texts: How do I use Back to My Mac (to time capsule) in a multiple Airport configuration?

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I have an Airport Extreme with an attached USB drive that I've been accessing via Back to My Mac using these instructions (see the section with the text, "...access files on a hard drive connected to an AirPort Extreme...").

Recently I extended (over Ethernet) my Airport network using an Airport Express upstairs. i.e.

Airport Extreme with USB drive (downstairs) <--Ethernet--> Airport Express (upstairs)

I used these instructions (see the first post by Bob Timmons) to extend my network. I can tell that the network extension is over Ethernet because AirPort Utility shows both Airports connected to each other with a solid line (extension over WiFi uses a dashed line).

However, this makes my downstairs Airport Extreme disappear from Back to My Mac. Using Bonjour Browser on a remote Mac, I can see only the upstairs Airport Express:

#######.members.btmm.icloud.com - 4
  Airport Base Station (_airport._tcp.) - 1
    airport_upstairs
  Apple File Sharing (_afpovertcp.tcp.) - 2
    home_mac_1
    home_mac_2

Notice that only airport_upstairs is visible via Back to My Mac (even though airport_downstairs is the one configured for Back to My Mac). Has anyone else run into this problem--do you know how to fix it?


texts: Does Apple's World Travel Adapter Kit work in India?

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I'm traveling to India next week and am considering buying Apple's World Travel Adapter Kit so I can use my Macbook pro in India.

However, India is not listed in its list of supported countries.  I came across a suggestion on the Internet that said the United Kingdom adapter would work just fine in India, but I'm not certain about that.

Can anyone confirm whether the kit has an adapter that works in India?  Being able to confirm from personal experience would be a big plus.


texts: I programmed the wrong email address to my iCloud how do I fix it if it's not a real email address

texts: I program the wrong email on my I cloud account and when I go to fixing it I can't fix it because the email doesn't exist .


texts: How to bring a dead MacBook Pro back to life

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I have inherited a Mid/Late 2007 MacBook Pro from a colleague (A1226) but it doesn't work. It won't start up at all. No boot, not even the SuperDrive sound. I've tried resetting the SMC but it didn't do anything. When I connect the charger, the green light comes on, but that's the only sign of anything I see. It's also missing the battery. He doesn't remember what happened to this particular computer but the battery is broken open. Looked like some serious damage to it.

I'd like to get it working even without the battery, but I don't know what to try. I've read on here that it may be the DC in board? ifixit has a nice guide to remove the DC in board (https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Core+2+Duo+Models+A1226+and+A1260+Left+I-O+Board+Replacement/678) but I don't want to try it unless I have some evidence it may be this.

What can I try to help diagnose the source of my issue?


texts: Sync keyboard shortcuts between macOS computers

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I have a couple of custom shortcuts defined using System preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts and I want to sync those between my two Macs.

It seems, this is still not possible using iCloud. Are there any other ways? I thought about including them into my dotfiles, but can not find the shortcuts using the defaults command.


texts: Using 'kMDItemContentModificationDate' in 'do Shell Script'

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I want to find files modified on a specific date. It is not important what time of day they were modified. I tried the following and got an empty list (no error):

set theFolder to (choose folder)
set folderPOSIX to quoted form of POSIX path of theFolder
set modList to paragraphs of (do shell script "mdfind -onlyin " & folderPOSIX & " 'kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2015-01-15 00:00:00 -0400'")

If I understand this correctly, I am asking for files in a specific folder (directory) which were modified on Jan 15, 2015. If I did this right (apparently not), it should find at least one file that was modified on that date, because I can see in the window of the folder I chose that there is a file modified on Jan 15.

Also, not sure what the -0400 part is for. Is there some way that I can get the files for Jan 15, regardless of the time of day they were modified.


texts: Create 2 independent audio outputs to apple TV and headphones

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So I have this setup:

MacbookPro, external DELL monitor and Samsung TV that is connected to Apple TV.
I study at home at the moment and use the laptop extensively. Sometimes I play movies to my flatmates via my Mac, but I want to keep the ability to watch my study videos on a Mac too.

So for example:

Playing a movie via Apple TV and have the audio output on the Samsung TV, at the same time having videos playing on my mac and have the sound coming from the headphones connected directly to my Mac.

I have looked at Aggregate Device in Audio MIDI setup on OS X, but I can't seem to figure out how to set it up properly.

I hope it is possible to do what I am looking for and I would really appreciate any advice.

Thanks


texts: Why are CPU fans running on my MacBook Pro 15" full blast while my laptop has just booted up and waiting at the login screen?

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I know a lot of people have problems with the MacBook Pro's CPU fan running super loud and IMO the Activity Monitor is less than unreliable in telling what's really causing it… but let's check what happens when no applications are running.
What I find absolutely unbelievable that my Mac's CPU fans were running at maximum speed after just booting up, from a switched off state, with the charger cable disconnected. I can't see any reason for that, no applications should be running at this stage.
Is it possible to debug this somehow or is this simply an indication of a possible rootkit and a complete reinstall of my Mac?


texts: List apps that are downloaded to my phone

texts: How do I know what apps are downloaded to my iPhone 4?


texts: How to delete a list of files and folder generated via find in terminal?

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I'm generating a list of files and folder that meet certain criteria with use of a command:

find ~/ -iname "whatIwantToRemove"

The command will generate some results:

/Users/me//.Trash/whatIwantToRemove
...

I would like to be able to automatically delete all of those files.

Possible solution

I'm looking at a similar discussion on Unix and Linux and was wondering whether the command would work:

find . -type f -regex '/ex/' -exec rm {} \;


texts: If you backup your iPhone using iTunes, is it a full backup even if on the iCloud settings it's not?

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I only have 5 GB of iCloud storage. So my iCloud backup settings on my iPhone, i didn't include Photos (cause I have 6 GB worth of photos).

Now if I wanna do a full backup of my iPhone, does the manually backup option on iTunes work?

Will it be a full backup? I checked the backup size on my Mac and it says 7 GB, so is it safe to assume that it was a full backup?


texts: Error while attempting to install Homebrew on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)

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I'm attempting to update my installation of Homebrew by re-installing as prescribed by http://brew.sh:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

When I run the above installation shell command, I receive this error :

ruby 1.8.7 (2012-02-08 patchlevel 358) [universal-darwin11.0]
-e:222: syntax error, unexpected '.', expecting $end
               .map { |d| File.join(HOMEBREW_PREFIX, d) }
                ^

Any thoughts?


texts: Use downloaded Git instead of preinstalled Git

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I am following the Lynda.com Git Essential Training. After he downloads and installs Git he enters which git and gets /usr/local/git/bin/git However when I do it I still get the preinstalled path /usr/bin/git

How do I change the path so I am working with my downloaded version of Git

I am using a Macbook Air - Mavericks - OS X 10.9.4 and followed the default install instructions.


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I have installed macOS Catalina Beta 7 on my MacBook Pro Late 2013. After installing, my Mac prompted me to Restart. While installing the update I noticed that the Apple Logo with the progress bar disappeared. Shortly after, the screen went black and the Macbook froze. I tried a hard reset, but it keeps booting to the "question mark" folder. I tried several boot up methods, clearing NVRAM, starting in safe mode etc, but the Mac simply ignores my keyboard inputs while starting up. My guess is that the Firmware / EFI got corrupt because I can't use any of the key combinations. I can only boot to the question mark folder.

Does anyone have any recommendations or ideas?
Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad English :) !


texts: Moving Files and Photos iPhone5s to/from older non-apple devices

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I have an iPhone 5s, an old laptop running Windows XP a Tesco Hudl, and a Samsung Galaxy 3.  How can i easily move files and photos to and from the iPhone without using my limited data allowance?

The only version of iTunes I found to download will not run on Windows XP. The iPhone Bluetooth will not talk to the Samsung Bluetooth or the Hudl.

Is there a way of doing it using the Wi-Fi bearing in mind I rarely have access to a separate Wi-Fi network/router?

The phone signal is usually very poor. The USB stick that works in the Hudl, the Samsung and the laptop will not work in the iPhone even with an adaptor. I have taken to calling it the idiot phone.


texts: How can I modify OSX GUI colors to be more readable for weakened vision

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A bit of preface: I'm currently a Windows user but I'm looking into switching to Mac for work purposes. This of course means that I'd be staring at the UI of OSX for about 40 hours every week at least which is significant enough to cause strain to my eyes.

What's even worse is that I have weakened vision (essentially a mix of color blindness and snow blindness) which means that the default white/light gray theming of OSX is too bright and not high contrast enough for my eyes. In fact, the default UI is unusable to me.

I'm aware of the "poor vision" mode of OSX, but it's just a color inversion. My vision isn't that highly impaired that I would appreciate the whole operating system to look like ass at the expense of readability. Instead what I'd like to do - as I can do in Windows - is to change the UI colors to relatively neutral medium to dark colors, but so far haven't found a way to do it. As a color scheme this isn't anything new, especially lots of graphics related applications nowadays use these darker tones a lot. For example here's a screenshot Microsoft's Expression Blend 4 which is pretty close to what I'd want the UI to look like.

So, how can I change the colors/styles/whatever used by OSX (preferably 10.7 Lion) to either match the linked screenshot or be fully modifiable on the fly?


texts: iPad stuck in boot up loop. 4013 error after multiple restore attempts

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After speaking with Apple's tech support, and having them perform a data capture on my machine, I sit stuck with an iPad that won't boot up.  I've attempted all trouble shooting listed here. I've updated all iTunes, attempted restore on a Windows 7 machine, two Mac machines, with one iPad power chord, two iPhone power chords, and multiple ports. Every iteration has resulted in the same 4013 error.

Apple concluded it was a hardware issue and would cost $199 to fix. I thought maybe the techies of stackexchange have maybe encountered this issue and had another route to fixing this problem. Thanks for any help you could send.


texts: Why does High Sierra quit all my programs when I lock and close the laptop?

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After installing High Sierra, whenever I lock and close my MacBook Pro (2015), all my programs have quit once I open it again. Chrome will often show an "unexpectedly closed" message, which seems to indicate that it was not a graceful logout but a sudden forced quit of all programs.

It doesn't happen if I lock the computer and immediately unlock - only, apparently, if I close the laptop and come back after a while (sometimes as little as 5-10 minutes).

Why would this be happening?

High Sierra also freezes for around 5 seconds when I try to Lock the computer before actually locking, which is extremely slow and did not happen in Sierra.

I tried to ask this on Apple forums and got the message: "You are not allowed to create or update this content."

Additional info:
- I'm running latest version of macOS (10.13.1).
- When I unlock the Mac after this kind of mass-crash I often get the Optimizing Your Mac notification
- It just happened to me again after closing the laptop for about 2 minutes
- Twice today, instead of a mass crash, the Mac has just displayed a black screen (though the keyboard lights are on) and I was forced to restart.  (This also happened intermittently with Sierra but not usually 2x in one day.)


texts: Include entire album in Smart Playlist if one song matches criteria

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Is it possible to somehow build a smart playlist that deals in albums rather than individual songs?

IE, Find all songs without album art.

Sometimes songs without album art are in an album where the other songs do have art, so it's useful to be able to grab the lot and reset it.


texts: If I transfer songs to a zip drive and reload, can I get them out of "Purchased"?

texts: I no longer have access to the email address associated with my Apple ID, so I'll need to create a new one pretty soon. All possible ways to recover my current Apple ID have been exhausted, so that isn't the issue. I'm wondering if I transfer purchased songs to a zip drive or burn them onto a CD, will I then be able to transfer them back to iTunes but not as purchased content and therefore be able to play them with my new ID? I'm not very technology savvy, so I hope this isn't a dumb question.


texts: How can I export a list of files within a volume or folder?

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I would like to export a list of files contained in a Volume into legible text, or a spreadsheet document that I can easily share.
Things I have tried so far that didn't work:
TextEdit: If I select all the folders on the volume, for example when the Finder window is presenting them in a column, then Copy then Paste into a Plain Text document, only the names of the folders will be copied, not the contents.
I could present the folder in List format in the Finder window, but then I would have to manually open all the folders one by one before copying/pasting. Too time consuming.
TextWrangler: The output is ok, but I feel like I would like to have more options regarding how many levels deep the exported file list is, otherwise I end up with 33k lines of text. Good but not customizable.
Terminal: Some courageous experts have shared how to do it with Terminal, but I'm not super comfortable with it, and most importantly, the Volume I tried to execute the command on didn't load ("No such file or directory") - maybe because there are spaces in my Volume names? (this tip did not work when trying to add a Volume name with spaces in a Terminal prompt to output file names...). Did not work.
At the end of the day I ended up purchasing a paid app, but since I use several different user accounts across several machines, I would love to know if there is an easier and free way that I can use in the future.
Machine: iMac Mid-2011 with High Sierra.


texts: Can I have two apps running split screen on an iPad?

texts: Is there any way and have there been any examples of split-screening two apps on iPad so, for example, I can be scrolling through a PDF or PPT and simultaneously be typing notes about it in a text editor with an external keyboard?


texts: Jailbroken, supervised iPhone. Is it bricked?

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I received this iPhone 4 from work, and they don't have access to the Mac used to supervise it anymore. According to this Apple support article, device supervision can be removed by using "Erase All Content and Settings". Unfortunately, I just found out that the device was jailbroken so "Erase All Content and Settings" will put it on a bootloop. I can't seem to put the device on DFU mode; is this because it's supervised? Is there anything I can do to unsupervise this device?

EDIT: I finally managed to put it to DFU mode! Took a few tries, and had to exit/relaunched my iTunes a few times before it showed up as a device there. As @grgarside mentioned below, recovery mode should have worked too, but somehow my iTunes kept either not recognizing the device when on recovery mode, or it says that the device is supervised by another computer so it can't be used with mine.


texts: Can't connect to App Store on iPhone 6s when on Wi-Fi

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I don't understand why this is happening now. This was never a problem.

I have tried the following without success:

Reset network settings.
Make sure the date/time are correct — they are.
Reset my internet modem.
Sign out of Apple ID for iTunes, then sign back in.

What worked was turning off my Wi-Fi.

Here's my problem with that though: why would Apple make you turn off your Wi-Fi for you to update your apps and software, or even to sign in using an Apple ID? Why do I need to use my Mobile data to update my phone?

Apparently it's because of my DNS. When adding DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, everything started to work. I replaced some IP address with the 8.8.4.4.

Why was this happening? Why was there a different IP address in there? Why now? never had this happen to me in a decade.


texts:
In Linux I can set terminal shortcut like this:

stty intr ^i

But in OS X it doesn't work, I've tried this construction with no success:

stty brkint ^i      # why is this illegal option???

How to setup Terminal shortcut in OS X?


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What is the right way to set up iCloud for a family? Assume that I want to share iTunes store account, have separate mail, contacts, bookmarks and notes, but have the possibility of sharing calendars and reminders, and have all devices appear under one ID for Find My iPhone. It would be nice to share data as well, so that I only need to add space on one account for backups. Is this possible?

If not, what is the best way to set up for a family with, at a minimum, shared iTunes account for purchases?


texts: Cannot restore or recover ipod Classic 80gb

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I have an ipod Classic 80gb.   It is currently stuck on the apple screen.  I am unable to recover or restore the ipod.  It is not recognized by windows as either a ipod or a mass storage device.   When I plug it into my PC nothing happens.

It just sits there with the apple logo on the screen.  None of the buttons respond with the exception of a reset.  (toggle hold switch -> hold center + menu for 6 seconds.)  A reset will cause the screen to go blank for a few seconds.

Nothing else I have found seems to work.

Let me know if you have any ideas


texts: Copying across embedded HTML links using Safari

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I have recently upgraded from a Mac mini to an iMac (and love it!). On the Mac mini I used Firefox but on the iMac I am starting out with Safari.

I publish a blog with a new post every day. Frequently, my daily post includes a copy of something that has been published on another blog and contains links to other sites beyond that.

However, when I copy and paste that content across to my own blog it does not automatically copy across the embedded html links that were in the original. Firefox did copy across those links.

Is there a setting in Safari that will change the way a copy is made so that those html links are included without any other keystrokes required from me?

Did that all make sense?


texts: Is it possible to transfer Late-2011 MacBook Pro 15" SSD to new late-2016 iMac as primary drive?

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My personal Late-2011 15" MBP is having issues and I'm considering replacing it with an iMac (either early/late 2016).

If I did decide to get an iMac, would I be able to simply put my MBP SSD into the new iMac, set it as my boot drive, and have a reasonable expectation that it would just work?  If not, is it even possible?  If possible, what is typically involved?


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I'm trying to build a portable user and one of the ways I was thinking of doing is through a symlink in /Users that will point to external flash drive.
If I have two machines and I make a user with a same username, are those users the same when it comes to encoding permissions and owner information of the files?
If not, does anyone have any pointers or ideas on how else I can do it?
Maybe there is a way recreate/migrate existing user to another machine and basically replicating possible IDs used by the system to check permissions.


texts: iPhone 6 shows charging icon but not charging

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Recently my iPhone stopped charging at all. I took it to a local mobile shop in Pakistan; they changed my charger and it started charging, then all of a sudden it stopped. It shows the charging icon but the battery percentage was not increasing, rather decreasing.

They told me to change the port, so I did and now it is charging from only one side of the USB cable. I have tried different other cables as well and different other chargers too.


texts: How can I fix my Mac-Router-Mac network?

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My network is amazing slow, and my question is what can I do about it.

I have done the following analysis:

Transfer from MacBookPro -> Router -> Mac Mini Intel Core 1
264,3 MB = 2114, MBit in 432 seconds. == 4,89 MBPS

Transfer from MacBookPro  -> Mac Mini Intel Core 1 (Direct network)
264,3 MB = 2114, MBit in 295 seconds. == 7,16 MBPS

Transfer from MacBookPro -> Router -> MacBook Air
90,2 MB = 721,6 MBit in 147 seconds. == 4,90 MBPS

All connections via WLAN: 54 MBit/s, WPA2, WMM, autochannel.
Router is a FRITZ!Box WLAN 3170

So, the router sucks a bit performance, thats OK. Anyway as the router shows me that all clients are connected with 54 MBit/s, shouldn't the transfer time less? What can I do/check to increase my networks speed?

Christian


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The Cellular Data settings on my iPhone allow me to selectively switch off cellular data usage on a per-app basis. However, it seems I must consume data using that app before it shows up on the menu so I can disable it.

Is there a way to disable cellular data for new apps before those apps use any data?


texts: How to lock screen OSX without setting “immediately” in Security & Privacy settings

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I would like to lock my OSX screen at any time, irrespective of whether "Immediately" is configured in the general tab in Security & Privacy settings.

Is this possible?

Thanks


texts: How to find a good replacement iPhone e-reader app?

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Now that Amazon has sunk the usability flagship among e-readers, Stanza, I am looking for a replacement.  I am not asking for an app recommendation, but I am asking how to find a good replacement?

It seems every app praises itself beyond reason. Every forum peddles whatever app has their fancy. How can I find a good e-reader app without installing and testing them all? Many aren't free and it would be silly to pay for many of them, only to find them all lacking.

Given that there's no recommendation stack exchange (however useful that might be?), how can I provide my requirements and get a sorted list of choices?


texts:
I just installed Witch for one reason only which is that if I make a youtube video fullscreen in Chrome then ⌘tab to another app, when I ⌘tab again to get back to the youtube video OSX instead just switches to the browser in the current space.

Unfortunately when I tried Witch it lets me switch back to the youtube video but the youtube.com is now full screen prompt appears AND NEVER DISAPPEARS.

How can I fix this?


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There are few TM backups: regulars are at continuously connected HDD, and another at external HDD which was used once to create a snapshot (same iMac). Now there is need to compare between two backups which separated by two days. I tried to use tmutil compare without any luck.
Seems like it doesn't want to do anything with external HDD. Can it be a valid reason? How to overcome if it is? And what are other probable causes that should be checked? Thank you!


texts: How to remove .DS_Store from command-line auto-completion using cd?

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I understand that .DS_store files serve a purpose. That said, they are a nuisance when auto-completing with the cd command. When I type cd in Terminal and press tab twice it lists all directories in the working directory.

Is there a way of removing .DS_store from this auto-complete directory listing in the terminal?


texts: How to type a capital letter from the extended Latin alphabet in OS X

texts:
I'm aware that if you want to type a character from extended Latin alphabet in OS X (like in the word über), you just press the basic symbol key for a while and then a popup occurs with the list of extended symbols.

But, I would like to type this letter in uppercase. I press the symbol key (for Example U + Shift), then see the character popup. Then I press the number of the required symbol, although I am given an @ sign instead of the uppercase Ü.

How can I type capital letters with accents? I don't want to copy and paste symbols that I require every time from the web or developer console.


texts: I am creating Keynote masters and every time I insert a picture it puts an icon on it, helpfully to allow you to insert a photo from your file. It doesn't show up in the final keynote but it is a pain in the neck. How do I delete it?


texts: Update all Siri-found contact information in Mail

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Apple Mail sometimes finds additional contact information when reading an email:

  Siri found updated contact info in this email: John Smith (123) 456-7890

Is there a way to update all the Siri-found contact info at once -- as though I manually went through each of these messages and clicked "update" on all of them?


texts: Time Machine - Preparing takes forever... (> 6hours)

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My time machine backup always takes a really long time. I actually don't know what caused the problem... but it's happening since a long time.

It takes about 6hours or longer, it doesn't matter if there are just small changes on the files or bigger ones. It always takes that long. But the backup finishes after that time.

It would be great if you could help me.
Thanks

... ~ %  tmutil status
Backup session status:
{
    BackupPhase = Starting;
    ClientID = "com.apple.backupd";
    DateOfStateChange = "2020-05-23 17:06:00 +0000";
    DestinationID = "013AD7A7-C1AE-4E9B-A28B-2F8539045349";
    Percent = "-1";
    Running = 1;
    Stopping = 0;
}


texts: Can I screen record multiple windows on my macbook with internal audio only while still being able to use my laptop for other things?

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I'd like to screen record multiple videos at once, including the audio from each video respectively. Is this possible?
If not, is there a way to record one video (with internal audio) in the background while still being able to use my laptop when it's recording?
My operating system is MacOS X El Captain if that affects anything.


texts:
I recently setup my Time Machine so I can easily restore my system if I break it.

Problem is that when I start the installer from my USB-drive the option "Restore from a Time Machine Backup" is not present.

The USB-drive I'm booting from have the Yosemite installer on it. I've also tried to hold in CMD+R during boot but it doesn't seem to work, I just get to the normal login screen.

Here's a bad image of what it looks like in the "Utilities"-menu.

Anyone know what's up?


texts: How to sync new songs from a new laptop using iTunes v11.04?

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I had an older laptop (Windows 7) with which i used to synchronize my songs on to iPod Nano using the iTunes v10.0. But recently I have shifted to a newer laptop with (Windows8.1)

I have the setting as manually manage music.(i.e. I press CRTL + O and add songs to the playlist and then synchronize) I got the older songs in the playlist as usual but unable to get new songs to play which I had synced.

So could anyone please tell me how to synchronize new songs keeping the old songs in the playlist intact ?

I have tried this post but could not follow "grab the file from in iTunes and drag it onto the iPod itself".

Update--

As i would be losing all the songs in the playlist if i synchronize new iTunes library to the playlist,(the old songs need to be present on the laptop to be able to synchronize but as it's not there then iTunes will replace the existing library with the new iTunes library) can i export the playlist from my iPod shuffle to the Windows(i.e. like a back up of the songs).

If i would be able to do this then i can easily restore the backup and also synchronize new songs to the shuffle


texts: I have an AMR-format audio file which I recorded with my HTC Desire. I would like to send it to somebody who has a Macbook Pro. Will he be able to play it without jumping through hoops?


texts:
Whenever I set a custom keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X (10.6.8) for a menu item, I cannot use it until I open its menu by clicking on it at least once. This happens every time I launch an app and affects services too.

Is there a workaround?


texts: Hibernate MacBook on 10-ish % power instead of 0/1% when running on battery?

texts:
Yeah, I know my battery is probably hosed, but every time I reach 5%, my MacBook shuts down, as it expects the battery to be able to run down to 1% before hibernating.

However I would like it to hibernate and not shutdown, when I run out of power, so is it possible to make my MacBook hibernate at like 5-10%?

My MacBook is over 2 years old and I'm not going to buy a new battery. The battery only lasts 1-2 hours.

I have tried calibrating the battery, resetting the SMC etc., without any noticeable effect.


texts:
What is this arrow mark on the Menu bar? I am using macOS 10.12.4.
It shows up for few seconds and disappears automatically.


texts: err_address_unreachable : Cannot reach websites except some

texts:
I'm running on macOS Catalina. The Wi-Fi at my work was reset and now I can connect to internet but only Google Gmail and a few other big companies' websites load, no others.

I tried manually setting my DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4, I tried the sudo kill mDNSResponder. I've tried renew DHCP lease. And of course restarting the computer. Nothing has worked does anyone have any other suggestions. I'm pretty sure it's a DNS problem because the error I get in Chrome is "err_address_unreachable"


texts: iMac does not wake from sleep on Bluetooth action

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I work on an iMac (Late 2015) with macOS High Sierra (10.13.3). On this computer I use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

The computer should wake from sleep if the peripherals are used. The corresponding option "Allow BT devices to wake this computer" is activated.

For the past few weeks, unfortunately, the computer does not wake from sleep if the BT mouse or keyboard are used. Specifically, it does not wake in 80% of the cases. Sometimes it works, but most of the time it does not.

If it does not wake on BT action, I can wake it up using a slight touch on the power button. The computer awakes up, but there is no connection to the keyboard and the mouse. Also, there is no warning message, which usually pops up if the connection to a BT keyboard is lost.

The only thing I can do in this situation is to force restart unsing power button.

There are a lot of similar questions on AD but non of them has an accepted answer. Most commenters suggest to try the common things like restart (muhahaha) reset SMC and PRAM and so one. This did not work for me and it did not work for all the other OPs. In some older questions the problem was solved by updates. Currently there are no updates available.

Does anyone know how to fix this issue?


texts: Create variable size columns from tab deleminated file

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I would like to columnize data from excel.  I need to paste the data in a simple text file. Tabs need to be replaced with blanks. What I need is to be able to select the column width.How

cat mdhousenames.txt  | column -c7  -s \t  -x

How do I make this output nicely formatted with tabs expanded?

If possible, I'd like to go with native macOS 10.10.5 software. bash terminal is fine.

I've seen:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31239/how-to-expand-tabs-based-on-content
but no w3m command.  Where is a safe place to download, if this is the only way.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/57222/how-can-i-use-column-to-delimit-on-tabs-and-not-spaces
but the tabs are a fixed size.  Can I make the tabs variable size?

answer:

 expand -t 16,29,34,50,57,72  mdhousenames.txt

Note: the first column starts in the unmentioned column 1. So in this example, the second column starts in column 16.


texts: Is there a way to stop OS X opening NAT-PNP/uPNP holes for every open port on *?

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With any luck, there's an easy work-around for this:

curl ifconfig.me to find your external IP address
sudo lsof -i4 -n | grep LISTEN | grep \* to find processes listening for connections from other machines
telnet EXTERNAL_IP PORT or nc -v EXTERNAL_IP PORT to see if the rest of the world can reach it, not just other machines on your network

On my fully patched 10.9.4 system with the firewall turned on, they can. That surprised me. I'd somehow decided applications needing the world to talk to them asked OS X to handle NAT-PNP or did it themselves. It never occurred to me OS X might do it for every open port not bound to 127.0.0.1.

Picking on Dropbox, despite it not being their fault per se...

$ sudo lsof -i4 -n | grep LISTEN | grep \* | grep Dropbox
Dropbox 361 userid 32u IPv4 0x... 0t0 TCP *:17500 (LISTEN)

$ curl ifconfig.me
93.184.216.119

$ telnet 93.184.216.119 17500
Trying 93.184.216.119...
Connected to example.com.
Escape character is '^]'.

Dropbox isn't just accessible to other machines on your network: the whole world can pound on it. How about iTunes?

$ sudo lsof -i4 -n | grep LISTEN | grep \* | grep iTunes
iTunes 8950 userid 29u IPv4 0x... 0t0 TCP *:55732 (LISTEN)
iTunes 8950 userid 31u IPv4 0x... 0t0 TCP *:daap (LISTEN)

$ telnet 93.184.216.119 daap
Trying 93.184.216.119...
Connected to example.com.
Escape character is '^]'.

The whole world might be able to see you like Nickelback.

TextExpander? Yep. The whole world can try to get your snippets. AirServer? Now I know how I got weird pictures popping up that one time. (Good on them for adding passcode support.) That Node.js example script that listens to 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1? That, too. If you told OS X the software it could listen, it can listen.

Did you check "Automatically allow signed software to receive incoming connections"? Add all those to the list, too.

I like other machines on my home network talking to my laptop to get their TextExpander snippets and share DropBox content faster. I like my iPad talking to my laptop to display my diagrams for my co-workers. I'm not enthusiastic about the whole world talking to those same open ports.

How do I persuade OS X to not ask my router to punch holes for every single open port?


texts: How to isolate the most disk-active process(es) in OS X?

texts: I have some process(es) performing a lot of drive access from time to time, however I've hitherto been unable to isolate which process or processes are performing the access.  What shell command can I issue to isolate the most disk access intensive processes?


texts: How can I get the iPad bubbles wallpaper (since it no longer shows up as an available wallpaper after changing from it)?

texts: How can I get the iPad bubbles wallpaper? It no longer shows up as an available wallpaper after changing from it.


texts: How can I change a special app folder into an ordinary folder?

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Applications in MacOS are special app folders. I assume this is done by setting some special permissions. Its normally not possible to navigate into such special folder from within other applications: the open file dialog of the Finder does not allow it.

I have one such folder with a very big file. The file is too big to copy outside its containing app folder. So ideally I want to 'transform' the app folder into a normal folder, so that I can access the contents from another (normal, GUI) application.


texts: 13" Retina MacBook Pro completely freezes

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Every once in a while, my 13" retina MacBook Pro completely freezes while I'm in the middle of working on something. And I do mean completely: it won't respond to any keyboard input, I can't even move the cursor, and even animations (like a scrollbar fading in/out) will freeze in place.

Usually if I just let it sit for 10 seconds or so, it'll "catch up" with itself and then work like normal. But other times it just hangs there indefinitely, and I have to force reboot it by holding the Power key to turn it off (which I did just now).

Here's my last log message before it froze and I rebooted:

9/17/14 12:59:06.812 PM com.apple.backupd[67739]: 1.48 GB required (including padding), 2.6 TB available
9/17/14 1:05:21.000 PM bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1410973521 0

(Note the 6-minute gap there: it doesn't even record any log messages while it's frozen.)

Of interest, Time Machine says my last successful backup was at 11:23 AM, which means it froze while it was in the middle of the next backup (which would have started at 12:23, and did according to the logs).

Could that mean Time Machine has something to do with it? I haven't noticed any rhyme or reason as to when or how often the freezes occur.

Update: this just happened again, but this time it caught up after maybe 20 seconds or so. It definitely seems to have something to do with Time Machine: the freeze occurred at 5:43 PM, and after it unfroze, I checked and the last backup was performed at 4:43 PM. So it froze exactly when the backup was supposed to start.

I'm backing up to a NAS, so I wonder if it's having trouble connecting and that's causing the whole UI to lock up. It did start a few minutes later and now seems to be working fine.

Update 2: I've had this happen a few more times, and now it doesn't seem like it's related to Time Machine at all since the timing doesn't line up.

In the console, it says kernel[0]: Previous shutdown cause: -112 from when it froze yesterday, and kernel[0]: Previous shutdown cause: -128 from when it froze today. I can't find anything definitive about what either of those error codes mean.


texts: Is it possible to move photos on iPhone to external storage?

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I'm going on vacation soon (The Black Forest) and I'm planning to take a lot of Hi-Res photos and videos.

However, since it is a vacation, I prefer to stay away from my laptop (otherwise, I would spend time coding or checking work's email).

Is it possible to move the photos and videos on iPhone to external storage, whether it is SSD or SD card for example?


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I am looking for a super easy app for cutting .mp3 files, and setup fadeout at the end. Like Ringer, but this is for ringtones. plus the time is limited and I can't export mp3 files with it. But you get the idea. It's really easy to use.

Audacity, Garageband are way too complicated and big. Any tips?


texts: How to move a window from one screen to another and maximise in one go?

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I am trying to accomplish the above-mentioned. Move a window from one screen to another and maximise it in one step, without creating a new virtual screen.

Has anyone found a way to accomplish this on the most recent version of MacOS?


texts: Flashing question mark when I start my Mac

texts:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204323

I tried everything in here didn't work. I am using a 13" macbookpro retina, latest OS.

Stuff I did that might have cause this:

I updated 3 apps 1 of them was Xcode, the other was something about OSX, the third I can't remember.
I installed Cocoapods but never used it.
Did some tutorials and learned a little bash commands, nothing extreme that should have caused this.

After these actions I used the mac to write software, browser internet, watch videos, I used it for half a day and nothing weird happened. I closed the screen and reopened in an hour and had this problem.

Right now I am connected from the internet recovery. I see this screen:

I cannot restore from time machine backup, cause I have none
I cannot reinstall OS X cause it doesn't see my SSD. "Select the disk where you want to install OS X, under it nothing"
Get help online isn't very helpful
In disk utility:

Macintosh Hd, Disk Status: Offline
Capacity: 120GB, Available: 120GB, Used: 335MB (Weird at least 100GB was used and I am pretty sure I didn't format it by accident)

I click "Verify Disk": The partition map needs to be repaired because there's a problem with the EFI system partition's file system.

I click "Repair Disk": Couldn't repair the partition map because a new EFI system partition couldn't be created.

Also tried this: What does "EFI system partition couldn't be created" mean?

I have seen a few posts where they recommend me to backup the system and then reinstall the OS. I cannot backup and I cannot reinstall.

What am I supposed to do? My hands seem to be tied..


texts:
I am thinking of making use of iPad to show customers a dynamic presentation.

Customers will have access to an iPad for it and I won't take part on it, so more than a presentation it will act like an iPad application. (internal links between screens...etc.)

Which would be the best way to do it?

I was thinking of using Keynote but I'm not sure if it would be the best option.
Any other idea?

Thanks.


texts: Experience the "1-9" hardware failure with wireless keyboard (looking for the custom passkey option)

texts: So I've experienced the failure of the 1-9 keys on my wireless keyboard, and was curious how to find the custom passkey option so I can pair it with my MacBook Pro.


texts: How to enable external display on touchbar MBP with broken screen

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I have a very recent (this year) MacBook Pro with touchbar and 4 USB-C ports (not sure the exact model, as the screen doesn't work).  Somehow while going through airport security yesterday, something got between my screen and touchpad and cracked the screen right below the camera.  The screen is mostly dead, showing just a few pixels along the break.

Before I take it for repair, I'd like to access some things on it.  I normally use it with external monitors via USB-C to HDMI adapters, but when I try it now, nothing is happening.  The machine chimes when connected to power.  Powering on will run fans, and the esc key appears on the touchbar, but that's it.  The external monitor stays in powersave mode.  I've tried connecting an external USB keyboard (Via USB-c adapter) to see if Cmd+F1 would enable mirror mode and enable the external monitor, with no luck.  I've tried closing the lid while the keyboard and monitor are attached, again with no luck.

Is there any way to get the machine to use the external display prior to logging in?

Update: I was never able to get the machine to work with an external monitor.  My employer sent it to Apple for repair; when it came back, everything was fine and all my files were intact.  It would have been helpful to grab a few files off the machine before I sent it off, but in the end nothing was lost.


texts: What solution is there for users who need lots of (> 1 TB) storage in a MacBook Pro?

texts:
So, the time has come to replace my mid-2012 MacBook Pro.  When I purchased this laptop four years ago I paid extra for the 1TB internal drive upgrade; a couple of years later I upgraded again to a 2TB internal drive.  Now I am looking for a newer laptop, and I am frustrated to find that there seems to be no way to get anywhere close to that kind of storage in a newer (post-2013) MBP.  The largest size SSD I can find is a 1TB upgrade, and that is prohibitively expensive.

I know people love the SSDs because they are faster, smaller and lighter.  But surely I am not the only user who values capacity over speed -- right?  What do people do if they need more storage with the newer laptops?

(I recognize that the only real answers may just be "Don't buy a newer laptop"  or "Wait for Moore's Law to catch up with your needs."  I'd prefer a more practical solution.)

Edited:  Regarding "Wait for Moore's Law to catch up with your needs", it looks like that may be happening already, as SanDisk has just announced (September 20, 2016) a prototype 1 TB SD card:  http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/9/20/12986234/biggest-sd-card-1-terabyte-sandisk.


texts: Time Machine — ‘Sparsebundle already in use’ error

texts: A few days ago, Time Machine on my Mac reported an error: ‘Sparsebundle already in use’. Manual unmount of the Time Capsule didn't help, nor a reboot of my machine. Removing and re-selecting my Time Capsule from the Time Machine Preferences window didn't help either.


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I am using a Mac (OS X 10.10.3) that has a Windows and an OS X partition. From Windows, I shrunk the Windows partition using diskmgmt.msc freeing up about 60 GB. I would like to expand the OS X partition into this free space. Disk Utility seems have greyed out the size field of the partition.

Here is the output of sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0:

start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640   96408680      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   96818320    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   98087856       1104
   98088960  226988032      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  325076992  165157727
  490234719         32         Sec GPT table
  490234751          1         Sec GPT header

How do I expand it?


texts: How can I add movies to my iPad from both my home and work computers?

texts:
I'd would like to add some ripped DVDs to my iPad from both my work and home computers. Is this possible? Ideally I'd like to watch them using the Videos app that comes with the iPad but I'd be fine buying another app if it's necessary.

thanks!


texts: iOS 12 notifications appearing twice or not at all

texts:
Hi everyone I have 2 problems with my iPhone 6s since upgrading to iOS 12 (not sure if this has anything to do with it).

For the past week I’ve been getting Messenger and text message notification banners show up twice. So for example, the banner will pop up on screen whilst unlocked, then later the notification will pop up again on my lock screen. Or the same banner will show up twice within a few minutes whilst unlocked.
Sometimes my messenger and text message notifications don’t show up at all, either when unlocked or on the lock screen. This is annoying because then I’ll go for a long time waiting for a reply when in fact I received it a while back and didn’t know.

Does anyone know what might be up?

Thanks!


texts: Cursor movement to beginning/end of line in iOS - possible?

texts:
Does iOS provide any kind of cursor movement commands.  For example:

You forward an email or a web page link and you're at the end of the Subject line in the mail app.  You want to jump to the beginning of the Subject line and type something
You enter a set of search terms and then when you see the results, you want to jump to the end of the list and add more

I know I can tap but in these cases, the beginning or end of line is off-screen.


texts: Move window to other space by pushing; multiple monitors

texts: as discussed here it is impossible to move a   window to another space by pushing it against the side of the screen. I wanted to know if there now is a workaround for this, since it is really annoying, thanks.


texts: What are the guidelines for assigning/mapping hotkeys in MacOS for a software engineer?

texts:
Been coding using Mac, and code on Visual Studios Code for 5+ years, I find myself conflicting myself on assigning hotkeys. Is there a guide that analyzes what are the best methodical approach to using hotkeys? E.g.

cmd + key to application specific
cmd + shift + key to the reverse effect of above etc.

I am looking for any guide that proves a good point.


texts: Remove downloaded but not installed ios8 ( Settings->General->Usage doesn't work)

texts: The ios8 has automatically downloaded to my iPad Air and I want to remove it. For some reason the solution with Settings->General->Usage doesn't work for me. There is no ios update in the usage list. The current ios version is 7.0.4. Are there any other solutions?


texts: Running Cron with an updated Bash version

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Is there a way to get cron to run with an updated version of Bash that's been installed?
My OS came with Bash 3.x installed stock and I've upgraded it to 5.x with macports.
When I query bash --version from a terminal.app window the 5.x version is reported.
If I run the same query from within a cron job: * * * * * /temp/test_bash.sh >> /tmp/test_bash.log 2>&1 the 3.x version which came stock with the OS is reported.
MacOS 10.10.5


texts: How to capture a high quality screeshot in 1920 x 1080?

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I want to make 1920 x 1080 screenshots of the entire screen, but there's no 1920 x 1080 option in the Displays menu.

There's a 1920 x 1080 option on SwitchResX, but when I select that one, the text on the screen becomes slightly blurry. I suppose that happens because that ratio is not supported, therefore the monitor is stretching or compressing the screen. That said, there shouldn't be any blurriness because there's one black strip on top and one on the bottom of the monitor meaning the monitor is adjusting the size so there no need for stretching or compressing.

Anyone know how to get a clear view in 1920 x 1080?

I am using Macbook Pro 2016, macOS Sierra 10.12.6.

I set the resolution to 1280 x 800 in the Displays menu:

However, when I take a screenshot of the entire screen, the produced image has a resolution of 2560 x 1600.

If I set the resolution to 1920 x 1200 on the Display menu, the produced screenshot will be 3840 x 2400. I also to set the resolution using the SwitchResX app instead of Displays, but I get the same behaviour.

My end goal is to get a screenshot of the entire screen in 1920 x 1080. How can I do that?

P.S. I also need to capture screencast videos using Camtasia in that same resolution, but the same blurriness issue happens with videos.

I am using Mac Pro 2016, macOS Sierra 10.12.6


texts: Personal Hotspot won't work (connected through cable)

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iPhone SE (gen 1). Prior to updating my iOS from 13.x to 14.x I was successfully using Personal Hotspot to connect my laptop to the internet using Lightning-USB cable. Then I updated my iOS to 14.x (can't quite remember the exact version), everything was fine for some time. And then all of a sudden my internet connection just dropped and never came back up again. I still have this blue bar indicating the connection on the top and my laptop indicates the connection, yet no internet connection.
I tried:

Rebooting my device
Resetting my Network Settings
Updating my iOS 14.x to 14.3
Connecting to another USB port
Connecting my iPhone to another laptop

None of the above worked, all the same.
However, using Wi-Fi Hotspot instead of direct USB connection works perfectly fine but it's not an option for me.
I also tried connecting through my second iPhone's Personal Hotspot (iPhone 8, iOS 14.3), same effect, it works over Wi-Fi, doesn't work over direct USB connection.
Any thoughts? I appreciate any help.
UPDATE
As of Dec 25th 2020 this issue is now Linux-specific only.
I was able to connect via USB on Windows laptop after some painful acts of update. Force-(re)updated iOS via latest version of iTunes.


texts: How do I alt+f4 in OS X? I want to close focused window

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I am looking for a way to close the currently focused window using a keyboard shortcut. Effectively I want to do the same thing as the red "X" button in the top left corner, only using a keyboard. On windows/linux this is done by alt+f4

I know about:

⌘ Cmd+w - in any tabbed application such as google chrome it will close the current tab instead of current window
⌘ Cmd+q - will close the entire app instead of just the current window


texts: How can I install a non-notarized application that is not in the App Store and not from a verified developer?

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Is there a possibility to install software that was not "notarized" for macOS Catalina? I have an application that worked on macOS Mojave but cannot be installed anymore on macOS Catalina. I think the developers must "notarize" this software. Checking with spctl -a -vv my.app confirmed that it is rejected.

What can an end user do about it to install it anyway until this process is finished?


texts: I made a bootable Windows 10 flash drive using Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro Mid-2012 (13 inch) Non-retina. When bootcamp is finished with everything, it restarts my computer like normal. But when it restarts so I can install Windows, it says no boot device.


texts: Where does Time Machine server store its backups?

texts: Not the /Volumes/backupdrive/Shared Items/Backups, but the actual Backups.backupdb you see in backing up locally. Where does it store that data? I know an external machine backups successfully to it often, but the data doesn't seem to be anywhere. Any ideas?


texts: Stop iTunes from creating a local library on start up

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I'd like to store my iTunes Music Library on a USB drive connected to my time capsule to use it with my Macbook Air. The problem is, when the network drive with the library is not mounted or unreachable by the computer then iTunes creates a new local Library on start up.

Can I stop iTunes from doing that or even better notify me if the drive is not mounted? I really would like to avoid creating a local Library. Otherwise files end up on multiple location and it seems hard to consolidate this.


texts: Is there free, system-wide http/https proxy software for OS X?

texts:
I need to forward all my traffic trough a HTTP/HTTPS proxy in order to connect to a VPN. I can only connect to that VPN using a HTTP/HTTPS proxy.

Is there something free that I can use to achieve this in OS X?


texts: How to share the URL of an image in a webpage to an Automator workflow via context menu

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I would like to create an automator service that accepts images which allow me to right-click any image in Safari (on my computer) and perform a google reverse image search on it without needing to save it.  I.e. Right-click an image on a web page and select "Reverse Image Search" which takes the image URL and appends it to https://www.google.com/searchbyimage?image_url= and opens the URL in a new Safari window.
I've made 3 passes at this goal so far which come close, but don't quite get there:

I wrote one Automator service that works on image files in the Finder (e.g. right click a file and select 'Services->Reverse Image Search')
I wrote another Automator service that works on URLs in any text (including Safari's location field) (e.g. right click an image URL and select 'Services->Reverse Image Search by URL')
I wrote a third Automator Folder Action that works on images saved in a folder (e.g. right-click an image (e.g. in Safari) and select 'Save Image as...' and select the folder, which then opens the google image search results)

I feel like I'm so close to the final result... is there a way to either add a service to an image's context menu in Safari, like an extension to add Automator services, or maybe an extension that allows me to add an automator workflow to the share sub-menu?


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For unfathomable reasons, the Touchpad and Keyboard of my MacBook Pro Retina early 2015 stopped working on MacOs Catalina.
Using an external keyboard/mouse, I erased the internal disk and installed Kali.
The (internal) Touchpad and Keyboard work perfectly in Kali.
However, when starting the machine, the (internal) keyboard and mouse still don't work, so I cannot chose the boot media.
By using an external keyboard, I can boot from the SD card, on which I installed Ubuntu.
But if I do not connect an external keyboard, my computer boots on the internal disk (containing Kali).
Now my question : what should I change in GRUB in order to boot on the SD Card (Ubuntu /dev/sdb1) if this is present, else boot on the internal disk (Kali /dev/sda1) if the SD Card is not present?
As you already guessed,

GRUB is installed on the internal disk (/dev/sda)
both, the internal disk and the SD Card contain EFI partition.

Thank you in advance for your answers.
P.S. I am mildly interested in reinstalling MacOS if someone found a way to activate the internal Touchpad/Keyboard which (I suppose) were deactivated by the firmware update contained in the MacOS Catalina 10.15.5 (Planned obsolescence  ???)


texts: Launch daemon not processing program arguments

texts:
I have been trying to make a change (for port forwarding/redirecting) to the pfctl.conf file and have it ( the /etc/pfctl.conf file) loaded at startup. The pfctl.conf has been been confirmed to be working as expected because issuing sudo pfctl -ef /etc/pfctl.conf leads to the desired behavior (requests to one port get forwarded to the other).

That pfctl itself is actually loaded at startup is also confirmed because doing launchctl list | grep pf shows com.apple.pfctl in the output. However, the desired forwarding behavior is not achieved directly after startup. It happens only on doing pfctl -f /etc/pfctl.conf after startup. Oddly enough, the output of pfctl -ef /etc/pfctl.conf still says pf already enabled.

Therefore, I concluded that while pf is loaded at startup, the daemon seems to not load from the conf file. The body of the launch daemon com.apple.pfctl.plist now looks like:

<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
     <key>Disabled</key>
     <false/>
     <key>Label</key>
     <string>com.apple.pfctl</string>
     <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
     <string>/var/run</string>
     <key>Program</key>
     <string>/sbin/pfctl</string>
     <key>ProgramArguments</key>
     <array>
         <string>/sbin/pfctl</string>
         <string>-e</string>
         <string>-f</string>
         <string>/etc/pf.conf</string>
     </array>
     <key>RunAtLoad</key>
     <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Having checked the discussion at
Getting launchd to read program arguments correctly it was informative but not practically helpful in this instance - I have already tried editing the program arguments of the plist file to include the full path to the pfctl executable (as can be seen in the code above - first line of the arguments array) but to no avail. I have also added an argument (second line of arguments array) to actually launch pfctl based on the discussion at this gist. The daemon also seems to be configured correctly according to the instructions at Apple developer docs. In accordance to the developer docs (which state that the program tag is required when the program arguments are not supplied and vice versa), I also tried removing the program tag while leaving the program arguments array in place (with the path to the executable as the first argument) - but this had no effect either.

Puzzlingly, the shipped version of the pfctl.plist file (which can be assumed to be most likely correct) had both the program tag and the program arguments tag, apparently in contradiction to the dev docs (or maybe I misunderstood the docs).

So now I am completely at a loss. Any help would be most appreciated!

Additional info:
Not sure this is relevant, but just in case it is: the anchor file (created by me) which is referenced by pf.conf looks like:

rdr pass on lo0 inet proto tcp from any to 127.0.0.1 port =80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8888

So is there a possibility that the network interface is not yet active and addresses have not been assigned at the time the daemon runs? If so, how can it be fixed?


texts: No input field for Apple ID Verification Code

texts:
I have an older iPad Mini and when I try and use a game iOS Game Center asks for my password, which I enter, and is accepted. Then it asks to type in the Apple ID Verification Code, although there is nowhere to type it in.

EDIT: Thanks to fsb's suggestion the verification code was accepted by typing it directly after the password into the Game Center login password field. I'm shocked Apple would expect anyone to know to do this without prior knowledge!


texts: Combine screens into pseudo-high-resolution

texts:
I'm a visual thinker. I prefer seeing everything laid out clearly and then moving around a big layout. With screen zoom, I can quickly zoom in-and-out on parts of the screen. Right now, if I tile windows, then zooming in on a corner of the screen just makes everything about that window look big (e.g. every pixel is expanded, so fonts look bigger, icons look bigger, etc.). But what if I wanted to do the symmetric movement in the opposite direction: make it so that when the screen is zoomed, things look normal, and when the screen is unzoomed, they look small? So even with limited total screen resolution, I can imagine a screen dimension setting that "fakes" a higher resolution than the screen can actually achieve, then only displays at the correct resolution after zooming in.

I am looking for a hack or app or suggestion as to how I might do this. For example, say I want to tile applications like this:

============Menu Bar============
|               |              |
|   Pseudo      |   Pseudo     |
|   Screen 1    |   Screen 2   |
|               |              |
|   Pseudo      |   Pseudo     |
|   Screen 3    |   Screen 4   |
|_______________|______________|

where each Screen is itself a full-resolution screen. So for example if I zoomed in on any corner (upper right, for example) to see the applications in that area of the screen, they would appear at the normal, native, full resolution. If I zoomed back out, I would see all the applications, but they would look small and fuzzy, small because the screen would behave as though its physical area were 4x its actual area, and fuzzy because presumably it wouldn't have the resolution to handle that well.

This idea may seem similar to the old rectangular spaces layout,

except that I really don't want anything to do with spaces, switching spaces, etc. I just want one big screen tiled with application windows that can look "zoomed out" from a distance.

Apologies if this question does not make sense as written; I am trying to explain a somewhat unusual idea and am not sure how best to convey it.


texts: How to export multi page pdf into multi page JPEG in preview?

texts: I have a pdf document with 5 pages. I would like to export it in JPEG format (or any image format). But if I hit File->export->export as JPEG, it only saves the first page of the pdf document as a JPEG image. Is it possible to export all of the pages to JPEG format?


texts: Touch ID doesn't work first thing in the morning?

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Here's a weird one.

I have an iPhone 6 Plus, and the last phone I had was the iPhone 5 so this is the first device I've had with Touch ID. I'm using Apple's leather case and no screen protectors or anything.

I use it as an alarm clock and so sometimes when I wake up I notice there's something like an email I need to see immediately.

What I've noticed is that when I first wake up, Touch ID doesn't let me in. Like, it doesn't even recognize I'm touching it. I don't get the "try again" like I'm using the wrong part of the finger or wrong finger, the screen just turns off after a few seconds like I'm not doing anything. I have to unlock using my keycode. If I quickly lock my phone and try again it still doesn't work. If I try a few minutes later it works fine.

I don't think this is a hardware or software flaw, my guess is that there's something about my hands first thing in the morning that the Touch ID sensor has problems with but I can't imagine what.

Does anyone else have this happen or know why it happens? Or is it just me?


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I own a MacBook Pro 15 Late 2011 and I bought it for my work which involves crazy amounts of photoshoping every day. As PS is always hungry for RAM I bought 2 8Gb SODIMM modules to replace 4Gb modules that was factory installed.

I've tried to put 8Gb modules inside (which I've done before like 1*10^6 times before with other macs) and for some reason only one of them worked so I thought: "Ok maybe one of them is faulty I'll send it back", and I did. So after all I've upgraded my MBP15 from 8Gb to 12Gb of RAM.

Now (after one year LOL) I've suddenly realized that this 12Gigs is not enough for me and I want more. I started to search to buy a new 8Gb module to install it. Along with that, I've checked the google and found out that my MBP15 Late 2011 supports only 8Gb at max

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1270?viewlocale=en_US
(context links don't work so just cmd+F and search for "15-inch, Late 2011")

So my questions are:
1. How it is possible for me to have 12Gb (8+4) right now? Is it safe?
2. Is it possible to boost it to 16Gb (8+8)?
3. Did anyone successfully boost MBP15 to 16Gb? If so please share the instructions.

I guess the other 8Gb I've sent back was not faulty and MB refused to work with it? Or I don't know ... I'm confused.


texts: Educational Volume Purchase and B2B (iOS apps)

texts: Can the Educational Volume Purchase Program work with apps developed and distributed through the B2B program?  The WWDC session video on it mentioned education once, but it only talked specifically about distributing the apps through the regular Volume Purchase Program, which requires a DUNS number.


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I using sudo port install rpm to install the rpm in my mac(version 10.9.3), but when i use rpm, for example rpm -qa, it always gives me the error like:

Segmentation fault: 11

Could somebody explain why and how to install correctly?


texts: Is it possible to make Jitouch work with Synergy? Jitouch allows me to make gestures correspond to actions in different applications, but it doesn't allow me to select Unix programs (like the Synergy server) as a target.


texts: How to bring back multi-touch gestures after it crashes without reboot?

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After a clean install of Yosemite, multi-touch gestures have stopped working on two occasions on my Macbook Pro 2011. Each time, the symptoms are the same:

Gestures stopped working both built-in trackpad and bluetooth trackpad.
BetterTouchTool still works. Restarting, stopping BTT doesn't help.
Hey, at least two-finger click -> right click still works.

I've tried the following:

Toggling trackpad configurations doesn't bring back the gestures.
Disconnecting, reconnecting, removing bluetooth trackpad from list of bluetooth devices doesn't work.

Restarting solves the problem. However, a restart in my case is a time-consuming process. It involves properly shutting down apps, dismounting network storage, disconnecting VPN, etc - only to revert all the steps again on startup.

I suspect the process interpreting multi-touch crashed when the malfunction happened. CPU was quite busy at both point. So I wonder if there is a process I can call up when it happens again, to avoid restarting the machine.


texts: MacBook Pro equipped with 16 GB RAM, never uses more than 8 GB

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I have an early 2015 MacBook Pro equipped with 16 GB RAM. The computer however appears to be never using more than 8 GB. This is a screenshot of htop with the computer under heavy load (Large postgres GIST index building):

Mac system params look good:

I'd appreciate if anyone has a clue as to what is going on. I am running macOS Mojave, but the problem has existed ever since I bought the computer.


texts: How to connect to modem setup as bridge through Airport Extreme?

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I've recently been assigned a static IP by my ISP provider (Sonic.net). My previous setting was with the modem configured to connect using static IP and the Airport Extreme as a bridge. NAT and DHCP were done at the modem, but I couldn't get WOL (Wake On LAN) to work (an Apple technote specifies that this setup won't).

Now I've set up my modem as a bridge and configured the Airport Extreme to handle everything. I've set it up as a static IP and activated DHCP and NAT. I can connect to the Internet perfectly and everything else (connection-wise) works. Yet to try remote access and WOL.

The only problem is that I can't access the modem's admin panel. This should be at 192.168.1.1, but I can't get to it. I think the Airport Extreme is assuming .1 as its internal address.

Is there any way to access the modem in that setup unless directly linked to it (by Ethernet cable)? Will giving the modem another IP (say .201, out of Airport's DHCP range) work? Can I change the Airport's internal address somehow?

EDIT: I've managed to assign the modem an IP of 192.168.0.1, so it should be in another subnet, but this traceroute shows it hopping out after hitting local router.


texts: process to reliably connect Mac Wi-Fi to iPhone personal hotspot?

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Is there a recommended process for reliably connecting a Mac to an iPhone Personal Hotspot network via Wi-Fi?

Here is the method that I have been trying:

turn on WiFi and Personal Hotspot on iPhone
turn on WiFi on Mac

This works maybe 25% of the time, and the other 75% of the time the Mac scans the Wi-Fi networks but does not see my iPhone hotstpot network.  I keep repeating the above process until it connects.

If I connect instead via "Join other Network..." and input my network name, security, and password, that sometimes works, and other times says "No network found."

If I connect via USB cable or Bluetooth, that reliably works every time.

I tried dropping the network and re-adding it on the Mac, but that didn't help:
    System Preferences > Network > Wi-Fi > Advanced > Wi-Fi (tab) > Preferred Networks > (select my hotspot network) > ("-")

Also, is there a way to force the Mac to rescan the Wi-Fi networks?

iPhone: iPhone 6
iOS: 8.3 (up to date as of 11 May 2015)

Mac: MacBook Pro Retina 15" (Mid 2012)
OS X: Mavericks 10.9.5 (13F1066) (kernel: Darwin 13.4.0)


texts: Apple Mail opening mail in new window when clicking notification

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When clicking the notification from Apple's Mail client it opens the mail in a new window, instead of showing the mail window (Which is in its own separate space) like it has done previously. Does anyone know if this behavior can be changed?

I have verified on another computer that this is a "feature" in the latest version of OS X (10.9.2). So my question is now how to disable it?


texts: OS X 10.11 GM Candidate 1 left my Mac unable to boot

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I tried to install the OS X 10.11 GM to my 2012 Macbook Air, and it crashed during the install.  I tried to go into recovery mode to reinstall OS X, but once I put in my Wifi password and press the install button it crashes and reboots.

Is there some way to reinstall OS X short of taking it to an Apple Store?  The nearest store is about a 3 hour drive away, so if I can do this from home I'd prefer that.

The Macbook Air of course doesn't have a disc drive, but I know in the past with Lion you could get a USB stick from Apple to upgrade the OS.  I'm wondering if I could either get a USB from Apple or make my own?

As a last resort is it possible to ship my Macbook to Apple to be repaired?


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Most likely after installing/(and since removed) Parallels my Apple IR Remote stopped working.

I've confirmed that it's not the battery (using the built in camera) and later tried it on another mac (where it works as it's supposed to).

Is there any tricks to restoring IR functionality without restoring the whole machine?


texts: Is there a way to ask the Airport Extreme what it's external IP is via terminal?

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Finally realized that my ISP was carriage natting me, and my router's ip is really on the ISPs network and not externally facing. =(

My ISP Is doing something that is thwarting my ability to get my Airpot Extremes IPv4 addresss. When I look at it via the airport utility, I clearly can the right address. However when I use something like checkip.dyndns.org, icanhazip.com, http://www.whatsmyip.org, it gives me the wrong IPv4. Would like to use dyndns, and so far just entering in the ip manually.

Is there a way to just ask the Airport Extreme what it's external IP is via the terminal?

So I am sure this question has been asked a lot, but I believe this is a slightly different question from the one below.

How to obtain the external IPv4 address via Terminal

SO Googling what's my ip, or any of those similar solutions is not going to work because my ISP is double batting me or something.

My airport is plugged directly into the ISP.

Here is a trace route to cnn

traceroute to cnn.com (157.166.226.25), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  10.0.1.1 (10.0.1.1)  1.947 ms  0.644 ms  1.224 ms
 2  10.0.27.33 (10.0.27.33)  3.719 ms  2.479 ms  2.487 ms
 3  10.0.55.1 (10.0.55.1)  3.990 ms  2.365 ms  3.992 ms
 4  10.0.32.54 (10.0.32.54)  3.732 ms
    10.0.32.50 (10.0.32.50)  3.752 ms
    10.0.32.54 (10.0.32.54)  2.470 ms
 5  10.0.7.173 (10.0.7.173)  15.431 ms
    25.66.208.web-pass.com (208.66.25.57)  1.995 ms
    10.0.7.173 (10.0.7.173)  3.590 ms
 6  x.196.247.173.web-pass.com (173.247.196.101)  3.647 ms  3.496 ms  2.737 ms
 7  x.196.247.173.web-pass.com (173.247.196.105)  3.984 ms  3.818 ms  3.727 ms
 8  v505.core1.sfo1.he.net (216.218.229.113)  14.486 ms  3.665 ms  3.969 ms
 9  10ge11-2.core1.sjc2.he.net (184.105.213.161)  5.239 ms  11.364 ms  5.228 ms
10  10ge3-2.core3.fmt2.he.net (184.105.222.13)  5.265 ms  4.872 ms  15.784 ms
11  10ge3-1.core1.dal1.he.net (72.52.92.154)  62.946 ms  74.556 ms  53.661 ms
12  10ge5-4.core1.atl1.he.net (184.105.213.114)  65.513 ms  65.322 ms  65.630 ms


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I recently installed win10 via Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro 2016 but I wasn’t able to restart into macOS. Holding the option key upon boot wouldn’t do anything and the laptop would still boot into Windows.
So I reinstalled win10 from a flash drive by clicking on setup.exe in the win10 install folder. It gave me all sorts of trouble, but I was finally able to boot back into Windows again.
However, at this point, the keyboard and trackpad don’t work at all. I tried booting into the BIOS or booting from an external flash drive to install the latest version of win10 (2004) but nothing works.
I created a Bootcamp drivers flash drive to install Bootcamp manually but it says something like “Bootcamp is not compatible with this PC”. That was with the latest Bootcamp version. I also tried with Bootcamp 5.1, same thing; I can’t install any driver.
While reinstalling Windows I was at one point able to see the macOS partition, so my guess is, it’s still there.
I just want to get back to macOS.
I tried the key combinations of Mac to access boot manager, recovery, reset PRAM, SMC, but nothing works, as it seems my keyboard is not functional also during boot.
Is there a way I can reinstall macOS? I don’t have any important data on the laptop. So any way to wipe everything and reinstall macOS would help.
I also tried internet recovery, then again it didn’t work.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated, thanks.


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I have a DBAN CD )used with an external optical drive) which I have used in the past on multiple old Macs. I tried to use it on a 2018 Macbook Pro and DBAN could not be booted. Specifically, I tried holding down the "c" key and I could hear the CD spin a lot but then the normal OS booted. I tried booting while holding down "Option" but DBAN wasn't in the list of bootable options. I tried booting into Recovery and selecting the DBAN CD as the startup disk but I can't choose it (I see the DBAN CD but when I choose it I receive a message that the startup disk can't be used because "the bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk"). Again, if I open Terminal in Recovery Mode and try to bless the CD then it fails.

I wanted to know if this was a problem unique to one Mac so I tested the same CD in an old Macbook Pro (I think 2014 or 2015) and a different 2018 Macbook Pro. The CD is bootable normally in the old one and not in that second new one I tested.

Did Apple make a firmware change in newer systems that could have this effect?


texts: camera roll "usage" number does not match photos in the app

texts: I have completely deleted all photos in all categories from my iPad 3 (16G iOS 7) but my settings continue to state that I still have 3.5G "used" (camera roll) in the Photos/camera app. I have no idea where/what these photos are and how to get rid of them. The  management tool in i tunes when sync'ed with my iPad gives the following data. Apps: 2.45G  Documents/data 1.25G  Other 5.05G  and 4.47G free.


texts: Search inputs are synced accross applications, how to disable?

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A colleague of mine has macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and complained about the following thing: He uses the search bar in Mail and searches for something. Then in Xcode he presses CMD+F and sees the same email address there as the search input. We have checked and that is not in the system clipboard.

This synchronization of search strings might be a helpful idea, but in practice it does not make sense to search for things across applications. Is there some way to disable this behavior?


texts: I know how to change key-bindings. My question, which is almost nowhere to find on google: could someone please tell me, how to change the comment-symbols. For example, I want to sometimes define them to be #, sometimes %, sometimes //, etc.


texts: What is a method for sharing an Aperture library?

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As a group (work, family,...), you produce an Aperture library on your computer.

Others (spouse, coworker...) in the group now want to access and edit this library from other computers.

Any solutions?


texts: Configured Airport as Bridge and use OS X Server for DHCP and DNS, no Internet

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I want to use my Mac Mini as an OS X Server with the following services:

DNS
DHCP
Open Directory
Profile Manager

I configured my Airport Extreme under the "Internet" tab to use my static IP supplied from my ISP. I'm using the IP of my Mac Mini as the primary DNS server and no secondary DNS server. Under "Network", I have router mode set to Off (Bridge Mode).

When I open Safari on the Mac Mini server, I'm not getting any Internet connection at all. I checked in the DNS settings of the server and made sure I had forwarding servers pointing to my ISP DNS and Google DNS (as backup). Under Sys Prefs, I have a static IP assigned and pointing DNS to itself.

How can I have my Mac Mini supply DNS, DHCP, and RADIUS wireless support and still get Internet?


texts: How to enable iTerm 2's Option-Click feature? (Not duplicated)

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In its document (https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-one-page.html), it reads "If enabled, option-click will move the cursor to where the mouse pointer is. If you install shell integration, this will be well-behaved at the shell prompt by not sending up and down arrow keys." But it seems like when I do Options-Click it just goes to last command (arrow up).

This answer here is no longer a solution - deprecated, and the source code is removed (Option + click in iTerm), and the thread should be removed/archived.


texts: airport -s command to return wifi network info sometimes returns nothing

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I am relying on airport -s called from an application to return information about the available wifi networks. However, sometimes it immediately returns without providing any information. I've also experienced this when running it directly on the command line.

Anyone know why that is happening and what I can do about it?


texts: Convert text copied from Microsoft Word to Markdown formatting in VS Code

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I am trying to find a solution to convert text copied from Microsoft Word on macOS to Markdown syntax when pasting in VS Code. A common use case is converting multilevel bulleted lists.
Example of what happens right now:

Instead, the desired output would be:
- Level 1
  - Level 2 a
  - Level 2 b
    - Level 3

I have tried multiple solutions which leverage CLI commands, textutil, pandoc and Applescript, but none of them work for me. I believe that Pandoc expects an MS Word file as an input, and does not seem to work with text copied from MS Word. I do not want to first save the file and then convert a whole document to Markdown; I only want to convert my clipboard to Markdown. Example commands that don't work for me:
pbpaste | textutil -convert html -stdin -stdout | pandoc -f html -t markdown | pbcopy

osascript -e'get the clipboard as"RTF "'|sed 's/«data RTF //;s/»//'|xxd -r -p|textutil -convert html -stdin -stdout|pandoc -f html -t markdown_strict --no-wrap --atx-headers

When I run osascript -e 'clipboard info', I found that the clipboard contains different classes after copying text in MS Word:
$ osascript -e 'clipboard info'
«class RTF », 43499, «class ut16», 90, «class HTML», 45214, Unicode text, 96, «class PDF », 28023, «class weba», 45520, «class utf8», 52, string, 0

Can anybody recommend a solution for my problem?


texts: iPhone Personal Hotspot always visible even when off

texts: I was surprised to see my iPhone 5's personal hotspot available as a WiFi choice from my iPad. I checked the phone and personal hotspot was turned off. I turned it on and off again and it still appeared. Using Airplane Mode and rebooting the devices did not help - it just would not turn off.


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I was with the impression that Keychain Secure Notes were able to sync via iCloud.
I just got a new MacBook Pro and configured my iCloud.
Main keychain items have been synced to my new MBP - but Secure Notes remain empty.
I searched on the web and the Apple Communities forums, I found various posts but after going through all them I now feel more confused than before, as I found posts that contradicts each other, and I am currently without a clue if Secure Notes are synced via iCloud.
One of the suggestions I found included to disable and re-enable Keychain Sync in iCloud preferences. I did that a few times, but I still see no Secure Notes on my new Mac.
The new Mac runs Catalina - the old one El Capitan.
So my main question is: Are Keychain Secure Notes supported in iCloud Sync?
And if yes, what could be wrong and how to fix it in my case, so I can "enjoy life" with synced Secure Notes between my macs?
Related Links:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20140303121648944
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8430935
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7662189
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251290337
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7066117
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8319246
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7679643


texts: Is PSU and GPU from iMac 2010 compatible with iMac 2011?

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I bought a 27" iMac 2011 model with no GPU and power supply unit from an auction where you can’t test anything. I would like to know if I can add GPU and power supply unit from my old 27" iMac 2010.

I noticed that the brand for display for both the models are similar as they both are manufactured by LG. The LVDS connector for both the displays are different. However the power supply cables that the LCD connects to the PSU unit is the same. So are they compatible?


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I think I made a big mistake: I wanted to boot to ubuntu from my usbstick, therefore I used the ppa mactel-boot and I could boot into ubuntu (this tutorial: https://medium.com/@mmiglier/ubuntu-installation-on-usb-stick-with-pure-efi-boot-mac-compatible-469ad33645c9). But then Windows 10 disappeared from the boot menu. So I installed rEFInd and I could see Windows, but wasn't able to boot into it. Then I tried several things, which I had seen on the net, but nothing solved my problem. I think it also made it worse.

I use a MacBook Air (Early 2015).

This is my output for diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         80.7 GB    disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS                         40.5 GB    disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +80.7 GB    disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            77.4 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 18.8 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                509.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.2 GB     disk1s4

And this one using

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Malformed MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 236978175
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
     409640  157519832      2  GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  157929472   79048671      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  236978143         32         Sec GPT table
  236978175          1         Sec GPT header

Windows 10 is installed on disk0s3.

I hope you can help me.

Big thanks


texts: Change Time separator in the Screen Shot filename?

texts:
I managed to change screenshot names executing following command:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture name -string ""

So now file names are like:

 2018-03-21 at 10.23.08 PM.png

I would prefer instead:

 2018-03-21 at 10:23:08 PM.png

or:

 2018-03-21 10:23:08 PM.png

or:

 2018-03-21 22:23:08.png

Is it possible to change it?


texts: Can I have the iTunes index file in a different location than my media?

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I currently use a mid-2012 MacBook Pro as my main laptop. I have replaced the HDD with an SSD and moved the HDD to the optical drive bay.

I also have a pretty large iTunes library - ~250GB, 12,000 songs, all Apple Lossless. I store this on the HDD, and iTunes is painfully slow to browse - upwards of 5 seconds often to open an artist, etc. I also have several very large box sets (100CD) which are around 2000 songs a piece. When I click on these albums, iTunes takes a good 40 seconds to load.

Obviously it would be ideal to store the iTunes library on the SSD, but this is not possible due to storage sizes. I believe the next best thing would be to have the actual media on the HDD, but have the iTunes index file (iTunes Library.itl) on the SSD.

Is this possible, and would it help?
Otherwise, what can I do to speed up iTunes? Its truly painful right now.

Thanks for any help.

As a side note, I've tried using other media players, and they are much faster, but I am hooked on the iTunes interface.


texts: Browse One Page On iPad and Different Page on External Display

texts: Is there a way to browse a web page on my iPad screen, and then also show a different web page on a tv connected to the iPad through HDMI?


texts: What can I do when iTunes multiplies albums?

texts:
For as long as I can remember, iTunes has had bugs that will split the songs of an album into multiple albums with the same name when one edits the album name. This happens infrequently and seemingly randomly, and could usually be mitigated by selecting the offending tracks, renaming the album and then renaming it back to the correct title. But now I have this:

And the trick does not work. Changing the album title actually renames it but does nothing to join the fragments. Oddly, renaming the artist does rename the artist, but the change does not show in the artist bar on the left. Does anyone have the same experience and suggestions as to what to do?

I could remove and re-add the songs, but I'd rather not have to re-add them to every playlist and lose play count and stuff
Is it possible to edit the itunes database directly somehow?

iTunes version 12


texts: Can I restore an application by application switching to it?

texts: When you command+tab to an application that is minimized it doesn't bring it forward, is it possible to make it so it gets restored?


texts: Moving mail to folder removes it from mail account

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I have two aliases set up in my Gmail account and on my Mac Mail.app I set up a rule for each alias that if an email is "to 'Alias A'", move it to folder "Alias A Folder" - respectively for "Alias B".

The issue is that by creating this rule, it works perfectly on the Mail.app on my Mac and it sorts them well, but they are moved out of my Gmail account, so I cannot read those emails on my phone nor on the gmail.com interface.

I understand that I could just create a rule to "copy" the mails to "Alias X Folder", but then my personal Gmail account would get cluttered with mail from the aliases.

Is there any workaround or scenario for which I can organize my mails in a better way across my devices?

Thanks a lot!


texts: My mac Automator Application script is not working with two arguments

texts:
On my Catalina mac, I have this Mac Automator shell script to remove all metadata from image files as follows:

for f in "$@"
do
/usr/local/bin/exiftool -all= "$f"
done

Now this utility exiftool by default makes a backup of the original image file and it works OK. However, exiftool has another option "-overwrite_original" which can be added to the command line as follows:

exiftool -overwrite_original -all= filename

My problem is that when I add the other option (overwrite) to the Automator shell script above, the script just doesn't work. Is there any syntax problem that I need to fix?


texts: Windows7 (through bootcamp) poor sound quality problem

texts:
I installed windows7 through bootcamp on my macbook air(2011).
(and also installed windows driver from bootcamp)
Everything is OK, but one problem - Sound quality is very poor.
(maybe phone or radio quality?). In OSX, quality is good.
I tried to change audio setting, sound quality tab, etc.,
but not fixed.
Audio driver info shows "Cirrus Logic CS4206B (AB 91)".
I googled for the updated driver, and found this :
2011 Mac Mini boot camp problems
I tried it, but problem has not been fixed.
Any idea? would be welcomed.


texts: Is there an easier way to purchase commercial ringtones and use them on an iPhone 4?

texts:
So I've only had my iPhone 4 (previous Droid user) for about 3 months or so now. Yes it has some great features that my Droid didn't, but one thing I really do not like is the ringtones. On the Droid, I could download an app, find a ringtone, download it and set it within a minute or 2, no problem at all! But with the iPhone, the only way to get a commercial ringtone is to sync it through iTunes? Which might be all fine and dandy if I always had my iPhone cord and my laptop on me 24/7. Another thing I ran into was finding the song name and artist have to be the same for the ringtone to sync? Does this also act the same for music?

So what it all comes down to is pretty much this, what is the easiest and non-confusing way to purchase and install ringtones on my iPhone 4?


texts: Is it safe to delete the original admin user after creating a new one?

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I have a MBP running Mojave that I got from a colleague. It's got a single user account, let's say "John", and that user is an administrator account. I don't want John's account, I want my own. And John will not need that account anymore.
If I create a new user, "Chris", can I safely delete the old user, /Users/john folder and everything else?
My instinct is that it should be completely fine, but I want to make sure there isn't anything super-special about the auto-created administrator account in macOS that I would be losing by deleting that original account.


texts: Automator: Applescript to execute keystrokes for each nested folder in Finder

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Help!!

I have put in many hours trying to solve this and feel it is time to get some help :)

I am trying to write an Applescript in Automator that will execute certain keystrokes in Finder for the parent folder and each sub-folder.
So far I can only get the keystrokes to be applied to the parent folder that is selected during the execution of the script; the sub-folders remain as they were without having had the keystrokes applied.

The keystrokes are specific to Finder and make the folder arranged by "Kind" and sorted by "Name".

Here is my code:

activate application "Finder"

tell application "Finder"
    set theFolders to every folder of (choose folder) as alias list
end tell

tell application "System Events"
    repeat with eachFolder in theFolders
        keystroke "2" using {control down, command down}
        keystroke "1" using {control down, option down, command down}
    end repeat
end tell

The code makes sense to me in my limited knowledge of Applescript, but obviously it is not working correctly.

Any advice?


texts: When I open an Open Dialog box in Catalina, it always displays in "Recent" view, showing items grouped by recently used

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I find Recent View to be EXTREMELY anxiety-inducing because it forces me to have to think about when I used the document last and when I used all of the other documents in the same folder. it's in fact much more difficult to locate a document than if the list were simply alphabetical.

Is there any wait to tell Finder to sort items alphabetically?


texts: Duplicating Stereo Output With Mixed 5.1/Stereo Devices?

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I have two devices I'd like to use for audio output; one is a USB attached speaker system supporting 5.1 audio (front left/right, centre/sub, back left/back right) and the other is an HDTV which has in-built stereo speakers.

I know I can use an aggregate device in Audio MIDI Setup to use the TV's speakers as additional speakers (e.g- centre left/centre right in a 7.1 setup) or I can use a multi-output device to use both as a single combined stereo device (losing centre/sub and back left/back right).

However, what I'd really like to do is create an audio device such that I still have the full 5.1 output to my speaker system, while sending just the stereo output (front left/right) to the TV.

When combining the two as an aggregate device, the TV speakers are seen as two additional speakers, is it possible to combine these with two existing ones, or is such a setup impossible with software under macOS?


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So unbelievably I have never cleared my history in SMS/iMessages/Messages. Ostensibly, I should be able to scroll up and eventually see my first text message from my first gen iPhone. This is, unsurprisingly, taking up a considerable amount of space on my phone, but a big part of why I've never cleaned it out is that it contains a tremendous number of pictures of my daughters my wife has sent me over the years. It doesn't seem like these get saved to my photo roll and there doesn't appear to be any way to bulk export them. It may be worth noting that I use desktop messages in Yosemite and it seems work well, so there may be an approach I can use from that angle.

What's the best way for me to archive all the photo attachments from almost seven years of text messages?


texts: Why did my new M1 MacBook randomly boot to recovery until I entered my password?

texts: Just bought a new M1 MacBook Air. The first time I tried to restart it, it booted into recovery mode. I tried to restart it a couple of times and it just booted into recovery. After I entered my password, it let me restart into the normal OS. Is this OK? Why is it doing it? Was I hacked?


texts: Photos.app not combining some CR2(RAW)+JPG flies from Canon 60D

texts: When importing RAW+JPG pictures from my Canon 60D to Apple Photos on macOS 10.15, some are combined, most are separated. How can I fix all of this? I imported about 300 pictures before this started to happen. I tried using HoudahGeo to shift the times around, hoping that this might make a difference, because I took the pictures in 6 different time zones and forgot to change the camera time at some points.


texts: Screenshot on my mac without permission?

texts: Sometimes I hear sound of making screenshot on my mac - what can it be? How can I check if there is any spyware which takes screenshots?


texts: Upgrade OS X Lion (10.7.4) to OS X Mountain Lion

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I have OS X Lion 10.7.4 and want to upgrade OS X Mountain Lion.

What do I have to do for the upgrade?
Do I have to backup my system? If yes, which program can I use for the backup?
If I have any problems with the install, can I restore it from the backup?


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My first attempt to run el capitan 10.11.0 on one of my macintoshes is with a mac mini using a dual monitor setup.

There is one HDMI monitor Samsung Syncmaster and one DVI monitor Medion MD20429 connected via the display port with an adapter.

After getting back from sleepmode the second monitor (DVI) does not come up by itself. In system setup / monitor it does not show and only
if i use the option key and click detect monitors (see e.g. http://osxdaily.com/2014/03/31/detect-displays-mac-os-x/)  will it come back.

My OS 10.9.5 Mavericks computers do not show this unwanted effect.

How can this El Capitan behavior be avoided?
Is there at least a one-click
workaround somewhere?
is this a known bug to Apple?


texts: Decrease size of display used in Macbook Pro

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The screen of my Macbook pro cracked from the bottom left, and vertical + horizontal lines appeared. While waiting to repair it, is there any way to decrease the used space from the display to fit only in the non-damaged area?
For example 90% width (right to left), 90% height (top to bottom).