texts: Are OS X installs specific to a machine type?

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When OS X is installed, does the installer:

write only generic files (that will work on any machine supported by that OS), or
customise the installation to a specific machine type in any way?  (If so, presumably this is based on the machine that the installer is running on?)

In the past, I have assumed that the answer is "OS X installs are generic", and used various tricks based on that assumption.  But I've only ever done this in various temporary workarounds, because I don't really trust that assumption.

If I had a trustworthy (so preferably referenced) answer "OS X installs are generic", here are some examples of what I could do:

Boot a Mac Pro using the software on a MacBook Pro (ie laptop is in target disk mode, connected to desktop via FireWire, I hold down alt when booting the desktop and choose the laptop drive).
Run an installer on one machine, writing to a hard drive that I intend to install in a different machine.
Create an installation in a virtual machine (via VirtualBox etc), then write it to a standard volume for use in a physical machine, or vice-versa.
etc

To try and limit the question:

Considering Intel only: let's ignore older PPC hardware
Let's say this is about 10.8 onwards
Apple hardware only: I'm not asking about Hackintosh
I understand that some applications may be confused in various ways by a change in the underlying hardware environment, but I'm just wondering about the OS itself here.


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When I run the command diskutil list, I get the following output:

I was shocked to see that there was a partition on my internal drive called Linux Filesystem. I would appreciate it if someone could inform me as to what both the Linux Filesystem volume is doing on disk0 and what the VM volume is on disk1.

For some clarification: I did used to have a VirtualBox machine on my Mac running Linux but I thought that everything was correctly uninstalled. Therefore, I would like to remove any possible remnants which have persisted.

Even if these are the result of the VirtualBox, I do not understand how the Linux Filesystem volume has been integrated into disk0; surely it should've been contained by VirtualBox?


texts: Will video and photo editing wear out a 2015 macbook pro's SSD significantly?

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I plan on buying the latest 2015 13" Macbook pro while travelling for video and photo editing (among other activities such as programming). The SSD size will probably be 256 or 512gb along with a 2TB WD passport external I own.

Will transferring a large amount of video clips to the SSD and deleting after completion regularly wear out my Macbook pro's lifetime significantly or only by an unnoticeable time?


texts: Is there something like "did you forget to attach a file" in Apple Mail?

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In Thunderbird there is something like "are you sure you did not forget to attach a file" if you mentioned words such as "attached/in the attachment/ attach" and many more (could be set default on tb).

Is there something similar for the Apple mail on OS X 10.9 Mavericks or for iPhone (iOS 6)?


texts: Can you use iMac Retina 5K as external monitor for a MacBook Pro?

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I remember when thunderbolt came out there was a lot of discussion of how it had interesting magical bi-directional capabilities.

Does that mean there is a way to use an iMac Retina 5K as an external, secondary monitor for a recent MacBook Pro?


texts: Macbook Pro 2016 unable to restart due to Google Chrome

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I just received a 2016 Macbook Pro 15 touch running Sierra and after installing a bunch of apps and restarting I received the error message

Your Mac hasn't restarted because "Google Chrome" failed to quit. To continue restarting, quit "Google Chrome".

Chrome then becomes unresponsive and all you can do is force quit. So I decided to do a clean install of Sierra and immediately install Chrome after setup completed to ensure it was Chrome and not some other app. However I get the exact same results. I can't see anything obvious related to this issue in the console either.

Is this likely a hardware issue? I assume it must since I would expect there to be hundreds of google search results for this error if everyone had the same issue.


texts: Keyboard shortcut for switching input language at login screen

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I've assigned a keyboard shortcut to switch between input languages:

But this shortcut doesn't work at the login screen. So when I resume from sleep, I have to use the mouse to change input language.

Is there a way to switch between input languages via the keyboard from the logon screen?


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When recording a window in macOS Big Sur (with share screen in Zoom or in OBS) the window will go into "background mode" and start to refresh extremely slowly if it's completely obscured by another window. Is there any way to force macOS to repaint a window even though it's "hidden" behind another window?
I have found that leaving just the tiniest sliver of the window visible makes the window refresh as normal. But it would be helpful not having to micromanage the position of my windows.


texts: Clean up of calendar event before/during duplication

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This issue all stems from duplicating events from subscribed calendars to a single iCloud calendar I share with someone. When the origin calendar is well structured everything works as expected. My Applescript duplicates the event, and on subsequent runs the duplicate action even updates any changed info in the events (I assume it sees a matching UID and modifies the event instead of recreating it).

I currently have a calendar that sets it's UID to a full blown URL (it also originally had an issue with timezones I remedied, it's why the duplicate includes the start and end dates). This creates issues with duplicating, I believe, because the new events have their UID's have some characters stripped/replaced (/,:) and they stop matching up.

http://domain.com/folder/page.php?eventid=3675 becomes
http__domain_com_folder_page.php?eventid=3675

First thought was to use a regular expression via sed to create a more standard UID...

repeat with theEvent in theEventsList

    tell theEvent

        ...

        set oldUID to the uid

        set theCommandString to "echo \"" & oldUID & "\" | sed 's:http\\://\\([a-z.]*\\)/\\([a-z0-9]*\\)/[a-z.]*\\?\\([a-z]*\\)\\=\\([0-9]*\\):\\2-\\3\\4@\\1:'" as string

        set newUID to do shell script theCommandString

        ...

    end tell

end repeat

The result is, folder-eventid3675@domain.com. But now I'm stuck. Duplicate, nor make, seems to want to let me create a new event where I include uid in the properties.

make new event at end of calendar sportsCalendar with properties {start date:startTime, end date:endTime, uid:newUID, url:passURL, description:passDescription, summary:passSummary, location:passLocation}

-

duplicate theEvent to end of calendar sportsCalendar with properties {start date:startTime, end date:endTime, uid:newUID}

Both give AppleEvent handler failed, error -10000. At this point I've tried so many variations I'm kinda lost.

At one point I tried setting the original UID to my generated one. And that resulted in a different error, -10006...

Calendar got an error: Can’t set uid of event to "folder-eventid3675@domain.com".

I can live without some of this stuff, but at this point I'm really just curious what I'm doing wrong. Is there any way to fix the UID and duplicate an event from one calendar to another? Thanks!

Edit:
Updating the sed command to be a little cleaner. Sadly it still requires double escaping for a bunch of pieces.
Also adding a bit more code to show how things are constructed.


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I'm a developer (but not a network guy) and I often need my MacBook Pro and PC working together to do mobile apps coding/debugging.

As of late, on my home network, my Mac has started to get an IP address on the wrong net (192.168.0.X). The Mac and PC is connected to the same switch but the PC gets IP 192.168.2.X, which is correct. I've tried specifying the router on the Mac as 192.168.2.1 but it still gets a 192.168.0.X address.

I'm out of ideas and would love any hints at what might be going on (and how to correct it).


texts: Exchange contacts not syncing with iPhone 5

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All my contacts have disappeared from my iPhone 5. I have tried to delete end reinstall my exchange account but that did not help. Also I have tried resetting network settings and turning syncing contacts with iCloud off.

My mail and calendar are syncing just fine.

Solutions please?


texts: How can I have more than 16 keyboard shortcuts for Spaces (i.e., Mission Control)

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Okay, so I have:

One external display connected to my Mac
Twenty Spaces (i.e., Mission Control), with ten Spaces on each display
My keyboard shortcuts are [Ctrl + X] for the left-hand display, and [Ctrl + Alt + X] for the right-hand.
My Mission Control settings are Displays have separate Spaces = ON

Fine and good. However, the keyboard shortcuts only go up to "Switch to Desktop 16." (i.e., System Preferences >> Keyboard >> Shortcuts >> Mission Control)

I have twenty desktops, but the keyboard shortcuts only go up to sixteen. How can I fix this?


texts: OS X Catalina seems to shut down during sleep

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I run an MBP 13-inch Mid-2012, with an SSD I installed and running OS X Catalina 10.15.4

I notice that sometimes when it goes to sleep it shuts down if it isn't plugged in (I have to hit the power up when I use it again) and today it was plugged in, but when I touched he keyboard instead of waking from sleep as usual it was at the login screen and was telling me the computer shut down because of a problem.

This was the report the computer generated:

Sleep Wake failure in EFI

Failure code:: 0xffffffff 0x0000001f

Please IGNORE the below stackshot

================================================================
Date/Time:        2020-05-13 02:45:21 -0400
OS Version:       ??? ??? (Build ???)
Architecture:     x86_64
Report Version:   29

Data Source:      Stackshots
Shared Cache:     0x2f3e000 F04A453C-3C9D-3D12-B86E-C514F0DE0B14

Event:            Sleep Wake Failure
Duration:         0.00s
Steps:            1

Time Awake Since Boot: 12s

Process:          swd [376]
Architecture:     x86_64
Footprint:        380 KB
Start time:       2020-05-13 02:45:21 -0400
End time:         2020-05-13 02:45:21 -0400
Num samples:      1 (1)

  Thread 0x84f    1 sample (1)    priority 4 (base 4)
  <thread QoS background (requested background), thread darwinbg, process darwinbg, IO tier 2>
  1  start + 1 (libdyld.dylib + 109769) [0x7fff6a16ecc9] 1
    1  ??? [0x10ccb6454] 1
      1  ??? [0x10ccb61dd] 1
        1  __stack_snapshot_with_config + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib + 135862) [0x7fff6a2d02b6] 1
         *1  ??? [0xffffff80002c8206] 1
           *1  ??? [0xffffff80009875f7] 1
             *1  ??? [0xffffff80008a0001] 1
               *1  ??? [0xffffff80002eb9e7] (running) 1

  Binary Images:
        0x7fff6a154000 -
0x7fff6a18afff  libdyld.dylib (750.5)
<D2A07EF5-A64B-3692-BE13-89DAA2EC5E80>  /usr/lib/system/libdyld.dylib
0x7fff6a2af000 -
0x7fff6a2dbfff  libsystem_kernel.dylib (6153.101.6) <E76440E1-D1E8-3D9A-8B47-D01F554FF1C4>  /usr/lib/system/libsystem_kernel.dylib

Model: MacBookPro9,2, BootROM 231.0.0.0.0, 2 processors, Dual-Core Intel Core i5, 2.5 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 2.2f44

Graphics: kHW_IntelHD4000Item, Intel HD Graphics 4000, spdisplays_builtin

Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x802C, 0x384B54463531323634485A2D314736453220

Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x802C, 0x384B54463531323634485A2D314736453220

AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xF5), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.21.190.33 AirPortDriverBrcm4360-1601.1)

Bluetooth: Version 7.0.4f6, 3 services, 18 devices, 1 incoming serial ports

Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1

Serial ATA Device: WDC  WDS100T2B0A-00SM50, 1 TB

Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVDRW  GS41N

USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus

USB Device: Hub

USB Device: Hub

USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

USB Device: IR Receiver

USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub

USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller

USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus

USB Device: Hub

USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

USB Device: USB 3.0 Bus

Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc., 25.1

Any ideas as to what's going on? This seemed to only start happening recently. Should I reset the SMC? NVRAM?

I did as @Allan suggested in comments and got this:

Timestamp               Ty Process[PID:TID]
2020-05-14 04:45:06.022 Df kernel[0:a9] (AppleSMC) Previous shutdown cause: -104

So does this mean reset SMC?

ETA II : Reset SMC, problem seems to be solved, though my FileVault was disabled.


texts: Shortcut to Clear History and Website Data

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Clear History and Website Data for Safari is deeply hidden in Settings. Tap, tap, tap.

With the new Shortcuts App in iOS 13 can I create a shortcut to clear history?


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In Numbers, when I enter 0.981, it gets automatically formatted as 1. How can I increase the precision?

When I double click on the cell I can see 0.981 but as soon as I deselect it, it goes back to 1.


texts: Scheduling Appointments for iPhone Repair at the Apple Store?

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In our IT department we have two iPhones 5 with cracked screens and we need to get them fixed.

I've gone to the Apple Store personally for my iPod Touch 4G, and I was required to schedule an appointment at the Genius Bar.

Does this work the same way for businesses?  I found the Apple Store in question on their website, and there's a space to Make a reservation at the Genius Bar, but there is also Access Member Services which I didn't see the last time I scheduled an appointment.

Does scheduling an appointment for a business differ from scheduling a personal appointment to fix an Apple device?  Also, can they fix it the same day, or ship the repaired product back to you?

I saw a video on replacing the screen of an iPhone 5 and it doesn't look that difficult provided you have the right tools.  However the screens we ordered online didn't work, so that is why we are reverting to the Apple Store.


texts: Sharing > Remote Management and network security

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I need to "rdp" into my mac mini on my local network from my windows machine, to do this I simply enabled Remote Management, downloaded VNC viewer on windows and then connected, viola!... Except it is not encrypted; which is fine because I trust my local network.

However, I need to understand, in doing this, am I opening up any security concerns? I do not assume so but wanted to be sure as I do not understand Apple's remote management features entirely. Basically, I want to be sure I am not exposing my local network through my mac mini when I enabled this feature.

Thank you.


texts: Is it bad to use MacBook pro with battery every day.

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Is it bad to use new MacBook Pro with battery every day? Or would it be better for the battery lifetime to use battery only one day a week?

The problem is that I don't think I can change battery if it gets bad...it's built into the MacBook I think.


texts: Missing Mail.app in Finder, but exists in /Applications folder

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I've not ever wanted to use the Mail app on my Mavericks machine, but recently I decided I'd give it a shot. However when I went to Applications in Finder, I couldn't see it. Nor was it in ~/Applications (which is completely empty anyway).

When I did a search from Terminal (find . -iname Mail.app), I discover that it is in the /Applications folder after all.
I checked the permissions, but have never seen the "@" before:

drwxr-xr-x@  3 XXXX   admin    102 21 Feb  2014 MacX Free AVI Video Converter.app/
drwxr-xr-x@  3 root   wheel    102 16 Jul  2014 Mail.app/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root   wheel    102 16 Jul  2014 Maps.app/

The only way I could seem to open it was via Terminal (open /Applications/Mail.app).

Does anyone have any idea on why it might not be visible in Finder?

Note: The app itself is running fine after opening from Terminal...
& I've since marked it as "Keep in Dock".

Many thanks,
Craig.


texts: Connecting a Dell XPS running Windows 8.1 to a Thunderbolt Display

texts: Can I connect a Dell XPS running Windows 8.1 to a Thunderbolt Display?  Based on reading other questions and answers on your site it seems that this is possible.  When I plug in the Thunderbolt to the Dell XPS via the Dells thunderbolt sized female input i get no response and am not able to "find" the Thunderbolt in the Display controls area.


texts: How can I get automator to select the correct already open document?

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I should start by mentioning that I have an app that opens on start-up which allows me to set customized shortcuts and gestures.
In my case:

command+alt+j maximizes the selected window.
command+alt+n maximizes the selected window on the left portion of the screen.
command+alt+m maximizes the selected window on the right portion of the screen.

The projects I work on have pdfs that need to be opened in groups.

So the automator would ideally perform all of this:

Desktop 1: pdf0 opened, maximized.
Create desktop 2, pdf1 opened and maximized to the left, pdf2 opened and maximized to the right.
etc...

The automator I have set up would work perfectly, except the bolded sections don't work as they should. Instead, pdf1 is opened and pushed to the left, then pdf2 is opened just fine, but the pdf1 is the one still "selected" and so pdf1 pushed from being maximized on the left to be maximized on the right... pdf2 still sits in the middle of nowhere, where it originally opened.

Is there anyway I can fix this?

Many thanks!


texts: Keeping a persistent external monitor configuration between home and office

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I would like to keep the spaces for my two external monitors in the same arrangement between two different environments, home and work. Currently, when I switch between the two, the spaces occupied by my side monitor move over to my main monitor and vice versa. The problem is illustrated below:

Is there a setting where I can set the monitor numbers so they are persistent between the two settings?


texts: Hidden directories named .bfglF[0-9]{4}T2L1 in my home directory: What are they for?

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I listed all the hidden directories in my home directory and noticed four with names like .bfglF7097T2L1. They all have the format .bfglF[0-9]{4}T2L1, store a file named .sysdata, and have "staff" for the group owner.
I've never noticed them before (and I do use Terminal and edit hidden files pretty frequently), even though some are dated as early as 2014. Googling around I can't find a single reference to these folders or what they are used for.
What are they for? I don't like keeping mystery folders but I'm scared to delete them.
PS I'm currently using macOS Mojave.


texts: How to load a subtitle file in VLC for Apple TV

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I just got a 4th generation Apple TV and finally I can watch videos on my NAS from Apple TV after I installed VLC.

But I have not found a way to load my own subtitle files. VLC for iPAD has this option, so I just want to know if this is available. The only option I found is to download from opensubtitle.org.

Thanks


texts: OSX 10.11.3 keeps crashing when logging in

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When logging in on my MBP (from stand by) it crashes in the middle of typing the password, and goes back to the user selection screen. When click on my user icon, and then typing in the password again, it works. However all apps are reset, of course. i.e the browser tabs are gone, and some programs lose the unsaved work etc.

This started happening since updating to 10.11.3 from 10.11.2. Is this a known thing? Is there a solution?

My Macbook Pro is the 2013 Retina edition, if that helps.


texts: Random disconnection from Wi-Fi Network, usually after inactivity

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My iPhone is jailbroken. Even though I'm not completely sure, I think it used to do this even before I installed the jailbreak.

Every time I pick up my iPhone after not using it for some time (sometimes just 10 minutes) and try to use some app that requires a connection or connect to a website on Safari, it will just hang there trying to load for a few seconds and then tell me it can't reach the server.

This is incredibly annoying because every time I want to connect I have to slide on the statusbar to open the Activator, click on the Wi-Fi button, wait till it's disabled and click again to enable it.
That's the only way to get it to reconnect.
Sometimes it will stop connecting even while it's being used, so if I'm downloading something that takes a long time to get through chances are high that it will stop downloading right in the middle.

I'd like to know a way to fix it not only because it's generally a pain in the ass, but also because I use the Remote app, and sometimes it randomly disconnects and I lose control over iTunes.

Now, I'm not completely sure about I think this might have never happened when I connected to other networks instead of my home one (which seems to be the only one to have this problem, but as I said I am not completely sure).

So yeah, does anybody know anything about this kind of issue? Might it be my iPhone's fault or my Wi-Fi router's? Also, I think this used to happen even before I updated to 4.3.3 (I had jailbreak version 4.1 before)

EDIT: I went into my router's settings and changed the wi-fi channel from 9 to 11. It doesn't seem to be disconnecting anymore. I'll wait some more and see if this is true.

EDIT 2: It didn't work. Same problem as before.

My router is a Cisco Linksys model no. WAG120N (Annex A)


texts: How to find the URLs accessed by iOS Apps?

texts: Sometimes I need to find the URLs that are accessed by iOS apps to block their Internet connection. In a web browser, I can get the URLs directly from the address panel. But how can I get the URLs accessed by apps?


texts: Is it possible to find or wipe a lost iPod Touch if Find My iPod was not previously activated?

texts: I lost my 3rd-generation iPod Touch. How can I find or remove the personal info on it? The password feature was disabled at the time I lost it. Is there a way to activate Find My iPod or wipe out the data on it?


texts: Can I stream with Airplay from my iPhone to a compatible 3rd Party device?

texts: It may be just me, but Apple's website seems to beat around the bush regarding the use of Airplay. I just need to know: Over wireless can I stream directly from my iPhone to an Airplay-Enabled 3rd party sound system (No AppleTV, no Airport Express, no Macbook)?


texts: MacBookPro A1278 WiFi refuses to turn back on after working for 10 min after restart

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I recently repaired this laptop from dead state (water damage) and it works fine now, except for the WiFi, which has intermittent problems. When I restart the Mac the WiFi works fine -- it connects without any issue -- then works for 10 minutes and turns off. When I try to turn on it, it refuses to, leaving a blank WiFi symbol. Once it even said that the hardware wasn't installed so I tried deleting the network interfaces.plist file, again when restarting it just worked for a little while.

Also I realized once it turns off sometimes when I delete the service and add it again it turns on again but doesn't show any WiFi networks in the list, searches but without finding anything. I am not sure what the issue is, the airport driver is in place I checked, I believe it's a software issue possibly even if it says WiFi failed, then why does it work for a little while? I am hoping that anyone can help me with this issue I am new to Macs and I was really happy the laptop worked after 2 years of disuse.

Edit: the laptop begun to freeze and crash just now.


texts: I want to increase the size of the virtual hard disk in my  Windows 10 VM using Parallel Desktop, but in configuration I see Reclaimable 0.0 KB. How can I solve this?


texts:
For some reason Adobe Bridge is opening on login, even though my Login Items shows that it is unchecked.

Without uninstalling Adobe Bridge, how can I stop it opening on login?


texts: Can't boot after enabling FileVault macOS Sierra

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I recently attempted to enable FileVault on macOS Sierra. I clicked the restart button, but on reboot rather than starting to encrypt the disk it simply displayed the prohibited sign. Now I can't boot to my Sierra drive in single-user mode either.

My Recovery paritions (one for Sierra and one from an older El Capitan install whose main partition no longer exists) are both displaying the same issue, no booting to recovery in general or in safe mode. I need help, I had a lot of code store on the Sierra partition, but I never made backups of some of it, and the backups I have are several weeks old. I don't have the recovery key, it is in a file on the now dysfunctional recovery disk, so I need to know, is there any way to salvage the install from a macOS install usb?

If so is Mavericks a new enough version to do so from? Can I simply decrypt my Sierra partition from inside of it or would I require at least a Sierra installer to do so, and if I can't decrypt it from an installer, would it be safe to install Mavericks over Sierra, or to a different disk, extract my personal/company projects from it and simply re-upgrade once I had it working again in general. Again I need help, and I would rather not have to wipe and lose all of that data.

UPDATE: It seems the Mavericks installer can't load drivers on boot, and I don't know of another way to access the filesystem. If it turned out the disk didn't get encrypted would it be possible to boot a live copy of linux, mount the disk and disable FileVault from there? If so how would I disable FileVault?


texts: Finder is using over 100% of CPU and makes entire system slow

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Every since upgrading to Lion my system has started to slow down, big time.  I realized that the Finder was using over 100% of the CPU, even when I am really not doing anything with it.  I restart it, and after a bit, it is back up to over 100%, making everything else crawl.

I have done a disk repair and permissions repair as suggested elsewhere but that does not seem to help.  Does anyone know how to fix this problem?


texts: What setup to use with in a famliy with 2 (or 3) Persons?

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I get all confused about all these different IDs I have and need to use the iOS devices/iTunes. I want to use our devices in the family the best way.

We are three people:

me -- currently the only one with a real Apple-ID
my wife -- currently without an Apple-ID, but with her own email
and my infant which does not have nor need her own ID at all, I think :-)

The devices we have are:

1 iPhone for myself, ("A" = phone husband)

1 PC+iTunes, which syncs my iPhone ("PC-A" = PC/iTunes husband)

1 iPhone for my wife ("B" = phone wife)

1 PC+iTunes, which syncs hers ("PC-B")

1 iPod Touch 1G for my infant, which she just starts to appreciate ("C")

I probably sync/fill this device with my PC+iTunes, too, for the time being.

Of course I want to use the Apps and Music to by available on all devices. And as far as I understand this is allowed by apple, as long as its up to 5 devices, which its is. I was able to do this at least while I gave my old phone to my wife while both devices were connected to the same Apple-ID -- but I don't think this how it is meant to be set-up, right?

Very important is that both iPhones are able to use their respective iMessage accounts, so I can recieve mine (and only mine), she hers (and only hers), and we can send iMessages to each other. During upgrading to iOS7 I managed to mess this up and we got all iMessages of each other ;-(. This is where I got confuded with iCloud-Account, iMessage-Adresses and Apple-ID, I think.

Not as much important would be to share a Todo-List and/or Calendar over the phones, so we can put items and appointments into our own calendar, which then appears on the others phone.

What IDs and Accounts do we need?

and what device should be connected to which accounts?
What accounts should be the same on which devices, if any?

I am correct that I can legally access the Apps/Music family-wide, right?

If the phones are connected to different Apple-IDs and synced with different iTunes', how can I use acquired Apps/Music on both?


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How to clear ALL items from Safari's reading list?
I have 100's of items in the list so do not want do do them individually.

I tried removing Bookmarks.plist in ~/Library/Safari/ which deletes the reading list on the mac locally but iCloud just adds them back, when syncing.


texts: After Cellphone repair shop - power button damged and cant switch back to bright mode

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I brought my iPhone7 to a cellphone repair shop to replace my lightning connector and exchange the battery.

Unfortunately after the replacement, my home button does not trigger anymore (interestingly, touchid still works). Also dark mode is enabled and I CANT set it back to bright mode. When I want to press on the bright mode button in the settings menue, it just does nothing! How weird is that!?

Screen works fine, although force touch also does not work anymore.

And now the strange thing: the guy tried to fix it - put in another lightning connector module, even tried another original display module (with integrated home button). Nothing fixed the home button!

He will give it a try tomorrow again.

Any ideas on what’s going on here?


texts: MacBook MagSafe 2 Charger only works in wall socket, and not in an extension cable

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Edit: OK, the weirdness factor for me has gone off the charts. Now, everything works in all situations I described below 10 mins later.

I tried everything I did below several times, you know, measure three times cut one and all that jazz.

I have three witness who saw the issue and agreed there's something up here.

Unless somehow three people have misconstrued events in the worst possible way, which is possible but improbable, then there must have been some kind of strange electrical anomaly.

Well, ohm my - short of an electrical fault in the building, I'm at a loss.

Still, if anybody has a clue why this might happen, please enlighten me.

Location: UK (so UK plug sockets)

A really odd problem I'm trying to figure out, the complete lack of sense it makes is doing my electrically-uninformed head in.

OK, so in our office, we've got a whole bunch of Macs. I use an iMac.

My colleague has a MacBook Air.

If I plug the charger for the MacBook air directly into the wall socket, it works fine.

However, if I then plug the same charger into a socket in a typical domestic 4-gang extension lead, it doesn't charge - with NOTHING else plugged into the wall outlet, or the 4-gang extension.

If I plug my monitor, or iMac into the same socket on the same extension cable plugged into the same wall socket, it works fine.

MacBook Air charge, negatory. Same socket, same extension, same wall socket.

Thinking there was something weird about the 4-gang extension cable, I found another more industrial looking reel-wound extension cable, again with four sockets. Same problem. Again, both my iMac and monitor work when in the same socket of the same extension cable, in the same wall outlet.

By this point, one could safely assume that the charger itself is a dud. Unfortunately, life is not so simple.

If I go across the room to where another colleague has their MacBook Pro working just fine and dandy, and plug in the same MacBook Air charger into the known-good socket in my other colleagues extension (his charger was not plugged directly into a wall-socket, but a 6-gang extension with every other plug socket in use), it all works just fine - as expected, no surprise there. In an extension cable, not the wall socket!

Further, I found another two MagSafe 2 chargers that also work in my other colleagues extension, and then plug them into one of the two extensions leads that I previous has zero luck with, the same problem occurs. No luck. Nada.

I've repeated the process with the other 2 MagSafe chargers, and I get the same problem.

They just don't work when plugged into some extension cables, but all work just fine when plugged into the same wall-socket the extensions were plugged into, or my other colleagues extension.

Again, my iMac (and my phone charger, and my monitor) does indeed work in the same socket of the same extension cable plugged into the same wall-socket.

I'm really confused about what is causing this, it seems clear that there's some difference in how the two extensions I've tried (and failed with) work, and my other colleagues extension, in which the MagSafe charger does work.

Surely there can't be two types of UK extension? There's only one type of wall-socket, as far as I know!

It is also clear that the iMac is not subject to the same problem, because that works fine in literally all sockets mentioned above.

If anybody knows why this is happening, I would absolutely love an explanation. I cannot accept this as a reality until I know why this happens! :-p

I've tried Googling, but if you even hint at "MacBook charger not working", you are absolutely inundated with irrelevant results.

Cheers


texts: How to convert a drive from the GPT format to the hybrid GPT/MBR format when using High Sierra (macOS 10.13.2)

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Previous versons of OS X and macOS automatically converted pure GPT drives to hybrid GPT/MBR format when the 2nd, 3rd, and/or 4th GPT partitions were formatted "MS DOS (FAT)" by the Disk Utility application or the diskutil command. I am not sure when this changed, but this no longer happens under High Sierra (macOS 10.13.2).

My Mac needs the hybrid format in order to BIOS boot the installed Windows operating system.

What is a procedure to manually convert the drive back to the hybrid format?

Below is the output from the command diskutil list disk0.

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         249.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                200.0 GB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data COMMON                  50.0 GB    disk0s4
   5:                  Apple_HFS Refind                  200.0 MB   disk0s5

The BOOTCAMP volume is NTFS formatted and the COMMON volume is FAT32 formatted.

  Note: The next two commands were executed after starting up from macOS Recovery.

Below is the output from the command gpt -r show /dev/disk0.

      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  487304680      2  GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  487714320        496
  487714816  390623232      3  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  878338048       2048
  878340096   97654784      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  975994880        696
  975995576     390616      5  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  976386192     176315
  976562507         32         Sec GPT table
  976562539          1         Sec GPT header

Below is the output from the command fdisk /dev/disk0.

Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 60788/255/63 [976562540 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  976562539] <Unknown ID>
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused


texts:
[Iphone 6s is what I am using]

I have already tried everything on this threat and nothing worked. Its the same problem, I open safari and whenever I try to click on the search bar on the top of the screen, the app crashes and send me back to the homepage. I am using google search engine and I have suggested search turned on and I have tried the following:

Clearing history

changing browsers

Checking for battery saving mode

tried without suggested search

restarted my iphone

None worked.....


texts: PowerPC applications no longer supported MacBook Lion

texts: I have an interactive DVD that came with one of my college course books.  I need to use this for some homework. When I try to open its says I can't run start projector because PowerPC applications are no longer supported.  I have Lion Version 7.1. What can I do? Can I download anything that will allow this to work?


texts: How does a misspelled city name get fixed in Maps?

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Apple has been misspelling the city "West Des Moines" as "West des Moines" (no capital "D") for quite some time now. I tried reporting this issue a number of times through the Maps application during the past few years, but it has still not been fixed.

How do I go about getting the city name fixed? Who does Apple get the data for its cities on its Maps application? I'm guessing Apple's map provider or providers need to fix this at their level.

The same issue occurs when I take a pic in West Des Moines. The Photos app lists the location as "West des Moines".


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Possible Duplicate:
  Permanently swapping option and command keys on a non-Apple keyboard

I have a Logitec K750 and it has the left Alt key closer to the space bar than the Windows Key (to be used as Command Key).  How can I remap the keys on JUST my Logitech keyboard and NOT on my built-in MacBook keyboard so that the Left Alt key functions like the Command Key, and the Left Command Key functions like the Left Alt key?  Is there a way to do this without having any apps running in the background, like some kind of key-map file I can edit rather than using a tool to do it? I'm a real resource-conscious user and don't want anything running in the background.

Thanks!


texts: How can I make iTerm2 *cd* into a directory by clicking on *ls* results?

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Would it be possible to make some sort of remap where command-clicking or highlighting some text in the terminal triggers iTerm2 to attempt to cd <text>? Would make life somewhat easier when navigating around complex directory trees with long names.

I found these instructions for making command-click trigger an action on the clicked filename or word. But after trying the Run command... option with cd \1 (for "cd to this clicked item"), that doesn't seem to work.

The answer below evidently does not work on remote logins; if anyone has a solution that does so, I will accept your answer.


texts: Cannot upgrade iPad Air 2 from iOS 9 to iOS 13

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I recently got hold of an iPad Air 2 that was sitting in a drawer. Had it recharged, seems to hold the charge. However it has iOS 9.3.1 and it says it cannot upgrade to 13 over the wire.

It requires iTunes and a computer. I also have a MacBook Pro (2014) running Mojave (10.14.6) so I fired up iTunes and connected the iPad via a USB cable.

The iTunes app sees the iPad and recommends upgrading to iOS 13. It asks me if I want backup. Nothing valuable on the iPad so I continue without backup. The iPad locks suddenly (no timeout). Then iTunes app (on Mac) asks me to type the unlock code on the iPad in order to continue. I do that and the iPad unlocks.

Then nothing happens. Neither on the Mac nor on the iPad.

Will provide any other information as necessary. Let me know in the comments.

What gives?


texts: How can I get all my open TextEdit documents back?

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I have a bad habit of having zillions of open documents in TextEdit, containing brief notes that I've made. Most of these are unsaved, so they have titles like "Untitled 67".

Usually this isn't a problem, because if my Macbook crashes and reboots, TextEdit restores its state, and the unsaved files are not lost. However, just now I rebooted on purpose, and TextEdit gave me a dialogue asking if I wanted to quit with unsaved changes. I clicked "save and quit" (or words to that effect) and my machine rebooted.

Unfortunately, upon re-opening TextEdit, there are no longer any documents open. The "Recent documents" menu has only ten entries, but I had well over fifty open before I quit.

How can I get these "untitled" files back? Ideally I would like to restore the state of TextEdit, so that they will still be open windows (I close them once the issue has been dealt with), but if I can at least get back the one called "Untitled 8" it would be a big help. Since I did click "save and quit" I would hope it would be saved somewhere, but where?

The answers to Unsaved Files in OS X Lion suggest that the unsaved files can be found in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data/Library/Autosave Information/. However, on my system that folder is empty. In any case, manually messing around in ~/Library doesn't seem like the right solution to this problem, and strikes me as a recipe for disaster. If I could find the autosave files I could copy them somewhere else, but then they wouldn't be unsaved files anymore, and it would all get a bit confusing. Given what most users would expect from "save and quit", I'm hoping there will be a more "official" way to get these documents back.

I'm using Mountain Lion if it makes any difference.


texts: Tab key sometimes fails to autocomplete in Go To Folder… sheets in Mountain Lion

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I like keyboard navigation, so I frequently use Shift-Command-G to Go to Folder…  when saving files. I type the first few letters of the directory I want then key Tab to complete the rest. This worked consistently on my old MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard.

On my new one with Mountain Lion:

tab completion works about half the time
the other half, keying Tab is ineffective.

I've observed this with Finder, and with Save dialogs in TextEdit and Firefox. I've carefully verified the spellings, and paths to the directories.

I've also seen it go from not working to working without my doing anything noteworthy in between (didn't reboot, quit and restart the program, or quit any other programs).

Added information:

The asynchronous progress indicator is not spinning while this happens.
This is not an issue only with ambiguous tab completions (when there's an ambiguous stem, it usually just autocompletes with the first match alphabetically.
This does not involve files on an external drive.
If I type in the full name of the directory I'm trying to autocomplete, the "Go to Folder" dialog will not go there (it acts as if I typed in a nonexistent folder name). However, I can still navigate there manually using the save dialog.
Nothing appears in the Console or the system error log at times when this error occurs.
At Graham Perrin's advice, I ran mddiagnostic, but I have no idea how to interpret the output beyond the system error log I already examined.


texts: Opening of encrypted sparse bundle in El Capitan very slow

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I have a 76GB encrypted sparse bundle on the rMBP SSD drive. Mounting it by double clicking it in Finder was pretty much immediate in Yosemite.

With El Capitan a popup appears with "Verifying 'name of sparse bundle'" and a progress bar. The progress bar shows no progress and after fifteen minutes or so the popup disappears and the password entry dialog box appears. After the password has been entered the sparse bundle is finally mounted.

When I run the Disk Utility First Aid function on the mounted volume it finishes in a few seconds and reports no errors. Console does not seem to show any related messages during the mounting.

Is there any reason why this popup appears and is there a way to circumvent it? Fifteen minutes to mount a volume is just not practical.


texts: Can I restore an iPhone backup and keep the original version of apps (and not download the latest available one from the AppStore)?

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I have an iPhone backup created while it was running iOS 10, and want to restore it onto a new iPhone which is running iOS 12. I'd like to keep the original versions of the iOS apps instead of upgrading them to the latest available from the App Store.

Is is possible?


texts: Remove Sender name ( not email address) from outgoing Mac Mail

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Instead of "from" showing (Name,Name)blablabla@hjgy.xxx  -  just show   blablabla@hjgy.xxx.

Only want my email address to show on certain outgoing emails from certain servives, ex. show Name and email address from Verizon service but (no name) email address only when sent from Gmail service.

Thanks


texts: Why is it not possible to use the "cut" command to manipulate a file in the Finder?

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On OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), I don't seem to be able to us the "Cut" command on a file in the Finder, like you can do in Windows Explorer on Microsoft Windows. (In Windows, once you select a file and "cut" it, you can then move to a different directory and "paste" the file to that location.)

The only way I can move a file using keyboard or contextual menu commands is to copy the file to another drive or location and then delete the old version of the file.

In the Finder's 'Edit' menu, 'Cut' is in the list but if a file itself is selected, it is always greyed out. 'Copy' is not. Why is this?


texts: Where does the Add Account information auto-populate from

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In System Preferences, under Mail, Contacts & Calendars if you add an account (Microsoft Exchange or GMail) a few of the fields are auto populated (ie Name and email address).

Where is this information pulled from?

I suspect it is from the information entered when you register the Mac on first boot. Can someone please confirm this?

Also, is there an easy way to modify this information so it doesn't autofill with the incorrect name/email?

Thanks.


texts: Bootcamp + Windows 8.1 + Apple Macbook 2011

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Recently I installed Windows 8.1 64bit on my Macbook Pro (2011). Everything went fine and I am able to duel boot using Bootcamp.

Only issue I am facing is poor performance in Windows. Its taking around 1-1.5 minute to boot, while another laptop of dell with i3 processor and 4gb ram is able to boot in 4-6 seconds in same OS.

My macbook configuration is not latest but it with 2nd gen core i5 and 4 GB ram it should be faster (OS X boots in 13-16 seconds).

Also when running Visual Studio in Windows noticed that my disk i/o goes to 100% utilization and that time macbook goes terribly slow. So somewhere it seems related to hard disk speed. However I want to be sure before investing in new hard disk.

So if getting a new 7200 RPM hard disk with 16MB cache can solve the issue or if its due to Bootcamp virtualization and for disk i/o Windows has to go through bootcamp drivers and thus making process slow. I already tried specifying Pagefile size in Windows with no noticeable change.

Yet if adding memory instead of HDD can solve issue then I would go for memory route.

So please suggest me, how to determine exactly what is not correct for Windows 8.1 on Macbook pro and what sort of upgrade can solve the issue.

Thanks

[Update]

I tried ReadyBoost option with no luck. I found a 16 GB brand new USB stick, dedicated that entirely for ReadyBoost in Windows 8.1 and yet facing similar performance (or might be even slower).

Also looking at task manager, it seems plenty of RAM is free for Windows but HDD is active 100% for most of the time and average response time is 810ms (doesn't sound good to me, yet not sure on that). CPU usage seems fair.


texts: Mac Pro reboots after sleeping with new SSD

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I have an old 2008 Mac Pro (MacPro3,1) which I recently upgraded with a new SSD from OWC (currently in Bay 4).  I transfered my OS to that drive, and ever since the computer reboots instead of waking up from sleep.

I can put it to sleep just fine, but every time it wakes (whether thorough input or timer), I get the startup chime and it goes through the (immensely faster!) boot process.

Needless to say, this is rather annoying. What can I try to fix (or at least diagnose) this problem?  I'm currently still running 10.9.5, and would prefer not to update, but I'm willing to do so if that's a likely fix.


texts: I bought my computer in 2014 last fall and this summer I brought it in to get a factory reset (to take out everything I had done). When I brought it home I realized that iMovie was deleted and I searched it up to see that it would now cost money... I wanted to know if there was any way to recover iMovie or get it for free.


texts: Disk utility will not allow me to resize a partition on an unencrypted external hard drive

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I want to back up a copy of Windows onto a new partition of external hard drive currently formatted in exFAT. I don't know how to use Windows, so I want to use my Mac (mid-2009 MacBook Pro, running Mavericks, which it shouldn't be—it was built for Snow Leopard) to repartition the disk.

But it doesn't seem to let me. The name, format, volume size, and "+" are all grayed out, and the little handle that is supposed to let me resize the partition so as to add a new one in the remaining space is not showing up. (Actually, I have two such hard drives. In one of them, the "minus" option isn't available either.) Neither shows up as encrypted; other answers to similar problems tend to depend on the drives being internal or encrypted, so it seems this is a different problem. Here are pictures of my interface for both.

Actually, my question looks similar to this one: osx split external hard drive partition

Is it the case that one can only repartition hard drives using the Mac OS format?


texts: I have an ipad 2 and its just 2nd hand. My ipad 2 had been reset and then when I open it up it says that I need to connect/sign in to an Icloud account while I dont have one. What should I do?


texts:
I've have found these on System Preferences: Wifi, Advance then Proxies.
Why do I need to use passiveftp mode (pasv) and Bypass proxy settings for those Hosts & Domains.: *.local, 169.254 16

I don't have any FTP or either a Domain Account.


texts: How do I print in grayscale on Canon Pixma MP280?

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From my Macbook Pro (10.5.1), the print dialog has no grayscale option (screenshot below).

I opened settings, and there is a color option in each Preset. The Presets are read-only.

I guess I am supposed to click Duplicate and edit a copy, but the Duplicate button is disabled (screenshot at bottom), regardless of which of the three Presets is selected.

How do I print in grayscale or black-and-white?


texts: Is there an easier way to compare iOS to Android apps than manually checking each app?

texts:
Next year, I'm getting myself a new phone, and it'll either be a Nexus or an iPhone. I'm currently using a Samsung Galaxy S4, but I'm fed up with how slow security updates occur and how often Samsung installs random crapware on my phone that I didn't ask for. In addition, the S4 is at the end of its lifecycle and might not get a full version of Android 6.0.

I'm currently verifying whether switching to iOS won't lock me out of any of my apps. I have spent barely any money on in-game app purchases for Android, so that's not holding me back. However, I have a number of apps that I use weekly, often even daily, and I want to make sure I still have access to those, or at least something similar.

I could manually check each app on the itunes store, but that's a long and manual process that I would prefer to keep as a last resort. Is there an easier way to check what Android apps are available on iOS or at least have something similar?


texts: How do I send a group MMS from the Yosemite Messages App when one user has iMessage?

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I'm trying to send a group MMS message to a group of friends from my mac. Some are Android users and some are iMessage users. I can add all of them to the conversation from the mac, but as soon as I add an iPhone user, the entire thread automatically changes to an "iMessage" and I get the error "Your message could not be sent... xxx-xxx-xxxx is not registered with iMessage."

See image below for an example:

In this example, I can send an SMS to the red user. I can even send an MMS to a bunch of "red" users, but I cannot send an MMS to a group of "red" and "blue" users. As soon as the blue user is added, the entire thread changes to an iMessage and I get the error.

If, however, I start the thread on my phone, I can continue as an MMS from the Mac. Is this just a bug / limitation of the mac app? Thanks!


texts: How do I download Youtube videos for offline viewing on an iOS device?

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I have just tried 28 different apps that claim to download youtube videos for offline viewing/listening, including Instapaper and Pocket.

None of them do it; they all expect there to be an internet connection.

Is there just .... 1 app .... that works?


texts: My MacBook Pro is taking time to load after signin

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I'm facing strange issue with my new MacBookPro(4GB RAM). It is taking more time to load apps after signin. And when I click on any app, it is stopped responding for some time.

I did FirstAid to my both drives(one is Macintosh, 2nd is other data drive) to find and repair what is going wrong, but result was success(Nothing to repair).

UPDATE:  per the suggestion in the comments, I created a new user account and now my MBP works correctly when signed into the new account.  What could be in my old account that's causing the problem?

I issued the command below to get the size of my home folder:

sudo du -d1 -h /Users

Results:

190M    /Users/bujji
4.6G    /Users/Nagendra
364K    /Users/Shared
4.8G    /Users


texts: iPod Touch 4gen internet connection issues

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Today I have a problem on my iPod Touch where there is a problem with internet connection using browsers (e.g. Google Chrome and Mobile Safari) but I also use Skype and it is working normally with no issues .

I assume that it is not a problem with WiFi connection because Skype works on my device and I can send messages and receive messages and I don't understand why the browsers are not working.


texts: How do I change the position of the Dock?

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I want to keep the Dock on the left/right/top side instead of the bottom side of my screen.

Is there a setting in System Preferences or a Terminal command that allows me to change this?


texts: How to list all /dev/disks, not partitions ending in s1, s2, ...?

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I am trying to list (output) the drive its Mac OS X name from the serial number in the Bash 3.2 shell on the command line. For this I need to loop through all block devices not being a partition. So I need a better replacement for this bash loop: for disk in /dev/disk*; do …; done
I do want to use ls only, eventually with a wildcard pattern, without piping (through grep) and without other utils (like find).
It is like ls /dev/disk* but not matching the partitions ending in s1 (like /dev/disk0s1), s2 etcetera.
Regression
The failing attempts:
$ ls /dev/disk[0-9]*[!s][!1-9]
$ ls /dev/disk[0-9]*[!s,!1-9]
$ ls /dev/disk* -d -- *[!s][1-9]
$ ls /dev/disk[0-9]*[!s,1-9]
$ ls /dev/disk[0-9]*[!s]
$ ls /dev/disk[0-9]*[!s][0-9]
$ ls /dev/disk[0-9]*[!s]*
$ ls /dev/disk[0-9]*[!\s1-9]
$ ls /dev/disk[0-9]*[!s1-9]
$ ls /dev/disk[0-9]*([!s1-9])
$ ls /dev/disk[0-9]*[!s]*[0-9]
$ ls /dev/disk[0-9][0-9]
$ ls /dev/disk* --ignore="disk*s?"
$ ls /dev/disk* -I "*s?"
$ ls /dev/disk* -I "*s[1-9]"
$ ls /dev/disk*[!s?]


texts: MacBook stolen, which data is accessible to the thief?

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2014 13" MBP got stolen. Find My Mac wasn't on (stupid mistake), so they only thing protecting my data is the password.

If they do manage to get in somehow, then I can't protect my files but I don't want them to get into my iCloud (Notes/Photos/Keychain/etc.), I've changed my iCloud password so that should prevent them from accessing anything right?

All advice is welcome, I've already filed the police report but recovering the laptop seems unlikely


texts:
I recently had to restore a backup of my iPhone and when I booted it up it the only screen I can get is 'swipe to upgrade'.

I'd really love to avoid upgrading past my current software version at the moment, does anyone know if there's a way to cancel the upgrade?

Thanks in advance for your advice :)


texts: How to create pkg which installs files to /usr/local

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I tried using Whitebox's Packages to create an installer for a LaunchDaemon. The daemon calls a shell script, which itself sources a configuration file.

So what I would like is an installer which installs:

/Library/LaunchDaemons/my_daemon.plist. (This is not a problem).
/usr/local/bin/myscript.sh
/usr/local/etc/myscript.conf

I cannot find how to specify the destination path of /usr/local.

Packages doesn't let me edit the destination of these 2 files, and seems to want to install to "./myscript.sh" and "./myscript.conf", even though it did let me define the absolute destination for the .plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons.

I guess I could write a postinstall script which creates the directories if needed and copies the files there. But isn't there a better/simpler solution which I am overlooking?

In other words, how can I create a .pkg installer which lets me specify absolute directories for some files, and which creates these directories during the install if needed.

Is a postinstall shell script the only solution, or is there a way to have Packages do things automatically, or is there some other package-creation app which would be more practical for this?


texts:
I have seen this: Greyed out songs when trying to add from itunes to iphone? but though the issues are similar, I think my version has a different cause. Anyways, none of the answers there did work for me.

When I try to add an album to my iPhone, it does not synchronise the album. I think this is the case because:

When I click "Synchronise", it only takes a split second. This is strange, since the album is a little over 100 MB in size (according to iTunes itself).
The album does not appear on my iPhone
They do appear in iTunes->iPhone->On My iPhone, but greyed out, with a dotted circle to the left of the tracks.

What I did first was (as I have always done and never had problems with) just select the album from iTunes->iPhone->Music (with "Sync Music" and "Sync only selected items" checked), but this gave the result described above. I then tried to do it manually (after checking the "manage music and videos manually" option in the summary) but this gave the same result. I even tried another album, which doesn't work as well. Both albums come from CDs and do play normally in iTunes. (In fact, I'm listening to one right now.)

I do not mind deleting all songs from my iPhone, since restoring that wouldn't take long, even manually (it's just one album right now), but future visitors might benefit more from your answer if it didn't require that.

What I think to be the cause:
I reinstalled the operating system on the computer with iTunes a while ago (see my previous questions for more info) and didn't want to restore from the Time Machine backup, since I had accumulated a lot of superfluous bytes, and the reinstallation seemed like a good opportunity to get rid of those. I restored my iTunes library by simply restoring only the ~/Music directory, which restored all my songs. But when I connected my iPhone to my computer it asked me if I trusted the iPhone (and the iPhone asked if I trusted the computer). I think my manual restoration of iTunes didn't include some files connected to managing devices with iTunes which causes this now.


texts: Xcode 4.1 installation not customizable? Missing Installation Type Step?

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Any ideas on how to get around installing that huge iOS SDK in Xcode 4.1?

This Q&A suggests to deselect iOS SDK during installation, but the Xcode 4.1 (App Store-Version) Installer seems to have no "Installation Type" Step anymore.


texts:
So I manage to break sudo during this one day of owning MacMini M1. I manage to break sudo during editing /etc/pam.d/sudo. How I can edit it back? I tried using terminal in recovery mode. This file is not present there. su is turned off in macOS. Is reinstall the only way?
Update: I ended up with reinstalling Big Sur.


texts: How do I restore my lost Address Book entries on my iPhone?

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My mom just got a new iPhone 4S today, so she wanted me to transfer the contacts on her old iPhone 3G to the 4S. However, I screwed up.

And I don't have a single backup, so now, all I have is a copy of the contacts on her computer, and no real contacts.

Do any of you know how to fix this? Restore the old data?


texts: If I was to check if a network service Thunderbridge or Bluetooth was enabled how would I do that it in terminal?

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From Terminal, it lists that my MAC has six network services:
Bluetooth DUN
USB Ethernet
Wi-Fi  (also known as AirPort)
Bluetooth PAN
Thunderbolt Bridge
and VPN
My question is this: I want to check if the network services are enabled. How would I do this?
networksetup -getnetworkserviceenabled Wi-Fi

returns Enabled on the Mac, but checking for VPN or the other network services produces an error that reads:
NetworkService is not a recognized network service.
So just for kicks, If I was to check for Bluetooth or ThunderBridge what would I call those things so that the terminal would understand the syntax?


texts: How can I figure out why a MacBook Pro running Mojave causes network issues with our corporate Wi-Fi network?

texts:
We have a been problems with new Macbook Pro and Cisco Wireless. We able to see that some time the Macbook assuming the IP Address of network default gateway.

Looking for mac address of the default gateway, we see the Macbook MAC Address, not the MAC Address from network default gateway.

This problem occurs and is solved without any configuration.

Has anyone seen similar issues or know how to resolve it?


texts: Are there any options for IOS development on Windows 8? (Apps, Emulators, Cloud Computing OK)

texts:
I am trying to develop iPhone apps on Windows 8. To do that, I might need an emulator to run certain IOS development programs.

I would like to know if there are any OS-X emulators available for Windows and which ones are to be recommended? Please note that I am willing to pay for the emulators (doesn't necessarily have to be free).

If emulators aren't an option, I'm also willing to use cloud-computing, provided it works.

I just came across a service called macincloud.com, which supposedly allows you to rent a Mac-OS server.

I am willing to invest in this, which costs $20/month, so I seriously need to know if this is legit or not. I am not willing to pony up money for something that's unreliable.

Please tell me your thoughts on that service.

If none of those options are possible, are there any options that allow me to develop AND preview the app using Windows without submitting the product to Apple?

Thanks.


texts: Has Mojave broken Applescript: set volume output volume?

texts:
set volume output volume 25

I've used that simple code for well over a decade to set my Mac's audio to a specific volume (25, on a scale of 0-100), but since upgrading to Mojave, running it causes no change.  The volume remains where it was already at, unchanged.

Is set volume output volume broken in Mojave?

Is there a workaround?

EDIT: The problem appears to be with my Apogee Duet (firewire).  I realize it's not supported for Mojave, but it wasn't supported for Sierra or High Sierra either though it worked perfectly and Apogee said it should continue to work with Mojave.  In fact, it does work with Mojave except, there's something odd happening with the correlation between the volume that plays and the display of the volume in system prefs.  The volume that plays is correct.  The volume output shown in the Sound menubar icon and in system prefs no longer has any effect when changed.  Mac OS shows that my Duet is chosen for sound output, but when the Duet is chosen, the Output Volume in sound prefs no longer correlates to the Duet's output volume.

Volume Up / Down / Mute keyboard keys work, but the slider in the Sound menubar icon and in system prefs no longer works, and Applescript for system volume output volume no longer works.

I'm stumped.


texts:
Is it possible to put in 16 Gb ( 8 + 8 ) 1333 Mhz DDR3 in Macbook pro 15 Early 2011? As o apple website it says 8Gb max support, but I have found via Google Search, that people are using 16Gb also.

Thanks


texts: Recovering lost voicemails after carrier switch

texts:
I switched from AT&T to T-Mobile today, and all the voicemails I had on my iPhone 5S (iOS 11) were lost after my AT&T account was closed.

How can I recover them?


texts:
I've got iOS 5 beta 7 on my device (I installed the first beta in June and then updated it a few times wirelessly without any problems) and now, when the final version of the iOS was released, if I'm checking for software update in the device setting it says that my version is up to date which doesn't look as true.
Thus I'm wondering if I can update my device without resetting OS version?

Thanks in advance.


texts: How to auto-quit dropbox when a drive gets disconnected

texts:
I store all my photos on a connected thunderbolt drive.  I use a symlink in dropbox folder to keep the photos backed up to dropbox. all good.

If I need to take my laptop with me, and I disconnect the external drive, then dropbox no longer sees the photos link, and proceeds to delete all the pics from dropbox.

I would like to auto disable/ close dropbox when this external drive is disconnected.

Any ideas how ?


texts: I can't enter Command+Shift+Up/Down on macOS Sierra

texts:
Since upgrading to macOS Sierra (10.12.1 non-beta), I can no longer enter the keyboard combination Command+Shift+Up Arrow or Command+Shift+Down Arrow. I use this in text editors to select everything above or below my text cursor. On the macOS Keyboard Viewer, when I press the combination, only the Command and Shift keys show as pressed down.Command+Shift+Left/Right Arrow works just fine though.

I'm not sure what's going on. I haven't found anyone else with this problem on Sierra. I used to have Karabiner installed, but uninstalled it after finding it wasn't compatible with Sierra. I also had Karabiner Elements installed for a bit, but uninstalled it as well. Restarting doesn't do anything to change the problem. The problem occurs on both my MacBook Pro keyboard and my external keyboard.


texts:
My iPhone Photos indexes seem to be corrupted. I can’t go into Photos to view my existing photos or videos. It either crashes when I try to open it or shows me a blank screen. When I try to use an app to open a photo it freezes.
When I go to Setting>General>About it show that my Videos and Photos as 0 (zero).
I am running iOS 13.5.1. I have 8gb diskspace left out of 256gb.
The problem started when my iPhone was running out of diskspace. I started to delete heaps of images and videos. After some time my iPhone started to behave strangely. My clock app disappeared. All the name of my home apps disappeared. I decided to do a All Reset Settings. I forgotten to do a backup.
On boot up, the load bar freezes. I attempted to install many times until I finally was able to get iTune to connect and update the OS to the latest.
I can now access all my apps but not my photos.
I appreciate any advice or suggestions as I couldn’t find any using Google. Thanks.


texts: How to run script using cron or launchd for Guest user account in El Capitan

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I could not find a way of executing a script for the Guest account during login which executes every minute. They say using cron daemon is deprecated so it looks like I will be using launchd with .plist files.

Scenario:
I have a public iMac I want to allow the general public to use the guest account and have it force log out every half-hour. I wrote a ruby script to check the login time and figure out time remaining.  I can have it display a banner notification every 10 minutes using osascript and then make it log off my account. Problem is when I try to implement it for the Guest account it doesn't work.

The problem is when I am placing the .plist file inside /Library/LaunchDaemons since it runs after login and also runs as root. Running as root is important since I can have the privilege to shut down processes when time runs out. I need it to  execute once every minute. This it the current plist file that does work when I login as my own username "owner" but not guest. Using org.user.plist

My original .plist file looked something like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
        <string>org.user</string>
    <key>Program</key>
        <string>/usr/local/bin/notify-custom</string>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Update 1 (Not a solution yet) .plist file which runs every 10 seconds for both Guest and my username

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
        <string>org.user</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <string>/usr/local/bin/notify-custom</string>
    <key>WatchPaths</key>
        <array>
            <string>/Users/Guest/Library</string>
            <string>/Users/owner/Library</string>
        <array>
    </integer>
</dict>
</plist>

As a test to make sure the osascript notification banner pops up I have this code inside /usr/local/bin/notify-custom

#/bin/bash

#Using whoami would have shown me logged in as root under LaunchDaemon .plist
loggedinUser=`finger | awk 'NR==3{print $1}'`
#I need to manually run terminal and type sudo as guest for nextline to work
sudo -u $loggedinUser /usr/bin/osascript -e 'display notification "Test" with title "Banner Notification"'

Solution is below.


texts: MS Word: How do I align the over braces of this equation?

texts:
How do I align the over braces of this equation in word, from this

into this

I would like all parenthesis the same height but I think this is asking for too much...


texts: I have iPhone 6. Can I back it up without WiFi? Is there any other way? I do not have access to WiFi.


texts: Boot Camp Assistant removal successful, still can't reinstall

texts:
I installed Windows 10 via Boot Camp Assistant with no problems yesterday, but needed to uninstall to make the partition larger. I uninstalled it also using Boot Camp Assistant and received no error message. It was successful and Windows was removed. I now want to reinstall, however BCA cannot find the space. I only have one APFS container which contains all of my space and Terminal displays plenty of unallocated space.

I have been searching for four hours and I've encountered a lot of people with problems who didn't use BCA or got an error using it, but I don't know what to do when BCA was successful.

I am on a mid-2012 MBP running Mojave. I understand there are some differences in older and newer Macs when using Boot Camp.

I know I can clean install Mojave and restore from Time Machine before I used Boot Camp the first time, but I would rather avoid it and also I worry about using BCA again, when I had a problem even when it encountered no errors. I want to install Windows again.

diskutil list:

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         250.8 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.8 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            111.1 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 43.9 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                509.5 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4


texts: Uploading from iPhone to iTunes Match Library

texts:
I have used iTunes Match for years to upload MP3s from my Mac to the cloud library. I then listen to them on my iPhone using the Music app.

But I want to know if there is a way to upload items using the iPhone instead of my Mac? There are many reasons I want to do this, One of which is I’m sometimes away from my computer for long periods of time but my phone is always with me.


texts: Use gzip to uncompress svgz file: unknown suffix

texts:
I tried to uncompress a .svgz file using gzip, but encountered gzip: p1.svgz: unknown suffix -- ignored.

$ gzip -d p1.svgz
gzip: p1.svgz: unknown suffix -- ignored

I added the suffix .gz to the .svgz file, and still didn't work.

$ gzip -d p1.svgz.gz
gzip: p1.svgz.gz: not in gzip format

Here is the header of my .svgz file.

<svg viewBox="0 0 1172 1600" version="1.1" preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet" text-rendering="geometricPrecision" class="p1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><defs><style type="text/css">text{white-space:pre;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;fill:none;unicode-bidi:bidi-override}@font-face{font-family:"p1_g_d0_f1";src:url("data:application/font-woff;charset=utf-8;

file p1.svgz returns p1.svgz: SVG Scalable Vector Graphics image.


texts: Outlook 2011 - how to disable auto correction?

texts:
How can I turn off the Auto Correct feature in Outlook 2011?

I was not able to find anything about that in the web.

Edit:

Disabling all Auto Correcting in the Preferences as Buscar웃 suggested did not help.


texts: AirPlay Mirroring shows scrambled output in guest account

texts:
When using Mountain Lion's AirPlay Mirroring in the guest account, all I see on an Apple TV is some flickering scrambled image.

Sometimes I shortly recognize some text, but that seems to be from the screen of another account. However, I am only using Mirroring in one account at a time.

How can I use AirPlay Mirroring in the guest account?


texts: Why doesn't the screen saver delay that I set persist after restarting my Mac?

texts: I have a problem with a screen saver, I set it to 20 minutes and when I lock the computer and unlock it, the settings are unchanged. However, when I restart my mac, then the screen saver is set to default 5 minutes again.


texts: Why can I open an app from Contents/MacOS/app but not by clicking the icon?

texts:
I have an application that is fully functional when opened from Show Package Contents > /Contents/MacOS/app however when I click the icon in the Applications folder the icon just keeps bouncing. Here is the console output when the Icon is clicked:

CoreServicesUIAgent[97331]: Error -60005 creating authorization
kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x10a034000): p=97331[CoreServicesUIAg] final status 0x3000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: process 97331[CoreServicesUIAg]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x10a034000 from offset 0x3000 in file "/Applications/App.app/Contents/MacOS/App" (cs_mtime:1429197754.0 == mtime:1429197754.0) (signed:1 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)

Can someone tell me what this means and why this would happen?


texts:
I have hired a developer to create an iOS app. He was working on it and showing me the progress on TestFlight but now he is not responding, don't know what's going on.

Now can I get the code from a TestFlight so that I can hire a new developer who can start from where the previous guy left?


texts: Can't boot off of USB on Early 2006 iMac and can't get to Startup Manager

texts:
Recently, I've gone through the trouble of replacing the hard drive on my Mac with the model A1174, which the Internet says is a iMac "Core Duo" 2.0 20-Inch Early 2006. Needless to say that I do not have the install discs for it anymore! But I do have another Mac computer, so I followed these directions to create a boot USB but did the same thing for Yosemite:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/apple-in-the-enterprise/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-to-install-os-x/

When I plug the USB drive in and boot it up, I still get the blinking questionmarked folder. When I press the Option button to try and get into Startup Manager, it does nothing.

Did I do something wrong making the USB drive, or are these Macs
notorious for not wanting to boot off of USB?
Why wouldn't the
computer then boot into Startup Manager anyway?
Is there like a BIOS
screen where I can see that I successfully installed the hard drive?
Will this require an install disc after all and how will I know that it'll work?

Thanks so much.


texts:
I would like to delete a TextEdit document stored in iCould.

The only solution I found was to

open the document
move the document to the hard disk "File → Move To ..."
delete it locally

Any better solution?


texts:
After working perfectly for the past 1.5 years I have had my 13" MBA, I suddenly had WIFI issues. Let me give a few details about my experience:

I suddenly had issues connecting to the internet (I was able to connect to the wifi, but could not load a webpage in less than 2-3 minutes if/when it loaded) at my home, but had no issues when connecting directly to my modem via an ethernet cable - thus, it was not a network card issue or an issue with my internet provider.

After that, I had suddenly begun having issues connecting to the networks at my office and school...which is when I began to get frustrated.

See my answer below for how I resolved this issue.


texts: Will the new 13 inch Macbook Pro handle running macOS and Windows in a VM simultaneously?

texts:
I'm planning on buying a new Macbook Pro (13 inch) as my primary work computer. I do a lot of .NET development, so I will have to have Windows running in a VM inside macOS (Parallels).

I'm currently considering the 2Ghz dual core i5 processor, 8gb RAM and 512gb SSD.
Will I be able to run Windows 10 within Parallels and still get a smooth experience? I will mostly be using Visual Studio (possibly two or more instances).

My biggest concern is regarding the 8 gigabytes of RAM - will that be insufficient?

Does anybody here use a similar setup and could provide some information on whether it would work just fine or if I should get 16gb of RAM? Because of tax laws in my country, there is a cap on how much the company is willing to let me spend on a computer. Basically I have to choose between

256GB SSD and 16GB of RAM
512 GB SSD and 8GB of RAM

256GB SSD will almost definitely not be enough, so I feel that I have no choice but to prioritise that. If I add both a 512gb ssd and 16gb of RAM, it will exceed the amount I'm allowed to spend.


texts: On iPhone 4 - I was at a wrestling show - low light, except for strobe/laser lighting in the distance - and I was unable to take clear pictures. I had to zoom in 100% as I was sat far away. The pics came out blurry at best (with or without flash) What can I do to get clearer pics?


texts: My YouTube app is stuck and never starts downloading on iPhone 6, iOS 10 (screenshot attached)

texts: I have waited for an hour it doesn't work. All others apps are downloading smoothly. Also restrictions are off. I also tried to download it through iTunes from my laptop.


texts: I think my drives are in the wrong bays on my iMac

texts:
I bought a used 2011 iMac a couple years back. It till had the original HDD so I bought a 250gb SSD to use as the main/boot drive and a 1TB HDD.  I brought it to a shop that does work on Macs and they installed everything for me. I thought the SSD was going in the main bay, which is SATA3, and that the HDD was going to replace the optical drive, which is SATA2. I never gave it a 2nd thought.

Recently I was looking at my system information and saw that the SSD is only getting a link speed of 3 Gigabit and the HDD is getting 6. See below:

SSD

HDD

And unless I''m mistaken, it looks like there's an extra unused slot in there too? I know I should have checked this a lot sooner and there's nothing I can do about it now, but

Did the guy put the HDD in the SATA3 slot and the SSD in the SATA2 slot?
Did he unnecessarily remove the optical drive when he could have used an available bay?
Would switching them so that the SSD (boot drive) is connected to the SATA3 controller produce any sort of noticeable difference?


texts:
I have a font set - Type: Font Suitcase

I am sure I have used a terminal command to convert it to a TTF or OTF. I don't really want to pay for software to do so. What is the best way of converting these types of font?


texts: Can't turn off Find my Iphone with old apple id password in order to delete account from my iphone

texts:
I'm trying to change the Apple ID on my iPhone 4 to match my iCloud one (already changed Apple ID here) but it keeps asking me for the password linked to the old ID to turn off find my iphone (activation lock), in order to delete the old apple ID account from the phone.

I need to do this so I can sign in again with my new ID. This password of course won't work as the password has already been changed on icloud so the old email address/ID (now showing in the pop up box) doesn't exist!

How can I change my Apple ID?


texts: macOS Sierra Apple Watch Unlock - persistant iCloud Sign in required dialog

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) that I just reinstalled macOS Sierra 10.12.3 and now I am trying to use my Watch to unlock.

I had this working before in the past before the reinstallation.  Also, I have it working on another older MacBook Pro. (Post 2013)

I get the following dialog:

  Your Apple Watch must be signed into iCloud to allow it to unlock your Mac.
  You can sign in using the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.

After trying the following steps, I still get the dialog.

Verified that the Apple Watch is indeed signed in on the proper Apple ID
Verified that macOS is signed in on the same Apple ID
Rebooted the Apple Watch and unlocked it (See this answer)
Verified that all components are on the same WiFi network and Bluetooth is enabled

I have not unpaired the watch then paired again.  Hoping not to have to go to that extreme.

Question: How can I get past the dialog?  What am I missing here?

  Hardware:

  MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) running macOS Sierra 10.12.3
  iPhone 7 iOS 10.2.1
  Apple Watch 1st generation watchOS 3.1.3


texts:
I plugged the Time Machine Hard Drive on the iMac and clicked "Back Up now" in the menu bar, after making sure that nothing was excluded from the process in the Preferences panel.
After I used recovery mode to erase, install the os and restore my data from Time Machine to a new computer.
Once this process completed, I noticed a few odd things:

A lot of the items in the "Downloads" folder were not present
When I reopened Safari, the application state of Safari was not restored

Obviously this is very frustrating.
Are my results normal to expect a mirrored Mac with everything perfect?


texts: Stopping iPhone app from using Facebook login info

texts:
I was playing Hearts Of Vegas on Facebook and once logged into the iPhone app using my Facebook login information.  Recently, the game developer blocked me from the game because I was complaining (long story).

Now, I would just like to play the game on my iPhone app without having anything to do with my Facebook account.  However, the app also blocks me because of the one time of signing in using my Facebook login.  I don’t even get to a screen where I can log out of the Facebook info.  I have tried deleting the app, blocking the app on Facebook, signing out of my Facebook in my safari and deleting the Facebook app, signing out of apple gameroom, and even using a different Apple ID.  Nothing seems to work because when I reinstall the app, it appears that it must still be automatically logging me into the game with my Facebook creditials.  My iPhone must be providing the info to the app automatically once it is launched.

Any advice on how to stop this so I can play the game?  I just don’t know what I’m missing.  Can app developers somehow log identifying information from a specific iPhone?

Thanks in advance for any help!!

9/2/18 update - I spoke with Apple support.  They basically said the only way I can play the app is if I find a way to mask the identifying 2 bits of info the developer has about me through DeviceCheck when I download and reinstall the app.  Does anyone know if this is possible?  Apple support was unsure.


texts: Getting an iPhoto book project created on an iPhone to another device like a Mac or iPad

texts: I can't find an option for exporting my iPhoto book project off my iPhone. I tried looking for a share option, I've checked iCloud to see if it is saved there, I looked in photo streams. I'm hesitant to spend $30 on a book from my iphone without checking resolution on a larger screen.


texts: Magsafe 1 Charger to Replace Magsafe 2 Charger

texts: My current Magsafe 2 charger broker, and I was wondering if my other Magsafe 1 charger can replace this Magsafe 2 charger?


texts: Xcode 4.4.1 version not recognized in Macports?

texts:
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I noticed that I can't install ports via Macports. I get the following error:

Error: The installed version of Xcode (3.2.6) is too old to use on the installed OS version. Version 4.1 or later is recommended on Mac OS X 10.8.

I have Xcode version 4.4.1 + command line tools, I tried upgrading ports, and selfupdate, but I still get the same error.


texts: How to stop SilentCleanServer app from running

texts:
I have an old iMac running High Sierra. Using Activity Monitor I noticed that I have an app named SilentCleanServer running  This program is using some CPU time and it has over 2,000 files associated with it. From looking at other sites this app is from Mobi. I would like to stop this app but can't manage to do so. From Activity Monitor I can quit the app but it immediately restarts. When I try to delete the app it says it can't because app is open. But when I kill it, it restarts before I can delete it. I don't necessarily want to delete the app if I can just stop it from running.

Is there a way to stop this app from restarting?


texts:
How do I keep iOS from replacing my typing with something else when a correction is proposed? If I do nothing (i.e., don't choose the proposed word) and continue typing, it replaces the word I typed!

Is this possible to have the opposite behaviour—that is, to have to do something to have what I typed modified?


texts: Backing up images that are in iPhoto Library

texts:
In my backup software, iPhotoLibrary is greyed out, so I can't select it to back it up.

How do I select the iPhotoLibrary to back it up?

(My back up program is Workspace Desktop (a Godaddy program).


texts:
How could I transfer photos from a Mac to an iPhone? I don't want to use iCloud Photo Library or Photo Stream. I think there is some way to do it using iTunes.

I would like it if the photos were stored on the iPhone so that they would be available offline through the Photos app on the iPhone. Is there any way to do this?


texts:
So I use Logitech and Wacom mouses and tablets.

Is there a way to enable scroll momentum / inertia with non Apple devices across all Mac OS?

Or at least Chrome...


texts: Environment variable for Apple Shake 4.1

texts:
Where is Shake's environment variable located in macOS allowing to launch Shake.app via Terminal session in High Sierra?

There's no Shake's variables in ~/.bash_profile, /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc.


texts: Installing Nikon Capture NX2 on 10.12 Sierra

texts:
I bought Capture NX2 years ago. I love it for many reasons. Unfortunately, I cannot install it on macOS 10.12 (Sierra). Strangely, I had Capture NX2 on another mac, and it still works after upgrading to Sierra. The new install is the issue. I cannot install it on my new Mac.

It seems to me that it does work on Sierra, but is prevented from installing for some reason. I tried the newer version, Capture NXD, but it truly is a downgrade, for many reasons.

Any idea how to manually transfer the app from my old computer to the new one. I have tried several things, but no luck.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Display seconds in addition to hours and minutes on the Clock

texts:
How would I go about getting the clock on my iPhone to display the seconds beside the minutes?

I have looked at Settings → General → Date & Time, but it only allows me to choose a Time Zone, Set the clock automatically or toggle 24-Hour Time.

Is there anything I can do to cause the clock to display seconds in addition to minutes and hours?


texts: Any free and current solutions that allows me to mount Google Drive in Finder?

texts: Are there any free and current(ly supported) solutions that allows me to mount Google Drive in Finder? I have found several OS X Fuse-based solutions on Github but most (all?) of them seem to have not been updated for several years.


texts: Personal hotspot hosts count incorrect on iPhone

texts:
Sometimes when I share my Internet network from my iPhone 6 Plus to other devices via Wi-Fi, the status bar shows '3 connections' when I really know that I only have 2 connections: sometimes I get one phantom connection to my iPhone (I guess) via Personal Hotspot.

Why does this occur and how can I prevent it?


texts: What triggers the message "your screen is being observed" on the login screen

texts:
I noticed that macOS (Big Sur) is often telling me on my login screen that "your screen is being observed".

I'm assuming that this is due to the fact that I allowed some apps top record my screen, but that explanation doesn't quite make sense because

the message does not always appear (but the permissions are obviously always on)
the message states that my screen "is being observed", implying that this is happening right now. But none of the apps that have permission is actually recording.

So if permitting at least one app to record the screen is a necessary condition for the message to appear, it is definitely not a sufficient condition.
My question: what (other) condition(s) must me met for the message to appear?
Bonus question: How can you check which app is "observing" the screen?


texts: My ssh key won't work on my personal wifi network. How do I fix it

texts:
I have a macbook pro that I'm using for work.

So I set up an ssh key for use with a bitbucket team account. My work email is a gmail account. But my bitbucket account is a team account with same email, of which I don't have the password. When I want to login to bitbucket it uses my work gmail account and password.

When I'm at work and connected to my office wifi, I can push and pull from bitbucket. But when I'm working remote and connected to my personal wifi and I try to use git with remote I always get the error ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer

How can I fix this.


texts: Can I charge my mid-2012 MBA using its USB 3.0 ports?

texts: My magsafe charger reached its peek. It doesn't work anymore. I'm looking for a way to charge it while I'm still waiting for my new one,  I was curious if I can charge it using the other ports it have.


texts: Make a screen-shot and upload with a script

texts:
I am not very good with AppleScript but I would imagine this is something quite easy for the AppleScript guru out there, I am looking to make a screenshot of a region like with doing Apple-Shift-s and feed it the ScreenShot filename to a shell script which would take care of the upload.

Thanks.

PS: I don't need the shell script part just the AppleScript one.


texts: Is there an upate to Apple Hardware Test? It locks up while testing

texts:
Apple Hardware Test 3.3.1 -3A152 comes with my MacBook Pro 17", 2008 on the included OSX 10.6.3 DVD/CD. When I use it on my not-booting Mac, AHT locks up and never finishes tests and therefore there is no result list.

Wished AHT would list tested hardware and show results as it goes - step-by-step. Instead of listing results at the very end, when AHT might have locked up - with no results at all...


texts: 4th gen iPod Touch upgraded to iOS 5 doesn't play through dock connector when screen locks

texts: I just upgraded my wife's 4th generation iPod Touch to iOS 5 last night.  She went to play a white noise app through the dock connector connected to a Sony ICF-C1iPMKZ.  It plays through the Sony clock until the auto-lock is triggered.  Is there any way to keep it playing through the dock connector when the screen locks?  It use to do this before the iOS 5 upgrade.


texts: How to delete iPad calendar events when no edit option appears

texts: How can I delete iPad calendar events when no edit button appears? Clicking on events only results in "details" button.


texts: How do WWDC presenters paste text during demos?

texts: During demos in the WWDC videos, the presenter will often paste code into Xcode to save having to type it in. How are they pasting each different snippet without switching to another app to copy it?


texts: Microsoft Word notebook layout - insert equation?

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Since transitioning to OSX for my everyday use, I've been using Word in notebook layout for taking notes (previously used OneNote on Windows). This works great.

However, I need to insert, remove, and edit equations, and I don't want to hop in and out of print/notebook layout all the time..

N.B. If the equation already exists, you can edit and remove it inside notebook layout. But to get it in the first place, you have to be (as far as I can tell) in print layout. This is insane.

  How do you insert an equation in notebook layout?

Cannot figure this out at all. I really hope it's possible.. or if not that there is a good third-party plug-in.

I've seen this - not relevant since I am using Office 2011, but I just can't find this option in notebook layout. Also, please don't suggest I use OneNote for Mac now that it's available. I took the time to convert to Word, and I prefer it now, taking note's in notebook layout, and keeping a good print layout automatically.


texts: How to turn off Magnifying glass ( not the one in accessibility)

texts: How do I turn off the circular magnifier in iOS?  I am not referring to the accessibility feature.  For example, when I open a pdf and hold my Apple pencil down somewhere, a circular magnifying glass pops up.  This is not a problem in pdf although it is annoying.  However, I have other apps for which this does interfere with my work.  One of my apps requires me to drag things around with a clear view of what i am dragging.  The magnifier gets in the way of what i am doing.  I would like to turn it off but cannot figure how.  Any ideas?


texts: Primary screen changes randomly when running Outlook

texts: I am using a MacPro, OS Catalina 10.15.7. The display changes randomly to the last used application when running Outlook. I have spent weeks with Microsoft support without being able to solve this very annoying issue...


texts: Given the strength and scratch resistance of Gorilla Glass, are cases of value for iPhones?

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Do I need a protective case for my iPhone 5?

This is my first smart phone. I thought one of the advantages of a modern smart phone was the Gorilla Glass and the small size and weight. It seems to me that cases add bulk and weight to the phone, so I find it odd that cases are so common.

Any people out there with an iPhone without a protective case? What has your experience been. It is rare to see a raw iPhone on the streets. Sometimes I think this is just a) security theater (i.e. makes you '''feel''' like the phone is more safe) and b) a way to personalize the now ubiquitous device.

There's an article/video that talks about the efficacy of Gorilla Glass. The summary is it is quite good but that small particulate matter (sand) can scratch the glass. Typical things like coins & keys in the pockets should not scratch the screen.

Given that I feel the glass needs no protection, what value does a case offer?


texts: Signed in with my Apple ID on a friend’s device

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I lost my iPhone 8 and used my friend’s iPhone to find it. But I forgot to sign out from my friends iPhone.

Can I sign-off from all the devices that I have logged into with my Apple ID?


texts: Color profile for projector messed up after Lion upgrade

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Yesterday I finally decided to upgrade to Lion from Snow Leopard on my 27" iMac (mid-2010 quad i7 model) and overall everything went fine, there is just one thing that bugs me.

Prior to the upgrade Snow Leopard had automagically chosen a color profile for my projector (Optoma HD100X) which I have connected to the Mini-DP port via a Mini-DP-to-HDMI adapter. This color profile worked great with the projector.

After the upgrade the projector is using a different color profile which appears to have significantly lower quality output. Cyan and light blue colors look washed out, magenta, red and yellow all trend toward more brownish tones and I can't quite pin it down but it feels like something is just wrong with the contrast and gamma.

I've tried calibrating the profile and I've tried tweaking the settings on my projector, even tried using other color profiles but somehow something just seems "off", like the mac is now forcing output into a smaller color gamut.

Has anyone heard of similar problems with Lion? Has anyone managed to fix problems like this?


texts: How do I create an AppleScript that will quit an application at a specific time and then put the computer to sleep?

texts: I've been toying around with AppleScript and Automator to get this thing to work, but I just can't seem wrap my head around it. If anyone could show me an example or give me some tips on how I can set an application to close at a specific time and then put the computer to sleep or shutdown, it would be greatly appreciated.


texts: What can I use for multi-person, single conversation, instant messaging in a serverless local network?

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We have a number of Mac's in a small, simple local network at the office (all running Snow Leopard or later) that I'd like to use for instant messaging with multiple participants.

The trouble is, at present, they are not internet connected and we have no server machines, so I'm using iChat with Bonjour networking to chat with other users. This all works fine, apart from the big problem that you can only chat with a single user at a time in the same conversation (you can talk to multiple people in separate conversations on a one-to-one basis, but this isn't ideal).

Is there any way of configuring iChat that I haven't considered? Or another instant messaging client that will allow me to chat with multiple participants, in the same conversation, in a local network without a central server?

EDIT: Further reading suggests running the iChat service on a OS X Server machine within the network. Is this the only way? I was hoping not to have to add another machine just for this.