repairing it since it doesn't support being paired to multiple computers.

With the Trackpad 2, it has a lightning connection and according to the product page, "Magic Trackpad 2 pairs automatically with your Mac, so you can get to work right away."

If I have a Trackpad 2 and leave it connected to the Thunderbolt display all of the time, will it "just work", no pairing funny business, and essentially act like a USB trackpad?


texts: Multiple kernel panics per day on MacBookPro4,1 2008 mostly in web surf mode

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I've had freezing issues more and more frequently (now multiple per day) with my early 2008 Macbook Pro 4,1

I've pasted a recent kernel panic log beneath, and hope someone can point me in the right direction.

This problem was happening on OS X 10.6 recently, and I did a Rember test on the memory which looked "ok", as well as verified the hard drive in single user mode—also checked out "ok".

I've since done a clean install of 10.8 but the problem persists. Other stuff that may/may not be related: optical drive is dead, and the battery barely holds a charge any more :/ maybe 6 years is enough for this baby

 Machine-check capabilities 0x0000000000000806:
 family: 6 model: 23 stepping: 6 microcode: 1548
 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T9500  @ 2.60GHz
 6 error-reporting banks
 threshold-based error status present
Processor 0: machine-check status 0x0000000000000005:
 restart IP valid
 machine-check in progress
MCA error-reporting registers:
 IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x1000000000000000 invalid
 IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
 IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
 IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
 IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000011 invalid
 IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0xb200001806000e0f valid
  MCA error code:            0x0e0f
  Model specific error code: 0x0600
  Other information:         0x00000018
  Threshold-based status:    Undefined
  Status bits:
   Processor context corrupt
   Error enabled
   Uncorrected error
Processor 1: machine-check status 0x0000000000000004:
 machine-check in progress
MCA error-reporting registers:
 IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x1000000000000000 invalid
 IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
 IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
 IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
 IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0xf200000000060151 valid
  MCA error code:            0x0151
  Model specific error code: 0x0006
  Other information:         0x00000000
  Threshold-based status:    Undefined
  Status bits:
   Processor context corrupt
   Error enabled
   Uncorrected error
   Error overflow
 IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0xb200003008000e0f valid
  MCA error code:            0x0e0f
  Model specific error code: 0x0800
  Other information:         0x00000030
  Threshold-based status:    Undefined
  Status bits:
   Processor context corrupt
   Error enabled
   Uncorrected error
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff8001cb8389): "Machine Check at 0x51ce37a4f09a70c0, registers:\n" "CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x000000005aae0000, CR3: 0x000000002b9bb000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660\n" "RAX: 0x3f63e0cb68ad5356, RBX: 0x0000002300000000, RCX: 0x9f7eb0c600000000, RDX: 0xbffb0ed0bffb0e58\n" "RSP: 0xf4692a1fbaab5046, RBP: 0xbffb0e1000000000, RSI: 0x0000002300000023, RDI: 0x000000000000000f\n" "R8:  0xbffb0eecbffb0ecc, R9:  0x0478021800000001, R10: 0x5aae0000bffb0e98, R11: 0x0021028600000000\n" "R12: 0x0000001b00000000, R13: 0x01ab378b00000000, R14: 0x00000000ffffff80, R15: 0x01cced7000000000\n" "RFL: 0x10b24c7051b04c20, RIP: 0x51ce37a4f09a70c0, CS:  0x000000000000b18d, SS:  0x000000000000a30e\n" "Error code: 0x1dfaf9b50de147ea\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.7.9/osfmk/i386/trap_native.c:280
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff8074e25f20 : 0xffffff8001c1d5f6
0xffffff8074e25f90 : 0xffffff8001cb8389
0xffffff8074e26100 : 0xffffff8001cced7f

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Google Chrome He

Mac OS version:
12A269

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.0.0: Sun Jun 24 23:00:16 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.7.9~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 8D5F8EF3-9D12-384B-8070-EF2A49C45D24
Kernel slide:     0x0000000001a00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8001c00000
System model name: MacBookPro4,1 (Mac-F42C89C8)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 4887982849617
last loaded kext at 1927504231579: com.apple.filesystems.smbfs  1.8 (addr 0xffffff7f83d9d000, size 229376)
last unloaded kext at 176428418700: com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver  3.0.1 (addr 0xffffff7f83cb1000, size 8192)


texts: Cannot sign in iCloud nor iMessage, faceTime on 10.11.1 for upgraded admin account

texts:
Many people had such issue:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/29295728?ac_cid=tw123456#29295728

I notice when upgraded to 10.11.1, I cannot login any iCloud nor iMessage/faceTime account on my old and sole admin account.

I tried to delete ~/Library/Application Support/iCloud/accounts, no luck

I tried to erase NVRAM, no luck

I tried safe mode, no luck

I tried to reset key chain, no luck

I managed to rerun setup assitant and create a new admin account, now I can login to my iCloud.

iCloud always says You can't sign in at this time, try signing in again

iMessage will pop a window ask me again to enter password after I entered it when entering the account name and password, and then says Verification Failed, An unknown error occurred.

Version:
10.11.1

So.. I am desperate, and I think it is supposed to be some broken files for my old admin account, but I don't know what files to be deleted to let OS X to create new files to restore the state.


texts: What do grayed-out app icons mean in iOS 7?

texts:
Every couple days on my iPhone 4 running iOS 7, I notice an app icon is slightly grayed-out. Here is an example with the clock app:

When I open the app the icon goes back to normal immediately:

What does this mean? I can't find any documentation explaining it, and I can't determine a pattern for which apps exhibit it.


texts: With New Photos app on Mac, how do I manage photos on my iPhone?

texts:
I have 2 iMacs at the office and at home; an iPhone; and an iPad.

I recently installed the new Photos app on both iMacs. In both cases, I’m using iCloud Photo Library. So, any new photos I take on my iPhone appear on both iMacs. This is great — now I know my photos are backed up (both on iCloud and on two iMacs), and they're available from any machine on which I'd like to access them.

In other words, as I understand it, Photos and iCloud are keeping all my devices in sync.

The problem is that I don't want to keep all my photos on my iPhone. Once the photo is saved to iCloud and my iMacs, I’d like to be able to delete it from my iPhone, while keeping it on both my iMacs and on iCloud. As it stands now, if I delete a photo from my iPhone, it also disappears from my iMacs.

So my question is, how can I delete photos from my iPhone without deleting them from iCloud or my iMacs? Is there a setting that makes this the default behavior?


texts:
I was trying to install some stuff for scala development on my MAC, and probably I managed broke the shell/terminal while I was mindlessly running some scripts that I don't know.

Now when I start the terminal it always starts with this line;

$ /sbin:sbin:/usr/local/bin': not a valid identifier

And now when I try, I see some bash commands does not work, for instance grep, syslog..etc I get an error saying;

-bash syslog: "no such file or directory"

Any idea what is wrong and how can I fix this


texts:
I’m doing some long-running, CPU-intensive work. This means that I am tethered to a power outlet at all times.

What I’d like to do is ask macOS to suspend a particular program when I’m on battery power and resume it when I plug in.

Googling has failed me. Is there any way? I’m a programmer so I don’t mind going low level if necessary.


texts: iMessage and facetime not displaying my number

texts:
I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 7.1.2, I recently turned off the iMessage and FaceTime and then ejected my SIM card and inserted SIM card of another network. After few hours I again switched my SIM again to previous network.

After that I am trying to activate my iMessage and FaceTime but no luck. It is not displaying my number in address.
I checked my number in Phone but there my number is correct.

I have tried network reset, phone reset, hard reset, turning  on and off both services but no luck. How do I go back to using FaceTime and iMessage on my original network?


texts: Where can I find information on the licence(s) that govern use of the fonts that come preinstalled on Mac OS X?

texts:
I've just read the licence for the Hoefler font (see their EULA).  It says explicitly:

  You may not create Embedded Documents, except as expressly provided in paragraphs 3.2 and 3.3:

and "Embedded Documents" includes "ordinary" PDFs.

Now it may be that Apple has a different licence that is in force when I "bought" this font through Mac OS X.  If so, where do I find it?  (More generally, for any font distributed with Mac OS X.)  I'd quite like to know that if I create a PDF with one of these fonts then I'm not breaking the law.


texts:
I have just had a mysterious thing happen: a calendar event has appeared out of nowhere.

At more or less the same time I received a similar email:

Now I am used to email spam, but how on earth has this calendar event infiltrated my machine?

I haven't opened any email attachment. Mail can't have opened an email attachment on my behalf, as that above email is the only email I've received today; it contains a single image attachment (not particularly exciting). I think this must be a red herring, as I had to specifically instruct Mail to display the image, and I only did this after receiving the calendar event.

And this calendar event appeared completely of its own volition. I was just staring at some document I have open in Preview.

Is my machine compromised?  Does it have some door open that should be closed?

I have never before had any anomalous occurrence in seven years of using Apple machines. What is going on here?

π

PS Also I have never used the calendar application.  I did purchase this machine second-hand about three months ago, so maybe something is left over from the previous user, but the machine came to me with a seemingly fresh OS X installation, so it seems unlikely.


texts: When I open Terminal, I get an "I have no name!" prompt

texts:
Suddenly, this morning, I open a Terminal window and I get this:

I have no name!@macbook:~$ whoami
502

** I am not a number!  I am a human being! **

What gives?  Anyone know what I need to do to get my name back?

I suppose there are two problems here, one is that my hostname is undefined, the other is that whoami reports my name as a number.


texts: iOS8 step counter - unusually high number of data points

texts:
This is my first chance to use an iPhone with a motion co-processor running iOS 8 (in this case a new iPhone 6 with the barometer built in.)

Go to Health > Health Data > Fitness > Steps > Show All Data

I'm finding that even during continuous periods of walking (hundreds of steps without a break even for a second) the phone is nearly always grouping them into many, many entries but with only a few (it's usually 5) steps at a time.

Is anyone else seeing this? Is it normal?  There's been the odd screenshot in the last month or two (from iPhone 5S owners using the iOS8 beta?) showing maybe a few hundred steps and then a few groups of 5, 10, 20 steps – which makes it much easier to read.

The total does seem extremely accurate – I've counted in my head a couple of times as I'm going along, and you can also leave the app running and see it add entries as you're walking along – incredibly it can still count  perfectly if you walk but keep your hand really steady...

But I don't understand why the groups are so small?

There don't appear to be any other problems with my phone – the compass and the spirit level seem very precise, as does the GPS.  I'm not sure how I'd test the barometer (although flights climbed is about right – outdoors anyway – indoors it logs I've climbed the stairs (2x7) about 50% of the time.)

I've tried with the phone in front and back pockets, I've tried walking faster and slower.  The highest number of steps I've had is ~20 a few times when walking around indoors.  I did wonder if was something to do with it wanting to group steps according to GPS position.  Putting the iPhone into airplane mode doesn't make any difference either.


texts: Is there a way to turn off email notifications with find my iPhone?

texts: Is there a way to turn off email notifications in find my iPhone?


texts: How much space will iCloud Photo Library use on my devices?

texts:
I am considering to use iCloud Photo Library to store a growing number of family photo albums, shared to web or set of AppleIDs.

I dont need to keep original photos on iDevices for 99.9% of photos.

How much space will be used on the photo-originating set of devices (iOS, OS X, Windows)? I.e. what (roughly) is the function from the original size and number of photos, device storage space available, any other variables?


texts: Very strange me.com/iCloud email behavior

texts:
I have a gmail address, say, x@gmail.com and a me.com address, say y@me.com. If I use the web based iCloud email client for my me.com account, and I send an email to the following 3 versions of the gmail address:

x@gmail.com
<x@gmail.com>
"x" <x@gmail.com>

Only #3 gets delivered! Neither the me.com or gmail.com account have any forwarding or filters of any kind. x is a string of alpha-only characters.  How can this be?


texts:
Model: MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)

Cmd-Tab to an application does not keep focus on the app. I have to click on the application for it to get focussed on.

Can someone help me fix this?


texts: How can I delete a photo off my camera roll, but keep it in my album?

texts: I'm hitting the hide button, but it's still showing up in my camera roll. I want to delete some photos from my camera roll, but keep them in my album.


texts: Mavericks: Window across multiple monitors?

texts:
I just updates to OS X Mavericks on my iMac 27" late 2012 with an additional monitor.

In previous versions of OS X it was no problem to have one window visible across both monitors, which is very helpful if you work on big spreadsheets. But since the update to Mavericks this seems to be impossible. If I put a window so that parts of it are on monitor 1 and the rest on monitor 2, then only that part is visible that is located on that monitor where the mouse pointer was when i released it after dragging the window. The part covering parts of the other monitor are not displayed after end of dragging.

Is this just a matter of settings? I really hope so. But I did not find anything in the settings.

Can you help me to make all parts of a window visible in all monitors it touches?


texts: How to to specify pronunciations for OS X Lion?

texts:
The text-to-speech function on Mac OS X Lion is quite good, although sometimes it misses the just-right pronunciation of a word.

Is there a way to specify a pronunciation for certain words or phrases in Lion?

For example, let's say my friend's name is "Tony", and the voice for OS X (Alex) pronounces Tony "tooney". Is there a way that I can set Tony to be pronounced the same way Alex pronounces "Toe Nee"?


texts: Cisco AnyConnect causes OS X to kernel panic

texts:
My Macbook Pro 15" (Early 2011 - the one with Thunderbolt port) constantly kernel panics whenever Cisco AnyConnect establishes connection.

The panic tends to happen in the first ~30 seconds after connection is established.

The crash log is available here:
https://gist.github.com/d947e73b0b6c17a863b7

Any thoughts?

Some details:
Macbook Pro 15" i7 Early 2011 (the one with Thunderbolt)
Cisco AnyConnect version 2.5.2019

PS. I asked this question on the Apple Support forum, but so far I have got no answer :(

EDIT: This problem originally occurs in Snow Leopard, but problem persists in Lion (10.7), even after a fresh install (not upgrade from 10.6)


texts: What is the best backup strategy for macbook pro laptop?

texts:
I have a lot of data on my macbook pro retina laptop and i am looking for the best backup strategy.  I have previously had a windows desktop with an external harddrive connected all of the time and a backup program that copied to the external harddrive incrementally.  I am trying to figure out the best backup strategy given its a laptop that i move around with and travel with alot (so can't really have a external hard drive always connected)

What is the recommended backup solution for map laptops?


texts: How to remove the spacing next to the last icon at the right of the menu bar that appeared after upgrading to Bartender 2

texts:
A spacing next to the last icon at the right of the menu bar appeared after upgrading to Bartender 2 (see the screenshot below). It was not there before. How can I remove it?

I already tried:

restarting Bartender 2 and my Macbook as advised on the support page
reinstalling Bartender 2 (curious: after the uninstall it still displayed the spacing!)
command-dragging the icon to the right (when letting go it reverts
to it's original position)
checking the .plist of Bartender 1/2 if something is wrong or different (couldn't tell)
contacted Bartender support (no answer yet)
upgrading from OS X Yosemite to OS X El Capitan (no change)


texts: Parental Control Time Limits not taking effect

texts:
My step-daughter has an iMac with OS X Lion.  She has an account that auto logs in, with no password on it.  Previously, we'd been using the parental controls to keep her from getting up and using the computer in the middle of the night.  It was set to limit computer use from 8:30 PM to 8:00 AM.  That seemed to work.

My daughter is grounded from computer and video games today.  I tried setting the time limits to 8:01 AM to 8:00 AM, but she promptly strolled in and started checking her email and surfing the web.  I tried setting it to kick in a couple minutes in the future (10:45 AM to 8:00 AM) and it didn't block the account when 10:45 came around.  I tried removing parental controls completely and then adding them back, but that didn't seem to make a difference.

What am I missing?  Her account is set as "managed".  The clock has the correct time, but, nothing seems to be enforced.


texts: How to debug an app that runs fine on iOS simulator, but crashes on iPhone X?

texts:
I'm currently building an app with Cordova, and it appears that on the last alpha version, the app only works in the iOS Simulator. When ran on an iPhone X, the app is crashes immediately.

I'm not familiar at all with software development for Apple platform, so I was wondering:

What are my options to understand what is wrong?
Is there some kind of things that I should be aware of to avoid silent crash?

I know we can link an iPhone with the Safari debugger, but I assume this will only work for browser inspection, not app debugging.


texts: Move all contents from a folder to another with shell script

texts:
Why does this work?

mv /Users/diogosaraiva/Music/Youtube/Novas/* /Users/diogosaraiva/Music/Youtube/Tratadas

…but the commands below don't work?

mv "/Users/diogosaraiva/Music/Youtube/Novas/*" "/Users/diogosaraiva/Music/Youtube/Tratadas"

I had to rename the folder "Youtube" from "Youtube - Downloads", just because this don't work:

mv "/Users/diogosaraiva/Music/Downloads - Youtube/Novas/*" "/Users/diogosaraiva/Music/Downloads - Youtube/Tratadas"

I want integrate this in an Automator app. Is there a better way to move all contents from an folder to another with Automator.app?


texts: Does iTunes 10.5.0.142 not support the original iPhone?

texts: I have the original iPhone and I cannot seem to get it recognized by iTunes 10.5.0.142. I followed the troubleshooting advice at http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/assistant/itunes/, but it did not seem to help. Is it no longer supported by iTunes?


texts:
I've recently gotten my cable internet upgraded. When the tech was here, he was able to get about 48 Mbps speeds over wifi, but on my retina MBP, connecting to the same wireless router, I was only getting 30-35.

We tried a number of different configurations, various wifi channels, and turning off the bluetooth on my machine.

How can i diagnose wireless prrformance to learn if a particular router type may work better with my Mac?


texts: /opt directory doesn't exist on OS X 10.9

texts: Just received my macbook air and discover that i can't run port command because of /opt directory not exists. Is it normal? (OS X 10.9)


texts:
After cracking my iPhone, I contacted apple support, started a service request, and filled out the ""Send in for Service" option. However, I am now trying to cancel (which apparently is done by simply not sending the package), but I need to know if there are any costs from a cancelled request.

iPhone 5s, iOS 8.4


texts: What's the fastest connection speed / shortest elapsed time using Migration Assistant?

texts:
When using Migration Assistant to move users, files, and folders from an old Mac to a new one, you have a few different choices, depending on the Macs involved. Presuming that both Macs have appropriate ports, which ports should be used in a real-world situation? Please do not provide quotations of theoretical port speeds; I'm looking for real-world experiences as to what will get the job done faster.

Port choices:

FireWire 400 in target disk mode
FireWire 400 to 800 in target disk mode
FireWire 800 in target disk mode
100 Megabit Ethernet to Gigabit Ethernet in the OS
Gigabit Ethernet to Gigabit Ethernet in the OS
Thunderbolt cable in target disk mode


texts: OS X: Change sharing-only account to 'normal' account

texts: Somehow, OS X changed my main user account to sharing-only. This means that all data in the user folder is still existent on the disk, I can't login to that user. Is there a way to revert a sharing-only user to a normal account.


texts: Boot from different startup disk AND in safe or recovery mode

texts:
I have two versions of Mac OS on my mac pro: Mojave, and 10.8.5.

While using Mojave, I selected the startup disk to the other one via Preference Pane in order to access some old programs.

To switch back to Mojave, I tried the same thing, but 10.8 doesn’t recognise the volume where Mojave is (I imagine due to the new file system), so the option doesn’t even show up in 10.8’s Startup Disk preferences.

I thought - no problems, I’ll do it while booting, by pressing OPTION. The startup disk selection screen appears correctly. However, after I select Mojave this way, the loading screen gets stuck.

So what I would need to do is  (1) press OPTION during startup to select Mojave as the boot disk, AND (2) launch safe (or recovery mode) while that one is booting. However I haven’t figured out a way to do this. Any ideas?

Thanks!


texts: Opening Word files from HTTP links in Outlook

texts:
If I have an email in Outlook containing a link like https://example.com/Document.docx and I click it, it gives me a warning dialog "Do you want to open the file? Some files harm your computer blah blah blah". I click yes and it starts Word, but then nothing. No error message, no document, it's just as if I started Word manually.

If I right-click the link and select Open URL it opens it in Chrome and downloads the file which is slightly better.

I did also try running "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Content/MacOS/Microsoft Word" "https://example.com/Document.docx" from the command line but it gives a dialog with the error:

  Word cannot open the document: User does not have have access privileges (Document.docx)

Is there any way to have Word actually open the file? Or alternatively to make clicking a link behave the same way as right-click->Open URL?


texts: How to disable "iCloud Storage is Full" Messages on OS X

texts:
Every couple of days I get this message that "iCloud Storage is Full" in a window on my MacBook, it is very annoying, as I know my storage is full and that I need to upgrade it. The window only gives me two options, "Manage" and "Upgrade", either of which opens up System Preferences, which wouldn't be such an issue if my internet connection was faster, but it takes System Preferences way too long to retrieve info about my iCloud Drive and I can't close System Preferences until it does. One cannot hide the window by clicking into another app.

How can I disable these iCloud Drive messages from appearing (perhaps from a Terminal command)? I am using OS X 10.11 "El Capitan", if it makes a difference.

I'm really looking for something that will just prevent this window from launching, maybe via a Terminal command or deleting/renaming a file, rather than just giving in and buying more storage or freeing some space.


texts: Can't connect to L2TP over IPSec VPN from Mac 10.12.4

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Have troubles with connecting to my VPN from Mac.
Using default Mac client, pre-shared secret.
Also this works well on iOS 10.3.2 from the same Wi-Fi network.

Firewall is disable, no Little Snitch.
macOS error message says 'The L2TP-VPN server did not respond'

Also, I've tried to connect open free VPN, us.freel2tpvpn.com and got no response again, so I think it's a macOS problem, not the server / routing.

Do you have any ideas?

Here is my /var/log/ppp.log

Tue Jun 13 15:34:58 2017 : publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!
Tue Jun 13 15:34:58 2017 : publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!
Tue Jun 13 15:34:58 2017 : l2tp_get_router_address
Tue Jun 13 15:34:58 2017 : l2tp_get_router_address 172.16.21.1 from dict 1
Tue Jun 13 15:34:58 2017 : L2TP connecting to server '86.102.88.210' (86.102.88.210)...
Tue Jun 13 15:34:58 2017 : IPSec connection started
Tue Jun 13 15:35:03 2017 : IPSec connection failed

update 1
checked udp ports 500, 1701, 4500 — all open from mac

update 2
set up another l2tp ipsec preshered secret server on windows and got same result — don't respond on mac, connected on iphone

update 3
wiresharked booth on 'connections', and there is no udp packets from mac on connection, but test packets are ok.

definitely the mac vpn client is broken (firewall is off), where should I dig?


texts: How do I refresh the graph in the iOS 9 Stocks app?

texts:
In the Stock app, when I click on a ticker and select "1W" to specify one week's worth of stock data on the graph, it pulls the data and displays the graph.

If I go back many hours later, the graph shows the cached version of the graph.

Is there a way to get the app to update the graph?  The only way I know is to close the app and re-open it.


texts: Is it possible to view 2 apps at the same, eg. 2 × Mail, in Split View?


texts: WI-Fi Calling Notification keeps coming back

texts:
This notification keeps appearing on my Mac running Mac OS X 10.13.6 (17G65):

  Wi-Fi Calling
  You can use your phone number to make and receive calls directly on this Mac using Wi-Fi.

I have:

Clicked "Not Now"
Clicked "Turn On"
On my Mac: Turned off all notifications for FaceTime
On my Mac: Logged out of FaceTime
On my iPhone: Went to "Settings" » "Phone" » "Wi-Fi Calling" and turned off "Add Wi-Fi Calling for Other Devices"
On my iPhone: Went to "Settings" » "Phone" » "Wi-Fi Calling" and turned off "Calls on Other Devices"

Still, after all of that, the notification keeps coming back every few minutes.

Any ideas how to kill this thing?

I tried Google but all of the results were about turning this feature on, not off.


texts:
I have a little NAS at home which makes some volumes available through AFP. This all worked great. Until I shut it down for a while and reconnected it recently.

I can see the device on the network and I can open it and select a share. But when I try to mount the share, I get the following error:

"The operation can’t be completed because the original item for “Foo” can’t be found"

I think this is because my little NAS changed to a new IP and OS X somehow cached the original (alias?) somewhere.

The fact that I can successfully open these shares from another Mac, which had never seen these before, confirms that I think.

Does anyone know where this is potentially cached? Is there anything I can reset or throw away to get past this error?


texts: Images in iCloud for my Messages app will not download completely

texts:
At some point, I agreed for iOS to store images from Messages in iCloud to free up space on my iPhone X. That is, the images are deleted from the conversations in Messages, and have to be downloaded from iCloud if you want them to reappear in the conversation. I have 20GB available, but Messages still stores images from recent messages in iCloud. I don't mind that behavior, but I cannot always download them again.

For instance, pick a conversation in Messages, tap the contact at the top of the conversation, then tap info. Here you will see the photos from within the conversation. Scrolling down, there is an option to download images from iCloud. When I tap download I do not get the images downloaded onto my phone again.

I would like to prevent the removal of images from my conversations, but I cannot find an option in the settings. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this issue?


texts: How to restore default Apple Version of Git after renaming it in Mac OS Mojave and linking git to homebrew version?

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I wanted Mac OS to use my homebrew version of git after brew install git. So I mistakenly renamed my Apple Default git by doing:

$mv /usr/bin/git /usr/bin/git~apple
$ git --version
git version 2.25.0

I am attempting to uninstall the homebrew version of git, and revert back to the Apple version of git.

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin

$ which git
/usr/local/bin/git

$ brew uninstall git
Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/git/2.25.0... (1,523 files, 45.6MB)
$cp /usr/bin/git~apple /usr/bin/git

$mv /usr/bin/git~apple /usr/bin/git

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin

$ which git
/usr/bin/git

$ git --version
-bash: /usr/local/bin/git: No such file or directory

It seems like after uninstalling homebrew and moving the original git file back to its location, which git finds the correct $PATH for git, but git --version cannot find git. How do I properly restore the original Apple version of git?


texts: Why does BBEdit look bad with retina display?

texts: I downloaded the free trial of BBEdit editor and I tried it on a new MacBook Pro with retina display. Surprisingly the text looks pretty bad, like if it is not focused. I doubt this is normal. Is it a problem of the free trial version only, or a problem with the software? Is there any method to make it look like other applications (TeXShop, TextEdit, ...)?


texts:
I have just installed XAMPP and when I click "start all" nothing actually starts since there is a problem with the some configurations (I do not have any idea of what those lines mean since I am a completely novice in servers). I just to have everything running in order to be able to start my PHP course.
Here goes what is written in the application log (upper tab):

Starting all servers...
Starting MySQL Database...

Starting Apache Web Server...
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/apache2/scripts/ctl.sh : httpd started
Starting ProFTPD...
Exit code: 8
Stdout:
Checking syntax of configuration file
proftpd config test fails, aborting
Stderr:
MacBook-Pro-de-Gloria.local proftpd[47065]: warning: unable to determine IP address of 'MacBook-Pro-de-Gloria.local'
MacBook-Pro-de-Gloria.local proftpd[47065]: error: no valid servers configured
MacBook-Pro-de-Gloria.local proftpd[47065]: Fatal: error processing configuration file '/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/proftpd.conf'

I do not know if this info could be useful but my OS version is Sierra 10.12.6

Please feel free to ask me more details in the case you need additional information to find out what the problem is

Thanks in advance! :)

Edit: Here is what the file /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/proftpd.conf has

# This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file (rename it to
# 'proftpd.conf' for actual use.  It establishes a single server
# and a single anonymous login.  It assumes that you have a user/group
# "daemon" and "ftp" for normal operation and anon.

ServerName          "ProFTPD"
ServerType          standalone
DefaultServer           on

# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.
Port                21
# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files
# from being group and world writable.
Umask               022

# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes
# to 30.  If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections
# at once, simply increase this value.  Note that this ONLY works
# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server
# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service
# (such as xinetd)
MaxInstances            30

# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User daemon
Group      admin

# Normally, we want files to be overwriteable.
<Directory /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/*>
  AllowOverwrite        on
</Directory>

# only for the web servers content
DefaultRoot /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs

<Limit SITE_CHMOD>
  DenyAll
</Limit>

# daemon gets the password "xampp"
UserPassword daemon 2TgxE8g184G9c

# daemon is no normal user so we have to allow users with no real shell
RequireValidShell off

# daemon may be in /etc/ftpusers so we also have to ignore this file
#to login with "OSX Users"
AuthPAM on
AuthPAMConfig ftpd
UseFtpUsers off


texts:
I uninstalled zsh pretty soon after I installed it as I realised I had got used to the normal Terminal. The uninstall went successfully and I restarted Terminal, but now it displays my computer-name (tommbp) with a % next to it, as display below:

I'm not sure if this impacts on using Terminal but I'm not a Terminal superuser or anything so I'd rather just have it back how it was. Also, I am a front-end dev for a Rails app and when I went to restart the rails server, it says it's not installed and when I try to install it, nothing loads.

Does anyone know how to fix these two issues?


texts:
I see these message. Which means that terminal uses some disk cache. How to disable it using disk caches? Thanks.

"Your disk space is critially low."

Older terminal scrollback contents may be automatically discarded to conserve VM backing store".


texts: Can't write on external HDD after upgrading to OS X El Capitan

texts:
I am using a LaCie external hard disk in my MacBookPro for 3 years. After having updated to OS X El Capitan, I am no longer able to write on the HDD and I have read-only privileges. Info shows that the HDD is formatted in NTFS but, before upgrading, I was able to both read and write on the hard disk without any problem and without any external app.
Any suggestions to solve this issue?

[Update]: I have installed Tuxera NTFS and now everything works fine. Before I had other applications that are no longer valid for El Capitan.


texts: Change Font Size of entered text on PDF in Preview 9.0

texts:
I've read several similar questions but they appear to be outdated.  Many mentioned a "show fonts" option in the "Tools" menu which does not exist.  Others mention a couple ways to show the markup toolbar, which does include a font formatting option, but changing these options does absolutely nothing to the text I'm entering. I've tried highlighting existing entered text and modifying the values, and I've tried changing the values before entering new text. Nothing seems to be working, and my text is far too large to fit on the field I'm trying to fill out.

Any other ways of changing the font size that I'm not seeing? Is this maybe a bug with this version that'll be patched soon?

Thanks.


texts: Best practices to migrate from a single shared iTunes account to family sharing

texts:
Since iOS 4, my family is equiped with multiple iOS devices. I used the same iTunes account on all devices to share :

Applications
Photos
Notes
Musics
Data (game progression)

With iOS 8 Apple introduced family sharing. Firstly I didn't see any advantage in this new functionality.
But with this post, I understand that 1 account per physical person is the new golden rule.

So what are the best practices to migrate from a single shared iTunes account to family sharing without loosing anything ?

Some data (game progression) aren't shared accross all devices, how can I be sure that my daughter will not loose her data when she will use her newest iTunes account ?


texts:
In Catalina, Apple made ZSH the default shell, however, macOS retained the (now deprecated) Bash. Despite my attempts to unearth something related to this, I couldn't find out whether Big Sur will keep Bash in fresh installations or remove it altogether.
Is there any official word out there regarding this? At the very least (...and FWIW), any anecdotal experience coming from beta installations? Thank you.


texts: How can I permanently add my SSH private key to Keychain so it is automatically available to ssh?

texts:
It seems that ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa will load your key but will ask for the password each time you reboot.

I am looking for a solution that would not require me to re-enter the key password between logins.


texts: Cannot connect App Store after upgrading to Mavericks

texts:
I have just upgraded my Macbook Pro to OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and then I got the problem which cannot connect to App Store even though I was trying to sign in from

Menu/Store/Sign In

Does anyone has the same problem? and how you fix it?


texts:
I am a domestic internet user on my Mac through a cable modem with a wifi router provided by a very large cable TV & broadband provider. I have a 7 Mbps connectivity with a download limit of 25GB.  I have been using this for the last 18 months and my usage used to be below 12 GB per month.  The last two months I have been getting huge bills from the ISP claiming that my usage has gone above 40 to 50 GB. There is no change in the usage pattern or even the software deployed in the last many months but the billed usage currently is unexplainable. The router does not have wifi range out side my home where one Mac and two iPhones are only used. The internet usage on the iPhone is also limited to some emails and simple browsing which we have been doing for 18 months.

Now, sometimes the usage statistics from the tool provided by the ISP shows 700 to 800 MB usage in 20 to 30 minutes even when all my systems are idle.

How is it possible for me to plug this hole?


texts: Link aggregate "bondmode" spontaneously changes

texts:
I've setup a link aggregate of the two ethernet ports on my macpro6,1 (via System Preferences > Network > Manage Virtual Interfaces > New Link Aggregate).

Due to the way my other devices are setup, I need to set the "bondmode" of my device to "static":

$ sudo ifconfig bond0 bondmode static

The problem so far is that, for no reason that I can discern and triggered by nothing I can identify in the logs, the bondmode reverts back to "lacp", and all of my connections drop.

I can trigger this myself via networksetup -createbond xxx to create an extra (broken) bond. So perhaps changes to the network setup in general reset it to LACP?

Is there something I can do to stop whatever process is causing the bondmode to change, or somehow achieve this another way? My end goal is to get some sort of round-robin style pattern for sending packets to spead a single connection across both ethernet cables to my server, as LACP results in all packets from a given connection going through a single link.


texts: Custom keyboard layout not showing in System Preferences in 10.13.6

texts:
I have a custom keyboard layout which I would like to use and I've tried moving the .keylayout file to the /Library/Keyboard Layouts/ and the corresponding directory in home folder, but it doesn't show up in System Preferences app.
I've also tried having it only in home/Library/Keyboard Layouts/ or only in /Library/Keyboard Layouts/ and both but to no avail.

I would've tried installing it with Ukelele or creating the bundle but Ukelele won't open it saying only that it isn't valid XML. To me it seems to be correct and it was working at one point, but then after restart it disappeared from the System Preferences.

I have tried this already: Apple Support

You can see the .keylayout file here: Drive DAS Layout

Any help getting this to work is greatly appreciated!


texts:
I have an iPhone 5S registered in the United Kingdom with a United Kingdom simcard and number from T-Mobile. I have moved to the USA permanently and cannot call or text any American numbers. I have been told this is because I need to get a US simcard and number. (Please correct if wrong)

I am considering Tracphone as a provider, and asked them if I can use their plan/sim/number in my physical phone from the UK. The answer was

  If the phone is an unlocked GSM phone that must operate on 850 and 1900 MHz bands, you can use it.

(Bold emphasis mine). Does my UK-bought 5S fit those criteria?


texts: Does Apple prohibit the display of a non-interactive preview of a system notification on an app's UI?

texts:
I'm on initial design stages of a new iOS app, and for one of the screens I'm thinking of having the user build a custom notification.

For that, the app would feature a preview of the final notification bubble at the bottom of a screen. This notification would have the same appearance of a real notification, but would appear in a place on the screen where a real notification would never be shown. At the end of the flow, the user would confirm the built notification looks as it should, and then it would be dismissed and scheduled as a real notification to appear later on.

Is there any prohibitions in place for a UI with this characteristic? I asked a few friends who work on iOS development, and I've searched through the Human Interface Guidelines on Apple's website, but I didn't find any confirmation of whether this is explicitly disallowed. Somehow, though, I have this nagging feeling that this is the type of stuff that Apple would disallow.

Can anyone confirm whether this is allowed?


texts: Use iPhone or iPod touch as an external hard drive

texts:
I have an iPod touch 4g with 64GB storage space. Is there some way to store files of any file type on the device? I know that there are plenty of apps which let you share files via iTunes. Is there a way to make file storage independent from iTunes? Can I exchange data between a PC and a Mac that way?
I have read that you have to use Jailbreak to access the file system. Is there any other more "legitimate" way of doing this?


texts:
I used this command to try out an alternative finder.

defaults write com.apple.loginwindow Finder /Full/Path/To/Path\ Finder.app

I prefer the standard finder - but do not know how to get it back.

Anybody know?


texts: How to mount ext4 partition on OS X 10.8.2?

texts:
I'm  new to OS X, I was using Ubuntu till now. All my data are stored on an external drive formated as ext4 system file. Is there any other way to acces this data than installing Virtual Box? I'm using OS X 10.8.2.

I was trying solution form How can I mount an ext4 file system on OS X?

Terminal output:

MacBook-Pro-Marek:Downloads user$ ./ext4fuse-24810919 /dev/disk1 Linux
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libfuse.2.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/user/Downloads/./ext4fuse-24810919
Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap: 5

I was trying also this, with the same result (dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libfuse.2.dylib)

I found also this, where it's said that most of available solutions don't work for Lion, but this solution says how to mount ext2 or ext3 file system, and not ext4.

I don't know how should I load this library and if the problem is in the library or the solutions which don't work for my OS X distribution.

Thanks


texts: Can I use bootcamp without reformatting my hard drive?

texts:
I would really like to install ububtu on my Mac using bootcamp but it requires me to reformat my disk first.  I have programs with license keys that I don't want to loose, or buy another copy of, and also just don't want to go through the trouble of reformatting.

Is there a way I could do this?


texts: I use an iPhone 5S, as I was unable to wait until the 6 came out (my screen was destroyed on my old phone). Is there any peripheral which allows me to use Apple Pay on my phone?


texts:
I want to delete a file because it's of no use to me yet I seem unable to do so. I've gone through these steps so far:

Put file in trash, empty trash. -> Mac keeps on telling me: 12 items to remove..
rm -rf /.Trash/* -> process seems to go on indefinitely
sudo rm -R path/to/file -> same as above

I'm desperate.. what should I do?


texts: Does it violate App Store/YouTube TOS to develop YouTube Player app?

texts:
I want to develop a 3rd party YouTube Player app which only have 2 main features:

Background playback
Block ads

If I submitted this app to App Store. Will Apple approve my app? Does that violate App Store or YouTube Terms of Service? I know that downloading of YouTube videos in a client app is prohibited, but I'm not sure about background playback and ad blocking. I saw some apps have those features and currently available on App Store and some were removed from the App Store.


texts: Free space shown on Windows 10 (BOOTCAMP partition) does not correspond to the free space shown on Disk Utility

texts:
I'm not quite sure how this works, but yesterday I used Boot Camp Assistant to get Windows on my Mac. Somehow the space available on the C drive is 10 GB whilst in the Disk Utility it shows 18 GB of free space on it.
I checked with the space analyser in the wizard tool partition to see where all the space went to (I have partitioned 30 GB for the BOOTCAMP partition and haven't done anything on Windows, yet I only have 10 GB left already), it does show that there is only 10 GB of free space, but I'm confused as to why Disk Utility is showing different data.
I'm a little anxious about this because my Mac has low storage space to begin with so I'm worried that I installed Windows and can't use it.
Also, if anyone knows about methods to free up some space would be great help.


texts: Is there a way to add an iPhone contact and have it sync to an Exchange server without having to cable sync through iTunes?


texts: 'Add notes' to a Calendar event using Automator

texts:
I would like to build a 'Service' for selected text which:

Get the currently selected text
Creates an Calendar event
adds the selected text as a 'note' for that Calendar event

I prefer Automator for creating such workflows. In automator I can use building blocks like:

Get Value of Variable
New Calendar Event

But I have no option to add the selected text as a note to my event.

Is there a way to add notes to an Calendar event using Automator? Or perhaps using the Run Applescript or Run Shell Script building blocks to achieve this?


texts: WindowServer Crashes MacBook Pro Catalina

texts:
I have been getting fairly frequent WindowServer crashes on MacOS Catalina.

When this happens I can move the mouse, but I can't click on anything or type. I can also hear sound for a couple minutes and then ultimately the computer reboots.

I have a MacBook Pro 2019 15".

How can I debug this type of issue?


texts: I don't always have PC with me. Also, I have quite big music collection on my DropBox. Is there any good app for iPhone that I can use to download music from DropBox and listen to without connecting to iTunes?


texts: How can I keep different app versions on two devices synced with iTunes

texts:
I have an 1st gen iPod Touch and an iPad 2. The iPod Touch is obsolete enough that most new apps won't run on iOS 3.1. Also, there is a growing number of apps that I own and use daily that have updates that the Touch can't run.

I sync my Touch with iTunes to keep my podcast library up to date. My iPad syncs with iTunes via WiFi.

I use several universal iPod/iPad apps. If I update one of these apps to a version that my Touch doesn't support (because the app now requires iOS 4+), the Touch loses that app. When I try to turn off app syncing for my Touch in iTunes, iTunes warns that it will delete apps and their data on the device. That's not what I want.

How can I sync my iPod Touch with iTunes to keep podcasts up to date, but keep the older versions of the apps around for the Touch and use the latest versions of the apps on my iPad?


texts: Does High Sierra erase FileVault key on hibernate?

texts:
Before today, with 10.12, and now (High Sierra 10.13), I had DestroyFVKeyOnStandby 1. With 10.12, I would open the lid to my laptop after it had been hibernating for a bit, hit the power button, and I would be prompted for 2 passwords (identical). I would enter the first password, a status bar would progress, and then I would be prompted for the second password.

With 10.13, everything is the same, but the first password prompt is missing. I always figured the status bar (in 10.12) meant it was decrypting the disk (or part of it). If that is the case, now it's decrypting before it even asks me for the one password to let me in. That is to say, there is the status bar, then the password prompt.

Any clarity on why this might be different and if there is anything we should know would be appreciated.

UPDATE
After toggling DestroyFVKeyOnStandby and restarting a few times (ultimately, I changed nothing), the situation is as follows:

After hibernating, I press power key, Apple logo appears, enter FileVault/Login PW, progress bar, finally desktop. This is the opposite of my previous situation [progress bar -> PW prompt]. Good, but still only one PW prompt. Why? My guess is the machine knows they are the same (set them at the same time)?

I can now recreate my previous situation by setting DestroyFVKeyOnStandby  0(it wasn't 0 before). This is what 0 should do.

Additionally if I set DestroyFVKeyOnStandby 1 and turn off sleep-screen-lock, I am still prompted for a PW. This leads me to believe my machine is asking for my FileVault PW, the intended outcome.

I guess my final advice would be to fiddle with your DestroyFVKeyOnStandby a bit and restart a few times. I know that's not very scientific, but it shouldn't hurt.


texts: How can I send “text messages” from iPhone to Android with an email (not cellular) as the address?

texts:
Is there any way that would allow me to send a text message from my iPhone to someone who has an android phone. The person who has the android phone and doesn’t have a phone number but has an email address.
Is there a way for me to send a text message to the person’s android phone using their email in the same way that you’d use a phone number to send a text message?


texts:
If I delete photos from iPhone/iCloud and permanently delete them from the deleted folder.
Will they still be stored on Apple servers somewhere?
What is their retention window for this Kind of thing?
Thanks,


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Is there any way to control an Apple TV 1st gen either through terminal connection or a web interface (ideally using a REST interface)?

By "control" I mean don't mean "control everything".  One example use-case would be: Give the ATV a MP3 stream URL and have it play.

If some kind of "hacking" or plugin is involved, that's ok!


texts: how can I filter out unwanted search results in Alfred (ie node_modules folder, caches)

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Been a user of Alfred for a long time, however whenever I search anything I get a lot of FUD results due to alfred also indexing all my web project node_modules directories.

Is there any way to path-match and exclude all results from within a /node_modules/ directory? This would greatly improve the utility of the search.


texts: Can't complete sign in process to App Store

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When I try to sign in with my Apple ID via the App Store, it seems it is not connecting. I tried to put a different password and it notified me that it was wrong, but with the correct one it only seems to work, but then i'm not getting in.

More specifically, when I put in my correct password, it doesn’t error out (like if I put in an incorrect password), instead the login window just disappears.

In iTunes and Books I can sign in and sign out whenever I like, so I really can't see where the problem is.

Any suggestions?


texts: How can I extract my MacBook Pro Notes files so that the data becomes "normal" again after my computer's file system crashed?

texts: My MacBook Pro from ca. 2011-2013 or something kind of "crashed" - the computer's file system was ruined - when I did a manual forced shutdown because the Notes app was not responding. When I turned it back on again repeatedly, it was in MacOS Recovery Mode and I sent it in to a computer expert who's having a look at it. He's been able to save/restore many documents - Pages documents, sound files, pictures and videos etc - and also says that the data isn't gone, it's just like scrambled or arranged differently now or something. However: He doesn't know how to extract the files from my Notes app, which are my most important documents. He says that there could be several ways to do this but he's not an expert on this particular Mac file system or computer model/operation system. How does one extract the Notes files and get my data back as readable Notes files?


texts: Why does iCloud use storage even when i have deleted all my backups?

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I had 3 devices but now I have removed all. There are no photos synced, no keynotes or any documents saved.. but if you see the screenshot my iCloud drive says i am using 1.09GB ++ of data.

No idea what is using that and how do I clean my iCloud drive?

Also if I go to iCloud.com it says it has 1.09GB of backup. What backup is it talking about?

Please help.

Update: So i did manage storage in my icloud setting in mac and this is what it shows..


texts: Assign Finder's Default Sort Order by folder in Column View

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Similar questions have been asked here, but I didn't find an answer that addresses this one. It seems that "the answer" may be dependent on which view is chosen in Finder, and so it's possible I've overlooked something. That said...
My system: MBP, macOS 10.15.6
I use Finder's Column View because it's fast, and provides a file preview. A sort based on file Name works fine for me as a default everywhere - except in the Downloads folder. In Downloads, a sort by Date Added is far more useful.
Q: When using Finder's Column View, is there any way to "persuade" macOS to set a default "per folder sort order"?
In other words, using Finder's Column View is it possible to have files sorted by Date Added when viewing ~/Downloads, and sorted by Name when viewing ~/Documents without having to explicitly change the Sort Order each time I change folders?
I'm not interested in 3rd party solutions.
To be clear, I know how to set the Sort By option in Column View; what I would like to do is make that selection persistent on the selected folder. I also know that in List View, it does seem to be possible to set per-folder defaults for Sort By, but I want to do this in Column View - not List View.


texts: Are 'coreservicesd' & 'syslogd' disguises for keylogger apps?

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this article says so, they may be shilling for osx uninstaller app thoughh

  Look for ‘coreservicesd’ to find Aobo
  Check for ‘Elite Keylogger’ when searching Elite Keylogger. However, the version I installed was free and it did not hide, so I don’t know how the process name will change for someone who buys a product.
  And finally, ‘Refog’ appears as ‘syslogd’


texts: iOS: How do I transfer a mp3 from Google Drive to iBooks?

texts: I have an mp3 audiobook on Google Drive that I want to listen to in iBooks on my iPhone. How can I transfer/copy/open that file from the Google Drive app on the iBooks app?


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I'm about to buy a second Mac Pro - I have one in London where the temperature is pretty cool most of the time, but want to get another one for Spain where the temperature gets up to 51 degrees celcius outside sometimes.

What it be a foolish thing to try and use a system that presumably would overheat pretty quickly in such a hot country? I've tried air conditioning, but that really doesn't bring the temperature down much when you're in that kind of heat. Plus it's VERY noisy with AC on and I'm a composer so need as much silence as possible for when I'm recording...

Thanks for any pointers - especially from people in hot countries!


texts: How can I change the hotspot name without changing the iPhone name?

texts: How can I change the hotspot name without changing the iPhone name (the name indicated in Settings > General > About)?


texts: iOS 4.2 - What's there for the iPhone 3GS?

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I have looked at iOS 4.2 wrap-ups and all I can see are features for iPad.

Besides AirPrint (which does not work with my printer), is there anything for the iPhone 3GS there?


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When searching in iTerm2, some kind of of fancy live highlighting thing seems to kick in even before you hit enter. When the scrollback buffer has more than a few thousand lines in it, this search mode seems to become unusably slow. It maxes out a CPU at 100% and doesn't actually find anything while it's "thinking", making it impossible to search long scroll buffers. And it never finishes thinking (at least not quickly enough for me to have seen it ever finish).

Even just typing the characters into the search box becomes slow, one character appearing per second.

Is it possible to disable the highlighting (to only highlight the current result) or otherwise speed up search? I'm trying to switch from Terminal.app to iTerm but, as I have discovered, I search a lot.


texts: I cannot connect to (specifically) google.com with any app using cellular data

texts: All other websites work and can be quickly accessed, even youtube.com will load. google.com will simply not load at all when I try to connect to it over cellular data. It does work over Wi-Fi, however. I tried using a different browser, the Google app, restarting the iPhone, everything. Funny thing though, the Google feed loads in the Google app, yet I cannot search with google within the app.


texts: MacBook Pro 2015 - New SSD, can't install macOS

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I installed a 500GB Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe M.2 into my MacBook Pro 13" 2015 (128GB).
I followed instructions in a youtube video. (Boot-Stick created, case opened, battery disconnected, SSD removed, 970 Evo Plus with adapter installed, battery connected and booted from the boot stick).

But now I have my problem and maybe someone can help me.

After I have selected the boot stick in the boot menu, the white apple logo appears against a black background and a progress bar appears below it. However, the MacBook dies off after about half of the progressbar and the following error message appears:

"Your computer restarted because of a problem. Press a key or wait a few seconds to continue starting up"

I have already re-created the boot stick twice. And I tested it with my old Apple hard drive. As soon as the "old" 128GB disk is inside, the installation program downloads completely and I could reinstall macOS.

Maybe someone had a similar error here and can help me? Or do I have an incompatible combination of hardware?


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I apologize for repeating my question, but it was suggested that I ask it on this StackExchange site instead of stackoverflow:

Original post:

I have created a simple .NET 4.5 Entity Framework Winforms application with Visual Studio and would like to open it on OS X.

I have used Wine before to open .exe's in the past and am having difficulty this time around. I have downloaded the most recent version of Wine, as well as OS X.

When I attempt to open the .exe with Wine, nothing happens. No error messages. Nothing.

When I attempt to package the .exe with WineBottler, I get a popup that says "Prefix created successfully"; however, when I attempt to open the newly created file, again, nothing happens.

I am very new to using Wine and have noticed that there are WineTricks you can use, but I am not sure if that is necessary. Again, I used Wine before on a very simple app and it worked just fine without using any WineTricks, but I am not sure whether I should include them for this app.

I have googled for help, but have not found much. Any assistance is greatly appreciated!


texts: "CMD + tab" makes me lose album view when switching back to iTunes

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This behaviour is hard to reproduce and doesn't happen everytime.
But I have been able to catch it happening with a screengrab.

I am playing an album in iTunes and have iTunes set to album view, then switch from iTunes to Safari (or another app, but Safari is used in this example) using cmd then Tab:

Then I want to switch back from Safari (or another app) to iTunes, and sometimes, when I press cmd + Tab, the album view suddenly collapses and I get this:

It's very annoying because I have to press CMD+ L to get back to the song currently playing.

I am not sure why it does that - it's not everytime. It's not the behaviour I get when I only press Tab or cmd while in iTunes...

Mac: iMac with Yosemite.

iTunes: 12.3.2.35

Keyboard: French Apple extended keyboard.


texts: Can't shuffle playlists and then sync that shuffled playlist to my iPod. I was able to do this in the previous versions of itunes just by clicking a button. That button is not there anymore. How can I shuffle specific playlists and have that shuffled list transfer to my iPod in the shuffled order?


texts: Unable to edit author/category for some books in iBook

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I know metadata can be edited at the list view, like this:

The thing is, for some files this works. However, for others, when I quit iBook, open it again, the author and category comes back again. Looks like the metadata never really makes to the server, and when I open iBook again, it syncs with server, and reads back the metadata.

Any one experienced the same thing? And any workaround?


texts: Installing Windows 7 without DVD/Flash Drive - step 6: no permission?

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I am following this guide, but cannot add the virtual hard disk at step 6. I get a 'No permission' pop-up.

How do I grant myself permission?


texts: Why are the network resources empty in Safari timelines, even if resources are there?

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Every single page I go to, the Timelines->NetworkRequests tab shows lots of requests and their timing (top half of the pane), but the bottom half is empty, making it impossible for me to see what requests were made.

I know this is something simple I am overlooking, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out what it is.

Here is an image from loading Wikipedia:


texts: Is there an OS X equivalent to iOS's Remote App?

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Is there some equivalent to Apple's (iOS) Remote App for the desktop (running OS X)? I.e. some – preferably small – application to control an iTunes instance which is running on another Mac? Maybe some menu extra?

I know there are several "iTunes controllers" (like Coversutra). But does any of them support a remotely running iTunes?

(N.B.: I'm aware of e.g. Home Sharing, but I want the remote Mac to keep running and output the music, not the controlling one. I'm also aware of Screen Sharing, but I'm looking for a quicker/easier solution.)


texts: What makes a "Special folder" - a bundle in the finder

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I know applications are just folder bundles - I assume specifically formatted, and some metadata. I did a copy of my iPhoto Library from another disk - at first it was just another folder, then once I ran iPhoto, it became special again.

What makes a folder a bundle? and how do i restore that metadata on a disk recovery?


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This icon just appeared on my macbook menu bar. The command + drag does not work.

What is this icon for? How do I delete it?


texts: Does Yosemite support the old Mail view?


texts:
I have a huge problem. I just exchanged the SSD of my MacBook Pro. I made a backup just before - everything worked fine.
Now I wanted to restore my Mac from the backup - Problem: apparently the Backup Volume is encrypted with FileVault - which I did not know before. Now I don't remember this password and therefore can not access or restore data from my Backup Volume.

Does anyone have an Idea how to access my Backup?

I wonder why my Mac never asked me for a FileVault Password when either logging in or when running a backup the Volume via Time Machine.


texts: How do I resize icons in Lion's finder. So for example if I wanted to resize the icons in the application folder. In Snow leopard, there used to be a slider at the bottom of the finder page, but thats gone in Lion.


texts: Jailbreak iPad 3 ("the new iPad") iOS 9.1

texts: Is it possible to jailbreak iOS 9.1 on an iPad 3, WiFi model? If not, I also have the possibility to update to iOS 9.3.5.


texts: Why might a MacBook not detect an Apple A1152 Mighty Mouse?

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It seemed that the USB connection was OK.

Is there any way to solve this problem?


texts: Dual Boot Catalina and Pop!-OS with Data-Sharing Partition

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I want to dual boot both an up-to-date version of macOS and an up-to-date version of Pop!-OS on my MacBook Pro 2016 without T2 chip. I am currently running macOS Catalina. Can somebody comment on the following plan I have?

Create two new partitions, one for Pop!-OS and one for shared data
Move OS-agnostic stuff from my current macOS home directory to the data partition (Including media etc. but also rc-files and configuration files)
Install Pop!-OS on the other partition
Symlink files from the data partition to both OS'

Would this be feasible in theory? Also I wondered about some details:

Which format should I use for the data partition? HFS+?
How do I replace the system-generated hard-copy configuration files (e.g. .bashrc) with the sym-linked ones? I.e. in which order should I delete/rename the files to avoid trouble?
Will macOS Big Sur introduce breaking changes to this set-up?

Thank you!


texts: New Microsoft Remote Desktop App (version 8) - 'the requested session access is denied'

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The newest Microsoft Remote Desktop app (v 8.0.24255) refuses to connect to a terminal server I use - username and password are accepted but then the server reports 'The requested session access is denied'.

Whereas the old Remote Desktop app I was using (v 2.1.1) still works just fine...

Any ideas on how to find the problem?


texts: Disk not formatted for GUID Partition. Use Disk Utility to change the partition scheme

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I have a 16GB USB flash drive and I am trying to Reinstall macOS Sierra onto to it.
It keeps telling me it is partitioned for GUID, when I go select GUID Partition Map Scheme. On a hunch I use Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as Format. Then I click on Erase and the process fails with nothing in details except couldnt open device, operation failed.
When I go into my terminal and type: diskutil list:
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#:   TYPE NAME    SIZE  IDENTIFIER
0:   FDisk_partition_scheme  *15.4 GB disk2
1:   Apple_HFS Untitled       15.4 GB disk2s1

Anybody know how to get past this roadblock and get Sierra installed on my USB drive?


texts: Set video/audio quality when recording using Command+Shift+5

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I'm using the combination of command+shift+5 to record both audio and screen video on my computer. The following drawing shows the excact configuration I'm using :

However, it seems like there's no option to set the quality and the default is probably the highest for my display which is 15.4-inch (2880 x 1800) .

That's why I get huge files for each minute of recording and I basically working on code presentation so the visual quality is not that important.

Perhaps there's a way to reduce video quality, I couldn't find any (see attached snapshot - the options tab doesn't include this configuration)

Thanks !


texts: Ctrl key being capture by some unknown app

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Out of the sudden, my left Control key has been bound to another app (or working as another shortcut) so when for example I try to hit ctrl+c to kill an app in iterm, I get the Dock popped up and I see the 'No available windows` in the middle of my screen (as it is something related to Mission Control, but I am not certain)
I have clicked on Restore Defaults on all the Keyboard categories, but still the same.
This is pretty frustrating cause it makes my key unusable in many situations (e.g. vim or trying to hit ctrl+c as I mentioned)
Any suggestions?


texts: iPhone 6 - no photos/videos in "Recently Deleted" Album but storage settings displaying that I have over 19GB of photos in "Recently Deleted" Album

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As mentioned in the title, I have over 19gb of storage taken up according to the iPhone Storage settings, as shown:

However, I have already deleted all my photos and videos in the "Recently Deleted" Album as shown:

I also tried to click "Empty" beside the "Recently Deleted" Album under the iPhone Storage settings, a loading circle appears but eventually nothing happens:

I have tried connecting my phone to my computer and the only photos remaining are the ones I did not delete. I could not find any traces of deleted photos in any folders.

My iPhone 6 is updated to the latest 12.4 iOS, although I believe the issue has already persisted for a few years, but I didn't give any thought to it until now.

Any advice or solutions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.


texts: How can I prevent a recording from being inadvertently stopped?

texts: After I hit Record on my iPhone for video or audio recordings, the Stop button is too easily triggered accidentally, e.g. by the wind or physical matter (dust, paper) that manages to touch the phone screen. How can I force the phone to require more than a touch (e.g. a password) to stop or pause a recording?


texts: How to re-enable sounds for calendar notifications?

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I have my work Exchange account syncing with the default Mac OS Calendar app. Until recently, this worked very well and I would get notifications (with sound) for forthcoming events.

For the last week or so, the notification sound has vanished. I still get pop-up notifications at the right time, but no sound.

My exchange account presents three calendars: "Calendar", "Birthdays" and "United Kingdom holidays". Interestingly, the holidays calendar showed an alert today and there was a sound! So the problem is limited to my 'Calendar' Exchange calendar.

Here's what I've tried so far:

I've looked in Notifications in System Preferences and ensured Calendar has "Play sound for notifications" enabled. I've also tried disabling and re-enabling this, to no avail.
I've looked in Sound in System Preferences and ensured alert volume is set appropriately. I've also got "Play sound effects through" set to MacBook Speakers.
Based on an answer below, I've tried removing the Exchange account from my Mac and re-adding it. No change.
I'm running Catalina 10.15.13 on a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports).

Here are the alert settings within Calendar:

Any suggestions for how to resolve this?


texts: How to simulate location on Safari on OS X

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I am developer and I'm trying to simulate a different location other than my own on Safari on OS X (El Capitan). How do I do that?

EDIT: This is not a duplicate of how might one spoof geographic location on a desktop Mac. That question is about spoofing the location system-wide. I am not trying to (and actually don't want to) spoof my location system-wide, I just want to change it for Safari only.


texts: ffmpeg arguments used for converting to mp4

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I have been suggested two different ffmpeg commands for converting an mkv file to an mp4 while just re-encoding the audio (to aac) and leaving the video portion as is. Here are the two commands:

ffmpeg -loglevel panic -i source.mkv -vcodec copy -c:a aac -strict -2 -ab 160k -ac 2 -ar 48k target.mp4
ffmpeg -i source.mkv -c:v copy -c:a aac -b:a 384k -strict -2 target.mp4

Could someone please explain the difference? OK, more precisely, I am curious about the things the first command does in addition to what the second one does. Is it necessary to use a -log level panic argument? What happens if it's omitted?

I understand the second command thoroughly. But the additional arguments in the first one are confusing me and I didn't find much help in the ffmpeg documentation either. In particular, I want to understand what the -ac, -ar, and -ab arguments accomplish and why are they not used in the second command.


texts: Sudo askpass not working on macOS Sierra

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I use askpass to run commands as root. In file pass.txt I have this written:

#!/bin/bash
echo mypassword

And then I run it like this:

export SUDO_ASKPASS=pass.txt ; SUDO_ASKPASS=pass.txt ; sudo -Ak true

Before Sierra this worked just fine, but now I get an error:

sudo: unknown defaults entry `askpass'

But askpass actually works. BTW, I get this error every time I run sudo. That's the end of shudders file after exports:

Defaults:ALL askpass=/Users/username/pass.txt

How to fix this?


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This must be my undeveloped mind, but browsing through Apple's iPod Touch website, I could not find the capacity (in time) for video and audio recordings on the 8GB and 32GB models (not in Features neither in Tech Specs).

I am debating which one to keep after buying the two at a discounted price. Have not opened it yet, so I can return one of them.

So, can someone point me to the place of this top-secret information?

UPDATE: To clarify the question - I am interested in the HD video recorded with the built-in camera. The intention is to replace the old P&S camera with this device. Thought that, if not Apple, maybe current users comment on that. A rough estimate is enough. Don't need a detailed to-the-last-byte calculation.


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I recently bought a 4K monitor and love the screen real estate. But the standard fonts are becoming a bit too small to read. So I plan on writing a script in Keyboard Maestro to change the default PageZoom in Safari to 125% when I press a button.

I have figured out that I can set the pagezoom with this command in the Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari DefaultPageZoom  "1.25"

This works because defaults read com.apple.Safari DefaultPageZoom reports the set value back. AND the Safari preferences also show the value set.

But page in Safari doesn't change. However, when I change the PageZoom in the Preferences manually the page DOES change.
I've tried reloading the page and changing the window size after setting the PageZoom in the Terminal, but nothing works.

What do I need to do to make the defaults write setting become active?

I don't want to use the CMD+ and CMD- keys all the time.

In the end I want Keyboard Maestro to trigger this script when I plug in a device that signals I'm using this monitor.


texts: .mobileconfig profile creation for IKEv2 VPN connection

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I've created a .mobileconfig profile using Apple Configurator 2 to set up a IKEv2 VPN profile on macOS and iOS devices. (I need to use the configurator since it allows to set all the required settings for my connection, such as encryption level. You can't set the same settings via VPN Settings on Mac).
When adding this profile to macOS (Catalina 10.15.6), it asks for username and password for the authentication (which is normal procedure). If I enter the login details incorrectly at this stage, I will see "User authentication failed" while trying to connect to the VPN. Then I change the password to the correct one in Network > my VPN connection > Authentication Settings.
Issue: even though I change password to the correct one and click Apply, it still shows "User authentication failed" and only profile recreation helps. So basically, in some way the stored credentials get corrupted on any change of credentials in Network profiles manager.
Could someone suggest what is the solution here?


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I made a screen recording, but then accidentally left it recording overnight for an extra 6 hours. In total I think it’s around 9 hours - and the file has hit 15GB.

Luckily it managed to save to the desktop, but I’m struggling to open it to trim it down.

Finder QuickLook just becomes unresponsive and has to be force quit. QuickTime simply doesn’t open it (or at least hasn’t - but I’m pretty sure it’s not trying because it’s barely using any system resources).

I have iMovie installed but I’ve no idea how it will cope with a 15GB file - will it even be imported in a sensible amount of time?

I’m thinking the best way it to split the file into ~30 smaller files. I could then reassemble the desired ones.

Equally I’m fairly confident of where the useful content ends - around the 2:30 mark. I could calculate it more accurately if needed.

Could I do either of these things with a tool which doesn’t load the entire video into memory? I’ve used ffmpeg on Ubuntu before but I do not know if it can do something like this.


texts: How much space do "Shared Streams" take up on an iOS device?

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In iOS 6 and 7 there's a section in the Photos app that allows you to share photos with other people and other people to share photos with you.

When others share with me, are the photos copied to my harddrive? Or do they purely reside in the cloud?
If I add the same photo to two different streams, will it duplicate the amount of space used on my phone? Or does Apple intelligently make a reference link instead of a copy?


texts: Why is Pages autocompleting / autocorrecting entries in my table? Why is this unwanted feature stealing my tab key?

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I am using Pages 6.2 on macOS 10.12.5. Within Pages settings, Auto-Correction > Correct Spelling Automatically is disabled. I unchecked the Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Check Spelling While Typing menu item. I unchecked the Edit > Substitutions > Text Replacement menu item. Within System Preferences, Keyboard > Text > Correct spelling automatically is disabled. Within Pages, if I select my document's table, open the Format pane on the right, and select Table, I don't see any options regarding spelling correction or autocompletion.

My Pages document consists of a table, with column A consisting of a list of languages, and columns B-K containing translations of the cardinal numbers zero through nine in that row's language. So this is a multi-lingual document, and any suggestions for spelling correction or text substitution are likely to be wrong, and are unwanted.

Let's say I go to row 8 (8A contains "Czech"), column B, and type zer, assuming that this is the exact text that I want to appear there. I see a popup below this cell containing two values: "zéro", "zero". I want neither of these. What key do I press to dismiss the popup? If I press Esc, sometimes the cell is cleared and sometimes my entered text remains as intended. If I press tab, instead of advancing to the next cell, a selection row appears within the unwanted completion suggestions popup. I can click on the next cell (8C), however I should be able to complete my entry without using the mouse. After all, I disabled "Correct spelling automatically" in both applicable locations.

I've found that I can press the right arrow key, then tab, to advance to the next cell without any autocompletion. However, this seems like more work than necessary given that I've disabled all autocomplete options that I can find. Since I am editing over 550 cells in this document alone, I want to do this as efficiently as possible.

I also did a quick test of Numbers 4.2, and I experience the same problem with unwanted completion suggestions appearing in a popup below the cell that must be interacted with before the Tab key will advance to the next cell.


texts: What is the purpose of the bottommost screw holding the IPhone 5 LCD shield plate?

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While being sold bottom quality LCD replacements for my iPhone 5 and subsequently returning them six times I lost one of the screws that holds the LCD shield plate in place. It's the one closest to the home button on the back of the LCD assembly.

Since I continue to have issues with the digitizer / touch screen, I wanted to check whether that screw is somehow integral to the touch capabilities of the screen.

Some issues I'm having:

No input is registered if I put the phone on a surface and only touch the screen, i.e. without grounding myself by touching the metal case or frame. Plugged in earphones or charge cable works as a substitute to allow input.
A slightly damp finger makes every scrollview jump around like crazy and makes phantom taps on other parts of the screen.
Trying to scroll with one finger often results in zooming instead, i.e. pinch gestures.

The LCDs were delivered without any sponges on the plugs of the wires, unlike the official screen assembly. Not sure if that's relevant at all.


texts: Can I insert the page number of a specified bookmark into a Pages document?

texts:
In Pages (version 7), I can create a Bookmark and I can insert a link to a Bookmark. When linking to a Bookmark, the page number the Bookmark is on is visible. (That is, Pages is aware of what page number the Bookmark is on.)

Separately, I can also insert the current page number and it will automatically update when I add content at the beginning of the document and cause that page number to go to a different page.

Is there a way that I can insert a reference to a Bookmark's page number such that it will automatically update when I add content at the beginning of the document and cause the Bookmark to go to a different page? In the screenshot above, I'd like it to say (page 4) instead of (page #), and for 4 to auto-update as the Bookmark moves around the document.


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I am an administrator to my MBP, and should be able to turn on fast user switching to let more than one user stay logged in at the same time, right? But this is what I get:

What I'm missing?
$ sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.15.7
BuildVersion:   19H512


texts: What non-essential directories can I exclude from TimeMachine?

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I want to have the most # of backups of my actual files, not of temporary files, and easily restorable data.

What can I exclude from a Time Machine backup to get the most efficient backups?

(I use VMs, so tips for Parallels, Virtual Box, etc, are welcome)

In the sample below, I blocked

Backups of all Drive sync technology (Google Drive, One Drive, etc)
Xamarin project output (in the Simulator).  All this is stale cached data
iOS emulators with Xcode.
Stuff in the MacOS app store
Stuff in the iTunes App Store
Backups of my iPhone devices


texts: Remote connection to iMac with resolution and session problem

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I have an iMac 27" and when I am not at home, I want to be remotely connected to it using a Lenovo with a 13" screen. I faced two problems with the classic VNC connection:

The first problem is that I cannot connect into my session which already opened. The remote connection opens a new session even if a session is opened on the Mac and I have no access to the program which I have let opened on the already open (on the Mac) session.
The second problem relates to the screen resolution. Because of the 27" to 13", I cannot have the complete view on the windows. I am looking for a way to adapt the resolution of the remote connection to view the complete iMac desktop on my 13" PC.

Do you have any idea on how to resolve both problems ?


texts: Problems after deleting Bootcamp/little partition left

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I use 2014 model iMac and last year I decided to bootcamp it. After a year I start having hard drive usage issues therefore I uninstalled my bootcamp. But the program couldn't uninstall it properly therefore it left empty space. The disk was deleted somehow. I tried to recover the space with using Disk Utility but now when I use diskutil list I get

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            999.9 GB   disk0s1

I would like to bootcamp my iMac again but the bootcamp program gives the error:

  The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.

How can I set my Macintosh disk to use the full capacity (1TB)?

I tried using internet recovery but I ended up getting -2002F errors. ( even though I changed my DNS).

Also when I press alt while starting the iMac I still can see the Windows Disk even though i deleted it.

Thank you for your attention.

(here is an image of disk utility)


texts: How can I modify Boot Camp Assistant so it can use bootable USB?

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I own a 2011 21,5" iMac, and I need to install Windows to run some software that is Windows only.

I have done this in the past by altering Bootcamp assistent so it can use bootable USB drives, which is not natively supported on the 2011 iMac. (as explained here)

Now lately I reinstalled my iMac, so I wanted to modify Boot Camp again. As it turns out Apple 'fixed' this workaround by making bootcamps internal files not editable anymore.

So after I realized I couldn't use a USB drive, I tried using a bootable DVD, this didn't work, since Boot Camp gave me the message that "There is no bootable USB drive installed".
In other words, Boot camp thinks it needs a bootable usb drive, when those aren't supported on my model.

So my question; does anyone know a way to work around this 'fix'?


texts: iTunes: subscribe to a podcast without downloading it?

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I listen to podcasts on iTunes (on OS X 10.11.3 BTW).  There, I said it.  I want to make a list of podcast channels I like so I can find them easily and quickly, but I want to stream them, not download them.  Apparently if I subscribe to a channel iTunes will try to download stuff -- I do not want this to happen.  If I am not online I will not listen to podcasts.

Any idea on how to achieve this?  I tried and failed, and could not goole an answer.

In case it is not 100% clear, I am using a Mac, not a phone.


texts: What are all the OS X special user folders?

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I know OS X has a ~/Sites folder with its own icon for keeping your websites, and it isn't there by default, you have to create it.

Are there more folders similar to this one that receive special icons after creation?


texts: OS X Server 3.0 (Mavericks) Wiki / WebSites / Xcode

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I have a domain name registered called mydomain.com. I have a static IP address from my ISP. I set the dns information on GoDaddy for my domain as follows to point to my ISP:

mydomain.com A record 65.0.0.1
vpn.mydomain.com A record 65.0.0.1
www.mydomain.com CNAME mydomain.com (Not sure if this is needed)

At home, I have an AirPort Extreme with VPN and Mail opened up to pass through (port forwarding) to my Mac Mini running Server 3. My Mac Mini host name is server.mydomain.com.

I have DNS, File Sharing, Open Directory, Profile Manager, VPN, Wiki, Websites, Mail, and Xcode services running on the server.

On my Mac Mini Server I enabled Xcode and Wiki and disabled Websites, I open Safari, and if I go to mydomain.com I can see the Xcode page and if I click the Wiki link, it takes me to mydomain.com/wiki. However, if I enable Websites, neither the Xcode or wiki pages work anymore.

How can I set it up so that going to mydomain.com points to Websites folder. Going to mydomain.com/wiki OR if I can't have that, I wouldn't mind wiki.mydomain.com instead to display the wiki page. Same with Xcode (i.e. Xcode.mydomain.com)?

Note: I didn't port forward Xcode, wiki, or websites in the Airport Extreme because I want it only accessible when connected over VPN.

Edit: I can get Websites and Wiki to work together, but turning on Xcode changes the way mydomain.com is accessed. Xcode should be accessed by going to domain.com/xcode however domain.com still shows the same output as /xcode. If I turn Xcode off domain.com/ takes me to my html page and domain.com/wiki shows me the wiki page.

Thanks!


texts: Possible to send an image from Preview app to Adobe Photoshop?

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I would like to have a button or configurable keyboard shortcut to send the image in active Preview app to Adobe Photoshop.

It will also be useful if I can specify which version of Photoshop to open with.

Does anyone know how?

Using OS X Mountain Lion.


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Possible Duplicate:
  Is there a way to make my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard hibernate with a keyboard shortcut?

I am using mac os x snow leopard. Is there a way to hibernate?
also any keyboard shortcut?


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I have a MacBook Air 11 (mid 2013), with OS X 10.8.5, and I want to install Homebrew, so I go to the site and copy and paste the following code in my terminal:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

The thing is, I get the following error:

Question: What can I do to fix it?


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I want to transfer files between two late 2016 MacBook Pros. I have a USB-C data cable from my external USB-C hard drive.

Can I connect the Macs using that USB-C data cable to transfer files?
Or do I need to put one of the Macs in target disk mode?


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I recently switched from using an Ubuntu box for the last 7 years to a Mac. I have read other posts like Switching from Ubuntu to OS X and I'm lost and What is the difference between iTerm2 and Terminal?

Why don't iTerm2 and Terminal complete the arguments for a command?

Eg. If I do gi+Tab, it autocompletes this word to git which is good. When I add a space and try remo+Tab, why don't I get it autocompleted to remote like in Ubuntu. I have to type everything manually after the word git. Same for other commands.

Am I doing something wrong, or missing something?

(Please note that I am not talking about the cmd + ; shortcut which autocompletes previously typed entries in iTerm2.)