texts: Issue with iPhone to Google Photos backup

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I typically backup photos from my iPhone (7+, iOS 11.0.1?) to Google Photos. Typically it goes quite well; I connect my phone to wifi, and the photos (all of them), automatically upload to Google Photos.

Recently, I also purchased a Cannon t6 camera. After taking pictures with that camera, I transfer them to my phone. I do not resize them during the transfer. They are all shot in RAW but to my knowledge are changed to JPEG during the transfer.

Here's the problem, all of my other pictures in my camera roll just show up in Google Photos as soon as I open the app. The pictures from the t6 that were not resized do not show up. A quick Google search of this revealed that it could be due to size or formatting, I checked this by emailing one of the images to myself, it was less than 1MB (367KB) and it was JPEG.

I just updated the Google Photos app today and that did not fix the issue. I am in the process of doing an update to iOS 11.0.2. I also tried turning my phone off and back on, that did not fix the issue either.

Has anyone had this happen before? If so, how did you fix it?


texts: Why doesn't my Windows 10 laptop recognize the iSight camera of my Apple Cinema Display?

texts: I have a Windows 10 laptop(a Lenovo X1 Thinkpad Carbon) with an Apple Cinema Display used as an external monitor. Up until now I have had no trouble selecting either the webcam on the Windows laptop or the iSight camera on the Cinema Display when I am using Zoom, WebeX, or other applications. Now all of a sudden the computer no longer recognizes any camera other than the one on the laptop even though the Cinema Display is still working and the microphone on the Cinema display is working as well. I have rebooted the computer, unplugged the Cinema Display and plugged it back in, disconnected and reconnected the cable from the display to the computer, and I still can't see the camera any more. Any suggestions?


texts: cannot create a user account on mac using command line

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I followed the instructions here to create the user jira:

sudo dscl . create /Users/jira
sudo dscl . passwd /Users/jira
sudo dscl . create /Users/jira RealName "jira user"
sudo dscl . create /Users/jira UserShell /bin/bash
sudo dscl . append /Groups/admin GroupMembership jira

but I got two problems:

first the user appears as not an admin member although I have added them as an admin (and I have rebooted, see here)

second I cannot make this user own their directory, ie when I run

sudo chown jira /var/jira

I get

chown: jira: illegal user name

I cannot login as that user either:

su jira
Password:
su: unknown login: jira

although the jira user appears on the list of users:

dscl . list /Users | grep jira
jira

and


texts: Netflix interferes with Safari custom tab change shortcut?

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I used this method to set the tab-changing shortcut in Safari to Cmd+Opt+Left/Right (same as in Chrome). It works, except that when I'm watching Netflix and try changing tabs while the video is playing, it registers only as left/right and makes the video jump backward/forward by 10 seconds, instead of changing tabs as intended.
Is there a way to fix this? I would like Cmd+Opt+Left/Right to always change tabs, even if the webpage I'm on has specific behavior for the left/right keys on their own.
Strangely, Youtube does not have this issue, even though the left/right keys have similar behavior for the Youtube video player.


texts: Outlook 2011, where are located messages placed in "On my computer"?

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I'm using Outlook 2011 under OS X Mavericks.
I moved some messages to my Exchange account to folders located in the section "On my computer".

I need to know where these messages are physically located on my computer.


texts: Firewall blocks all internet sharing except port 80

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MacBook Pro on 10.7.5 (Lion)
static ip 192.168.10.5 using wireless connection
ethernet jack connected to raspberry pi
raspberry pi has static ip 192.168.2.3

when internet sharing is enabled and firewall is enabled
-raspberry pi can surf the internet through browser
-terminal cannot ping macbook, cannot ping any ip on internet
-macbook can ping raspberry pi

when firewall is disabled
-terminal can ping macbook, can ping any address on internet

When internet sharing is turned on, is it ONLY sharing port 80?
How can I troubleshoot this?


texts: No input fields for the Apple ID Verification for the iMac 10.10.5

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Just as my heading says:  There is no input fields for the Apple ID verification codes for the iMac 10.10.5. How in the heck do I get it to come up??

For example, I try to log on to iTunes on my iMac normally, and then it asks for the 6 digit verification code from another device. Okay, no problem. I retrieve it, and when I come back to the Mac, there's no input screen to key in the verification codes. It leaves me hanging.


texts: How to get rid of black stripes in the bottom and top of screen in full screen mode

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When I'm opening macvim in full screen mode I have black stripes in bottom and top. So I can't see some part of code.

In none full screen there're no black stripes.

Is there a way to get rid of these stripes?


texts: Safari history disappears despite settings

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I like to have my browser history span years back so I can look at things which may have interested me a long time ago. To pursue this desire, I have set Safari to remove history items "manually" under the General tab in the Preferences. I have done the same thing for download list items. My intent was (and is) to not remove history items ever and to keep Safari from doing it automatically.

This seemed to be working fine for a while, and I still have history which goes back more than a year. However, I have recently noticed that the oldest days in my history are disappearing. At first I wasn't sure, but after conducting some tests I am sure. It seems to happen randomly and infrequently. I think that the Safari window also loses focus when it happens.

I am not sure how or why this is happening. The only thing I can think of is that there may be some hard-coded limit in Safari itself. Or perhaps it purges old history items when it reaches a memory limit.

I see that my History.db file is 80MiB in ls output:

  -rw-r--r--    1 my_username staff  80M Dec 29 13:02 History.db

Is 80MiB some sort of implicit limit for Safari?

Another troubling facet of this issue is that I cannot export my Safari history to another browser. Both Chrome and Firefox refuse to import anything from Safari except bookmarks. Moreover, I do not have many backups of my Safari history. Although, backups would not help too much anyway since a backup would lack my recent history.

So how can I get Safari to stop losing my oldest history items?

Some environment info:

My Safari version is currently 11.0.2 on macOS 10.13.2. Also, I am not using iCloud integration with Safari.

EDIT:

At the time of the bounty on this question, I will also consider accepting answers which offer a way to export my history to another browser (preferably Firefox or Chrome).


texts: iCloud Photos process restarting continuously

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I noticed in Activity Monitor that the iCloud Photos process is stopping and restarting a few times every minute. The PID is marching up at a pretty regular pace. When a new iCloud Photos process starts up, it uses the CPU for a bit, so I'd like to stop it from running.

Is there any way (a defaults setting?) to prevent this process from running? I don't use iCloud in any way and all of the iCloud services are unchecked in the System Preferences.


texts: disk drive about full. Library folder has over 100 GB

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I have an old iMac running High Sierra. I have an internak 250 GB drive and a 4 TB eternal hdd. My internal drive is about full. I was going to clear up some room but I noticed my library folder has over 100 GB. Is there anyway to delete some of the files and folders in the library folder. Can the library folder be moved to the HDD instead.

I asked a similar question a couple of months ago and was told to turn on disk opimization. I've done that. Now i'm asking if there is anything I can do about the library folder?


texts: Custom icons are displayed in lower quality in the Finder when using 32px or below

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Custom icons for any kind of item (e.g., folder, file, app) are displayed in lower quality in the Finder when choosing smaller sizes (i.e., below 32px). I usually set the Finder to display my files in the list view option, which allows us to set the icon size to either small or large (which I assume corresponds to 16px and 32px, respectively). But regardless of choosing the list view or any other option in the Finder, any item that uses a custom icon that is set to 32px or below is displayed in a lower quality. By “lower quality” I’m referring to the icon’s definition in the sense that it is displayed blurrier and less crisp, with white pixels around the edges. The edges seem less crisp and in a few icons there is an overall drop in definition. When inspecting the icons in Preview.app, icon sizes below 32px are indeed of worse quality in the custom icon folder.

This issue occurs regardless of using the “copy-paste” or the “drag .icns” methods through “get info” to assign custom icons (see https://www.lifewire.com/personalize-mac-by-changing-desktop-icons-2260911). This issue occurs regardless of using “macOS’ default system icons” (see http://osxdaily.com/2014/07/27/mac-os-x-system-icons-location/) or any other icons to assign custom icons. This issue appears to occur regardless of using a retina display or not. This issue occurs in macOS Catalina and has been on macOS at least since the previous iteration (macOS Mojave).

The example in this screenshot (https://www.dropbox.com/s/wmsvz9e4xgu5uya/custom_icon_quality.png?dl=1) shows a comparison between the original “Downloads” folder (“Descargas” in Portuguese) and a folder (named “Descargas custom icon) assigned with the “DownloadsFolder.icns” located in the previously mentioned “macOS’ default system icons” folder. The lower part of the image is magnified in order to better see the issue.

I’m assuming this is a macOS bug and not simply something there might be a workaround. I have already submitted a feedback entry to Apple in the hope this issue is addressed.

I presume everyone is getting this issue, right? Does anyone get different results? Has anyone go any answer from Apple?

Thanks for listening!!


texts: How to lock the zoom level in any pdf reader on iOS?

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I have tried several pdf readers on an iPad. I maximize the width so there's hardly any marginsby pinching out and release. The width is locked if I swipe accidently left or right. However if I touch the screen and move left or right, the pdf moves along. This behavior happens in all the readers I tried.
How do lock the pdf so it doesn't move sideways? I prefer an option to lock and unlock from a menu.


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When typing Hebrew letters, the output is delayed and quite laggy. This is not happening in English, as can be seen in the following video (when nothing is being outputted - I actually press the ש button, it only gets displayed when I release it):

It happens with every application, not just with Chrome.


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I've connected to a monitor (34UC88-B) to my MacBook Pro (Late 2016, no Touch Bar) through a DisplayPort to USB-C connector. The monitor has speakers that I use when I'm connected to it.

Everything works fine when it's working. No problems with the display or the sound.

However, when I disconnect the monitor from the MacBook OR when I leave it connected overnight and log in to my computer in the morning, the monitor speakers disappear from Sound Preferences and the sound comes from only my macbook's internal speakers.

I've tried disconnecting the monitor and reconnecting and switching off the monitor off and on. Nothing works.

The only thing that does work is restarting my MacBook. As soon as it restarts, I can see the monitor's speakers in the sound preferences again and I can switch to them without problem.

It's really annoying to restart my computer each time disconnect or get up in the morning. Logging off and on doesn’t work. Only a restart does.
How do I fix this?

Before Restart (Monitor is connected and the display works) :

After Restart:

I don't know what the Apowersoft_AudioDevice is. When I switch to it, I get no sound.


texts: "Apple mobile device driver" not present in Device Manager | Device not found on Pangu?

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I'm trying to jailbreak my phone because I have important apps that I need to run that cannot be downloaded on the app store.

Neither Pangu nor iTunes are recognizing my device.  I went to apple's support site, and they said that I should be showing this driver--Apple Mobile Device Driver--in my device manager.  I'm not.

I can plug my phone in and use it to get pics off the phone, but I can't use it with iTunes or Pangu.

I can't find the driver online, which is ridiculous because these things have been around for years.  Add New Device doesn't have the phone, probably because by Windows' standard, it's working fine (I can use it as an HDD).  And I can't select "another device" and "have disk" as in XP because it's been removed from Windows 7 (that's assuming the driver were somewhere to be found locally).  In the first place, I removed the driver and deleted it because stupid Apple Support advised that I do so in their 'phone not recognized in iTunes' article.

I've reinstalled iTunes, but I'm also going to now UNINSTALL iCloud, iTunes, and anything published by Apple off my PC.  Then, maybe I should start disabling my USB drivers?  Any other ideas?


texts:
I am long time windows user with who just started using Mac. All my external drives(1 & 2tb 2.5 portable drive ) are formatted in NTFS. But I found that my mac cannot read or write on that. So, where are my questions:

How can I make my mac read/write the files in an NTFS partition?
I have a new 1tb 2.5 drive that I bought to use as time machine. What is the best format for that?

FYI: I am using a 10.10.3 Macbook Pro Retina 13" Late 2013


texts: Cannot open more documents if all the others are closed

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My girlfriend experiences the following strange behavior on her MacBook Pro running on Yosemite. It does not happen all the time but when it does, things are always the same:

She closes all the opened documents from apps like ms-word, Adobe Acrobat Reader or Adobe Indesign and then tries to open a new one from the finder window. It looks like the document will be opened, but it doesn't.
The app is still running but the file is not opened.
Opening it from the File menu still works, though.

When this happens she also cannot close the app neither from the File menu nor the Dock. She needs to go to Activity Monitor and force quit the app.

Any thoughts?


texts: I have 2 apple id’s with the same billing information. I try and purchase Apple Music in the new account. I get a message saying my request could not be processed. I tried changing the billing but it did not work. I added funds but it did not work. I even removed content restrictions but it failed. How do I fix this.


texts: How to add a room as a HomeKit favorite in iOS

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I have a room with multiple HomeKit compatible (Hue) lights in it. I would like to be able to adjust the brightness of all the lights in this room using a single control, accessed from the Home Center —> Home favourites menu.
I don’t want to adjust three “accessories” (lamps) when I could adjust a single one in the Hue app. The hue app takes longer to load and is more steps to load than the favourites menu, hence the request.
Is there a way to do this directly?
If not, is there a way to achieve the same thing using HomeBridge somehow?


texts: How do I send multiple photos from my iPhone camera roll in a single email?

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I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but:

From the camera app, I can select a photo, and then hit the send button to create an email with that photo in it.
From mail, I can't find any way to add an enclosure without having started in the app that owns it.

I want to send multiple photos in a single email.


texts: Installer of Oracle jdk-7u45-macosx-x64 hangs on Mavericks

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I want to install Java 7 on my Mac which was updated to Mavericks. I downloaded the jdk package from here and after starting the installer I exactly to this point

Pressing now Install does nothing and I can only close the installer.
Has someone an idea how to resolve this issue or how to track it down?
Edit
Here is all log-information which can be accessed through ⌘L. Unfortunately, the complete list you see below is already printed before I press the Install button. This means, after pressing Install simply nothing seems to happen.
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: LSExceptions [0x7fd8eaa009a0] loaded
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: @(#)PROGRAM:Install  PROJECT:Install-845
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: @(#)PROGRAM:Installer  PROJECT:Installer-721
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Hardware: MacPro4,1 @ 2.92 GHz (x 16), 16384 MB RAM
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Running OS Build: Mac OS X 10.9 (13A603)
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Env: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Env: DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.1.119/tbb/lib:/opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.1.119/compiler/lib:/opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.1.119/ipp/../compiler/lib:/opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.1.119/ipp/lib:/opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.1.119/compiler/lib:/opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.1.119/mkl/lib:/opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.1.119/tbb/lib
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Env: TMPDIR=/var/folders/km/9hdvqhk90p3gn3bm1f0xmytr0000gn/T/
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Env: SHELL=/bin/bash
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Env: HOME=/Users/patrick
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Env: USER=patrick
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Env: LOGNAME=patrick
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Env: SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/launch-HOL3Ae/Listeners
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Env: Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/tmp/launch-EpWqi0/Render
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Env: COMMAND_MODE=unix2003
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Env: __CHECKFIX1436934=1
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Env: __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: JDK 7 Update 45  Installation Log
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Opened from: /Volumes/JDK 7 Update 45/JDK 7 Update 45.pkg
Dec  6 17:09:26 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: Product archive /Volumes/JDK 7 Update 45/JDK 7 Update 45.pkg trustLevel=202
Dec  6 17:09:36 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: LSExceptions [0x7fd8eaa009a0] unloaded
Dec  6 17:09:38 sheldor.local Installer[12875]: InstallerStatusNotifications plugin loaded


texts: Disk Utility says: "Error: This disk doesn't contain an EFI system partition."

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After a clean install of Lion, followed by partitioning which again was followed by a installation of Ubuntu, I noticed some error messages of Disk Utitity.

When verifying the volume I get told that there is no EFI partition. But you can clearly see one in Disk Utility (and with diskutil list). The Mac boots fine. I have no problem choosing between booting into Mac or Linux at boot.


texts: Keyboard failure, possibly software fault

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I've got a MacBook Pro (17", 2010 model), and recently I've been having a few issues with the keyboard.  Frequently, some keys on the keyboard fail to respond.  These are mainly on the right-hand side of the keyboard (P, O, ;, return, F11, plus others).  An external keyboard does not have any issues.

At first I thought it may be a hardware issue, but (a) there seems to be no issue when I boot into Windows 7 (Bootcamp), and (b) I can temporarily fix the problem by pressing F12 (Volume Up).

Does anybody have any ideas of what to try?  I could reinstall OSX, but that seems drastic at this stage.  It's still under warranty, but since I need the machine for work, I don't really want to send it in for repair until I've tried everything else.

Thanks in advance.


texts: How can I remove a project from the project list on XCode Welcome screen?

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I have an XCode project that I tried to delete manually, and I did delete it, but some reference is left - apparently. This reference is making this project still display on the Welcome screen of XCode (XCode version 7.3) on El Capitan. If I try to double click on this non-existing project I get message in a popup "The file 'project.xcworkspace' doesn’t exist." and after that, when I click OK in that popup, I get another popup with message "The file 'Skocko.xcodeproj' doesn’t exist."
How can I completely remove this project and not have it on Welcome page, since it is very confusing issue?


texts: Change the icon of all the folders on mac

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I want to change the default folder icon to something nicer.
please help


texts: I own a company that had purchased two iPhone 6+ on a plan through Manitoba Telephone System. The company was asked to switch to Tellus Mobility which we did and upgraded to 8. An employee left the company and left his iPhone 6+ without passwords and pass codes. I the owner of this company have a use for this phone but I need to get it unlocked and am told i need to contact apple support in order to do this. Can someone point me in the proper direction please?


texts: How to invert screen colors and color hue?

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I want to "smart invert" my colors like this app does: http://arcanesanctum.net/negativescreen/

I tried the app called "Nocturne 2.0.0" but its "Invert Hue" option has no effect because of this issue: https://code.google.com/p/blacktree-nocturne/issues/detail?id=63

Is there a way to do this?

I am using Mavericks 10.9.2 on MBP2011


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I run macOS 10.14.6, "Mojave". I've been studying man screen to make some changes to its default behavior. The 2nd & 4th paragraphs under CUSTOMIZATION read:

  When screen is invoked, it executes initialization commands from the files "/usr/local/etc/screenrc"  and       ".screenrc" in the user's home directory. These are the "programmer's defaults" that can be overridden in        the following ways: for the global screenrc file screen searches  for  the  environment  variable  $SYSS-CREENRC  (this  override  feature  may  be  disabled at compile-time). The user specific screenrc file is
         searched in $SCREENRC, then $HOME/.screenrc.  The command line option -c takes precedence over the  above
         user screenrc files.

4th para:

  Two configuration files are shipped  as  examples  with  your  screen  distribution:  "etc/screenrc"  and
         "etc/etcscreenrc". They contain a number of useful examples for various commands.

But it seems there are some discrepancies:

/usr/local/etc does not exist
$SYSSCREENRC is not defined (echo $SYSSCREENRC => null)
$SCREENRC is not defined
etc/screenrc does not exist (nor does private/etc/screenrc)
etc/etcscreenrc does not exist (nor does private/etc/etcscreenrc)

I've assumed that all the "Unix stuff" in macOS is maintained by Apple, and updated when required, just as the "other stuff" is. However, as my system is up-to-date, that may not be the case.

Question...

Is there a separate update process in macOS required to get updates for the Unix tools and system manuals? For example, according to man screen Apple packages screen ver 4.0.2 (January 2004 vintage) with macOS 10.14.6; that release was 16 years ago this month.

Is there a process outside macOS for updating this part of the system that's "sanctioned" by Apple? (By "sanctioned" I only mean a procedure designated by Apple to maintain system integrity.)

If not, has Apple acknowledged this situation? By that I'm only trying to learn if I missed something.


texts: Internet keeps timing out on Yosemite 10.10.5

texts: I have really strange WiFi issues on my early 2015 MBP. I'm running Yosemite 10.10.5 and for some strange reason wifi/internet stops working for up to a minute and then starts working again. In the meantime I am not disconnected. I say wifi/internet because I'm not sure where the root cause is. All my other equipment still works when my MBP decides to stop working. Even my old 2009 MBP still works fine when my MBP drops out. Since I haven no clue where to start looking to fix this problem, I was hoping to find some guidance here.


texts: OS X: disable CMD-H or "Hide App" command?

texts: I never (intentionally) hide an app with ⌘H, which could be rebound for each app (e.g. Finder), but this is obviously the wrong approach. So, (how) can you disable ⌘H for application-hiding in one fell swoop?


texts: Is there an app, or any other way, to make my iPhone 4 to say the name of the caller while ringing, just the same way we are used to on Nokia phones? Preferable without jailbreak or sophisticated scripting trickery...and preferably a text to speech solution.


texts: How do I set up an Exchange Account in Mac Mail?

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I am having trouble transferring my account settings from Entourage to Mac Mail.  Specifically, what is the equivalent setting in Mac Mail for the Domain setting in Entourage?

In Entourage I have the following account settings.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
  Name: My Name
  E-mail Address: me@mycompany.org

AUTHENTICATION
  Account ID: myUserName
  Domain: NETBSA

SERVER INFORMATION
  Exchange Server: https://path.to.webmail
  [x] This DAV Service requires a secure connection

I can see in Mac Mail where all the other settings match up when creating a new account, but I'm not sure what "Domain" means or where I can specify it in Mac Mail. Is it some quirky Microsoft thing that only Exchange supports?

Whenever I try to set up my account in Mac Mail the server just times out.


texts: How to make afp://appleserver01._afpovertcp._tcp.local a fully qualified DNS name or IP address instead?

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This problem is plaguing our users and driving management crazy. We have users that are onsite that need to share file locations for files that are on a local server as links in email to other users.  They do so by right clicking on the file, clicking get info, and selecting the path from the "Where" section of the file properties.

Some of those users may be connected to the network via VPN, so the afp://appleserver01._afpovertcp._tcp.local in the link doesn't work for them.

We have found that if we manually map a drive using "Connect to Server" or Command+K procedure, using the following:

afp://servername.domain.tld/mountpoint results in afp://servername.domain.tld/mountpoint/filename.txt when we select a file and right click, get info, in the Where section.

afp://ipaddress/mountpoint results in afp://ipaddress/mountpoint/filename.txt when we select a file and right click, get info, in the Where section.

Both of these options are clickable as email links for on-premise users and VPN connected users.

The problem is that if a user opens Finder and clicks on the server name directly without going through the "Connect to Server" or Command+K method, then the "Where" location in file properties when clicking get info is almost always something like afp://appleserver01._afpovertcp._tcp.local/mountpoint/filename.txt, which doesn't actually work for some users including VPN connected users.

How can we force the "Where" location to always be afp://hostname.domain.tld/ always instead of afp://appleserver01._afpovertcp._tcp.local/ when a user clicks on the server in Finder?

What causes this inconsistent behavior?

Edit: This is for Mac OS X 10.11.6 & 10.12.6 (not tested on High Sierra yet).

We are only concerned with files that are stored on a shared resource (server).


texts: Creating New Keyboard Shortcots fur Lock Screen and Spotlight search

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I know the defaults:

control+shift+power : Lock screen
command+space : Spotlight

I do NOT want to change these -- they must continue to work.

However, due to severely ingrained muscle memory and the fact that I work on many other sensitive systems in the same day, I need to create two new shortcuts that do the same thing:

command+L (or similar) : Lock screen
control+space : Spotlight

How can this be accomplished on OS X?  (simple settings change, or editing DefaultKeyBinding.dict , or via 3rd party software )


texts: Two Calendar alerts not working since iOS 9 update

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Since the iOS 9.0.x update, I can't set two different alerts on calendar entries.

Whatever I put in for the first or second alert overwrites both time periods.

Is there a fix or workaround for this?


texts: Is it possible to upgrade from Java 5 to Java 7 on OS X 10.5.8 - Leopard?

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I'm using OS X 10.5.8 - Leopard.
I updated Java via Software Update and the newest Java I could have installed in MacBook was Java 5.
This is the screenshot:

Can I somehow update Java 5 to Java 7?
If so, how can I do it?


texts: Why do all other windows minimize when I open a window from the dock?

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Clicking an app icon from the dock causes all other windows onscreen to minimize. Is this intended? Is there a way to configure it so selected app's most recent window gets placed on top without minimizing the other windows?

iMac Pro 2017 on Mojave 10.14.3

I'm running:
Karabiner
SensibleSideButtons
Snap
TinkerTool

Using:
USB Mouse and Keyboard


texts: Virtual box not installing on macOS Catalina

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I am trying to install Virtualbox v 6.1.0 on Mac OS Catalina, but the installation is not successfully completing.
I've read many blogs about allowing the installation in Security in System Preferences but I am not receiving that option to enable at all in the Security.

How do I get it to work?


texts: How do I insert LaTeXiT images in Inkscape without losing the quality of the image?

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On a Mac, if one uses Inkscape, one cannot write equations directly (as far as I know). To go around this what I've done is write the equations in LaTeXiT and then import the PDF in Inkscape and then edit the image in Inkscape. When I do this the image decreases in font and quality and does not look as the original, as shown in the image below:

The original one is the left but the right one is the one in Inkscape. Does someone know why the image decreases in quality like that? How does one insert the image normally without changing it?


texts:
Notes is using up over 13GB on my iPhone. Is there a way I can see which notes are taking up space and compress, archive or delete them?

I think it’s also taking up the same amount of space on my Mac thanks to sync. Is there a  general way to use Notes that is more intelligent about the space being used?


texts: How can I run a script or app as sudo with a click?

texts: I have a certain program that doesn't work right unless I run it as sudo.  I don't mind having to type in my password, but I'd like to get out of the whole process of opening command line and typing "sudo ./"+script name.  If you create a script that runs as sudo and click it, it just fails due to permissions.  Is there a way to do this more quickly?


texts: iPhone SE on iOS 9 - Possible to restore messages from an iOS 10 backup?

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I have an iPhone SE that was recently updated to iOS 10 by mistake.  Since it can't be downgraded, I've acquired an identical iPhone SE running iOS 9.3.4.  I know I can't restore a full iOS 10 backup, but is there any way to restore just the Messages from the iOS 10 backup?

I don't just mean to extract and save them as a text file or something, I mean actually restore them in Messages so they show up as they normally would, as the history of the people being messaged.


texts: It seems that only iostat were available on mac. But I am looking for more comprehensive set of stats including cpu, memory, and network.  What are the options here?


texts: Cannot set ups mail client on High Sierra network account

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i have Mac High Sierra server running. I successfully set up DNS, OD and Mail services. Now i'm trying to set up mail on aHS client machine. Here is the problem: if i do it on local account it works fine. If i try  to set up a network based account everything is stopped at confirming services.  Clicking on "Done" doesn't do anything. I also noticed that after clicking "Done" i get 2 zero bytes keychains named keychain-2.db and keychain-2.db-corrupt. Tried with different permissions on home folder - no luck. Anybody saw this?
Thanks
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texts: Can I use an iPhone 4S USB power adapter with an iPhone 5S?

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I have an iPhone 4S, and I am thinking about upgrading to an iPhone 5S.  I know that the iPhone 5S has the new Lightning connector, so I will have to get new cables.  But what about the USB power adapter?  Can I use the iPhone 4S USB power adapter with the iPhone 5S?

I found an Apple page that discusses their iPhone 4S USB power adapter, and they do not mention the iPhone 5S, so I'm not sure if it is compatible with the iPhone 5S:


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I'm working a lot with SSH connections to servers, by for example forwarding localports or just establishing SSH connection to manage some servers.

For this I would like to be able to create some terminal shortcuts for example:

connect ssh server1
-->should run command: ssh xyx@xy
connect ssh server2 forward
-->should run command: ssh -NC user@xy -L 9999:localhost:3306

Is there a way to specify custom terminal commands?


texts: How can I change the playlists/songs on my phone?

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I have 43GB of music in iTunes Match on my iMac, and only 5GB available on my iPhone. (8750 songs, 51 Playlists)

Before iTunes Match I could select/deselect playlists then sync and thus change the playlists on my phone.
Now with Match, if I delete songs within a playlist from the Phone they disappear, no way to reload them. If I delete a playlist on the phone it deletes from iMac/iTunes, thats not good either.

So how can I rotate the songs on my phone without deleting from the iMac/iTunes or losing songs in any way?


texts: How to remove bluetooth device by clicking "x" when there is no "x"?

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I'm following instructions on what to before you sell, give away, or trade in your Mac and when attempting step 6 (Unpair bluetooth devices), I attempt to 'move the pointer over device that you want to remove, then click the remove (x) button next to the device name'. But there is no remove (x) button (nor anything similar):

I have tried

left clicking, right clicking, and double clicking in all areas of the Bluetooth settings (on the grey areas, white areas, and the blue area), but no extra options/menus emerge.
clicked 'Advanced', but that only gives three unrelated options
read that it could be a bug, and attempted to click the bluetooth icon in the menu bar with option held down, but no 'remove' option is available

I am therefore not sure what to attempt next?
Note: running Catalina 10.15.6 (up to date)


texts: How can you search in the trash, and sort deleted files by date of deletion?

texts: In Snow-Leopard: Is it possible to search in the Trash, and sort deleted files by date of deletion?


texts: In the workout app, What is the difference between an outdoor walk & and an outdoor run

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Device: Apple Watch (Series 3)
OS: Watch OS 4.3

What is measured differently between the two workouts? Don't both detect movement by GPS coordinates?  Based on movement + age, height, weight, heart-rate it should be able to compute calories burned.  Right?

So why do we have two different workouts?  Apple workout apps page doesn't provide the answer.


texts: macOS: Blacklisting applications and processes

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I need something like a firewall, but instead of restricting network traffic, I want to be able to restrict scripts, applications, and processes in general from being allowed to run/execute in the first place.

Rather than having to constantly keep checking for rogue processes, troubleshooting, and terminating them individually. I just want them to:

   a) Die. Quickly, quietly, without manual user intervention.

Or (preferably):

   b) Be prevented from ever spawning in the first place.

PS: I don't think the old chmod utility is really appropriate at this level. I think I recall reading about an Apple style .plist/.xml solution for this kind of thing. I don't know enough about it to say if it's the right approach though.


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I have around 200 iOS devices that I have to keep track of in an internal network (they never leave the network) and there are several things I need to do on them.

Completely disable certain apps/features in iOS (like iCloud and Maps)
Be able to send push notifications by device (make something appear on the screen/make a noise)
Install internal apps over the air

I am currently using OSX Server's Profile Manager, but I cannot lock down the devices enough with profiles, it also doesn't have the ability to "ping" them. It seems like there is a way to install internal apps over the air but I have not tried it yet.

Ideally my solution would be using free/open source software.

Any suggestions would be great.
(all devices are running iOS 6.1.2 as of writing this post)


texts: Trigger 'Gather Windows' programmatically (or other quick way)

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I'm trying to make myself a little script that I can run on the fly that gathers all my open windows onto the main display.

I think a good starting place would be to be able to trigger Gather Windows (as seen in System Preferences-> Displays) by a shell script, AppleScript, or Automator action.

Can anyone either tell me how to do the above, or point me at a utility that will let me bind a key to do gather windows (freeware preferred)?


texts: How can I ensure TRIM is enabled when installing Yosemite onto an SSD drive?

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Im going to update my mid 2010 13" MacBook Pro to an SSD drive (Samsund 840 250 GB). I am currently running Yosemite on my old HHD drive and was simply going to make a bootable USB with Yosemite on it to install onto the new SSD drive once I got it into my computer. But then this mess with TRIM and kext came to my attention. So, how can I get Yomsemite onto my new SSD drive so that it will recognize it?

I've read a lot of threads saying to disable TRIM before upgrading to Yosemite but I didnt do that : ( Can I disable it now? Then make the bootable USB of Yosemite for my new SSD and install it with no problems? Somehow that seems too easy...


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So I just got my iPhone and I made a new Apple iTunes account and I verified my account through email then I tried to download a game and it says please sign in so I tried signing it and it said I need to complete my registration and to put in bank details , which I already did signing up... so I put them in again and this time it came back with " card declined, payment method didn't work" blah blah blah..

I cannot download games and I cannot access my emails or apples iTunes I cannot sign in it wot let me can someone help?


texts: (Batch) moving iTunes songs to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Artist/SongName

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I have three albums by Jack Singer. They are in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Jack Singer/SongName.

I also have one album by Jack Singer and his band. Those files are in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Jack Singer and his band/SongName

I choose to ignore the distinction and rename the artist of the latter to become just Jack Singer. iTunes does not move the files. They remain where they are. Presumably this is done to avoid unnecessary Time Machine changes. But I would like to move the files to their canonical location before launching my first Time Machine backup after adding the new album.

How do I tell iTunes to move the files to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Jack Singer/SongName, mirroring the name of the artist in the tag?


texts: Connect through Finder with server, save permissions?

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I'm trying to access my FTP server through Finder, I can open the server and access the files. But when I try to change a .css file or something and save I then get an error stating that I don't have permission.

I tried this but this didn't work https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203538. On my server the permissions are correct.

I edit with brackets.

Someone know what I'm doing wrong?


texts: In Preview, how to set 'Rectangular Selection' as the default (NOT 'Text Selection'

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In Preview on the Mac, how can the default Selection be changed from 'Text Selection' to 'Rectangular Selection'

I am opening PDFs and want it to default to 'Rectangular Selection'

Currently I need to go into the menu bar -> Tools -> Rectangular Selection.

How to change default?

I am using Yosemite.


texts: How to use Family Sharing on iPhone 4 and other devices?

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I have multiple devices on 1 apple ID (an iPhone 6, iPhone 5s, iPod Touch 5, iPhone 4) and would like the devices to have separate apple IDs. The iPhone 6 and iPhone 5s have separate apple IDs and the iPhone 4 and iPod touch 5 will have the same apple ID. How can I setup the iPhone 4 to use family sharing even though it does not have iOS 8? Is this even possible?

Thanks!


texts: How to prevent Mac OS X El Capitan from automatically switching desktop when new application is launched

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I use multiple desktops to multitask between applications because I like using full screen mode.  My problem is sometimes I run a command in Terminal that launches other applications.  Whenever a new application is launched in OS X, it seems to think that it should automatically change to the "Main Desktop" and set the newly launched application as the active application.  This bothers me because I would like to just run an application in the background without the OS deciding what I should be staring at.

Is there a way to disable or work-around that behaviour?

Note: this, I believe, unfortunately is the same behaviour when you have any application in full screen as your main focus application and you launch another application from the Dock.  It takes your focus directly to that new application.


texts: Apple Agenda totally empty and "updating" endlessly

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Yesterday my agenda suddenly froze (with the spinner showing for at least half an hour. So I did a force quit, and opened it again, and now it just shows this:

The line "Agenda's bijwerken..." translates as "Updating agendas".

It has shown this for hours now, so I don't think anything is going on anymore. Most importantly though, the whole agenda seems empty in the background (and I don't have iCloud backups from the agenda).

Does anybody know what I can do to A) get the events from my agenda back, in whichever form possible, and B) get the Agenda working again.

I'm pretty good on the command line, so messing around in system files won't be a problem for me. I just don't have a clue where to start. If it's important; I'm on OSX 10.11.2.

All tips are welcome!


texts: MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion freezes frequently (full screen Flash in Chrome, Messages, HTC on USB)

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Problems following an upgrade to Mountain Lion on a 13-inch, Early 2011 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro8,1 with Intel HD Graphics 3000).

With Google Chrome, I was watching YouTube video fullscreen – Flash content. In the middle of video, I wanted to exit full-screen mode but neither the keyboard nor the trackpad worked. The video continued playing fine. At last, I forced the system to close and restarted.

Today I was just chatting in Messages and suddenly everything froze. I was able to move the cursor but nothing was happening.

Has anyone else faced this issue, or found a solution?

Update:
If I connect my mobile phone (HTC Wildfire S) to my MacBook Pro using USB, the Mac freezes every time while removing the USB connector.


texts: How do I stop iCal from automatically adding alarms to new events?

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I am running iCal on Snow Leopard and, whenever I add a new all day event, two alarms are automatically added, but only after I save the event. There are no alarms present when I create the event; they only appear afterwards.

How do I stop this from happening?


texts: No bootable device after failed Windows 7 installation via Bootcamp

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While trying to install Windows 7 via Bootcamp on my MBP Retina today I really messed up.

After getting into the drive selection in the Windows installation utility I deleted the other partitions (3 of them - as I remember one 60mb, one 200mb,) to get more space for my Bootcamp partition. After I deleted them (not formatted anything - just deleted) it just showed one huge unpartitioned disk with the whole ~250gb of my ssd. I realized that I messed up and exited the installation routine just to find out that I can't boot into anything right now.

When I do a regular restart it shows an error message "no bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key" - I also tried the "alt+cmd+r" method which doesn't do anything...

Please send my any ideas/tips how to go on - I have really important documents on that machine and I haven't made any backup.

UPDATE:

I tried to connect it to a second mac via thunderbolt/target disk mode and get the data with testdisk but i'm kind of stuck - when i connect it first it says something like "the medium couldn't be read" but I'm able to see the ssd via disk utility! But what medium should I select in Testdisk?


texts: Poor performance with Virtual Box on MacBook Pro 2017

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I am running Ubuntu 16.04 via Virtual Box on my MacBook Pro 2017 w/ TouchBar (3.3Ghz i7, 16 GB 2133 MHZ) and I am getting a very laggy and unpleasant experience on the machine. I have gone through the suggested changes from 7 years ago here:  https://superuser.com/questions/172989/virtualbox-running-ubuntu-is-slow-mac-os-x-host

But it does not seem to make a difference. Even when I change the resolution to 720p the performance is still quite poor. Here are the settings for the vm:

 <Hardware>
  <CPU>
    <PAE enabled="true"/>
    <LongMode enabled="true"/>
    <X2APIC enabled="true"/>
    <HardwareVirtExLargePages enabled="true"/>
  </CPU>
  <Memory RAMSize="8192"/>
  <HID Pointing="USBTablet"/>
  <Chipset type="ICH9"/>
  <Display VRAMSize="128"/>
  <VideoCapture fps="25" options="ac_enabled=false"/>
  <RemoteDisplay>
    <VRDEProperties>
      <Property name="TCP/Ports" value="3389"/>
    </VRDEProperties>
  </RemoteDisplay>
  <BIOS>
    <IOAPIC enabled="true"/>
  </BIOS>
  <USB>
    <Controllers>
      <Controller name="OHCI" type="OHCI"/>
    </Controllers>
  </USB>
  <StorageController name="IDE" type="PIIX4" PortCount="2" useHostIOCache="true" Bootable="true">

Any thoughts on the settings? I feel like I should be able to get some decent performance out of this machine. (I have tried smaller RAMsizes with no success either). Alternative solutions if this a common Virtual Box issue?


texts: I have a custom input (.inputplugin) installed already. I'm curious how I can change the icon of the input from just the C in a box to my own icon. The installation was rather finicky so I'd rather not uninstall it, and I'm not really in favor of using Ukelele. Any ideas? Thanks!


texts: What 4k video editing programs are available?

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So far I've dabbled in video edition with consumer tools from Apple like various versions of iMovie and occasionally using external programs like ffmpeg or Handbrake for conversion. Now I'm looking at 4k video edition but iMovie doesn't seem to support video of such resolutions (or whenever I import it it always comes in 1080p). It also seems that with the recent iPhone 6 announcement Apple still doesn't want to jump into 4k video recording, so it's not surprising iMovie doesn't handle it at all.

What non linear 4k video edition tools are available? Do I have to jump to professional tools like Final Cut? I considered iMovie's ease of use adequate and feel uneasy about purchasing Final Cut because a search for it shows dozens of courses, implying it has a long/difficult learning curve.


texts: I'm having trouble with my administrator information

texts: I don't have administrator access for my MacBook Air and I need the username and password to be able to administer my laptop.


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Looking for a couple of terminal commands that i can use to get the following -

View domain name of current Windows AD a Mac is connected to
Network link speed of en0
Bios/EFI firmware date
OSX Software GUID (or some such identifier)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!


texts: Will setting a cron job to delete ._ shadow files on a linux share work?

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I recently tarred up a directory to send to a remote linux system.  When I untarred it, there were ._ files tossed into the target directory.

I did a search and found articles of people being livid about this in 2003.

macosx forum on ._ files

What purpose does this serve on Mac OS X and can I tell it not to create these files?

The reason I ask is I am managing network shares where these files will land and am inclined to I set a cron job to periodically delete them. From my understanding this deletion will help since the files result from user-a setting a preference in a resource file, then user-b will be subjected to cross user contamination of preferences.

According to the forum link, if I block their creation, MacOS will freak, but that information is quite stale. Can someone point me to an up to date summary of these files? Will deleting the files have bad consequences when files return to OS X?


texts: How can I enable fingerprint authentication on a Mac? What compatible scanners are available?

texts: Do you know if there's a way to have fingerprint authentication on Mac? If so, is there any scanner compatible available?


texts: VGA display no longer being recognized by Late 2016 MBP OS Sierra

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It's the weirdest thing!  It used to work perfectly.  My TV at home does not have HDMI, but the VGA input works great.
  When I ordered this new MBP, I got all adapters from Apple.
  Today is when things got weird:

When I plug in thunderbolt 3 -> VGA I get nothing.

When I plug in thunderbolt 3 -> thunderbolt 2 -> VGA I get nothing.

HOWEVER, if I plug in the single TB3 -> VGA - ONLY directly after trying the above two adapters - it works.  I'm saying the first adapter I tried works one single time, but only after trying to plug the same thing in using the second two adapters.

What the heck could this be?


texts: Find out which app is using Bluetooth device

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I noticed that my MacBook is connected to my Kevo bluetooth lock.  This lock is supposed to connect with an iOS app, but there is no macOS app that I'm aware of, and I have never told my computer to pair with it.  I want to figure out why it's connected to my laptop and what data has been exchanged.  I tried log show --last 24h | grep Kevo but that shows nothing.  That's interesting, since there are lines in the log mentioning my trackpad by name every time it connects.  I'm just updated to High Sierra 10.13.5, and I never noticed this happening before on Sierra.

Edit:  After disconnecting the Kevo in the dropdown menu, it disappeared, so I am no longer able to reconnect to it.


texts: This is probably one of the most important / useful feature in any image editing software - any knows how to draw curved line in Pixelmator?


texts: Possible consequences of forced shut down

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System specs:

  Model Name:   MacBook Pro
  Model Identifier: MacBookPro14,3
  Processor Name:   Intel Core i7
  Processor Speed:  2,9 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores:    4
  L2 Cache (per Core):  256 KB
  L3 Cache: 8 MB
  Memory:   16 GB
  System Version:   macOS 10.13.4 (17E202)
  Kernel Version:   Darwin 17.5.0

After I chose "Shut down" from the Apple menu, my apps started closing (as usual), the screen went black and only a frozen mouse cursor (arrow) remained. I waited a little bit and tried to move the arrow without success. Since I had to leave I forced shut down by keeping the Power button pressed for a few seconds.

I've experienced a lot of lock-ups in Windows, and I had to force shutdown many times. Over time, the system became more and more unstable, until I had enough of that crap and decided to migrate to Mac. I've never experienced a single lock-up until today. Could the forced shutdown have consequences on the stability of my OS?


texts: Why won't my new MBP actually shutdown when I click "Shutdown..." in the "apple" menu

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This is related to this other question Prevent MacBook Pro from turning on by touching trackpad.

My new MacBook Pro (MBP) seems to fails to actually shutdown when clicking "Shutdown..." in the "apple" menu.

When I click on "Shutdown..." in the "apple" menu, the laptop behaves as if it was going to sleep rather than fully shut down. It looks as if it does actually turn off (turns black). But then a simple touch on the trackpad or a hit on any of the keys "wakes it up", as if it had been turned off and was powering on again (it goes through the black background screen with the white apple in the middle and the progress bar).

In contrast, if I force shut it down using the touch id button, then the MBP behaved as expected, i.e., it would only turn back on using the touch id button again, and would not turn back on by a simple touch on the trackpad or by pressing a key on the keyboard.

EDIT: after a couple more tries, it appears I was mistaken, in the sense that even force shutting down the latpop does not actually solve the problem (see the discussion in the comments to Monomeeth's answer below)

This unfortunately has nothing to do with how long I wait between clicking "Shutdown..." and pressing a key or the trackpad: This has happened many time after waiting the whole night between clicking "Shutdown..." and pressing on the trackpad. In fact, I have clicked "Shutdown..." many times in the last month without ever having to press the touch id to power my laptop on: I always simply pressed on the trackpad, which made me believe this was the new normal with MBP and triggered my asking of the other related question.

Note also that I never get an error message of the type: "Application X prevented your laptop from shutting down" after clicking "Shutdown...".

I am obviously not fond of having a "Shutdown..." button that does not workperly pro and having to force shut down my laptop every time I want it to actually turn off.

My questions are:

Is that a normal behavior for a new MBP? Anyone ever faced something similar? Are there any known instances of a new MBP not actually shutting down when clicking "Shutdown..." in the "apple" menu?
What might be causing it? Could it have anything to do with peculiar "Energy saving" settings? Or could it have something to do with an app that would be preventing the laptop from actually turning off without triggering an error message?

EDIT: I have checked on my wife's new MBP, and it behaves in exactly the same way. Is that really a new feature of the latest generation of MBP?


texts: Why do some favicons disappear after rebooting iPad?

texts: I have a number of web pages added to my iPad home screens. After rebooting the iPad , I noticed that many of the favicons disappeared and were replaced by a generic image.  Is this a bug in iOS 8?  Why does this happen, and is there a quick way of restoring the favicons?


texts: iMac Early 2009 restarting after RAM upgrade

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My iMac is from early 2009 and currently is running Mavericks OS X and has 2 GB of RAM installed. I then purchased 2 x 4 GB strips of RAM that were manufactured by PNY. Specifically, DDR3 RAM which is compatible with 1333 MHz and 1066 MHz.

Once I inserted the RAM into my system after removing the previous RAM, it failed after working for only 5 minutes. However, shortly after, the system rebooted and continued to do this until I shut down the computer on the 4th boot. I then reseated the RAM and ran the system again only to receive the same results. Now that I have replaced the old RAM, the system is working fine.

Does anyone know why this might be happening? Note: this RAM is brand new.


texts: Internet not working on iPad mini with iOS 7

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Since a couple of days internet connected applications (such as facebook) have stopped working on my wife's iPad mini which has iOS 7.1.2.

Further symptoms:

internet works in Safari
internet doesn't work in Facebook (though it works with the messenger component), the app store, Dropbox
trying to install updates fails (seems to time out, doesn't even start downloading)
tried to sign out from the Apple account (Settings -> iTunes & App store) and sign back in, however it won't let me sign in (tried multiple times and confirmed that the account details are correct by signing in on a PC)
tried rebooting multiple times to no avail

Any ideas what could be done? I will try to connect it to a PC having iTunes later to see if can help - also will try to update it to iOS 8.4 (hopefully it's possible to do so without being signed in to the apple account).


texts: How do I recover an "invisible" OS X boot option in BootCamp (running on a 2013 MBA)?

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Summary

Unable to boot into the OS X partition of a 2013 MBA which dual-boots OS X and Windows 8 via BootCamp. Could "Repairing Disk" via "Disk Utility" damage the working Windows 8 partition? What other utilities/actions should I try?

Detail

I have a 2013 MBA that was setup by the Ops department in a company I did some work for to dual-boot OS X (for me) and BitLocker-encrypted Windows 8 (for work on their codebase) via BootCamp. They had to wipe the OS X Recovery partition to achieve this. At some stage the OS X partition was working fine (I'm assured), but I'm only able to boot into Windows 8 now. To complicate matters my access to the account on the Windows partition is now disabled (so I can't do further diagnostics through it), but that's another story. The Ops department have had a look but it's beyond their experience with BootCamp.

On pressing Alt/Option on startup I can get into the BootCamp Boot selector; it lists only "Windows"
From within Windows 8, when I choose the BootCamp "Boot to OS X" option, it just starts up in Windows 8 again.
From within Windows 8, the BootCamp control panel lists two "Windows" related startup options, both of which appear to boot to the same
From within Windows 8 I could confirm there were 2 accessible disk partitions of approx equal size, one looked (to a cursory examination) to have the filesystem structure I'd expect from a Unix, from which I extrapolate that the files of the OS X partition are still in place and undamaged.
When I run Internet Recovery, Disk Utility lists 5 partitions. It is unable to mount any of them. disk0s2 and disk0s4 must be the Windows and OS X partitions as they are almost 50% of the total volume each (the others are all ~ 100MB), but both show up as MS-DOS (FAT), whereas presumably one should be a Mac OS Extended format? I tried to "verify" the first three, all got as far as "Checking file system" and then failed "Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk", some with extra info:

disk0s2 Format: MS-DOS (FAT):

** /dev/disk0s2
Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block 000000

disk0s3 Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled): [No extra explanation]
disk0s4 Format: MS-DOS (FAT):

** /dev/disk0s4
Invalid signature in fsinfo block
fix? no
** Phase 1 - Preparing FAT
FAT[0] is incorrect (is 0xD9058EB; should be 0xFFFFFF8)
Correct? no
FAT[1] is incorrect
Correct? no
** Phase 2 - Checking Directories
Root directory starts with cluster out of range(0)

disk0s5 Partition Type: DE94BBA4-... (corresponds to Windows Recovery Environment): unavailable for verification
disk0s6 Partition Type: DE94BBA4-... (corresponds to Windows Recovery Environment): unavailable for verification

My questions are

Could running "Repair Disk" damage the working Windows partition?
Does this sound like a common problem that can be easily fixed by doing X (my google-fu drew a blank)?
What other utilities/actions should I try that definitely won't damage the working Windows 8 partition?


texts: USB-C wifi interference: VGA adapter recommendation (Macbook pro 2018)

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I just got a new MacBook Pro and bought this USB-C to VGA adapter to connect it to an external display (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076X2XS9R/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1#customerReviews).

Unfortunately, it created interferences with my wifi (precisely as described at http://osxdaily.com/2018/11/19/fix-macos-mojave-wifi-problems/) to the point that I could not connect anymore and had to give up on the adapter.

I suspect the quality of the adapter's shielding is mainly to blame. But maybe something else is also at fault: the Dell external display I use, the quality of the VGA cable itself, my desk and cables "spatial configuration"?

Has anyone else faced that problem?
How did you solve it? Does a higher quality adapter suffices, or is there something else I should consider?
If a better adapter does the job, what is the cheapest option you would recommend?


texts: How to enter special characters so that Bash/Terminal understands them?

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Let's say a folder has a file called Näyttökuva.png (for those who are interested, it is ”screenshot” in Finnish). This is what happens:

$ ls
Näyttökuva.png

$ ls N*
Näyttökuva.png

$ ls Nä*
ls: Nä*: No such file or directory

This also affects the tab-auto-completion. If I start typing ls N and press tab it is correctly expanded to ls Näyttökuva.png. But if I start typing ls Nä tabbing does nothing.

How can I either:

configure bash/terminal so it understands special characters
type the special characters so bash/terminal understands them?

In Terminal's encoding is set to UTF-8 in the Settings–tab and the Encoding–tab is in its default state, ie. UTF-8, Mac OS Roman, ISO Latin 1, ISO Latin 9, Windows Latin 1, ASCII, NextStep + some Asian codings are enabled.

Even stranger (though probably not essential for the question):

If I type ls N, press tab, delete characters from the end until it reads ls Nä and press tab again, the command expands to ls Nättökuva.png [sic].

If I try deleting the letters second time back to ls Nä and press tab it expands to ls Nätökuva.png. Third run expands to ls Näökuva.png.

For some reason, the 4th run gives ls Nä̈kuva.png (notice the umlauts over umlauts). Tabbing the ls Nä̈ gives ls Nä̈kuva.png every time. Nevertheless, it works:

$ ls Nä̈kuva.png
Näyttökuva.png

$ history 2
518  ls Näyttökuva.png
519  history 2


texts: OmniGraffle: How to make line terminators connect to Center of objects, not to the edges of the objects?

texts:
The following image illustrates the problem I am trying to solve with formatting when connecting lines to objects to OmniGraffle.

When I use lines, with "Filled Center Ball" terminators to connect the two empty circles, the lines run from center to center, yet the the terminators always  at the edge of the circle, as seen in the middle drawing, and never over the center of the connected objects.
I am wanting the terminator to terminate at the center of the circles, rather than the edges,  as shown in the 3rd drawing.
Obviously, I can produce these (since you see a pair in the third drawing) by setting the end connectors to none, and then creating additional, slightly smaller black circles and pasting them on the center of the other circles.
I imagine that there is some way to force the ball connector lines to be centered over the center point of the circles, not the edge, but I can't find any description of how to do that.
Can you help?


texts: Convert images to PDF—in many folders, and save output PDFs to relative folders

texts:
I have more than 30,000 individual .jpg files (scanned historical documents) in about 200 directories (and subdirectories), 24G in total. Each subdirectory holds between 40 and 400 .jpg-files (meaning pages of a larger document). I'd like to use imagemagick with:

convert *.jpg <name-of-subdirectory>.pdf

to cycle through each subdirectory, in order to create about 200 different PDF files (each between 40 and 400 pages) automatically. The name of the output PDF should be the name of the subdirectory that contains the input JPGs.

Any advice?


texts: Automating ffmpeg using Automator Service

texts:
I often use ffmpeg off the command line to convert video files into mp4 on my Mac (running Mavericks). Do note, however, that I am NOT re-encoding my videos; am just changing the container from an avi or an mkv to an mp4. The exact command I run on Terminal is as follows:

/Users/Amit/Documents/Scripts/ffmpeg -i /input.mkv -c:v copy -c:a copy /output.mp4

As can be seen, this involves a lot of typing (for example, the entire path for ffmpeg and the source and target videos) and since I do a lot of such conversions, it would be great to have some Automator help here.

So, how can one go about creating a Finder Service that automates this activity? I would prefer a Finder Service instead of a standalone app or menu item.


texts: How to add photos for contacts in iPhone 6s?

texts:
I want to add photos for every contact in my phone; I tried to for some time but I haven't found any way to set it up.

Can someone suggest me the better ways to do it?


texts: Applescript to run when iPhone connects/disconnects

texts:
I'm trying to figure out how to run an applescript when I connect and disconnect my iPhone with the USB cable.

So far, I think I can run an applescript when it connects by using Image Capture (setting "connecting this phone opens" to "other" and selecting the script).

I don't know how to run a script when the phone is disconnected however. Ideas?


texts: I think my iphone 5's battery have some problem.

texts: One day i charged my iphone till 90%to92% then in didn't use my phone and went to sleep after 10 hours I checked my phone and the battery is showing only 20% charge is left. In the meantime i didn't used my phone so is there a battery issue or some thing else???


texts: Web browser or extension to move multiple tabs between windows in a single action

texts:
In Safari, I'd like to be able select multiple tabs at once, and move them all to an open or new window. Looking for extension (or magic Safari invocation) that can do this, I find no viable solutions.

Since Safari lacks this feature, is there any browser on OS X that does a better job of this, out of the box, or with an extension.


texts: iOS native IKEv2 client and ECDSA server certificates

texts:
I am trying to connect my iPhone (iOS 13.6) to my new Cisco ASA via an IKEv2 IPSec tunnel and I found that the iOS native VPN client connects correctly in case of RSA based certificate on the server side and does not connect in case of ECDSA based certificate. Both certificates are issued by a public CA (Sectigo RSA DV and Sectigo ECC DV) with the same CommonName. Error description: "User authentication failed".
Is the iOS IKEv2 client implementation compatible with ECDSA server certificates?
Connection details on the iPhone side: manual IKEv2 configuration without profiles. Server and the Remote-ID contain the FQDN of the VPN server, user authentication with a username/password pair.
Cisco AnyConnect iOS client works great with both algorithms. Strongswan client for GNU/Linux works too.


texts: How do I turn off multitouch zoom in Safari?

texts:
I'm using my wife's Macbook with the bigger multitouch track pad. Many times while in Safari, it thinks I want to zoom in and the page will zoom in. I want to just get rid of multitouch in Safari, or just disable the zoom feature in Safari.

It's nice to have multitouch in other applications like iPhoto, but it just causes problems in Safari.


texts: 128GB SSD and 23GB of sleep image + swap file, what to do?

texts: So I've got a 13" Macbook Air with 128GB, and recently I got a message showing that I'm running out of space, so I did a quick check to see what was taking up all of space, and I found out that I have 4GB of sleep image (which is normal), but 20 swap files, each taking up from 60mb to 1gb.  With a small disk size, this is really unacceptable so I was wondering if it was safe to delete some of the swap files and let the system build them up.  Or would a restart help (Though I'd prefer not, had a bet with my friend to keep my uptime as long as possible :p) Any suggestions appreciated.


texts: Use launchd to start VMware's VM on VNC connection

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I have a VM (VMware Fusion) with enabled VNC access. I want to be able to access it from the network. Unfortunately, VMware requires VM to be running to be able to accept VNC connections and vmware-vmx is the process that listens on VNC port.

My idea was to have launchd job that will run desired VM when something comes to the port.
I've ended up with the following launchd job:

<?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>com.kulakov.vm.development</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/local/bin/vmw</string>
        <string> </string>
    </array>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/Users/kentzo/Desktop/com.kulakov.vm.development.log</string>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/Users/kentzo/Desktop/com.kulakov.vm.development.log</string>
    <key>Sockets</key>
    <dict>
        <key>NetworkListener</key>
        <dict>
            <key>SockServiceName</key>
            <string>5906</string>
            <key>SockType</key>
            <string>stream</string>
        </dict>
    </dict>
    <key>Debug</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

/usr/local/bin/vmw:

#!/bin/bash
/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmrun -T fusion start "$1" nogui

The problem is that launchd listens on the port and I have to stop this before I can run VM. The only way to stop it to listen on the port I've found so far is to unload the job. Unfortunately it also stops the job itself and prevents VM from launching.

Is it possible to somehow tell launchd to stop listening on a port within the daemon?


texts: How to type this tilde ~ in Mac (I can only type ˜ Using Fn + N) on an Italian Mac?

texts: I've seen this answer, but on my Italian keyboard I've got < between Z and Left Shift instead of the ~. So, how can I type it?


texts: Magic keyboard: Cmd + {Z, X, C, V} not working

texts:
I have a weird issue with my Magic Keyboard. All of the keys work, but not combinations of keys with the Left Command from the bottom row, so copy-paste, cut, undo etc, i.e. CMD - Z, X, C, V..
I checked with a keyboard tool that all keys are correctly identified when pressed, including the left CMD key. Also, a combination of Left CMD + A works well.
I've tried:

Resetting the PRAM
Trying on a different MAC
Using the USB cable instead of BT connection
Resetting the keyboard to factory defaults
Taking the Left CMD key off and air dusting it

To no avail. To add salt to the injury, when I check the warranty on the apple website for the keyboard, it says the serial number is incorrect. Not sure what to do next.


texts: Where is iCloud after an upgrade to ios11

texts:
I upgraded to ios11 and not only have my iCloud files disappeared - the entire iCloud app is not available.   There were no errors during the installation.

There are other issues:  there are no "Recent Files" and in the Adobe PDF Viewer the iCloud document that I had been viewing disappeared. (Why was it not stored/copied locally when I was viewing it??)


texts:
I want to download Android Studio for Mac.
I go to https://developer.android.com/studio#downloads and click android-studio-ide-193.6626763-mac.dmg which takes me to:
https://r1---sn-xmxuxa-ntqe.gvt1.com/edgedl/android/studio/install/4.0.1.0/android-studio-ide-193.6626763-mac.dmg?cms_redirect=yes&mh=OW&mip=2406:3400:614:32d0:bcf1:859d:5e30:4b5&mm=28&mn=sn-xmxuxa-ntqe&ms=nvh&mt=1595231897&mv=m&mvi=1&pl=44&shardbypass=yes
On this page I receive the error:

The connection has timed out
The server at r1---sn-xmxuxa-ntqe.gvt1.com is taking too long to
respond.

Help appreciated.


texts: Can I make certain menus always show ⌥option + click results?

texts:
Specifically in reference to the Volume menu item in the menu bar;

As I am frequently changing audio input/output settings, and never using the slider that the normal volume menu click shows (I always only use the keyboard incremental volume keys for a few reasons), I'd like to make the volume menu more useful to me by automatically always showing the menu that appears when you ⌥option + click it.

And for obvious reasons I don't just want every system-wide click to be rebound to ⌥option + click, just the menu bar items if possible.

This sounds like a too-specific problem to have a solution, but thanks in advance if anyone could help.


texts: My keyboard (numpad) overwrites everything

texts:
I have a Mac mini with High Sierra (10.13.4) with a Windows-keyboard (it has a numpad).

Everything went fine for a long time but a few months ago I got a big problem: In many apps (Calculator, Excel, etc.) when I want to write for example "567" with the numpad, the number I push overwrites the last number. So if I push 5, 6 and 7, than instead of "567" it just shows a 7 (because the 6 overwrites the 5, and the 7 overwrites the 6).

In some apps however it works fine, for example in TextEdit or Firefox...

I probably just pushed some keyboard-shortcut which made this issue, but it really makes me go crazy. Could you please help me?

Thank you very much!


texts:
When trying to set up Apple Music on my daughters iPhone we get a message saying "Sorry, we've found a problem that prevents us signing you up for Apple Music at this time. We expect to have it fixed in a few days..."

Two other family members have set it up with no problems.

IPhone 5 is the "faulty one" (others that work are iP5 and 6). All are running iOS 8.4

We have family sharing set up, each of us have separate Apple IDs (all linked to the same credit card).
Does anyone have any suggestions of how we may get this to work now (rather than just waiting?)

One clue may be that my daughter is the only one of us that has ever had an iTunes Match account (2 years ago, now lapsed)


texts: How to prevent MacVim from inheriting .profile as if it was Bash itself?

texts:
I have this guard in my .profile:

if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
        . "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi

    if [ -f "$HOME/.bash_aliases" ]; then
        . "$HOME/.bash_aliases"
    fi
fi

Still, I have verified the check is passing for MacVim started from Finder, not only from bash terminal, and .bashrc contains terminal related script that seems to make MacVim not work as expected when started by double click, so I must have this check failing for non-terminal executions. I'm not sure whether this affects MacVim only or just any application. I was expecting $BASH_VERSION empty for anything started from Finder.

Any tips?


texts:
I have purchased/rented a movie (SD) and it is not playing... I have downloaded 1GB and the alert "ready to play" does not appear. Besides this, a doubleclick opens the Quicktime window and the player icons, but the movie does not start. The correct time is displayed and when I scroll the timeline I can see the pictures, but the play-button does not start playing the movie... I have the same problem with another movie :-(

EDIT: I used the native Apple iTunes Store (is there any other store?!)


texts: Hiding items from the Applications folder without touching them

texts:
I have a link to the Applications folder on my dock - basically it's a great, unobtrusive, quick launcher when I'm already using the mouse.

Problem is, it's cluttered up by a bunch of junk I don't want there. Dashboard, which I never use, Photo Booth, and other detritus that just clutters up the view.

I'd like to remove those somehow - but I'm not interested in a number of common workarounds for this use case:

I don't want to actually mess with the contents of the folder, which rules out every idea given in this answer. Setting the .app folders +hidden or putting a dot in their names means I have to disable SIP, and besides this could cause issues with updating or using the app later should I need it. I don't want to trash the apps either.
I don't want to maintain a separate folder with aliases to this one - having newly installed apps visible in this folder by default usually means I can launch them faster with the mouse than I can with cmd-space and finding it with Spotlight (since spotlight takes a while to update its cache)

Ideally, I could remove certain items from my "view" of the folder, but leave the actual folder untouched.

Is there a way to do this? Some feature I've overlooked or some app that provides an unobtrusive dock menu?


texts:
After updating cdock 2 to the latest version on my Mac running El Capitan, all the icons moved up from center and now look like on the image below.

How can I fix this?


texts: Which is the most powerful fan less iMac that uses a CRT for the display?

texts:
I am planning to use it as jukebox but I just know that apple started selling fanless iMac from 350mhz model...
When did they stop doing fanless imacs?
700 mhz?

I just care about crt models.


texts: How do I clone my drive to a external USB drive?

texts:
I have CarbonCopyCloner but it cannot see my new SSD in the destination section. The destination drive is a USB-attached SSD.

How do I clone to this drive in CarbonCopyCloner?


texts: Reclaim unaccessable harddrive space on mojave

texts:
I installed Mac OS Mojave on a new partition for a clean system. As I tried to merge the APFS container of the old Mac OS with the new APFS container with mojave (following the top comment of this How can I merge primary APFS partition with other empty APFS partition?) I encountered the following problem:

Although my SSD has 500GB storage the accessable storage is only 200GB big. When I try to resize any of the two containers with the command diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 150g I get the following error.

The disk utility app shows this

Using the disk utility app from recovery mode (pressing Cmd + R at startup) yields the same result.

Im out of ideas how to fix this..


texts:
Currently Safari shows the url of the open page without mentioning the protocol:

  apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask

Is there a way to have Safari show the protocol in the address bar:

  https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask


texts:
I have updated my MacBook Pro 15″ late-2011 to OS X Yosemite from Mavericks and now my ZTE USB Modem (unclear model) for the internet will not work.

How can I get the hardware to work with 10.10?


texts: How do I copy a TimeMachine backup to an encrypted disk?

texts:
I want to replace my current TimeMachine backup disk with a new disk, but I also want to copy the existing contents to the new disk after encrypting the new disk.

How can I best do that? Are there any pitfalls waiting for me?


texts:
For a few weeks, every time I shutdown my laptop, It immediately reboots and displays a kernel panic error. I haven't been able to cleanly shut down for some time. The machine is a 15" Retina Macbook Pro running 10.8.2

I have no peripherals attached. I have repaired the disk and disk permissions. I have been trying to run the Apple Hardware Test, but it will not run with a firmware password enabled. When I disable the firmware password from the recovery partition and reboot, the same kernel panic occurs, and the change of setting does not take effect, i.e. the firmware password remains intact, I cannot disable it. This is frustrating to say the least.

Here is one of the kernel panic logs: http://pastebin.com/waAmUYV7

Any ideas?

Edit: I have reset the SMC and uninstalled all programs that were using non-apple kexts. The problem persists. Here is an updated error log http://pastebin.com/q23pmK91


texts: Deleting multiple songs from new itunes playlist

texts: How do I remove multiple songs at once in a new iTunes playlist? I know how to remove songs one at a time, but is there a way to remove multiple songs at once?


texts: Should I disable Virtual Memory on SSD in OS X Yosemite?

texts:
Should I, or do I need to, disable memory swapping when my OS is installed on an SSD? I run OSX 10.10.2 with 16GB of memory. Currently, Activity Monitor reports I have 16GB of virtual memory allocated, with 0Bytes actually being used. 5,28GB of Memory is in use.

I understand that it's beneficial for the longevity of as SSD to reduce the amount of write-actions to it, which leads me to believe it's also beneficial to not have a swap-file on that drive. If I really need one, can I move it to my internal HDD? If so: how?


texts: Problem transfering music not purchased on itunes to my iphone

texts:
I found some similar questions on here, but they are all from a few years ago and the answers don't seem to apply to the current version of itunes, so I thought I'd start a new question.

I downloaded a couple songs using an online youtube to mp3 converter. They show up in the itunes library on my computer, and I can play them on my computer. However, when I try to transfer them to my phone, itunes informs me it is "preparing to update" and "preparing to copy items", but then stops the process there.

Is there any way of transfering them?

Additional information:

All the songs I purchased through the itunes store transfer over without any problems
I have an old Toshiba with Windows 7 and an iphone 5s
The non-purchased songs are MPEG audio files

I would very much appreciate any help, this has been frustrating me to no end!


texts: Fixing a Windows partition boot using OS X tools

texts:
I've got a triple boot system on my Early 2013 Mac Book Pro: OS X, Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I'm using rEFInd as my boot manager. My Windows install boots using legacy BIOS boot, and OS X and Ubuntu boot with native EFI boot.

Everything has been working until I updated to OS X Yosemite. That broke my Windows:

  "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key"

I guess I should've backed the boot sector up before updating, but it's too late now! Since the Windows boots in BIOS mode, it reads the hybrid MBR and indeed, the Windows partition was not flagged as bootable. After I flagged it bootable with fdisk, the message changed to:

  "Missing operating system"

I have checked the MBR with fdisk, and GPT with gdisk that and are indeed compatible and in sync. After hours of googling and trying everything, I finally realised what the problem was:

I had some weeks earlier resized the Windows partition, by shrinking the OS X partition in OS X, and then, using a certain Windows software, growing the Windows partition to accommodate the new free space that now lied before the Windows partition. It now seems that that program updated ONLY MBR: from GPT viewpoint there is some unpartitioned space before the Windows partition, and from MBR viewpoint that space is used by Windows.

However, when installing Yosemite, it synced the hybrid MBR to comply with the GPT, marking the upper section of the Windows partition as free space. That "free space", of course contains the Windows bootloader and a bunch of data!

My question is, is there any way to scan the seemingly unpartitioned portion of the disk, and determine the first sector of the Windows partition? I guess that is possible, but I need the right tools for that.

For information, here is my GPT data:

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System Partition
   2          409640       731723959   348.7 GiB   AF05  Macintosh HD
   3       731723960       732993495   619.9 MiB   AB00  Recovery HD
   4       799528960       906948607   51.2 GiB    0700  WINDOWS 1
   5       906948608       977104895   33.5 GiB    0700  UBUNTU

and the data from protective/hybrid MBR:

 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
 2: AC 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  731314320] <Unknown ID>
 3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 731723960 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 0C 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 732993496 -  173955112] Win95 FAT32L

Note that there is a 66535465 sector, 31.7 GiB gap before the 51.2 GiB Windows partition. When Windows worked, it saw its partition as roughly 80 GiB partition. So, the "real" start of that Windows partition lies somewhere inisde that gap. How to scan it out?


texts: How to I configure Mail.app to keep the oldest message on top?

texts:
How do I configure Mail.app to keep the oldest message on top?

I regularly have a need to change the sorting of my inbox from "Date" to "From" or "Flag".  When I change the sorting back to "Date", the newest messages are placed on top.  This is, of course, easy to fix; but, it is terribly annoying to have to go through this two-step process every time.  Is there a way to configure Mail.app so that it won't change this setting whenever I change the primary "sort by" field?

(I have Mail.app version 9.3 3124)


texts: In the new Photos OSX app, where is the machine-readable photo information stored?

texts:
In iPhoto, there was an AlbumData.xml file with information about all the photos like title, filename, etcetera. I was planning to use it from within a Python program to automatically export photos in certain albums to my website.

With the new OSX Photos app, I cannot find an AlbumData.xml or a plist file with the same information. The ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Database/apdb/ directory contains serveral .apdb files, which are sqlite databases. I inspected the schema in two of them but didn't find any list of photos. (Note: "apdb" stands for "aperture db", so it seems Apple re-used quite a bit of aperture in the new Photos app.)

So... I want to get my hand on the filenames of my photos, their titles, which albums they're in. Where is this data stored?

(Googling is very hard because of the generic 'photos' search term...)


texts: Is there another way to reinstall OS X when recovery fails?

texts:
I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro running 10.7.5 and was trying to update to El Capitan at the advice of Apple Care rep to fix issues I was having.

In midst of install the system totally froze and went black. When I rebooted I got the prohibited symbol so I went to recovery mode to try and reinstall the original operating system (Lion).

Disk Utility didn't even recognize the hard drive so I went to internet recovery. That showed and verified the HDD but when I tried to reinstall OS X, it locks up around 90%. Even checked to status list to verify and it shows an error with the download. Something about not finding a file it needs from what I can tell.

Is there anything I can do or am I dead here? No Apple Store within 200 miles either, so taking it somewhere isn't an option in the near future either.


texts:
My 8 year old cracked a (very good) friend's teenager's iPhone 6.  It is only cracked mostly at the bottom around the home button and just barely in front of the actually display so they said not to worry about it (I did mention that it is a VERY good friend, right?)

Anyway, I am going to replace the screen (have done several iOS device screen replacements) but I found one that says to make sure that the phone still has iOS 8.x, not iOS 9.  Why?  I don't want to "fix" the phone and make it not-upgrade-able.  That is not really fixing it.

In my searching I have found old postings about screen issues but none ever seem to be tied to an iOS version.

EDIT: The vendor SPECIFICALLY says:

  This screen just fits for the IOS 8.3 SYSTEM,the original version,but not fit the newest IOS 9.0 system.  Please make sure your Iphone keep the IOS 8.3 system before installation.

Is there any firmware on the screen itself?  It is on eBay so I have used the "ask seller a question" but not sure how thorough/technically sound their answer will be.

EDIT 2:
The vendor's reply was what I expected, not helpful.  Just regurgitated the same statement worded slightly different even though I specifically stated that I am tech savvy and would like a detailed, technically sound answer.

As I continued on my quest I thought about the fact that the phone was still under warranty and I did not want to void the warranty.  My friend has "Apple Care" and had already used one screen replacement.  He used his second one for this (I paid the $80 + tax + gas money) and told him if it happens again I would pay the difference between the "Apple Care" cost and whatever they charge him so that it won't be any difference out of pocket for him.


texts:
Is there any way to sort all files in a particular directory by date, even ones in subfolders? For example:

drive root -> documents -> mysite -> dev

Drive root contains a bunch of individual files, plus a folder called documents. Documents contains a bunch of files, plus a folder called mysite, and so on. What I want to see is just a list of files sorted by date, from all the folders, rather than having to open each folder separately and seeing only its files sorted by date.

I have Cocoatech's Pathfinder installed, so if it isn't possible in the standard Finder, maybe there's some way to do it in PF?

(If the folder tree were really as simple as my example, it wouldn't be an issue, but what I'm really looking at is a website's build directory, which contains about 5 levels of subdirectories, and I need to see all files sorted by date so that I can move whatever changed today (regardless of which folder it's in.)


texts: What is answering at port 80 when httpd is down?

texts:
Since OS X Lion, web sharing isn't available from the System preferences.

So I shut it down using sudo apachectl stop. Doing this, http://localhost/~Username doesn't answer any more and all httpd are down (a least ps -e | grep httpd return none of them).

But using my browser http://localhost still returns a "It works!". Who then is answering at port 80 ?


texts: How do I get the movies that I have uploaded to iTunes from my Mac to show up on my iPad? I have several movies that I would like to see on my iPad. I figured the best way to upload to iTunes, but when I launch iTunes on my iPad I cannot see or find them.


texts: Does Sparrow for iOS seamlessly integrate with Gmail's Send As feature?

texts:
I just saw this blog post about Sparrow, and I was wondering about one of its features. On the website, it says that it has the following feature:

  Quick sender switch - switch sender account by tapping the top bar when composing a message.

I'm wondering if this automatically integrates with Gmail's Send As feature or not. For example, say I have 10 accounts already set up in my Gmail account so that I can send mail as them, do I need to manually enter all the credentials for these 10 accounts in Sparrow? Or does it automatically detect these additional "send as" accounts and let me use them?


texts: MacBook Pro only charges with smaller MagSafe 60W

texts:
My MacBook Pro 2.3ghz  i7 mid-2012 stopped charging and the light on the charger doesn’t show up anymore.

I thought it was the MagSafe 85W and got a new one, but my MBP is still not charging. The light does not work on both the old and new 85W charger, and neither actually charge my MBP.

However, I have a smaller 60W MagSafe that works ok. The light comes on and it charges the MBP.

What could explain this?

The DC jack looks ok, but I wonder if that could be it? Or is it more likely to be a logic board problem?

UPDATE

I’ve also conformed this by using iStat - it shows that the 65W charger provides around 30W while both the 85W chargers do not show up at all.

UPDATE 2

I have also used pmset from the terminal window to check the power management. As suspected, both MagSafe 85W are not seen at all, it reports "no adapter attached". It only works with the MagSafe 60W.

The rawlog, with the MagSafe60W attached and then removed shows:
AC; Charging; 57%; Cap=3748: FCC=6550; Design=6900; Time=2:02; 3028mA; Cycles=92/1000; Location=0; Polled boot=05/12/19 08:19:07; Full=05/12/19 09:15:17; User visible=05/12/19 09:18:17 05/12/19 09:18:31 No AC; Not Charging; 57%; Cap=3761: FCC=6550; Design=6900; Time=2:01; 3097mA; Cycles=92/1000; Location=0; Polled boot=05/12/19 08:19:07; Full=05/12/19 09:15:17; User visible=05/12/19 09:18:31

The rawlog with the same MagSafe 60W detached shows:
No AC; Not Charging; 57%; Cap=3761: FCC=6550; Design=6900; Time=2:01; 3097mA; Cycles=92/1000; Location=0; Polled boot=05/12/19 08:19:07; Full=05/12/19 09:18:31; User visible=05/12/19 09:18:31

The only difference between the Magsafe 85W and the 60W is the output:
- MagSafe 85W: output 18.5V, 4.6a
- MagSafe 60W: output 16.5V, 3.6a

I have also replace the DC jack and still no luck.

Why on earth my laptop only works with the adapter that provides less voltage and amperage?


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