texts: Test Flight - How long does it take to transfer an App to a device?

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I was playing around with Test Flight - to put a version on my colleagues phone took 24-48 hours while we were separated. Normally he would work beside me and I can just directly compile to the device with a cable.

IIRC before Test Flight was absorbed by Apple the process was virtually instantaneous now it seems there is a giant propagation delay and nobody is talking about the delay or there is little mention of how long the whole process should take.

Have I done something wrong on my part or is this just part of the process?


texts: How can I figure out why Applications will NOT add to Dock?

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I'm using the instructions from this question: How do I add my Applications folder to the dock?

In Finder, right-click on Applications on the Sidebar and select: Add to Dock

to add Applications to my Dock, however, nothing happens when I click "Add to Dock".  I've also tried dragging Applications from finder onto the Dock next to Trash, but nothing happens.  How can I find out what's wrong?
I'm on Catalina, 10.15.6 19G73


texts: How to securely erase/format an iPhone for resale?

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I've read a couple guides that talk about restoring the iPhone to it's base operating system, then syncing three different full playlists of music in order to overwrite any previous personal data that might be on the phone and recoverable via basic forensic methods.

I want to believe there is a better way, maybe a simple program that allows you to write zero byte files until the OS is full a couple times over.

What is the best way to format/erase an iPhone for resale?


texts: Missing space after deleting bootcamp partition

texts: My mac storage has decreased to just 75gb after I deleted Bootcamp. I need to recover this space (45.7gb) and return the computer to the rightful 120gb any help would be much appreciated.


texts: Dell Color Laser 1320c with Mac OS 10.15 Catalina and Network printing

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I updated to Catalina last year. I have several issues in my networking ecosystem at home including printing to my Dell 1320c printer

Basically I used my printer as a network printer, attached to the network via Ethernet cable. So I tried workarounds to circumvent the need for a missing Dell 64-Bit Driver.

I also read this thread and reinstalled my printer with the Xerox driver. The "Filter failed" issue is gone now but another issue popped up.

The Print job is starting but showing the message "printing - connecting to printer" and after a bit of time "the printer is unreachable at this time" or "printer may not exist or is unavailable at this time".

I was also looking for compatible 64-Bit open source drivers but did not find any.

Does anybody have another idea what else could fix this issue?


texts: How do PERMISSIONS get changed on Macbook and how does one change them back?

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I keep getting this message

"The document “NDA 2019 CONFIDENTIALITY” could not be saved as “NDA 2019 CONFIDENTIALITY.pages”. You don’t have permission. To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and choose File > Get Info."

I personally use this MacBook pro 99.99% of the time and I never changed any permissions nor had issues like this before. I am not getting messages telling me I cannot save changed docs because I don't have permission. I went through steps to reset all permissions, then rebooted...but still same issue.

Any thoughts?

When I try to change that to READ & WRITE it won't let me.

Here are the command and answer when entered into Terminal:

SizzleBook-Pro:~ sizzle$ ls -dlOe@ /Volumes/GoogleDrive/My\ Drive/RODENHISER
drwx------  2 sizzle  staff  - 4096 Sep  4 13:20 /Volumes/GoogleDrive/My Drive/RODENHISER


texts: How do I trigger reachability in iPhone X?

texts: As we all have seen that the iPhone X is gorgeous with all its bezel less design and no home button. But it adds to the question of how do I go about reachability? There is no home button on it right, I can’t double tap on it now. The screen is big and how can one reach the top of the screen?


texts: Thunderbolt VGA adapter not working on Macbook Pro Retina late 2013

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Good morning everyone. I'm Italian so sorry for my english.

Yesterday was in trouble. I am a video operator and I was at the theater, connecting my American Macbook Pro Retina Late 2013 (macOS Mojave) with a Thunderbolt / VGA third-party adapter. The VGA cable was about 20 meters long and was connected to a plasma screen that had only the vga as a connection. When I connected the cable in question the mac turned black for a second (as if it had recognized it) but then it didn't really work (in the display settings the second screen wasn't really visible).
Here's what I did to try to solve the problem:

Restart the MAC with the cable and adapter connected
Reset SMC and NVRAM
Used another thunderbolt / VGA adapter
Started in safe mode

None of this worked and also connected my adapter with the same cable and monitor to another Mac belonging to another person next to me and it worked. Just to make things even more mysterious, I returned home and tried my VGA monitor with my VGA cable to the mac with the same adapter and everything works great.
Do you have suggestions?
ps: The monitor that didn't work on my computer I don't think it supported a resolution higher than 1024x768, and i've wrote that mac comes from USA because yesterday I was in Italy (can this is a problem for video protocol?)


texts: “invalid active developer path” when attempting to use pip3 after upgrading to macOS Catalina

texts:
I am trying to run pip3 from Terminal and the following error shows up:

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun.

I have just upgraded my os to Catalina and have already tried:

xcode-select --install

which shows me:

Can't download the software because of a network problem

And:

sudo xcode-select --reset

which outputs nothing and when I run pip3 again, I get the same error. Is there anything else that could be done? Am I missing something here?


texts: Why can I sometimes not enter my password on my iPad?

texts:
I have an iPad 3 (16GB, no 3G), running iOS 6. Three times recently it's got into a state where when I've turned it on (from sleep, not from completely off), and I haven't been able to enter my password. I can 'slide to unlock', but when the keyboard comes up, the cursor flickers, but all the 'keypresses' don't do anything (although, for example, the 123 key on the keyboard still works). I've also noticed that the orientation sensor doesn't work when I rotate it in this state (the lock switch is off).

Has anyone else seen this issue? Is it a known problem? How can I fix it? So far I've fixed it by turned the iPad completely off and on, but obviously that's far from ideal.


texts:
F11 on my Mac used to show Desktop. Something changed in my function keys and I cannot figure out what. The F11 key now decreases volume on my speaker, and the only way to see my Desktop is to now use the keyboard shortcut Fn + F11. This is very annoying.

My keyboard shortcut under System Preferences shows that F11 (by itself) is supposed to show Desktop.

The F12 key used to be set to a particular function in Adobe InDesign but is no longer working either. I didn't knowingly change my keyboard.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: AirPods don't work when connected to external monitor - sometimes

texts:
I received a set of AirPods for the holidays and I'm generally enjoying using them with my 15-inch MacBook Pro (2018), which is running High Sierra (10.13.6).

This MBP only has USB-C ports. Four of them. I'm using an Apple 27-inch Thunderbolt display that has an Apple adapter to convert to the USB-C.

If I'm listening to music - for example on YouTube - the AirPods work just fine. I get audio and it sounds great. When I try to use Google Hangouts with video sourced from the external monitor's camera, the video works just fine but I get no audio with the AirPods. If I disconnect from the external monitor and use a video Hangout sourcing the video from the built-in camera, the AirPods work just fine. If I use the Hangout without audio at all, the AirPods work just fine, too.

Considering this, it seems like there's something breaking whenever I'm getting video from the external monitor.

Is there something about my setup that would prevent the audio from working in this situation?

Other notes:

I have a set of wireless headphones that have a USB dongle that I plug into the monitor and this works just fine, too (assuming I remember to turn them on).
I've not tried to use the AirPods when connected to the external monitor but using the built-in camera on the MBP.


texts: How to set system Short Date to ISO format "yyyy-MM-dd" in High Sierra?

texts:
When setting the preferences for the short date string,
the Day of Month does not include the trailing 0. How can I change this?


texts:
I have a small problem. At some point I used git but I don't remember if it was installed by default on Lion.

Here is the version and path of git:

$ git --version
git version 1.7.5.4
$ which git
/usr/bin/git

I also have a newer git in /usr/local/git

I would like to use the newer version but I don't know if by removing the old one (/usr/bin has precedence in the path variable) I'll break something.

What is the proper way to resolve this conflict?


texts: Why does Airport Extreme disable LAN interfaces in client mode?

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I have configured my wireless airport extreme to use client mode (hint: if this is not available in "manual configuration", start the assistent and it will appear in the menu ...).

This is working fine and I can access APX via my default wireless connection. However, I have a few systems attached to the LAN ports and these are not accessible.

I read that the APX is disabling the LAN ports in this configuration (why?) - is that true? Someone knows a way to have this configuration running in bridge (or routed mode, I don't care ...) mode?

Thanks a lot

sven


texts: Best way to import analog video (VHS) to Mac

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I have some old VHS tapes that I would like to digitize. I have seen some expensive converter boxes, that come with proprietary software, that you can buy that will auto-encode and create a DVD for you, but I'd rather be able to import the video directly to iMovie or Final Cut Pro so I can work with it how I want. Quality isn't critical, so I'm looking for an inexpensive, "do-it-yourself" solution, that would ideally allow me to import the video into my software of choice, rather than paying a company to do it for me.

What is the best way to connect a VCR to my Mac, so that I can import these videos into iMovie or Final Cut Pro?


texts: nrpe (icinga) client service doesn't load/run

texts:
I just wrote following .plist file, which I put into /System/Library/LaunchDaemons, unluckily loading/running doesn't seem to work, and I have no idea what's wrong:

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/
PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
  <plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>UserName</key>
    <string>admin</string>
    <key>GroupName</key>
    <string>staff</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/usr/bin/nrpe</string>
      <string>-c</string>
      <string>/etc/nrpe.cfg</string>
      <string>-i</string>
    </array>
    <key>Sockets</key>
    <dict>
      <key>Listeners</key>
      <dict>
        <key>SockServiceName</key>
        <string>5666</string>
        <key>SockType</key>
        <string>stream</string>
        <key>SockFamily</key>
        <string>IPv4</string>
      </dict>
    </dict>
    <key>inetdCompatibility</key>
    <dict>
      <key>Wait</key>
      <false/>
    </dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>org.hasfailed.nrpe</string>
  </dict>
</plist>

I used the installer referenced here: http://tbartelmess.github.io/NRPE-OSX/

Upon calling

launchctl load org.hasfailed.nrpe.plist
launchctl start org.hasfailed.nrpe

the following error shows up in my /var/log/system.log:

Sep 11 10:21:11 tc-mac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (Listeners): assertion failed: 14F27: launchd + 30557 [C0446878-E8D0-3461-A226-91FF1C2B2DA6]: 0x30


texts: Why can I not reject the exclusion of a partition in Time Machine?

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I have a MacBook Air 11-inch Mid-2012 running OS X 10.8.2. I have an external hard drive connected via USB. The hard drive has two partitions: an HFS+ partition that I use for Time Machine and a NTFS partition that I use for storing large files that I don't want on my small internal hard drive.

(Side Note: I use NTFS because the drive may need to be shared directly with Windows machines at some point in the future as hardware comes and goes through my hands a lot. I use Tuxera NTFS to write to the NTFS partition with great success so far.)

When I open Time Machine, I see that the data storage partition is in the exclusion list (that partition is named "EXTERNAL"):

When I select the "EXTERNAL" partition and remove it from the exclusion list, there are no errors and the partition is gone. Also, I see that the estimated backup size has increased by the amount of used space on the "EXTERNAL" partition:

However after I click save and then open the "Options..." window again, I see that the "EXTERNAL" partition is still in the list of excluded partitions, exactly like in the first image.

Why can I not back this partition up with Time Machine? I have seen other Mac Users report that that they can backup one partition of a disk to another partition on the same disk, but it does not appear that I can. (My reasoning for doing this is that I'd like the local version control that Time Machine offers for quick restoration of accidentally deleted or modified files. I backup both the internal SSD as well as the "EXTERNAL" partition using CrashPlan for offsite data protection in the case of a full disk failure.)


texts: How to solve noise issue when using airpods (2nd gen) over Zoom?

texts:
When I use airpods (2nd generation, NOT the pro) during remote meetings over Zoom, I can hear a "du..du.." noise intermittently and some light (but more constant) background noise. Such noise does not appear at all when I use these airpods over other applications, say YouTube or Music. I have two pairs of airpods (2nd gen) and both have the same issue. I also have a pair of first-gen airpods, which also has some noise problem with Zoom but is much less noticeable. I am using Macbook Pro (Early 2015 version, running Big Sur: version 11.0.1).
Moreover, if I use wired earphones or let the audio play directly out of the computer's speaker, there is no such noise at all during Zoom conference calls. To sum up, the scenarios are:

Is this a common issue? Where does the cause lie (Airods? Zoom? Operating System?) Is there anyway to resolve this problem?


texts:
I'm running iOS 8.4.1. When I go into to the app settings and tap to enable the iCloud Music Library, I get the Replace or Merge. After this the option reverts back to off automatically. I tried lots of times, rebooting the phone, switching airplane mode on/off, but still the same...

UPDATE: I spoke to apple support and it seems like the "iTunes in the cloud" functionality is not available for certain countries yet, so there's no way to enable the iCloud Music Library and therefore there's no way of creating playlists, saving music offline or adding a song to "my library" feature. To me that almost cripples Apple Music app... disappointing


texts: How does Mac OS X 10.7 detect different displays?

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro with Mac OS X 10.7, and an external display screen attached to my Macbook, which is working fine.
Sometimes, I have to switch the second display to a projector (because I want to give a presentation).

Those settings (e.g. arrangement, resolution) are different from my external display screen. In 90% of the cases, Mac OS X knows which arrangement/resolution I want, depending on the type of external screen; in 10% of the cases, it's mixing up the configurations and I have to manually edit the configuration again.

Can I see somewhere what configuration is attached to a certain display?
Why does Mac OS X mix the configuration settings between my external display screen and my projector?


texts: Is it possible to create files directly in Folders?

texts:
I have just bought a MacBook and recently switched from Windows OS. Let's take the example of Microsoft Word documents. In Windows OS, I have a habit of making my MS Word files in the destination directory itself, so all I have to do is save my work later.

However with my limited knowledge of MacOS, I realise there seems to be no way to achieve this, I always make a new MS Word file and only at the saving stage then I require to go through the whole motion of entering my nested folders. If I have to work on multiple files that would be stored in the same destination folder, this process will become quite irritating if the destination is quite deep into other folders.

Is there a way to overcome this dilemma in MacOS in general for any application?


texts: How do I delete Time Machine backups of my Trash?

texts:
Time Machine (external hard drive) backed up some files in my Trash folder and I'd like them removed from my backup. I know how to normally remove backed up files from within Time Machine (right click a file and choose Delete Backup), but that method is not working for ~/Trash and ~/.trash in the backups.

How do I removed backed up files from the Trash in Time Machine?


texts: Format of mail from Apple Mail version 7.3

texts:
My work colleagues, who use Outlook, complain that the e-mails I forward to them are not always readable, or have a lot of attachments.

Is there anything I can change on my side to prevent this from happening?


texts: How do I change my Apple Rescue email.  It is no longer valid and there is no edit function to change it? The only edit function in this area is to change my challenge questions, which I have done.


texts: How to sync 2 hard drives without being connected to them at the same time?

texts:
Set-up:

1 external hard drive at work
1 external hard drive at home
Macbook that travels between work and home

Hard drive contains iTunes Music Library that I like to have synced between home and work without taking hard drives with me. In 1 direction would be fine. Carbon Copy Cloner over the internet works perfectly but is way too slow.

Is there a method or software available to sync these drives with my Macbook acting as a delta? New files from home are copied to my Macbook and then at work copied from Macbook to external hard drive.

Thanks!


texts:
so I got a really wierd problem on my mac server

I have a user that I thought was a open directory user, but it had the wrong UID.
I then tried disconnecting the OD server, and try to login with another OD user. The server then said the user didn't exist. That was good, cause of course it didn't when I had disconnected the OD server. I then try su to the user that had the UID problem. This user it loged in fine. That was really weird, because that indicated that it was a local user, and not a OD user.

I then went to /etc/passwd

no user with that name. I then tried multiple solutions to get a list of all users on the system. The user did not appear in any of the lists.

I then found a script:

#!/bin/bash
if id -u $1 >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    echo "user exists"
else
    echo "user does not exist"
fi

this script found the user, and said that the user exist, which it should because I'm able to log in as that user.

then I found another script from this link: https://superuser.com/questions/180144/how-can-i-delete-a-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-user-account-from-command-line

that was suppose to delete a specified user. That script says that the user do not exist.

So the user exists in the system, but it isn't.

Can anyone figure this out, because it's bugging up the whole user system?

my os is OSX 10.6.8

thanks

EDIT: for additional info, look at my post on the official apple forum: https://discussions.apple.com/message/24915477#24915477


texts:
I have a TV and an AV-receiver which are DLNA-capable and which are attached to my home network together with a Windows 7 desktop and a MBP running OSX Lion. I can access audio from both computers using a DLNA-server software on either computer (built in DLNA-server on Windows, PS3Media Server on OSX). So far this setup works fine and i can browse through my audio on the receiver.

However the TV and the receiver also act as UPNP/DLNA media renderer. For example I can use my phone to display photos on the TV (e.g. using the Twonky app on Android). On Windows, I can use Windows Media Player to play audio on either device without having to touch any remote control. I select the track/playlist I want to listen to, right click select "Play on" (maybe not the exact wording as my Windows is German) and select one of the two devices (e.g. the AVR for audio). Now I'm looking for the same for OSX. Either an application/media player which can use a media renderer as output device or an app which redirects all audio output to such a device. Does anybody know such software?


texts: Early 2011 MBP Hard Drive Noise - What IS normal?

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I bought an early 2011 (the current model at the time of writing) 15 inch, 2.2GHz MacBook Pro.

I had a previous generation model, pre unibody model which I loved and performed like a star.

Performance wise I am loving the machine but the hard drive makes such a noise under normal operation it's untrue. It sounds like a fan, but I assume there is no cooling where the HD is, but it bellows. It's not the fans - they are happy sitting there at 2,000 RPM. It can be reduced to what I would consider normal levels but putting my right hand directly above it. Very gentle pressure is enough to stop this happening. I am not sure if it is pressure or touch (e.g. grounded) related.

There are a bunch of people on the Apple discussion forums with the same issue, but nothing from Apple, not help from the geniuses/applecare and no obvious "fix". I just dropped a big chunk of change on the machine - I don't want to have to open it up or replace the drive just to make it bearable.

Any suggestions?

Examples: http://www.google.com/search?q=early+2011+macbook+pro+hard+drive+noise&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a


texts: I got OSX 10.9.2 update installed on February 26th. Today (March 5th), without prompting, I got another update. The description of the update in App Store is identical. Any idea what  this update was?


texts: Under what cases will I get iWork or iLife?

texts:
After looking at various models of Macs and looking at Apple's iLife and iWork pages, I'm more confused than where I started.

Originally, I thought that nothing - just Lion - came with a new Mac. But then I saw something here that says that iLife is a part of every new Mac.

So I thought. But then I saw this that said that iLife is not a part of Lion. Huh? Then, to add to my confusion, I saw this, that said that iWork does not come with a new Mac. Hmm. So after doing some research, I've arrived at these conclusions:

Apple really needs a central place to see what comes with a new Mac and what doesn't.
iWork is seperate from iLife, but both can be bought from the Mac App Store.
iLife comes with Lion.
Nothing comes with iOS.
I'm really confused.

So: Under what cases would I get iWork or iLife?

[example answer] You get iWork if you buy XYZ and iLife if you buy ABC. Both come on the Mac Pro, and none are on the iPad by default; however you can get iOS versions through the App Store for $41.34 each. You can buy them for $700 each on the MAS. The MacBook Air comes with iLife but not iWork; so does the MacBook Pro.


texts: How to make Google Calendars sync *all* data with iOS

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On my iPad, Calendar doesn't show all events (from all of history) from my Google calendars. Only the last 1.5 months or so.

I had the same issue with iCloud calendars, but when I changed the sync duration setting in Settings → Calendar, the problem got fixed.

However, I still only see recent events from my Google calendars.


texts: Does macOS Preview app follow ISO pdf standard for reading bookmarks?

texts:
When I create a PDF using Acrobat DC 2020.13.20074 I cannot see the bookmarks in Preview on macOS 11.01.  I have researched this problem and was advised there is a longstanding issue that macOS Preview does not support the ISO PDF standard.  Is this support roadmapped for macOS, or is Apple committed to preserving incompatibility in this area?  If so, is there any practical batch utility or another way to convert from ISO PDF to a fully macOS compatible PDF?   I suspect this is a patent issue and Apple has decided to save money on licensing by not supporting the capability since 2012, but, unless I am missing something, any confirmation or additional information on this would be helpful.
I'm not totally familiar with Apple's suggestion process so a link to that in the comments would also be helpful; I was not able to find the issue open in the Apple Communities forums.


texts: How to decide which is the better browser for me: Google Chrome or Safari?

texts:
Consider that it is often said that...

Safari is more battery/CPU efficient.
Most people will never run across a web site that runs better on Chrome than on Safari (excluding Google explicit sites).
Memory consumption is dramatically better with Safari vs Chrome
Excluding extensions that have security risks, Safari has a comparable list of available extensions.
Safari fares much better in terms of security. Google Chrome is comparable to user-installed malware.
Incredible developer tools like Instruments (just enable the "Develop" menu)

See Chrome loads very slowly while Safari very fast

Safari vs. Chrome for Mac: 10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Use Chrome (2016)

In light of that I do not understand why anyone would want to run Chrome instead of Safari.

But browsers change a lot and often.
Websites with old opinions do not.

How do I find out if these assertions are really true for my current setup?


texts: How can I describe three different situations on a cell in Numbers

texts:
We have business rules as follows:

If it is bigger than £35 we charge 75% of it
If it is smaller than £20 we charge 70% of it
If is is between 20 to 35 we charge 72% of it

I don’t know how to set up a formula to automate this calculation in numbers. Is there a way to do this?


texts: Sierra Automator KeyboardViewer App Shortcut

texts:
KeyboardViewer app is saved from this AppleScript.

on run {input, parameters}
    if application "KeyboardViewer" is running then
        quit application "KeyboardViewer"
    else
        activate application "KeyboardViewer"
    end if
    return input
end run

Dock toggle save. Adding shortcut to above, needs some work...

Syntax error Can’t set application "KeyboardViewer" to some object. Access not allowed.

tell application "System Events"
    set application "KeyboardViewer" to (keystroke "K" using control down)
end tell


texts: How can I access the LaTeX commands from the terminal?

texts:
I just installed MacTeX onto Yosemite and it installed everything in usr/local/texlive

However if I am in Terminal and try to compile a LaTeX file with pdflatex foo.tex, it cannot find the LaTeX tools. Further whereis pdflatex returns no results.

If I specify the entire path of pdflatex (e.g., /usr/local/texlive/2014/.../bin/pdflatex) it all works well.

How can I get the LaTeX tools to work from the terminal without specifying the entire path?


texts: windows like (context menu) unzipper in mac?

texts:
Is there an app that acts like windows-based unzipper?

I don't want my unarchiver unzip when I click a zipped file. I rather want to right click then click 'unzip' or something similar.

Update: I think people are getting confused. I know that I can unzip a file simply by double clicking it. I DON'T WANT THAT. I like to have a context menu like windows application. Is this possible?


texts: I did the iOS update a few months back and noticed that the songs I had downloaded in May and June 2014 were missing. Since the computer I used that had iTunes was stolen in July 2014, I had no way to access iTunes. Finally tonight I was able to plug in my phone to iTunes on the computer. The playlists showed up with the missing songs in them. I then selected sync hoping they would be moved to my iPhone 5, Instead my playlists are now empty. Is there a way to get my songs back?


texts: Battery charge suddenly drops to 0% even when plugged into mains (Mid 2009 15″ MacBook Pro)

texts:
My mid-2009 15″ MacBook Pro (A1286) has developed a nasty habit in the last couple of days. It suddenly discharges its entire battery without warning, and won't start until it's had about 10 minutes charging afterwards. This happens even when plugged into the mains and on 100% charge. So far it's only happened after a long day's use (plugged in all day), but it's happened three times now. The cycle count is 768, according to Apple support the maximum cycle count on my model is 1000, so it shouldn't be end days yet. It's also displaying the condition as "normal".

I've ordered another battery which should be arriving tomorrow, but I'd really appreciate knowing why this is happening, and how I can avoid it happening again. I've lost some important work due to these shutdowns, and I'm worried about where the charge is going - if the battery fried the logic board I'd be up the creek.

Any ideas?


texts: Opening Windows 8 through VirtualBox on a Macbook Air

texts: How do I open Windows through a virtual box on a Macbook Air?  I tried to select a virtual CD/DVD drive, but was not sure which file to select.


texts: Preventing reply-alls from Group MMS text messages?

texts:
I have some family members with iPhones.  They have figured out how to send text messages to multiple recipients: start a new Message, and add multiple contacts in the To line.  Unfortunately, they have not figured out that replying to these replies to everyone who got the original text message.

Is there a setting that I can ask them to change on their phones to prevent these unintentional reply-all messages?  Or is there a way that I can tell my iPhone (4 on iOS 5.1) to ignore reply-alls?


texts:
On my Macbook with a US-International physical keyboard, the windows of one application are cycled with CMD+`. Now I also use an iMac that has a German keyboard (the printing on the keys).  I switched the layout to US-International, but weirdly, the windows of one application are now switched with CMD+> instead. This is exactly the key that would be in the same location as CMD+` would I be using the German keyboard layout. I am not using that layout, though and I don't want to cycle windows with CMD+>.

How can I customize this setting?


texts: I can't turn on iPhone Hotspot with my home WiFi turned on. Why?

texts:
I want to share my 4G connection with my laptop since our WiFi connection at home can be slow. However, once I go to the iPhone Settings > Personal Hotspot and enable the hotspot,  the iPhone asks me to enable its WiFi antenna.

At this stage, the iPhone automatically connects to my WiFi network at home and I cannot really transfer the 4G connection to the Hotspot.

What should I do (apart from connecting the iPhone via USB to the laptop)?

More importantly, why do I loose the 4G connection and connect to the WiFi network instead of the iPhone being smarter and procuring my 4G connection?

This has happened in the past very rarely and I could always enable 4G iPhone hotspot over WiFi. Now the problem happens each time I accept the prompt to connect to WiFi.


texts: Speaker and camera of my MacBook Air aren't working after installing windows

texts:
Yesterday I installed Windows 8.1 on my MacBook Air on the partition that contained macOS, so the only OS that exists on my laptop is windows. With addition I had also installed BootCamp drivers on it. But there still exists a  problem with the camera, speakers and tilde and ash keys.

When I opened my device manager in windows all the drivers show no error and are fine but they aren't working. Wifi and bluetooth drivers are working but camera and speakers are not.

Has anyone tried removing macOS and installing windows on MacBook? If so please do let me know how you corrected these errors?


texts: Where will the incident with the sudo command be reported to?

texts:
If a non-admin types a sudo command in Terminal, this will appear after they enter their password:

User is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

Where is this reported to?


texts: Lion Mail.app messages marking themselves as read

texts:
My boss is accessing his emails via the MAPI (Exchange) protocol using:

The mail app on his iPhone 4S
Mail.app version 5.3 on an iMac running OS X 10.7

For the most part everything works as expected: if he reads a message on his iPhone, the message turns to "read" on his iMac and vice versa. However, sometimes messages appear to automatically mark themselves as read after a time period of approximately one hour. I understand that messages in the Mail.app will turn to "read" the instant they are highlighted or clicked on, but that is not the situation I'm describing here. I can't find any settings in either application that would automatically mark a message as read after a certain time period.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


texts: I am new to Apple ecosystem and have just obtained an iPhone X. I bought it new from store and during first boot I have created a new Apple ID as I never had one earlier. Now my new phone has been registered to my new Apple ID. At present I want to use my iCloud ID which I have made after that, so my doubt is that is there such thing that i have to keep my Apple ID live (one which I have used during first boot) as my new iPhone that has been registered into it, or can I change the Apple id anytime? I need to understand how Apple ID works and what is the Apple iPhone/product registration onto Apple ID.


texts: TexStudio crashes when "Compile and View" in High Sierra 10.13.6

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I use a macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 and I try to "Compile and View" a text with TexStudio 3.1.1 but the program crashes and quits when the PDF Viewer is selected to be embedded in the app.
I must say that the functionality of "Compile" works fine, as well as "Compile and View" in external PDF Viewer. However, I am interested in having the preview inside the app since it makes the workflow smoother. I tried everything I could and followed the proposed solution of installing older versions of TexStudio (2.12.22). Unfortunately, none of them solved my concern.
Thanks,


texts: How to daisy chain 2 Thunderbolt devices on 1 Thunderbolt port?

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On an iMac with 1 Thunderbolt port, how to have an external monitor and an external HDD work?

I can't use the USB port because it's 2.0, it will be too slow (the external HDD is a SSD).

I understand the display needs to go last, because it's actually mini-displayport. But what about the HDD? I can't find a single external HDD that has 2 Thunderbolt ports (one IN, one OUT).

So how are you supposed to daisy chain things?


texts: Is there an Alfred Workflow to install and view Alfred workflows?

texts:
I want a workflow like the cask / brew workflow for Alfred workflows. Does this already exists?

e.g. auto completion, viewing and installing and removing right from alfred instead of searching google to find and install and the preferences to remove.


texts: Wifi stays connected but Internet connection drops constantly - Macbook Air 13"

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Setup:

Computer: Macbook Air 13-inch (early 2014) 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7, 8
GB, running OS X El Capitan. Using DHCP & automatically configuring IPv6
Router/modem: Netgear N300 Wifi cable modem router, Model C3000
ISP: Time Warner Cable

Problem:

Wifi stays connected, but ceases to have internet access constantly. I can regain internet access by either cycling the wifi on and off from the top bar, or by running "Diagnostics" in the "Assist me" section of the Network System Preferences.

When I run Diagnostics, the Network Status shows up green for Wifi, but red for wifi settings and everything below that. The actual act of running the diagnostics fixes the problem.

I've tried power cycling the router, the computer, and the cable box, as well as renewing the DHCP lease. It seems to improve the length of time between internet disconnections, but they still happen somewhat often.


texts: CLI softwareupdate does not find updates

texts: I can see in the App Store that I have one application (Xcode 5.0.2) that needs to be updated. But if I run the sudo softwareupdate --list in terminal I get the message that there is "No new software available". Why don't the CLI tool and the App Store have the same information?


texts: Can't Remove Downloaded Music From Ipod Touch

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Ever since the apple music update I've been unable to add or remove music from my ipod touch 5 via itunes on my computer. Everywhere I've looked says you go to the ipod icon, go into summary and click "manually manage music and videos" but mine only shows the option to "manually manage videos". I would like to be able to delete all of the music off of my ipod and start fresh because it somehow duplicated my entire playlist and is taking up double the amount of space it should.
Currently the only way I've found to do that is to individually go through and delete each of the 2000 songs twice, and that's a huge waste of time, so any help would be appreciated!


texts: Can FileVault show the login window as 'name and password', not 'list of users'?

texts:
Normally, Mac OS X lets you choose to show the login screen as a list of users (you click to enter the password), or two text fields (you enter the username and password):

But, I use FileVault 2. So, when I first turn on the computer I'm greeted with the login screen (with a blue background).
This is fine, except for one thing: It's a list of users.
But, for a variety of reasons, I prefer the 'Name and password' style.

Is it possible to have FileVault give a prompt for username and password, instead of a list of users?


texts: Completely reinstall everything on Mac mini

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My Mac mini behaves in strange ways.  Certain applications open randomly, downloads just don’t download sometimes, for a while I could not empty the trash, etc.
I want to cleanly erase everything that my computer is including the kernel, Hardware, SMC Recovery firmware and everything else and just put back fresh operational replacements.  I am not looking to buy a new computer (like other questions here said to do) I do not know which one or couple of things is corrupted but I want to just get rid of everything and start over without bricking my computer.  Any ideas?


texts: How to access the internal hard disk with full permissions?

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My Mac does not start anymore. The hard disk is stranded :-( Macs and gravity are not good friends.

When starting on a backup disk, I manage to see some contents of the internal disk Macintosh HD, but strangely some permissions prevent me to see everything. For example, in Users, I cannot explore all the home folders.

[Edit]

How can I access the internal hard disk with full permissions ?
Why don't I see everything on the internal disk when it is not the boot disk ?

I want to salvage the data. To do this, I intend to do copies with the Finder.

Thank you for your insight on this delicate matter.

The internal disk, and the backup disk, have Mac OS X Snow Leopard.


texts: Touch ID needed when creating a file in external ssd

texts:
I recently bought an external ssd to put my files in it for my Macbook Pro 2019, at first I linked it at Time machine but I withdrew my decision.

The problem is that I didn't use it before time machine, and since i unliked it, it keeps asking me to put my Touch ID to create a new folder, i can't create a folder directly in it through a tier app (for example vscode), is that normal ? Is there a way to change it ?
I tried to see if I can reset my SSD or set a format but it doesn't seem possible through Finder.
I appreciate any help or link that can be useful! (I'm new to macOs)


texts: Messages app signs in and then signs out

texts: I have tried resetting NVRAM, deleting plist files, removing IDS credentials, and signing in and out of iCloud.


texts: Getting rid of "Sign in to iMessages" popup at boot in Mac OS Catalina

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I have recently logged out of my apple id account and icloud in my MacBook Pro MAC OS Catalina. But this message keeps popping up asking me to update the password for my apple id for iMessages:

Apparently there are still traces of my Apple ID somewhere in the system. I don't want this message to popup everytime and I want all the traces to be gone without re-installing MAC. I have already followed the instruction for a similar problem here: How do I remove an iMessage account from OS X (Yosemite) Messages app?, However the files do not exist in the paths the post mentions (in MAC OS Catalina).


texts: Is there an easy way to look through a directory, preview file by file, and choose to keep or delete it?

texts: I'm mostly looking to do an initial pass of a folder of 10k images and I want to go through one by one and mark each for deletion or for keeping. Any easy way to do that on a mac or is there a photo organization program that will do this?


texts: Can't add events to iPhone calendar which are more than 1 year in the future

texts: My iPhone 5c won't let me add any events to my locally stored calendar that are more than 1 year in the future. When I add them, they stay for 30 seconds or so and then disappear. Why is this happening and how can I fix it?


texts: How to change Finder icon on macOS Catalina?

texts:
On previous versions of macOS, it was possible to change the Finder icon in /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/.

However, this doesn't seem possible in Catalina anymore? Even with SIP disabled?


texts: When will my Mac (13inch MacBook Pro Mid 2013) become a un serviceable product in California?

texts:
When will products purchased in California become un-serviceable?  This question answers the question in places for most cases.

According to their warranty

  Products purchased in the state of California, United States, as
  required by statute

source

So it appears that items are serviced and are repaired longer in California yes?


texts: Mac hard drive almost full; diagnostic apps do not explain why

texts:
157gb of my 159gb mac is showing as used.  In the storage area 145gb of this is showing as other.  What can this be?
I have just downloaded whatsize app to understand and whilst the 157gb is showing as used on hard drive when you click into the detail within whatsize it does not add up to anywhere near this.  About 20gb is broken down in the detail.  Would really appreciate some help as I'm at a loss I have not been able to use my mac properly for months now and when I took it to a computer repair shop they tried an omnisweeper but this made no difference.


texts: Does Windows, running on latest Apple computers, see boot disk partitioned as MBR or GPT?

texts:
From my understanding, the newest apple computers boot Windows in EFI mode. Traditionally, Windows has seen the boot disk as an MBR partitioned disk. In fact, the boot disk (i.e. /dev/disk0) has aways been partitioned as a GPT disk. I would like confirm there has been a change.

To be specific, open a Command Prompt as an Administrator and enter the following:

diskpart
list disk
exit

  Note: When entering the diskpart command, it can take a while before the first prompt appears. This is normal. Be patient, the DISKPART> prompt will appear.

What I am looking for a * in the Gpt column for Disk 0. If Disk 0 is seen as an GPT partitioned disk, then Windows has booted using the EFI boot method. Otherwise, Windows has booted using the legacy BIOS boot method. An example, using an older apple (iMac/20 inch/Mid 2007), is shown below:

In the above illustration, Disk 0 is the internal hard disk partitioned as a GPT disk. To Windows it appears as an MBR partitioned disk, indicated by the absence of the * in the Gpt column. Disk 1 is a GPT partitioned USB thumb (flash) drive containing a single NTFS partition.

If you show a * in the Gpt column for Disk 0, could you report back the "model identifier" or "model/screen size/year" of your apple computer. It may also be useful to include the version of Windows and OS X you are using. Apple recommends a standard where there is one partition for OS X and a second Boot Camp partition for Windows. If you are using a nonstandard partitioning scheme, try to indicate how you differed.


texts: Why does my Mac Pro boot to black screen with third-party video card when holding Option key?

texts:
I have a Mac Pro 2012, and recently installed a new Gigabyte GTX 760 graphics/video card. I also have Windows 7 installed on this computer on my Bootcamp partition.

When I attempt to start up my computer and enter the "boot manager" by holding down the Option key, I get nothing. The computer chimes, but I see only a black screen, and have to hold the power button to shut off.

The normal OSX system boots fine if I don't touch anything, and I can only boot Windows if I select that partition while in OSX and restart.

I found that if I swapped back to the original video card, an ATI Radeon HD 5770, it boots to "boot manager" without a problem, and lets me select which partition on my drive to boot to.

After some research, I am gathering that this has to do with the EFI/BIOS process, but I don't really understand where that lies, nor what is going wrong.

If I'm understanding this right, here are some questions, but let me ask the most basic and important one first:

Why does it boot to a black screen with the NVIDIA GTX card?

and kind of a tangent, and might even be answered in your answers, but:

Is there EFI/BIOS on the graphics card itself?


texts: How to explicitly password-lock an iPhone regardless of timeout setting?

texts:
Can I explicitly lock the iPhone, so that it needs a passphrase to unlock?

I want to instantly lock the iPhone and not be waiting until "Require Passcode" (currently at 1 hour) kicks in.

Basically I want the iPhone to automatically lock after an hour, but if I want to lock right now, to do that easily.


texts: Magic Trackpad 2 force touch settings Problem iMac!

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I have Magic Trackpad 2 I use on my iMac 2013
When I bought it worked without problems for a few weeks.
But now I have a problem, my iMac recognizes it as trackpad 1

When you go to settings then Trackpad has no option for force touch. How can I determine what caused this and/or fix it to I can control the details again?


texts: Transfer iPhone contacts to iCloud or Mac

texts:
I just got involved into a new project at work, and I added all my colleagues to my iPhone contacts. In the middle of the process I got the idea it would be better to add the contacts to my iCloud.

So I got half of my colleagues in my iCloud and half of them on my iPhone memory. For some reason, the contacts I added on my iPhone, don't appear in my Address book. The ones I added on my iCloud do appear on my Mac and iPad (just like I want it to happen).

I've tried with iTunes and some 3th party software, but none of them worked (unless I paid for it... but I don't want to since I'm convinced this most basis function should work out of the box...)

So any advice how to transfer my iPhone contacts in vcf's to my Mac so I can import them into my Address book? Or how to transfer my iPhone contacts to my iCloud?


texts:
Recently while troubleshooting some network issues, we figured out we are not able to ping any of our 85+ MacBook Pros. On further analysis we checked and confirmed firewall is not enabled on any of the machines.

Is there something very basic we're missing?


texts: Menu bar stops working on M1 MacBook Air

texts:
When running Big Sur on an M1 MacBook Air, the menu bar stops working and is completely unresponsive.
All other areas of the screen work normally.
The setup is M1 MacBook Air running in clamshell mode, connected to an external display.


texts: SIMPLE -- I'm talking WAAAAY Simple 3D program for Mac without being an engineer

texts:
I do "barn hunt" --- a fun dog sport.  What isn't fun about it is creating courses.  I need something really, really, really, really simple... think playing with LEGOS simple.  I need something that I can set the scale for a 37' x 24' space and add hay bale dimensions and stack them.  We have multiple levels of hay bales to stack- up to 4 in some places.

All I need is to take my bales (rectangles) and have 4 separate colors and stack them as needed.  I don't need to build the Mayan ruins.  I don't need to model characters and add animation.... I just freakin' need something easy that doesn't require me to have a degree in engineering and architecture.  Is there ANYTHING that can do that??????


texts: Unexpected Colour differences (MacBook Pro, OSX 10.11.6)

texts:
I wrote a postscript file including a blue (0,0,255) RGB and a yellow (255,255,0) RGB shapes.

When viewed (in Preview) and according to the apple DigitalColor meter set to "native colours" mode, the colours are different:
     yellow becomes (252,255,54)
     blue becomes (43,0,251)

To be sure the problem does not come from a bad postscript conversion, I used imagemagick to convert the postscript file into a raster image (png, tiff, gif,...). The so converted rasters show the same colour changes when viewed in Preview/Photo/finder. On the other hand, when imported in inkscape (i.e. X terminal), the colours of any of them are correctly displayed --- again, according to the DigitalColor meter.

How come?

Should I change the setting of the color display to get it right? How?
Should I use another colour picker? Which one?


texts: MacBook Screen Does Not Work, External Monitor Does

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Update 2012-03-19: I never figured out what the problem was because the screen started to work again after reinstalling OS X 10.6 for a second time. I sold the Mac on eBay a few months afterward (I explained the full history ;).

Original Post: My Late-2008 Aluminum MacBook Unibody screen doesn't usually turn on. External displays work via the Mini-DisplayPort.

Sometimes when power is not connected, the lid is open, and I have the external display connected, the internal monitor will work! When it works, it stays on until reboot.

I've tried:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964 (SMC Reset)
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379 (PRAM and NVRAM Reset)

I've been told by an independent, authorized Mac repair company that the logic board needs to be replaced. That seems a bit excessive to me, although I've read many similar diagnoses online.

Any other ideas?


texts: Is it possible to view passwords through Terminal?

texts: Does anyone know how to view passwords in Terminal? Maybe by accessing the Keychain data or something? I want to be able to view passwords in Terminal with just a series of commands.


texts: MacBook Pro not detecting external monitor

texts:
I have 2 MacBook Pros. A private (late-2013) and a work (mid-2012). My private MacBook Pro can detect the external monitors instantly without any issues. My work MacBook Pro can only detect one of the monitors.

The monitors are exactly the same (Fujitsu Thor) and I use a mini-DP -> DP cable.

I've tried resetting PRAM and SMC.


texts: Restrict AirPlay to single AppleTV out of many AppleTVs on the same network

texts:
I have multiple Apple TVs in my apartments, all connected to the same network.

I want to block the possibility for the guest to stream video or connect to other Apple TV excluded the Apple TV in their single room (ex: guest in cabin 1 can't controls the ATV in cabin 2).

It is possible?


texts: Macbook Pro starts by itself, with lid closed, since upgrading to Mojave

texts:
Three times since upgrading to Mojave a few weeks ago, my mid 2014 Macbook Pro has spontaneously switched itself on, with the lid fully closed. This is happening many hours after I shut it down (sometime in the middle of the night). I find it, in my bag, firmly closed, roasting hot, fan blazing.

I generally have to hard power-off the machine, then restart. In addition to losing some work, I'm concerned about damage to the machine at such high temperatures.

I've recently done a PRAM reset and an SMC reset. I had never seen anything like this in the years of previous versions of OSX/Macos.

Is there any known cause, or way to prevent this happening? Anything I can check for? There is no wake schedule set in Energy Saver preferences.


texts:
We know that iPhones will backup Messages in a SQLlite-accessible database called (of course) 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28.

So I'm browsing that using DB Browser for SQLlite, and it's not obvious what fields I want to best reconstruct to and from whom each message was sent.

So far I've gotten this, which at least gets the timestamp right, but which doesn't make it clear whether the message was sent or received on the phone in question:

SELECT datetime(message.date, 'unixepoch', '+31 years', '-6 hours'), handle.id, message.text
   FROM message, handle WHERE message.handle_id = handle.ROWID;


texts:
In my ~/.profile

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

But $ locale prints empty LC_ALL:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

How can I set LC_ALL to "en_US.UTF-8" ?


texts: How to bring up the iTunes podcast video window?

texts:
I'm using 12.1.2.27 iTunes and I'm listening to The Dan Bejamin Hour podcast, which, has video. I know because I have listened to this podcast before and there are video windows pop up when I start listening and I can see Dan there.

But I have once closed it and then now it does not shows up when I play anymore.

So is there a way, a secret menu or some shortcut to bring up the video window again?


texts: iPhone 5S Personal Hotspot sometimes automatically turns on

texts: Why does my Macbook Pro "see" my iPhone Personal Hotspot even when it is turned off?  And sometimes, my iPhone Personal Hotspot gets turned on automatically.  What is happening here?  This does not happen often, and when it does, it is usually when the WiFi signal is unstable.  3G is always there as a back up, so I don't know why my phone is trying to cover for this unstable signal.


texts: How can I change the position of alerts pop up?

texts:
With Yosemite we got handy, growl-like, alert popups from the notification center. It's great but it often hides handy utils which also take the top right position of the screen.

Is there any way change the position of those alerts (via system preferences, plist, or an app)?


texts:
My Finder on MBP has been giving me problems for a quite a few days and has become completely unusable. Once I start it, it opens fine but then I can't do anything. And it shows a scrambled view with images from background sometime (see below screenshot). Cliking on links on the side bar like Documents, Airdrop, etc has no effect. I have tried doing relaunch several times as well as restart. But no resolution.

Has anyone faced such an issue before? I am afraid this might be a virus but I am not sure.


texts: How does a 4K Retina display 'double up' the pixels?

texts:
I did the following experiment on a 21.5 retina display:
Open Pages, and write some lines with Courier New at point size 4, 3, 2 and even 1.
Use default screen 2K High Resolution and then set view to Actual Size
Use extreme 4K Resolution and again set view to Actual Size.
The typefaces with 3 and 2 points are readable in both modes, but they seem better in 4K. How is this?
I mean, is not "2K Retina" supposed to present a default resolution of 2K but render objects at 4K? Just to be sure, "2K low resolution" seems to have a worse rendering of the 4, 3 and 2 typefaces. But 4K seems the winner. It is just my bias, or is it a fact that it renders better than 2K?


texts:
So I’ve read through a lot of “new install” threads and all are pretty much the same...use internet recovery or cmd+r on boot up.

But here’s my issue.

My old hdd crashed so I don’t have anything to recover from. The new ssd is installed and boots to the flashing folder ? Question mark. I can’t seem to cmd r because it doesn’t see the Bluetooth keyboard. I’ve tried a pc keyboard with no luck. So here I am trying to figure out how to format this new ssd.

Any suggestions?


texts: After installing OS 10.13.4 on my mid-2010 MackBookPro (with an SSD) I made one sparse image bundle, which is working fine. However, using Disk Utility,I am now unable to make any additional disk images of any type, on my internal drive (APFS) or on any of my external drives (HFS). Depending on the specifications of the disk I'm trying to make, encrypted, non-encrypted, etc, I get varying error codes, always accompanied by "Permission Denied." I've tried every type of image and every possible combination of size, file format, etc. Absolutely nothing works.


texts: Postpone Catalina upgrade notifications?

texts:
Software Upgrade is starting to prompt me to upgrade to Catalina.  For various reasons I would like to wait a while, say two months, and I would like for Software Upgrade to wait nagging me until then.

Due to it being a system upgrade, there is no real postpone option in the GUI (I can find).  Is there a way to tell software upgrade to ignore this update temporarily?


texts:
As of macOS Sierra, assigning a custom sound file in Mail no longer appears possible. All I get is “New Messages Sound” in addition to the old options:

Is there a way to assign a custom Mail sound in macOS Sierra, possibly via editing a plist?

The interesting thing is, I’ve logged into the Guest account, and even though the same option is selected, the sound that plays when a new mail comes in is the sound I had previously under MY user account. But I can’t seem to find where that sound file is assigned.


texts: Is there any way to access Google Tasks on iPhone?

texts: How do I access Google Tasks on my iPhone or, even better, sync them with the iPhone's Reminders app?


texts: Mounting External Drive in Single User Mode When Internal Drive Unmountable

texts:
2010 iMac running OS X 10.12.6 is failing to start up (progress bar gets to about 75% and then it powers down). I have exhausted all of the following to try to at least salvage some files:

Go to Recovery Mode (Command+R): had no effect (recovery mode did not
start)
Safe Mode (Shift): had no effect (safe mode did not start)
Reset your PRAM. Shut down your Mac and hold down Command-Option-P-R
during boot. Wait for the chimes and let go. (Worked but had no
effect)
Apple Hardware Test (press and hold the D key while booting
your Mac): had no effect; the Apple Hardware Test icon never appears

My last resort (since I don't have a Firewire cable and so Target Disk Mode transfer is not an option) is to start up in Single User Mode and try cp the files over to an external HD. After plugging in the external drive and seeing what it is called at /dev/disk*, I try to mkdir in /Volumes (e.g. /Volumes/extdrive), but I this gets blocked with due to the fact that "MacinsoshHD is a read-only filesystem".

So /sbin/fsck -fy and mount -uw / are prerequisites to mounting the external drive. But /sbin/fsck -fy does nothing for a few minutes then finally results in the error "Could not recover SATA HDD after 5 attempts terminating", then powers down. If I go straight to mount -uw /, it does nothing (the iMac powers down after a couple of minutes).

What other options are open to us to try mount the external drive?


texts: How can I confirm macOS received a silent update?

texts: I know the whole point of a silent update is that it doesn't require user interaction, but it seems like there should be some way to make sure my computer actually received and applied the update. Is there an update log somewhere that would list the full update history: which version and when it was applied on my specific install of macOS?


texts: Where does Xcode install if macOS is installed on an external drive?

texts:
I foolishly bought a Mac Mini with 128gb internal SSD for compiling Unity games for iOS, thinking "all I need to install is Xcode and Unity, and I can put documents on an external drive". However, macOS eats up about 45GB, Xcode will quickly eat up another 40GB and continue to grow without end, and Unity uses up a few more GB. You need about 40GB of free space to upgrade macOS and about 25GB of free space to upgrade Xcode, meaning that you quickly end up in a situation where there isn't enough free space on the Mac to upgrade anything. One time I cleared up exactly enough free space to upgrade macOS with nothing to spare, then the upgrade ran out of space and failed mid-upgrade (apparently the "required free space" is not accurate). This completely broke the OS and I had to erase everything and reinstall from scratch.
Having run into the "not enough space to upgrade" issue yet again, I'm ready to give up and try something different. Since macOS can be installed on an external drive, I'm thinking I'll reverse the usual strategy - I'll install the OS and applications on the external drive and save documents on the internal drive.
Normally Xcode can only be installed on the internal drive. If macOS is installed on an external drive, will xCode still be installed on the internal drive, or does it install to the same drive as macOS?


texts: Extract certain files from iso with fastest speed

texts:
I have several blu-ray iso downloaded from the internet, and it seems like the iso is compressed, so the reading speed is limited to about 10 MB/s max (the drive containing it is about 125MB/s max), and I can't even play the files directly. Using keka, 7z, and rar all failed. I only need the m2ts files, so is there a way to extract certain files from a iso at an acceptable speed?
System: macOS High Sierra, mbp 2017
Errors:
7zr l -tudf /volumes/Seagate\ 5T\ \(Joy\ Jin\)/DSM\ tmp/STUDIO\ GHIBLI\ Hayao\ Miyazaki\ Collection\ 1979-2013\ BluRay\ 1080p\ AVC\ DTS-HD\ MA6.1\ DTS-HD\ MA2.0\ LPCM2.0-jamesyao@CHDBits/\[00\]\ Lupin\ III\ The\ Castle\ of\ Cagliostro\ 1979\ BluRay\ 1080p\ AVC\ LPCM2.0-jamesyao@CHDBits.iso

7-Zip (a) [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=zh_CN.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,4 CPUs x64)

ERROR:
Unsupported archive type

Same thing with 7za. I can't use 7z because of the following error that I tried troubleshooting but failed:
7z l -tudf /volumes/Seagate\ 5T\ \(Joy\ Jin\)/DSM\ tmp/STUDIO\ GHIBLI\ Hayao\ Miyazaki\ Collection\ 1979-2013\ BluRay\ 1080p\ AVC\ DTS-HD\ MA6.1\ DTS-HD\ MA2.0\ LPCM2.0-jamesyao@CHDBits/\[00\]\ Lupin\ III\ The\ Castle\ of\ Cagliostro\ 1979\ BluRay\ 1080p\ AVC\ LPCM2.0-jamesyao@CHDBits.iso

7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=zh_CN.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,4 CPUs x64)

Can't load '/usr/local/lib/p7zip/7z.dll' ()
Can't load '/usr/local/lib/p7zip/Codecs/Rar.so' ()

ERROR:
7-Zip cannot find the code that works with archives.

rar:
unrar l /volumes/Seagate\ 5T\ \(Joy\ Jin\)/tmp.iso

UNRAR 5.71 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2019 Alexander Roshal

/volumes/Seagate 5T (Joy Jin)/tmp.iso is not RAR archive

unarchiver:


texts: Using NTFS-3G to write to an external hard drive results in error code 100102

texts:
I have an external Seagate hard drive that is recognised and works on Windows computers but not on my MacBook Air which I am currently using. I am able to mount the hard drive in read-only mode but I want to write files to it from my computer. Using the Paragon Driver software offered by Seagate does not work for me, as I am only able to mount my hard drive in read-only mode.
I have installed NTFS-3G using Homebrew, following the instructions on this tutorial site. After installing NTFS-3G, I was able to copy a folder to my hard drive. However, the size of the folder is 4 GB, so it took some time to be copied. However, when the folder copy progress bar reached the end, I received the following error message:

And the folder was not copied. I have tried copying it another time to my hard drive to see if it would work but have still received the same error. I am not sure why this error message is occurring and how I can resolve it. Any insights are appreciated.


texts:
I have to edit this question after spending a frustrating (frightening?) afternoon looking at this friend's computer.

He is older and quite vulnerable (he just lost his wife), but he is mac-literate, having used them for years. He relies on his photo albums - he is a well known architect.

Anyway, he bought a new machine some months ago, and hired a local consultant to set up the machine and migrate his files from his old system.

The user accounts are set up so that "consultant" is the account name.

The user part of the file system looks something like this:

/Users/consultant/files

/Users/friend/files/files

All files (documents, images, etc) are owned by consultant.

(The frightening part is that the consultant (who has skipped town), left an open login so he can connect anytime, without any kind of password control).

So, my question is this: I need a reality check on how to proceed. Copy the user files to an external drive? Script? What about the accounts?

Is there something else to check?

I want the files to end up in:

/Users/friend/

i would welcome any more advice (shell scripts, methods, etc).

A friend has a iMac which has been recently set up by a consultant. I found that the home folder doesn't match the name of the user account name—rather, it's the name of the consultant (grrrh).

Is this a problem? Should I rebuild the system? Add a new user account?


texts: How do I make the user's 'library' folder within a Time Machine backup available to 3rd party apps?

texts:
As many users know, the Library folder located within a User's Home directory is hidden in recent versions of macOS. And, to make this visible, the user can hold down the Option key while accessing the Go menu from within the Finder.

In terms of Time Machine backups, the same Library folder is also hidden from view. Users can make these visible within the Finder by making 'hidden' files visible and navigating around their Time Machine backups.

However, what I am looking for is a way to make this same folder (i.e. the user's home 'library') on Time Machine backups visible to 3rd party applications.

By way of example, let's say I wanted to use data recovery software to import an old iOS iTunes backup located within a Time Machine backup, how would I do this?

Making the folder visible within the Finder does not help, although I could then manually copy it from the TM backup drive onto another disk and import it from there, but I'm looking for a more convenient/elegant solution if one exists?


texts:
I have a question about VPN Access on my iPad. After every time I lock it for more than 15 minutes, when I return to using my iPad, it reconnects to WiFi but doesn't re-establish the VPN connection automatically - I have to do it manually. This means my iPad is connected to insecure WiFi, so it's possible that some application can send secure data in background over the insecure connection.

How can I avoid my data being sent over an insecure connection?


texts: How to view network traffic in and out of a machine?

texts: Looking for something like wireshark - a nice UI for monitoring network traffic in and out of a development machine.


texts: How can I tell if my Time Machine backup is encrypted?

texts: Is there a method to determine if a Time Machine backup disk is already encrypted?


texts: why isn't my environment variable visible from the command line?

texts:
I'm trying to run the james smtp server on Lion.  When I do this ...

sudo JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/Home ./james-2.3.2/bin/run.sh

... it works fine.

However, I'd like to make JAVA_HOME an environment variable so it is visible to other applications too.

I edited ~/.bash_profile to look like this ...

export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/home

... and the variable appears to be visible from the command line like so ...

$ echo $JAVA_HOME
/Library/Java/home

But when I run james again like this, I get a warning about JAVA_HOME ...

$ sudo ./james-2.3.2/bin/run.sh
ERROR: JAVA_HOME not found in your environment.

Please, set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
location of the Java Virtual Machine you want to use.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?  Why can't the command to run james see the JAVA_HOME environment variable?

Any info is greatly appreciated, thanks!

Rob


texts: How I can copy to the clipboard the path (or the full url) of a file or a folder?

texts:
It's very annoying to always have to open the Information about... window to get the path of a folder or a file.

Is there something like a contextual menu to get the url or the path of any file or folder?


texts: iPad gets amazon pop ups to win prizes answer 3question?

texts:
How do I stop this annoying pop up on iPad the latest edition bought this winter . Always amazon answer three stupid question and get say $1000.
Always I delete and not open . Happens when in browser.

Want this to stop


texts: What's a task-manager lighter than Activity-Monitor?

texts:
Apple Activity Monitor is nice and simple enough, but I tend to keep it open all the time in order:

to have a CPU monitor always visible in the Dock without any click/gesture (and without wasting space on the Menu Bar)
to have quick access to details (PID, CPU/Memory/Network usage) and to killing apps

It is good enough but I was wondering:

does any other software exist, providing more or less the same functionalities, but with less use of CPU and (mainly) less energy impact?

Open-source is highly preferred.
Freeware is a nice to have.
If priced: not unreasonably


texts: Is it possible to use US English keyboard layout with dead keys in Mavericks similar to those from Windows and Linux?

texts:
I read here that "The standard U.S. layout has a few dead key stated under ⌥". Does that mean that pressing Alt+that key would make that key act as a dead one?

I am looking for a layout that uses as dead keys the symbols that look like accents before the letters that one wants accented, like the "US-International" in Win7 and "English-US, with dead keys" in Ubuntu-Linux. In these layouts, the keys for ` , ' , ^ , " are dead. After them, Space key brings the character as such, while something like e will bring è, é, ê, ë respectively.

Are there such keyboard layouts for Mac? (I am very new to the system.)

(I am not looking for answers like "use this app and create your own layouts".)


texts: Disable iOS messages in-app sounds/vibration

texts:
When you are in the messages app (this also happens on Facebook app) and you recieve a new message a sound will play even if you're looking at the thread where the new message came in.
How do I disable it? It's very annoying and battery consuming for no good whatsoever.
Any help is appretiated.
Regards, Rodrigo.


texts: Macbook Pro 2008 Gigabit Ethernet has become 100Mbps with Mavericks

texts:
I just noticed that the Ethernet port on my old Macbook Pro 5,1 (Late 2008, the first Unibody model) that is supposed to be Gigabit is limited to 100Mbps after I installed Mavericks. Does anyone know how to fix it?
It's just a basic install of Mavericks, no strange configurations, I'm using it as a home server.


texts: Is iMovie available on the MacBook Air 11 inch? The iMovie system requirements say that the minimum resolution is 1280x800, while the 11 inch Air has 1366x768.


texts: Merge files & keep bigger file if duplicates?

texts:
I have several folders each containing several hundred thousands of txt-files, let's call them f1, f2, f3, f4.

I want to move all the files into one folder, say F0 and – if there are duplicate files – keep the bigger files (kb or line count) and delete the smaller ones.

Is there a way to do this relatively quickly?

Many thanks in advance!

edit: Upon trying a simple mv-command, I got -bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long. So I believe that's another hurdle to be overcome.


texts: OSX/MacOS Search priority for app when opening custom extension

texts:
I'm new to the Mac world but have written my first application. I have it packaged as a .app (let's say my_application.app).

My application registers a custom file extension (let's say .xyz). When you open a .xyz file it will open with my_application.app. However, I'm noticing if I have several my_application.app on my machine it's hard to figure out which one will load when you double click on a .xyz file.

For instance, I had my_application.app in my applications folder, but I also had one (an older version) on my desktop. I expected the one in the applications folder to handle opening .xyz files, but instead the one from the desktop opened.

Is there definitive documentation on what the search priority is for finding an app for a custom file extension?


texts: Archive not shown in Mail.app on Yosemite

texts:
I'm not sure what happened, but I don't see Archive mailbox in Mail.app.

Compared to iCloud.com, there is a Archive directory.

Wha might be wrong? How can I bring back the Archive box in Mail.app?
I use Mac OS X 10.10.1.


texts: I have an older mac that has iTunes 9.2.1 and my new iPhone 5 does not appear in the device list.  Are iPhone 5s compatible with iTunes 9.2.1?  My Mac is on an older OS X which is not capable of running the latest iTunes.


texts: I have a macbook pro 2016 model. I want to install a windows copy via bootcamp. I dont want to install windows on my internal HDD so i was thinking about buying a USB type c flash drive and install windows there. Is this possible and would there by any issues like transfer speeds ?


texts: Why won't my iPhone Apps appear in iTunes 12.5.5 on El Cap?

texts:
I have an older (2011-2012) MackBook Pro running El Capitan (10.11.6) and iTunes 12.5.5 (in other words, the latest of both).  I have an iPhone SE running iOS 10.1.1.

I don't use this MBP very often, but I happen to be doing some mobile music recording, and I need to get a file out of a specific application on my phone (Propellerhead Figure) and onto my MBP.  The only way to do this, is via the app's file-sharing via iTunes.  I've done this plenty of times before on my Desktop mac, but not on my MBP until now.

Unfortunately, my phone does not seem to sync at all with the MBP.  The computer is authorized to my iCloud account, and the sync looks like it's working but completes in a couple of seconds, and no apps are brought over.  The images of each of my phone's screens show all the apps, but no apps are actually transferred to the MBP.

Does anyone know why this is happening and what to do about it?  I've been googling like crazy but coming up empty.  I've got to get this working.  Thanks!


texts: Install Mountain Lion on different Macs with different Apple accounts

texts:
I'm pretty sure that the title is unclear, I'm going to explain it:

We have to update 11 Macs, so we bought 11 copies of Mountain Lion (from the online store, not the App Store) and we received the Redeem codes.

We have just a little doubt, we don't know if we can download just one installer and use it for every Mac we have or we have to download the installer (via the app store, using the code) for every Mac.

Can you let me know?


texts: Time Capsule. Drive is ok, cannot connect through wifi

texts:
I am having a problem with my 2TB (I think Gen 2) TC.

It was connected directly to a cable modem and was working fine for over a year. A few days ago, I started to get connection errors (no IP) on both the Ethernet and wifi ports. The wired computers are connected to the TC through a hub.

I changed the connection to link to the net through a spare router, and changed the TC to "Bridge Mode".

All the connected (Ethernet) ports work ok. I have no WiFi mode though (from the TC).

I can see the TC and even do a Time Machine backup to it.

Before I plonk $300 on a new device, I would appreciate any troubleshooting tips..


texts: Insert third partition in previous 2-partition setup

texts:
I've read a few of the articles around, browsed the net for a while, but was unable to find a solution to my problem.

I have an MBP with 1TB Flash which is split by 50% into two partitions. One contains OS X, the other is used for raw data storage.

Now what i would like to do, is create a third partition from some of the remaining space on the 1st (OS X) partition. Essentially, i need to "fill in" a third partition in between the two existing, but without affecting the capacity of partition #2.

I remember that back in the days when i installed Bootcamp it seemed no problem to change my main partition size and add an extra partition, but for whatever reasons, i cannot do that. Disk Utility has completely greyed out all the controls:

I also tried rebooting from a Mavericks USB-Installer Stick and then going to Disk Utility in there, but the result is the same. I hoped it would work there because OS X was not in use - but no.

Why is that? Has it become impossible to repartition a drive in use? Or have i generally misunderstood something here?

(MBP Mid 2014 | 1TB | Yosemite OS X)


texts: How to assign mouse button to Mission Control's 'Application windows' feature?

texts:
I have a button on the side of my mouse that Mission Control sees as Mouse Button 4.

In Mission Control's preferences, I can assign this button to either 'Show Desktop', 'Mission Control' or 'Show Dashboard'.

All three of these works fine, but if I try to map it to 'Application windows' the mouse button doesn't respond.

I'm able to bring up 'Application windows' using the keyboard shortcuts though.

My new iMac is 2 days old, so it's on fresh and up to date macOS Sierra. Same problem on my brand new MacBook, again with macOS Sierra.

Is the mouse shortcut just broken for this? Can anyone else reproduce it?

[Updated] My mouse is a Logitech G400 Optical Gaming Mouse. I've since installed the Logitech driver software, which also allows you to assign a button to Mission Control (which I did, and then unassigned it from system prefs).

This doesn't work properly either, but rather than not responding, all windows move a couple of pixels and then revert back to their original position. Almost like its trying to invoke Mission Control but something is aborting it. I can map the buttons to any other feature and it works fine


texts: I want to post an image on a website, but it requires the image's url, which I don't know how to. By the way, I'm on an iPad... could anyone help?


texts: Can Firewire 800 network interfaces be bonded?

texts:
I've got a few 2009 and 2010 Mac Pros and realized that the Firewire 800 ports are just sitting there going to waste.  I currently use 2 bonded ethernet ports on an additional card to facilitate some faster speeds between two of my workstations that need faster data transfer, but 2 Firewire 800 ports bonded with networking enabled could proffer several times more performance increase.

Can FW800 with networking enabled be bonded like a standard network interface in macOS 10.13?


texts: We have a legacy Mac in our inventory with Mavericks installed. Just looking for advice from anyone who has done an OS upgrade to High Sierra. Does it work well or is it best to just leave it as-is and keep it cleaned up as much as possible? If upgrading is an option, what were any hurdles that we can potentially avoid? It's a pretty vanilla system other than being a bit on the older side.


texts: Current Version is: OS X el Capitan 10.11.6 What's Next?

texts: I am using MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011) the problem is I can't see any update to newer version on App Store! Can anyone here send me the link to update online or download updates to next version.. I am very new user.


texts:
In Mac OS X Lion (10.7) Apple introduced a feature called "Automatic Termination" where apps would automatically quit after a while of inactivity.

I personally only ever saw this working with Preview and a few other apps. Neither Apple nor third-party developers seemed to adopt it much. And in recent years, I haven't seen a single app automatically quit, not even Preview.

My question is, what happened to this feature? Does it still exist? Do any developers make use of it? And why did Apple themselves stop using it in their apps?


texts: My Time Machine is backing up in /private/var/folders/

texts:
My MacBook Pro (10.15.7) is backing up parts of the drive I didn't expect. I have been cleaning up and excluding directories, but this time I found something I thought was excluded by default:
private/var/folders.
To examine I have been using 'Timedog'. Here is a piece of today's output:

Again, as far as I know and as referenced here, the standard exclusions
/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist

include ('exclude') private/var/folders/ under the "contents excluded" category, meaning that the folder container is backed up but nothing inside. Clearly here we have 42.6 MiB of content.


texts: How to watch a .ts video file on an iPad

texts:
I've got a .ts video file on my harddrive, and I would like to transfer it to my iPad to watch it there. Here's some data about the file in question:

Size: 3.5 GB
1 Video Stream: h264, 1920x1080
2 Audio Streams:

1st: AC-3, 5.1, German
2nd: AC-3, Stereo, English

I only care about the English language track, getting rid of the German 5.1 audio would be fine.

If possible, I would like to avoid re-encoding the video due to the amount of time it takes. Re-encoding the audio (e.g. to AAC) would be fine.

Two questions:

Is there an app for the iPad that would allow me to watch the video without making any changes? Free solutions preferred.
If not, is there a process to convert the video (or the container) to a format that is natively understood by iTunes and the iPad? I know that the AC-3 audio may be a problem. Command line solutions are fine. No online conversion services, please.

I've tried the following using ffmpeg (installed through Homebrew):

ffmpeg -i in.ts -c:v copy -c:a aac -b:a 384k -strict -2 -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a:1 out.mp4

It converted the file, copying the video, and re-encoding the audio to AAC. The resulting file plays fine in QuickTime, but can't be imported into iTunes. I've read about the moov atom and its placement in the file, and the problems with ffmpeg to place it in the right location. Is this what I'm seeing here?


texts:
We are required to use Office Communicator at my work for instant messages.  I am currently using the multi-protocol client Adium for my other accounts (AIM, Gtalk).  I don't see a way to add an account for Office Communicator, so I'm wondering if there is any 3rd party support for this?

All of the searching I've been doing only points to running a separate application (which I already use), or to requests to add this feature to Adium.  I've haven't tracked down a 3rd party module, so I thought I would ask here if anyone knows of one.


texts: Signing up for an Apple Developer Account under 18

texts:
I am looking to launch an app within the next few days on the store. I have done this before in the past under a parents name but as I am 17 and will be 18 in a few months wandered whether it would be worth signing up to the program with my own account now.

I have read other posts on the min. age being 18 but is there anything that could feasibly happen as a result of this? Or am I just better off doing it under my parent for another year?


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut for playing a song next in iTunes DJ?

texts: I would like a quicker method of queuing up my songs in iTunes DJ. Right clicking and selecting the option is too slow.


texts: iPhone not getting audio alerts from texts and other notification events

texts:
I have an iPhone 6s running iOS 9.3.1. I have notifications for messages configured to alert with a sound. Other apps are set to notify with sound as well. I do have Do Not Disturb enabled, but it is on a schedule (nights only). The mute switch on the side is turned off. Phone calls and other things make noise properly.

When I receive a text and the phone is sleeping, I get no vibration, no banner popup, no sound. If I then press the power switch, I see the message notification on the screen, so I know the phone did receive the message.

Same issue with the Apple watch I have paired to the phone. I see that the text arrived, but no alert.

Any ideas?


texts: With dual monitors, changing one desktop will change the desktop of the other screen as well

texts:
Since I updated my Mac (I'm using a Mac Mini M1, macOS Big Sur 11.2.3), it has a strange behavior now.
I have 2 screens. There is a mirror-like effect but not completely mirrored on both.
I have the same amount of Desktops on both screens.
If I had a new Desktop on one, it will had a new Desktop on the other as well.
When I switch to an other Desktop, say I go to the 3rd desktop in one screen, it will switch to the 3rd desktop on the other screen as well.
And last weird behavior: when I switch to full mode on youtube on one screen, the other screen switch to a full mode but with a black screen.
However, I'm saying it's not completely mirrored because the 2 sceens are still different. I can have different activities on both screen besides the behaviors mentioned.
Am I the only one who got this ?


texts: How to transfer mouse and keyboard after migration

texts:
So, both magic mouse and apple wireless keyboard left connected to my old MB Air and I transferred everything with migration assistant. Currently, both mouse and keyboard are paired to old Air and they aren't visible when I try to find them with new MB.

How can I transfer them? Should I contact Apple support?


texts: How can I burn an OS X Lion install DVD once the installer has been auto-deleted?

texts:
I've just installed OS X Lion on my iMac, and I want to make an installation DVD, so that I can reinstall without having to first install Snow Leopard.

The way to create the DVD is answered elsewhere, but it seems that the installer gets auto deleted after the installation of Lion completes.

It looks like I'll have to re-download the 4Gb Lion installer again, but when I try to download it again via the App store, I'm told a newer version already exists, and I'll have to move it to the trash first.

I've double checked, and there isn't another version of the installer present.

How can I now create the install disk?


texts: Is it Possible to Manually Organise Imported Movie Extras in iTunes

texts:
I'm trying to organise a bunch of movie files that I've acquired from various sources, including my own DVDs, into iTunes.

However, one thing I'm uncertain of are the extras, things like deleted scenes, making of documentaries etc. Unfortunately none of the files I'm importing are available on the iTunes Store (as otherwise that's where I would have got them).

So what I'm wondering is, how is content from the iTunes store organised in relation to extras, and how can I do it myself for imported content?


texts: What is "All..." that just appeared in my Finder sidebar?

texts:
This "Network Neighborhood" icon recently appeared on my Finder's sidebar, pointing to some items I haven't seen before, all of them empty.

Procyon is an Apple Time Capsule.
Skype is running but why are there two links?
'messenger.live.com' doesn't make much sense; I don't use messenger and it doesn't appear in Activity Monitor or in ps -A.

What would cause the sidebar link to appear in the first place?

MacOS 10.6.8
The most recent Software Update was iTunes to v11.2.1, applied two days ago. I noticed this change in approximately that time-frame - but, iTunes?!


texts: How to setup Apple Mail so it truly removes email from Google?

texts:
After a lo-ho-hot of trial and error to get this to work properly I still was not able to find the sweet spot. The problem is simple. I am on OSX Yosemite and use the Mail.APP for my Google Apps for Work account. I like mail that I delete to truly be deleted, it may be moved to trash first, as long as when I delete it, it should truly be removed from Mail and Google. However, now when I delete a mail from the trash I won't see it in my Mail.APP but it does still appear in the Google trash. So technically it still exists.

My settings are the following:
Mailbox behavior:
- Everything checked. (as unchecking it will cause even more weird behavior)

Gmail settings:
- Automatically remove enabled: update server immediately (default)


texts: Headset Microphone not found in Windows 10 Bootcamp

texts: I have a headset microphone that I originally purchased for my PlayStation 4, however, I noticed that the microphone was also able to work on my iMac, and I was very pleased to know that because it is a microphone with good quality and it's easy to use. Anyway, I'm using Bootcamp to use Windows 10 so I can play some games that are unavailable on MacOSX, and I ran into a problem that the only microphone Windows can detect is my iMac microphone and not my headset microphone. I've tried several things to fix this, but I haven't gotten a result I wanted. The microphone only has one jack, that connects to the back of my iMac and the headphones work fine, but like I said the microphone is not being detected. Hopefully, you can help me!


texts: Cleaning up LaunchDaemons and LaunchAgents

texts: Trying to debug a slow-down of a Mac after a system upgrade, i would like to clean up LaunchDaemons and LaunchAgents, especially third-party ones. What it the proper way to do so?


texts:
Using MacOS Sierra, I have downloaded an unsigned app from a website.  When I open it, my security settings prevent me from running the app (it is from an unknown developer), but I can open it from the Security panel in Systems Preferences.  All as expected.

However, if I put the same .zip file I downloaded onto a different server, and download it from there, when I try to run it, I get a different dialog about running applications downloaded from the internet, and if I say to open it anyway, it fails, presenting a dialog saying there was an error (but nothing about what kind of error), and the option to check the console (which does not present anything obviously useful).

Can anyone explain this behavior, and what (if anything) I can do to prevent these problems when downloading from this second server?


texts: What the “Other” Storage Space is in Mac OS X?

texts: What exactly is included in the Other (blue one) part of the Storage space on my Mac? What could take 31.2 GB?


texts:
I am using macOS Mojave 10.14.6. And mail software version 12.4. I had included my gmail account in Internet Accounts. Today, I find I am unable to view the mail folders I created through this mail setup.  Could you tell me what the problem is ?
Regards,
-Manu
PS - I could see the folders when I use Gmail directly from a web browser. I had to turn off chat.  Even after that I could not see my folders or labels in the Mac Client.


texts: Distributing an app for all company iPads

texts: If I build an iPad app for a company (for internal use), do I need to commit it to the App Store to install it on all company devices ?


texts: Why does Time Machine back up way too much data and how can I slim this down?

texts:
I just noticed that Time Machine is backing up 15 GB (it's been running for a few hours; this means that Time Machine thinks that 15 GB of data changed in one hour which is absurd). I've only been doing some programming in the Terminal, and the usual web browsing/iTunes etc.

Why is this happening? Is there a way to see which files does Time Machine think changed this much? How to stop this behavior?

Edit: It just occured to me that the two times it happened I was using a VMWare Virtual Machine. Is it possible that Apple made the terrible oversight of not having a working binary diff and it's backing up the Virtual Machine image in its entirety every time?


texts: Using RVM and installing rspec gem for Ruby

texts:
I think I installed rvm correctly. When I type in rvm -v it outputs

rvm 1.25.33 (stable) by Wayne E. Seguin <wayneeseguin@gmail.com>, Michal Papis <mpapis@gmail.com> [https://rvm.io/]

However, I am trying to install the gem rspec. I type in

gem install rspec

but the output is

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0 directory.

What should I do? What is going wrong? I can't understand the rvm docs either!


texts: I am running the latest software. This is a fresh install of Mac OS X 10.8.* latest. I am on a Macbook6,1. I am using my internal optical drive installed in a external enclosure(from OWC) after installing another drive in place of the optical drive internally. The external enclosure is USB 2 with two type A connectors for sufficient power. Everything works great, but when I create a disk image from the optical media in Disk Utility, everything works as expected, but once finished, the disk is greyed out and shown as not mounted, but when trying to eject it, I always get the error that it's in use and can't be ejected. To solve this, I have to close and open Disk Utility and everything works. Is there a fix for this?


texts: The power button turns MacBook off, but not back on

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I have:

replaced/soldered a new keyboard connector on the logic board as it had a missing pin,
replaced the keyboard twice (the second and third keyboards work correctly),
tried jump starting the computer on with the jumpers but this did not work,
performed many PRAM resets,
repaired Disk and Permissions in Disk Utility,
ran Apple Hardware Test in short and extended mode without any issues identified,
attempted to do an SMC reset (although I don't see any sign of rather it happened or not).

Does anyone know why the power button would turn the computer off, but won't turn the computer on? This is even though removing the mag safe, removing the battery, and then reconnecting the mag safe power supply does turn the computer on automatically. Once on, the computer appears to work absolutely perfect.

Yosemite OS X 10.10 on mid 2010 MacBook Pro 15"


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After installing El Capitan (Currently on 10.11.3), the screen starts with a login prompt, which then displays a progress bar. At about 30%, the screen goes gray, then a faster progress bar completes the process.

I have read several answers and it seems to be related to Filevault.

I did have a GPU problem (MBP early 2011) which I resolved by entering a script available online, where I did modify the boot process disabling the discrete graphics and after that the boot started to display this additional progress bar; since then the motherboard was replaced (Thanks, Apple!), then I deleted all those extra features yet the startup screens remained.

Is there a way to have just one progress bar for the whole process?

I find that greyscreen somewhat annoying.


texts: How to show actual email address in iOS Mail app?

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iOS: 12.2

In the iOS Mail app, if the sender or recipient of an email has more than one email address associated with it, how can I tell which specific email address was used? For example, if I send myself an email from my personal account to my work account, since they're both associated to the same contact, I can't figure out how to tell who the recipient actually was. I have both Short Names and Prefer Nicknames turned off in the Contacts preference.


texts: Is there a way the be alerted of changes to a shared iCal calendar?

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I've created a calendar in iCal that I share with colleagues, who I have given permission to edit. Everything works fine except that I see no way to receive alerts or notifications when they make changes to events in the calendar. They all report that they were given the option to see alerts when they subscribed, but I (as creator of the calendar) was not given any (that I saw).

Is there a way to configure a shared calendar so that the creator of the calendar can be notified when other users make changes?


texts: If I turn off my Find My iPhone will it send a notification to the account holder?

texts: If I turn off Find My iPhone on my iPhone 5 does it send any notification to the email address attached to the apple id or send a notification of any kind?


texts: macOS standard keyboard shortcuts for tabbing between windows

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Are there any key combinations standards for tabbing between windows within an application?  For example, in the Safari web browser: CTRL-TAB will cycle through the open tabs.  It would be nice if this was

If not, I am wondering if there is a clever technique to implement such a feature (automator?).


texts: Dual displays detected as singular display via usb c dock issue (MBP 2017, Dell)

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Hardware

1 MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
2 Dell
U2517D
documentation
1 Hubee usb-c dock documentation

Expectation

Successfully connect and extend both of my Dell "U2517D" monitors using my "Hubee" usb-c dock to my MacBook Pro to render 3 separate windows(Mbp screen included).

Issue

The usb-c dock has a DP cable(connected to one of the dell monitors) and a HDMI cable(connected to one of the dell monitors) plugged into it picture, this allows both monitors to operate however they only seem to render a singular mirrored display output picture. In display preferences this is what I see picture. I have attempted to daisy chain both monitors together then doing a single DP connection to the dock but it didn't work. I have also tried pressing the detect monitors button in the display preferences but it has not worked.


texts: Installing Mac OS X Mountain lion Apple iD Error

texts: Can someone please help me with this Issue? Im trying to install mountain lion and i always get this error! My Mac Is a 2007 iMac, kind of second hand, 320.07 GB WDC Hard drive.


texts: Need to install tor on Mac. Downloaded tor.tar.gz file from torprogect.org. Tor version is 0.2.7.6. Os X 10.11.3. On torproject.org said that it has to be configure with: ./configure && make && src/or/tor. Don't know what does that mean. How do I proceed?