texts: Safari no longer defaults to typing in address bar. Why?

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I recently deleted cookies and deleted my AdBlocker for Safari. Since then, things have been acting weird, e.g. websites open slowly, my homepage was set to Yahoo, etc.

Previously, when I would open a new tab, the cursor would be in the address bar. Any typing I would do would start there. Now, I must manually click the address bar, or use the Command + L shortcut to go there.

That's a pain. How could I reset this? I see nothing in Safari's Preferences.


texts: Messages unflagged in Mail.app remain flagged in Outlook

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When I flag a message in Mail.app (9.3 running on El Cap 10.11.6) on an Office365 account it also gets flagged in Outlook (15.25, also on El Cap).

However when I un-flag it in Mail.app this information does not propagate to Outlook. In the Outlook web app it does get un-flagged.

Is there any way to get this working so the message also gets un-flagged in Outlook?


texts: how can i get iPhoto pictures back after factory reset on MacBook Pro

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I have done a factory reset on my MacBook Pro because it was slow. Now i have lost my pictures on iPhoto. The pictures were not backed up on iCloud.
How can i get iPhoto pictures back?


texts: Is there a way to remove songs in a playlist from an iOS device?

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There are situations where (for example to free up storage) on an iOS device with iTunes Match enabled, it would be nice to be able to remove songs on the device, based on certain attributes. For example, it would be convenient to be able to remove all songs one has given low ratings. Match makes the first part of this easy: it is a simple matter to set up a smart playlist that is synced through iCloud to the iOS device; but it appears that (while it is possible to download missing songs from within a playlist) it is not possible to remove them. Is this in fact the case?

Is there no way to remove songs from a device from within a playlist?


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How can i get rid of the gap at the bottom of the screen when i maximized a window? The gap is almost imperceptible but at the bottom of a maximized window a few pixel are not filled, there one can see the desktop. If i go into full screen mode with a window, the 5 - 10 pixels get filled.

My os version is OS X 10.9 Mavericks

To better see the issue I enlarged the part at the bottom:


texts: iPhone Application for Email Address Shortcut

texts: Does anybody know of an iPhone application or shortcut that allows you to save your email address access it via a shortcut?  This would be super useful when filling in forms in Safari or in when your email address is required in an application.


texts: How can I create an iCloud mail rule to forward emails to an address and move them out of the inbox?

texts: In iCloud, there are rules to forward matching emails to an address and to move matching emails to a mailbox, however I can't find a way of forwarding matching emails to an address and then moving them out of the inbox.  Adding two rules (one to forward the emails and one to move the emails) doesn't work since only the first rule is applied.  I'm looking for a server-side rule as I don't want to have to keep my Mac running to prevent being notified about these emails and having them appear in my inbox on my phone.


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How can I disable the system transpose (Ctrl+T) shortcut?

Note: I'm using a MacBook Pro running High Sierra (10.13.1)

I've tried searching online, stack overflow, etc. and tried everything I could think of, but I haven't been able to find any way to disable the system keyboard shortcuts. For example, Ctrl+T doesn't appear under Preferences > Keyboard. I even tried manually editing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist, but it doesn't appear there either.

For reference, here's what my ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist file looks like


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i have a nice iPhone 3GS which has a curious behaviour.

I'm not using it often but when i'm doing CPU intensive things like a game, it just shuts down suddenly, screen becomes black an i can't restart it without putting it on the charger. It's not hot.

Then i plug it, and it just boots and is runs ok with the same battery level as before the crash.

I thought changing the iOS would fix that but it doesn't .. i'm on iOs 6 and it's still the same behaviour

What could i do ?
thanks


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I've recently upgraded my MacBook Pro from 10.8.5 to 10.10.5 and

a) I want to install an older version of Opera (version 40)

b) I want to eliminate the auto update issue.

Issues:

I tried downgrading Opera, but anytime I install an older version it autoupdates to the latest version without my consent.
I tried with an old .dmg I had saved, however the OSX gives me this message when I click on it:

If I let the system complete the verification I end up with the latest version of Opera. If I switch off the internet the process stops and I can't install a simple .dmg (it's as if OSX/Apple demands users to install only the software they expect/approve of).

Any solution please?


texts: Any way to temporarily allow insecure SSL on Safari in High Sierra?

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Apparently High Sierra has changed the way Safari handles untrusted SSL certificates.

In the past you could bypass an SSL warning and visit a site. But if you visited that site again in a new session, you'd get the warning again.

But now, asking Safari to allow you to visit a site with an untrusted certificate apparently requires that you add the untrusted certificate to the system trust store.

To me this is actually less secure. Here is just one scenario where there could be a problem: Suppose you're setting up a new server and, initially, it has a self-signed certificate. You know this is going to happen, but you have to get in to do some initial setup or testing. You bypass the SSL warning and go on your way. Now, later that day or the next day, you try to setup the server with a proper SSL certificate but somehow mess things up and your site is still serving its self-signed certificate. You visit the site in Safari and... everything looks good! No warning. So you're now confident that you setup your cert properly. But you haven't.

Yes, of course you can go into Keychain Access and manually remove the certificate, but that just seems to be not only many extra steps but also something easy to forget to do.

So my question is, is there a way to get Safari to temporarily, without adding anything to the system store, allow a connection to an untrusted SSL website, other than adding the certificate and then remembering to go manually remove it afterwards?


texts: Making changes to the iTerm UI permanent

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I am new to the MacOS, and I have started using iTerm2, and I want to make the changes to my UI permanent, but I am unable to do so.
When I "right-click" in the iTerm window and go to Edit Session... → Preferences → Text → Cursor → Vertical Bar , my current instance of iTerm does what I want it to.
However, when I shut it down and start another window some time later, it reverts back to its old settings. How do I make these settings permanent so I don't have to keep repeating the above process?


texts: How can I complement a suggested address in Maps?

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I want to find an address in Maps, let's say it's Baker Street, 221b, London. So I begin to type "baker street" into the search field in Maps. Soon, after 3-4 typed characters, "Baker Street, London, England" appears among suggestions.

If I tap on the suggestion, Maps will set a red location marker somewhere on the street. Now, I don't want the street, I want a particular house number on it.

How can I change the Maps suggestion to add a house number? Currently I type the whole street name and then type the house number at the end, and this is not very convenient, especially if the street name is long.

PS. Since there may be misunderstanding - the question is not specifically about UK or England. Baker Street is just an example. It could be Bakkerstraat 22 in Anwerpen as well (not a museum or any point of interest, just a normal house where people live).


texts: Xcode adds comment characters in the first column?

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Whenever I use the Xcode keyboard shortcut Command + / for commenting line(s) of code in a Swift/Objective-C source file, the // characters are always placed in the first column. I would much prefer it be at the current indentation.

I guess this is a personal preference, but does anyone know if there's config for it:

For e.g., If I have this code snippet:

    ...
    print("something")
    ...

and I invoke the keyboard shortcut Command + / with the caret positioned on the line containing print statement, I get:

    ...
//      print("something")
    ...

I'd prefer the following behavior instead:

    ...
    print("something")
    ...

I invoke the keyboard shortcut Command + / with the caret positioned on the line containing print statement, I should get:

    ...
    // print("something")
    ...

I guess this is a personal preference, but does anyone know if there's configuration for it?


texts: How to give the disk image a name and point it

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I have just reinstalled SuperDuper for Mac/Catalina, but now the backup disk that IS mounted does not show as an option in scheduling? How can I get it listed in super duper- backup TO choices?
On my Mac, the external disk shows as mounted and has a name ...BKP. That name does not show as a choice.


texts:
I have macvim working as expected on my older mac. On a newly minted Mac however, the normal key sequences to select, copy, and paste text:

  Shift arrow keys (select)
  Command C, Command X, Command V (copy, cut, paste)

are not being recognized.

Then there must be some settings/configuration required to get the Cut/Copy/Select using OS/X keystrokes to work in macvim?  What is/are those settings?

thanks!


texts: Can you repair a Leopard sparsebundle in Lion?

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I have a MacBook that runs Leopard and uses Time Machine to backup to a linux based server.  For a long time this setup has worked perfectly, but apparently it stopped working over a week ago.  It seems the sparsebundle has been corrupted, checking /var/log/fsck_hfs.log when trying to mount or attach it has proven as much.

To fix this I had connected the MacBook via gigabit ethernet so that fsck can run as per various guides online.  The sparsebundle is 424GB.  But for some reason after around 12 hours the ethernet connection drops and a self-assigned IP address is selected. Rebooting my router to see if this helps has had no affect, the problem definitely seems to be with the computer.

A wireless connection could end up taking days to complete, and I have no confidence it would not break that connection too.  But I have a 2011 Mac Mini and so am wondering whether it is safe to use fsck on that, as it obviously runs Lion?

The reason for my concern is that I know there are minor differences to sparsebundles with successive versions of OS X.  So although it should repair the corruption (if it is fixable), I do not want to risk it making the backup incompatible with Leopard.


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Repeated key presses are being registered by the Macbook Pro (running OSX 10.6.8) that I'm using.

For example, if this had happened in the above sentence, on pressing 'k' it would keep pressing 'k' several times unless I type some other key and looked like this: kkkkkkkkkkkkkkey.

This does not happen all the time but is very annoying. Have seen this happen in 2 text editors that I use: Komodo IDE, vi. And, also once while composing a message in Gmail. So I guess this is a problem with the Mac internals and not that of a particular application.

How can I avoid that?


texts: How do I prevent my MacBook Air from forgetting my Remapped Caps Lock Key?

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As someone who doesn't like to shout, I have Caps Lock remapped to Control on all of my computers. A second control key is far more useful to a guy who spends most of his time in Terminal.app. This was set up in System Preferences under Keyboard and Modifier Keys.

My MacBook Air (MacBookAir3,2) keeps 'forgetting' this setting every couple of days and reverting to SHOUTY CAPS LOCK. I haven't yet pinpointed when it is reverting. It happens more frequently than me rebooting the Air but less frequently than me closing and opening the lid.

I don't have this problem on my MacBook Pro, Mac Mini or iMac. All four Macs are running Mac OS X 10.6.6.

I've searched the web but to no avail; I've never connected an external keyboard, mouse or trackpad.

Help me, StackExchange Users, you're my only hope.


texts: I've been trying to play some games on my macbook (running on mojave) and whenever I try to hold CTRL and click it won't let me. Is there anyway to disable Ctrl-Click?


texts: Macbook Pro 13 Retina battery drain using Chrome browser

texts: I'm planning on purchasing a Macbook Pro Retina 8GB/256GB to replace a 2009 Macbook Pro. I'm a long time Mac user but my hesitation is whether the Chrome browser battery drain issue in Mavericks has been addressed either by Google or Apple. I use both Safari and Chrome in my workflow, each have their benefits.


texts: Recursively remove all invalid characters from text files in place

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I have several thousand text files, some of which contain invalid UTF-8 characters. I want to recursively remove all invalid characters from these files in place.

I am aware that many similar questions have been asked before, such as: how to remove non UTF-8 characters from text file but I have not found one that is both recursive and operates in place.


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Although the GM should be identical to the final version, I am concerned about not being able to log into my computer in the future because of an expired developer/trial period.

The App Store normally shows a disabled button for installed apps which also will get future upgrades. However Mavericks shows with the "Download" button.

Should I go through a Mavericks reinstall?


texts: Will removing developer devices break apps with old UDIDs on Provisioning profiles?

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I have come to the beginning of a new year on my developer license with Apple.  At this time I am able to remove old devices from the account:

Unfortunately there are several applications that are deployed to testers that have those old devices on the provisioning profiles.  When I remove the old device UDID's the provisioning profiles with the removed UDID's will be invalid.  Does this mean that at some point, my testers' apps will phone home and stop working until I can redeploy with regenerated provisioning profiles?  Or will they just keep working until their profile expires?

Effectively, I think I'm asking if Apple maintains a revocation list for provisioning profiles as well as signing certificates, and if deletion of a device would trigger revocation.


texts: Does Thunderbolt support chaining multiple monitors to a MacBook Pro?

texts: This has always been a big want for me. I love using multi-monitor setups but only want a single laptop. Does the 2011 MBP Thunderbolt support chaining multiple monitors together? I know that you can add a monitor and say, a few hard drives, but can you connect it to 2 27" monitors and your flat screen TV (for example)? Thanks!


texts: Different Volume Level for Headsets and Headphones over Combo Jack

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I have the Sony MDRX10. When I use the cable with the mic, I get lower volume level and distortions at max volume but when I use the headphone only cable, I get much better volume control.

I tried using both cables with my smartphone, and they both produce the same volume. Also, I tested with a portable amplifier connected to my Macbook and then the cable with mic; this gave the same output as the one without the mic.  This makes me think the problem is associated with Mac OS X.

Machine specs: Macbook Pro 13" Mid 2012, Yosemite 10.10.4


texts: How to fix slow Remote Desktop To Windows 7 PC?

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I'm using Remote Desktop for Mac on my base Retina MBP.

Remote Desktop is incredibly slow for connecting to my Windows 7 PC.

Why is to so slow?
Are there other alternatives that will work faster?


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iTunes Accounts in System Services is draining over 3.5 GB of data per cycle (Settings-->Cellular-->System Services-->iTunes Accounts). I monitored it closely during this data cycle.

I have disabled Settings-->iTunes and App Stores-->Use Cellular Data. I have also disabled Settings-->Cellular-->Wi-Fi Assist. Does anyone know how I can determine what is causing this?

I have a large data plan and I'm upset, I can't imagine how people with smaller data plans survive at all.


texts: Mac book air is not turning on and getting cricket noise when press power button

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My Mac book is not turning on when pressing power button . I can hear a cricket sound when ever I press power button.
Initially it was turning on when I do SMC reset . But now power is full and getting green light when I plugin power cable. So if I do SMC reset now , I couldn't see the flickering from Amber to green . Now it's not working after SMC reset. Suggest me some solutions to turn on mac book air .


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I've got a 15" macbook pro, i5 2.4ghz which I've inherited. When I use it to watch video -- with the notebooks monitor turned off, video piped to an external monitor - the battery dies in 90 - 120min.

Is this normal? Does that mean its time to replace the battery? What sort of life should I be expecting?


texts: How does Apple perform a lossless in-place conversion from HFS+ to APFS?

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Since High Sierra, Apple has allowed users to do an in-place conversion of an existing HFS+ file systems to APFS without losing files. This can happen automatically during an OS upgrade or can be done by the user with Disk Utility.

My question is, how, technically, is this accomplished? I'm not asking how a user can do the conversion, I'm asking what actually happens on the disk during the conversion process. I've done some searches but have only found references to the fact that it can be done. This article provides some analogies, and I found some hints on how APFS allows easier resizing of partitions.

Does the software directly convert one file system to another on the fly? If APFS is basically an enhancement to HFS+ I can see this being easy, but my impression is that is not the case.

Does it create two partitions and slowly move content from one to the other, resizing as it goes, or create an image of the old system then restore it to the new system? It seems these would require a fair amount of free space, and could fail if the drive is full.

Something else?


texts: XAMPP on Mavericks install APC and Memcached

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What I already did:

Download latest stable release from pecl.php.net with wget-
Unpack archive
Run phpize, ./configure, make, make install, etc..

That stuff went well, now I have:

/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/apc.so
/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/memcached.so

In my php.ini (Loaded Configuration File from phpinfo) I added:

extension_dir="/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/"
extension=memcached.so
extension=apc.so

But the problem is, the libraries are not beeing loaded, the correspondent sections in phpinfo() are missing.
I have tried to:

Restart apache
Comment out "extension_dir"
Use "zend_extension" instead of "extension"
Specify the full path to the .so files

Restart of XAMPP happens without problems, no error log is generated.
Anyone of you have an idea what could be wrong here?


texts: Quick application switch (Command-Tab) messed up

texts: My quick application switching, using Command-Tab, isn't starting at the most recently opened/focused application. Instead it does the opposite. It goes to the application I opened least recently. How do I fix this?


texts: How can I track detailed analytics for my iTunes Library?

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Is there a way to view an "iTunes Analytics Dashboard" or some type of plugin that would have similar capabilities?

There's all this really good data locked up in iTunes, from Play Counts to Ratings to Last Played Date, etc... but I'd like a beautiful interface to view detailed charts and graphs that break things down simply yet informatively.

This could hypothetically be marketed as "Personal Media Collection Analytics Software" going above and beyond what conventional media player software currently offers.

Sample capabilities:
 - proportion of 5-star tracks vs. 3-star tracks
 - which month do I listen to genre X or artist Y the most
 - at what hour of the day do I prefer songs with BPM > X
 - etc...


texts: My iPod Touch turned off last night and after, it never woke up again. Is there any way to turn on iCloud Photo on this iPod by using my Mac? iCloud is working but not for photos, only for notes.


texts: How to disable Password Prompt for select apps

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How can I disable administrator password requirement for select apps, for example the app "Mac DaddyX" will not require a password to be entered to operate the desired function (in my case... changing MAC address).

Just to note that the password prompt is popping up because of macOS and NOT the app itself.


texts: Automatically Trigger Automator through mail

texts: I want to trigger a workflow in automator every time I receive a new email in "mail.app". How can this be done?


texts: Will two albums duplicate pictures in Photos.app?

texts: I am trying to put together several albums and some of them have a picture from another album. For example a parties album and a birthday 2015 album or a granddaughters 2015 album.  So how do I put the same photos in these 3 albums, and are they duplicated or just cross referenced?


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I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro Retina, and recently replaced the SSD (Samsung 860 EVO 1TB) and logic board (refurb).

The original machine was crashing, and long story short diagnostic mode indicated an unfixable hard drive error. I first upgraded the SSD, OS install went smoothly and the machine worked well for a few days, but soon started having the same random crashing issues. The problem seemed to be with the logic board, so I replaced that as well.

With the new logic board in place, installing Mac OS High Sierra from USB seems to go fine at first, until it is time to boot. The SSD is recognized by the installer, and the first step of OS installation takes all of 3 minutes. On trying to reboot, though, it boots from the USB instead of the SSD. When removing the USB and rebooting, I get the flashing question mark folder of death.

When inspecting with Disk Utility (disk info), the new SSD, 'Container disk1', and the install partition are all flagged as not bootable.

I tried booting from USB and went to Startup Disk, hoping to select the SSD. No luck, it didn't appear there.

I have tried reformatting the SSD and reinstalling the OS a couple of times, but no change. I'm using the default settings (APFS format, GUID scheme) when formatting the SSD.

I am trying to find out if there is a way to make the SSD bootable from the command line.

Some digging led to the bless command, which seems to serve this purpose. I tried a few variants

bless --setBoot --device /dev/disk1s1

Could not access boot.efi file at /var/tmp/RecoveryTempbless.PQpy/<<<SN>>>/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
Couldn’t set bless data in preboot volume for device /dev/disk1s1

bless —setBoot —mount /Volumes/dotty

Can’t load /Volumes/dotty//usr/standalone/i386/apfs.efi
Could not load apfs.efi data from /Volumes/dotty//usr/standalone/i386/apfs.efi

With no luck. Googling these errors doesn't seem to turn up anything but the original source files so I'm pretty sure I'm barking up the wrong tree.

Looking in /Volumes/dotty (my install partition) showed a pretty sparse file system, with one main directory (macOS install data or similar). Using bless and trying to specify the apfs.efi file that is buried in the install files is of no avail; I get similar errors to those above that I won't type out here.

It looks like the install may have frozen for some reason. What else can I try?


texts: Update from OS X Lion 10.7.5 to macOS Mojave 10.14

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I have recently got a mid 2012 Macbook Air which I installed Lion on. I am trying to update it to Mojave, but even though it is compatible, when downloading it in the App Store I get this error message:

How can I upgrade my Mac to Mojave? Do I need to upgrade to OS X 10.8 first?


texts: New Smart Folder keyboard shortcut doesn't work

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For some reason the keyboard shortcut for New Smart Folder doesn't work for me in Finder and I can't figure out why.  I have quit every program I use that can modify shortcuts - Alfred2, BetterTouchTool, TotalFinder, and PathFinder.  Still, CMD-Shift-N does absolutely nothing in Finder.  Selecting from the File Menu manually works fine, but the shortcut refuses to do anything.

I've also checked in the System Prefs in case there was a rogue shortcut mapped to the same keystroke there, but there is not.

How can I figure out what is preventing this shortcut from working?  I've also seen other shortcuts refuse to work for reasons unknown so I'd love to really get to the bottom of this.


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I want to open a terminal and run a command on a remote computer through SSH. I don’t need to see what is happening in that terminal, but I cannot make it work.

I know to open a browser, for example Chrome, and open to a website it would be:

ssh ssh@login -a “http://www.websitehere.com”

Is there an equivalent for Terminal?


texts: Trying to share an inner directory through the LAN where its outer directory is not shared

texts:
I have MacOS

El Capitan

Through preferences I am able to share directories, such as:

home
 username
   directory-01
   directory-02
   directory-shared <-- unique to be shared through the network
   directory-NN

Until here I am Ok. So, through the LAN the directory-shared directory and all its content can be accessed for a new user created for LAN purposes, lets say lan-user.

Observation: The directory-shared directory is directly within the username path location

I have the following situation:

home
 username
   directory-01
   directory-02
       directory-02A
       directory-02B
       directory-02-to-share <-- I only need shared this directory through the network
       directory-02N
   directory-NN

Observation: The directory-02-to-share directory is not directly within the username path location

Furthermore:

The directory-02 directory it is not shared
Again about the directory-02 directory - I only want share the directory-02-to-shared directory - but is not possible reach the directory-02-to-share through the network.

Seems mandatory share first the directory-02 directory, but doing this - the others directories: directory-02A, directory-02B and directory-02N are shared too

How accomplish that goal?


texts: What is the difference between pmset and systemsetup sleep options?

texts:
On my MacBook Air 2013 (Mountain Lion):

pmset has the following sleep settings:

$ pmset -g
...
 disksleep            10
 sleep                1
 displaysleep         2

while systemsetup has the following settings:

$ systemsetup -getsleep
Sleep: Computer sleeps after 10 minutes
Sleep: Display sleeps after 10 minutes
Sleep: Disk sleeps after 10 minutes

What is the difference between these settings?

Also, Energy Saver shows "Display sleep" is set to 2 minutes, so coincides with pmset, while "Computer sleep" is no longer shown in Mountain Lion I have read. Why is this no longer possible?

UPDATE: Turns out MacBook Air 2013 dropped separate sliders for computer- and display sleep: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1595455
Using pmset to set these individually should still work however. Not sure I like the change though...


texts: Could two WD Passport Ultra 1TB drives be used in the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual mini enclosure as RAID 1?

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I'm thinking of buying one more WD Passport Ultra 1TB (I have one already) so that in the near future I could disassemble the two Passports and install the 1TB drives into the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual mini (0GB, enclosure only) for a RAID 1 setup.

But from this Youtube video of a guy dissembling a 2TB version of the Passport Ultra, he says the "interface is directly soldered onto the drive". Does that mean it won't fit into the OWC enclosure, or in any other enclosures like this as well?

Thanks!


texts: Windows 10 Install Hanging on Internet Connection

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I am doing a clean install on my 15" MacBook Pro, i7, via Boot Camp 6.1.0, Mojave 10.14.5.  I downloaded the latest version of Windows 10 via Microsoft (as of July 2019).  All installs fine and when it reboots into Windows 10 to finish the installation process, it hangs on the screen with blue box that says "Let's Connect you to a Network", but there is no option to choose a network.

Although I entered my wifi and passcode prior to this step during the install process, it does not see an internet connection in which to choose.  I've tried starting over clean three times and it stalls on the same place each time.

Anyone have any suggestions on how I can resolve this?  Sorry if this issue has been posted before, I searched and searched and could not find it.


texts: Restore from Time Machine after installing Bootcamp

texts:
Can I setup Time Machine to backup my Mac and then install Bootcamp?
Then after installing Bootcamp, can I go back to that restore point so Bootcamp will be gone?


texts: Using Automator or AppleScript to encrypt/decrypt with OpenSSL

texts:
I would like to know how to use Automator or AppleScript to create a droplet that would compress/uncompress (tar.gz) and encrypt/decrypt with OpenSSL files and/or directories dropped in it. The workflow on what the droplet will do to encrypt would be something like this:

Files/directory is dropped on droplet
Files/directory is compressed
A password prompt is presented
OpenSSL is used to encrypt file, file is renamed to *.encrypted

To decrypt:

File is dropped on droplet
If file is named *.encrypted, a password prompt is presented. If not, do encrypt workflow
File is decrypted, and renamed
Files is uncompressed

Anyone?


texts: How to identify apps requesting to control the computer under Accessibility

texts: I currently have this "applet" listed as being able to control my computer. Is there a way to identify exactly what this is?


texts:
I am trying to delete a volume and have one whole disk left, without volumes or partitions. I played around with partitioning and deleting multiple times and now it seems, I can't do anything.

This is what it looks like now:

There is no way to delete or click the - symbol, same when I select the other one.

When I go to partition on either one I can not select anything in order to delete, I can only add a partition.

Also it says on the screenshot, that I have 5 volumes, even though I only see two.

How can I fix this?

Edit: Diskutil List Result:

View Devices:


texts: Is it possible to VIEW Google Contacts Customized Fields on iPhone?

texts:
We have some Google Contacts with Customized Fields (not customized email titles) such as:

Certifications Attained:
Years Experience in this Field:
Among other customized fields that show up toward the bottom of the contacts details in Gmail.

What we need however, is to be able to VIEW (or see) these Contacts' Customized Fields (and their answers) on the iPhone or iPad.

We have tried syncing with the recently made available option of CardDAV, but that only shows Relationship fields (in addition to their regular contact info such as phone number, address, etc...).

Can anyone suggest how we can VIEW this contact data on our iPhones/iPad's? I just can not seem to figure this one out.


texts: Mac OS X Lion installation stuck on "Loading Installation Information"

texts:
The issue:

Original Mac Book Air, model A1237
Has probably not been used or charged in a long time
Has probably ran 10.7 Lion

Doing the following:

Use Command+R to enter recovery mode
Use Disk Utility to erase hard drive
Connect to wifi network
Select Reinstall Mac OS X
Hit Continue twice

It now shows "Loading Installation Information", for a long time, possibly forever.


texts: How to have a specific contact make a ring sound even in silent mode

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I have an iPhone 4, and I have the switch on the side set to switch silent mode on and off.

I'd like specific contacts (for example, She Who Must Be Obeyed) to ring when they call, even in silent mode.

I've seen various hacks on the internet suggesting using a "silent" ring tone, but that's not what I want. I basically want two states:

All callers cause the phone to ring (according to their individual ring tone settings)
Almost all callers are silent except for VIPs

Is this possible?


texts: I have two external monitors (both are Sanyo TVs). My Macbook Pro has one Thunderbolt. I purchased a Mini DisplayPort to Dual HDMI Adapter. The adapter is connected to the Mini Display port and to a USB. I have two HDMI cables, each connected to their own HDMI port in the adapter. My problem: The laptop works just fine independently; however, the two external monitors mirror each other. I have tried clicking on Display and clicking on Detect Displays but it does not detect the 3rd monitor or if it does, I am unable to make it work independent of the 2nd monitor - Help, Please!


texts: Can i download soundfiles directly into itunes on my iPad/iphone

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I was wondering if it is possible to download content like an mp3 or movieclip from the internet and directly having it added to the itunes library. So you wont have to connect to the computer to have files sync with your iDevice. Or you can download a movie trailer and automatically have it show up between all your movies.

Is this possible, and if so, how?


texts: Mac Mini has slowed to an unbearable crawl!

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I've read a lot of other questions about speed, but my question does not seem to be answered anywhere.  My Mac Mini is running so slow that I cannot see what I am typing. It takes up to 15 seconds to see the text I just wrote. Any process on the computer runs so slow that I see the spinning beachball all the time.

I've looked in the Console and Activity Monitor, and cannot figure out what is wrong. No single process is taking up more than about 10% of the processor and memory is not maxed out.

I should note this is not a very old computer. It is not the most current, but it is fully capable of running Mountain Lion and has a decent amount of RAM.  Please help, I'm about to jump outta my window!


texts: How to prevent nextDNS VPN profile from being deleted on reboot on macOS 10.15 Catalina

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I use nextDNS from the Mac App Store to manage all my DNS queries. The program is set to launch at login and when it first launches the following dialog window opens:

Selecting 'Allow' stores a VPN profile under System Preferences > Network.

The problem is that the VPN profile gets deleted on each reboot and the dialog window thus re-appears.

Any ideas as to why the VPN profile gets deleted? Is there a way to prevent the VPN profile from being deleted?


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I have a MacBook Pro late 2011 and yesterday my external screen suddenly showed glitches on the screen; much like the screenshots you see from other 2011 MacBook Pro's that have a failing GPU.

As I work with the lid closed, I opened the lid and closed it again and the problem would disappear for a few minutes. I then disconnected my external screen and tried my MacBook pro's build in screen. After working with that for an hour it also started to show glitches. These did not go away after opening and closing the lid.

Becoming more and more annoyed I decided to reset the PRAM, and low and behold, it didn't work. So I went on with resetting the SMC. This is when the real problems started. My MacBook pro now booted up into a grey screen after loading for a bit.

Using Single-User mode I tried repairing the SSD with fsck -fy, this didn't help. Slowly I had to come to the conclusion that it most likely was a dedicated GPU hardware failure.

Then, suddenly my MacBook pro decided that it would want to boot up in Safe Mode, however, after a few minutes vertical and horizontal lines showed up again.

So, I decided to turn off the dedicated GPU by moving the kernel extensions into another folder. This worked but made everything very slow. After putting everything back, I decided to follow the following instructions:

http://www.asyncro.com/2014/03/24/macbook-pro-discreate-graphics-card-issue-fix-updated/

Having followed every instruction, including letting my MacBook overheat, my notebook was still slow.

Now, here is the thing, after putting all kernel extensions back into place and restoring everything back to normal, the notebook suddenly started normally at full speed using the dedicated graphics card.

Until now I have not experienced any problems (few hours later). At first I thought that it might be because of the gfxCardStatus software, so I deleted that in order to replicate the problem. However, my MacBook is still running fine now and I seem not to be able to replicate the problem.

My Question

Can it be that all my problems were caused by a badly behaving SMC and that there is nothing wrong with the dedicated GPU?


texts: App Previews for iPhone 6+, using an other iOS device

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I'm trying to create an App Preview Video for a game we did.
I recorded using QuickTime, plus iMovie to create it. I recorded the videos with iPhone 5, iPhone 6 and iPad.

But I don't have an iPhone 6 Plus to record on 1920x1080. So my question is, will users who are on an iPhone 6 Plus see the video or only the screenshots?

I read some similar topics, but the answers were contradicted.


texts: Messages asking me permission to access the proxy data stored in keychain

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When connected to my office network, I keep getting messages asking me permission to access the proxy data stored in keychain. They keep popping up every few minutes (even seconds), no matter what I do.
I enter my keychain password and click on "Always", but the messages still appear. I click on "Deny" and they still come back!
And if I click on "Deny", nothing seems to happen: everything works fine alla the same... These messages look like they are perfectly useless...
I attach a screenshot.


texts: Remove Preview window for all Finder windows

texts: One day something happened and the Preview window on the right hand side of the window started appearing in all my Finder windows. How can I make it go away permanently? If I close it, it only closes for that one particular folder.


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I am using Mac OS X 10.9.1 (Mavericks) on a late 2012 27" iMac, running Safari 7.0.1 and I always install all new software updates.

But now I have a problem with midi-files that are embedded in websites (like wikipedia, take http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonality as an example). When I click on one of those midi-files I expect to hear music. But instead I get an error message telling me that there is no plugin for content of the type "audio/midi".

Where can I download the missing plugin?

I am not really shure, but I believe that playing midi files from a website was no problem in previous versions of OS X. Is this a bug in Mavericks?

EDIT 1 (Nov 2014):

This question is almost one year old and has more then 10,000 views, but is still left without an useful answer. And midi is still not supported by Safari 8 and Yosemite.

I do NOT want to download outdated software to use a widely used feature that was supported for many years and is neither a security risk nor any other harm to any computer, just because Apples developers are too reluctant and lame to continue supporting such a simple file format. And I do NOT want to download files and later open them with some other software.

What I want is this:

A plugin for Safari that I can install additionally to any other plugins (meaning: leave the newest Quicktime-plugin as it is and additionally install a new midi-plugin that is independent from Quicktime) to be able to hear music when I click onto a link to a midi-file in a html-document like this.

EDIT 2 (Dec 2014, when starting the bounty):

12,000+ views and still no useful answer.
To win the bounty please post a link to a site where you can download a plugin for Safari that is independent from Quicktime, that can be installed without replacing Quicktime to make it possible to play music that is encoded in Midi-files, like Quicktime did in previous times, just by clicking on a link to a midi-file.

EDIT 3 (May 2015):

20,000+ views and still no useful answer.

I can't believe, that there is really no plugin for Safari (or other browsers running on an iMac; OS X) that is able to play midi-music.

As with any other audio file that is linked in a website, I just want to click on it and do no other extras to hear the music that is stored in this file.

Hey, this worked already 20 years ago, in 1995, in the first days of Internet. This can't be so hard in 2015!


texts: Unable to format Mac internal drive (disk0)

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I have an macbook air late 2008 running osx El capitan and I wanted to erase my driver and reinstall the macos. So first i booted into recovery mode and tried formating my hard dive in disk utility but then I got an error
"MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation" then again I tried the same thing for 3 times and it still showed me the same error. Then I tried formating the drive in terminal but I still get the same error. I tried searching the net and found solutions only for external drive and found no solution for a internal one. So pls tell me a solution to erase and reinstall the os in my mac.

Note: I am trying to reinstall the OS on the primary internal disk that is disk0.


texts: Can't access /etc folder in OS X Mountain Lion

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In OS X Mountain Lion's Finder, I can see a grayed-out /etc folder, but cannot see inside.  Using Terminal's ls command, I can see the existence of a file that one of my programs is trying to find (Free Pascal's fpc program has a fpc.cfg file in /etc).

How can I change parameters for this folder to enable more open access?


texts: Is it normal for 2018 Mac Mini to make screetchy noises?

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I have just purchased a new 2018 Mac Mini with a SSD drive.

Sometimes when reading or writing, it makes a quite screetchy noise. It's not loud, but however it's quite sharp which made me cautious.

I was under the impression that SSD's don't make any particular noises. I have a MacBook Pro Late-2017 with a SSD, and I never hear it make any noises when read/writing.

Please have a listen to the audio file below. Note that the microphone is close to the computer, so the fan and screetch noise is relatively loud in the clip. In reality, it's noticeable but quite muted. Most of the screetch noise is heard in the beginning.

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1piq8nQW12V

Perhaps it's not even the SSD making these noises?


texts: How to set default input source in Mac OS X Lion

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I use two keyboard layouts (input sources) in my everyday work - the standard US and Russian-PC. In System Preferences/Language & Text/Input Sources I have activated the "Allow different input source for each document" option. Incidentally, I also have English as the top language in System Pereferences/Language & Text/Languages, even though that is not relevant to this particular problem. I also have Input Menu enabled at login window and experience no problems with that.

However, when launching a new window or application, I can never be sure what language I will start typing in. That's very inconvenient, especially in full-screen apps/windows/modes. I have been unable to determine a consistent pattern of when and why the input source changes or whether it even consistently "sticks" to the an application or window.

Extensive googling and searching through existing q&a here yielded no satisfactory answers. Most confuse the question with the language selection. I have once stumbled on a tip saying that if you press-and-hold the input source switch keyboard shortcut (⌘-space in my case), you will get a visual switch cue (which is true), and that the default will "stick" to the value at which you release the keys (which I couldn't prove is working, at least for me, also default for what? current window?)

So the question is - how do I set a systemwide default input source, which will be applied to every new invoked application and its windows?


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I just downloaded the iAntivirus app from the Mac App Store. I wanted it to scan my whole hard drive for viruses, so it presented me with an Open dialog box pointing at the root of the hard drive (so that the computer can get access outside of its sandbox). I clicked ok, and the app started.

What I found odd was that I was never presented with a login box. The program was given access to files in the System folder, Library folder, etc. that only I could edit by typing in an admin username and password. Is this a security issue with sandboxing or is that the way it's supposed to work?


texts: How Would I Manually Uninstall Search Encrypt On My MacBook?

texts: How would I uninstall Search Encrypt manually? I have a MacBook Pro and my toddler installed this bloody thing and it creates pop-ups and annoys me to no end. I have previously tried to find a way by simply googling it, but most instructions are specified for Windows and unclear.


texts: Calendar invite sends email to one address and invite to another

texts: When I send my partner an iPad calendar invite to one email address she gets a Calendar invite, but if I send the invite another address (a gmail one) she gets an email message. How can I set up calendar so both are calendar invites?


texts: Audio Distortion After 2 Minutes of Music in Stock MBP

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I have a MBP (13 inch early 2015, running 10.11.4) which after about 2 minutes of producing audio (Skype, Youtube from Firefox, iTunes...) via either the internal speakers or a pair of earbuds starts producing crackling distorted sound. Stopping the music and restarting also restarts the time-to-crackle.

I am unsure how long this has been happening, but there are no USB, Thunderbolt devices, or even the power charge connected as mentioned in this question.

Unlike this question this is a stock machine.

The machine has not been through any physical abuse/drops.

Is this likely to be resolvable as a software problem, or do I need to visit the Apple store for hardware help?


texts: In iOS or macOS Contacts App, I would like to duplicate a contact. What is the easyest way to do this?

texts: I am planning to keep some of the info in the original contact and all of it in the copy, where I would later add more. What is the best way to accomplish this.


texts: Properly delete and then restore everything in iCloud Photos

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Due to what seems to be a very unusual bug, the storage counter for my iCloud account is stuck thinking that I have occupied more Photos storage than I really have. I was briefly in contact with Apple support, and I want to empty iCloud of photos and videos completely (basically down to 0 bytes). I want to do this to make sure that the storage usage is properly calculated.

After deleting all Photo/Video content in iCloud, I then want to restore the photos, videos, and preferably also all meta data (dates, folders, locations…) in its entirety.

Question: What would be the suggestible way to accomplish this?

I have Photos on my iMac set to "Download and keep all originals". Can I simply make a backup of Photos Library.photoslibrary, then go to iCloud.com and delete everything in the "Photos app", and somehow restore everything from the photoslibrary file?

I want to be absolutely sure that everything on iCloud is properly saved and restored. Even if that means that I have to download everything from iCloud.com – in case that the photoslibrary file for some discrepant reason may be incomplete relative to what's actually in iCloud.


texts: Is there a Broswer on Ipad capable of "Add a Keyword for this Search" (or Quick Searches) feature?

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On desktop, Mozilla Firefox has a nice feature to define a smart keyword to enable searching a website through the browser. The details can be found here. This feature is sometimes called Quick Searches.

On IPad, neither Safari, nor Firefox seem to have this feature.

Is there a browser on IPad, capable of this feature?


texts:
I'm trying to replicate the setup I used with my iPhone 6 for music production.

On iPhone 6, I was able to have

midi input from a digital piano, via lightning port
audio output to a mixer, via headphones jack

Is there a way to do this on iPhone 7, perhaps with a 3rd party adapter?


texts: Change font of Terminal programmatically w/o restarting

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At home I've got a nice big display that unfortunately does not have the same resolution as my retina macbook does.

I'd like to use a pixel-font on the low-res screen and a nice smooth one on the retina screen. To do this I've set up a script that listens to an event when the display is connected.

I've set up two profiles in Terminal.app, one for the low-res screen and one for the retina screen.

Is there a way to make a profile the "default" profile (eg using applescript) without restarting Terminal.app (otherwise defaults com.apple.terminal ... would have done it)

The following script works by changing the current default profile (so it's not entirely what I need, but might work if I find the names of all the settings I want to change):

#!/usr/bin/env osascript -l JavaScript
function run (argv) {
  var terminal = Application('Terminal');

  terminal.defaultSettings.fontName = 'creep';
  terminal.defaultSettings.fontSize = 16;

  // these don't seem to work
  // because I do not know their names, and it's hard to debug guessing them
  // terminal.defaultSettings.fontAntialiasing = false;
  // terminal.defaultSettings.fontHeigthSpacing = 0.8;
}

I'd have to write a script to revert the changes


texts: Fresh install of macOS takes up too much space

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I recently downloaded the macOS Catalina beta. However, it messed up a lot of my daily apps, so I decided to downgrade back to macOS Mojave. I did the following:

Backed up everything
Shut down Mac
Turn it on while pressing Command + Option + R until a spinning globe appeared
Selected "Reinstall macOS"
Waited until it finished
Opened Disk Utility
Removed past partition (macOS Catalina one)
Checked how much free space I had and found this:

It says that I currently have 104.73 GB available of 499.96 GB! And almost 400GB are being used by the system!

How can I get my space back? Where should I start looking?

When I click on "Manage" (Administrar...) this is what my system shows:

I'm using a 13" 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar with macOS Mojave 10.14.5 (18F132).


texts: Alternative of `route -n` of Linux in Mac

texts:
How can I see the list of routes and its corresponding gateway in a Mac ? The command in linux is route -n .

For a particular IP address, I am able to get the routes for an particular IP address via route get 10.0.0.0.


texts: I recently installed Yosemite on my MacBook Air. I note that my Reading List items no longer display the icon/logo from the web pages. They were very handy for quickly locating the item I was looking for without having to read through all the text. Is there a way to restore them?


texts: Script to click app on Menu Bar on Mavericks

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I use an application called NoSleep.  Technically it is a Kernel Extension.  It is used to prevent a Mac (OSX Mavericks) from going to sleep when you close the lid.

https://code.google.com/p/macosx-nosleep-extension/

NoSleep works fantastically well.  I only have one issue.  I want the NoSleep feature ON when the computer boots and performs auto login.  By default NoSleep is running but in an  off state.  To toggle on, you simply click (once) the NoSleep icon on the system bar (up where volume, dropbox etc shows up), upper right.

I would like a simple AppleScript that I can run at startup as an App using System Preferences/ Users and Groups / login items.  That just clicks that icon.


texts: Install macOS High Sierra as VirtualBox guest (on macOS High Sierra)?

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I would like to install a VirtualBox guest of macOS High Sierra on my MacBook Pro that is also running macOS High Sierra so that I can experiment with MDMs, etc. without rendering my primary laptop unusable.  I've created an ISO of High Sierra by downloading the installer from the Mac AppStore and running the following commands:

hdiutil create -o /tmp/HighSierra.cdr -size 7316m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J

hdiutil attach /tmp/HighSierra.cdr.dmg -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build

asr restore -source /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/install_build -noprompt -noverify -erase

hdiutil detach /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System

hdiutil convert /tmp/HighSierra.cdr.dmg -format UDTO -o /tmp/HighSierra.iso

mv /tmp/HighSierra.iso.cdr ~/Desktop/HighSierra.iso

I've also created my VirtualBox guest on VirtualBox 5.2.0 r118431 with 8GB RAM and 2 processors.  However, when I attempt to boot from the ISO to start the install process, I'm met with a blank, black screen.

Is there something else I need to do in order to create my virtual macOS instance?


texts: iTunes says I have more photos than I really do

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I have a 5th generation, 16GB iPod Touch that has iOS 8.1.0. I have a fairly recent version of iTunes.

I recently deleted over 1000 photos off my iPod and also deleted them out of the Recently Deleted section. (Note: I also have the photo streaming thing turned off.) When I plug my iPod into my computer, it still says that I have over 2000 pictures that are taking up 4GB of space on my iPod!


texts: Problem connecting to public wifi on Macbook Pro

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When I try to connect to public WiFi networks that have a pop-up window to finish connecting, a notice comes down saying “A problem occurred. The webpage could not be loaded” and I am unable to fully connect.

Are there any tips on how to authenticate to a WiFi network when the authentication/authorization page won't load like that?


texts: iPhone 6s nagged to update to 13.3, so I did but now I cannot use Whatsapp

texts:
Don't know where to start, did everything wrong.
My frustation the last 24 hours:
My iPhone 6s request me to update since a couple of months, so yesterday I thought let's do it. In summary:

did not make a recent backup first
click update software wireless mode - got a blinking apple logo after 45 mins
panic mode
got it connected to iTunes, update went to 75% and then I got a error 9
tried more times -> error 9
now it's 03;00
hit the "set to fabric" + last backup (march 2019) in iTunes
hopeful, after fabric + backup my phone seemed to work, but then my iPhone freezes - restarts - freezes -restarts after I downloaded apps which only had the icon but need to be downloaded from the cloud
I read online some apps could be the cause so I deleted a bunch
(04:30) all apps I do use I reinstalled
BUT whatsapp is not working along....I removed the app, but in the App Store I only see "open" not a "cloud" or download and on my iPhone I see a general icon with grey lines
and my iphone freezes - restarts at random times..

What to do, how can I fix this, besides getting a new phone?


texts: Before iOS 7 on the iPhone, there was an option in settings to turn off the gloss on apps, how can I do so on iOS 7?


texts: Bash Tab-Completion for OSX Specific commands

texts:
I've been looking around and I can't seem to find a bash completion rule set for macOS specific utilities. (i.e. diskutil, kext(*whatever), networksetup, defaults, launchctl, etc.) comparable to tab-completion for git commands.

Specifically, I would like to have TAB print a list of the options for the tool.

Does that exist?


texts: Apps don't gain focus when switching between them in Mission Control with a touchpad

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I have this weird issue where if I switch between two apps with a trackpad they do not gain focus and I have to click the app to start working in it.
Note that, by "switching between apps", I mean switching between 2 "desktop spaces" in Mission Control, one desktop space having just 1 app open at a time.
This is super annoying as it is way more convenient to, for example, be able to just press CommandT to open a new tab in Chrome instead of having to click the app and then press CommandT. This issue is reoccurring, I've had times when it went away and then came back again.
Or am I just imagining stuff? It may just be that I never noticed this, but I would definitely remember being annoyed by something.


texts:
Are there any apps for OS X that can edit photos metadata (such as keywords, etc.) without all the bells and whistles of full stack photo management apps (such as Lightroom, iPhoto, etc.) with the option of embedding it in the file rather than keeping it in a separate place?

Some more info:

I want to retain my own folder structure with photos and don’t prefer programs organizing them in their own way and their own place.
I want to hard code all the metadata in the photos themselves so they are easily portable.
I want to be able to edit metadata in a batch when necessary
No command line tools, GUI apps only (thanks, @IconDaemon)


texts: Update style button not appearing in Pages

texts:
This issue occurs for me constantly in Mac Pages. When I want to update a style, such as changing line-spacing or fonts, the "Update" button will not appear next to the selected style in the format section. Therefore I cannot make global changes to the style.

Sometimes I am able to "force" the button to appear by changing line spacing to a different number then click Update, then change it back, then click Update again. But this does not always cause the Update button to appear either. The appearances are totally random.


texts: Are there any statistics available about failure rates for MacBook Air by time? For example, what are the chances of failing within 1, 3, 6, 12 months, etc.


texts: Can't prevent Preview from permitting copying content with Adobe Acrobat document security

texts:
I create educational products and sell at an online marketplace.  I buy clipart and use this.

I create using Pages on my Mac, I then press Print, PDF, open in Preview, grab the thumbnail and combine each page to form a document.  On completion, I export the document to PDF.

I am currently trialling Adobe Acrobat Pro and have followed the steps to secure the document. I have included a screenshot of security options I have set.  I do save the settings and the PDF says by the file name SECURE. I then zip this with another secure file as I need to create my products in US letter and A4 so I zip together and then I upload to the website.

However when I have downloaded I can still lift the clipart.  I have tried this on 3 different Macs and it still can be lifted.  Does Adobe not work with Pages, does zipping affect the security issues or is it that I open on macs and they can override the security settings?

I have read somewhere that the Preview application overrides adobe security settings.  I have not bought Adobe is there another PDF application for Macs that includes security settings I must lock the clipart or I am liable for copyright.


texts:
How can I get rid of the Right hand column (with Margin, layout info) on
the Pages. I just want the page to show my letter when sending.

I run Pages v5 on OS X Yosemite.


texts: iphone Album Covers randomly come up imusic app when trying to play music

texts: I have playlist on my iphone 5c saved in imusic (imported from itunes).  Right in the middle of an important presentation, without touching anything, the screen went to a checkerboard of album covers, and no matter how I scrolled or what I did this screen would not leave and I did not have access to use my playlist (which I had up and ready to go).  The presentation music had to be played at very exact times. It had worked fine before. Very frustrating.  Not sure what and why this happened.  Anyone have suggestions to avoid this happening again?


texts: Is there a way to stop Xcode from switching to split view when running?

texts:
I'm recording some video tutorials and would really like to disable the split view that Xcode automatically switches to when you build and run. Below is an example of what I'm talking about.

Before clicking build:

After build clicked:

Question

Is there a way to stop Xcode from switching to split view when running the application?


texts: How to combine files in subdirectories in macOS

texts:
I have a folder with a lot of subfolders named as dates.
1-1-2013, 1-1-2014, 1-1-2015, ...

I want to combine all the files in subfolders that match the same year into a new folder named after the year. So in this example, all the folders ending in the year 2013 (1-1-2013) would go into a folder named "2013" and so on.
How do I accomplish this with Automator?


texts: "Alignment grid" suddenly showed up on my desktop

texts:
I am on OS X 10.9   Yesterday, an "alignment grid" mysteriously showed up on my desktop.  How do I get rid of it?

The grid lines don't show up when I do a proper, OS X screenshot. So I've taken a picture of my physical monitor, an Asus monitor, to show the problem.


texts: Is it worth upgrading to iOS 12 on an iPhone 5s

texts:
According to the WWDC 2018 Apple Keynote, iOS 12 will bring speed improvements with respect to its predecessors.

However, I was wondering whether it is worthy to upgrade an iPhone 5s to iOS 12? In particular, I am worried that iOS 12 will have an impact on the battery performance of my iPhone 5s.

Has anybody tried to do that?


texts: Would increasing RAM in a MacMini6,1 (2012) improve performance of MAME?

texts:
I am trying to run a recent build of MAME on a Mac Mini from 2012 (MacMini6,1) that has 8GB of RAM installed in it (2x4G) and an SSD. I've found that under Mojave, MAME runs but slows down on a regular basis. I used to run the same games on an older MacPro3,1 (2008) which had zero problems with slowdown, albeit it did have a dedicated GPU.
I'm a bit surprised that I'm seeing such poor performance on the Mini, given that its CPU is faster in pretty much every benchmark in comparison to the Mac Pro's Xeon; the only exception is when you look at heavy multithreading performance and 8 cores will simply beat out the Mini's 2 cores (4 threads).
So trying to figure out what might be the issue here I'm thinking that perhaps it is due to the shared system RAM that gets used by the Intel Graphics 4000? Before I drop $70 on a RAM upgrade for this old mini, I'm curious if that would even make a difference. I know it won't increase VRAM (and that is not the desire), but does the integrated graphics RAM usage fight with system RAM/SWAP/Compression/etc.? FWIW, I am not really running anything else on the Mini when observing this sluggishness. Otherwise, the box seems fast enough for basic tasks.


texts: Can't install Xcode Command Line Tools on Mountain Lion

texts:
I try to install the most recent (july 25) version of Command Line Tools (xcode44cltools_10_76938107a.dm), downloaded from https://developer.apple.com/downloads/, but are stopped with the error message
"This package can only be installed on OS X 10.7
Install a version of the Command Line Tools that
supports OS X 10.8."

But I can't find any better version; if such exist why isn't it on the Developer site?


texts: Is there a way to record a video call on the ipad? Video call could be w/ Skype, Facetime, etc

texts:
I need to record a video call to someone on an iPad.

Any suggestions on what /how to do that?

I'd be using a Windows PC or iPad2 on my end.


texts: How to switch to the day calendar with iOS 7

texts:
I recently switched an iPhone from iOS 6 to iOS 7.1.2.
Within iOS 6 I was using Calendar on the day display and week display mode continuously. It was easy to a point I can't even recall how I did this switching (we should take notes when we see an interface which is working nicely).

With iOS 7.1.2 I have a serious interface problem.

Within Calendar I am able to switch from an annual view to a month view with the month name topleft red button. I discovered that I can also switch back to the month view by clicking on the month name red header.
But I can't see any way to switch to a day or week view.
On the bottom left corner I have a Today red button, but it doesn't do anything.

What is the intelligent method to access the actual day calendar?


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I've been trying to get Perian to work in Lion, basically QuickTime simply refuse to play any files other than the standard QuickTime supported file types (Perian is supposed to add this functionality).

I tried uninstalling Perian and installing it again, but doesn't seem to be working. From a quick google search it seems that so many people has this problem, and some of them seems to get this working again by reinstalling but I didn't. Anyone got any ideas how to fix this?

It looks like a widespread problem. Tried following all those tips without luck. Maybe someone can tell me which things to delete in /Library/QuickTime?

Edit: I found the ticket(http://trac.perian.org/ticket/622) and the developer says that this is not Perian bug and they won't fixed it.


texts: When I double tap on an image url when using Safari, the selected text includes the extension only if the filename is lower case. Why?

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I write a lot of SE questions and when I include multiple images I frequently copy/paste just the names.
I've just started using Safari on my new MacBook after using Chrome on my old MacBook, and I've discovered that when I double-tap to select the text it sometimes grabs the .jpg extension and sometimes doesn't. As far as I can tell this depends on whether the imgur filename begins with an upper case or a lower case letter.
Is there any way I can get this selection behavior to be case-agnostic?
With chrome the selection always stops before the period, but Safari seems to be more "creative" in where the selection ends.

Try it yourself!
i.stack.imgur.com/GESmi.png
i.stack.imgur.com/124RA.png
i.stack.imgur.com/eFGbq.jpg
i.stack.imgur.com/JOKd4.jpg  double tapping only selects "JOKd4" and not ".jpg"
i.stack.imgur.com/amD8b.jpg
i.stack.imgur.com/wbP9b.jpg
i.stack.imgur.com/bidkm.jpg
i.stack.imgur.com/bebR8.jpg


texts: Can I add a room number to an event's location?

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Suppose I have an event at a building of which the location can find the address so I get a nice travel time estimate. Problem is, the building contains an awful lot of rooms and I'd really like to add the room number to the location (as that shows up in my overview).

So how can I add the room number to the location without the automatic travel time estimates breaking?


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I use an iMac running macos High Sierra. I was trying to do something with my Documents folder and I turned off iCloud on my "Desktop and Documents" by unchecking the box in the System Preferences/icloud/option window as shown below.

Once I finished I wanted to turn iCloud back on by clicking the above checkbox. However, it will not turn back on. When I click on the checkbox the checkmark appears as shown below and a message saying "Setting Up..." appears.

But if I close System Preferences and then reopen them, the checkmark is gone. Can someone tell me how to turn iCloud on for "Desktop and Documents"


texts: iTunes charges when it's advertised as free

texts: Why does it advertise free for 3D tour of ancient Jewish temple then when I try to install the app it asks for credit card details


texts: How to log in to a Mac OSX desktop with no user account password?

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My mom was nice enough to give me her boss's old Mac OS X desktop. The issue is I have no information about login names or password. I can turn it on and off and that is all.

How can I login and get my account set up?


texts: Receiving txt messages on two apple devices

texts: When ever I send or receive a text message from my iPhone, it appears on my spouses iPad and iPhone. Yet, the reverse is not true. I think this is an iCloud issue and my be controlled by adjusting preferences somewhere, but I don't know how.


texts: Eliminate desktop switching transition/delay

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When switching desktops on Mac OS, there is always a fade in/out transition. This transition is quick, but still quite noticeable and annoying when one switches few times in a minute.

Is there a way how to make the switch insantaneous? (like in windows, gnome...)
I've tried all the standard accessibility options, motion reducitons etc., to no avail.


texts: Do I need Parallels Pro to run Visual Studio?

texts: I'm considering installing Parallels to use Visual Studio for my personal use. Can I use the standard $80 version of Parallels? Or do I really need to commit to $100 a year for the Pro version?


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It used to be that if I clicked a web link to an NYTimes article from Safari, the article would open in the NYTimes app. At some point, I must have changed this setting, and now, NYTimes links open in Safari.

I can't find anything in Safari or the NYTimes app area of Settings that seems to revert to the old behavior, nor in the settings inside the NYTimes app itself. Is there a way to restore the old behavior of opening links in their respective apps?

Edit: I have NYTimes app installed, I am on iOS 9.3.1, and I am not using private browsing, so some of the typical answers (thanks John Ramos!) aren't helping here.

I have also tried deleting cookies, history, and local data from Safari, and uninstalling and reinstalling the NYTimes app -- all have no effect.


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My Mac's Touch Bar's display doesn't work near the Touch ID button, and I have no idea why. There is supposed to be a Siri button at that location, but it's not there.

The touch still works at the black area, but I hope the display isn't broken or something.

Tried Restarting and resetting the SMC, but it didn't work.

Device: MBP 2018 13-inch Touch Bar
OS: macOS Mojave 10.14.6

When I screenshot the Touch Bar, the Siri button is in it:


texts: Trying to upgrade to macOS sierra from OS X 10.8.5

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Every time I've tried to download macOS sierra from the app store I'm getting this message: "macOS sierra failed to download. Use purchases page to try again".

I've rebooted my computer many times and tried clearing the app store cache. I just tried resetting the application from the debug menu and set the logging level to 2. I'm seeing these phrases a few times throughout the logs:

02/25/17 12:10:06.560 DownloadOperation: Download failed with error: Error Domain=ISErrorDomain Code=3 "URL Error" UserInfo=0x7ff5d204ae90

02/25/17 12:10:06.561 absolutePathForAppBundleWithIdentifier "com.apple.InstallAssistant.Sierra" path "(null)"

Does anyone know anything else I can try to fix this?


texts: Bluetooth/WiFi cannot be turned off in control Center on iOS 13.4.1

texts: I don’t know if this has been talked about in the past, but I’m new to the iPhone, so I’m not sure how this works. When I toggle the WiFi or Bluetooth off on the control Center, it shows a message that says: turning off Bluetooth WiFi communications until tomorrow. Does this mean that it’s just not turning off at all? Turning it off from the settings seems to help, but doing it from control Center simply does nothing.


texts: See progress of Spotlight re-indexing in El Capitan

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Other Questions and Answers address how to check the progress of Spotlight rebuilding its index, previous to El Capitan: Click the Spotlight menu. The menu/panel that appears reports a progress bar if re-indexing is in progress.

In El Capitan, that menu/panel no longer appears. Now a grey box appears in the middle of the screen where we are expected to enter our search words. The re-indexing progress bar no longer appears.


texts: Install Homebrew package and ignore md5 hash

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I am trying to install some software using homebrew, and when downloading and trying to install one of the dependencies, the package won't install because of an MD5 mismatch.

Is it possible to get homebrew to ignore the MD5 hash of a file and carry on with the installation?


texts: Moving Notes.app notes from one computer to another without using iCloud

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I had a bad experience with iCloud overwriting files between 2 laptops in my account (moving to my new laptop soon), so I took my new laptop off of iCloud. Now I don't have all my notes. I'm afraid of reconnecting to iCloud while the other laptop is still connected for fear of having important files overwritten again. Can I just copy the folders that hold the Notes.app from one to another. My old one is running High Sierra and the new one is Mojave.
I tried copying the folders relating to notes in both Containers and Group Containers and it didn't seem to work. No notes still on my new laptop.

I do not want to export them one at a time and then have to reimport them so I was hoping to do it that way. I have a lot of notes. Or is there a "safe" way to reconnect to iCloud? I'd like to at least disable Desktop and Documents prior to reconnecting but would rather avoid that altogether.


texts: Stop automatically opening Photos.app when inserting formatted SD card

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Whenever I put in my SD card, the Photos app opens automatically. I can set it to not open on a per-device basis, but since I format my SD card frequently that doesn't really help.

How can I stop this? I don't really ever want to use the Photos app at all.


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When wallpaper settings are set to change every hour (or whatever time period) and is set to random order, it appears to be impossible to report the get, as a string, the location of the current wallpaper. For instance, my wallpaper is currently showing an image with this path (which I found by hand):

/Users/tim/Pictures/Wallpaper/4216_abstract.jpg

If I run osascript -e 'tell app "finder" to get posix path of (get desktop picture as alias)' to try to get the path of the currently set wallpaper, it reports:

/Library/Desktop Pictures/Bahamas Aerial.jpg

This particular image isn't even in the same folder as the images I have set. However this happens to be the first wallpaper I ever set when I set up this particular mac, merely 2 weeks ago (which is why I remember it).

If I hold opt and command whilst clicking on the Desktop tab of the Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane, then click on the Debug button, it reports my wallpaper as

/Users/tim/Pictures/Wallpapers/127934508754.jpg

which is different to what is actually set. BUT it also happens to be the last image i CLICKED ON in the wallpaper selection window. It isn't what is currently showing, but you can see how it's kinda related - it's what I started with in this folder before setting the randomiser option.

So how can I get the string filename and/or path of the image that is actually set as the current wallpaper?


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Sometimes I experience strange behaviour within the Finder. When I drag files to another Finder window the highlighted drop zones are incorrect and if I attempt to edit a file name the location of the edit-textfield is wrong as well.

The highlight zone seems to be connected to the Finder windows previous location. I noticed other users had this problem (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6663266?start=0&tstart=0) but no answer was ever supplied.

Has anybody experienced similar issues and found a (preferably permanent) solution to this problem?


texts: How to make non-editable non-savable PDF into editable and savable?

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My university provides forms such as here in non-editable and non-savable form (it also has some odd sign such as 'Print form' that I need to remove). I am able to print the document with Illustrator and edit it this way even without the 'Print form' but if I print it through browser, it has this odd sign 'Print form'. I don't want to rewrite things again-and-again. Is it possible to make the PDF so that people without Illustrator were able to edit and save it?

Is there a way to make the PDF editable and savable in OS X?
Is the only way do it with Adobe Illustrator?


texts: I have a Macbook Pro from late 2011 with a failing hard drive that had macOS and Windows 7 installed on it. I just bought a new one and decided to put in a Windows 10 USB to boot from since I never used macOS that often anymore. Once I got everything setup there were no drivers (which was expected), so I downloaded them from the Bootcamp Assistant tool on a friends computer. When I try and launch the drivers setup.exe I get the error "This version of Bootcamp is not intended for this computer model". Is there any way to bypass this error or should I download the drivers from somewhere else?


texts: How to change this terminal customization tutorial for usage in zsh rather than bash?

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This tutorial gives instructions on how to customize the look of macOS's Terminal application. I followed the instructions but used zsh where it said bash in hopes that it would work, but it didn't. I changed the shell to Bash to see how it would work, and it did, but I need to use zsh for work purposes. Is there a way to adapt the tutorial for use in zsh rather than Bash, or is there a tutorial for customizing your zsh shell?
Thanks in advance.


texts: How to remove old epson software from iMac?

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My iMac has been running slow and hanging.  I looked and found that a lot of old EPSON printer software is still running and installed. I found an uninstall executable in finder:

But when I try to open that I get this error:

So I tried looking at that file via terminal and I found that is actually a directory and the actuall executable is here:

MyiMac:/ root# /Applications/Epson\ Software/Uninstaller.app/Contents/MacOS/Uninstaller

and when I execute that executable this window eventually pops up and hangs:

How can remove this epson garbage off my system?

Update: I have followed the instructions described here: https://epson.com/Support/wa00350

and the EPSON folder has been removed from the /Library/Printers:

Yet there is still EPSON software running on my system:

And I can still see EPSON applications in launchpad:

Note I did have trouble rebooting my iMac and had to pull the power plug out because the system hung during boot up.  Fortunately, the second boot attempt was successful.


texts: Is it possible to have two partitions on external drive that is used for time machine backups?

texts: Basically I want to create to partitions on the external SSD drive, one for backups using time machine and one for windows 10 that I will boot externally. Is something like this possible?


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At times, the alarm in my iPhone 4S sometimes doesn't go off as set. Or actually, it goes off and I see the corresponding UI on the screen but there is NO sound.

This happens very randomly, may be once in ten times but is obviously not acceptable in an alarm application.

This mostly happens when the phone is in silent mode (which is still NOT expected behavior I am sure) but has also happened a couple times when the phone was non-silent.

How do I fix this?


texts: Copying Files From Windows Share To OSX Share Results In Access Denied

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When copying files/folders from a share on a Windows server to a share on our OSX (10.4.7 Server) using a Snow Leopard workstation. The Linux workstations get "Access Denied" errors.

All users are using the same credentials.

Windows users can access the files on the OSX Server.
OSX workstations can access the files.
Linux workstations and the (admin) user logged on to the OSX sever itself cannot access the files.

On the OSX server itself, the folder has a little red indicator on it with a line through the icon. Get Info -> Ownership & Permission has "You have [No Access]".

I looked into chmod -R -N on the server, but I guess this version of OSX Server does not support then -N switch. Anyway, I would rather get to the root cause.
This only happens on files/folders that are copied from a separate Windows server's share. Folders/Files created by the OSX workstations can be access everywhere fine.
All copying is being done from the Snow Leopard OSX Workstations.
Tried copying the files from the Windows Servers to the local workstation, then copying them to the OSX server, same result.

Any suggestions as to where to begin debugging this? Is there anyway for the Snow Leopard users to copy files from the Windows server to the OSX server without copying permissions? (or ACLs?)

UPDATE: By checking "Ignore ownership on this volume" for the volume in question, I am now allowed to access the folders on the OSX server itself. However the Linux clients still cannot access said folders. And this actually locks out the OSX workstations from accessing said folders.


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I have altered my iTunes playlist on my PC because I had to get a new computer due to some hacker putting a crypto lock on my hard drive. I never used the iCloud to back up my playlist and thought that I was backing up my playlist properly on an external hard drive. Turns out that I never backed up my playlist properly. I lost everything! So, I  painstakingly loaded all of my CDs into my playlist on my PC. I also went through the trouble of eliminating duplicate songs, which I had never done before. I still have my previous playlist on my iPhone and iPod. Since I am so ignorant when it comes to this stuff, I didn't know if I could have backed up either my iPhone or iPod to the PC playlist instead of importing all of my CDs again to the PC playlist. So, I went through the agony of importing the CDs. I actually have no knowledge on how iTunes playlists work. Now that I went through the trouble of importing all of my CDs again and eliminated the duplicate songs.

if I plug my iPhone into the tower and sync and backup my iPhone, will the syncing replace my new PC playlist with my iPhone playlist?
And, will the syncing also put songs and albums that are on my iPhone, but not on my PC playlist, from my iPhone to my PC playlist.


texts: Why does "System Information" want access to Contacts to auto-empty trash?

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macOS High Sierra – 10.13.3 (17D102)

I clicked Apple / About This Mac / Storage / Manage, and System Information app launches with a series of suggestions to reduce disk usage.

One suggestion is to empty the trash of items older than 30 days, which sounds appealing.

Upon clicking that, the green "completed" checkmark is added, but then macOS immediately asks for "System Information" to access my Contacts.

Why is that? What does Contacts app specifically and uniquely have to do with auto-emptying the trash? Will it affect any cards in my Contacts that I've not manually deleted?


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I was having problems on my Macbook, getting my VPN service to start properly, and was they suggested that I create new Keychain and import settings into new Keychain. I did that, and now I am getting this constant pop-up message, saying autosd needs me to input my Keychain password.

Any ideas what is happening, how to fix this issue and stop the messages?


texts: Is it possible to use AT&T 3G on a Verizon LTE iPad?

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According to the new iPad tech specs page, in addition to their separate LTE bands, both the Verizon and AT&T models ship with:

  UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz);
  GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

So it's clear that the Verizon LTE iPad has the radios and the bands to use AT&T's 3G network. It even has a micro-SIM tray. Would it be possible to get an AT&T micro-SIM and use AT&T 3G on a Verizon LTE iPad?

For me, this would be the best of both worlds. I don't live in an area with LTE yet, but given the rollout pace from Verizon and AT&T it's very likely that Verizon will get to my area long before AT&T will. However, currently, I get pretty good AT&T 3G coverage on my iPhone, and it's significantly faster than Verizon's network. So my idea is to get the Verizon iPad but use the AT&T 3G if I can, until I get Verizon LTE coverage in my area (or I visit an area with Verizon LTE).

Would this work?


texts: What is this "Shared" in Finder's Sidebar?

texts: I don't know what this "Shared" is in the Finder's Sidebar.  Can these other machines access any of my information?  Should I turn this off?


texts: Can I change the flash storage in my iPhone 4?

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I saw a super deal where I could get an iPhone 4 8GB for such a small amount that I couldn't resist.

Does someone know if it's possible to change the flash storage for a 16GB or 32GB ?

Would iTunes recognize the device and/or enable me to reset it to default iOS and settings ?


texts: Accidentally made mine and my brother's data exactly the same

texts: I plugged my phone to my brother's MacBook which has wiped my phone and store all of his data to mine. The thing is, I got it new, so I haven't back up any of it and the datas are so important. Is it possible for me to get my old datas back? If it is, how?


texts: App for printing to Samba printers via iOS document sharing

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I am Looping for an iOS app supporting "document sharing" which would allow me to print to a Samba printer.

Use case:

open a document (e.g., a PDF) with the app (via the iOS document sharing/document picker functionality, see note below)
print to a Samba printer (with authentication).

An example:

open the Dropbox App
choose a PDF and click on the share button
in the list of apps able to open a PDF there should be (among others) the printing app
the printing app should then send it to a Samba shared printer

Does such an application exist?

I am looking for an iOS app able to print on an existing infrastructure, not to build an infrastructure to share a printer via AirPrint.

Note: Document sharing is a feature since iOS 8 which allows application to provide documents to other apps via document picker. You can for example open Word file in the Dropbox App using the Microsoft word App

Note 2: I am not looking for a specific app for a single printer/model but a generic one supporting a Samba printer with a PS or PCL gener


texts: How to visualize calendar dates (in Keynote? Or Numbers?)

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I am having trouble visualizing dates in a presentation. This image is a good example of what I'm hoping to have, but I would like a way to make the slide from a table of dates (rather than making each box by hand, which is what happened here).

Any suggestions? I can use Numbers, Keynote, or Excel or PowerPoint for Mac. Also open to other software options that would do this.


texts: Can I transfer content between devices authorized to different Apple IDs?

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I just bought an used iPod Touch 4G running iOS 5 for my son.  The person had a ton of legit apps & games on it.  My son did not want to lose those, but he is unable to load up any music.  When he hooked it up to his PC, it prompted for the iTunes password of the previous owner.

Will switching to his iTunes account make all the apps and games on the iPod Touch useless?
Does he need to authorize the iPod to his PC ?
Is there a way that he can load music up and maintain all the existing apps?
Would jailbreaking help?


texts: Not all apps are showing in folder while in recovery mode.....please help

texts: How do I find a mail application that I installed on my Mac, while running in recovery mode ?


texts: Is there a way to force update of the notes app or calendar app on macOS 10.12.5 Sierra?

texts: I'm having a problem with the notes app and/or the calendar app. Is there a way to force an update/replace of either of these apps.  Maybe that will solve my problem.


texts: Does deleting iCloud photos affect them on devices?

texts: If I delete a photo from my iCloud will it also be removed from my devices that are connected to my account?


texts: MacOS GPT Messed up File System ('FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF')

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I had tried dual booting Linux and macOS, and when I rebooted my computer the OS volume shows as type 'FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF'.

I tried following OS volume shows as type 'FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF' but I think I'm doing it wrong/making it worse. I did not have a recovery partition, I did have an empty bootcamp partition ~130gb, and I believe it was macOS Catalina on APFS.

I had played with the partitions a lot, this is what it looks like now.. Probably not correct.

How can I get back at least the data from my Mac partition?


texts: Recover a file after hitting "replace" in copy dialog?

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Someone I know copied a file into a directory over another one and hit "replace" accidentally. Is there any way to recover the older version of the file on Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8?

EDIT:

Time Machine was not running at the time.


texts: iOS - fully automate testing process with backups - is it possible?

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The Story:
We have hundreds of devices running UI and unit tests. The tests are written using XCTest framework, and run on our applications, as well as system (Safari/Settings) and third party ones.

As part of the testing framework, we need to bring devices to a certain state before running each test. This includes clearing caches, changing setup items, installing applications etc. We currently use a combination of Apple Configurator, MDM, configuration profiles and UI tests to get to the desired state for each test.

The Problem:
So far so good, but the process of setting everything up is really costly, unstable and hard to maintain across different iOS versions.

The Idea:
Then we thought - why not use back ups? We can save a backup for each desired initial state, restore to the desired backup and start the test right away.

BUT...
There is one tiny problem with that idea - restoring from backup brings the device to the "Setup" state, where manual user intervention is required. Even if we use Apple Configurator to gain the device's trust, set up WiFi, and skip all possible setup items, the user must still click home button once in the "Hello" page, and then click "Get Started" on screen in order to get to SpringBoard and be able to start XCTest / application launching or debugging.

The Question:
Is obvious now: can we somehow automate the entire flow described above? That is - restore an iOS device from backup, skip the setup, and run XCTests.


texts: Where do if find the download dock folder stack settings so I can change them to see fan or somehow get the most recent download to show up first?


texts: After system wake, Thunderbolt monitor underscans

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Starting recently (but not aligned in my memory to any particular Software Update), when my MacBook Pro 13" Retina (late 2015) wakes from sleep with the external monitor connected (whether sleep was initiated by idle timeout or manually by pressing ⇧⌃⏻ (shift-control-power)), my Thunderbolt-connected display (an LG 34UC97-S 34” Curved Ultrawide 21:9 WQHD monitor, maximum resolution 3440x1440) comes up underscanned—fuzzy pixels with wide black bars on all sides, as so:

As you see, the Displays control panel shows it as "Default for display":

And, in fact, if I take a screen shot, the resolution of the image is the full 3440x1440.

If I switch the Resolution radio button to "Scaled", I see this, supporting that full resolution:

Holding down ⌥ (option) so that I get the "Detect displays" button and clicking it does not change anything. However, if I change the Scaled resolution to anything else (say, 2560x1080) and back to 3440x1440 or "Default for display", then the underscan goes away:

(I've included both photographs because from my web searching, people with similar issues are often told they're mistaking the monitor bezel for underscan bars. That's clearly not the case here.)

Again, this is a fairly new (perhaps a couple weeks old) issue—the monitor used to wake up with the correct resolution. When I disconnect and reconnect the monitor, sometimes it takes several tries to detect the display ("Detect displays" with ⌥ in the Displays panel doesn't work), and I believe that issue may have first cropped up around the same time.

I use the Thunderbolt port because I use peripherals connected to the display.


texts: iPad messaging with multiple family iPads

texts: bought two iPads for kids and set up iCloud email accounts using my Apple ID from my iPad/iPhone. How do I let them text message friends etc without all the messages coming to my IM also? I'm not very knowledgable on tech stuff, they only have email addresses not phone numbers and all their messages are coming to my inbox also.


texts: loop thorough every file in file system with AppleScript

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How can I loop through every file in my file system with AppleScrip? And by every file I literally mean every single file, including hidden ones. Can it be done with AppleScript and how?

I will check Date Modified of every single file to investigate what changed after playing around with a specific program.


texts: How do I prevent OS X from immediately trying to mount unlocked drive / prompt for password?

texts:
Due to a hard disconnect of my encrypted external hard drive, it seems my HFS+ partition has become corrupted. Every time I unlock my hard drive, OS X tries to mount it silently in the background and then hard ejects the drive, such that OS X is not recognizing it whatsoever in diskutil list and I have to turn off/turn back on my hard drive bay.

I run:

$ diskutil cs unlockVolume 7DB6AE16-158B-45A4-B1F7-7791B650E552

To unlock the drive, which makes the GUI password prompt disappear, but then when I try to run:

$ sudo fsck_hfs -fryS /dev/disk3

I get:

** /dev/rdisk3 (NO WRITE)
Can't open /dev/rdisk3: Resource busy

I was able to get one successful fsck_hfs -fy /dev/disk3 to run, and here are the results:

$ diskutil verifyVolume /dev/disk3
Started file system verification on disk3 BLUE1
Verifying storage system
Checking volume
disk2s2: Scan for Volume Headers
disk2s2: Scan for Disk Labels
Logical Volume Group 4A47A942-A97F-4A96-B46A-4B405B598C02 on 1 device
disk2s2: Scan for Metadata Volume
Logical Volume Group has a 24 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancy
Start scanning metadata for a valid checkpoint
Load and verify Segment Headers
Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
Load and verify Transaction Segment
Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions
Load and verify Virtual Address Table
Load and verify Segment Usage Table
Load and verify Metadata Superblock
Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
Load and verify 64E4D5E6-74B6-482E-8F57-9C079C22702D
Load and verify 7DB6AE16-158B-45A4-B1F7-7791B650E552
Load and verify Freespace Summary
Load and verify Block Accounting
Load and verify Live Virtual Addresses
Newest transaction commit checkpoint is valid
Load and verify Segment Cleaning
The volume 4A47A942-A97F-4A96-B46A-4B405B598C02 appears to be OK
Storage system check exit code is 0
Verifying file system
File system check exit code is 8
Error: -69845: File system verify or repair failed
Underlying error: 8: Exec format error

However, I want to try S scanning the drive for badblocks (in case that's the actual reason it can't mount), and r because then it spells fryS because if one of the logical volume b-tree is what's corrupted then it would need to be rebuilt, or maybe t wouldn't have gotten so far in the fsck. Really this is just a guess at this point, I'm trying anything.


texts: PerfPowerServices uses 60-70 percent of CPU all the time

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Looks like this happens after i wake the machine from sleep. i am not sure.
the machine is a MBP 13,1 2016. running Mojave
I have tried rebooting, shutdown, force quitting the process and a hardshutdown, no effects whatsoever
I Think this issue is not common as i cannot find any answer anywhere.


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I have an early MBA 11" (Jan 2011), dual booting to Mavericks and windows 7. Recently it has started exhibiting the following symptoms:

built-in display flickers during boot and continues to flicker regardless of which OS I boot or display resolution. the flicker is hardly noticeable when displaying a white window full screen but very noticeable on darker colours. If an external display is attacked, that works fine.
after closing and re-opening the lid, the display stays black. If an external display is attacked, that works fine.

I recently installed a video driver update in Windows which I assumed was unrelated because the problem isn't limited to Windows, but a colleague tells me that driver updates could flash the firmware?. I have done a PRAM reset but this didn't make any difference.

I have used the laptop a lot in both Windows and OSX, with and without an external monitor, and never had any problems before.

Any thing else I can try before taking it to a repair shop?

On a related point, should I take it to the apple store or is it safe to use a non-apple repair shop (who claim to be apple experts)?


texts: Can't install any app, App Store asks for money

texts: Now, for every new application, even those free ones,I have to confirm for pay money. And then App Store asks to enter my credit card information. If I disagree and hit "Cancel", installation process is interrupted and I can't install any application, even free one.


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I'd like Mail to pick up on syntax

I'm copying mostly from an app that does highlight syntax, but it doesn't seem to apply any sort of "formatting" to the text itself on pasting (e.g. color, font, size, etc.)

For code, I mostly send MySQL queries in emails


texts: "Backup Disk Not Available", Time Machine can't find Time Capsule any more

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I have a 2 TB Time Capsule and it was used by Time Machine for many months.

Some days ago the Time Capsule was disconnected from its power supply and today is now connected again.

Time Machine reports the error "Backup Disk Not Available".

The Time Capsule lights are green, AirPort Utility is showing this device with green lights also.

Time Machine knows how much space is available on that device. However, it is not able to use this device for listing older backups or to create a new one.

I can't see this device in Finder, although I couldn't see it there when everything works fine. Airport Utility reports an IP Address for this device and I can ping it.

What to do now? Is it possible at least to mount it to access the files on it?