texts: Why is this command for "Changing Where Screenshots Are Saved" failing?

texts: Screenshots are being saved to the desktop but not in a specific folder. I want to remedy that so I found instructions to do so through Terminal. I am following the instructions but I am getting the message that it has NOT changed. Here is what has been entered...what do I have wrong?


texts: MKV files wrongly considered as "Other" in Storage stats

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When looking at the disk stats in the storage tab of "About this Mac", mkv files are showed as Other instead of being grouped with other videos on the disk.

When browsing the disk with the finder, mkv files are correctly displayed as videos when sorting files by kind.

Is there any way to make the disk stats consider mkv files as videos ?

Thank for you answers


texts: How to get Mac OS X printer preset to save paper size and not default to system default paper size?

texts:
I have a receipt printer and regular printer on my Mac and have the system default paper size set to Letter and default printer set to "Last Used"

In Safari I've setup a preset for my receipt printer but when I select it, the paper size still defaults to letter instead of the receipt paper.

I change the paper size to receipt size, select "Save current settings as preset" and all settings are saved in preset except the paper size.

How can I get the preset to save the paper size?


texts: Difference between an https proxy and a VPN

texts:
as far as I know, both proxy and VPN forwards traffic under their IP-Adresses and not yours. Also, a vpn is more secure than a proxy, because in a vpn the connection
is end-to-end secured. Using a proxy, the message can by easily read.

But now, if I use the https protocol and a proxy, it should have the same security level as using a vpn, right? Because even if I log the traffic on the proxy server, I cannot read the messages, because they are encrypted.

So my final question:
Why shouldn't I use a proxy with https (which is cheaper or free) rather than using an expensive vpn solution?

King regards and thank you for all your inputs!


texts: Can I allow more than one app in "Single App Mode"?

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If I use "Apple Configurator 2" to lock an iOS device, can I allow two or three or four specific apps ?

Or is it really, literally, "single" app mode and only a single app can be allowed ?

Thank you.


texts: The folder "com.apple.TCC" was created in /Library/Application Support at exactly the same time as a virus alert from ClamXAV. I had downloaded "GoToWebinar" as per the instructions in an e-mail sent from our known travel-agent. I've managed to delete all other files created at that time but, even with sudo from the command line, I can't do anything with the aforementioned folder - not even an"ls" command, "chmod". The folder is showing as having zero bytes but I'm concerned there may be something nasty lurking in there.


texts: Do I need to upgrade iOS before creating backup to be restored onto new iPhone?

texts:
Do I need to upgrade iOS before creating backup to be restored onto a new iPhone?

I have an iPhone 7 running iOS 10 and would like to upgrade to iPhone X.

iPhone X ships with iOS 11 and I'm looking for the proper way to transfer data when the new phone arrives.

Do I need to upgrade the older iPhone first to iOS 11 before creating a backup to be restored onto iPhone X?


texts: See download time remaining in macOS Catalina App Store

texts: After upgrading to macOS Catalina, the download progess indicator changed to an IOS-style circle, which doesn't give the more specific details of download speed and time remaining that were visible in previous versions. Is there any way to still see how long an app will take to download/upgrade?


texts: How do you connect an Apple TV to a wireless connection that requires a password after connecting?

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The wireless router I'm connecting to does not have any encryption.  If you log in from a computer and open a browser, you are prompted with a password request.

How do you access this type of network from an Apple TV?

EDIT: I don't have access to the router or a wired connection; the router belongs to the condo.


texts: How to stop InternetSharing overwriting /etc/bootpd.plist

texts:
I set up a /etc/bootpd.plist so as to protect my wireless network,
and to manage statically attributed IP addresses.

Unfortunatly, when I start InternetSharing, this file is overwritten
by a plist which I didn't find the source of.

How may I avoid InternetSharing overwriting this file?

Where is the source of this file overwriting /etc/bootpd.plist?


texts: Code to fix: WindowServer[250]: _CGXGLDisplayContextForDisplayDevice: No matching context for device (0x7fcfcaf18220) - disabling OpenGL

texts:
I need help implementing the answer to WindowServer[250]: _CGXGLDisplayContextForDisplayDevice: No matching context for device (0x7fcfcaf18220) - disabling OpenGL by inserting the following into wherever it goes:

? [= Sender WindowServer] [= Level Warning] [A= Message _CGXGLDisplayContextForDisplayDevice] claim only

I'm not a coder but I can get to Terminal and past in code and press enter.  That's the extent of my ability.  So, if there's something to do before putting this statement in Terminal I would need to know what, where, and how, etc.  Thank you.


texts: I cannot edit Excel file in Excel for Ipad - Convert buttons does nothing

texts:
I have been trying to use a feature to open and edit Excel files from Dropbox app using Excel for iPad app.

I open the Excel file in this app, and I see a notice that I cannot edit the file but I have to convert it first

When I press Convert and Edit, nothing happens.

Does anyone have any idea why is nothing happenings and why I cannot edit Excel files?

PS. I opened .xslx file (office 2010)


texts: how do i get OLD photos out of my photo stream folders

texts: I have 700 photos on my photo stream (recovered after a lost phone! and older than 30 days) but I can't figure out how to download them. only the most recent (100-ish) photos upload to iCloud photos. How can I get all of my old photos off the stream?


texts:
I recently used AirDrop for the first time to send about 30GB of videos to a friend while we were both connected to my internet. Two days later I got an e-mail from my internet provider saying I was over 50% of my monthly bandwidth at 50.31GB, and this was only a couple days into the "new month". I haven't downloaded anything these first few days of the month, nor have I been browsing/streaming much over my network.

I'm wondering if AirDrop is the reason why I've burned through a bunch of data.


texts: Large difference in reported free disk space

texts:
I have a strange discrepancy in the amount of free disk space that's being reported.
The finder says:

My iStat Menus says:

Which is the same as df -h reports:
remco@Prosperpine ~  $ df -h
Filesystem                          Size   Used  Avail Capacity  iused   ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2                       148Gi  127Gi   21Gi    87% 33479179 5383643   86%   /
devfs                              187Ki  187Ki    0Bi   100%      646       0  100%   /dev
map -hosts                           0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%        0       0  100%   /net
map auto_home                        0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%        0       0  100%   /home

Why would such a large difference occur? I've checked the disk using the disk utility and it does not report having any issues.
Specs: Late 2011 MacBook Pro 17", non-Apple Intel 160GB SSD, OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.2


texts: Sound Gone on Macbook Pro Retina 15" late 2014 running MacOS Big Sur 11.3 Beta

texts:
A few weeks ago, the sound on my  Mac just died.  Nothing was coming from the internal speakers, the headsets, or external systems.  When I get into the sound icon from system preferences, I'm told that there are no input or output devices available.  Everything but the sound works fine, except if there's an  interview in a story, music, or any audio, I get dead silence.
Is this a fatal breakdown or can it be fixed for under the $2300 I paid for it originally?
I didn't expect it to help, but I tried to restore everything with the Time Machine--no luck there.
Thanks.


texts: Opening a local .mp3 file with AppleScript Editor

texts:
So I have been trying to create an AppleScript application that when I click on it, it opens a mp3 file within the packages contents and resources. This is the only code I have within the script:

set filepath to (path to me as string) & "Contents:Resources:Jingle bells.mp3"

tell application "Finder"
    open alias filepath

but I receive a "script error" message saying:
error "Finder got an error: Can’t get alias \"Macintosh HD:Users:bobby.hay:Desktop:Song.app:Contents:Resources:Scripts:main.scptContents:Resources:Jingle bells.mp3\"." number -1728

I am trying to get the application to open Jingle bells.mp3 which is inside /Contents/Resources of my script.


texts: How to open Cinema Display power supply?

texts:
My Cinema Display bit the dust, and all the symptoms seem to point to the 150W power supply brick, which is apparently not an uncommon problem with those models.

New power supply bricks are close to $200.  Ouch.  Usually one bad component in a power supply is a lot cheaper than that, and I've soldered together a power supply or two in my day.

Unfortunately, the Cinema Display power supply is built like the monolith from "2001", with no apparent way to open it.  Can I use a thin putty knife to crack it open, like the old Mac minis?  Is there some way to get in through the line-in plug?  Is it sealed in a way that can't be opened, but maybe there's a safe(-ish) place to saw through to get inside?


texts: MacBook Pro display looks washed out in Windows (Boot Camp)

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I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro and the display looks great under OS X, but is really washed out in Windows 7. I have installed all the drivers supplied by Apple and ran all the updates, but that didn't change anything. I think it's related to the color calibration, since Windows reports it's using "sRGB IEC61966-2.1" which was created in 1998. Yeah.

I tried importing the one from OS X for my display, but that just turned everything a dull brown. I also tried Windows 7's own display calibration wizard, but that just ended up looking horrible. What can I do to get decent looking text and pictures in Windows on this thing?


texts: Can I tell Terminal that it is allowed to kill processes if asked?

texts:
Mojave on my iMac routinely applies its own updates and reboots itself, with most running programs returning to a reasonable copy of their pre-reboot state. That's fine, especially since these updates can take quite a long time. I don't want to sit waiting for them.

But I do web app development, and there are typically several different node.js web servers running in terminal windows. It's convenient to leave them running all the time. Using nodemon, they automatically restart when I change the server code, which is handy.

But when an update wants to reboot the system, the terminal windows running the servers all ask me whether I'm OK with killing the process, and sit waiting for an answer. Meanwhile, I'm in bed. And in the morning I have to say "yes", and then wait tediously for the update to complete. If I don't do it then, I forget about it, and see just the same thing the next morning.

Is there any way that I can script my code to tell the terminal program in advance that, if someone asks, it is ok to kill the running process?


texts: Can I give something using my iTunes gift card?

texts: I want to give an itunes movie to a friend but can I use the credit I have on my iTunes gift card?


texts: Installing just Pages 09 from old iWork 09 Disk on Yosemite

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I still love the old pages '09 I run it side-by side with the new pages on my two iMacs. However, on my new Macbook it is not installed and I want to run it on there (the new pages doesn't have some of the power features I need).

I have an old iWork '09 disk, and I could install the programs on there, but if I did that it would add the old numbers and keynote too. I really don't want those programs because the current numbers and keynote are fine for me. I just want to somehow extract the pages 09 install data from the CD and do an install without adding the numbers and keynote.

Is this possible, if so how. And if not, is there a way to get pages 09 on my Yosemite - running laptop without the CD?


texts: How can I determine if the screen is asleep in Mountain Lion, from the command line?

texts:
I have a script that needs to run every so often, but only if the screensaver is active or if the screen is asleep (to make sure nobody is actively using the computer first). I need to have a way to determine whether the screen is asleep from the command line. (One-liner preferred)

I'm using "ps -acxw | grep ScreenSaverEngine | grep -v grep" to determine if the screensaver is running, which always worked fine in previous OS versions, but in Mountain Lion, the screensaver is disabled when the screen goes to sleep, so I need a way to determine that as well now.

Help is appreciated...


texts: Why do some characters are not displaying correctly in this website?

texts:
If I go to this website: https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_misc_symbols.asp I can see some of the first glyphs, but later down the page most are missing.

In their place, I can only see the "missing character" glyph, which looks like an empty block.

What does this happen? Am I missing some font? Should I install some extra font in my Mac OS?

Is this the expected behavior of my OS, or is it a bug?

By the way, the above website's glyphs render just fine in any other OS I've tried (both Linux and Windows).

Browser: Latest Chrome
OS version: High Sierra 10.13.6


texts:
I have this problem that most of the options in the system preferences are greyed out, even when I log in as an admin.
But I need to log in to my iCloud account to get some software to run on these machines. So I changed the restrictions payload and tried to push it.
But for some reasons only 4 of the 12 Macs will update the settings.

All Macs are turned on and connected to the local network and the internet.

I tried to figure out if any settings on the machines 1-4 are different from 5-12. The IP is manually inserted with the same DNS server address. They are all running on 10.10.5 and even the caching seems to work. The protocol on the server does not give me back any error message.
I can not even remove the device from profile manager.

What could it be? Port problem? Certificate?

I don't know what to search for. Any suggestions how to get into system preferences? Terminal works if I log in as admin.


texts: How to set lock screen in a way that it does not cut the video output?

texts: I am currently using two screens with my macbook. When I lock the device it cuts the video output after a while and messes up the workflow of mine when it is being unlocked again. Is there any way that manual locking does not cut the video output and directly opens up screen saver? Thanks!


texts:
I added an OWC 240GB SSD to my 17" MBP a couple of years ago and installed Trim Enabler. Everything was dandy until yesterday when my computer somehow updated itself to Yosemite and I was faced with the "grey screen of death". I had an empty external drive already hooked up so I went ahead and installed Yosemite on it and copied up my latest Time Machine backup onto it. Starts up fine but I need to get my SSD back online. After researching I figured out that Trim Enabler and Yosemite were now bitter enemies.
I am just trying to figure out now how to "disable" Trim Enabler from the SSD. Since I can't access the drive through Disc Utilities I'm not sure how to go about doing this. Do I have to take the drive out and hook it up as an external to disable Trim Enabler? Will that even work? I've since come to find out that Trim Enabler isn't really even necessary on the OWC Mercury that I have.

Help please!!!

Thanks!


texts: Is there an application to emulate I'm in a different location?

texts:
I'm trying to test an iPhone application and I need to simulate I'm in a different location. I was wondering if there is an application out there in the market that let's me write some longitude and latitude so my app can read that location instead of the actual GPS in the phone.

I don't have access to the code or an iPhone emulator, so I need to test this from the device itself.

Any possible way to do this?


texts: Can I restore individual iCal appointments using Time Machine?

texts:
I use Time Machine to backup my Mac. While it is very easy to restore files and folders, I can't do the same with appointments in iCal. I am trying to recover an entire calendar that was accidentally deleted.

Apple provides instructions on how to restore from manually exported iCal archives. It sort of defeats the purpose of Time Machine, where backups are created automatically. By contrast, Time Machine works directly in Address Book in Lion.

Does anyone know if there is a way to restore iCal appointments (or calendars) using Time Machine? I know I can probably restore the cryptic calendar files in the Library folder, but I want to find a better way.


texts: Can I use iTunes to sync a folder of photos onto my iPhone without losing my iPhone Camera Roll?

texts:
Say I have an iPhone Camera Roll with 1,000 photos or videos in it, and on my Mac, a folder called "Pictures From Brazil". I want to copy that folder's pictures onto my iPhone, but I want to keep everything in the Camera Roll.

Can I use iTunes to do this (syncing photos using the Photos tab in the iPhone section of iTunes), or if I turn on "Sync Photos" to copy that folder to my iPhone, will that overwrite my Camera Roll and / or remove its contents?


texts: Mirrored screen turns off on mouse movement

texts: I have a MBP (13-inch, 2019) running Catalina 10.15.7.  It is connected to an external P27h-20 Display, which I've mirrored to an Artist 15.6 tablet.  This has worked just fine in the past.  I must have changed something--or things just got restarted--and now when I move the mouse onto the external mirrored display, it appears on both mirrored displays (like it should) but when I move past a certain point, the display on the P27h monitor goes black.  If I turn off mirroring, everything works fine.  I've tried optimizing the display for both the tablet and the monitor with no change.


texts: Sierra meets El Capitan OS installation issue

texts:
I tried upgrading the software on my Macbook pro from OS El Capitan to Sierra.

I downloaded software and was installing it. Got the instruction to restart computer.
On re-starting, I find I don't have enough space to install Sierra. I am unable to get to the login menu and am stuck in the OS x Utilities Window.
Used Cmd + R to reinstall El Capitan. I get a notification saying I don't have enough space for this either. I am stuck in what seems to be no-mans-land.
Tried entering safe mode to delete unnecessary files and folders. But even after several attempts my macbook does not go to safe mode.

How do I restore my macbook to El Capitan? Should I erase my disk? Is it possible to enter into safe mode through some other way.

Your direction is much appreciated.


texts: Cannot access mysql from Perl with SIP enabled on Mac Mojave

texts:
I'm using a Mac running Mojave as a dev server.  I got Perl talking to MySQL but if I enable SIP, anything that accesses the database chokes. Simply disabling SIP fixes it.  I have no idea what this could be or how to troubleshoot.  The error in the log is simply:

End of script output before headers: index.pl

Here is additional info from the error_log:

[Thu Sep 05 10:54:07.672203 2019] [cgi:error] [pid 3708] [client ::1:49734] AH01215: [Thu Sep  5 10:54:07 2019] index.pl: install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't load '/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle' for module DBD::mysql: dlopen(/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle, 1): Library not loaded: libssl.1.0.0.dylib: /Users/HTM/Sites/npbeta/index.pl

[Thu Sep 05 10:54:07.672575 2019] [cgi:error] [pid 3708] [client ::1:49734] AH01215: [Thu Sep  5 10:54:07 2019] index.pl:   Referenced from: /Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle: /Users/HTM/Sites/npbeta/index.pl

[Thu Sep 05 10:54:07.672820 2019] [cgi:error] [pid 3708] [client ::1:49734] AH01215: [Thu Sep  5 10:54:07 2019] index.pl:   Reason: unsafe use of relative rpath libssl.1.0.0.dylib in /Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle with restricted binary at /System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/DynaLoader.pm line 194.: /Users/HTM/Sites/npbeta/index.pl

Days of searching and nobody has an answer for this anywhere.  The only option on Mojave is to disable SIP for the file system.  Reboot and hold Command + R at the time, launch Terminal and do this:

csrutil enable --without fs


texts: Cannot reject a binary on the new iTunesConnect UI

texts:
We submitted our binary, but discovered that there was an error. I uploaded a new binary from XCode6 and it shows up in the Prerelease Tab of iTunesConnect. It has a higher build number (#706) as opposed to the "waiting for review" version (#704).

I can't reject #704 and replace it with #706 in Waiting for Review. There is no reject binary button anywhere in the iTunesConnect UI, nor on the mobile app. According to the Apple Documentation it should be here, in this screenshot:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/iTunesConnect_Guide/Chapters/ChangingAppStatus.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40011225-CH30-SW34


texts: Does the CDMA iPhone 4S support simultaneous voice and data on Verizon

texts:
I read that the iPhone 4 couldn't do this. Is that still true of the 4S when used in CDMA?

As @Jannemans points out this wasn't possible in any CDMA phone until one point. But the question is valid now that the CDMA standard allows it.


texts: iMac won't restart for Security Update 2016-001 10.11.6

texts:
I have been having problems when I go to install the above update. I click 'restart' to allow the computer to update but it never does. The dock and desktop wallpaper remain but the menu bar at the top and all icons on the desktop disappear.

I have the same problem exactly whenever I go to shut down the computer. I click shut down and again the dock and background stay but everything else vanishes. It is as if it has only partially gone through the process.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: What do I do when I get a "sync session failed to start" message when syncing iPhone to itunes?

texts: The context is that I'm restoring my wife's new replacement iPhone from a backup. It already did the first sync, where it gets all the settings and whatnot, but not the apps.  Tried the second sync, where it normally transfers the apps, but I'm getting the error message.


texts: Deleting home folders ~symbolic links in Mac OS X

texts:
I bought an SSD, so now I have SSD + traditional HD on my Mac. On SSD OS + Applications. On HD data.

I wanted to keep applications and library on the SSD and move my home folder from SSD to the traditional HD.

I used this solution of creating symbolic link on the  HD to follow my purpose.
I opened the terminal and in my /Users/Homefolder I've typed

 sudo rm -rf examplefolder
 ln -s /Volumes/nameofHD/pathofexamplefolderontheHD

So one after one I deleted all folders on my home folder on the SSD and created symbolic links on the HD.

The problem for what I'm requesting Super User's help:

One folder, exactly the one named "Download" any time I reboot the system reappears. So now I have two "Download" folders and I'm not able to delete the one on the SSD (the original) anymore, precisely anytime I use

sudo rm -rf examplefolder

After rebooting it magically reappears. Sometimes using terminal it says to unlink the folder but after some time I'm able to delete it

For trying deleting the file I've also used this app/script called Trashit, but that didn't work either.


texts: I've got one iPod touch, but two iTunes accounts on two separate computers

texts:
When I first joined iTunes (just a month or two ago) I made a new Apple ID and iTunes account.  My sister had an Apple ID/iTunes account that my mother, sister, and brother used for their devices, but I, not ever having owned an iPod, figured that I could make my own iTunes account so that when I do purchase an iPod, I won't be pestering my sister (the first one in our house to have an iPod) for her Apple ID info.  (She's recently left for college and I didn't want to be dependent on her.)

So, I made an account and made use of $65 worth of gift cards that I had sitting around and put them onto my account. Now, my little sister wants some of the songs I've purchased.  But when I go to sync her device on my iTunes library, it tells me syncing will erase everything she has on her device and replace it with my library. I don't want that--I just want to share the songs from my iTunes account with her!

Is there any sort of solution or correction?


texts: How to disable Macbook Pro internal display when using external monitors

texts:
I have a Late 2011 Macbook Pro 13" (running Lion - OS 10.7.4) which I use with a dual external monitor setup. I have two 21" LCDs that I use as external monitors. One uses the built in Mini Display Port on the Macbook Pro and the other is connected via a USB to DVI adapter (Diamond DVILink).

The problem I am having is with the 13" built in display of the Macbook Pro. I would like it to remain closed and unused (I prefer the dual monitors at same resolution), however I cannot seem to "disable" the display in the display preferences applet. So even though the Macbook Pro lid is closed the operating system still makes use of the display, even though the apple logo on the back of the display is unlit. I have tried to move the laptop screen off out of the way in display preferences but I find when I "sleep" my setup that any applications that remain open move to the laptop screen. This makes it difficult to locate the application windows when resuming from sleep.

Does anyone know of a way to disable the laptop built in display so it is not seen by the OS when external monitors are being used?


texts: Can I change Apple Music radio stations so it doesn't buffer when I pause listening?

texts:
I use the Apple Music app on Catalina to stream radio stations.

When I hit the stop/pause button the streams pauses and buffers. If I hit play again, it resumes the playback at the old location.

Is there any way to jump to the current stream and drop the buffered audio?


texts: Are frayed cables of Apple lightning cord or Macbook Power Adapter covered by warranty?

texts:
It is quite famous that users posted frayed lightning cable or Macbook Power Adapter cable on the Internet or Tumbler. Here is for Google image for lightning, and another one for the Power Adapter.

Users' reviews on the Power Adapter on the Apple website: "Horrible adapter... end up fraying", "The cable frayed on me", "cable is frayed", "It frays like crazy", "they fray at the end", "fray way too easily".

How about users' reviews on the lightning cable on the Apple website? "begin to fray", "frayed very easily", "Poor quality, frays easily", "frayed and the internal wires are exposed", "It frayed", "frayed and damaged".

Personally, I have used several Dell or Compaq notebook computers and their adapters, and their power cords have never frayed. The webcam can be of lower quality, and the fan can be noisy, but the $29 adapter never had a frayed cable. One the other hand, iPhone's 30-pin cable, lightning cable, Macbook Power Adapter cable have all frayed on me.

Whenever I talked to an Apple Store associate, they all said, for 5, 6 years, their cable never had any problem. I do not know whether it is some script the company told them to read out, or whether they are told to claim so, but people I know had this problem, my relatives had this problem, I saw YouTuber wrapping styrofoam sheet near the Magsafe end to prevent it from fraying, and if half of the people found it good and half of the people found it bad, the review of lightning cables won't be near the minimum possible: either 1.5 star when the lowest possible rating is 1 star, or a 2 star. The same goes for its Macbook Magsafe 2 Power Adapter.

Is it actually under warranty?  Because one store did replace it before, and another store said it is not covered.

By the way, some users may say they have some cable they have for 10 years and they never had a problem. Now, if the cable is laid flat, all straight on a desk, I won't be surprised they don't have a problem for 10 years. But, what if the power outlet or USB outlet is in front, and you need to plug in to the iPhone and see it upright -- then now the cable has a U-turn. Are Apple cables not supposed to have a U-turn?  What about power outlet or USB to the left or right side of the table, now your iPhone or Macbook is connected, and the cable may have a 90 degree turn. Are all brands of cable out there able to have a 90 degree turn, except Apple's cable?

Some user requested a photo. If it is lightning, I should have thrown it away because I ended up buying the Anker Powerline II from Amazon anyways. At around $12-17, it is reasonable, and because sometimes I need 6 feet or 10 feet anyways.  The $79 Macbook Power Adapter, since Apple didn't replace mine, I already threw it away. They are the ones of bigger concern, because you can't replace the cable, but you have to replace the whole power adapter transformer part, and it is $79, or $86.11 including tax. But I can tell how it looks like: it was all pristine and it was only broken "skin", somewhat similar to the photos below. Like I said, none of any other brands cable had fraying issue for me. Only Apple's does.  The photos that I can find online that are similar to the situations I had before:


texts: How to configure Apple Mail on iPhone XR (iOS 12.4) to download emails from mailserver but not delete them on it?

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I keep my mailfile on my laptop which uses a mail client to download and send email through my mailserver. When I download email it is then deleted from the server. I can also read and send mail using webmail access to the same server, but when I read it using that method it is not then deleted - it is only deleted later when I download it using my mail client. The mailfile is backed up but not synced, and nowhere is the cloud involved.

Obviously I can read and send mail from my iPhone using a web browser such as Safari.

My question is whether I can also configure Apple Mail to download mail from the server such that it is not then deleted on the server. The reason I ask is that I would sometimes like to read emails on my iPhone before I have downloaded them on the laptop. I would then eventually delete them by hand on the iPhone because they would later get downloaded and filed in the usual way on my laptop. But of course they can only get downloaded to the laptop so long as the contact with the server using Apple Mail doesn't cause them to be deleted on the server.

I suspect the answer is "No - if you want to handle your mail that way, then when you read it on your iPhone your should only use webmail access through a web browser". I may be wrong, though.


texts: Why does AirPlay allow the iPhone 6s to go to sleep?

texts: When AirPlaying something on an iPhone 6s the AirPlay stream pauses or dies when the iPhone 6s's screen goes dark or sleeps. AirPlay should prevent the streaming device from sleeping. How do I fix this?


texts: Make alias take icon of the .app it points to

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I have a blah.app, and on desktop there is an alias to this app
I went to blah.app/Contents/Resources and replace the icon with my icon, same name
I went to blah.app/ and created a new folder next to the blah.app/Contents folder, this made the blah.app icon update to show mine however the icon of the alias file on desktop did not change.

Any ideas on why this is so? I know I can drag the icon over this alias file, but im trying to figure out whats going on here, why isn't taking my icon? :(

Thanks!


texts: Is there any way to run Network Link Condition from a Standard User account?

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There is a known issue in Network Link Conditioner where if you install it in the normal way (Xcode > Open Developer Tool > More Developer Tools > Install Hardware Tools) it will run from an Admin account but crash in a Standard account.

For increased security, I develop from a Standard account. Is there any way to run Network Link Condition from my standard account without switching to the Admin account?

Related questions:

Why is the Network Link Conditioner preference pane crashing as soon as I turn it on?
Network Link Conditioner not working


texts: kernel_task eating a lot of CPU on mojave

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I see the kernel_task had occured in OS before mojave.

https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/kernel_task

I am wondering whether I can just remove /System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext. Why it is backup first in the above article.

Do I have to booted into single user to delete IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext? Can I just delete it within a normal login?

P.S. Can anybody help me add the kernel_task tag? I don't have the permission to do so.


texts: Upgrading Xcode using App Store download problem

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I have Xcode 4.2 installed, but I need Xcode 4.3 so I can test an app on my iOS 5.1 device. However I have run into problems attempting to download the latest version from the Mac App Store.

Initially when I went to the store I noticed in the 'Purchases' tab Xcode was there, but back from when it was 4.2, so I removed it from purchases and then went to the Xcode page and clicked on the 'Install App'.

It certainly doesn't appear to be doing anything though, and the 'Purchases' tab now looks like this (clicking on the blank button does nothing):

I only use my Mac for iOS development, so know very little about installing/unistalling s/w on OS X. I.e. I'm hoping there's is something very simple and obvious I've missed (and i've been trying to sort this out for an annoyingly long amount of time now!)

Due to my failure with the App Store I'm currently downloading a version of Xcode 4.3.2 via a torrent - but this is a quite a dodgy route and I'd rather sort it out properly!


texts: Can iOS receive email from two Apple ID but iMessages from only one of the two email addresses?

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I have an iPod Touch and an iPhone, both on separate Apple ID accounts. What would happen if I added the iPod Touch email to the "receive at" on my iPhone (in addition to the separate email already in place) and confirmed that email address?

I would like to recieve messages for both email accounts on my iphone, but have my itouch only get the messages from one of those accounts.

Would only my iPhone get both account's messages? I want two addresses sending messages to my iPhone and only one to my iPod touch.


texts: Why does SwiftKey lose "full access" on a phone reboot?

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I'm using SwiftKey on my iPhone 5s (iOS 8), and have it set as the default keyboard, with Emoji also enabled. I have removed the default keyboard.

Whenever I reboot my iPhone, SwiftKey seems to lose it's "full access" rights; at least, each keyboard I bring up warns about this, and the keyboard is using the default theme, rather than the one I selected. If I got into the Settings app, and change the SwiftKey full access permissions to off, and then on again, it starts working again.

This is irritating. Is this by design, or is this a bug?


texts: Replacement RSS reader for Mountain Lion, integrated with Notification Center?

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I am looking for a recommendation for a replacement RSS reader for Mountain Lion. I have used RSS feeds in Mail.app for semi-important alerts, like maintenance announcements from my webhost or new posts on rarely updated blogs. I do not want or need a full dedicated "news reader". Occasional messages in my inbox were perfect.

Is there a good, inexpensive RSS reader that I do not have to check separately but that keeps me up-to-date with these kind of occasional RSS updates? Preferably integrated into Notification Center, which would make a lot of sense.


texts: How can I see contact photos together with contacts?

texts: Hello everyone I have a quick question I just upgraded  from a my touch to iphone 4s...On my old phone when i looked through my contact list you were able to see a thumbnail image of the contacts photo while looking through your contacts but I noticed with the iphone as your looking through your contacts it doesnt have the thumbnail preview..It only shows picture if you select contact or when the person calls ...Is there a way to configure it? Or is this just the way the phone works..Any help would be greatly aprreciated


texts: How to know my kernel extensions are 64-bit ready?

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Is there an easy way to tell whether all my kernel extensions will "survive" booting with a 64 bit kernel? I can of course try the "6-4 finger boot", but maybe there is a piece of hardware I use infrequently and that won't work when I use it in a month, leaving me to wonder what went wrong.

I can see a list of extensions in System Profiler > Software > Extensions, with 8 of them listed as not "64-bit (Intel)", but 5 of them are "Pseudoextensions" with a Load Address "built-in to the kernel", and the 3 others are CHUD-related and will probably be gone once I update Xcode? Is that enough to conclude that I won't have problems? Or are there extensions that are not loaded now and that I can test somehow?


texts: How to change the default media player on iPhone?

texts: I have a jail broken iPhone and I want to change the default media player from "music" to "pandora downloader". I am thinking the only way to do this would be with I file? The main thing I want is to have pandora downloader play anytime I hit the play button.


texts: How to enable option to save credentials in Viscosity VPN?

texts:
Apparently sometimes Viscosity disables the option to save credentials into Keychain and even reinstalling the application does not bring it back.

What is the trick to re-enable them?


texts: Delete all mail in the VIP mailbox on iOS 8.3

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Without manually selecting them all, is there a way to delete all items that appear in the VIP mailbox?

I've seen this question, but there's no Mark All or Trash All button in the VIP mailbox.


texts: Can I recover a deleted video from the iPhone 4S camera roll?

texts:
So I blundered this morning. Had a cute video of my daughter on Easter, then I accidentally deleted when I was trying to show people (its amazing how a simple finger swipe can cause so much damage!).

Sadly, I didn't not do any sync to iTunes after this files was created, so no luck on that kind of backup.

So now I'm looking some type of file recovery software for an iPhone 4S. I've tried Tenorshare, Wunderphone, and a few others that have popped up on my Google searches (I'm really grateful for virtual machines for testing these out!).

These have not done me any good. Any ideas on what may be out there?


texts: I recently upgraded to OS 10.8, and now when I try to switch between apps using command + tab the quick switch menu (not sure what its called) to the app after toggling to it, but it never actually switches over.  I then have to click on the app in the dock.  I tried looking in the keyboard menu, what is causing this?


texts:
Not sure why some sites in my reading list is blinking/flickering.
Notice those site that blinks has a blank icon.
Anyone having this problem too?
Happening in private mode too.

Safari  10.0.2 (12602.3.12.0.1)


texts: Personal Hotspot in Yosemite only shows up after unlocking iPhone

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The Personal Hotspot in Yosemite only shows up in my WiFi network list after unlocking the iPhone - is it supposed to be like that?

I thought it should be possible to use it "without touching the iPhone"?


texts: Command + Click not opening links in new tabs

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Strangely, Command + Click has stopped opening links in new tabs on my computer. It opens them in the same tab, as if I hadn't pressed Command. This problem occurs with Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. My home Mac doesn't have this problem, and my coworker's Mac doesn't have this problem.

My Command keys work just fine with other hotkeys like Command + O to open files.

I tried disabling extensions, didn't help.

Anyone else experience this?

System:

$ specs chrome os
Specs:

specs 0.4
https://github.com/mcandre/specs#readme

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --version 2>&1 | grep -v Unsure
28.0.1500.95

system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | grep 'System Version'
System Version: OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)


texts: Return status of SleepDisabled in Applescript

texts:
I'm trying to do an Applescript to enable or not SleepDisabled (using pmset) depending on the state of SleepDisabled.

Something like :

set SuperSleep to do shell script "return status of SleepDisabled"
if SuperSleep is equal to "0" then
do shell script "sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1" user name "Myname" password "Mypassword" with administrator privileges
else
do shell script "sudo pmset -a disablesleep 0" user name "Myname" password "Mypassword" with administrator privileges

I tried looking into man psmet or using defaults read but no success.

The only thing I'm thinking of is using pmset -g to shows up this :

System-wide power settings:
 SleepDisabled      0
Currently in use:
 lidwake              1
 autopoweroff         1
 standbydelayhigh     86400
 autopoweroffdelay    28800
 standbydelaylow      10800
 standby              1
 proximitywake        0
 ttyskeepawake        1
 hibernatemode        3
 powernap             0
 gpuswitch            2
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 highstandbythreshold 50
 displaysleep         2
 sleep                2 (sleep prevented by coreaudiod, coreaudiod)
 tcpkeepalive         1
 halfdim              1
 acwake               0
 disksleep            10

And then look up the status of SleepDisabled on the list, but I don't know how to return the "0" or "1" of SleepDisabled...


texts: How do push notifications work from a networking point of view?

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I know the data antennas (3G, WiFi, etc.) power down to save battery, but push notifications still seem to come almost immediately. My iPhone and iPad will chime before the email shows up on my desktop. I'd hooked up a TCP/IP sniffer on my Wifi iPad and noticed the push notifications didn't come via TCP/IP. I understand the sending and receiving of push notifications from the App point of view (register the device, send notification to Apple, who sends it to the device), but would like to know more about this last leg of the trip. I see that Apple says port 5223 is involved somehow, but much in the way of details.

I've searched around the web some and not found anything that explains the mechanism of delivering push notifications from Apple to an iOS device. Is it UDP? Is it an existing always on connection? Why doesn't it kill the battery? Basically, how can the notification happen almost immediately without keeping the radio always on, thus killing the battery?


texts: Xcode update would not work, and now won't leave the App Store update queue

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Hello I am trying to remove this update.  It was not working and I ended up downloading the Xcode update directly from apple.developer, it gave me no problem.  This has been my spring cleaning project so now i am still update date with my Xcode but this resume update remains.  The update has actually also been updated to 6.3 as well.  Any advice or direction outside of third party solutions would be very helpful and appreciated.

Thank you,


texts: Boot from USB drive on a Macbook Pro with Windows 7 installation

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Everything I've found says to hold command or option until you hear the boot chime. Obviously I'll never hear that.  Nothing I do seems to work, it always goes to Windows 7.

How can I boot to a USB drive???

Questions from comments:

  What model MacBook Pro are you using?

It says A1286 on the bottom. I hope that's what you need.

  what you mean by "Obviously I'll never hear that [boot chime]" since the chime happens before anything boots

I thought the "boot chime" was part of MacOS, which is why I said "obviously".  I've never heard this macbook do that.

  3) What OS are you trying to boot, and 4) how did you prepare the drive?

I'm trying to boot into Killdisk via USB.  The HDD has Windows 7 installed on it.


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Is it possible to disable notifications for Screen Time while leaving notifications in general enabled?

There's no toggle to disable notifications under it's settings (at least on iOS 12.1.2) and Screen Time doesn't appear under the apps section as a separate app either.

The use case is that I only enable important notifications and I don't want to get this notification on Sunday mornings, for example.


texts:
I'm looking to upgrade my MacBook Pro to 16GB of RAM. I'm considering:

Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1333MHz PC3-10600 204pin SODIMM CL9 Mac

The specs match what my MacBook wants from RAM but it doesn't specifically state which models it is compatible with. Are the MacBooks very fussy about RAM or could someone tell me if this is compatible with my MacBook?

Specs are as follows:

  Late 2011 Macbook Pro 15″ (8,2)
  2.4 GHz Intel Core i7
  4 GB 1333Mhz DDR3 RAM


texts:
How can I hide Xcode's toolbar in fullscreen mode (cmd + ctrl + f)?

I tried to hide it and then go into fullscreen but it appeared immediately. Also I tried to hide it using right-click -> hide toolbar but that did not work:

I just would like to have a clear screen with just code on it, w/o any useless toolbars.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance :)


texts: Eject on menu bar shows "No Drives" even though an external drive is connected

texts:
I have an external drive connected to my mac and I'm able to eject it from the finder window or the desktop like usual.
Finder:

Desktop:

But, I would like to be able to eject it from a menu bar icon. So, I did a little research and found this post that let me add an Eject Menu to the menu bar. But, now the thing is it's not showing my connected external drives defeating the whole purpose. There is just an eject icon sitting on the menu bar when clicked upon shows "No Drives" even when an external drive is connected.
Menu Bar:

Is there a way for me to make my external drive show up on the menu bar?


texts: Mysterious "Staff" account on my school laptop

texts:
There's a account named staff, which I discovered had read permission on my home folder, when I did Get Info on it for an unrelated purpose. So, naturally, I went into System Preferences, and looked in Users and Groups, but it was nowhere to be found. Then, I did ls -la in /Users, but once again, no home folder for the staff account.

Here's the output of ls -la in /Users:

total 0
drwxr-xr-x   5 root      admin   170 Sep 11 06:53 .
drwxr-xr-x  33 root      wheel  1190 Sep 21 15:43 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root      wheel     0 Jun 20  2012 .localized
drwxrwxrwt   4 root      wheel   136 Oct 12 11:42 Shared
drwxr-xr-x+ 26 rmorrill  staff   884 Oct 21 20:43 rmorrill

bash-3.2# ls
.localized  Shared      rmorrill

Also, I might add that in Get Info, the staff had a different icon, than my account, it had two heads instead of one. I'm sure this means something, but I rarely use Mac, so I wouldn't know. Furthermore, my school's IT guy claims to give all high schoolers administrator access, with no spyware, but there's always been rumors that he's a liar.


texts: OS X unusably unresponsive after upgrading 10.6 to 10.8

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Every other click and keystroke seems to cause my MacBook to just freeze for minutes at a time.

(I saw How to fix OS X Lion being unresponsive? but I'm not seeing much swap activity nor is my RAM filled up, according to the Activity Monitor.)

At this point I'd just like to salvage my data off the machine so I can do a clean reinstall, which hopefully will address the problem.  But it's taking forever to do anything, even bring up a menu/Finder or type in "terminal."

I guess my questions boil down to:

Ideally, is there a service/process/etc. that I should disable/stop/kill?  (If I can even get to it....)  I don't see any processes consuming much CPU/RAM, so I have no candidates to kill.  Is there a service that I should be disabling?  I'm new to OS X so I'm not sure how to debug this issue.
Otherwise, is there any way for me to at least get a "bare minimum" system up so that I can copy my files off, and perhaps run a few applications so as to export certain data that aren't neatly available for copying off as files?  Should I be rescuing via a live CD (which means I won't be able to run OS X applications to export data but if that's the only option then so be it)?  What would be a good live CD for this - Ubuntu?

Thanks.


texts: I have typed the name of a bird on a .jpg photo. I made a spelling mistake and tried to edit it. I can create a new text box but not edit the original. Is there a way to edit a text box once you have saved the file


texts: Why is date modified for a folder earlier than date modified for files inside in Finder?

texts: I’ve noticed that when I check the Date Modified for a folder and then open it, some files inside have a Date Modified later than the folder itself. This is confusing, because I sometimes sort folders by date only to find later that there're folders with stuff that was modified later. I'm using MacOS High Sierra.


texts: Airdropped .avi between OSX 10.10 and iOS 8 not found

texts: I just used Airdrop to transfer a .avi file between OSX 10.10 and iOS 8. After that I can't locate file in iOS. I searched it in Videos and Photos. Where is it? And how I can delete it if I can't use it?


texts: Changed my User Name and Now I cannot unlock any authentications

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Yes, that's right, I did what I wasn't supposed to do and now I'm paying the price.  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

I went into my Users & Groups, unlocked it, went into advanced options and changed the user name because someone had misspelled it when they entered it.

The main issue now is that when I try and click the lock the prompt comes up asking for a user name and password. The user name portion of the prompt USED TO be filled in.  It is now blank.  I know that password because (A) that's how I get into the main log-in screen and (B) I didn't change that.

I have tried all sorts of user names but none of them seem to work to unlock anything.  My questions are:

1) How can I recover my user name (it does show up in current user) but that user name doesn't work and hasn't changed.

2) Once Im able to unlock that again, can I just switch back to the previous user name?

3) And if I can do that, is there a way to determine what the original user name was?

I have read a few of the other threads which were similar to my situation and have executed a few of the Terminal procedures but haven't had any success.

This computer is running High Sierra 10.13.6
My current admin user type is Standard (not Admin)


texts: Mail unexpectedly quits - MacBook Pro - macOS High Sierra

texts:
My Mid 2012 MacBook Pro runs High Sierra 10.13.6 and Mail application version 11.5 modified 01 Oct 2020 by Apple Store Security update 2020-006. Mail worked until today when it quit unexpectedly while using signalspamv2plug-in.
I am unable to re-open Mail despite doing it in Safe Mode.
01 December 2020, sorry to have bothered you all, problem solved by uninstalling the SPAM filter which created havoc.


texts: Add an OS X Server Account Fails With No Clear Error

texts:
I have basically pure Mac Networks, one production and one test. Both are running 10.9.4 and the servers have the latest Server.app.

I used to be able to configure users' access to services by using Internet Accounts --> Add Other Account --> Add an OS X Server Account. But recently this seems to have stopped working, with status icons next to the services the user wants connected just spinning indefinitely. I switched and rebuilt a clean test server/workstation and ended up with the same behavior so it doesn't appear restricted to a set workstation or server. I had thought Profile Manager might have been the source of the problem, but the test network does not have profile manager configured.

Configuration-wise, the only thing I've changed recently is the protocol providing users' home directories from AFP to SMB.

After the spinning occurs for a couple of minutes, all heck breaks loose in the system log and SMB connection to the user's home directory is lost, thus requiring a restart. The log entries are really a mess but they seem to be addressing the lost connection. Google hasn't been much help with this situation either.

Edit: I should have included, if I add and Addressbook account separately, I am seeing troubles with the user being able to actually pull down contacts. And if I can figure out how to get a valid connection, I'm seeing two contact accounts showing up in the list and one is empty (appears to be read only as I cannot add contacts to that).

I'm curious if anyone else has seen this behavior, and if so what OS/Server versions are you using? If this method of configuring services works for you, will you share some details of your set up, to include SMB/AFP?

Thanks.


texts: How do I set up automatic, incremental backup for my macOS Photos.app library?

texts:
I have ~30,000 photos in my library, which takes up ~90 GB disk space. My MacBook has limited hard drive size, so I'm using an external hard drive for my Photos library. The library is synced to iCloud.
This means I have two full copies of my photo library - the external drive and iCloud. But I still don't feel perfectly secure. I have heard of people who have lost large parts of their photo collection when absentmindedly deleting photos from one iOS device to free up space, only to realize that iCloud syncs the deletions to all other devices.
So I would like a third backup location, so that I can be reasonably sure I'll have a good backup of my entire photo library in case of disaster or screw-up. I would of course want everything to be as automated as possible, so that my photos are backed up every day (or on any modification) without me having to do anything.
These are the options I have researched:

Create two partitions on the external drive - one for the Photos library, one for a Time Machine backup of the same. This would allow me to revert modifications to the library. Cons: Having a Time Machine backup and a Photos library on the same drive is not recommended by Apple, so I would need yet another HDD.

Use a 3rd party online backup service to mirror the entire Photos library. This allows me to recover from any disaster happening to my iCloud and/or local library. Cons: The Photos library consists of not only image files, but also a SQLite database file, which in my case is about 450MB. Every time I modify my library in any way, the database file is modified, meaning that I need to upload (at least) 450MB to the backup service for every single thing I do. This seems like a huge waste of bandwidth, and the backup is hardly incremental.

Keep the actual Photos library on the internal HDD, while having the image files as "referenced" images, stored on the external HDD. This would save space on the internal drive. Cons: Would require me to organize the file structure myself. iCloud sync is also not possible for referenced images.

Are there any better options for achieving a good automated, incremental backup for macOS Photos?


texts: unload nfsd - Operation not permitted while System Integrity Protection is engaged

texts:
While I was trying to unload my nfsd instance I found out that I cannot do it anymore.

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.nfsd.plist

/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.nfsd.plist: Operation not permitted while System Integrity Protection is engaged

This behaviour was introduced with the Mac OS Sierra update 10.12.4.

How can I enable/disable the nfsd daemon?

Should I disable the System Integrity Protection, stop/start the service and enable the System Integrity Protection every time? And, if yes, how?


texts:
I have install Windows 10 on my 21" iMac 2015 with Boot Camp which change my hard iMac hard disk file type, since then I am trying to access macOS on my machine but no luck, I tried everything but my system auto going to Windows.

So I tired to remove Windows from my hard disk and by formatting whole disk from Windows repair tool on startup and now I am even not able to access Windows and my iMac just showing a white folder with "?" mark in it.

I tried Target Disk Mode but no command is working on startup.

It seems like macOS BIOS system is wipeout from my iMac.

Please help me out.


texts: Block unwanted/pop-up Ads on iOS browsers

texts:
So these gift-card Ads seem to be giving me trouble for some reason lately, and it seems like its okay on Safari on iOS but on Google Chrome on iOS,  there seems to be no way to get rid of them.

Other than tapping Ok (which I don't think I have ever done with one of these scam popups) - what do I do?


texts:
Is anyone aware of a HomeKit enabled device which exposes a control element/button in the Home app which allows you to cycle through modes (each click changes a "mode" - whatever mode means for the particular device)? I'm trying to find out whether this kind of button/control exists in HomeKit/Home app to build a device that exposes such a button.

Edit

Here is what I am referring to. The image shows 2 controls (a slider and a switch). I require the switch to have more than two states. Does anyone know if there is a device that exposes such a behaviour to Homekit?


texts:
My Mac is running Mavericks in English, but because my region is set to Portugal  and my keyboard is the portuguese one, when I run some scripts they shows messages in portuguese. I generally hate to run software created by non-native people in Portuguese because the translation is always crappy. I end with messages like "cubra is not defined". What the hell is a "cubra"?

So, these scripts are reading something from the system and switching to portuguese. Is there a way to force them to always run in english?

My terminal has this option selected:

Terminal > Preferences > Settings > [profile] > Advanced > Set locale environment variables on startup


texts: Keyboard shortcut to insert text - Keynote

texts:
I'm new to Keynote and am disappointed by the lack of shortcuts for basic actions like "insert text". Any idea of how to attribute a single key such as the letter "T" to insert text action?

If for any reason a single letter without cmd/opt/whatever modifier key is not recommended, I'm happy with other possibilities..


texts: How to terminate cleanly another session left running?

texts:
I am the admin on a shared MacOS X: Big_server running Yosemite.
The version of MacOS isn't a key information: I had the same kind of problem on all versions of MacOS.

But today I have a practical big case and time to analyze and test solutions.
Big_server is hosting professionnal services (firewall and mail server)
and can't be rebooted to play.

I have another user bob who left his session open.
He forgot to close it and is on vacation for many weeks.
Hence the console is locked waiting for his password.
I know how to kill bob's session like a pig.

However, I noticed that this colleague has more than 50 processes running,
some of them terminating with:

...Support/photolibraryd
.../com.apple.CloudPhotosConfiguration
...

and I would like to avoid corrupting any of his libraries or files
which might have been left opened.

How may I terminate cleanly bob's session without corrupting his data?


texts: How do I delete photos from my iPhone without also deleting them from my Mac (both are connected to iCloud)

texts:
I currently have about 7k-8k photos and videos stored on my Mac.

Recently, I purchased 200 GB iCloud plan so I can have access to all my photos and videos on my iPhone.  I dragged my Photos library on my Mac into iCloud.

Now, I do not want all of the photos and videos and I want to delete some of them. I don't know how to delete several photos and videos from my iPhone without them also being deleted from my Mac. I thought about disconnecting my Mac from iCloud, but then began wondering as to whether or not it would take all the photos back as well. So what should I do?

How do I delete photos and videos from my iPhone without them also being deleted from my Mac?


texts: Does plugging in an iPhone/iPad make a difference to its battery lifespan?

texts:
I've been led to believe there's a difference between how a MacBook and an iPhone/iPad consume power: when a MacBook with a fully charged battery is plugged in, its components draw power directly from the charger while when an iPhone/iPad with a fully charged battery is plugged in, its components still draw power from the battery which is frequently recharged to keep it at 100%. Hence, it doesn't make a difference to the battery's overall lifespan whether the iPhone/iPad is plugged in while you use the device.

Or in other words, if I'm using an iPhone/iPad and am not worried about battery life, there's no point in plugging it in anyway in the hope of prolonging battery lifespan?

Is this correct or have I been misinformed?


texts: Why would AppleIDAuthAgent take nearly 100% CPU?

texts:
The AppleIDAuthAgent process on my 2007 Mac Pro running OS X 10.7.5 is taking up 95-100 % CPU continuously.

I use it whenever I go to work.

I also use it as a server. I occasionally pull/push using git and to access it via SSH and remote desktop from home or elsewhere. It's behind a major university firewall and has fairly high security settings.

More info:

Parent Process is launchd.
The process has no recent hangs.
Real Memory Size: 122.3 MB
Virtual Memory Size: 18.49 GB  <-- Suspicious....
Shared Memory Size: 4.2 MB
Private Memory Size: 66.0 MB
Virtual Private Memory: 291.1 MB
CPU time: 573 hrs

I can provide other info if requested.


texts: Which keychain holds user trusted certificates?

texts:
I tried to do a clean install of my El Capitan MacBook but realised that much of my keychain migrated over. When I went into keychain access it showed a number of different keychains. I reset the "login" keychain which seemed to delete the "iCloud" keychain as well. However, "local items", "System" and "System Roots" all survived. Should I clear these as well?

Before I did the clean install, I know there were a few times when I was confronted with having to trust an unknown certificate. I want to make sure these are deleted. Which keychain would these user-trusted certificates have gone into? I want to make sure that certificates that I decided to trust are deleted so that I am only left with certificates supplied by Apple on new machines.


texts:
I upgraded my iPhone 4S to a 6.  They transferred the number and everything in the Verizon store.  However, they did not want the old phone on trade in.  I would like to trade / sell or give away the old phone but I want to reset it first.

However, it will not let me reset it because it will not connect to the WiFi at my house in order to accept the iTunes password.

I have confirmed with other devices the WiFi is working and I am typing the correct iTunes password.  This is really frustrating me.


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I have an iPhone and an iPad. iCloud keychain sync is on. I'm in a location with a secret wifi password that is on my iPhone and not on my iPad. My iPhone isn't jailbroken and I already know I can't see the wifi password on my iPhone.

Is there any way to pass the wifi password from my iPhone to the iPad?


texts: How do I record a weightlifting exercise on an Apple Watch?

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On an Apple Watch Series 2 with WatchOS 4.2.3, how can I record a weightlifting session on the Workout App?

I’m currently recording my sessions as “Other”, but I’d like to categorize them as something more specific in my activity history.


texts: List main folders that contain non changed folders and files since a specific date

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I want to list the main folders in a directory that all their subfolders and files have a modified date older than a specific date. Any advice?

I've tried this: find . -type d -newermt '7/15/09' from this question but it returns subfolders and files. I want to return only the parent folder.

So for example if I'm in the correct directory and it has 100 main folders named folder1 ... folder100 then folder1 has subfolders 1..10 and 10 files and all of these subfolders and files hasn't been modified for 6 months then I want folder1 to be listed in the result not the subfolders and files.


texts:
I just bought macbook pro 16 and I get mild shock when charging and when I touch surface.
Is this to be expected or do I need to have it serviced?


texts: I have the latest Xcode installed, but I can't "quicklook" plist files (I mean they appear as an xml file instead of a table). Is this normal?


texts: iPhone 6s stuck in DFU mode after downgrading

texts: I'm trying to downgrade from iOS 11 beta 2 back to iOS 10.3.2. I've downloaded the .ipsw from iOS 10.3.2 file from ipsw.me. After that, I've put my iPhone in DFU mode and plugged into my Mac (Sierra 10.12.5). iTunes detected the phone in DFU mode, so then I choose the restore option holding option key and selected the .ipsw file downloaded. The iTunes pass through all process of restoring the phone, but right after it ends, the iPhone restart and go back to the DFU mode. I've tried to download the 10.3.1 ipsw version but the same problem occurred. I've no idea how to proceed.


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I’m trying to find pull up an image from a locally-cached version of a webpage. I opened ~/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default/Cache but I have no idea how to read these files. I saw that there's a Windows application called Chrome Cache View by Nirsoft that lets you do this, but I don't see any equivalent application for Mac. Can anyone help, please?
For context: My insurance company recently changed their policy on me without my knowledge, and they replaced the old policy on their website with new policy information/photos. To file a dispute, I need to dig up the photos of their old policy which they have removed from their website——but, from my understanding, should be stored on my local cache files for Google Chrome.
Thank you!


texts: Are 'du' and 'df' reliable when there are lots of hard links?

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MacOS 10.13.2 (17C88)

Backupdb is three times the size of the used space on the internal drive.

When there are lots of hardlinks in something (as there are in TM backups), does 'du' count every link, or does it count the actual file once?

It seems likely that it is actually reading the files and counting bytes, because it takes a LONG time for large files.  And a hard-link could point to a directory outside of the one being measured.  (But that shouldn't happen when measuring the entire backupdb.)

Other questions discuss reasons 'du' and 'df' might differ, but the ones I've read so far have reasons other than hard-links.

I expect a Backupdb to get larger with every backup, but I'm trying to figure out how much space I need to relocate it.


texts: Dual boot dual partition and clean install of High Sierra

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iMac, model has been verified
Dual boot machine.
HD is SATA
Two partitions. Second Partition has Yosemite. First partion old.

I want to wipe first partition and install High Sierra.

Plan:

Download High Sierra and create bootable install as per osxdaily instructions
Using option key, boot into High Sierra USB stick.
While in High Sierra, clean and format first partition, as HFS+ partition.
Install High Sierra on first partition.
From articles online, High Sierra will not convert SATA partition to APFS

Questions

Format first partition as HFS? I believe from several articles I will have option to install High Sierra w/o AFPS, correct?
Dual boot will survive a reformatting of first partition? I come from Grub background with MBR, that's why asking question. My understanding is option key will allow booting to any partition with valid osx.

Point 5 above, any confirmation from Apple doc?


texts: Downloads folder removed from the bottom

texts: I have a new mac (purchased about 3 months ago).  Somehow the downloads folder isn't pinned to the bottom anymore (I didn't delete the folder, I somehow moved it).  I tried minimizing the folder and then dragging it to the right of the line but the other icons don't move.  Does anybody know how to fix this?


texts: How to "refresh" a mounted NFS folder from my router in Finder?

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I have a rt-n56u router with an external hard disk shared in NFS.

Sometimes this shared disk shows in Finder, sometimes not, and I need to reboot router AND mac yosemite - even if I can see it being shared in my router's admin interface - to make it available in my sidebar. Sometimes, I need to wait some minutes for it to show.

What can I do to "force", "refresh", "flush cache" or something like this for my hard disk to show again without all this hassle? I'm fine with command line.


texts: iMessage comes from a different (unknown) phone number? Possible to change own number?

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I finally talked my mum into updating her iphone to iOS5, however now there is a hitch.
When she sends a message to me (also on iOS5) it does come through as an imessage, but from a totally different phone number.

It seems like the phone number is attached to the sim card in her phone even though she elected to keep her old number when she bought the phone. Does that make sense??

Is there a way to change the phone number associated with an iphone?
When I go to settings>messages> receive at the phone number box is greyed out.


texts: Is there a tmp directory that gets cleaned when user logs out or logs in?

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Looking at building a custom parser in AppleScript that would run throughout the day with launchd.  The issue I'm looking at is trying to find what tmp directory to store the parse at that would be cleaned after log in or log out.

After searching it would appear tmp directories are only wiped on the reboot.  If I can run a clean on log in or log out that would save on performance trying to condition when to run under a wipe.

When I research the topic I've found Temporary Items that details:

path to temporary items
path to temporary items from user domain
/private/var/folders
/tmp
/private/tmp
/var/private/tmp

but that doesn't mention wether or not a log out/in wipes the directories.  Diving deeper I found AppleScript has a tmp option from Where to write temporary with:

path to temporary items from user domain

Searching the site I've found:

How long does the ios clean tmp directory?
Saving /private/tmp

Is there a directory on a Mac that is cleans on a system running Maverick, Yosemite and Sierra that will be cleaned after a log in/out that doesn't require system admin approval?


texts: Setting environment variables (TEXINPUTS) in El Capitan

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I am a user of TeXShop, an application launched from the Launchpad. Everything works great except that in order to get full functionality, I need to set the TEXINPUTS environment variable. (To be precise, the variable must be set for certain processes launched by TexShop. It is normally inherited from the parent process.)

Until I upgraded to El Capitan, I could do this by calling launchctl setenv TEXINPUTS some-appropriate-value. Unfortunately, this has stopped working after upgrading. The command appears to succeed, and querying with launchctl getenv TEXINPUTS shows me the value I set, but it is not passed to applications I launch from the GUI. (I have confirmed this by launching a Terminal and checking the environment.)

The launchctl manual page has this to say about the config system command:

  path:     Sets the PATH environment variable for all services within the target domain to
  the string value.  [...] Note that if a service specifies its
  own PATH, the service-specific environment variable will take precedence.

  NOTE: This facility cannot be used to set general environment variables for all
  services within the domain. It is intentionally scoped to the PATH environment
  variable and nothing else for security reasons.

So it seems that Apple (a) does not want to pass my environment settings to applications willy-nilly, may have a way to customize the environment of specific "services". Does anyone know how I can get my editor to "see" the TEXINPUTS variable?

PS. Almost all related questions I've seen are about setting PATH. Solutions specific to setting the system path are not going to help here.


texts: Finder opens only when USB stick inserted

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I'm experiencing some issues with Finder after an update on my Mac (Mojave). When I click the Finder icon in the Dock, nothing happens. It does not open.

However, when I insert a USB stick, wait for it to mount and THEN click the Finder icon again (so not the USB icon but Finder itself), it suddenly appears.

Anyone seen this behavior before?

Ralph


texts: Finder in Mavericks will not tag files on network drives

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Is there a workaround? How can I fix this?
These files are on SMB shares to Windows servers with a NTFS file system. Is there a better way to connect to windows shares? Please guide as I am new to the Mac world. Thanks.


texts: Automator - Launch terminal at certain folder

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Is there a way in Automator to open the terminal application at a certain folder location with 2 tabs at that location?

So for example open terminal with 2 tabs that have already changed directory from the root folder to Documents/Websites


texts: OS X 10.9: where are password hashes stored

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I think on previous versions of OS X, password were stored in the /etc/shadow file.

Nevertheless, this file doesn't appear to exist in the later versions of the operating system - specifically OS X 10.9 which is the first of the non-cat named OS releases.

Does anyone know where the password hashes are stored on OS X Mavericks?


texts: Itunes put random photos on my iphone I cant delete

texts: Itunes put some photos from my laptop onto my  phone and now i cannot delete them please help! How do I delete them?


texts: Removing “Other User” from startup screen

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How do I get rid of "other user". I had used a Mac Tech prior and he worked on my Mac. It only showed my icon on the start up screen. Now I have another icon for another user which when I open it, it opens up a dark gray screen for what I believe is for screen sharing.

I would like to remove it and bring it back to just one user for the start up. Thanks


texts: How to connect a bluetooth speaker to MacOS and KEEP using the internal speakers

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Is there anyway to connect any bluetooth audio device (using the bluetooth toolbar icon) and make MacOS NOT change the output to it once connected?

When I connect any external bluetooth speaker the output changes automatically to the bluetooth as soon as I connect it. I would like to connect the bluetooth and tell the system somehow to keep using the internal speakers after connecting the bluetooth one.

In other words, I want to disable automatic speaker switching after connecting the bluetooth speaker.

The situation is: Consider you are already using the internal speakers, then you connect the bluetooth one: MacOS automatically changes the output to the Bluetooth one. I want to disable this auto-switching


texts: Mail application which allow to choose smtp server

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I am using Gmail and I have two SMTP settings on Accounts tab (Gmail - Settings - Accounts - Send mail as).  So I get mail on my gmail account, but can choose which SMTP server use to send mail - smtp.gmail.com or my own smtp server.

I am just wondering if there is a mail application which allow me to choose smtp server for each mail I send ?


texts: How can I retrieve a saved WiFi password from iOS / iPadOS on secure hardware?

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I have some wireless networks that I joined on my iOS device and I now want to retrieve the passwords from the device.

These are stored in the keychain presumably so I’d like (by hook or crook if necessary) to get into the iOS / iPadOS keychain and obtain saved passwords or secrets.

I'm primarily interested in old hotspot passwords, but being able to list other items in the iOS keychain would be generally useful. If I need to use a computer, that's fine, but I would also be interested in ways to accomplish this from iOS itself if that is possible.

Is the keychain exportable forensically or natively on modern iOS devices with a physical Secure Enclave?


texts: Force integrated graphics card on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion when working with VMware Fusion 5.x?

texts:
I want to force the GPU on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15 (A1286) to remain on the integrated GPU while I run VMWare Fusion 5.x.

The gfxCardStatus software doesn't work on 10.8. Is there another solution?


texts: Change space of other non-active display via keyboard

texts:
My two displays (let call them A and B) have separate spaces. I can go back and forth among the spaces on the active/focussed display A. Is it possible to go back and forth among the spaces on B with keyboard shortcuts and without moving the focus to B?

I do not mean assigning keyboard shortcuts to each space, because there are more than ten spaces and plenty of maximized windows.


texts: Why did Apple Decide not to install Command Line Tools as default?

texts: Why did Apple Decide not to install Command Line Tools which now have to be installed through xcode?


texts: How to send an email to everyone in the address book?

texts:
How can I easily send a BCC to everyone in my address book on OS X?

I need to send everyone my new email address.


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iOS7 allows you to delete the iOS8 update package if it has been automatically downloaded to your iPhone (Settings > General > Software Update > Delete). However, then Apple insists on notifying you again of the availability of the iOS8 update (though without downloading it), which means you permanently have a "1" by the Settings icon.

Is there a way of blocking this notification?


texts: VMware fusion 4 won't launch due to out of date, running guests

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When running the Upgrade Installer from VMware Fusion 3.1.3 to v4.0.1, this dialog pops up:

A virtual machine is running with an older version of VMware Fusion.
Please use the older version of VMware Fusion to suspend or power off all virtual machines.

I shut down all the guests, reran the installer, same thing. I used vmware article 1017838 to uninstall v3 manually, reboot, and then drag the Fusion 4 app to the Applications folder. Reboot and run Fusion. Same thing. Checked /var/run for vmware items. Checked Activity Monitor for vmware items. Rechecked locations specified in 1017838 and used spotlight to search around.
I moved all my guests to an extra drive and unmounted that drive, and repeated the uninstall and reinstall.  A friend recommended an app called "CleanApp" to watch what files are created and modified during the installs, which did reveal a bit more cruft. Basically, I've tried to scrub my system of all things Fusion, both versions including guests, and then done a reinstall, and that hasn't worked. My last gasp was booting into the 32 bit kernel but that didn't help.
I've filed a ticket with VMware, but it's been a slow slog.


texts:
I have text in this format:

Red and green apples
Pear
2 Bananas
red orange
Melon
Grape fruit

I need it in this format:

c("Red and green apples", "Pear", "2 Bananas", "red orange", "Melon", "Grape fruit")

I also have these numbers:

1
172
3
183
16
178
68
56
687
576
455

Which I need in the format below. Note that this is same format as above except they are numbers so they are missing quotes:

c(1, 172, 3, 183, 16, 178, 68, 56, 687, 576, 455)

Can I make a shortcut that will automatically convert the text?


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut to change tabs in Notification Center?

texts:
Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch between the "Today" and "Notifications" tabs in Notification Center in OS X Yosemite?

I'm looking for something equivalent to the cmd-shift-[/] shortcuts in Safari.


texts:
Is it possible to show duration of each event in Apple Calendar?

Example:

I inserted this text written in red. But I'm looking for a functionality where you can see the duration of the event.


texts: Are all messages downloaded in Mail when using Gmail with IMAP?

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I'm using Gmail for all my mails but I would like to have a complete copy on my desktop.

On Windows I was using Thunderbird but on my MacBook I would like to be sure that Mail is downloading and keeping everything.

I know that if I connect by POP, Mail is going to download everything. But as my Gmail account is configured to connect by IMAP, is it downloading all messages to keep them offline or is it only linking to online data?

I have also disabled the attachments' download: now I have changed it and said I would like Mail to download all attachments. Will it download all the attachments from old messages? If not (it seems not), is there a way to make Mail download attachments from all old messages?


texts: Does the iPod Classic respond to the clicker buttons on the iPhone earbuds?

texts: I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the iPad supports the clickers on the iPhone headphones (volume up/down, play/pause, etc). Does the most recent iPod Classic series respond to these buttons as well?


texts: Does the Health app store weight information entered within the Watch app on my iPhone, or is this stored separately?

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Assume the following:

When initially setting up my Apple Watch, I set up my health profile and when asked for my weight, I enter 90kg

Several months later, I then go into the Watch app on my iPhone and decrease this by 5kg

In this example, does the Health app store my previous weight measurement anywhere - or is this setting separate to data stored in the Health app and only contained within the Watch app on my iPhone?


texts: Connection Interrupted error in iOS simulators after updating to xcode 7

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I have updated to Xcode 7 from App Store. And now when ever I run an application or directly start the simulator from Xcode, i got an error Error Returned in reply: Connection Interrupted.

I searched on internet, but did not found any solutions. Kindly advice about this issue.


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Safari 12.0
macOS Mojave version 10.14
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)

AS of today (2/11/2018) characters in Safari are being shown as boxed question marks.

The same websites are displayed perfectly in Firefox.

Emojis are not displayed in Messages main window but in the sidebar they are!

I have tried restore default fonts etc but no difference.

Any help appreciated.


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I have a Nintendo DS to connect to the internet, but my router does not support WEP. I used to be able to create a WEP internet share on my MacBook 2010, but after the upgrade to 10.11.4, I cannot.

Is there any solution?


texts: Share / view files betweek Mac OS X and Linux (Ubuntu) using sshfs and GUI

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I just want to access file from Mac OS X (Big Sur / 11.2.1) on my Linux (Ubuntu 20.04.2 machine) and vice versa.
I did not like the idea using SMB - or should I really do it??
What I did

OS X : Enabled System Preferences -> Sharing -> Remote Login
OS X: I am able to type sshfs (not sure why it knows the command I did some other experiments the other days (e.g. installed meld via brew)
Linux enabled ssh (server)

What works good

Access OS X Filesystem from Ubuntu via sshfs user@192.168.0.1
Access OS X Filesystem from Ubuntu via the files application by typing sftp://192.168.0.1

What works not-so-good
Access the Linux / Ubuntu filesystem from Mac OS X :
sshfs user@192.168.0.2:/ localMountDir works as well BUT:

strange user and group : user: root, group weel
going deeper into the path (which is internally another SSD the permission changes from 755 to 750 (or rwxr-xr-x to rwxr-x---)

How to fix the issue ??

I would guess it has to do with this trange user/group root/weel
If so how to fix this ?? I looked a little bit about users and groups in OS X but on the GUI -> System Preferences -> Users and Groups -> I do not see any groups


texts: Find My constantly using location services

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On my iPhone in settings under privacy->system services. Find my iPhone always has the grey navigation arrow next to it, It has been like this for over a week. 3 days ago I noticed that find my iPhone was actively using my location (purple arrow) at 5 in the morning so i changed the password to my iCloud account and haven't logged into iCloud on any of my other devices(MacBook/apple watch).
Its been 3 days since I changed my password but "find my iphone" still has a grey navigation compass arrow next to it.
I was wondering if there is any way to see who/what is using "find my iPhone" to view my location?
My question is very similar to this one: Find My iPhone - location services


texts: Spotlight not searching Time Capsule drive, indexing enabled

texts:
When using Spotlight search, it is not finding a specific file, which I know is located on my Time Capsule drive, which, of course, is mounted and indexing thereof is enabled.
Please, see below relevant Terminal extract:
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ % mdutil -s /
/:
    Indexing enabled.
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ % mdutil -s /Volumes
/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes:
    Indexing enabled.
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ % mdutil -s /Volumes/Time\ Capsule
/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/Time Capsule:
    Indexing enabled.
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ % ls -l /Volumes/Time\ Capsule/Documents/Afrikaans
total 15296
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 Martin  staff        0 Jan 15  2012 Icon?
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 Martin  staff      264 Jan 20  2012 Teach Yourself - Afrikaans
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 Martin  staff  7761600 Aug  9 09:33 afrikaans woorden.txt
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ % mdfind -onlyin /Volumes/Time\ Capsule/Documents/Afrikaans -name afrikaans
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ % mdfind -onlyin /Volumes/Time\ Capsule/Documents/Afrikaans/ -name afrikaans
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ % sudo mdfind -onlyin /Volumes/Time\ Capsule/Documents/Afrikaans -name afrikaans
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ % sudo mdfind -onlyin /Volumes/Time\ Capsule/Documents/Afrikaans/ -name afrikaans
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ %

I have tried rebuilding the indexing by adding and removing the drive from the Spotlight Privacy tab.
What should I do? Please help!
Thanks
UPDATE 1 as per kodliber's suggestion:
Have you tried by manually import this file you mention using the command mdimport?
Yes I have, to no avail.
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ % ls -l /Volumes/Time\ Capsule/Documents/Afrikaans/
total 15296
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 Martin  staff        0 Jan 15  2012 Icon?
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 Martin  staff      264 Jan 20  2012 Teach Yourself - Afrikaans
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 Martin  staff  7761600 Aug  9 09:33 afrikaans woorden.txt
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ % mdimport /Volumes/Time\ Capsule/Documents/Afrikaans/afrikaans\ woorden.txt
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ % mdfind -onlyin /Volumes/Time\ Capsule/Documents/Afrikaans -name woorden
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ % mdfind -onlyin /Volumes/Time\ Capsule/Documents/Afrikaans/ -name woorden
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ % sudo mdfind -onlyin /Volumes/Time\ Capsule/Documents/Afrikaans -name woorden
Password:
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ % sudo mdfind -onlyin /Volumes/Time\ Capsule/Documents/Afrikaans/ -name woorden
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ %

UPDATE 2 as per Jahhein's question:
At the root of the volume, is there a file named .metadata_never_index?
No, there is no such file.
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ % ls -la /Volumes/Time\ Capsule | grep .metadata_never_index
Martin@Martins-MacBook-Pro ~ %

UPDATE 3
Doing the same search using Spotlight via CMD+Spacebar works:


texts: Do these horizontal lines on MacBook screen signify logic board or graphics card failure?

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My friend has been experiencing problems with his MacBook recently. The machine powers on but at some stage, usually during the boot, it will freeze and the display will look as pictured with black and white horizontal blocks on screen, arranged in 5 columns. Very occasionally it will boot all the way to open the user profile and allow a few minutes of normal use before the lines appear.

Apple Hardware Test doesn't highlight a problem. On the couple of occasions that macOS Recovery did load, Disk Utility ran First Aid without any errors.

We would like to know is the odds of a hardware problem e.g. graphics chipset or logic board?


texts: Share Time Machine disk to WAN through my Asus router

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My Asus Router (Blue Cave) has the ability to let its disk act as a Time Machine capsule.  For computers on its LAN, that works just fine. You can see the disk advertised (via Bonjour?) in the sidebar of Finder, select it via Time Machine, and back up.

Upstream from the Asus router and its LAN is another Mac, which provides them internet.  The WAN IP for the router is 192.168.2.2 and its parent Mac has the IP 192.168.1.2. On parent mac, I mount afp://router.wan.ip, but can't just mount it without hassle from the Bonjour advertisement.

I'm having a lot of trouble backing up to the disk from both simultaneously.  It's as if mounting on the one "steals" the disk from the other.  They end up telling me they want to do a new backup and they don't have access to delete their .sparsebundle.purgeable and I should probably run first aid on the disk.

Per @klanomath's request, the network architecture is as follows:

modem to internet (internet IP space)
wired router (192.168.1.1/24)
mac mini (192.168.1.2)  sharing internet via pf static NAT
network adapter (en4) (192.168.2.1)
asus w/ network disk (192.168.2.2, serving 192.168.3.0/24)
macbook (192.168.3.251)


texts:
Did clean install of Yosemite. In Finder I can't move files to a folder. I must authenticate almost all move operations. After entering password the file is not moved, but copied instead. Apple is not much help. I have been told I have created an encrypted volume and have to bring in computer. I don't buy it. Another consultant said I need to turn off FileVault and unencrypt volume, but FileVault is already off. Anybody familiar with this problem?

Clarks-Mac-Pro:~ clarkland$ ls -leO
total 0
drwx------+  5 clarkland  staff  -       170 Apr 15 09:05 Desktop
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+  6 clarkland  staff  -       204 Feb 28 18:32 Documents
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+ 11 clarkland  staff  -       374 Apr  8 02:51 Downloads
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------@ 16 clarkland  staff  -       544 Apr 15 09:05 Dropbox
drwx------@ 53 clarkland  staff  hidden 1802 Mar  5 05:07 Library
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+  7 clarkland  staff  -       238 Mar  2 13:58 Movies
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+  4 clarkland  staff  -       136 Feb  8 18:31 Music
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+  9 clarkland  staff  -       306 Mar  2 13:58 Pictures
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwxr-xr-x+  5 clarkland  staff  -       170 Nov 26 16:24 Public
 0: group:everyone deny delete

Created a new administrative user (Fairy Princess), as suggested. It has the same problem.

Clarks-Mac-Pro:~ fairyprincess$ ls -leO
total 0
drwx------+  3 fairyprincess  staff  -  102 Apr 15 09:52 Desktop
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+  3 fairyprincess  staff  -  102 Apr 15 09:52 Documents
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+  3 fairyprincess  staff  -  102 Apr 15 09:52 Downloads
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+ 41 fairyprincess  staff  - 1394 Apr 15 09:59 Library
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+  3 fairyprincess  staff  -  102 Apr 15 09:52 Movies
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+  3 fairyprincess  staff  -  102 Apr 15 09:52 Music
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+  3 fairyprincess  staff  -  102 Apr 15 09:52 Pictures
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwxr-xr-x+  5 fairyprincess  staff  -  170 Apr 15 09:52 Public


texts: Macbook internet speeds are slow; fine on other devices

texts: I have Verizon Fios 50/50. For the past 2 weeks, my speed tests on my macbook pro were more like 5/5. After reading another comment about NordVPN, I deleted my wifi settings files and deleted NordVPN and my download speed shot up to ~50 mbps but upload is still only 10 mbps. I have a feeling this is related to VPNs that I use even though they're not active. Deleted NordVPN seemed to fix my download speed. I haven't used Nord VPN for 6+ months so it was not active at the time, which is confusing. I used Pulse Secure and Cisco AnyConnect on and off for work so unfortunately I cannot also delete those VPNs.  Anyone have any ideas?  FYI - my phone sitting next to me on the same wifi network has consistent 50/50 speed tests.


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Recently I bought a used iphone 4s that was imported to Sweden. The problem is that I am not able to activate it, it only displays messages about how it tried to but failed. As a result I am getting the "No Service" banner and no connection to the carrier, Telia that I am trying to connect to.

I had however a brief moment of luck when I was able to get it "almost" activated and it connected to my carrier and allowed phone calls and texts but no data and since cellular data is very important for me I tried another system restore to get it working but unfortunately I cannot get the phone activated now again and I am stuck with the "No service" banner.

In the phone menu inside the settings I can still see the banner for "Sprint-services" could this be a cause of the problem?


texts: I have an iPhone 4s. I am not updating to IOS 8 as I have read enough warnings not to do this. All my apps now want to be updated, but most of those updates say that they are for IOS 8 compatibility. Should I do these updates? Will the apps still work normally for me?


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I have a working MacBook Pro as well as an old Dell laptop with no OS installed whatsoever. I'm giving the old laptop to a friend and I bought a Windows 10 license to install for them. The problem is burning the image properly!
There seems to be an issue in recent versions of Windows 10 where one of the files in the installer is too large for FAT32 so (unless I want to do some off-label dark magic during install, which I'd prefer to avoid) I need to burn directly to NTFS. I installed the trial of Paragon's NTFS for Mac, which lets me format the drive, but I haven't been able to find any Mac applications that will let me burn an image in NTFS.

Unetbootin explicitly requires FAT32
Boot Camp Assistant - in recent versions - apparently no longer supports external drives at all (it explicitly won't even proceed unless I physically disconnect all drives)
balenaEtcher provides a warning that it may not work properly for windows images and then fails during the burning process with no explanation

Does anyone have experience with burning NTFS on mac or know of a tool that could help here?


texts: F11 not presenting code of Macaulay 2 to the Emacs buffer in OSX

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I am setting up Emac Version 24.4 (9.0) for Macaulay 2. This results to the following error: pressing F11 should present the input of the buffer above, instead it prints "-- end of buffer *M2-demo-buffer*". I don't know:

How can I get the emacs to present the code in the above buffer as in the picture?

Related the last question, in other words with different buffer, how can I get the code highlighted with mouse to be presented to Macaulay 2 buffer in Emacs with F11?

The F keys are not mapped in dashboard or expose.

This point is missing in instructions to set up M2 for emacs in OSX.


texts: Flashing Previous Firmware to M1 Mini Without DFU Mode

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I just got a new M1 Mini in the mail (16gb RAM config).
Upon updating to Big Sur 11.2 , both of my thunderbolt ports were disabled.  I can't even get power from them to charge my other apple devices.  They were both working just fine prior to updating.
I spent an hour on the phone with a senior advisor from Apple and he had me run diagnostics on my system and filed a ticket with Apple and told me there's a 99% chance it's due to a bad firmware update with the new machines that was pushed with 11.2.
I was able to find the previous firmware version I was running in the form of an IPSW file.
I understand these are normally installed through DFU mode.  I cannot access DFU mode, as the thunderbolt ports don't work.....
Is there any way to install this IPSW file without the use of DFU mode? As much as I'd love to wait a week for Apple to get back to me on my case, I'd much prefer to have my thunderbolt ports working in the meantime....
For what it's worth: I can see both thunderbolt ports in System Information, they just never pick anything up when connecting devices.


texts: On iTunes for Mac, download all music from iTunes Match

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Is there any way to download all of my iTunes Match music in one go on iTunes OS X?

I've tried selecting all then clicking the little iCloud Button.

I've also tried generating an Automator 'Watch me do' script, but that fails because the iCloud buttons have not been given a namespace selector, meaning the script errors out.

Does anyone know how this could be achieved? I have over 2,000 songs and don't want to click the button individually for each one.


texts: Why is "System" taking over 100 gigs of storage on my Mac?

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The System Information app popped-up today telling my disk is nearly full (65 gigs of 256 gig drive).
➥ That tool reports that "System" is taking 132 gigs. What exactly do they mean by "System", and why is it so large?
I find it hard to believe that macOS Mojave 10.14.6 is itself so large as to take more than half the smallest size drive that Apple ships. Not so long ago Apple was shipping Macs with 128-gig drives.
The Activity Monitor app reports "Swap used" as 3.8 gigs. But that still leaves 128-gigs as inexplicably bloated.
My Question is similar to What is 'System' on mac laptop storage?. But the accepted Answer there is weak and seemingly incorrect.
(I won't even bother asking what is "Music Creation" and why is it 2 gigs when I don't create music.)


texts: How can I connect two DVI-D monitors to my Macbook Pro (latest model)?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Can I plug two external monitors in to a MacBook Pro?

I have two Dell DVI-D monitors that I'd like to use with my new Macbook Pro (not Retina).

I have a single DVI-D -> Mini DP adapter, but obviously that only accounts for a single monitor.

My research for a split adapter has failed. Is there another trick I could use to make this happen?