texts: iOS 7 Apps on iPad show up as installed but are not actually installed

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I have a few apps that appear to be installed on my iPad running iOS 7 but are not actually installed.

For instance, the app is no where on any home screen or inside any folder, but visiting the App Store and navigating to the app page on my iPad does not show an iCloud download button or a "Free/Buy" button.

The OS seems to think the app is there, but it's not. If it is installed I have no way of seeing or using it.

Things I've already tried:

Uninstalling, re-installing through iTunes (latest version)
Signing out of the iTunes/App Store on my iPad and signing back in

Has anybody had this problem or is there a fix anyone knows about?

Update (screenshots)


texts: Mac OS X equivalent to Windows "Register this connection's addresses in DNS"

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On Windows, in the Advanced TCP/IP Properties of the TCP/IPv4 properties of the NIC there is a tickbox called "Register this connection's addresses in DNS".

Does Mac OS X have an equivalent setting?  I need to disable it, as we have a Mac OS X 10.10 Server with 3 NICs that is autoregistering in the office DNS server (which is a Windows 2012 server btw) and it is registering the same hostname on all 3 NICs, which is not what we want.


texts: Does the Mountain Lion installer work on any Mac capable of running Mountain Lion or is it hardware specific?

texts: Perhaps this is an obvious question, but will the Mountain Lion installer from the App Store work on any Mac? E.g. if I download it and put it on an SD card on my MacBook Pro can I use that SD card to install Mountain Lion on a family member's white MacBook? I know that the OS discs that the laptops came with were hardware-specific. I'm just trying to avoid downloading and burning the installer again.


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I was using BlueStacks and my MacBook started going REALLY slow, then all my settings got reset. I rebooted to see if that would fix my problem, and the Setup program started. I went through the setup as if this mac was never used before, and I decided to see what would happen if I pressed the key that shows all the windows open, and I saw my normal desktop in the background. I finished the setup and am now in the process of changing my settings back to what they were.
Does anybody know why this happened, if there's a way to prevent this from happening, or a way to revert my setting back to what they were?


texts: How to start automatically issue a command in one tab of terminal console

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When I use terminal on OSX, I normally have console terminal open with a number of different tabs. In one of those tabs I have a localhost server and in another tab I have a different localhost server. I have saved this window configuration as a windows group that is reopened when I restart terminal, say upon rebooting.

When I restart terminal, I want the two tabs with servers in them to restart the servers.

How do I do this?


texts: Override iTunes "media" keys (play, pause, etc) for Spotify?

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Is it possible to set Spotify as the default program when the "media" keys (play, pause, previous, next, etc) are pressed on the Mac keyboard?

For the most part when Spotify is open, the "media" keys work fine. But every once and a while iTunes will pop up when you hit them. It'd be a lot nicer if you could just specify that Spotify is the default program when these keys are triggered, as oppose to iTunes.

If it matters, I'm using Mountain Lion.


texts: Add someone to contacts through Game Center?

texts: Is there a way to add the friends I have added to Game Center to my contacts app? I'm using iOS 7.1 on iPad.


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As Xcode 8 beta is available to download, I see it's distributed with a .xip extension, Xcode_8_beta.xip.

What is the .xip format? What's the difference between previous .dmg format?


texts: Remapping keyboard shortcuts in Chrome and Firefox

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I recently switched from Windows to Mac.  One of the things that's really ingrained in my muscle memory is hitting Alt+D in a browser to go to the address bar.  On Mac browsers, ⌘+D creates a bookmark, the equivalent to move to the address bar is ⌘+L.

I've used the Keyboard pref pane to remap ⌘+D to the "Open Location..." command in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox.  In Safari this works great.  In both Chrome and Firefox, hitting ⌘+D now goes to the address bar and creates a bookmark.  Is there any way to get this to work properly in Chrome and Firefox?

Mac OS 10.7, Chrome 13.0.782.220, Firefox 6.0.2


texts: How can I turn off responses to Calendar invites?

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When I accept or decline a meeting invite, Calendar automatically sends an email to the person that invited me to the meeting.

OS X 10.10.2 calendar app

How can I turn this off so that no response is sent?


texts: Character Accent Menu doesn't appear anymore in macOS Sierra

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Before upgrading to macOS Sierra, I really liked the Character Accent Menu by doing a long press on a key (for example, the character e) and being able to add an accent on it.

However, this functionality seems to not work anymore, and so far, I can't find out why?

Also, before, doing a long press on the delete button, would repeatly delete characters. Now, it is doing only one character deletion disregarding how long I'm pressing the key. So if I want to erase 10 characters, I need to press the delete button 10 times...

Also, I am not able to log off or shut down. When doing it, all applications are closed, status bar disappears but nothing happens. The dock remains here. I have no way to shut down or log out without doing a long press on the power button.

Is someone facing the same issue?

EDIT :
Logging with a new user account or guest account fix all the problems. But I still would like to know what, in my user account, became corrupted during the upgrade.


texts: Inherit Time Machine Backup Snow Leopard

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I have a Time Machine backup of a harddisk with Snow Leopard (HD1). The SATA cable for the disk failed and got replaced. The HD was replaced out of precaution as well. The new HD (HD2) got restored from the Time Machine backup, but now if Time Machine is started up again it starts a full backup of the disk, and does not do an incremental on top of the old backups.

So the content of HD2 is equal to HD1, but Time Machine thinks otherwise.

How do I force Time Machine to inherit the backups for the new HD?
Anything related to the Terminal command tmutil does not work as that is only for Lion. This command does not exist in Snow Leopard.


texts: Extremely poor video quality on Samsung monitor with HDMI

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I have connected my MacBook Pro to a Samsung P2770HD monitor using a Kanex brand Mini Displayport to HDMI cable

However, the output on the Samsung monitor is absolutely garbage. It is pixellated to the point that I don't even want to look at it.

The resolution is 1600x900 (but I have tried all other resolutions as well - all with similar output)

When I connect my Windows laptop to the same monitor using DVI cables, I get 1920 x 1080 resolution and the display is crystal clear.

How do troubleshoot this?


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I have Dovecot running as a daemon via a launchd plist. It runs fine but doesn't stop if I run launchctl stop nor if I unload the plist so I end up using doveadm stop. Is there a key or command I add to the plist to tell it how to stop a service? I've checked the man pages for launchd.plist and launchctl but can't find anything like it.

This is the relevant part of the plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>local.dovecot</string>
<!--
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <false/>
 -->
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/opt/pkg/sbin/dovecot</string>
<!--       <string>-F</string> -->
    </array>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/Library/Logs/Dovecot/stdout.log</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/Library/Logs/Dovecot/stderr.log</string>
  </dict>
</plist>

There's no KeepAlive or anything like that, it's a very simple plist.

Any help with this will be much appreciated.


texts: How to pause screen recording with cmd+5 in Mojave

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I need to start using screencast recording and know that we can use Quick Time for this. However, in Mojave we have the improved built-in feature of taking screenshots or record screen with the CMD5. It adds a nice feature that is showing when we click the mouse, where we cannot do this with Quick Time.

However, I didn't find a way to pause the recording like we can do in Quick Time.

Is there any way to use the CMD5 for recording screen but pausing the recording?


texts: How do I open a browser which Apple gives in popups

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I have seen a type of browser which Apple spits out, for example, when connecting to hotel WiFi's. They seem to be a pop-up window without any specific application.

I find Github's screenshots to be displayed in the same way - Example. How do I achieve this to open any URL in a similar fashion?

Purpose: This would be a clean way to take screenshots etc.


texts: How can I delete photos from camera roll and leave in an album?

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I created a named album on my iPhone and placed photos from my camera roll in there. I would then like to delete these photos from the camera roll. However, when I try to do so an error messages warns that the photos (which currently reside in the the camera roll and named album) will also be deleted from the album.

Is there a way to delete the photos from the camera roll and leave them in the specific album?


texts: Make a "Loved" or favorite podcasts playlist?

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I really have been trying to find a way to save my favorite podcast episodes from different channels into one playlist. With the new Love button in iTunes, I made a Smart Playlist using this feature. But no luck  iTunes wasn't updating the Smart Playlist with any podcasts that I marked as Loved. Any ideas? Maybe this functionality isn't possible with iTunes? If so, that's a shame...
Thanks


texts: How to use a 2 TB external hard drive containing existing data as TimeMachine backup storage without losing data already on it?

texts: I have an 2 TB external hard drive. It is formatted as NTFS format, supported by ntfs-3g which is installed using Homebrew. There is already about 500 GB data existing on it that I need to keep. I now want to use the rest of the space on it to store my TimeMachine backups. There is only one partition on the hard drive. I do not have other hard drives to shuffle the data. How can I start to use this hard drive to store my Time Machine backups?


texts: Is Safari allowing extensions to be installed by stray clicks in a web page?

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Sometimes when I go to visit my parents, they ask me to fix their Macbook because something is wrong with Safari. The find that there is an extension installed and that it has set the home page in the browser. Unfortunately I don’t remember the name of the last one but I think it was “Smart Search” or “Safe Search” or something like that.

I know how to uninstall an extension, but I’m wondering how it gets installed in the first place. I think my parents know enough about computers to not download and install random programs of the internet so I suspect they are getting tricked into clicking something in a web page. But, is that possible? Can a website install an extension on the sly like that? It’s never happened to me.

They're running macOS High Sierra 10.13.5, Safari 11.1.1.


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So, I started up my computer a couple days ago, and OS X reported that my Time Machine Drive had some damage and that I could view files, but not copy anything to the drive. After verifying with disk utility, I learned that the drive has an Invalid Node structure, meaning I have to reformat the drive. But here's where the problem comes in: Before I can reformat, I need to backup all the information on the drive. Time Machine uses symbolic links, so I can't just copy with the finder. I can't use Disk Utility's restore feature to copy everything on the drive to another drive, since that will also copy the damage (I know, I tried it...). I tried using the cp -R command in terminal, which I think will not copy the hard links properly, but it started giving me permission errors.

So, does anybody have any suggestions on how to transfer my Time Machine Backups to another drive? Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: Don't switch Spaces automatically **ever**, even when double-activating app, on Sierra

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I'd like OS X to stop switching Desktops when an app gains focus. The traditional solutions to this do not work in Sierra. There is now a new behavior: if an app is brought to the foreground twice in a row (i.e. click on the app icon in the Dock twice), then the Space automagically switches.

I have not seen this new behavior until upgrading to Sierra, and have not yet seen any solution how disable it.

Deselecting When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application, nor defaults write com.apple.Dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO stop this behavior.

Is there some way to stop Spaces from switching spaces when the active app is activated a second time?


texts: How can I find out what software I've bought in the App Store?

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I'm Using my iPhone 3G and haven't backup it as frequently as I should and would like to know what software I've bought for it. So I know I don't have to pay for it again. Yes I can try and buy the software but I want to know of all the apps I've bought.

I know some apps wont be available for my old iPhone but they will work if I buy a new one. I need to know how much money I will lose in Apps I can't use anymore. If I buy a new phone that isn't an iPhone.

So How can I find out what Apps I've bought for my iPhone.
I have both Windows and Mac computers available.

The mac computer runs Mac os X 10.6.8, the iPhone 3G runs iOS 4.1.2


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I'm having issues restoring my daughter's iPad to working order, and I'm wondering what options I have.

She changed her passcode on it and then forgot it, so now it's permanently disabled. I'm resigned to having to wipe it (well I don't really give a shit about what she has on there anymore), but having issues getting it to a "blank slate".

It doesn't seem to be connecting to my Wi-Fi, so an over-the-air wipe from her iCloud account doesn't work.

I've tried putting it in recovery mode by holding the power and home buttons while connected to iTunes. This initiates the update process, however after downloading the 2.9 GB update, it seems to stop with a network error -3259 and then eventually the iPad just restarts back to disabled mode.

What other tricks can I try to get this back to a vanilla state so I can restore (an outdated) backup?

I'm trying this on a Windows 10 PC on an NBN 50 Mbps connection with the latest version of iTunes.


texts: Not able to clear History in Safari using AppleScript in OS X El Capitan

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I have been using below script to clear the Safari history from selenium test in OS X Yosemite . I have upgraded to OS X El Capitan and now the script won't work.

Error returned : Can't get "Clear History" button

tell application "Safari" to activate
tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Safari"
        tell menu bar 1
            tell menu bar item "History"
                tell menu 1
                    click menu item "Clear History…"
                end tell
            end tell
        end tell
        delay 1 -- optional
        click button "Clear History"
    end tell
end tell


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This is a canonical question Where is the list of canonical questions stored for Ask Different?

How do I jailbreak an iPhone or iPad (to install a package manager like Cydia or Sileo for tweaks) on:

iOS/iPadOS 13
iOS 12
iOS 11
iOS 10
iOS 9
iOS 8


texts: Is any version of OS X/macOS vulnerable to the Year 2038 problem?

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Around the year 2000, Apple wrote a press release that every Mac since 1984 would avoid the Y2K problem, and could process dates for the next several thousand years.

  The good news is that since their introduction in 1984, Macintosh computers have had the ability to make the transition to the year 2000. In fact, the Mac OS and most Mac applications can handle internally generated dates correctly all the way to the year 29,940.

This statement was made when Mac OS 9 was the most recent operating system.

Since then, OS X (now called macOS) is the dominant operating system, which is derived from Unix. Does this mean that any version is vulnerable to the Year 2038 problem, a problem comparable to the Y2K problem that affects Unix-like systems? Or does the statement Apple gave about being compatible to the year 29,940 still hold true?


texts: Gatekeeper won't let LibreOffice open .csv files

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I recently installed LibreOffice Vanilla (LOV) from the Mac App Store.  I want it to be the default app for opening .csv files.

First, I tried to open a .csv file using the "Open With" dialog.  LOV is not an offered option, so I clicked on "Other" and there it is but it is ghosted until I go from "Recommended Applications" to "All Applications".

That should be it, but I then get this error message (I think from "Gatekeeper"):

If I go into Security Preferences I can make it "Open Anyway", but the next time I try to open a .csv file I get the same error.

How do I set up my Mac so double-clicking on a .csv file will have it open in LibreOffice?

Update: I found a procedure (described as an answer below) that will make LibreOffice the default app for ONE .csv file, but I have to go through the same steps (add LibreOffice to "Open With" and tell Gatekeeper to "Open Anyway") for every .csv file that has not had this done.

So how do I set up OS X so that double-clicking on any .csv file will have it open in LibreOffice?


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I have an iPhone 3gs that my friend pulled the cable out of it during a restore. It is now "Bricked",as it will not restore. I have tried restoring it myself, but now I keep getting error 37.

My iTunes version is 11.1.3. Any ideas?

Edit: The SIM card was not in the phone... could this contribute to the fact that the restore is not working? I do believe it is not unlocked.


texts: A device named "iPhone" in Location Services on my iPad will not stay deleted

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iPad/General/Restrictions/Location Services is on.
Share my location is on.
From this device - MyiPad (I named my ipad MyiPad)
Then under that it shows the word iPhone.
My iPhone is named lAiPhone not iPhone.

I am able to swipe it to the left and select delete, but then is is back in about 3 seconds.

I want to know exactly what it is. What can I check. How can i get rid of it. I do not have any paired devices.


texts: Is there a technical reason why I cannot find a mini display port to hdmi (female) cable that's more than 6 inches?

texts: I've looked and looked and don't see one. Do they just not exist?


texts: Can I use a MacBook as a server with the lid closed?

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I have an old MacBook laying around, and I wonder if it's possible to use it safely when the lid is closed? I want to run it as a network device, store files in my home network on it etc.
Is there a way to use it just plugged in to power and ethernet, close
the lid and let it run as a server?


texts: How to completely disable built in microphone on Macbook?

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As a music app developer, I need to test how the app works on a Mac without any audio inputs (some Mac Minis don't have built-in mic and list line input only when there is something connected to it). To do that, I would need to make the built-in microphone invisible to apps, similar to disabling a device driver on Windows.

Note that just muting the input is not enough. Disabling microphone permission also still allows the app to see the microphone and even access it, but the app receives only silence.


texts: How To Changing Printer Scaling on Mac OS X 10.8.2

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I am currently having an annoying problem where anything I print in Mac OS X 10.8.2 is scaled to 3%, and I cannot seem to change this through the printing menu.

I've attached a picture of my printing presets which shows that the scaling is stuck at 3%, though I cannot reset the scaling from this menu. The presets window shows the "scaling" option under "Copies & Pages" but this does not show up in the printing drop-down menu... so I'm stuck.

Does anyone know how to change this setting?


texts: How do I reset safari to a state equal to that of a new user?

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There is a website (happening.im) which does not work in my user account, but does work when I switch to the guest user.
So the problem is in my user profile somehow.

I've tried deleting ~/Library/Safari but that didn't do the trick.

How do I completely reset safari to the state that the guest user has?


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A lot of my songs won't play on my iPhone anymore. They are still listed as being there, they just won't play and a red square and circle are placed by them. I've tried everything and nothing has made the problem go away.

How to make the song playable again?


texts: How do I give focus to the correct window when closing another application's window?

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On Lion, if I am in Chrome and click on an alert from Outlook that says I received an e-mail, I get a new window from Outlook with that e-mail on top of Chrome (I can still see Chrome immediately under my Outlook e-mail window). When I close the e-mail, I would expect the OS to re-focus on the Chrome window (since that's where I came from), but in fact it pulls the Outlook window out and gives it focus instead.

It appears that Lion tries to keep focus on a particular app rather than a particular window. Is there any way to change this behavior so that my interaction with the window "stack" makes sense?


texts: Is it safe to leave the iMac turned off for months at a time?

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Is it safe to leave your iMac turned off for months at a time? I haven’t used it for a while, and won’t be using it for some time while in lockdown.
Will it be ok performance wise?

Thanks


texts: Is there a way to show the iPhone skin with the lastest iOS 8 Simulator?

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Previous versions of the iOS Simulator (7 and below) would also show the iPhone skin, which made for better demos:

Is there a way to do this with the iOS 8 Simulator? This isn't as compelling:


texts: Reinstall broken recovery partition on High Sierra

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macOS High Sierra (10.13) is the main OS on my Mac and it boots without issue. However, the recovery partition is corrupted and I cannot boot to it without seeing an error. How do I reinstall the recovery partition without having to disrupt my working main OS?

The machine I'm using was upgraded from Mavericks.

Meta Note: While there are similar questions for previous MacOS versions, I think unique issues relating to the new APFS in High Sierra justify a new question.


texts: Macbook Pro Mid 2014 stuttering and small lag spikes @ 4K 30Hz with HDMI 2.0/1.4b

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So the limit of the Macbook Pro mid 2014 is 3840x2160 at 30 Hz through HDMI 2.0 (I guess it's only 1.4b). When I fire up VLC and look on my Macbook, the image is clear and there is no stutering what so ever. It runs butter smooth. When I look at my TV, however, the quality is still very, very good, but the video stutters all the time. It's like a bungee/elastic effect when there's a panorama shot, and when there's a rolling shot going very fast, it's like watching 10 FPS clips.

I can see my Macbook Pro uses the integrated 750M graphics card, and it does get quite hot.

What's the issue here?


texts: Using Airport Express pair as 'audio tunnel'?

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I'm looking to do something that I think is fairly basic, but I'm not aware of whether Airport Express hardware supports this scenario.  Basically, I just want to tunnel audio via IP packets / my home network, from a home theater, to a set of outdoor speakers.  [For the scenario, think:  being able to follow the action of a sports broadcast when I go from home-theater room, to outside my house, where my outdoor speakers are.]

If a pair of Airport Expresses can be configured as a 'dedicated, point-to-point audio bridge' then it seems like it'd work.  In other words - set up to just tunnel the audio input from one Express, over regular home-network IP, to the other bridge, where it re-emerges via line-out as regular audio out. Can those devices operate that way?  If not - is there an inexpensive way to enable?

I'm not aware of any 'bridge' device pairs that tunnel audio over IP (TCP or UDP) from a 'transmitter' to a 'receiver.' (Devices like this exist for Bluetooth... but, I need to span a large distance, and figure I should be able to leverage the my wired/WiFi home network to achieve this, and not worry about audio quality; bluetooth profiles; signal strength - etc.)

Note, the goal would be to set this up once - and then not control them or manage them, using Airplay or anything else, thereafter.

thoughts?


texts: Does it make sense to use Aperture 3 in combination with iPhoto or can you drop iPhoto?

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I've just ordered my first mac and as an impatient hobby photographer I've already been reading up a lot on Aperture and iPhoto.

I've seen the iPhoto '11 presentation and was very impressed with the usability and cool features.

But I know that I will need Aperture eventually to work on my photos as I like to tweak a lot of things.

I currently work with Adobe Lightroom and while I like its advanced stuff, I don't like the basics much such as the organizing, sorting, etc. What I saw in the iPhoto demo certainly looked a lot better.

I'm still reading up on aperture but I think (this is only a guesstimate) that it will be less enjoyable and less easy to sort/browse/organize your photo's in it than iPhoto. I don't mind using something dumbed down, consumer grade to do this basic stuff, but I do like something more pro to do the actual editing.

So my question is..

What's the workflow that other hobby/pro photographers here use to organize/edit their photos? Do everything in aperture? Start in aperture and export to iPhoto? Start in iPhoto and switch to aperture to edit individual photo's?


texts: My kernel_task takes 71.2G VIRT and 2386M RES (in htop screen). I'd like to understand what takes so much resource. But I don't understand what is wrong based on the output of sudo zprint -t https://pastebin.com/hWSRmn0N. Could anybody take a look what is wrong? Thanks.


texts: How do text sizes compare between iPhone X, 8/Plus and SE?

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When considering a switch from one iPhone form factor to another, one of
the importand aspect is:

How physical text size compares between old and new phone (each of
iPhone X, 8/Plus and SE)? How does different DPI affect it, if at all? And how much does the Zoomed View setting change the size?

This is especially important for elder and weak-eyesight users.

With release of iPhone X, my earlier question becomes critically outdated, so I decided to create a new one.


texts: FTP Issues on MacOS, can't write on the disk

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I'm developing a website for a client, but some space of the server we will be used to transfer large files of softwares like Maya Autodesk (my client working with 3D modeling). I'm trying to configure the filezilla on MacOS of my client which did not work correctly. It is possible to upload files, but I can not download anything from server. I checked if it was the firewall that was blocking Filezilla, but it wasn't.

The error message that appears is below:

Status:         Resolving address of sl1064.web.hostpoint.ch
Status:         Connecting to 217.26.61.24:21...
Status:         Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Status:         Initializing TLS...
Status:         Verifying certificate...
Status:         TLS connection established.
Status:         Server does not support non-ASCII characters.
Status:         Connected
Status:         Retrieving directory listing...
Status:         Directory listing of "/" successful
Status:         Retrieving directory listing of "/3d_files"...
Status:         Directory listing of "/3d_files" successful
Status:         Resolving address of sl1064.web.hostpoint.ch
Status:         Connecting to 217.26.61.24:21...
Status:         Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Status:         Initializing TLS...
Status:         Verifying certificate...
Status:         TLS connection established.
Status:         Server does not support non-ASCII characters.
Status:         Connected
Status:         Starting download of /3d_files/Gallop_2.mov
Command:    CWD /3d_files
Response:   250 OK. Current directory is /3d_files
Command:    PWD
Response:   257 "/3d_files" is your current location
Error:          Failed to open "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Gallop_2.mov" for writing
Error:          File transfer failed
Status:         Starting download of /3d_files/Gallop_2.mov
Error:          Failed to open "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Gallop_2.mov" for writing
Error:          File transfer failed
Status:         Starting download of /3d_files/Gallop_2.mov
Error:          Failed to open "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Gallop_2.mov" for writing
Error:          File transfer failed
Status:         Disconnected from server

Thanks guys


texts: How do I Jailbreak my iPhone 5. It is running the latest supported release of iOS (10.3.3).


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When renaming files in Finder I end the renaming with "Enter" which irritatingly opens the file. Websearch tells me that the "Enter"-key should start (and end) renaming while Cmd+O opens a file.

How do I restore that behaviour or by which keycommand has it been replaced? Did I change this myself (inadvertently, like, a while ago), or has Apple changed it??

EDIT:
After getting the answer that this behaviour has NOT changed, I looked into what could have changed it again and found that I activated this behaviour in Karabiner-Elements. Probably should have tried to get used to the system before customising it.


texts: Shift–Command–Left/Right Arrow started switching tabs in macOS Mojave Finder, clashes with text movement?

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I often need to rename longer filenames in Finder. I used to do Shift + Command + ←/→ to select text from cursor to the start/end of the field.

But in macOS Mojave, suddenly this combination started to switch to previous/next Finder tab - so when I use the shortcut, file name editing is cancelled and I get switched to a new tab.

This doesn't happen in macOS High Sierra, and it's described in Apple's support document, Mac keyboard shortcuts as:

Shift–Command–Left Arrow: Select the text between the insertion point and the beginning of the current line.
Shift–Command–Right Arrow: Select the text between the insertion point and the end of the current line.

Is this a bug? Is there a known workaround?


texts: Unexplained memory usage in iPad iBooks?

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I have a 16GB Apple iPad 3(with Retina Display). Today, while checking up my available memory, I saw the iPad had about only 1GB left. After deleting major unused apps, I found out that iBooks was using up 1.4GB of storage. I found it to be extremely weird, since iBooks isn't supposed to be consuming so much of space, unless you cram thousands of ebooks in there.

I have only 4 PDFs and 4 books(purchased from the App Store). Each of these books have about a few hundred (max ~600-700) pages. So, I'm not sure how is the 1.4GB being used up by iBooks.

I'd really like to free up the space iBooks seems to be using. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: What type of provisioning profile is required for TestFlight external testing?

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I've been trying to get Ionic push notifications to work on my TestFlight app for beta-testing for weeks now and I still have not managed to implement them successfully. When I build for release via Xcode, everything works fine. I have double-checked to ensure that the necessary certificates are set up fine yet for some reason however, push notifications fail to be received (though device token registration works fine) on TestFlight.

I have read many conflicting answers on forums, documentations and tutorials stating that an Ad-hoc provisioning profile is needed for TestFlight while others state that a distribution profile must be used. First of all, somehow the Ad-hoc profile does not attach with the build when I Archive and try to upload onto TestFlight via Xcode. Second of all, I have managed to upload on TestFlight using the Distribution profile but the push notifications are not received. I am now stumped on how I have to get push notifications to work on TestFlight.

My question is: which provisioning profile has to be used for a TestFlight app and what could be the reason why it is not working? Thank you.


texts: How can I trigger a Notification Center notification from an AppleScript or shell script?

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I'd love to be able to take advantage of 10.8's Notification Center features in AppleScripts and shell scripts I write.

Is there a built-in command or a third-party library I can use from either an AppleScript or shell script?

Ideally the type and icon of the notification could be controlled, but even just the ability to trigger a basic banner with a stock icon (but custom text) would be appreciated.


texts: Why does my cellular iPad not have the cellular capabilities?

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I’ve recently purchased an iPad Air advertised as ‘Wifi Only’ but it has the sim card tray & antenna. I’ve got the exact same model A1475 in a different storage capacity variant side-by-side with it, the model numbers match. Both are indeed Wifi + Cellular models.

Using Apple's site https://checkcoverage.apple.com and entering the serial number to check the service and support coverage of the devices, both are shown to be 'iPad Air WiFi, Cellular'

The serial numbers on the back of the devices match the serial number in ‘Settings->General->About’ for each device respectively.

The one lacking cellular capability also lacks the following fields in the ‘About’ section: Network, Carrier, Cellular Data Number, IMEI, ICCID, MEID, Modem Firmware. It does not have ‘Cellular Data’ or ‘Carrier’ in the first category of settings either as the older iPad does either, usually 'Airplane Mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Cellular Data, Carrier'.

I've tried 2 different sim cards, both which work in my phone and other cellular iPad but there's absolutely no indication that it's been inserted or lack thereof.

Other suggestion around the web and on the Apple forums indicate to restore the iPad, users have reported only WiFi firmware is compatible and resetting network settings (I've reset the entire device), all to no avail for other users either.

Browsing other forums I’ve learnt that:

The software setting up the antenna may have failed during a software update therefore no longer has the cellular capability. (iPhones are not prone to this however)
The board within the device or certain components could have been removed in order to remove an iCloud lock that existed on the device.

I picked up both second-hand for dirt-cheap prices and the newer iPad was originally advertised as ‘WiFi only’ anyway so there’s no issue with that, I would just like to find a way to resolve the issue is possible. I’d be grateful for any suggestions.

Edit 01/06/2017
I opened up the iPad and found that a cable from the sim card tray to the motherboard where the screen ICs are connected was unplugged. When turning the iPad on, it attempts to look for a signal (shows the 5 empty circles) but then changes to the text 'iPad' but without the pop-up that reads 'No sim card inserted'.
I may have damaged the cable when inserting it, it was a mission to get in, that's probably why the last person who repaired it didn't put it into place.


texts: iTunes reporting phantom songs on iPhone 4

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I've been trying to work out whats going wrong on my iTune library

When I was syncing my iPhone tonight I noticed that under iPhone>Music there were approx. 150 songs that were grey with a "sync" symbol against them as well as a check mark.

I was using iTunes Match with no problem up to now.

I switched off Match and synced.  nada.

I deleted all the music on the iPhone using General>Usage>Music.  They are still there.

the iPhone reports having no songs on it under About.  I've tried dragging the songs to the iPhone with match switched off and only some of them copy.

I switched on Match again.  still there are 150 songs that are grey.

It looks like iTunes thinks that the songs should be on the iPhone but aren't.

Any suggestions?


texts: How do I transfer pictures from my iPhone 6 to my Mac while phone is water damaged?

texts: My iPhone 6 has been water damaged causing me not to see my screen, I can't unlock my phone because of this. Is there a way I can transfer my photos to my Mac without unlocking the phone?


texts: How To Restore Previous 3 sessions of Safari?

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Everywhere seems to tell you how to open the previous safari session but what about those before that?

I sent my macbook for repair & i only can open my last prev session which probably was opened up by the repair guy but he did not restore the sessions prior to the repair... Any idea how to restore the sessions before that?


texts: How can I change the IMEI number on my iPhone 6?

texts: How do I change the IMEI number of my iPhone?


texts: How can I automatically download multiple sites through Coda?

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I have several sites in Coda that I would like to automatically re-download when I tell it to. The sites are collaboratively managed, and I'd like to download a fresh copy of the sites automatically. I am open to AppleScripting, an Automator workflow, a shell script, a combination of all three, or anything else you suggest. How would I go about doing this?

Edit: Can I write a shell script to download the whole site via FTP, then copy it to my "Sites" folder and overwrite the existing data? I need to be able to do it for more than one site, so I need a way to pass in the domain name, user, password, and the directory I want it to copy to.


texts: How to use different versions of paraview python?

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Paraview comes with a python called pvpython that I wish to use from the command line. Currently I have version 4.4 installed and to make it available I have added the following into my ~/.bashrc file:

export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/bin/

This allows my to type pvpython at the command line. But I now want to upgrade my Paraview to version 5.0 but still retain the old version. What is the best way to do this? If I download the new version of paraview I just get a package manager that I think will overwrite my old version (I just have /Applications/paraview.app but no version!) - but I want to be able to switch between the two versions whenever I want! Any suggestions would be helpful!


texts: Help to replace a blank space with a backslash and blankspace in a variable in Run Shell Command with Automator

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Im creating an automator service that transcodes all the files within a folder to a compressor preset by running the following shell script:

VAR="/Applications/Compressor.app/Contents/MacOS/Compressor -batchname MyFirstBatch"
    for d in "$@"; do
        filename=$(basename "$d")
        fname="$(dirname "$d")"/"${filename%.*}"
        VAR+=" -jobpath "$d" -settingpath /Applications/Compressor.app/Contents/Resources/Settings/ProRes/proResHQName.setting -locationpath "$fname".mov"
    done
eval $VAR

The problem is that the resulting paths in the string have a blank space instead of backslash and blankspace, so I want to replace every " " in the d variable with a "\ ".

Also, is there any way to omit folders and only consider files?

Thank you.

Here's a screenshot of my workflow (Get specified Finder Items and Get folder Contents are just for testing purpose, I disable them when using it as a service):


texts: Apple TV 4th gen no sound after 48 hours

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I have a few Apple TV’s scatted around my site
the reported issue from a user: When air playing to the apple TV I get picture but no sound
Troubleshooting:

The user’s output was selected as the apple TV -> Video: Yes - Sound: No
The apple TV had the HDMI cable disconnected and reconnected -> Video: Yes - Sound: No
Power cycled (AC disconnected, Wait 30 seconds, AC reconnected) the Apple TV -> Video: Yes - Sound: YES

A few days later the same issue was reported by a different user:

Updated the apple TV to the latest from 13.3.1 to 13.4.8 -> Video: Yes - Sound: YES

I then checked on it a few days later, same issue:

Power cycled the Apple TV -> Video: Yes - Sound: YES

A few more days later, same issue:

Wiped the Apple TV -> Video: Yes - Sound: YES

2 days later I checked on it, same issue:

Using the apple TV remote I restarted the device from the system -> Video: Yes - Sound: YES

After another 2 days I replaced the Apple TV with a different one that was purchased at the same time and set it up the same.
I then checked on it after 2 days and same issue has video no sound.
I have tried different Apple TV's Different Mac OSx versions and devices
Different:

Apple TV's
Mac OSx Versions and Devices
iPad OS Versions and Devices

Please help hive mind what can i try next?


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Possible Duplicate:
  iPhone 4 - sound only comes out of one speaker

I finally got my iPhone 4S! But when playing a song, I noticed the sound isn't stereo. The right box is doing all the hard box, while the left one is producing a very minimal sound. Is this standard on the iPhone 4S or is it a hardware/software issue?


texts: Is it possible to edit the date of birth provided while creating the Apple Id


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I had updated my old iMac to Mavericks just fine. I then bought a new (certified refurbished, actually) iMac and migrated everything over from a Time Machine backup.

The new iMac's clock loses several seconds a day. When I unlock the Date & Time system preference, the time then synchronizes to the correct time immediately. But then it just loses time again.

I read this answer and now have a total of 3 time-servers, but it doesn't seem to solve my problem.

In the system.log file, there are these relevant messages:

Dec  3 22:31:34 iMac.local ntpd[66350]: SYNC state ignoring +0.155735 s
Dec  3 22:31:35 iMac.local ntpd[66350]: ntpd: time set +0.308737 s
Dec  3 22:31:35 iMac.local com.apple.time[158]: Interval maximum value is 946100000 seconds (specified value: 9223372036854775807).

The Interval maximum value one doesn't look good.

Anybody know how to fix this so that the time stays sync'd?

Update

It took a little while, but the addition of multiple time servers did make it better (not perfect, but better). Now it gains time, but seemingly at a much slower rate.

If the addition of multiple servers (3 in total) had anything to do with making it better, perhaps (?) the addition of yet more servers will make it better still. I now have a total of 5 servers in ntp.conf.  I'll watch it over the next couple of days and see what happens. (Even if this fixes it, this still doesn't answer why all of this is necessary to fix it in the first place. An answer to that would be nice, but I'll settle for it just being fixed at this point.)

BTW: you can set multiple via the System Preferences GUI: just type server names into the field with commas to separate them. This keeps the GUI and the file in sync.

BTW #2: here's the site I got the list of publicly accessible NTP servers from.


texts: How to control where script run by cron saves files?

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I've got the following cron job that runs at 6 am every morning:

00 6 * * * /Users/username/path/to/script/wget.pl 1;

The script, written in perl, fetches the latest files from a website.

Within the perl script, the path gets changed with:

`cd '/path/to/directory'`

However, all the files downloaded aren't getting saved to /path/to/directory they get saved in /Users/username.

What can I do to get the script to save it in the directory I want?


texts: How do I preview a Live Photo using the keyboard in Photos.app?

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The ability to playback Live Photos in Photos.app is a nuisance at best. So far I've only been able to play them by hovering over them with my mouse, either over the 'Live' tag in the bottom left hand side of a full view photo, or hovering over the photo in the gallery view (which plays without sound).

Is there a keyboard shortcut that can be used to start the preview in one or both views?

Spacebar doesn't work, as that switches between full size/edit mode, and gallery mode. There is no shortcut that I've found in the app's menus.


texts: How can I repair a disk that Disk Utility says it can't repair?

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I have an external hard-disk with a single Mac OS Extended partition. This disk stopped working couple of days ago. I tried to repair the partition with disk utility but no luck. The error message is the following:

  Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.

Any ideas or tools I can try to repair my disk?


texts: How to stop iPhone from listing iMac as audio source during phone call?

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I just purchased an iPhone 8 Plus which is running iOS 11.2.1. I am upgrading from an iPhone 6s which I never upgraded to iOS 11. When I make a phone call, the top right option used to be a toggle for just speakerphone. Now, it shows "audio" and there are multiple options. They are: my iPhone, Speakerphone, and my iMac. My iMac did NOT used to appear as an option, and I do not want it to appear.

I want to be able to toggle speakerphone with a single tap, like I used to do. How can I resume that behavior?

What I have tried

Disable Handoff on the iPhone 8 Plus

Disable handoff under Settings > General > Handoff
Reboot the phone.

Disable Handoff on my iMac

Uncheck the option under Apple logo > System Preferences > General > "Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices"
Reboot the computer

Turn off wifi on my phone

I was curious to see if the iMac would not show up as an option when wifi was disabled, because I don't know how it was being discovered by my phone. Even with wifi disabled, the option still appeared. It must be because both the iMac and iPhone are signed into my iCloud account.

None of the above options had any impact.

Here are screenshots of my experience


texts: How to obtain default application associations throughout the system with one tool?

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I'd like to be able to use the shell (or a GUI would be alright too) to obtain default associations of both filetypes and functions such as Email and the default web browser in one holistic location.

Currently I'm only aware of being able to get the default Mail app definition from Mail.app's preferences, default browser from System Preferences -> General and then app associations piecemeal by going to files and checking their associations in Finder (Path Finder, or some such tool).  Protocol defaults for ftp, ssh, etc. would also be nice.

I'm having some odd issues where I would like to obtain all application associations system wide in a single place such as Terminal or a GUI tool.  How can I do this?


texts: Spotlight Doesn't Properly Show Preference Panes

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I'm having an issue where Spotlight isn't properly showing results for System Preference panels. When I search for a preference panel by name (e.g. Sharing or Network), I don't get any System Preferences results. If I search for "pref", I get a list of preference panes, like this:

Even typing the name as it appears there (e.g. SharingPref.prefPane or a subset thereof) doesn't get a result.

The only exception is that third party preference panes do appear correctly (albeit still with the .prefPane extension.

I've tried forcing a re-index, both by Apple's method, and sudo mdutil -E /, and neither has fixed this behaviour. I don't recall when it started exactly, but I think it may have been ever since getting my new iMac (running 10.8), which was set up via Migration Assistant from my old MBP running 10.7.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?


texts: Archive submission failed: ITMS-4238 "Redundant binary upload"

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When attempting to submit an app from Xcode 6 Organizer to iTunes Connect, I receive the following error:

  ERROR ITMS-4238 "Redundant binary upload. There already exists a binary upload with build version '1.0' for train '1.0'"

Application Loader also fails with the same error. How can I upload my app?


texts:
I am trying to install octave following these instructions.

brew tap dpo/openblas
brew tap-pin dpo/openblas
brew install dpo/openblas/octave --HEAD --with-qt --with-java

The last line tells me

==> Installing octave from dpo/openblas
Error: Option '--with-qt' requires '--DEVEL'.

So I try

brew install --devel dpo/openblas/octave --HEAD --with-qt --with-java
brew install --DEVEL dpo/openblas/octave --HEAD --with-qt --with-java

And get the same error messages. How can I install with '--DEVEL'?


texts: After upgrading to iOS 5, I lost my all calendars, contacts, and message data

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Today I upgraded my iPhone 4 to the newest iOS. In the process steps it asked something like start from new iOS, or start from your back-up in iTunes, I selected the first one and then noticed there are no contacts, nor messages!

My iTunes had a problem and I thought I had backed up the files in my iTunes but I checked ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup


texts: How to use Keep in Dock option with applications started form the console?

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I tried to use Keep in Dock option with a Java application that is started from the command line but when I try to restart the application it will fail - and this is happening because it will start java without any parameters.

There are two ways of starting the application on OS X but both of them fail if you want to use the Keep in Dock option.

start it using the shell script olv.sh
start the jar file logview.jar by clicking on it in Finder.

In case you want to debug, the application is http://code.google.com/p/otroslogviewer but I know that the same problem applies for other apps too.

How can I solve the problem so I can start the application from Dock and eventually from Finder also.


texts: Debug iPhone Mobile Safari without Web Inspector

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I'm using Pythonista, a mobile Python environment to code on my iPhone while I'm on the train with no laptop around. I've started working on a small web application using bottle and d3.js. However, finding javascript errors in Safari is impossible. There is simply no way to find out what error stopped the application.

Is there a workaround for this?


texts:
Has anyone been able to successfully get a user picture with transparency on the Mojave login screen?

I have been using this old hint for years to do this, but with Mojave, it doesn't seem to work.  The transparent area shows up grey instead.


texts: I just updated to iOS9 and all hell broke loose on iMessage-every now and then, messages that I receive would pop up on the screen for a second and then disappear! I have tried restarting iMessage multiple times but the issue seems to persist. And this has been occurring only since the update. What must I do to rectify this situation?


texts: When using ichat or iMessage on my MacBook Pro, suddenly a couple of contacts are not receiving my texts. Also, I don't get a notification as to the status of the text, whether it has or has not been delivered. Other contacts still receive my messages. They all have iPhones. I have tried turning the app off and restarting it but to no avail. Any suggestions would be appreciated.


texts: Can the current model MacBook Pro (2017) 15" power 3 Displays from one port?

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I know the Apple site says this regarding the number of displays:

Up to two displays with 5120-by-2880 resolution at 60Hz at over a billion colors
Up to four displays with 4096-by-2304 resolution at 60Hz at millions of colors
Up to four displays with 3840-by-2160 resolution at 60Hz at over a billion colors

But I'm trying to find the cleanest solution for connecting this thing to 3 monitors without having a bunch of wires connected. I also know very little about the power restrictions and the connectivity of how the Thunderbolt ports are setup. Are they effectively on the same bus? Is connecting to one the same as connecting to all? Are they (hardware-wise) divided between the two sides they're on?

I'm also unable to find any docks that support 3 displays, only 2.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to plug in a single dock, and have that dock power 3 displays. I'd like to know if it's possible, and if so, what dock there is. If it's not possible, will just using two docks on the same side of the machine be okay?


texts: Restoring `System.keychain` from a Time Machine backup without access to system `/var/db/SystemKey`

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I have an old backup that (hopefully) holds the encryption keys to some encrypted disks in the System.keychain. To unlock that properly, I seem to need the /var/db/SystemKey that does not seem to be present in the backup.
I've been searcing around and can't seem to find any solutions that don't need the SystemKey file (which makes sense if it is the encryption key), but since that computer has since been wiped and given on, I can't imagine any way of restoring it (though if it can somehow be deterministically created on the specific computer, I could ask the new user to create the key if I knew how)
If I can't recover the SystemKey, what other options are there? Are the keys in my System.keychain gone for good?


texts:
I have an iPhone 4s. It is the 16g model.
I just purchased an iPad mini 64g.

Here is my question: I want to use some apps exclusively on my iPad as my poor iPhone just can't handle all the data. How do I do that?  So far, when I buy apps, they appear on my phone which is already at full capacity.
Thank you!


texts: When my 2012 mbp went down with a bad ram stick, I installed Windows 8.1 on a bootcamp partition on my wife's 2010 mbp.  I got my laptop working, not longer needed to borrow hers and attempted to remove the bootcamp partition. It is gone but when ever she reboots, she has to remember to hold the option key or she automatically boots to a black screen.  I assume something didn't get properly uninstalled and its attempting to load Windows bios but it doesn't exist. Is there a way to fix this?  There is no time machine or back up pre bootcamp installation to restore to.


texts: What process powers the progress bar during initial boot?

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I recently learned that launchd was written and used starting with Mac OS X Tiger.

Before it's inception the progress bar would actually give useful information about what process was currently being executed. However, starting with OS X Tiger the progress bar was managed by the WaitingForLoginWindow process.

You can read about this on Wikipedia here and the source of the citation here.

Originally, the length of time required for the progress bar to complete was based off of the time that elapsed during the last successful boot as is described below

  WaitingForLoginWindow writes the number of seconds it displayed the progress bar during the most recent system boot to /var/db/loginwindow.boottime. Theoretically, you could chart this value over time to measure boot performance, and maybe fire off an email if it goes over a certain percentage (I’m thinking of 10.4 Server users here).

I can't find any information on whether or not this is the same method used now. All of the information that I can find comes from ~2005-2008.

Is this still the method that is used in macOS to display the progress bar? WaitingForLoginWindow is no longer located in /usr/libexec/.

If this is the method still used, what is happening when the progress bar stops and hangs?


texts: Messages gives message not delivered warning, but recipient says they received it

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I have an iPhone 7 running iOS 10. When I send a text message in Messages, I get a message from the application saying it has not been delivered.

Yet the recipients tell me it has been.

Why is this?


texts: What is `tic` and what can I do about it using 100% CPU?

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I have a process named tic that occasionally shows its ugly face in htop or Activity Monitor, consuming around 100% CPU.  I couldn't find any good info on it last time I tried.  What is it for, what would make it suck up my processor cycles, and what can be done about it.

I'm on the latest sub-version of Mojave: 10.14.3 (18D42).

Update: this happened again, and about 80% of the lines displayed by sudo lsof -p PID were related in some way to Visual Studio Code.  I don't know if that's a useful clue for anyone about the cause... but I'll put it out there...


texts: Clear photo cache when iCloud Photos optimization is enabled

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I started using iCloud Photos recently and love it. I have photos syncing on my iPhone(16gb), my MacBook Pro(240gb), and in the cloud of course.

My issue is that I have 12 photos on my phone that are not syncing to the cloud. I am on WiFi, the phone is fully charged, and they are just stuck on my phone. I've looked on my MBP and they aren't there. I've looked on the iCloud via the web app and they aren't there.

When I go on my phone to iCloud / Photos, the message says "Low Disk Space - Uploading 12 Photos" I have 163mb of free space on my phone, and 125gb of free space in iCloud.

My Question is, is there a way that I can manually clear the cache of photos that have downloaded to my phone. I have 750mb used in the "Photos & Camera" application, and I am sure a good chunk of that is from me browsing old photos which are temporarily downloaded to the phone for viewing. When I typically look at my library on my phone, the photos start off as empty white squares and that's okay. I've looked at a bunch, and it downloads thumbnails and lower res images of the files. Can I clear these caches to free up some space?

Also, I've read that the system requires at least 300mb of free space on your phone to upload photos to the cloud. Is this true? I can't see why this would be a requirement.


texts: Unable to setup Command + Shift shortcut on Mavericks

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I want to change Input Sources shortcuts

Shift + Option - Select the previous input source
Shift + Control - Select next source in input menu

This one is not working for me http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=646280 but if i put Shift + Option + (any not_action key) or Shift + Control + (any not_action key) than it works, but it is not what i need.

I read that mac not allowed only action keys as shortcuts, but I believe that somehow it could be done. Is there anyone could help?


texts: Why TimeMachine defaults to case sensitive?

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I've just had some problems with a disk that was formatted with HFS+ case sensitive while every else by Apple was non case sensitive.

After a long time moving things away from my biggest disk, partitioning and formatting non-case-sensitive, I've found out that Time Machine does format "case sensitive"

Why Apple wants case-sensitive only for Time Machine??? What's the technical advantage? I've just invested a long time fixing sync problems with my disks because of different case sensitivity problems


texts: How to remove all pictures from the Photos app and put them in a folder?

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I want to store some pictures that I had in a camera in a folder on my mac, but when I inserted its memory card on the the respective USB port, the app Photos opened up, and there was the option to import the pictures, which is what I did.

Now, I just would like to retrieve all these pictures and put them in a folder that I want. How can I do it? I don't want this Photos app to keep track of any picture that I imported actually.


texts: How can I wirelessly transfer photos from my iPhone to my computer without using Photostream?

texts:
Sometimes I take a quick photo with my iPhone's camera and I need to get it onto my iMac.
I'd love to do this wirelessly (like syncing and everything else).

I'm aware that iCloud's Photostream should allow me to do this, but I don't have a new enough version of iPhoto to access it. I really never use iPhoto, so it's hard to justify an upgrade.

When I connect my phone to the computer with USB, there are a number of quick ways to get photos off of it. Image Capture, Preview, iPhoto, etc. But, none of those options are available via WiFi or Bluetooth.

Is there a way to transfer photos from my iPhone to my iMac wirelessly and without using Photostream?

Ideally, Image Capture and/or Preview would see the phone as a networked camera.


texts:
I am quite lost, how do I get this to work. I can't find any GUI Programs that support 1.7 yet. Commandline would be okay, but I can't seem to find one!

Also how would the diff work on the commandline?


texts: Why is the connection to my NAS really slow/unstable via local network IP but not via dyndns-IP?

texts:
I'm having a problem to connect my Macbook Air to my NAS. The NAS has Debian installed and can be reached by any other computer in the network.

I can find the NAS on Finder. The NAS is listed in the sidebar as shared. But when I try to connect to see the shared files it takes ages to connect and most of the times it times out.

The same happens when I try to access some services that are running in the NAS like its admin platform or when I try to connect via SSH.

I've configured a dyndns pointing to the NAS and when I try to access the NAS using the dyndns-IP instead of the local network IP it works fine and much faster.

I think that there's something messed with the network in my Mac since I can connect stable and fast from my iPhone or other Windows devices.

Any advice would be great.


texts: How do I delete one of my custom templates in Numbers - OS 10.10.1

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I would like to delete one of my custom templates I made in Numbers - in previous OS versions you went to Library>iWork>Numbers>Templates and just trash it - but, since I updated to Yosemite - I only see Keynote in the iWork Library folder? No Numbers? Any ideas?

Thank you.


texts: Can't use CMD+V Shortcut to copy paste into certain apps, but right click menu works fine

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In iMessage, the Mail app and Slack, if I copy an image to clipboard, then use Cmd+V to paste it into an active iMessage conversation, nothing happens. However, in apps like Discord or Firefox, this works fine.

However, if I click Edit -> Paste or right click the message box and click paste, it appears. It's really frustrating to have Cmd+V not work. Does anyone know why? It's always been this way, since I bought this Macbook earlier this year, refurbished.

MBP 13 inch using MacOS Mojave


texts: I'm currently working in Final cut pro on a little project. I have a stereo audio file that has two mics and when one person speaks it plays in one cup of my headphones and when the other speaks it plays in the other cup. Is there a way to "center" this audio so it plays out of both cups rather than just the one?


texts: Why is my "New Zealand" bookmarks folder not appearing on my iPhone?

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I am using iCloud to sync bookmarks from my iMac to my iPhone. But one bookmark folder is not appearing on the iPhone.

On my iMac (OS X 10.7.5), in the iCloud pref pane of System Preferences, I have verified that Bookmarks is checked.

On my iPhone (iOS 6.0), in the iCloud section of Settings, Safari is marked as on.

One difference which I believe is insignificant is that OS X shows the account name as @me.com and iOS shows the account name as @mac.com.

The iMac has a bookmarks folder like this:
Bookmarks Bar > travel > New Zealand > (approximately 15 bookmarks)

The iPhone has:
Bookmarks Bar > travel

and:
New Zealand > (empty)

The top-level New Zealand bookmarks folder does not exist on the iMac.

I tried turning off bookmark syncing on the iPhone, choosing to erase all bookmarks, then I turned it on again. When syncing appeared to be done, the New Zealand folder was not where I expected it (in Bookmarks Bar > travel).

Is there anything I can do to fix this? Should my next step be to report a bug to Apple?

I see that an Apple support document recommends no more than 25,000 bookmarks. I just exported my bookmarks to Safari Bookmarks.html, then ran grep HREF Safari\ Bookmarks.html | wc -l and the result was 3882. So that doesn't appear to be the problem. Next I will work through the troubleshooting steps in TS4001.


texts: Snow Leopard killing internet access on home network

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Something weird that I think I've narrowed down to OS X. Everytime I fire up my MB Pro it kills internet access for all devices (including OS X) for about 5 minutes. Ping and DNS works fine but actually pulling content times out usually.

Reason I've narrowed it down to my MBP is that it only happens when I open up my laptop to work. My home PC is Win7 and will be chugging along nicely until my laptop comes online then it dies.

Anyone else have this problem? Did some general 'net searches and found some similar issues with older versions of OS X but not with Snow Leopard.

My home network is cable via a Motorola modem to a Netgear router. MBP is connecting via WiFi to the network.


texts: El Capitan causing built-in trackpad and keyboard to freeze intermittently

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I have a MacBook Pro 15" Early 2008, 2x 2GB RAM. Since upgrading to El Capitan including update 10.11.1 the built-in keyboard and multitouch trackpad freeze intermittently for about 4 seconds randomly at least once every 60 seconds. Booting from an external drive with Yosemite or Mountain Lion doesn't exhibit this issue so the hardware is fine. Using a bluetooth Magic Trackpad in El Capitan also works fine. I've reset PRAM and SMC. If I don't type or touch the built-in trackpad, interacting using only the Magic Trackpad then there are no stalls and no Console error messages but when using the built-ins at random intervals at least once every 60 seconds the keyboard pauses and loses all keystrokes entered during the interval, and the pointer freezes then eventually snaps to a new location. So, the system is unusable with El Capitan.

Have reinstalled El Capitan 10.11.1 twice after reformatting the internal HD. Disk Utility reports no problems with the drive.

No third party software, hardware or kernel extensions are installed,
either at the system or user level - LaunchAgents & LaunchDaemons are
empty.

The only Login Item is iTunesHelper (unchecked). This appears to be the default.

It's a pure, plain and simple default Apple install onto the
reformatted OEM internal HD.

Interestingly this issue even occurs when booting the 10.11 Recovery
environment, and during the El Capitan installer.

Running in normal user mode with the Console open displays the following messages every time a freeze occurs, which you can deduce is filling up this log:

11/1/15 7:57:04.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest returned error 0xe00002cd (interface 0, reportID 0x0)
11/1/15 7:57:04.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::handleSuspend - SuspendPort returned error 0xe00002e2.
11/1/15 7:57:06.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::handleReport - not in path binary mode, received 0x44 data packet of length 54
11/1/15 7:57:20.000 PM kernel[0]: USBF:    7969.165    IOUSBHIDDriver(AppleUSBMultitouchDriverNoShim)::RearmInterruptRead  returning error 0xe00002d8 (device is not ready), not issuing any reads to device

Any suggestions on what else to try or investigate to debug this? It's as if the Apple native IOUSBHID or multitouch driver shipping with El Capitan is incompatible with this (aka my) older MBP. If it didn't still work fine when booting with the earlier OS versions I'd think it was faulty hardware.


texts: Dell in2020m widescreen monitor and a MacBook Pro

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I'm buying a MacBook Pro soon but have a Dell IN2020M widescreen monitor with 16:9 aspect ratio. Can I hook up my MacBook Pro to this?

The supported resolutions for MacBooks seem to be as follows.

Supported resolutions at 16:10 aspect ratio:

1440 by 900 (native)
1280 by 800
1152 by 720
1024 by 640
800 by 500 pixels

Supported resolutions at 4:3 aspect ratio (stretched and non-stretched):

1024 by 768
800 by 600
640 by 480

Supported resolutions at 3:2 aspect ratio (stretched and non-stretched):

720 by 480 pixels


texts: Where can I find this old app: Biorhythms by Andrew Regan

texts:
The most recent version if possible. Maybe you have it ?

The developer's site has disappeared, here's the MacUpdate page.


texts: If I buy an Iphone in Dubai, will I be able to install and use Skype/Whatsapp in other country?

texts: I am from Brazil and I am planning to buy an iPhone 7 in Dubai. I know that iPhones bought in Dubay have Facetime blocked at the hardware level. But, I would like to know if I will be able to install and use other alternative applications like facebook, skype, WhatsApp in Brazil.


texts: What happens with iTunes Match after my library exceeds 25,000 songs?

texts: Do the newer songs simply stop being uploaded? Does the iTunes Match splash screen display a big nasty "sorry you're over the limit" screen? Is there something I can do to get it to only work with a specific set of songs (shy of deleting them from my library)?


texts: Firefox 28 search is easily interruptible

texts:
When I search on a Firefox page (command-F) the search interrupts itself all the time.

E.g., I start typing "backtick" and, right before I hit t, back disappears and I am now searching just for t.

On the other hand, sometimes the search prompt in a tab persists: I go to another tab, and, when I get back to this one, the search prompt is still active with the old text in it.

This behavior started when I upgraded to FF28 a couple of days ago, however, I seem to recall that I experienced this sort of annoyance some time in the past.

Any idea what might be causing this?


texts:
Bought a second hand iMac that had two partitions on the HDD. One for Mac, one for Windows. Using disk utility I erased the BOOTCAMP partition and formatted it to MacOS Extended (Journaled). All went well until I tried to remove the BOOTCAMP partition. The minus option is not enabled and I can't seem to fin any other way to delete it.

This is what I've tried:

Reboot on recovery mode and try to delete using disk utility. (Same result)
Use Bootcamp assistant to remove the partition. Didn't work as windows is gone from that partition.

How can delete it? I want to have just one partition.


texts: How to resolve Bootcamp failed installation error

texts:
I'm getting exactly the same error as this person.

That is, bootcamp could not install Windows files (it occurred just after the partitioning was completed).

I'm using a Macbook Air 2015 120Gb, on MacOS Sierra and I allocated 50 GB to the bootcamp partition (bootable USB not needed apparently.) The fix mentioned in the video (ISO converter) seems to be no longer supported. I also read somewhere that disabling FileVault can help, or picking a smaller ISO file but there is only one version on the Microsoft site currently (November 2019 update.)

Is someone familiar with this problem and has a solution?


texts:
I'm working on improving my iMessages backup-script. /Users/Kyro/Library/Messages/chat.db has a table message with all the messages an some dates.

Any idea what's the date format ? I first thought of a timestamp (I have for example 408978598) but date -r 408978598 return a date in 1982.


texts: Sync bookmarks between iOS8 and OS X 10.10 without iCloud

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iCloud is not on option. Sync via Google solutions is not an option for the same reasons. Looking for a local sync solution.

How can I locally sync bookmarks between iOS 8 and OS X 10.10? I cannot believe this is not possible and Apple did indeed kill off this important functionality in regards to privacy with iTunes 11 and newer.

What options do I have? Jailbreak, iFile and manipulate the file where iOS stores it's bookmarks manually? Really?! Considering Tim Cook held a strong speech at the recent cybersecurity summit, it would be great to not only do the PR talking but also provide key functionality to restore privacy.


texts: What do I do when I get "Cannot Connect to iTunes store" when downloading an app?

texts:
I'm using an iPad 2, iOS 5 and trying to download apps/updates. Occasionally I get the "Cannot connect to iTunes Store" message and my downloads cancel. The iTunes store loads, all my Apple ID services work, I can view app descriptions on the App store, but when I go to download or update, I get this message.

Sometimes it's intermittent, but I've gotten it every time I tried for a week now. This also happened the day after I got my iPad; in that case I had to do a factory reset of the iPad's settings.

Resetting to factory settings (not resetting data) didn't help at all this time. However downloading updates over my phone's mobile tehering does work so it's some combination of my home wifi and iPad settings. I reset my cable modem and wireless router to no avail however.

What else can I do to fix this?


texts: How can I reduce the volume of music on my iPhone?

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Some songs on my iPhone are quite loud. I've got the volume on the lowest step, but it's still too loud.

I'm using Apple's in-ear headset; perhaps it's simply louder than the regular one. At least I can play music at a much lower volume with it, so the "perceived" volume of the songs is louder.

I have already turned on "Sound Check" in the Settings. That helped some already, but not enough.

How can I reduce the volume even further?


texts:
I'm using Mavericks Server to serve Apple Software Updates to my various Macs. Apparently, I have to point the client at the server, specifying my URL "e.g. http://su.domain_name.com:8088/index.sucatalog".

How do I find out this info for my setup? I haven't defined a URL for my server on the local network; 8088 is I gather the default port for the Software Update Server; but I don't know where or what the file is called either.


texts:
I am trying to find the serial number on my Mac through terminal, but am getting the error seen in the image below. If anyone can help me, that would be great, but I understand if you've never seen this error, as I never have. I am connecting to the Mac via Reflection (the ssh app).

Last login: Tue Oct 25 17:08:24 2016 from 192.168.10.100
$ system_profiler |grep "Serial Number (system)"
2016-10-25 17:11:37.247 system_profiler[37298:1384741] There was an error parsing the Info.plist for the bundle at URL <0x7fb91414ce10>: NSCocoaErrorDomain - 3840
$


texts: What's VMWare Fusion upgrade policy? I consider buying it, but a new version will probably come out in September alongside OS X 10.11. Will I get a free upgrade, or do I wait until September?


texts: MacOS mDNSResponder misbehaving with local DNS in VM

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[VirtualBox 5.1.30 r118389 (Qt5.6.3), HOST: MacBook Pro High Sierra 10.13.1, GUEST: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS]

My VM is setup with two NICs, one using NAT, the other using Host-Only Networking.  My VM is running a DNS server and I have manually added its local IP to the DNS tab on my Mac's System Preferences -> Network Settings page for each adapter. Overall, the setup works fine.  From the HOST, I am able to browse the virtual-hosts I have on the VM as well as the internet.  From the GUEST, I am able to access the internet to get package updates etc.

However, periodically and unpredictably, the mDNSResponder on my Mac forgets the IP of my virtual-host and my browser, FireFox, returns the Server Not Found page.  Using the Console.app and killing mDNSResponder with the INFO flag, I am able to capture mDNSResponder's cache.  The picture below shows that mipal.int has an empty address, while another internal domain, jmfull.int, has the correct address:

In order to fix this, I flush the DNS cache on the Mac, after which I am able to continue doing what I was doing, that is, until the problem recurs.  I use the following commands to flush my DNS:

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
sudo killall mDNSResponderHelper

Occasionally, after a some delay, the DNS record is restored without me having flushed the cache, but this not an acceptable workaround as the delay is unpredictable and can be quite long.

I have used Wireshark to try and track down the problem and, I think it has to do with mDNSResponder closing the port from which it made the DNS request to my DNS server before the DNS server was able to respond. This is evidenced by my Mac sending a Destination Unreachable (Port Unreachable) message to my DNS server on the port the DNS used to send its reply to the earlier request.  The image below demonstrates the port closure problem (UDP port 55179).

Note the timestamp of each packet.

What is interesting is that the DNS request in the image had nothing to do with the mipal.int domain I'm having problems with.  I suspect there is some sort of accounting problem within mDNSResponder.

This problem only occurs with respect to the domains I host on the VM and for whom my local DNS is the Authoritative server.  Whilst I am not able to browse the domain, nor able to ping it, neither dig, host, nor nslookup have any problems resolving the IP.  Below is an image when all the aforementioned tools are working:

Then, when mDNSResponder forgets the address, the same tools give the following results (notice ping is the only one that does not work):

user@host:[13:26]$ ping mipal.int
ping: cannot resolve mipal.int: Unknown host

user@host:[13:25]$ nslookup mipal.int
Server:     192.168.56.2
Address:    192.168.56.2#53

Name:   mipal.int
Address: 192.168.56.2

user@host:[13:26]$ host mipal.int
mipal.int has address 192.168.56.2
mipal.int mail is handled by 10 mail.mipal.int.

user@host:[13:26]$ dig mipal.int

; <<>> DiG 9.9.7-P3 <<>> mipal.int
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46994
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mipal.int.         IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mipal.int.      60  IN  A   192.168.56.2

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mipal.int.      60  IN  NS  ns2.abms.int.
mipal.int.      60  IN  NS  ns1.abms.int.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.abms.int.       60  IN  A   192.168.56.2
ns2.abms.int.       60  IN  A   192.168.56.2

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.56.2#53(192.168.56.2)
;; WHEN: Mon Nov 27 13:26:39 AEST 2017
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 127

This problem is similar in ways to another unanswered question here, from way back in 2012: ping and browsers do not seem to use local DNS server? (or: mDNSResponder looses local dns server?)

Any advice on how to overcome this problem is welcome.

(I would like to add the tag: mDNSResponder but don't have the reputation to do so.)


texts: Airport Utility gives Bogus status, misbehaves a lot

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The Airport Utility shows all 3 of my Wifi access points as being offline today, all have the yellow caution triangle "/!\" and display the message "Device Not Found: AirPort ExtAC was previously part of this network..."

I can prove it's wrong, I'm posting this via Wifi!  And the Mac toolbar Wifi status shows I'm on my named local wireless network, and I only have these 3 access points.

Also, whenever I bring it up, it shows the Internet globe as yellow for a while, then eventually green.

If I exit and restart Airport Utility it says the same thing.

In the past, when it's misbehaved, if I REBOOT the MacBook then it works.

System Info:

I'm on a 2012 Retina Macbook the latest OS X with all application updates applied
Wifi routers are 2 Airport Extreme AC's and one older Airport Extreme


texts: Are Logic Pro 8 projects working in Logic Pro 9?

texts: I'm doing some software tests in my company and one question is wether old files can be opened in new programms. According to my google-fu it is possible to open Logic Pro 9 projects in LP 8, but is the opposite possible as well (open LP 8 projects in LP 9) - that's where my google-fu left me?


texts: OS X Lion All Files Showing as Type of Document

texts: I had an issue where my MacBook Air would not start a couple days back, so I reinstalled the OS. I ran the reinstallation from the recovery partition. Ever since then, almost all of my files show as type "Document", as you can see. Even music does. I do not understand why this is. I even tried reinstalling again and have the same issue. Does anyone know of a fix, this is extremely annoying. I did not have this problem before the reinstallation.


texts:
With iOS 6 due the 19th of September, I was wondering if it will be available over-the-air (OTA) like iOS 5.1.

Is the Software Update in Settings only for minor updates, or can Apple push out major releases through it, too? Assuming an OTA update, will it require a restore/resync?


texts: How long can I safely leave my Macbook Pro running?

texts: I've set up my Macbook Pro 2011 to run a linux home server through virtualbox. I noticed that this laptop seems to get hot after a few hours compared to my previous laptop (toshiba, windows 8) which I could leave running for days and it never heated up. I am curious though how long I can safely run my Macbook without putting it to sleep? (I have NoSleep installed) I have no problems rebooting once a week or so, just want to know for certain if this actually necessary, cause otherwise I'd put a fan on it and stick it in a corner and forget about it. CPU usage seems to be around 10% when running the server from what Activity Monitor is telling me.


texts: One contact with several numbers - sent messages

texts:
I have a contact with multiple (two) mobile numbers.

How do i know to which number the sms (text message) was sent?
The system did not ask me which telephone number to use.

Is there a way to check it?


texts: Are iPhone sim cards locked specifically to the iPhone hardware?

texts:
I've got an iPhone 3GS, on the UK network of O2

Can I take that sim card out, and put it into another mobile device (not iPhone) ? I don't have a spare device to try this hence asking here

More importantly, would the sim card actually work in a non-iPhone device or is it locked for iPhone usage only?

Thanks


texts: See upload and download speeds of each process

texts: Is there a way I can see the internet bandwidth being used by each process on my MacBook?


texts: Can malware be the source or 600% load on 8-core i7 processor with nothing in Activity Monitor nor `top`?

texts:
My Mac suddenly started showing a heavy processor load, i.e. 600% or more.

When I checked in iStat Menus, Activity Monitor and sudo top, no process was shown to consume more than 10%.

Should I worry about malware?

  Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,3
  Processor Name:   Intel Core i7
  Processor Speed:  2,6 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores:    4


texts: Symlinks to executables in `/Applications` cannot run

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I'm trying to create a symlink to emacs, in order to let git use it as default editor.

ln -s /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs emacs

Calling /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs directly from terminal works.

Calling ./emacs in that folder gives a pop-up that says:

  "This application will not run on your computer. Sorry!"

The symlink has permissions rwxr-xr-x.

I don't feel this is related to emacs, I've tried other applications. For example chess:

$ /Applications/Chess.app/Contents/MacOS/Chess # working
$ ln -s /Applications/Chess.app/Contents/MacOS/Chess chess
$ ./chess
2017-04-19 14:39:05.479 chess[16972:4178764] No Info.plist file in application bundle or no NSPrincipalClass in the Info.plist file, exiting

How can I make a working executable symlink to an application in /Applications?

(next step is to go through a script instead of a symlink, but I'd rather use a symlink.)


texts: websites don't open on a specific wifi connection (probably DNS issue)

texts:
I have a cable broadband which works flawlessly; I am using the same to ask this question from my Android.
But it doesn't work on my MacBook (10.10.2).
Basically, no websites open, although I can ping all the websites, sometimes Google websites open fine, but that too only in Chrome (not in the incognito mode though).

I have tried Safari, it had the same problem.
I have tried removing and adding the wifi connection.
I have tried flushing the unicast and multicast DNS cache with the recommended commands.
I have tried adding Google & OpenDNS servers to network settings for this wifi connection.
I have verified that the wifi connection works fine on Windows and Android devices.
I have reset the wifi router.
I have verified that the MacBook works fine with all other wifi and other kinds of internet connections.
I have tried connecting the MacBook to hotspot (Bluetooth) with Android, but still the websites don't open.

Any help will be truly appreciated, but please, don't suggest things I've already tried.

Update:

This gets fixed when I cold restart the MacBook. Also, to clarify, all other internet services work fine e.g. Skype, Dropbox, Box apps seem to work. So, it is probably something to do with the DNS, as pointed out by Buscar웃 too.

I use DHCP with this wifi connection. The network settings show several DNS servers automatically populated by DHCP. I can override them though, by adding new DNS servers, but still the problem persists (as I mentioned above in point 4).


texts: Is it normal for Safari tabs to use 1 GB ram?

texts:
Less than one hour ago I opened a few tabs on Safari. One of them is using 1 GB of ram for some reason. It's version 13.0.5.

What are the reasons behind this? Should I shut it down? Restart? Clear caches?


texts: Activate iCloud but keep calendar private

texts:
My company invited me to join its iCloud calendar.

On my iPhone I didn't activate "Calendar" in the iCloud settings until now for data privacy reasons.

Will my private calendar on my iPhone be synced to my personal iCloud as soon as I activate the "Calendar" switch in the iCloud settings? Or does my private local calendar stay local and I'd need to transfer my local calendar to iCloud manually if desired?


texts: How do I delete route to "link#8" gateway on OS X?

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How do I delete default route of "link#8" gateway on OS X El Capitan? It's a route automaticaly added after connecting to IPSec VPN.

$ netstat -rn
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
default            link#8             UCS            21        0   utun0
default            192.168.1.1        UGScI          16        0     en1
10.2.2.71          10.2.2.71          UH              0       11   utun0
10.19.5.40         link#8             UHWIi           1       27   utun0

$ ifconfig
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    ether 60:33:4b:04:d4:7a
    inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
    nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
    media: autoselect
    status: active
utun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
    inet 10.2.2.71 --> 10.2.2.71 netmask 0xffffff00
    nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>

This doesn't work:

$ sudo route -n delete default -ifscope utun0
route: writing to routing socket: not in table
delete net default: not in table

$ sudo route -n delete default "link#8"
route: bad address: link#8


texts: Can the new iPad record dictation while recording audio?

texts: Apple has featured Voice Dictation as one of the marquee features of the new iPad. Either through a app that ships with the iPad or an App Store one, can the iPad record audio (as for a podcast) and at the same time transcribe the text therein?


texts:
I have the latest generation ipad pro and macbook air, but the problem is I want to mirror or share my ipad screen so that it appears on my MacBook air screen so that when i draw on my ipad notes, other people can see what i am drawing through the MacBook air screen.

Is there anything I have to buy or can do so that everything thing i do on my iPad can be shown through my macbook air?


texts: Mac Screenshot Markup/Annotation with Text that Sticks to Arrows

texts:
I'm looking for a screenshot markup/annotation tool that attaches text to the origin of an arrow.

Screenshot markup/annotation apps usually allow you to add arrows that point to parts of the shot. They also allow you to add text, commonly to explain the problem.

Commonly for me I add an arrow that points to an issue then add some text at the arrow's origin. Often I end up needing to move the text around or because there's not enough room, it ends up on an unreadable background color, etc. When I do so, though, the arrow origin doesn't stick to the text so I'm constantly moving the text, then moving the arrow, then moving the text, then moving the arrow, etc.

Do you know of any tools that allow the text box to "stick" to the arrow's origin so I can more easily make changes this way?

(It might sound a bit of a nitpick but when I'm marking things up I can easily add 100 or more such annotations in a few-hour session.)

Edited to add: I realize that I might not have been clear enough. Here's an example using the app Napkin. It's the perfect app for this but it has other issues that make it not usable for me (and hasn't been updated in years):


texts: iPhone 4S turning off and discharging randomly

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My iPhone 4S (iOS 9.3.5) is randomly turning off and discharging at unexpected moments. It shows the spinning icon as if it was about to respring but turns off and the battery is dead.

When I plug it in a power source, however, within a few minutes, it goes back to the battery percentage of before dying.

Why is my iPhone doing this?


texts: Upgrade to OSX 10.9 from 10.8 causes random restarts

texts:
I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro (late 2011, core i5 2.4ghz, 8 gigs of ram) to OSX 10.9 from 10.8 (which in turn I upgraded from Lion).

The installation seemed to go well and everything was great until the OS booted up.
Every time the OS boots up (doesn't matter if I log in with my user or not) it restarts itself after a random amount of minute (5 minutes avg.).

Steps taken:

Reset SMC
Reset NVRAM
Permissions fix in disk utility
Remove login items
Clean caches

Nothing worked... I do have the kernel panic dump if anyone would like to look at it.
Anyway, I really don't want to re-install the system and hope you can give me more advice.

EDIT:

I forgot to mention that I can work in safe mode without a problem (except it being slower than usual mode).

Here is the link to the Kernel panic file:

http://pastebin.com/mn4JJDb9


texts: Mac iTunes requests update, but App store says no updates available

texts:
Recently I got a iPhone 5 with iOS 9.3 installed.  On connecting it to my computer iTunes said that I needed at least iTunes 12.2.2.  I had 12.0 at the time.  Mac Running Yosemite.

I clicked download, and App Store launched, and said I had no updates available.

Went through this loop several times.

Called Apple.

Spent an hour on the phone, while the very personable agent walked me through the direct link (support.apple.com/kb/dl1814) Clicking the download button there got me to another page.  Clicking download there got me a "Thanks you for downloading..." but the download didn't begin.

I repeated this step with chrome, firefox and safari.  No joy.

Booted into safe mode.  Didn't help.

Went to two other computers, my wife's where I don't have a login, and my laptop, which runs snow leopard.r  No joy from either of those.

We left the ticket unresolved.


texts: Is there a 'guaranteed support period' for iOS?

texts:
Traditionally [at least according to common knowledge] Macs have had mainstream OS support for 5 years, with legacy support for the next 5; meaning if you really want to hang onto that old machine, you should still be able to run the current OS at 10 years, give or take.
Obviously, there have always been distinct 'steps' where old hardware is legacied for specific hardware reasons - 64-bit CPUs, Metal GPUs, etc

Is there an equivalent 'guaranteed period' for iOS?

I found this - Apple KB: Vintage and obsolete products - for hardware support, but I can't find an equivalent for OS support on either Mac or iDevices.
Looking through Wikipedia: List of iOS devices it does seem shorter than Macs, but is there a 'rule'?


texts: Mail.app keeps trying to connecting to old mail server

texts:
Yesterday my web host (Dreamhost) unexpectedly moved my email account to a new server. Most of my email clients didn't skip a beat, and continued to connect to the server and receive mail.

However, immediately after the server migration, Mail.app on my home computer stopped receiving mail. It continued to successfully login to the mail server, but did not find any email received post-migration. My assumption is that it was connecting to the old mail server.

Today, Mail.app fails to login to the mail server at all. My assumption is that the old server has now been decommissioned.

To me, it seems as if Mail.app has some sort of bad DNS cache, causing it to 'look' at the old server rather than the new one.

Steps I tried to resolve the issue:

Restarted Mail.app.
Rebooted computer.
Cleared OS X DNS cache.
Synchronized IMAP account with server.
Deleted email account from Mail.app, and recreated it.
Rebooted cable modem.

Not a spot of difference.

Is it possible that Mail.app is somehow caching DNS details for the email server, even after I clear the OS X DNS cache? If so, how could I force Mail.app to 'look' at the new server?

Setup: OS X Lion, IMAP email account

[SOLVED] See the comments for a description of the solution. The culprit was Avast Anti Virus.


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I added playlist from Apple Music to my library. Is there any way to move it to folder?
Looks like I can organize in folder only my own playlist. But can't do it with playlist which I have added from Apple Music.


texts: I'm running Sierra 10.12.6 on a 2010 17" MBP. My "Show Desktop" no longer functions, no matter what key combo I have selected in Mission Control, or whether or not I use fn, or have fn checked in the keyboard control panel. All the other shortcuts in Mission Control work fine. This makes no sense, it all works right for other users on the same machine. How can I fix MY OWN user prefs?


texts: Preview problem on "iPhoto imported" clips in iMovie

texts:
I've a strange problem with iMovie : I can preview movie clips that I've directly imported into iMovie, but the ones that have been imported from my camera by iPhoto have a problem : the displayed preview when I do a "mouse-over" is showing another movie clip (always the same, for every movie clip)

Is there a way to ask iPhoto or iMovie to "rebuild" this previews ?

EDIT : Is there a way to rebuild the cache of iPhoto ?


texts: How many backups are kept in iCloud and for how long?

texts:
I am looking into iCloud backups of iPad.

How many backups are kept in iCloud ? For how long ?


texts: 'Show Desktop' Mission Control/Expose Not Functioning

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I have recently upgraded to OS X Lion. I have mapped the keys via Mission Control preFpane as follows: F9 is 'Mission Control', F10 is 'Show Desktop'. F11 is 'Application Windows'

F9 and F11 works as intended. F10 seems to not do anything.

I thought it might be the keys themselves so I mapped the keys as: F9 'Show Desktop', F10 'Mission Control' and F11 'Application Windows'.

In this case only F10 and F11 keys worked; This small test gives me the impression that it is the Exposé 'Show Desktop' function itself is the part that is malfunctioning.

Does anybody have any further insight to this bug?

EDIT
You can view a recording of the problem here:
http://www.screencast.com/t/oDVMhBqkb

NOTE

This problem was tested initially on my external keyboard, the problem does persist on the internal macbook keyboard. Those '4 finger swipe' works, as does the 'Cmd + Expose(f3)' keyboard shortcut work.


texts: Have there been any documented typos on genuine Apple products?

texts: The comment chain under an answer on this question brought up an interesting question.  Have there been any documented typos or production mistakes on genuine Apple products released into the wild?


texts: Can you Access the Versions menu while in fullscreen apps?

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In Lion, a document's version history is normally accessed by clicking the arrow next to a document's name in the title bar. However, the title bar does not appear when an app is put into fullscreen mode. Is it possible to access the Versions interface while in full screen?

Or am I completely missing something...


texts: Macbook swaps external displays when lid closed or opened

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro connected to two external displays via a docking station.  With the lid open, it will use all three, with the primary set to one of the external displays, let's say display 1.  If I close the lid, the internal display shuts off, which is great.  However display 2 now becomes primary, and all the windows on display 2 move to display 1 and vice versa.  I open the lid, and it switches back.  Not that big a deal just a mild annoyance, but I have not found any information about how to make it stop.
Catalina 10.15.6, MacBook Pro 15 inch 2018
Radeon Pro 560X 4GB
Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB


texts: Why is the folder in ~/Library/Application\ Support called "Avian" for Textmate 2?

texts:
I would expect one of:

~/Library/Application\ Support/Textmate
~/Library/Application\ Support/Textmate2

Or maybe:

~/Library/Application\ Support/Macromates

What's the story here?


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I dropped my macbook air and the screen is like this since.

Does anyone know what exactly happened to it? Is it hardware or software?


texts: El Capitan choking wifi speed on main user account

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I have spotted my wifi connection is being chocked to a much slower, yet steady, speed on my MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) running OSX 10.11.

If I login to a guest account it matches the wifi speed I experience on my iPhone 6s (145mbps up / 14mbps down).

I've turned off bluetooth, makes no difference. Rebooted the Virgin Media Superhub2 - no difference. Trashed prefs, cleared caches etc, same issue.

The only consistency is the capped/slower connection on wifi using my main user (14mbps down 6mbps up).

Any ideas?

Here's some monitoring info:

Thanks in advance for any help.

Avast Mac Security settings:


texts: Why does macOS replace .img with .ndif extension?

texts: I'm trying to download a custom android recovery image on my Mac but the extension is changed from .img to .ndif automatically. Is this normal? Will it have any impact on the installation on actual image?


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Screenshots taken since 2018-05-19 just produce an empty file rather than the png file that I expected when using Command-Shift-4.  Before that date they were working fine.

This is not a matter of screenshots going to the wrong place.  They are going to the right place which is iCloud Drive -> Documents -> Screenshots.  They are just empty files.

I have tried Force Quit on Finder but same result.  I have reset my mac several times but no change.

I am using macOS 10.13.4 on iMac.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.