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I'm an audio producer although I have also worked as a C/C++ programmer so I'm reasonably technical!

I bought a Mac Mini about a year ago and it recently developed a fault and had to be replaced so I'm currently in the process of setting up a new Mac Mini running Catalina (10.15.3).

One of the audio programs I use is Presonus Studio One. A big part of how it's used is via third-party plug-ins which come in a variety of formats - AU, VST2, VST3, etc. The plug-ins are installed in different ways - some via a "control centre" app, some by an installer, others by drag-and-drop to the appropriate folder.

I've run into a problem with one VST3 plug-in. I dropped the plug-in into the folder (/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3). Then I ran Studio One which does a plug-in scan at startup. An error message popped up (can't remember exactly what it was) saying that the software was from an unidentified developer and couldn't be run. Ever since then, the plug-in won't load. I suspect the plug-in has been "blacklisted".

I've tried the following in order to fix the problem but so far nothing's worked:

Re-installing the plug-in with an installer
Disabling GateKeeper with: spctl --master-disable
Resetting GateKeeper with: spctl --reset-default

Other plug-ins are loading fine.

Now I'm stuck. Any suggestions as to what I should try next?

Cheers,

Chris


texts: What does "Reinstall macOS" do, exactly?

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I was recently having some problems with iTunes, and decided to reinstall macOS Sierra. I held Command+R on startup and clicked on "Reinstall macOS" without erasing the hard drive in Disk Utility. Once the reinstall was complete, I started back up and all of my files and programs were still there, along with my settings, desktop wallpaper, and everything else. (The iTunes problems were fixed.)

What exactly does this "Reinstall" feature do, if it doesn't remove programs and change settings to default?


texts: How can I mirror my Mac display on my iPad?

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I don't know why i can't seem to find any info about this or even anyone asking the same question. I have an iMac and a new iPad. I want to mirror my Mac display on the iPad, so I can sit in another room with the iPad, the wireless keyboard and mouse. Since I'm using the keyboard and mouse, I don't need touch events to be translated. Also, since the iPad's resolution in landscape mode is 2048x1536, the Mac's resolution of 1920x1080 should fit in it without scaling. Letterboxing is okay.

I'd prefer to do this via AirPlay Mirroring, if possible. I have AirServer installed, but it doesn't show up on my Mac (10.8.2) display settings page ("No devices detected"). Also, AirServer used to be what i needed (if you check the description on Cydia), but for some reason, the website is now only advocating the exact opposite of this.
I checked out Reflector, but it only does the opposite, and that's what everyone else in the world seems to be asking.
There's also an app called Air Display which does do Mac -> iOS, but it requires a server-client installation. I don't want that. The maximum I'm willing to install is an receiver client on the iPad.
I don't want to use a VNC server and client.
I'm okay with an AirPlay receiver app for the iPad, because the iPad doesn't natively receive AirPlay, it only broadcasts it.
AirView would have been it, but it's been taken off the store by Apple.

How can I do this?


texts: Downloading/Sending video from my iphone to some other device in different ways

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I have a very large video on my iphone that is pretty important to me, its over an hour long around 8 gigs big.

I usually use image capture or iphoto to download my videos from my phone to my mac. However, I am having an issue with this video today. When I try to download it through Image Capture it says:

  An error occured while importing. The item ‘IMG_1226.MOV” was not
  imported.

When I do it with iPhoto it says:

  iPhoto cannot import your photos because there was a problem
  downloading an image.

I was don't know what's wrong with the video because I can perfectly watch it on my iPhone, so I am not sure whats wrong with this.

To try to repair this the only thing I really tried was to update my iPhone's OS and hope it does the trick. I am using iOS 8.1 which is the newest and it did nothing.

I am not sure how else to transfer it somewhere else so that I can have a copy of it on some other device. How does the community suggest I solve this?

Some ideas I've had (but have not tried yet because I am not sure how to do them):

Send it to Dropbox somehow by internet... might be possible? Remember, its stuck on my iphone for the time being, so I need to send it through my phone.
Make it an mp4 or some video format as is smaller (in my phone), compress it and send it  to myself somehow, by mail or Dropbox (or see if the compressed video can be sent directly, remember, I can't do it on a computer for the time being, its stuck on my phone).
upload the WHOLE thing to youtube on my phone (though I can't right now cuz it gigantic so my iphone only lets me do it by parts...). but then i would have the problem that I can't download it back... right?
Go to the Genius Bar at an Apple Store...? But what could they do that I can't though...?
one potential solution I thought was "editing" the video on my phone with some app that saves it a copy of it and then downloading it. I just don't know what good apps to edit videos exist for iPhone. The only issue with this is that, saving a copy that is as big will be a problem because I am already running out of space on my phone and I don't want to delete the videos until they are saved somewhere!

Some further restrictions I have.

My phone has 32 Gigs and 24 Gigs are already used. 15.4 GB of them are because of the videos. The rest is information I am willing to erase if I can save those videos.


texts: Install an older version of MacOS onto an external drive without USB installer?

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I want to install Mojave onto an external drive, using a Mac that has Catalina as its current OS. The Mac is old enough to run Mojave.

A specific form of this question has been asked before, to which the answer is "create a USB installer disk".

I'm wondering if it might be possible without this workaround. Firstly, it requires the purchase of a USB stick. Catalina now requires just slightly more than 8GB, so I need a 16 GB stick at least. Admittedly, these are cheap and plentiful.

But I already have loads of 8GB sticks and the alternative to buying another bit of hardware is to sacrifice a 500 GB USB drive, which I already have, to become an installer medium.

However, creating an installer disk involves the createinstallmedia command line tool inside the MacOS installer app bundle. There are also several other tools, including: startosinstall, which yields the following info:

Usage: startosinstall

Arguments
--license, prints the user license agreement only.
--agreetolicense, agree to the license you printed with --license.
--rebootdelay, how long to delay the reboot at the end of preparing. This delay is in seconds and has a maximum of 300 (5 minutes).
--pidtosignal, Specify a PID to which to send SIGUSR1 upon completion of the prepare phase. To bypass "rebootdelay" send SIGUSR1 back to startosinstall.
--installpackage, the path of a package (built with productbuild(1)) to install after the OS installation is complete; this option can be specified multiple times.
--eraseinstall, (Requires APFS) Erase all volumes and install to a new one. Optionally specify the name of the new volume with --newvolumename.
--newvolumename, the name of the volume to be created with --eraseinstall.
--preservecontainer, preserves other volumes in your APFS container when using --eraseinstall.
--usage, prints this message.

.

It seems that there is a --volume flag to set the target drive, but it is only available when the OS has SIP disabled.

I tried disabling SIP and running startosinstall --volume <my external>, but the process just sat there, and Console was filled with messages about a binary not being signed correctly.

I suspect further investigation of this aspect of the tool may be required. I'm still hopeful that there's a way of doing this via the command line.

So I thought I'd put this information up here, even if it's just to get a confirmatory "No; duplicate", because the benefits to the community of getting a method would be large.


texts: How play a YouTube video in the background on an iPad?

texts: Is there any way to play a YouTube video in the background on iOS 8 so I can have music playing from a video while doing other things with the iPad?


texts: Prioritise Wi-Fi over GPS Location on iOS

texts: I am trying to find out a way I can prioritise WiFi via GPS location. I have got a BT Hub broadband router which is installed on the bottom level of my house and on the top floor i have got CISCO Meraki AP which is connected via TP Link 1200mbps network plug. I always have to switch the Wi-Fi manually due to poor signal strength when I am upstairs and downstairs in the house.


texts: Retime pop-up missing in Final Cut Pro 10.3.4

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I've been using FCPX(Final Cut Pro 10) for a long time and when I installed a different version of FCPX(10.3.4) in my MacBook Pro due to a HDD Failure. I started with a new project and wanted to reverse a clip. I went in search of the Retime Button which should look like this:

but instead mine looks like this:

Please tell me where to find the reverse option. Thank you!


texts: Cloned disk from older MacBook not booting on new MacBook Pro

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I have an old MacBook (2-3 years old), it is running 10.9.

Last night I cloned the hard drive and tried to use it as a startup disk on my new MacBook Pro (June 2016, with 10.11 installed).

All I got was a no entry sign on startup. How can I make it boot?


texts: Does a removed version of Catalina use storage that generates a "low volume storage message

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Early 2015 Macbook air with a 128 GB hd

I installed Catalina, realized all of my 32 bit applications would not run, so I resorted to my older os(Mojave 10.14.6) from time machine.
I now get notifications that my disk is full and memory is running out. I have 2.83 GB available according to "about this mac"
Is there a Catalina hang-on lurking in my machine?


texts: Batch removing part of filenames using Automator

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I'm trying to create an Automator script that removes portion of a filename after a delimeter while preserving the extension.

Files are usually called like 1-cropped_DSC5888.jpg, 2-cropped_Whatsapp75.png etc. I want to remove everything after _ and keep only the part with number and '-cropped' so like: 1-cropped.jpg

I tried it with this script

on run {input, parameters}
try
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"_"}
    set theFileNameList to {}
    repeat with thisItem in input
        set the end of theFileNameList to text item 2 of (thisItem as text)
    end repeat
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {}
    return theFileNameList
on error eStr number eNum
    display dialog eStr & " number " & eNum buttons {"OK"} ¬
        default button 1 with icon caution
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {}
    return
end try

end run

But this removes the part I want to keep and keeps the part I want to delete. Also it gives me just an output, but doesn't rename the actual files. Any help with this, please?


texts: Applescript if statement : greater than and lower than

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Can I run an script if a variable is between 4 and 6 characters only ?

e.g

set serialNumber to ""
set theLength to (get length of (serialNumber as text))
if theLength is equal to 1 then
    set serialNumber to "No Serial"
else if theLength > 4 and < 6 then
    ##do this
else if theLength is greater than 6 then
    ## do nothing
end if

This is obviously not working :   else if theLength > 4 and < 6 then


texts: Is there a way to block access to my e-mail in my iPod Touch, so I can lend it?

texts: I would like to lend my iPod Touch 4 sometimes, but I would like to block access to my e-mails (as well as Facebook), is there a way?


texts: Allow boot from external drive in Recovery mode after the disk is erased

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I have erased my Macbook Pro disk. The network install method failed. So I want to reinstall from USB installer. But I don't have admin account since the whole disk is erased. I need:

create admin account in recovery mode
Or change the setting to allow boot from external drive

The disk is erased, so there is no way I can go to the normal mode or single user mode.
Thanks!


texts: How can I mount a local USB-connected to an alternate mount point?

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I am running SyncThing to keep a hard-drive at home in sync with one at my office.  Is there a way to mount both drives at the same mount point?  I'd like to detect when a drive is plugged in, and mount it at a single known mount point instead of /Volumes/[Disk Name].

This is so apps like Logic Studio, which reference media files (probably by path), can find the same media files at the same directory path, no matter which location I am at.  Currently, they lose the file when I switch locations and I have to go manually 'find' the new path for the app.

Thanks for any insights you could provide.


texts: Is Migration Assistant worth the bother?

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I just got a new MBP and I just tried using Migration Assistant. I didn't do this when I first turned the machine on as I (rightly) expected that it would be very lengthy.

Really all that I want to do is copy over all of my user files and iTunes library. MA doesn't seem to do this at all.

It wants to recreate the whole account, either overwriting the one that I created on first boot or copy the old account into a new one. I don't want to do either of those.
There doesn't seem to be much choice in what gets copied. Several of the items are unclear (like 'other files'), and there doesn't seem to be a way to see the details.

Will I be better off using rsync and finding a way to import my iTunes library?


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My MacBook connects automatically to the WiFi of the hotel I am in using a shared password from my iPhone (apparently and without any request) and so does my iPad.
I need to stop this behavior and use different passwords on each device as I am in a hotel room and only 1 device can use the same password. How do I prevent the MacBook from logging in without asking a password?
I already cancelled the network from the list of preferred, after turning off wifi on all devices, but as soon as I select the incriminated network it logs in automatically anyway..


texts: Move through images in a folder with Preview.app

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When looking at an image in a directory with the Preview application, I'm used to the Windows behaviour of using the ←/→ keys to move through all the other viewable images in that directory.

Preview.app doesn't do this - I first have to select all the images and then open Preview.app. This is a little annoying.

Is there something I can turn on or install to get this behaviour?

Also, how do I open an image in a new instance of Preview.app, say for comparison purposes?


texts: How did I set this annoying window margin on MacOS app and how to remove it?

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Some time ago I pressed a weird key combination that seemed to add a margin to the top and bottom of active application window (in this case, iTerm2). See screenshot below:

It doesn't happen on any other apps. Just this one, so it is like the OS or Window manager has remembered this setting for this specific app.

I have no idea what the key combination was or how to remove this margin. It's very infuriating.

I use Spectacle to resize/re-position windows so I suspected it may be related to this app but it has no mention of being able to create window margins.

Any ideas? Perhaps someone knows where the OS stores application-specific window properties?


texts:
I recently encountered an issue where a very important (and non-resettable) password was deleted from my iCloud Keychain. All of my OSX-based keychains are backed up via Time Machine, but I realized there is no backup for iCloud Keychain data.

Is there a way to do this? Even a method for literally printing the passwords (on paper) would be acceptable.


texts: How to convert all photos in iPhoto library to no bigger than 1920x1920 resolution?

texts:
My wife has a MASSIVE iPhoto library -- thousands of snapshots of her cat and food and flowers, vacation photos, and so on, all taken at the highest resolution on her digital camera (up to 12 Megapixels).

The library is taking up tonnes of space and it's bogging down iPhoto and her old iMac.

She only ever uses these photos for Facebook and things like that -- maybe some of them might get printed as 5"x7" prints for a photo album or something.

So I'm thinking it would be nice to reduce all of the images down to a max size of 1920 pixels (height or width, depending on landscape or portrait orientation).

Is there an easy way to reduce the size of all photos in the iPhoto library?

I was thinking of doing a massive export of all photos to a folder on an external drive with those max dimensions, but my concern is that I would lose all the iPhoto album organization.

Any thoughts?


texts: Creating a OS backup image for an easy restore on a new system

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I have set up my macbook with all the files, apps and configurations I like. In about a week, I am upgrading to the 15" model. Is there a way to create an easy-to-restore backup file / iOS image that I can put on an hard drive and then use for a quick and painless restore after I get the new macbook?

Appreciate any suggestions, thanks in advance


texts: Where to find the Yosemite traffic light icons?

texts: Where would I be able to acquire Yosemite's new "traffic light" icons? I have found the SystemAppearance.car file, but I do not know how to decompress .car files, or if the file even contains the icons.


texts: I know that if you have an iPhone and an iMac computer/laptop, you can text off your iPhone, then once coming within a certain radius of your computer, iCloud uses Wi-Fi and sends the conversations to your iPhone. However, i was wondering what happens if the laptop is dead?  I assume it can't transfer the messages, correct? Also, I was wondering what happens if BEFORE you charge the laptop and turn it on, you delete the messages off your phone? Will they still somehow be transfered to your laptop?


texts: Installing Windows XP via Bootcamp no longer supported?

texts:
I have a Mac Mini Early 2009. I'm on El Capitan. According to apple's compatibility table, here Windows XP is supported in Boot camp , provided you use your original OSX DVDs to locate the drivers.

However, it would appear that the only option offered in boot camp assistant is to install Windows 7. My assumption is that Windows XP can only be installed via boot camp if I have a much older OSX version installed, 10.6. Or, if by chance the boot camp assistant from 10.6 (3.x) can be installed in El Capitan.

The documentation is misleading as it does not specify the starting point I need to be at to install Windows XP via bootcamp, only that I need the original OSX DVD to get started...


texts: Stylus for Multitouch (Laptop) Trackpad?

texts: I remember seeing a stylus that was available for the multitouch (laptop) trackpad. I'm learning a new language right now so it would be rather useful to be able to use a stylus to 'write' instead of using my fingers.


texts: screen saver and lock not in the same time

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i want my mac-book (Mojave 10.14.1) to enter screen saver after a certain time but enter lock after longer time.
is it possible?

i tried looking for it in screensaver setting and in energy setting without luck. i could only set the screen saver time.

10x


texts: What happens when 2 clients modify the same iCloud synced Note?

texts:
Does the Notes app handle sync concurrency issues gracefully, or does it only decide to keep one version of a note if 2 clients modify the same note?

For example:

Turn on airplane-mode on an iPad
Modify a note on the iPad
Turn on airplane-mode on an iPhone
Modify the same note on the iPhone
Turn off airplane-mode on both devices

Which version of the note is retained? Or does it store data from both modifications?


texts: How to create "firmware partition" on HDD?

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I have a problem with internal hard drive in my IMac, it doesn't work, but I have an external hard drive (HDD), and I want to run MacOS on it.

I successfully installed MacOS and upgraded it to Sierra. The problem is that I can't update to High Sierra, or Mojave, because the hard drive doesn't have "firmware partition".

How can I create "firmware partition" on a simple external HDD?

I spend all day searching for info online, but found nothing helpful in my case, I would be very grateful for the help! Thank you in advance!

Here is the diskutil list log:


texts: Keeping the menu dropdown open after clicking?

texts:
Suppose I wanted to open a couple of bookmarks in my browser. To do this, I use the menu bar. I click on «Bookmarks» to reveal the dropdown with all my bookmarks and then select the bookmark. The dropdown closes and the browser opens the bookmark. Now I have to click on «Bookmarks» again and click on another bookmark, the dropdown again closes and the browser opens the bookmark. Is there a way to keep the menu dropdown opened after I clicked on an item? That way I could click multiple items in the dropdown way faster! I remember being able to do this in Windows XP some years ago and it was really handy. I think I had to hold down ALT when clicking on the menu item.

Thanks for any advice!

Edit for clarification: I'm only using the bookmark menu as an easy to understand example. I'm looking for a way to do this system-wide!


texts:
Following enabling-multicast-on-your-macos-unix, I am trying to enable multicast on my machine. Firstly, I checked if my network interface supports multicast by running below command:

ifconfig -a

Output I got is:

en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=10b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING,AV>
    ether 68:5b:35:d5:26:76
    nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
    media: autoselect (none)
    status: inactive

Then, I added the multicast address, using command:

sudo route -nv add -net 228.0.0.4 -interface en0

Then, I checked if multicast IP is visible in my route table, using command:

netstat -nr

And yes, there is an entry in my Routing table:

228.0.0.4/32       68:5b:35:d5:26:76  UmS             0       10     en0

Then I run the below command on my mac:

ping -t 1 -c 2 228.0.0.4

Gives me below result:

PING 228.0.0.4 (228.0.0.4): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0

--- 228.0.0.4 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

Then, dropping the IP from Routes Table as follows:

 sudo route -v delete -inet 228.0.0.4

and added an entry with interface to en1:

en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    ether a8:bb:cf:20:fb:1a
    inet6 fe80::aabb:cfff:fe20:fb1a%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
    inet 192.168.2.124 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 192.168.3.255
    nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
    media: autoselect
    status: active

then there is an entry in my Routing table as below:

  228.0.0.4/32       1:0:5e:0:0:4       UmLS            0        0     en1

Running sudo tcpdump -ni en1 host 228.0.0.4 gives me:

 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
 listening on en1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
 15:51:21.962437 IP 192.168.2.124 > 228.0.0.4: ICMP echo request, id 21017, seq 0, length 64
 15:51:22.966098 IP 192.168.2.124 > 228.0.0.4: ICMP echo request, id 21017, seq 1, length 64

And running ping -t 1 -c 2 228.0.0.4 command, gives me below result:

PING 228.0.0.4 (228.0.0.4): 56 data bytes

--- 228.0.0.4 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

Can anyone help me in enabling the Multicast.

Thanks!


texts: Multiple unknown node versions from brew

texts:
I am trying to run yarn add command and I get the error:

Node version 0.12.4 is not supported, please use Node.js 4.0 or higher.

When I run node -v I get:

v0.12.4

But when I run brew upgrade node I get the error:

Error: node 12.6.0 already installed

Any ideas on how to deal with this? Have I installed different node versions twice by mistake from somewhere?

I have tried running brew uninstall node followed by brew install node, after which node -v still gives me: v0.12.4


texts: Shortcut to eject all external hard drives but not MobileBackups

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So far I've been using the following AppleScript to eject all external drives at once conveniently using a shortcut:
tell application "Finder"
    eject (every disk)
end tell

This script is is stored in /Library/Scripts and I have assigned a shortcut to trigger it in FastScripts.
But there's one problem. When you have Time Machine Backups enabled, OS X mounts a virtual MobileBackups volume in /Volumes to store local snapshots. This volume will be ejected alongside all the physical external volumes. I want to avoid this as this will stop local snapshots from being made (until it's mounted again at next login).
How can I add an exception to exclude /Volumes/MobileBackups in the AppleScript above?


texts:
My Mail.app program is ridiculously slow.  I have several email accounts and I just checked the size of my Mail folder (~/Library/Mail): 593.2MB.

That's huge...no wonder it's so slow. So the question is, how do I minimize the size?  I refer back to old emails all the time, so I am reluctant to just purge my email folder. I have thousands of emails.

Is there an easy way to make this smaller and will that help with the speed of this program?

I have a MacBook Pro 2.5G GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM.  I am running Lion 10.7.2.


texts: I am looking for some current, high quality Apple product images for my website, anyone know a good source?


texts: Can't boot Macbook Pro 2018 (possibly Little Snitch/Mojave related)

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro 2018 15" running Mojave (latest update). After updating to the latest Little Snitch and restarting my machine it now fails to boot.

I boot up and can enter my password (I'm running FileVault so I'm not sure if this is the HD unlock login or actual account login). Once I've entered my password the loading bar appears and gets to about 75% before the screen goes blank (black but with backlight), with no cursor.

If I try to boot in safe mode, the same thing happens, but instead of a completely blank screen I see the white loading spinner (on black background). After a few seconds a see the cursor blink briefly but then then it reverts to a blank screen and the process starts again (with the spinner showing, curosr blinking briefly etc. ).

I've tried:

Reinstalling the OS from recovery
Starting in verbose mode (no useful info I can make out)
Starting in safe mode (above)
Clearing PRAM/NVRAM
Clearing SMC
Running first-aid on the boot drive
Removing the Little Snitch kext file via this link: https://forums.obdev.at/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11217&start=15

It feels like there is something wrong with the Windows Server (which is mentioned in the above Little Snitch article) and that there has been an issue building the kernel while updating Little Snitch but I'm not sure how to diagnose further and/or fix it.


texts:
I installed Wireshark Version 2.0.0 on OSX 10.11 with XQuartz 2.7.8
But it doesn't display any pane, I don't know what happened...

Any suggestions?


texts: How to fix ssh login that starts asking for password and `ls .ssh` is permission denied?

texts:
I use my Mac to login to remote hosts via Terminal.app using ssh and local stored keys a.k.a. passwordless login a.k.a authentication key login.

All of a sudden the new ssh login attempts are:

asking for the password, where before the logins were passwordless
return The authenticity of host XYZ can't be established.
yes answering Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? results in Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/Users/user/.ssh/known_hosts).

Also ls ~/.ssh results in all "Permission denied":

ls: authorized_keys: Permission denied
ls: config: Permission denied
ls: id_rsa: Permission denied
ls: id_rsa.pub: Permission denied
ls: known_hosts: Permission denied

How to fix this?


texts: iBooks on iPad does not remove books I not longer need from iCloud library just puts them back to iCloud

texts: I have various books on my iPad that I do not want. Tried to select and delete permanently,it removed from iPad but not from iCloud. I sync'd my iPad to my Mac thinking I could do it that way, but it still doesn't work. How do I delete PERMANENTLY from iPad and iCloud? Are some books put there by Apple so they can't be removed?


texts:
I have seen a number of threads that are close but no answer quite hit the mark for my issue. I have a MacOS AMP environment for testing that was setup using homebrew and that had been working swimmingly in Catalina since about January. Then about a month ago, after a "minor" Catalina update (and resulting crash), I got ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED when trying to access http://localhost (and 127.0.0.1 in case you are wondering about the hosts file).
At the time this happened, one thread I read suggested it could have something to do with the AV software. After I uninstalled the AV software, I was once again able to access localhost. Problem solved...or so I thought. Because after the latest Catalina update, I am once again not able to access. Thing is, I never reinstalled the AV program.
The MacOS firewall is off. Apache and PHP error logs are clear.
$ sudo apachectl configtest

Returns

Syntax OK

Any other ideas? Thanks in advance.


texts: How far in the future can I create events on my calendar?

texts: My calendar does not accept events for September 2016 or beyond but will for May 2016.   Is there a limited time frame or horizon ?


texts: synchronising multiple macs... where to start?

texts:
I am wanting to do some pretty serious mac synchronisation...
I want to know how far I can go in terms of getting my two macs to be always identical to one another. Unfortunately files are just not enough. I want like system images of one exother, but ongoing

Where do I begin?


texts: How to stop ssh-agent from being started on login/boot

texts:
I noticed ssh-agent is started automatically upon login. I'd rather it not do this, as I'd prefer oh-my-zsh to start the ssh-agent instead (since it automatically adds my id_rsa which is a nice feature).

I've tried tracking down where this is getting started, but I don't see anything. How do I disable it?


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro 2017 model with short left shift, ` button next to it and § is where ` is supposed to be. Can I change my layout so that ` works as a shift and § is changed to ` ?

I tried using Ukelele, but it does not recognize the keyboard correctly (or am I missing something?)


texts: What happens if I accidentally interrupted iOS software update on iphone

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I was updating my iPhone and I accidentally pressed the home and lock button together thus interrupting the update. It has directed me to a link where I was instructed to connect the iPhone to iTunes and download the update. (I clicked update; not restore, of course.)
My question is will there be any harm to my data?


texts: Cannot reinstall iPhoto from App Store in Lion

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My company recently upgraded my laptop to OS X Lion and was pre-installed with iPhoto purchased under a different Apple ID. I have my own purchased version so wanted to update the app, but it asked for the other user's password.

So I decided to uninstall the app using Launchpad and try downloading it again. However, when I go to it in the Mac App Store, the button now says "ACCEPT" and when I click on it, I get this message:

  These apps cannot be accepted on this computer.
  Future updates of these apps can be found through Software Update.

What can I do to get iPhoto to download again?


texts: How to avoid password prompt in terminal?

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So sometimes my Mac loses its connection to the Internet.

When I'm in front of it physically I can use the terminal and do the following to repair it:

networksetup -setnetworkserviceenabled ethernet off

type my password then:

networksetup -setnetworkserviceenabled ethernet on

and type my password again.

The thing is the machine is hosting several servers and I need them to be running even when I'm not physically present. So I wanted to run a daily script that would do this when I'm not present and be sure the connection is reset at least once a day. But since I haven't figured out a way to include my password in the command line I can't do that.

So my question is: is it possible to do what I described?


texts: Is there a toggle for zoom/bigger text in OS X?

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In Ubuntu there is a toggle "Bigger text" you can activate, that's really comfortable when you have a big screen.

In Windows there is a wonderful option that make everything bigger in proportion, the size you like, and you don't have to care about anything else.

I can't find anything in the System Preferences but is there anything on OS X? After all they're the one selling 27" iMac everyday...

If not, is there something third party you would suggest?

EDIT1: Changing resolution does not help at all. If you do it, you will notice that the words get all more checkered and that makes them even more unreadable.

Thank you.


texts: How can I get my iOS app approved and avoid the 30% Apple Store Fees?

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I have a SaaS system that is a web app. I also have a simplified lightweight version that is a mobile app. Users must have a main account on the web app before they can use the mobile app. That being said I'd like to offer the iOS app in the Apple store but I do not want to pay Apple 30% of my subscription fees since most traffic will be coming from my website anyway.

I understand that I cannot link to my website inside the iOS app and tell users to "Buy Now" in order to use the IOS app. I'm wondering how exactly I should handle it in order to:

Get my app approved and into the store and allow people who install the app know that they need to go to my website to register in order to use the app.
Do I just put a login screen on the app and then text below it that says "An account is required to use the app. Visit our website to register”

Alternatively, can I put an actual link there as long as it's not to a shopping cart page? Such as "An account is required to use the app. Visit www.example.com to register.”

I'd love to hear from those experience with getting apps published bot circumventing the 30% payments to Apple.


texts:
I am attempting to share the WiFi connection on my MacBook Air running Mojave over Ethernet. In other words, Computer #1 connects via Ethernet to Computer #2 and Computer #2 is doing Internet Sharing with Wi-Fi

I am able to successfully connect another computer via Ethernet but I can only ping the machine itself, I can't get out to the Internet. Firewall is disable, as is Little Snitch.

Any suggestions on what I could be doing wrong?


texts: Is there anything on iOS that would cause your mail pulls to be set to manual?

texts:
I had a user come in where I work, and she said that she didn't get emails on her iPhone 4; she was running iOS7.  I have an iPhone 5c, and I failed to receive emails around 8:30 PM today.

Her issue was that in her settings her mail had been set to only update manually.  When I checked my phone, mine had also been set to manual.  They're both phones that have been setup recently, is that the default setting?  Or does it get set when it is placed on do not disturb?  I'm really concerned about this because both of us missed important emails.


texts: Why doesn't my new @me.com email address work?

texts:
The Problem:

I've just updated to OSX 10.7.2, with iCloud support. Everything works fine. Except... when I try to enable 'mail and notes' under iCloud settings, it just gets stuck displaying 'starting'.

If I go to my mail app, I am greeted by the message

  Cannot send mail, failed to connect to the iCloud server.

When I try to use mail from iCloud.com, I am greeted by the message

  To use iCloud mail, create an @me.com email address by turning on mail in your iCloud settings, using iOS or OSX.

However, I am never prompted to create an @me.com email address when I turn on mail in iCloud settings.

-

What might have caused the problem:

A couple of months ago, I reserved my @me.com email address by creating it on my brothers laptop (because he's a developer). In fact, I can even log in to iCloud using this email address.

So basically, some part of Apple's database believes I have an @me.com address, but the mail portion of iCloud doesn't think this is the case and still wants me to create one.

-

I'm pretty stuck on this - any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated.

-

Edit:

I had some ideas on a couple of things that might fix it, but don't know where to start on them.

Do iCloud settings have an associated .plist file? Sometimes
deleting/modifying .plist files can solve problems. I've had a look
for one but couldn't seem to find one easily - if there is one, where
might it be located?
If anyone else has this issue, what happens when you try using iCloud
mail from an iPhone/iPad etc?
Apple support is impossible to contact if you're out of the phone
support period (I'm still under warranty though). What ways might I
be able to contact Apple, in case it's an issue with their database?
Could I file a bug report somewhere, or send an email to some hard to
find email address?


texts: Delete many network configurations at once

texts:
Opening my Network preferences screen in Mojave 10.14.2 on my MacBook Pro 2017 takes about two minutes, due to the massive number of network configurations that were automatically installed when I once attached a USB walkie talkie.

Is it possible to delete all these connections at once? Clicking to delete them one by one is incredibly slow due to the UI hanging after removing one.

Network preferences with literally 1000 network connections


texts: Cannot spoof MAC address on MacBook (since 2018) Mojave (10.14.5)

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I'm having trouble spoofing my mac address on Mojave OS.

I used the following bash script:

NEW_MAC=$(openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//')
sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport --disassociate
sudo ifconfig en0 lladdr $NEW_MAC
sudo networksetup -detectnewhardware

There aren't errors but the same not work (I have tried also with other solutions).


texts: iPhone 5S starts playing music by itself

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I sometimes put my headphones in and find that music is already playing - I can usually tell how long it's been playing for depending on where I was last up to. Same for podcasts.

I've wracked my brain to figure out why this is happening. I thought at one point I may be accidentally bumping the play button on the headphone cable but I'm fairly confident I've ruled that out.

One thing that seems to trigger it is doing a touch id unlock after leaving the phone alone for a minute or so.

Has anyone else figured out what's going on?


texts: What is this title in the watch command? android-

texts:
Running the watch command I see this title:

Every 2.0s: ls                     android-94348784d7dfd533: Mon Feb  4 08:59:54 2019

The android portion is confusing me.  I don't understand what it is referencing. I have no processes, users or devices named android

Using watch version  3.3.15


texts: How to make a "you have a new memory" movie with my own choice of photos and videos?

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The iPhone has a facility whereby, when it feels like it (typically after a trip abroad), it tells me "you have a new memory" and gives me a short movie with photos and video clips of its choosing. This can be customised to some extent by adding and removing photos.

Is there a way to select a bunch of photos and video clips and then invoke that movie-making engine on it?

Plus points if I can add photos not taken on the iPhone (e.g. on my DSLR). Extra plus points if I don't have to stick any of the photos involved in iCloud. Extra plus points if I can do the job on my mac rather than on the iPhone.


texts: Sharing single instance of iTunes with iPad and iPhone

texts:
I have been using iPhone since last 2+ years and recently I got an iPad. Is it possible to share single instance of iTunes with iPad and iPhone? I only got on PC at home.

I wanted to have only iTunes account as well.

Please let me know.


texts: How to block senders in Messages app on Mac OS X? How to mark as spam?

texts:
Getting many junk texts during election season.

Messages come to both my iPhone and MacBook Pro (connected via my iCloud account).

I'm not seeing any way to mark messages as spam, nor to block senders.

Opening app prefs, and trying to copy–paste the number into the blocked list isn't taking either.

Able to set conversation as do-not-disturb. This disables notifications, but isn't really all I want.


texts: Can the macOS startup sound/chime/ bong be changed on a MacBook Pro?

texts:
I would prefer something fun like The Final Countdown song to play.
Is there any way I can change the startup bong on my Early 2011 MBP 8,2 to something custom?


texts:
Is it possible to search for text in the Notes app on an iPad Pro?
The closest I have gotten is the search field to the left of the Home screen, but that does not find the fifth occurrence of that text. Is another app better for searching text?


texts: A simple web page using significant amount of memory, can it be some security issue?

texts:
I ran nothing in background, was just viewing stackoverflow questions, and the notifications says it is using significant of memory.

When I checked activity monitor it was using 2GB which is absolute nonsense.

Is it some security issue?


texts: How can I type quotation marks directly without hitting space in different app?

texts:
Every time I want to use ", ', or ` I have to hit space to type a single character. In some apps, for example VS Code, this situation is worse where I cannot even type a single character. Here is a gif that shows what I mean:

https://i.imgur.com/GJE42BO.gif

So how can I disable this? I am using an external USB Keyboard with ANSI Layout. I am currently still on Mojave since I have to wait for updates on a few apps before switching to Catalina.


texts: Can an iPhone backup folder be retrieved after deletion on Windows?

texts:
I accidentally deleted my iPhone backup file from the backup folder.

Where are other places a backup could be stored for someone using Windows and iTunes?


texts:
I'm new to iMovie

I have imported the raw footage I want to edit

Here is the noob question:

How do I select the parts I want to use?

It seems, in older versions of iMovie, this was done simply by marking (click and drag to select) the part, and then move it down to timeline

How is it done now?

Macbook Pro 15" retina 2012 with Yosemite


texts: When Presenting a powerpoint I tried to minimize the PP and go online to demo. The site comes up on my Laptop but not on the projection. That only displays the home screen.


texts: So my Yosemite install is slow - what to do?

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I installed Yosemite today on a 2010 MBP, 8GB RAM, 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo.

Its awful, its so slow, everything seems to hang, even simple things like Finder. Chrome is going as a snails pace and Mail is struggling too. Its nearly, very nearly unusable.

My attempts to optimize the Mac for speed are as follows:

I have disabled all extensions in Chrome, turned off a whole host of stuff from 3rd parties in OSX that I thought might be giving me issues.

I can see CPU usage is high for a variety of tasks every now and again, including;

md_worker
Setup
WindowServer

Any ideas anyone to speed up my Mac or diagnose what is causing the slowness?


texts: I don't even know where to begin with this, but a while back I tried getting apple music and it worked, but I somehow messed up my iCloud because I changed my email. My iCloud on my iPhone has my new email, but I can't change it on my mac, and it says my password is wrong when I type it in to my old email for my iCloud. So now I can't use my laptop without something from my iCloud system preferences popping up telling me something's wrong.


texts: My Press and hold accents have been disabled in Yosemite

texts:
I just got Yosemite and now my Press and hold accent capability seems to have disappeared with my old software.

I tried using /System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app in Terminal to find Press And Hold but it comes up saying

  -bash: System/Library/Input: No such file or directory

and I am not even able to use defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

to enable it. Please help!


texts: Setting up different passwords for Filevault 2 and my user account

texts:
I'm currently setting up Carbon Copy Cloner to create a backup clone of my SSD. I'd like to be able to store the cloned drive's Filevault 2 password in the keychain so CCC can access it to automatically do backups on a schedule. However, I don't want to store my administrator password in the keychain. (I've heard of a few exploits that allowed malware to access stored passwords).

Is there a way to set up a separate Filevault password for the cloned drive?

I'm running a MacBook 8,1 with El Capitain 10.11.6.


texts: Migrating Linux/cyrrus IMAP into Lion server dovecot

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We changing our internal infrastructure and replacing old Linux server with an OS X Lion server. One crucial thing is email - need migrate it without interruption.
Currently we have Linux/Cyrrus, with zilion of stored emails for tens of local users.

Here: How setup Mail.app IMAP to migrate Mail Server is recommennded doing it via local mail client, what is ok for external imap-server for one user, but not practical for the full server-migrate.

What is the recommended way migrate the whole mail-handling from Linux cyrrus/postfix into OS X Lion dovecot? Know anyone some scripts (preferable perl) what can help with the migrating?

My current idea:

setup DNS, Users, and email handling on the Lion server
stop the mailserver on the Linux
migrate all emails (with some script)
change MX record from Linux to Lion
start using Lion

Any guides, caveats and/or any helpful comments?


texts: A standard way of dealing with a system crash / freeze

texts:
Is there a best-practice way of dealing with a system crash or a system freeze? I know of the "force-quit" keyboard shortcut. But what if it doesn't work?
I just bought a MacBookPro and I am switching from Linux. In Linux there is a possibility to shutdown the X window system, and log in from  a text console, or one can communicate with the kernel directly via magic SysRq-key, and for example, remount a hard disk read-only or reboot the system.


texts: MacBook Air memory corruption solution other than replacing the motherboard

texts:
I have a MacBook Air 2012 that is randomly restarting when I open a bunch of applications. I ran a memory check (using Rember) and found out that there is a stuck address toward the end of my 8GB of RAM (>7500 to be exact).
As long as I never exceed 7500MB of ram utilization the device works fine.
Is there a way to isolate that portion of the ram and tell the OS never to use it? Like starting an application that grabs that memory region and never gets swapped to SSD?
I'd rather have a 7.5GB working laptop than 8GB randomly restarting one :/


texts: Why does my reported used and available disk space not equal the total reported via "df"?

texts:
I'm running mac Big Sur (11.2.3).  I get some strange disk space readings when I query free space on the command line ...
s davea$ df -h /
Filesystem       Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused      ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1s5s1  234Gi   14Gi   18Gi    45%  568975 2448556385    0%   /

I'm confused -- the size of the disk listed (234 GB) seems to exceed the used + available by quite a lot.  I've been noticing disk space issues even though there is 18GB free reported so I'm trying to track down what the problem is.
Edit: Per request, here's the diskutil output ...
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI NO NAME                 209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         250.8 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.8 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     205.8 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 426.9 MB   disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                613.9 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      6.4 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            15.1 GB    disk1s5
   6:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 15.1 GB    disk1s5s1


texts:
I've an encrypted Time Machine with the password saved on the keychain.
Now, trying to plug in, it ask me the password and it's always wrong.
I've checked hundreds of times and it also allowed me to change the password, but the disk won't mount.

I've tried to verify and then repair the disk from Disk Utility,
but after verified it shows me this message:

I can I solve this?

Update:

Update 2:


texts: How do I access CGI-Scripts Not Stored Under WWW-Root?

texts:
How do I access cgi scripts from the browser if the CGI-Executables directory is above the www-root folder? I don't want to use something
like ../.  I tried browsing to localhost/cgi-bin/ but it gave an error. It said permission denied.

How do I configure these settings? Also can /~user-name directory aliases run cgi-scripts?


texts: Bluetooth mouse that doesn't require a USB dongle

texts:
Since my Macbook only has two USB ports, I'd like to get myself a mouse that can pair with the Mac's built-in bluetooth. The obvious choice is the Apple Magic Mouse, but at $70 it's pretty much overkill. I don't need the touch functionality, since the Mac's trackpad already does a great job with that.

I'm mostly looking for something that allows me accurate control, isn't too large (so I can toss it in my backpack), and isn't too expensive. And looks nice next to the Aluminum Macbook, or course. :)


texts: Pages to pdf export results in a smaller page size, how can I make the page size as setup in Pages?

texts:
I have a 48 by 36 inch poster in Pages. I can see size in Page Setup. The print people want the poster as a pdf so I export it to pdf.

When I open the pdf in Adobe, and look at Page Setup, it tells me that the page size is 8.5 by 11 inches.

I can't afford to make any mistakes in the printing. How can I make sure the pdf I send to the printer is the correct size?


texts: iPhone won’t update nor install new apps

texts: On my iPhone 5, I now have accrued 59 apps that need to update. I click on update and they all turn over to swirling circles and that's as far as it gets. Plus, I've just found out I can't install previously installed apps nor any new apps. I have tons of free space, no restrictions are set. Yes, I've restarted the phone. What else should I try?


texts:
I am trying to uninstall a cask using homebrew, but each time it fails due to (I believe) AppleScript failing to run. I believe this issue stems from my multiuser setup (I am a non admin).

Error: Failure while executing; `osascript -e tell\ application\ \"System\ Events\"\ to\ delete\ every\ login\ item\ whose\ name\ is\ \"CleanMyMac\ 4\ Menu\"` exited with 1. Here's the output:
36:93: execution error: System Events got an error: AppleEvent timed out. (-1712)

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I am just trying to remove a cask from my computer and not have homebrew still think it is installed and try to update it every blue moon. If I have to remove it manually and update homebrew manually, so be it.


texts: Using Time Capsule with existing Sky ADSL router

texts:
We've got a Sky ADSL router which we have running a wifi network, and we've got it connected via ethernet to iMac/TV/PS3/etc. As the wifi coverage isn't great upstairs we've bought a Time Capsule which we want to plug in to the ethernet that's connected to the router, and we want to have the Time Capsule provide wifi coverage upstairs.

I've only been able to make this work by having the Time Capsule create a separate wifi network, with its own name & password, which means when you go upstairs you have to manually change networks. What we really want is a single network, but when I try changing the Wireless settings to 'Extend a wireless network' I just can't get it to work -- I end up with the TC flashing its light amber.

Surely this must be possible? Help!


texts: Is it good to keep my MacBook Pro on charge?

texts:
I recently got the new MacBook Pro 2018 and would like to look after the battery better as I need it for university and would keep it for at least 3 years.

I understand that they are lithium-ion batteries and have a recommended max cycle counts of 1,000. A cycle count is counted as charging it x%, discharging x% and charging x% (if I remember).

If I were to keep the MacBook Pro on permanent charge, I will not have any extra cycle counts. However, would this cause any damage to the computer or not? I also think I read somewhere (a few years ago) about batteries breaking in (just like an engine). If this does happen, how long would this take?

If it helps, I have the 15".


texts:
Recently when I was on my Mac I had turned off Bluetooth accidentally when I had meant to turn the WiFi off and back on (the WiFi was acting up). I logged off when I had to get off. And since my Mac keyboard is the default Bluetooth connected one that you get when you purchase it, it decided to not work.

When I came back later to finish up some things, I turned on my keyboard and typed my password, but nothing showed up in the box. The keyboard, when I turned it on, the light flashed until I finished typing, the  turned off. It didn't type anything into the password box, despite being on.

I replaced the batteries thinking it was dead, but that didn't work either. I have no USB connected keyboard to access my mac, I can't access Bluetooth, and my keyboard wont do jack squat.

I don't know how to log in!

How can I log in when Bluetooth is turned off?

(Also if my explanation doesn't make much sense, I have a video instead. )


texts: Using Apple Xserve Xeon Nehalem 2.26 "Quad Core" as a regular computer?

texts: I don't know much about servers so I figured that this would be the best place to find out more about them. I have a friend who has 3 Apple Xserves with Xeon Nehalem 2.26 quad core processors. So my question is can this Xserve be configured to work just like a normal apple computer? My friend tells me that it can be set up just like any other computer. If this is possible is there some documentation out there that would explain how to do this?


texts: How to browse files on your iPhone with Bash on Mac Book?

texts:
How to browse files on your iPhone with Bash inside the Terminal with iPhone connected to Mac with cable?

Thank you for your answers :)


texts: OSX Mac Filevault2 prevent shutdown on login screen

texts:
I recently encrypted my 2014 Mac, OS X 10.9.5, using FileVault2. I noticed that the computer shuts after 5 minutes if there is no activity on the login screen. I believe this is a feature of FileVault2, but I am unable to confirm through Google searches.

If this is the case, is there a setting to prevent shutdown?


texts:
I am using the terminal for some debugging and I noticed that it has stopped displaying my user before the path. Now its displaying (null) like so:

(null):mspgcc-examples dean$

Whats changed? As i've changed no configuration to change it. Viewing the shell variable $PS1 I get the following results:

(null):mspgcc-examples dean$ echo $PS1
\h:\W \u\$
(null):mspgcc-examples dean$


texts: applescript: commands to maximize (green button) an iTerm window

texts:
Assuming I am opening an iTerm window with the following AppleScript:

tell application "iTerm"
            set win1 to (create window with default profile)
        repeat until exists win1
            delay 0.01
        end repeat
        tell current session of current tab of current window
            write text "watch -n1 " & "'"  & "kubectl get pods | grep -i " & input & "'"
            split horizontally with default profile
            split vertically with default profile
        end tell

What code snippet should I use so that win1 gets maximized (as in clicking on the green window button)?

edit: regarding the proposed solution indicated in the question that is supposed to be duplicate, I have changed my snippet as follows:

    tell application "iTerm"
            set win1 to (create window with default profile)
        repeat until exists win1
            delay 0.01
        end repeat
        tell application "System Events"
            perform action "AXZoomWindow" of (first button whose subrole is "AXFullScreenButton") of (first window whose subrole is "AXStandardWindow") of (first process whose frontmost is true)
        end tell
        tell current session of current tab of current window
            write text "watch -n1 " & "'"  & "kubectl get pods | grep -i " & input & "'"
            split horizontally with default profile
            split vertically with default profile
        end tell

However this now opens a new terminal window and no further command executes.


texts: I turned my iPad off fully (with the whole "slide to shut off" thing) and then turned it back on. After a few minutes the lock screen came up, showing 86% battery, but the finger controls weren't working. now i can't even get it to turn on. What do I do?


texts: Can one still sort By Album By Year in any of the views in iTunes 11?

texts:
In previous versions of iTunes, it was possible to sort songs by Artist, and then by Album By Year, so that albums would be shown in the order they were released, rather than alphabetical order.

I can't find a way to replicate this behaviour in any of the various views in iTunes 11: In the Songs view, I can only sort by a single column, and in the other views where songs are grouped by albums, the albums are always displayed in alphabetical order.

Is there an option I'm missing, or is sorting by Album By Year no longer an option?


texts: Adding Bounce Message back to Mail in Yosemite

texts:
Does anyone have an updated version of this workflow for adding a Bounce Message feature to Apple Mail in OSX 10.10.3?

Applescript:

on run {input, parameters}
     tell application "Mail"
          repeat with eachMessage in input
               bounce eachMessage
               delete eachMessage
          end repeat
     end tell
end run

I've followed the guide but do not receive a bounced email into my inbox when testing as a sender.

I'm testing this by attempting to send an email from one gmail account to another. Both accounts are Google Apps for Domains accounts.


texts: In Mail.app 6.0, is there a way to drag-select parts of message bodies?

texts:
In Mail.app 6.0 with 10.8 Mountain Lion, Apple has chosen to make it impossible to drag-select text in a message that has been sent or received. In previous versions, you could do as you can with every other single program that handles user-created text anywhere in the operating system (!!!) and put your cursor anywhere in the message, drag to highlight the text you want, and then, voilà, there'd you have a discrete selection of text that you could, say, copy.

Now, in Mail.app 6.0, when you try this in the body of a sent or received message, you instead get a little mail icon. Mail.app assumes you want to drag the whole message somewhere else! This is highly counterintuitive program behavior.

It is impossible to drag-select text in a sent or received mail message, as far as I can tell with the settings Mail.app currently has. The only approximation is to double-click on a word (which selects it; triple-click will select a sentence), then hold the shift key, then click on the end of the text you want to select, then copy or whatever as you like. But even with this method it is impossible to select just a part of a word.

How can I revert Mail.app 6.0 to the proper drag-select behavior that works absolutely everywhere else on the system? The way Mail.app 6.0 behaves for this is counter to my 24 years of history with the various Mac OSes.

UPDATE: It seems to have resolved itself. I am not sure what did it but now it behaves as it should.


texts: Google authenticator blank after backup restore

texts:
My iPhone 7 had issues and I had done encrypted backups using iTunes. Apple gave me new iPhone as replacement. When I restored from iTunes backup, my Google Authenticator is blank.

I have lot of sites configured and I am not sure what to do now. Any help? I did download the backup codes from Google and it gave 10 codes. How do I used the codes for other sites like coinbase, Amazon, etc.?


texts: How can I select text in Terminal.app using Ctrl+Shift+a and Ctrl+Shift+e?

texts:
I'm on Mac OSX Catalina (10.15.3) and find that while I can use the emacs keybindings CTRLe and CTRLa to move to the end and beginning of a line respectively, I cannot use those command in combination with the SHIFT key.

My expectation would be that it would move the caret to the end/beginning of the line while selecting characters.

In other related answers I see the suggestion to move to iTerm2. However, I would like to minimise the number of "duplicate" applications on my mac.


texts: Why isn't a binary not being found in my PATH?

texts:
I've got a Python project which uses a virtual environment. In my project folder, there is a bin/ folder which contains all the executables needed by the project. To use these, you run source bin/activate to insert the path to that bin/ directory to your PATH variable.

Now, most of the time this works as I'd expect. I run the source command and when I run which python, it shows the one I'd expect from the virtual environment. Sometimes however, it doesn't list that one. It lists a different one on my PATH. Here's an example of what I see:

We can see we are in the project directory:

$ pwd
/Users/dalemy/Projects/my_project

We can also see that the python and python3 binaries (actually symlinks) are in the bin/ directory:

$ ls -al /Users/dalemy/Projects/my_project/bin/python*
lrwxr-xr-x  1 dalemy  staff    7 10 Feb 15:16 /Users/dalemy/Projects/my_project/bin/python -> python3
lrwxr-xr-x  1 dalemy  staff   44 10 Feb 15:16 /Users/dalemy/Projects/my_project/bin/python3 -> /usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.2_1/bin/python3

Here we can see that this is the first entry in the PATH variable:

$ echo $PATH
/Users/dalemy/Projects/my_project/bin:/Users/dalemy/.poetry/bin:/usr/local/opt/python3/bin:/usr/local/opt/ruby/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/Users/dalemy/Config/scripts:/Users/dalemy/.poetry/bin:/Users/dalemy/.local/bin

But when we ask about where Python is located, it doesn't find it:

$ which python
/usr/local/bin/python

$ which python3
/usr/local/opt/python3/bin/python3

Running type -a shows the same thing:

$ type -a python
python is /usr/local/bin/python
python is /usr/bin/python
python is /usr/local/bin/python
python is /usr/bin/python

I've got no idea why this is happening. The bin/activate command runs hash -r and I've run it manually to be sure that it's clearing out anything cached. If I remove every single entry on my PATH except for the first one, I just get that it can't be found.

Once it starts doing this, the only solution I've found is to remove the virtual environment completely and recreate it.

What could possibly be going wrong here?


texts: What version of GDB version is included in your Xcode?

texts:
Not sure if this is suitable for Stack Overflow or here.

I'm having some problems with GDB in Xcode and I wonder if it isn't a problem with what version I'm on. I have Snow Leopard and Xcode 3.2.6. The GDB version that I believe is being used by Xcode is:

GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1515) (Sat Jan 15 08:33:48 UTC 2011)

My version in Fink, for example, is:

GNU gdb (GDB) 7.4.1

I believe I can't go any higher than Xcode 3.2.6 without at least upgrading to Lion.

Can anyone tell me what version of GDB they have with their corresponding Xcode? I want to know if its worth it for me to switch to Lion or Mountain Lion just for this.


texts: How do I get EyeTV to work on my 2007 iMac?

texts:
I'm running a 2007 24" iMac, and recently installed OS X Lion.  I am trying to use the EyeTV software for my Elgato TV tuner.  When I run the program, Console logs messages of the form:

automountd[14168]: parse_entry: bad key in map auto_home: EyeTV Archive

and the program crashes.  I have a vague understanding of what autofs is, but I have no idea why it is being invoked.  I looked up Apple's autofs source code and it seems that "EyeTV Archive" is being passed in as a key to something, somewhere (like I said, I know know much about autofs).  Can somebody help, please?


texts: i need to charge my ipod while connecting to an accessory

texts: I'm looking to charge my iPod via USB or car charger while still being able to use a sync cable accessory with the iPod. I'm connecting an iCombie (which is a wireless adaptor) to my motorcycle helmet and want to be able to charge the iPod at the same time.


texts:
Are there any version of Spotify that will run on a PowerPC Mac?

Which one(s)?

Where can I get one?


texts: imac 21.5 Core i3 mid 2010 - how many SATA ports available?

texts:
I've been looking to upgrade to an SSD.

And I've read a couple of options:

Swapping the mechanical drive for an SSD.
Swapping the optical drive for an SSD.

My question is, is there another SATA port available on the motherboard that could be used to insert an SSD, possibly behind the existing optical drive, so you could have a total of three drives?

And is there physical space to do so?

I'd ideally have the SSD as the boot drive, the old mechanical for data, and the optical to watch the occasional film.

This post suggests that there is room in the 2011 imac 21.5 inch: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/38040/358026
Is it still applicable here?


texts:
I really like the (new-ish) Finder contextual menu option to move selected files into a new folder. I was wondering if the opposite exists too, where a folder is "unwrapped", where the contents are moved back to the parent folder.
Ex:

Select 4 files in Photos folder; Use "Create folder with 4 Items"; new folder created.
Right-click the new folder; "Unwrap Folder"; 4 files returned to Photos folder, empty folder deleted.


texts: Does anyone know of a solution (app or site) that will automatically notify me anytime I get a review on one of my iOS apps?


texts: Activate FaceTime and Messages on Wi-Fi iPad with email address only?

texts:
Is it possible to activate FaceTime and Messages on Wi-Fi iPad using Apple ID's email address only?
Someone has Wi-Fi Pad but doesn't have an iPhone. Although there is a phone number associated with the user's Apple ID, that phone number is not associated with FaceTime or Messages because it is not on an iPhone. When trying to activate FaceTime or Messages on the Wi-Fi iPad, the Apple ID email address is shown, but the Sign On option is greyed out and neither Facetime nor Messages can be activated with that email address only.


texts:
Xcode has a preferences window that allows you to set keyboard shortcuts
but many of my shortcuts are conflicted.

I've looked through all of system preferences for anything using these key combinations and came up with nothing and I closed down all third party apps like Alfred and still no luck.

Any ideas?


texts:
I'm attempting to view 8k footage on my iMac however quicktime refuses to open it.

Footage is in H.264 AAC format at resolution 7680 × 4320, and when opened in quicktime results in audio but not video, just a black screen.

Converting the video with "MacX Video Converter Pro" to a lower resolution allows the video to be opened.

I am using the current iMac with a 5k screen and a R9 M395 graphics card.


texts: I can see network printers when connected via ethernet, but not through a Time Capsule

texts:
I wish to print to a network printer. When I plug the ethernet cable directly into my laptop (macbook pro 2013, OS X Mavericks) I see all printers available.

However when I try to connect via Time Capsule i.e. (MBP->TC->ethernet) I don't see any printers anywhere.

Any ideas on how I can rectify this?


texts: Can ios icloud backups restore to a device after exchange activesync remote wipe?

texts: Seeing as it is apparently the case that reading an office365/exchange e-mail account on one's ios device enables whoever runs the server to wipe one's whole device at will --- if this happens to someone, can they restore their data from an icloud backup, or does activesync remote wipe somehow destroy backups as well?


texts: Share sound output to other macs via wifi/bluetook/magic

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Playing the same music on multiple computers

Is there any way to share the sound output of a mac to other macs nearby either by wifi, or bluetooth or something?

At work we want to all be able to listen to the same playlist, but through headphones. There's three of us sitting in a pod and we can get a headphone splitter, but its a bit tedious.

So I wondered if anyone knows a way to share the sound output to other macs so that we can each listen through our own sound card?

Many thanks


texts: Enabling BitLocker without TPM on MacBook Pro with Bootcamp

texts: I have been wanting to enable BitLocker without a compatible TPM (my MacBook Pro) on a Bootcamp partition that has read / write access to the EFI. Is there a way to do this?


texts: Is there a limit on the number of Macs that can use a single 2TB Time Capsule?

texts:
I am looking at buying a few of the 2TB Time Capsules for our office, where we have about 20 unibody MacBook Pros with 128GB SSDs.

Is there a limit on the number of Macs that a single 2TB Time Capsule can provide Time Machine backup targets to? Does anyone have advice or experience regarding using a Time Capsule as a target for multiple machines?


texts:
Noticed today, Safari occasionally starts eating up memory until it reaches tens of gigabytes of memory used and freezes the whole system.

Both cases when this happened, the trigger was starting watching a video on youtube (using the HTML5 player). In Activity Monitor, no particular tab process shows high memory usage (not even the youtube ones), only the main Safari process. Closing tabs one by one does not stop the leak, even when all tabs are closed the main process continues gobbling up the memory. I have no extensions enabled (I disabled AdGuard after the first leak). I sampled the process during the second leak, but I'm not skilled enough to read the output (http://pastebin.com/MTxmEAQ4).

Any ideas how to fix this? I hate going back to Chrome, but this is unacceptable.

Thanks,
O


texts: Convert entire iTunes library to MP3 then delete old version?

texts: Is there an easy way to Convert an entire iTunes library to MP3 format then delete old version? I know you can do it manually, but then you have to go check every other song and delete it, is there a fast and easy way?


texts: Place html data on the macOS clipboard via applescript

texts:
I want to use applescript to place HTML data onto the clipboard from a text variable. I have at present a line of code that invokes applescript via the command line from my applescript.

set toUnixSet to "osascript -e \"set the clipboard to «data HTML" & hexString & "»\""

This is a little crazy.  Can I not do this from applescript without a need for a re-invocation of applescript?

I copied data from firefox.  I looked at what data class was on the clipboard via applescript (clipboard info).  I want to place may own data on the clipboard in the same format as firefox delivered.  I need only to have the HTML class data.

KJ explains how place HTML class data via the command line but, I am curious if I can do the setting from via native applescript code.  I'm running macos 10.10.5. Basically, how to I substitute a text variable for the hex data "set clippy to «data HTML3C62723E49206B6E6F772069742773206F6C642C20627574204920686176656E2774207365656E20616E207570646174652E204C6F6F6B2E3C62723E3C62723E»". KJ explanation:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/11089226/1360075

on run

    try
        set clippy to «data HTML3C62723E49206B6E6F772069742773206F6C642C20627574204920686176656E2774207365656E20616E207570646174652E204C6F6F6B2E3C62723E3C62723E»
        log clippy
        set the clipboard to clippy
        log (clipboard info)
    on error errMsg
        log " clippy error..." & errMsg
    end try

    -- This doesn't work, but it's as far as I got.
    try
        set clippy2 to "3C62723E49206B6E6F772069742773206F6C642C20627574204920686176656E2774207365656E20616E207570646174652E204C6F6F6B2E3C62723E3C62723E"
        log clippy2
        set the clipboard to clippy2
        log (clipboard info)
    on error errMsg
        log " clippy2 error... " & errMsg
    end try

end run

This doesn't work, but it's as far as I got.

*«data HTML3C62723E49206B6E6F772069742773206F6C642C20627574204920686176656E2774207365656E20616E207570646174652E204C6F6F6B2E3C62723E3C62723E»*)
tell application "Script Editor"
    set the clipboard to «data HTML3C62723E49206B6E6F772069742773206F6C642C20627574204920686176656E2774207365656E20616E207570646174652E204C6F6F6B2E3C62723E3C62723E»
    clipboard info
        --> {{«class HTML», 64}}
end tell
(*«class HTML», 64*)
(*3C62723E49206B6E6F772069742773206F6C642C20627574204920686176656E2774207365656E20616E207570646174652E204C6F6F6B2E3C62723E3C62723E*)
tell application "Script Editor"
    set the clipboard to "3C62723E49206B6E6F772069742773206F6C642C20627574204920686176656E2774207365656E20616E207570646174652E204C6F6F6B2E3C62723E3C62723E"
    clipboard info
        --> {{Unicode text, 256}, {string, 128}, {scrap styles, 22}, {«class utf8», 128}, {«class ut16», 258}, {scrap styles, 22}}
end tell
(*Unicode text, 256, string, 128, scrap styles, 22, «class utf8», 128, «class ut16», 258, scrap styles, 22*)


texts: How to make available iOS app to different client's MDM

texts:
We have developed and Enterprise iOS app and we want to deliver this app to different clients.

Each client have thousands of employees and they will manage themselves the deployment of the app in their employee's devices.

Want we want to do is to deliver the iOS App (make available) to our clients MDM's. We have a Cisco meraki as MDM.

Whats the correct way to go?


texts: iTunes 12 Won't Play MP4 Files That Work in Quicktime Player

texts:
Mostly as the title says; I have a bunch of movie files that I encoded especially using Handbrake (veryslow preset, de-noise filter, nothing else changed) and which worked fine in iTunes 11.

However, since updating to Yosemite (and iTunes 12), none of the files play properly. They play perfectly in Quicktime Player with no additionally codecs installed, and they import correctly into iTunes 12, but instead of playing smoothly I just get still frames with no audio; I can skip around but all that does is change which still frame I'm stuck on.

Does anyone know why this is the case, and what (if anything) can be done to fix it? Does iTunes 12 now use a different decoder? I know that it was always picky about which files it would let you import, but previous iTunes versions always just used Quicktime for playback, so anything that worked in Quicktime would work in iTunes.


texts: Yosemite Mail "Load Remote Content" from senders in my contacts

texts:
I would like Mail on Yosemite to load remote content from senders in my contacts and not for everyone else. I have remote content disabled now and I have pieced together an AppleScript to click the button but it doesn't seem to be working. Here's what I have:

using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule loadRemoteContent
    tell application "Mail"
        activate
        repeat with eachMessage in theMessages
            open eachMessage
            tell application "System Events" to tell process "Mail"
                if not (window 1 exists) then return beep 1
                try -- message displayed in a mailbox window
                    click button "Load Remote Content" of UI element 1 of row 1 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of splitter group 2 of splitter group 1 of window 1
                end try
                try -- message displayed in a separate mail window
                    click button "Load Remote Content" of UI element 1 of row 1 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of window 1
                end try
            end tell
        end repeat
    end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from

This script is hooked into a rule in mail were that script is supposed to run when "sender is in contacts"

EDIT: So this is working when I get new mail after allowing Mail to "control my computer using accessibility features" in system preferences. However, I still would like it to work when viewing any message, either one that just came in or one I've had for years.


texts:
I receive this error message when trying to run curl from the terminal command line:

  /usr/local/bin/curl: line 61: /usr/local/bin/sed: No such file or directory
  /usr/local/bin/curl: line 65: /usr/local/bin/sed: No such file or directory
  /usr/local/bin/curl: error: `/Users/xxxxx/.libs/curl' does not exist
  This script is just a wrapper for curl.

curl used to work on Yosemite but it has been awhile since I used it.  Any help in fixing this error would be greatly appreciated.

I tried using the curl provided by AMPPS download and changing my path to hit that curl first. Curl works but then has problems with every sites certs. Tried downloading the cacerts file from http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html and specified the file but still same problems.

I really need curl back in any form. Thank you in advance.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)


texts: Reset iPad when Apple ID no longer exists

texts:
I've read all the techniques to reset an iPad and none of them work. Not only do I not know the password to the Apple ID, the Apple ID doesn't exist at all! It was a former employee's email address. So I just recreated his old email account and registered with Apple as a new Apple ID. But the iPad won't take the Apple ID password I just created...

I can't even sign out unless I turn "Find My iPad" off, but when I turn that off I'm asked for the Apple ID password again. iTunes also makes me turn "Find My iPad" off.

What can I do?


texts: How can I make a file un-hidden permanently?

texts: I have some files that were hidden on a PC. Now they live on my Mac. How can I remove the hidden property on each of these files?


texts: I just got a new MacBook Air and I am trying to transfer my music that I did not buy from iTunes from my old computer onto my new MacBook. I saved my music onto a USB drive but the music won't transfer into my iTunes on my new computer. Please Help!


texts: How would enabling FileVault alter my system and TM performance?

texts: What are the pros and cons, performance-wise, of enabling and using FileVault? Is there any at all, or does it slow a computer down significantly or on the contrary speed it up? Also, what effect will it have on Time Machine-backups (performance-wise)?


texts:
I am having a very weird error that I cannot find any help on the rest of the internet for. My issue is that I was editing my httpd.conf (in /Private/etc/apache2) so that I could run the web server out of a different directory. After attempting multiple times (and failing) my system started to act strange. I tried to open XAMPP's httpd.conf using Sublime Text 3 but that threw Sublime Text into a crash loop. I then tried to open another program, and it gave me an error saying that it could not write files. I then tried to close Eclipse and it gave me the error that it could not write files. I figured that a reboot would help and rebooted.

After my system booted up I was unable to log into my main user account. It was giving me the error "You are unable to log into the account "asdf" at this time. An error occurred."

I honestly have no idea why it is not working, but here is what I have tried.

Rebooting
Repairing the main SSD (Where I store my system files, it said that all was fine)
Repairing Permissions on the HDD that holds the User Files (it fixed a ton of applications that were set to different permissions. But it did not change any files that I had been editing.
Repairing the main HDD (all was fine...)

I am at a loss, any help would be greatly appreciated as I cannot use my main user account currently.


texts: How do I change Mac OS X's sleep behavior with respect to USB plugging/unplugging?

texts: If a USB device is plugged or unplugged, my MacBook Pro wakes up from sleep. Can this behavior be changed somehow? That is to say, I do not want my Mac to wake up when a USB device is unplugged.


texts: iMac screen shows nothing after replacing hard drive

texts:
I replaced the hard drive on my iMac 8,1 (iMac 20-Inch "Core 2 Duo" (Early 2008)) per OWC's instructions with an SSD I had sitting around. I used a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter that would fit the physical needs for the drive upgrade. The drive seems to be seated properly and connected as needed.
After reconnecting wires as instructed, I ran into an issue where the screen is lighting up (the backlight seems to be working fine) and I hear the Apple chime/sound effect, but nothing is displayed. I'm watching the screen and waiting up to 5 minutes, and no icons or UI ever appear.

I tried connecting a separate SATA cable with an external drive, but that made no difference.
I thought that the arrangement of the inverter cables may have mattered, and read people with similar models saying it did matter. However, iFixIt's guide (Step 11, specifically) clarified that the cable arrangement should not matter.

During reassembly, the order of the inverter cables is interchangeable within each socket.

Plus, the clips and "dots" on the inverter plugs line up in a way that there's only one way to orient them properly within the plugs and I tried multiple cable arrangements anyway to see if it changed anything.
I reset the PRAM, but no luck there either. The behavior was the same. A gray screen, the chime, all 4 green debug/diagnostic LEDs on the main logic board were illuminated, but no other visual feedback indicated anything was working.
I connected my macOS 10.11 El Capitan installer USB, which I know works. El Capitan's the most recent version of macOS this hardware will install and the USB device worked fine with the old hard drive. Nothing happens when I boot with the USB device plugged in. I keep manually rebooting, but have no visual feedback for what's happening.
Unfortunately, I have no DisplayPort cable to use with an external display.
What is going on here? Is something broken?


texts:
I want to use VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro. I allocated 8G memory and 4 cores as CPU to the VirtualBox. I have installed Windows 8.1 Pro. But I realize that the mouse still lags in Windows.

Does anyone know how to fix this?


texts:
I have a question about my MacBook Air CPU temperature. I've read a lot of similar questions but there's something I can't understand in my experience.

I'm doing some tests because I'm trying to figure out whether my computer would endure a live streaming of 12 hours (it's a school music project). When I run Wirecast the first time CPU core PECI temperature (which I monitor with iStat menus app) gets really high (80°-99°), then I get scared and I tried to stream at a lower video resolution and it seems it works... I mean, fan runs at a very low speed or doesn't run at all and the CPU (if I don't touch anything and leave the computer streaming only) gets a reasonable percentage of about 50%. But there's something strange... the temperature "CPU core PECI" it's still about 80°C-95°C! but if I open up the iStat menus menu the only red-written temperature is "camera proximity" with 64°C.

Does anyone of you know what's going on? Do you think it's dangerous for my computer to make this live streaming?


texts: iOS app for toggling bluetooth when iPhone is plugged into dock

texts:
Are there any apps that will toggle bluetooth on/off when the phone is plugged or unplugged from power?

I only use bluetooth in my car when it is plugged in the dock so that is the only time I would like it turned on. I've searched the App Market and haven't found anything. Thanks.


texts: How does iMessage know that the recipient is an iOS 5 device?

texts:
When you send a message using the Messages app, iOS seems to magically figure out that the recipient is on iOS 5 and automatically switches over to iMessage (blue messages instead of green SMSs).

  Does anybody know (or fancy a guess at) how iOS 5’s iMessage knows the recipient is an iOS 5 device? I’m stumped.

(I asked this question on Twitter a few months ago and wanted an easier way to refer to the answer!)


texts: Why extracted .app file appears in Finder 3.1 Mb and in bash only 102 bytes?

texts:
I extracted atMonitor using Archive Utility and The Unarchiver and in both cases it appears in the Finder as 3.1Mb and in bash only 102 bytes. Strange is that I can execute it and I can look in the package content both in Terminal and in Finder and the files inside appears not to be a symlinks.

The Problem is that I can't copy the .app file through shared folder from another computer.

What is the problem with it?

Update:

in Finder:

in Terminal:


texts: How to stop asr restore remounting image after completion? Or at east stop the Finder window appearing?

texts:
I'm making a bash script and I need to run a asr restore command in it, but it automatically re-mounts the image after it's finished.
This produces a Finder window that could trick someone into thinking the process is completed when it is in fact not completed.
How do I prevent this window from appearing? (And no, I can't use bless because it's a read-only filesystem.)
macOS X El Capitan


texts: excel files look different on OSX Desktop w/Parallels

texts:
I have two Excel files on my OSX Desktop. One is an alias and it has the double red lines/logo of Parallels, the other does not.  See attached screen shot.

Can anyone tell me why this occurs? I don't think it has to do with one being an alias, as the double red lines have always been there and are visible on most MS files.

Thoughts?

Thx.


texts: com.apple.iconServicesAgent using a lot of RAM in 10.9

texts:
I performed a fresh install of OS X 10.9 and now the process com.apple.iconServicesAgent is using >300MB of RAM, that is quite a lot. This process is using the second most amount of memory of all processes, after the kernel task.

Google tells me that other people have this problem, too, but I found no solution so far.

Is there any way to reduce the RAM consumption of this process?


texts: Why "Do not disturb" bug will fix itself on Jan 7th?

texts:
Just pure curiosity! Last year, the bug is fixed on Jan 2nd too. Both are those days are Monday. Is this just coincidence?

What kind of programming mistake that lead to this bug?


texts:
My macbook suddenly stopped showing USB flash drives in Finder when I plug them in.

I tried 3 different USB sticks - none work (worked just fine yesterday).

USB-ports work fine - I tested all three with an iPhone, iPad, my Nike+ device, even my usb-modem stick - everything works just fine. Except for the USB-storage devices...

The USB drives do not show up in the Disk Utility. The USB drives do not show up in the "System Report" (known as "System Profiler" in earlier versions of OSX). 1 times out of 10 they do show up as some weird "Composite device" there, but do not work.

I have Mac OS 10.7.5. I tried resetting  NVRAM / PRAM - didn't help.

PS. the weird thing is that the drives do not show up under Boot Camp as well, when I'm on windows. So it's not just some drivers problem, but maybe firmware fault? My guess is - my Mac does not supply enough power to the USB ports when a USB drive is inserted? It's a hardware problem since the ports work fine with all other "non storage" devices.


texts:
update: After upgrading to the latest version of VirtualBox and following the first answer at Install OS X in VirtualBox on iMac?, I am now getting the Still waiting for root device.  If I follow the answer about the extra data, I get an Apple logo and a spinning wheel, then I get a crossed-out circle and a spinning wheel.

original question: I have to do some testing with a few different versions of OS X.  I have a machine running 10.6, and I have a USB drive partitions with various OS X installers.  I made disk images (*.dmg) of each of the 10.7 and 10.8 partitions, but when I try to start up a VM, I get (with the 10.8 disk image) if I have EFI enabled

or

FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted.

How can I install these various OS Xes on an OS X host?

Thanks!


texts: How to remove bold from desktop font on OS X El Capitan

texts:
I find the bold font on the desktop  takes up more room than necessary and doesn't make the text any easier for me to read. Is there a way I can remove this bold formatting independently from the rest of the system font?

OS X 10.11.1

Many thanks for your help


texts:
I was reading a book (in PDF) format in iBooks, and when flipping to the next page, I got a spinning circular progress bar, and trying to flip backwards or forwards had no effect, the spinning circle just stayed there. Probably a rendering issue with the PDF file in question.

I killed iBooks (double tap on the home button then slide iBooks up), and tried opening iBooks again. It was frozen on the first page of the PDF file, and didn't respond to touches on the screen in any way. After trying a few things, including restarting the iPad, I got iBooks to work again. However, if I try to open the same file again, because it's probably trying to open the same page, and so it freezes again.

Now, since this is probably an issue with a single page, I'd like to skip this page and keep reading it, but I can't. I tried deleting the book from iBooks on the Mac, syncing, adding it back and syncing it again, but when opening it again, it's still frozen. I assume the last page read is kept in iBooks somehow, and wasn't deleted along with the file. I also tried deleting the PDF file from within iBooks for iPad, deleting it on the Mac, syncing, adding it back and syncing it again, with the same result.

I'm fairly sure if I got iBooks to reset the last page read to the beginning of the book, the problem would be solved, but I can't find a setting anywhere to do it. Basically, I'm looking for something similar to Kindle's clear furthest page read. Or, if this doesn't exist, any other "simple" solution to the problem.

Possible solutions I'd like to avoid, although I have reason to believe these would solve the problem:

Deleting the iBooks app on the iPad, reinstalling it and resyncing my library. It's a huge library (many GBs) and it would take quite a while. Of course it's not a problem to do this once, but I have a feeling it's not the last time I'll need to fix this, and I'd like a quicker/simpler solution.
Renaming the file before resyncing. I meticulously catalogue my books with objective rules for file names, and I'd like to avoid breaking those rules. Besides, if by accident I ever flip to the broken page again (or maybe if there are other broken pages on this same PDF), then I'll have to rename it again to a different file name that I haven't used before.

If there are no other solutions then I'll have to resort to one of these, but I'd like to learn an easier trick if possible.


texts: Is there a way to enable HiDPI scaling for external monitors on MacOS?

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https://www.macrumors.com/2016/09/23/loss-of-resolution-scaling-macos-sierra-update/

Is there a workaround to get HiDPI mode on external monitors on macOS Sierra?


texts: Accessibility Menu items no longer selectable under OS X Yosemite?

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If I'm not mistaken, in earlier editions of OS X, the menu items pictured below could be selected to turn them on or off.

Apparently, that's changed in Yosemite. Is there a way to turn on each accessibility feature from the contextual menu rather than selecting "Accessibility Preferences" to turn them on and off in System Preferences?


texts: Macbook Pro mid 2014 can't adjust brightness

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My laptop:

Macbook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
Processor 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel Iris 1536 MB
OSX Mojave Version 10.14.3

My screen broke, so I bought this replacement screen and fixed it myself.
Everything seems to work fine except that my brightness stays at max and won't adjust, unless I put my laptop into "sleep" mode after a reboot.
This problem has persisted since OSX High Sierra, so I don't think Mojave has anything to do with it.  It has also persisted across multiple OS re-installations.
Also note that the problem doesn't exist when using windows 10 BOOTCAMP, and seems to only happen when using OSX.
What is the cause for this bug and what can I do to troubleshoot this?  Is this a known issue?
Any advice and/or links to related topics would be appreciated!
Edit
I am able to press the brightness keys (F1 and F2) and the small popup window shows up (shown below).  Unless I put my computer in "sleep" mode first, changing the brightness has no effect on the brightness of the computer, despite it indicating that the brightness level is changing.


texts: Failed To Install syslinux on USBDRIVE with Mac OS X

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I am creating Ubuntu Server 13.10 Bootable USBDRIVE with command line using Mac OS X, In this i tried to install Syslinux on USBDRIVE by using syslinux command by following:

xxx-Mac:~xxx$ sudo syslinux /dev/disk2s1

here i am using disk2s1 for my usbdrive but i got following error:

-bash: syslinux: command not found

What is alternative to install syslinux on usbdrive, Mac OS X dont include any syslinux command?


texts: Looking for a tool to automatically two-way sync SFTP with local folder

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I use OS X for development and I want to push changes to dev server on every ⌘+S.
When I check out  a different branch, I want the local folder to update accordingly.

So I figured I need an automatic, two-way sync solution.

My editor of choice is Sublime Text (which is awesome, you totally should check it out).
I began my quest with Sublime Text SFTP plugin by Will Bond but found it unstable and slow.

Then I attacked the problem with Panic Transmit.
It is stunningly beautiful. However, it didn't help me either.

Transmit offers two options:

two-way sync between local and remote folder;
mount SFTP to the filesystem.

Alas, its two-way sync is manual and has to be invoked by pressing a button.
(I could probably get around this by writing some clever AppleScript—but I don't know it.)

SFTP mounting is great—unfortunately, it has major disadvantages: file searching is predictably slow and there seems to be no way to tell Transmit that files have changed on server. You need to unmount and mount again to see the remote changes. This makes branches impossible to work with.

I'm really confused now and I don't feel like wasting a couple of hours on a wrong solution. I'm open to suggestions for a tool to improve my workflow.

Here's what I found so far. I'm not sure any of those can actually watch remote folder for changes.

writing some AppleScript to sync Transmit both ways each ten seconds;
using rsync and Folder Actions;
using rsync and FSEvent;
using DoubleDown (open source);
buying FolderWatch (commercial);
doing something else.

Note that I'm looking for a solution that works out of the box. I don't want a tool that can't handle new/changed/deleted files or folders without fiddling with its source code.


texts: System using old version of rSync instread of new version

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I have a Mac computer and would like to send backups to a Synology NAS.

Apple has rSync 2.6.9 pre-loaded with the operating system.

I installed rSync 3.1.3 using HomeBrew as Synology Active Backup requires at least 3.0.  HomeBrew installed rSync into /usr/local/bin/rsync.

The problem is when I connect to the Mac computer using rSync, the Mac uses version 2.6.9 instead of the new one I installed.  How can I make it so that it uses the new one instead of the old one?

I know about changing the PATH for the local user to put /usr/local/bin/rsync before /usr/bin/rsync.  It works when I am logged in using the terminal or SSH.  However, when I connect using Synology, it always invokes 2.6.9 which renders it not workable.

Is there anything in there that can cause the system to use 3.1.3 in the /usr/local/bin/rsync instead of the original one that came with the computer?

Thanks in advance.


texts: Is it possible to enter letters in iPhone native calculator app?

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I found this wholesome meme image online that shows the native iPhone calculator app displaying the text ur cute.

When I saw this, I didn't think you could type or display actual letters or words in the calculator app, so I tried playing around with it on my phone. I used both the simplified and the scientific calculator.

I could not get any letters to appear. I also tried copy from the Notes app to the calculator app but I could only copy the text from the calculator, not paste (Note: I did this on my iPhone SE IOS v13.3.1).

Is it possible to enter words/letters into the native iPhone calculator application somehow?

Or was this a feature that was available at some point and removed or is this a  bug?

Or is it not possible and this image just photo-shopped?