texts: Why do hidden windows restore slightly to the right after I close the lid and go to sleep?

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Workflow: During the day I have a 27" external monitor attached. I get to the office, plug it in to the monitor, load my Windows development VM, and it immediately attaches to the external monitor (as I like, that part is fine). However, any windows I had been working on the night before, such as my Chrome windows, or Sublime Text, always start just slightly to the right of where they were last night. I adjust them back to where I want them, keep working. At the end of the day I close my VM, unplug that monitor, close the laptop, go home, get it back out do some more work, then hide the windows before going to bed so my workspace is free and clear in the morning, and not remnants of the previous night.

This is what I normally have things look like:

And this is how they look when they "shift on unhide":

Drawing attention to the newly unhidden Sublime Text 2 window, that is now on top of Chrome. Last night it was fairly aligned with Chrome, and I hid both apps. This morning I unhid Chrome, fixed it's position for a screenshot, and then unhid ST2. I did not "move" ST2 from where it unhid-to, but it's assuredly not where I left it. See how it's still at the top of the window, it's just shifted to the right a bit? I move it back and I'm just where I was.


texts: EDIT: This post was edited due to the automated "Title" keyword matching function of this site that caused some confusion for us humans with the word "AutoHotKey"


texts: unable to delete large folder from icloude drive

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I am unable to delete large folders from my icloud drive.( I have tried it both from my phone and from icloud.com) get an error saying “There was a problem deleting “folder name” try again later”

I have been trying to delete it for weeks now!! I have so many folders with lots of sub directories. It works when I delete files individually. However I don’t have the luxry nor the patience to spend days for it.


texts: How do I change how an Airport Express extends a network?

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My original setup:

Coax from Cable company into house
Cable split in two, one for TVs, other for Internet/phone modem
Ethernet cable from modem to Time Capsule (latest one w/ 802.11ac)
Used to use wireless connections to everything.
But I heard that wired is faster, and I have several fixed devices (latest AppleTV, the TV set, and a PS3) in the living room. So I got an Ethernet switch for the room and ran a cable across the house to connect to the Time Capsule.
In the basement, I have a eMac and some printers. I connected them to an Airport Express (the latest one that looks like a white AppleTV). The Express connects to the Time Capsule via WiFi.

I heard extending a WiFi with another but using wireless communication for the connection between the primary and secondary device slows everything down. So I thought to buy another long Ethernet cable and connect the Express to the switch.

At first I just connect the Express to the switch without powering off anything. My MacBook Air didn't like the connection. The Airport Connection Utility on the Air still had the dashed line indicating a wireless connection. I unplugged the Express, then the Time Capsule, and replugged them in reverse order. Now the utility shows a solid line (wired connection), but trying to actually use the new WiFi connection is super slow. I unplugged the Express for now.

Is there some sort of setting I need to re-do to get the Express to extend the Time Capsule's network, but using the wired connection between them? Should I do some sort of reset on the Express (or both)?


texts: How to call a specific subroutine of an AppleScript from another AppleScript?

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I understand that it is possible to trigger an .scpt file that is saved somewhere on my computer from within a different .scpt file.

Can I call a specific subroutine of that .scpt file from a different .scpt file? I want to skip over the entire script, and only run the code that is found in one, specific subroutine

I understand that I can simply copy the subroutine into its own, dedicated .scpt file and accomplish what I want that way. This method is demonstrated in this answer. However, I would prefer not to have to do this, for the sake of convenience.

In addition, is it possible to also pass variables to that subroutine? My current need does not require this ability, but I am still curious.


texts: How to find the iOS version of a reset iPhone

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I have an old iPhone I want to sell and I don't remember which iOS version is installed on it.

I am currently presented with the "Hello" setup screen. So I can't determine which iOS version is installed.

Is there a way to find out which version is installed?


texts: Which directories should I back up to save all of my data?

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Would backing up my home directory be enough or does OS X saves important files outside of it I should be aware of? This is not supposed to be a full OS backup, I only want my data. Applications' configuration details can be re-created and so on but other things such as bookmarks I do consider important.

Currently backing up:

/Users/Crocodile  (except for Trash & Library)
/Users/Crocodile/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles  (FF bookmarks)
/Users/Crocodile/Library/Fonts  (user-specific fonts)

I use CalDAV for calendar and IMAP for email so no need to backup Mail/Calendar directories, right?

[edit] Added the user-specific Fonts directory. The system-wide directory, located at /Library/Fonts, is not needed IMO since a OS reinstall will include (most of) them; plus these can easily be copied from another machine.


texts: How to patch a file that resides in /Applications (patch can't find file to patch at input line)?

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I am trying to patch 5 files within an Mac application bundle using the Terminal patch command. The files to be patch are specified using an absolute file path (the file name and path start with a slash).

The output when running $ sudo patch -i ~/custom.patch is:

can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- /Applications/Xyz.app/Contents/Resources/dashboard.js
|+++ /Applications/Xyz.app/Contents/Resources/dashboard.js
--------------------------
File to patch: ^C

I have verified that the file /Applications/Xyz.app/Contents/Resources/dashboard.js does exist using at the specified file path using the ls command.

Regression:

Tried to run the patch command from root folder using $ cd /
Tried to run the patch command from root folder with the first slash removed, that results in an almost identical result:

can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- Applications/Xyz.app/Contents/Resources/dashboard.js
|+++ Applications/Xyz.app/Contents/Resources/dashboard.js
--------------------------
File to patch: ^C

How can multiple files within a Mac OS X Application bundle be patched using patch?


texts: How do I change how often the Mac App Store in High Sierra checks for updates or notifies me about them?

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I feel like I constantly get notifications from the Mac App Store. I find this distracting and stressful and would like to change how often the Mac App Store checks for updates, or how often it notifies me of these updates.

I know I can go into System Preferences and disable the automatic checking for updates, but I don’t want to do this as I’m not likely to remember to manually check for updates myself.

Is it possible to check for updates less often or to get notified less?


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iMac (late 2009) OSX 10.10.3
iPads (a 1 and a 2) iOS 8.?

I am a retired IT engineer playing at being a DJ/VJ. That means I'm often in a room with lots of folks with cells and iPads. Before Yosemite, I was creating ad-hoc nets at my gigs and connecting my iPads to my iMac. It was relatively comfortable that I wouldn't have to worry about anyone screwing around with my systems, audio/video/DMX lighting.

I am getting ready to do some gigs and while checking my system, I realized there is no longer a Create Network option on my Wi-Fi menu. And from what I'm reading here, it doesn't appear I can even create one. Is this correct?


texts: Bowers & Wilkins P5 wireless headphones on OSX causing problems for other bluetooth devices

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I've been using a Microsoft bluetooth mouse with my MacBook Pro (Early 2015 El Capitan 10.11.5) without issue for several months. OSX Bluetooth Firmware Version: v119 c4633.

However, since pairing the Bowers & Wilkins P5 Wireless headphones via bluetooth the mouse has started to automatically disconnect. Both devices work simultaneously for a short period (~5 min) until the mouse drops connection. The mouse is then shown to be disconnected in the bluetooth system settings.

The headphones do not drop connection nor lose audio. Once the headphones are manually disconnected the mouse connection is restored.

How can I use both devices simultaneously?


texts: I just bought a pair of AKG Y500 bluetooth headphones. They paired up ok to the Mac and first time played perfectly. However, if I switch off the headphones and switch them back on, the audio is choppy. The only way I have found to clear it is to reset the Bluetooth module, then it's fine until the next time I switch the phones off. Is there a fix for this? Surely I don't have to do this every time I switch the phones on?


texts: Should you unplug the cable once your MBP is fully charged?

texts: With Mavericks is this still needed? Doesn't this eventually cause the battery to die faster because it means it'll have to go through more cycles frequently?


texts: Adding 'OSX Server Account' from outside

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I've set up an OS X Server, and I'm now trying to make its services available from outside my local network. From inside the LAN, the iCal service works fine when I add an 'OS X Server Account' via 'Internet Accounts' in System Preferences.

When I attempt to connect from the outside, it tells me it is Unable to verify user credentials. The server is behind a firewall, so I've forwarded numerous ports in an attempt to get it to work. Initially I only added 8008 and 8443, as they are used for the iCal services, but as that did not work I attempted to forward other ports that might be relevant (based on their description in this list). This has not let me to any success, however.

What ports do I need to forward for the OS X Server Accounts to be available? The server is running Open Directory, so I'm assuming that the services rely on Kerberos for authentication? Is Bonjour relevant for this scenario, since I already know the IP I'll be connecting to?

Note: I'm not talking about Network Accounts, and have no intentions of logging in to network accounts remotely.


texts:
I'd like to be able to display videos and pictures through my MacBook Pro's webcam on Skype and other online chat sites. I previously used programs such as ManyCam to emulate a webcam, however, many online sites no longer accept external video inputs - only iSight (built-in or external).

Is there any way to be able to send the output from ManyCam to the input of iSight? This way, I can still display videos on sites which only allow iSight, as the video will technically be coming from an iSight cam.


texts: Can't log out of someone else's find my iphone without their icloud password

texts: I just got a previously used iphone from my work. However, the previous owner is still logged into their icloud account. Whenever I try to logout of their account it requires their icloud password to log out of their find my iphone. Even when I try to wipe the entire phone it requires the password, what should I do?


texts: How can I make iOS 4.3 apps go onto my iPod 2G?

texts: Last Christmas I was given an iPod 2G and it runs on iOS 4.2.1 and I have found it very hard to find apps that go onto my iPod, is there anyway I can make apps that run on iOS 4.3 an above go onto my iPod?


texts: Which version of OS X should install on a 2006 MacBook?

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I have an old MacBook that I bought in 2006. I formatted and restored the original system. Everything was bad: I downloaded Skype, Chrome, and others, and every program said:

  This software does not work anymore with this version of the operating system

(or similar)

So I installed a version of Mac OS X 10.6 (the one I got with my old iMac) and now it seems to work fine. Sometimes a few programs crash, and so I thought installing 10.6 wasn't the right way to go either.

What is the best way to handle an old MacBook with current versions of programs like Skype, Chrome, et cetera?


texts: Is it possible for heat to warp a Unibody MacBook Pro?

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Inspired by this question: Bulge in MacBook Pro near Hard drive

Could the heat generated from a MacBook Pro (over a period of several hours running at around 100% CPU usage) warp an area of the Unibody shell?

Specifically- would this be a possibility if it was a Mid 2010 Unibody Case?


texts:
Since yesterday, my first-generation iPod Touch would not let me download apps. In the app store, the image description (the one that you can slide left and right) would not appear and was replaced by small rectangles. The [free] or [0.99] button does not respond.

My iPod Touch is not jailbroken, and is updated with the latest firmware (3.1).

How can I fix this issue?


texts: Can I turn off my Guest account and still use Find My Mac?

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I understand that turning on Find My Mac also turns on a "Guest" account (in "login only" mode). For a variety of reasons, I would prefer not to have an enabled Guest account at all.

Does Find My Mac still function with the Guest account turned off? Is its functionality limited in some way by the absence of the Guest account. Or will the Guest account be re-enabled by Find My Mac when I reboot?


texts: Is there a way to search in current folder in file open dialogs?

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In normal finder window, I have set it to search in current folder by default.

However, when I want to open a file in the open file dialog, the search is still a global Mac search.

Is there anyway to limit it to search in the current folder like in normal finder?


texts: Update and Jailbreak iPhone 4 IOS 4.3 to IOS 5.0

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I am trying to update a jailbroken iPhone 4 IOS 4.3 to IOS 5.0. I have acquired the needed things from this link http://www.jailbreaknation.com/jailbreak-ios-5-5.0-on-iphone-4-ipod-touch-ipad-with-redsn0w. First, I got the error 3194 when when itunes was trying to verify the .ipsw file with apple. I fixed the problem by downloading TinyUmbrella and turning on the TSS server. But now I get a 1604 error when itunes trys to prepare the iPhone for restore. I sort of fixed that buy putting the iPhone into Pwned DFU mode using IREB or Redsnow 0.9.9b8. Now I'm getting error 1600. How do I fix this?

Extra Info:
Itunes version: 10.2
Yes I have tried normal DFU mode and Recovery Mode.

Thanks In Advance.


texts: Change default email application - iPadOS

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When I type on Notes.app, it is useful to have clickable email links as follows:

Whenever I click this link, it wants to take me to Mail.app, I don’t have it installed so it shows this message:

I want to use Gmail.app to open these email links, is it possible to change the default app to Gmail?


texts:
Is it possible to change the user agent so that it doesn't change. Currently to change the user agent I go to Develop > User Agent > Other, and then I enter in a custom user agent. However I have to do this on every page I visit. Is there a method to make the user agent persistent?

I have tried the answer to this question, but according to panopticlick.eff.org it only uses the default user agent. According to this other question, this is a bug in MacOS Mojave.

Computer Details: Late 2014 Mac Mini running macOS Mojave (v.10.14.5)


texts: In Xcode 4.3, where do I put the additional tools?

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I'm confused. I just downloaded 6 supplementary packages using Xcode > Open Developer Tool > More Developer Tools... and I thought the .dmg files would contain .pkg files, but instead they contain programs.  Where am I supposed to install these programs?

I suspect the answer might be "Anywhere you want." — But I don't like that idea. I want to put them in some standard or conventional location.

Oddly, there is no README file saying where these should go.

For now, I'm putting them in /Applications/Xcode Tools, but that seems kludgey.

Also odd:  There was a .dmg file for the the Command Line tools, which I installed, but that actually was a .pkg inside the .dmg, which is different from the other 6.  I'm not sure why Apple is providing a .dmg for the Command Line Tools when they are installable via Xcode > Preferences... > Downloads > Components. I think it's just confusing.

And finally: The "Audio Tools" image contains a directory called "CoreAudio", which contains a whole bunch of source code and include files. Where are these supposed to go? I don't want them under Applications.

The packaging of the supplemental tools seems a bit slapdash to me.


texts: USB Drive Not Showing Up in Disk Utility

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I have a 64GB USB drive that was unplugged halfway through formatting it, and now it isn't recognized by Disk Utility. diskutil list also doesn't bring it up. I have tried formatting it on a Windows computer with no luck either. It gives an error that it cannot be formatted. Windows at least sees the drive, but Disk Utility doesn't at all.

Are there any low level solutions that might work to re-format the drive or is it probably a goner that would need to be replaced?


texts: Disk Not Ejected Properly on an external hard drive I no longer own

texts: Just wondering if anyone knows what I can do to stop this message popping up (for a specific drive, if possible)? I had an external hard drive that, because I was throwing it away, I didn't concern myself with ejecting it properly. I expected this message would come up once and I would click "close" and be done with it. The hard drive is now long gone (so I can't just plug it back in and eject it properly), but I am still constantly getting the warning pop up that it wasn't ejected. Thanks in advance for any advice on how to disable the warning about this particular hard drive.


texts: Finder tags not showing thumbnail previews on external hard drive

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I am on Mojave 10.14.6.  I am trying to use tags to filter my many many images on my external hard drive.

My thumbnail previews look like this when I click on the tag.  I have tried just about everything. Deleting the plst. file, relaunching finder. Everything.

However, if I tag something on the main drive Or not in any folder on the external drive, It will show the thumbnail. I am using a toshiba 4TB external hard drive.


texts: Is the 9-pin "Lightning" connector faster than the 30-pin?

texts: The 9-pin "Lightning" connector used with the iPhone 5 and 2012 iPods offers many advantages over the old 30-pin connector, including a smaller size and reversibility. However, does it offer faster data transfers? Was this update only for aesthetics? Or does the 9-pin actually offer something more?


texts: How to prevent Mail.app to update address book on its own?

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Now that the iCloud works (almost) flawlessly on both my MacBook Pro and iPhone I get annoyed by Mail.app on my Mac which seems to update contacts in my address book on its own, without my request or approval. I can't seem to find any setting to switch this behaviour off.

As clever as it may be (and it seems to be, as it does update correct contacts with valid information), I don't want it. Here's why... I prefer to keep some contacts in my address book with nicknames only. Since address book doesn't consider nickname as a name when sorting, contacts with no first/last name end up and the end of the address book as unnamed. What I do is I put the nickname as the first name. And that works flawlessly. But whenever I reply to an email from a person that exists in my address book as a first-name-is-nickname it updates the contact information with the last name based on the From/Reply-To header in the email.

How do I prevent this?

-- edit --

No solutions here so far so I've posted the same question on Apple Communities.


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As a warning: I'm no specialist at all. I work as a student here and trying to help to fix the Mac environment. I might use the wrong terminology at times but I try to be as clear as possible.

Assume we have a bunch of users with windows network accounts that they only ever used in our windows domain (we use AD). Now they start using Mac (joined to the domain) and we wanted to have a default profile that every user gets the first time he logs in with his network account with a preset background and lets say a shortcut on the desktop.

What would we have to do that a user that logs in on a mac the first time that a copy of our default profile is used and then stored in his personal network folder.


texts: macOS sierra bluetooth headphones sound intermittently

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I have a problem with my headphones (Sony MDR 1000X) on my mac (macOS sierra 10.12.5). It can connect well, but the sound of it is intermittent.

After some searching, i found a solution by change the input device from my headphones to "Internal Microphone". It fixed the problem, but every time i connect my headphones to the mac, i need to change the setting once again.

The solution is change the setting:

  System Preference - Sound - Input - Internal Microphone

Is there a way to disable headphone used as input device (or set "Internal Microphone" as default one even there is a new device connected)? Or any other way to fix the sound problem?


texts: Replies to text messages sent from iOS arrive at OS X only

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I own both an iPhone and a MacBook. I have disabled iMessages on the iPhone and I prefer to keep it this way. I employ the latest versions of both iOS and OS X.

When I send SMS text messages from my iPhone to contacts who also use iPhones their replies arrive on the MacBook (in its Messages application) but not on the iPhone.

I suspect this could be the case because those contacts have iMessages enabled and so their replies get routed by default to a device of mine which supports it as well (i.e. my MacBook but not the iPhone).

Is there a way to remedy the situation without me having to enable iMessages on the iPhone? (I don’t care for iMessages over SMS and I would like to receive all text messages on the iPhone.)


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I have a Safari window displaying a webpage. I want to be able to retrieve the open URL into AppleScript. However when I do this:

if URL of window 1 is "www.google.com" then
    --do something
end if

It returns an error of nothing being returned. And I'm pretty sure window 1 exists because in another part of the program I created the window.

Can someone tell me the mistake I made?


texts: How do you close a file that you've opened with /usr/bin/open?

texts:
I've opened a PDF file with /usr/bin/open, and now I'd like to close it from the command line. (I'm writing a script.)

How might one go about doing that?


texts: Is it possible to freely move the Picture in Picture window around the screen?

texts: Is it possible to freely move the Picture in Picture window? By default, it just snaps to the nearest corner. How can I move the window to any place I like?


texts: iPhone 3GS, ATT MicroCell, iOS 4.0.1, failure to connect

texts: I was a very happy customer of my microcell until the upgrade to 4.0 and the subsequent patch. Now, at best, I can force an M-cell connection by flipping to airplane and back. I have completely reinitialized the M-cell. Is there way way around this except to whine to AT&T and wait for someone to fix something?


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I'm converting a shell script which xclip and similar tools on Linux, to use pbpaste and pbcopy on Mac. The problem is the default pasteboard ('general' according to the man-page) for these tools is not the one being used by Stickies / Safari / TextMate / all the GUI apps.

I've tried all the pasteboard names mentioned in 'man pbpaste' but none contain the data I copy in any GUI app. If I load data into the 'general' pboard using 'pbcopy' I can extract it fine via 'pbpaste' - but it's separate from the GUI pasteboard.

Note I'm not running any unusual shell, Terminal or WindowServer settings, this is standard 10.7 Terminal and bash.


texts: Lion resolving DNS names when querying server directly, but not when used in a command or app

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I've recently (as in minutes ago) added a hostname and reverse (A and PTR) records for a hostname on my internal network, using a Bind DNS server. For some reason, i can both dig and nslookup this new name successfully, but ping and my GUI applications can not resolve the name.

I have attempted flushing the DNS cache on my local machine with dscacheutil -flushcache to no effect.

Here's an example of my session (names, IPs changed for security):

$ nslookup newbox.internal
server     10.0.0.2
address    10.0.0.2#53

Name:    newbox.internal
Address: 10.1.1.1

$ ping newbox.internal
ping: cannot resolve newbox.internal: Unknown host

WTF? Okay, I'm sure my DNS is set up correctly though:

$ dig newbox.internal

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> newbox.internal
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33812
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;newbox.internal.   IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
newbox.internal. 21600 IN   A   10.1.1.1

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
internal.       10800   IN  NS  dns001.internal.
internal.       10800   IN  NS  dss001.internal.
internal.       10800   IN  NS  dhdns001.internal.
internal.       10800   IN  NS  dhdns002.internal.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns001.internal. 10800 IN   A   10.0.0.2
dns002.internal. 10800 IN   A   10.0.0.3
dhdns001.internal. 10800 IN A   10.0.0.20
dhdns002.internal. 10800 IN A   10.0.0.21

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.0.2#53(10.0.0.2)
;; WHEN: Mon Jul  1 14:43:35 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 245

Why does my system demonstrate this odd DNS resolver behavior?

As a side note, DNS works fine otherwise on my system. At this moment, this new hostname is the only one I'm having trouble resolving. My system is configured to use the 10.0.0.2 DNS server as it's primary.

EDIT

Killing mDNSResponder fixed this issue.. but why?


texts: I cant get any apps to open anymore, how do I fix it?

texts:
I was trying to get apps to not pop up on the MacOS dock,even when they weren't closed and I found a thread with the same question as me. I looked through the answers area of the thread and this is what they said in the answers area:
This question references How to hide a specific active app on OS X (has to be reversible)?

This solution worked for me, but it might depend on the application in
question. I tried it with a 3rd party app called "Burn" and it worked.

Go to your applications folder and right click (control-click) on the app you wanna hide from the dock.

Click on Show contents. You should now be able to see "inside" the app's files.

Open the Info.plist file in the Contents folder with TextEdit (right click -> "Open with...")

Go to the very bottom of the file and find the last two lines which should say:

</dict>
</plist>

Now insert this before these two lines and save the file.

<key>LSUIElement</key>
<true/>

After this the app's dock icon will not be shown anymore. Keep in mind
that you will need to use the Activity Monitor or Terminal (killall <appname>) to quit the app if you close the window.
If closing the window quits the app, you can press cmd + h to hide
the window. This should make your app completely invisible.
To make it visible again, just remove those two lines again and the
app should behave like before.

Source: Link

so, I was stupid and did this on almost all of my apps, without opening any of them in the process, and now they all won't open at all no matter what I do. I've removed the text, I reinstalled the apps, nothing worked.. Please tell me how to fix this, I need this laptop for work as it is my main machine.


texts: iTunes does not recognize folder structure when importing music

texts:
I have imported a lot of Music into iTunes in a folder structure:
<Artist>/<Album>/<Song>. Unfortunately iTunes has not recognized these information, so that now I just have a lot of songs without artist or album information. (Actually I think that these has always worked until now).
Do you have any idea what went wrong here and what I could do, to get this information into iTunes (and the iCloud)?


texts: How to fix a MacBook's sound output which is stuck on headphones?

texts:
I have a late 2008 My MacBook running OS X Yosemite. It suddenly stopped playing audio through the internal speakers. I've checked Sound under System Preferences, and headphones show up as the selected device for sound output. I tried connecting and disconnecting some headphones, and the MacBook did change the output to internal speakers, but only for a second. I then tried restarting the MacBook to see if it was something with software but it stayed the same. I also tried lightly cleaning the headphone port with a q-tip but that did not work.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve the issue?


texts: Why does Automator not see new files in subdirectories on a Flash Drive?

texts:
I've created an automator app to find all the csv files on a flash drive, then modify and copy those files to a directory on the hard disk of my MAC. The automator app uses a shell script to compare the files found on the flash drive to those already on the hard disk, and it only copies the files that do not already exist in the destination directory.

For the first 21 files (they are numbered) this worked just fine, but now files 22-30 do not get copied over to the hdd. After some debug, I found that automator is not seeing the complete list of csv files that exist on the flash drive.

The way things are supposed to work is, I insert the flash drive into the MAC SD card slot. Then I drag the icon for the flash drive on top of the icon for the automator app. The automator app steps are:
    “Get Folder Contents” (‘Repeat for each subfolder found’ is checked), followed by
    “Filter Finder Items” (which looks for files with the extension “.csv”).
    Then that list of files passes to my Shell Script (which compares the names of the files it receives to the names of the files in the destination directory, and acts on those files that do not exist in the destination directory).

With debug I have found the problem happens before the Shell Script, the list of files passed from “Filter Finder Items” does not include the newest files on the flash drive.

Through another step of debug I found that if I open one of the csv files using Numbers (while the csv file is still on the flash drive), then close the file (no editing or saving involved), then when I drag the Flash Drive icon onto the automator app icon, THAT csv file which I have just opened DOES get passed to the script and the file ends up in the destination directory.

When I was developing this automator app the first 21 files already existed on the flash drive. Everything worked fine. A week later, the new files were added to the flash drive (by an external, non-MAC device), and now for some reason the MAC files system (or at least automator) does not “see” the new files.

I have some ideas as to how to fix this, but I am wondering if there is some caching feature of the Flash Drive that might be intervening, or some other MAC OS idiosyncrasy that I am missing.

Power-down and rebooting the MAC did not fix it.

Any thoughts on this?
thanks,
michael.


texts:
I installed the last version of VMware Fusion on my MBP 15″ 2011 and had 2 kernel panics. It restarted well and did it again a few hours later. Now it won't boot.

I tried to repair disk via SU mode using fsck -yf. It succeeded, but still not able to boot. I also try to boot on Recovery partition but it failed, blue screen too.

I don't know what to do, I unmounted the SSD and tested it on another machine — I can see all my files.

The Boot Camp partition doesn't work either.


texts: Macbook Pro does not recognize bootable USB drive

texts:
I had problem with the hard drive of my 13" MacBook Pro 2009.  I decided to use the opportunity to upgrade to an SSD.  I replaced it with a 480GB SSD.

Following this article: Create a bootable installer for OS X,  I created bootable USB with El Capitan. The USB works with the computer I created it on.

On my upgraded Macbook,  normal power-on ends with grey screen with flashing folder icon, as expected - there is no OS there.

When I plug the USB drive in and hold the Option key, expected menu with choice of bootable devices does not show. There is the booting sound, the screen turns white with cursor on. The cursor responds to the touch pad but no booting menu appears.

I don't know how to troubleshoot the issue.


texts: Set default priority of mdworker processes

texts:
How can I reduce the impact of spotlight indexing by pushing the priority down?

Spotlight is both useful and annoying.  When I build code on my mac, I may generate 1000s of new files.  I can tell spotlight that my home dir is off limits but what I'd rather do is to tell spotlight that its processes have the lowest priority possible to ensure their indexing doesn't impact my user experience or blood pressure.

So, anyone know how to set default priority for mdworker processes or is that a silly question as even with low priority the IO impact would be roughly the same?


texts: How does one download El Capitan from the App Store using High Sierra

texts:
The link from Apple's support page redirects to the Mac App Store but upon clicking download you're met with an error message saying you "This version of OS X can't be installed on the computer"
Note: I've tried 4 different MacBook Pro TouchBar but none will download it.
I'm only looking to download El Capitan so I can create a USB installer for an older Mac.


texts: Why is this message “Good Morning/Evening” on the handoff section of the app switcher?

texts:
Model: iPhone 6 running on iOS 12
This is a problem that has been bothering me for quite some time. You see, this app, bowmasters, always comes up on the app switcher in the handoff section, it’s quite annoying and I want to remove that pest. Yet when I disable handoff, IT IS STILL THERE!!! I don’t want to delete that app but at the same time don’t want to see it either. I’ve already disabled everything related to that app. Any way I can disable handoff for this????! (I don’t have any other device that have bowmasters)

Update
Great, now stackexchange decided to annoy me.


texts: How to know which one is used when charging a MacBook Pro with usb-c from multiple power adapters?

texts:
There is this great question: What happens if you plug more than one charger in the new MacBook Pro (2016)?

It doesn't tell me how to find out from which source the MacBook is charging though.  Right this moment I have a power bank and a MacBook charger (small, not proper wattage) connected to my MacBook Pro and my battery is at 3%. I'd like to know which one I can unplug.

Is there a way to know which port is giving the power? I'm looking for a precise answer, e.g. from a command line tool. It'd also be good to know with exactly how much Watt it's charging.
I don't want to rely on whatever is indicated on the charger.


texts: Why does "Tap to click" not work in many games?

texts:
I have enabled "Tap to Click" in the trackpad options in OSX (10.9.2), but it doesn't work in many games that I play.  Instead, I have to physically press the trackpad which is really inconvenient for me...

Are there any settings to fix/change this behavior?

EDIT:  I forgot to mention that sometimes it does work but requires two or more taps to register as a click...


texts: OSX 10.5.8: spurious "cannot be copied because there is not enough free space"

texts:
I'm trying to rehabilitate my G5 tower

OSX 10.5.8
two HD in the bays.

The problem:

Both the boot disk (1TB) and the second disk (300GB) have a lot of space on them.
The 1TB has 800GB free, the other has nothing on it (290+GB free).

Yet when I drag a file "foo" from the 1TB to the empty drive, it fails with:

  The item "foo" cannot be copied because there is not enough free space

Copying from the 1TB to the same 1TB drive (in another place) works fine!

I've run Disk Utility on both and repaired all the permissions, but I still get this error.

What is the deal?  Any ideas?

I'm willing to erase the startup volume, but I have to find a Leopard disk somewhere!


texts: How can I unlock an iPhone 4 without the original receipt? (UK)

texts: My friend sold me his old iPhone because mine got stolen and he didn't need his any more. However, in order to unlock it so I can use my O2 sim, his network (3mobile) require the original receipt for the handset. He doesn't have it, so they refuse to unlock it. What are my options?


texts: Windows 7 can't connect to Snow Leopard via Bluetooth PAN internet sharing?

texts:
I'm trying to connect Windows 7 to Snow Leopard via Bluetooth PAN but it doesn't seem to detect the Bluetooth PAN capability of the mac. It only allows transferring of files, and using it as a bluetooth speaker.

I've already done the following:

System Preferences > Bluetooth > Advanced > Share my internet connection with other Bluetooth devices
System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing On > Bluetooth PAN
System Preferences > Sharing > Bluetooth Sharing


texts: Send mail after found new items inside the folder

texts:
I am running an applescript application using stay open option.

Function of the script is:

the applescript will ask for "javascript" to run the below is my
code. the  functions of the javascript is to find a files & folders
inside the folders and then copy and paste into other path, which is
defined inside the script.
after copying mail, the email will be send to the person, saying
"please check the file".

But, what happens is, each and every time the applescript send the mail to the receipient.

My need is to send email only when the folder has some items inside in it and always.

Below is my code:

property pathToScript : ""

on idle
    if pathToScript is "" then set pathToScript to (choose file with prompt "Please choose the Javascriptfile") as text
    tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
        do script pathToScript language javascript
    end tell

##sending mail after the "javascript" is complete"

    set recipientName to "Rajni Kanth"
    set recipientAddress to "rajni.kanth@xxxx.com"
    set theSubject to "Please check Files has been completly copied from server"
    set theContent to "check files have been copied"

    tell application "Mail"

        # # Create the message
        set theMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:theSubject, content:theContent, visible:true}

        ##Set a recipient
        tell theMessage
            make new to recipient with properties {name:recipientName, address:recipientAddress}

            ##Send the Message
            send

        end tell
    end tell
    return 0
end idle


texts: Prevent recent files from mounting disk images

texts:
Files that are stored on mounted disk images show up in the Recent Files lists in my applications.

If I unmount the disk image, and then choose a recent file, the disk image gets mounted automatically. Is there any way to turn off this behaviour (i.e., choosing the recent file should produce a File Not Found message)?


texts: How to restore system from network drive?

texts:
I have a 2014 MacBook Pro.

I want to restore my OS from a Time Machine backup which is on a shared network volume.

When I restart in recovery (Apple-Opt-R), it boots from internet, but if I try to restore from Time Machine backup, it fails to see the server where the shared volume is.

Do I need to log/mount the share somehow?


texts: Hidden files saved by Mac OS X into USB drive

texts: I inserted some USB device (I don't quite know which partition type it was) into my Mac OS X Yosemite, copied one file from this device into my Mac, and saved one txt file from TextEdit into this device, I then unplugged the device. During this process, which information about my Mac was stored on the USB (for instance, name of the author of the txt file or other metadata, info about my hardware), and where (for instance, in the form of hidden files or logs)?


texts: How to run a sudo command on startup - launch daemon help

texts:
I have a sound problem on my 2010 Mac mini. I found a solution that uses a sudo command in the Terminal app. But this method only works one time, so when the computer turns off and then back on, you need to start over..

Please bear with me - I'm new in this Mac universe.

From this site, I’ve found that you can use a Launch Daemon to execute it.

I can't seem to figure out a working file.

My sudo command for the sound fix is:

sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext

After that type:

sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext

Remember, sudo requires an administrator password.

My idea here is to run this at startup so I don't have to type it every time.

Can someone help me write it?


texts: Is it possible to change/remove Pages' table row/column size limits?

texts:
I want to make a row in a table super thin but Pages has a 0.28in minimum for rows when auto-resize is turned on and a 0.11in minimum for rows when auto-resize is turned off.

I searched everywhere but all I could find were posts explaining how to resize a table and this post. Since that post is about Numbers (and has no solution), I thought I might ask this question to see if someone has a solution for Pages.

Has anyone been able to overcome this restriction?


texts: why is itunes not acknowledging my gift card credit?

texts: I have $50 of store credit to iTunes from gift cards for my birthday and when I go to buy anything it's trying to charge my debit card, not my iTunes gift cards.  is there something I have to do to change that or what?


texts: Can I customize the volume image of an individual USB drive?

texts:
When I plug in my USB key, I see this icon on my desktop:

I want to customize this, so that the image on the desktop and in Finder will look like the physical USB key.

I was able to find an online image converter to create an icon from  my image, and I was able to successfully use the "get info, copy icon, paste icon".  As you can see, the far right info window is for the icon itself, and I've copy-pasted that image the middle info window, which is a folder:

Applying that same copy-paste technique to the drive itself (the far-left info window), I get completely different results:

What am I doing wrong here?  After an hour spent trying to troubleshoot this (messing with SetFile, manually copying the .VolumeIcon.icns file, etc), I also need to ask: is what I'm attempting even possible?

(I looked at a program called CandyBar, but it would have changed the image for ALL drives, not individual drives; it doesn't help me)

Here's what happens when I tried dragging an .icns file onto the drive icon:


texts: OS X no longer sees my DVD drive. How to debug this?

texts:
My Mac Pro has its original built-in DVD burner, which has always seemed to work fine in the past.  Sometime in the recent past (10.9.1?), it simply disappeared.

I first noticed that pressing the eject button on my keyboard didn't do anything.  I looked up alternative ways to eject the tray, and I found the "drutil" program, which seems to confirm that OS X doesn't see any drives at all:

$ drutil list
   Vendor   Product           Rev   Bus       SupportLevel

$

I've rebooted, and that doesn't help.  I don't even know how to debug this.  Where do I start?


texts: Can't edit/delete some events on my iPad's calendar

texts: I've had a problem since upgrading my iPad to IOS 5 in that I can't seem to edit/delete some events on my calendar. It mainly seems to be repeating events that have the problem. Any ideas about what may be causing this?


texts: PowerBook G4 won't connect to Airport with WEP password

texts:
I'm helping at a friend's house. She has a Airport Extreme setup with a WEP (yes, I really do mean WEP) password.  Her iMac running 10.5.8 connects to the network just fine.  I'm typing this question on that iMac.

However when I try connecting to the same network with her PowerBook G4, sitting in the same room as the Airport Extreme, the PowerBook won't connect.  It asks me for a password but I can't get it to accept the password.  The PowerBook is running 10.4.11.

When I select the network, I get dialog that says:

The selected AirPort network requires a password to join.

    Wireless Security: WPA Personal

    Password: ______

[ ] Show password

[ ] Remember password in my keychain

(?)   (Cancel)   (OK)

(Pardon my ASCII art.) Anyway, the wireless security setting is a pulldown menu, and I want to pull down that menu and select "WEP" or "Transitional WEP", but I can't. WPA Personal is the only available option.

So, needless to say, if I enter the WEP password, it fails to connect.  What do I do?


texts: How to calculate Virtual Memory Size in Mavericks

texts: I would like to know if there is a command (or set of commands) that calculates each of (Virtual Memory, File Cache and App Memory) parameters listed in the screen shot above.


texts: stuck because of 'old' inlog name of apple id

texts:
I used to have an ipad2, it 'died' about 12 months ago.
Last week I bought a new ipad Air2.
Meanwhile in past 12 months the login name of my Apple id was changed.

Since changing the e-mail address of the Apple id I have had problems constantly, because the old inlog name keeps popping up. But I thought I had solved hat problem.
Yesterday I 'uploaded' the 'old' ipad profile from October 2014, because of the apps I bought in the past few years, but with that also the old login name came with the ipad profile.
Now I cannot do anything with the brand new iPad, because the old Apple id Login name doesn't accept any of my old passwords.....And after going to the motion of 'adapting' the apple id on the ipad, I can still not login into the ipad, because the old apple id login name does not change.

3.a. Then I thought, let's forget about the old ipad back up, and overwrite it back to factory settings...
3.a.1 For that I need a "limitations'-code, that I do not have.
3.b. Then I thought, let's forget about the old ipad back up, and reset it through itunes...
3.b.2 I need the password fitting my 'old' inlogname of my apple id.. i tried several, but they are not accepted.

So, I do not know what to do....


texts: My family has 3 iPhone 5's and we share one iTunes account.  We sync on 2 different computers.  I do not want all the same apps on my phone.  Can I delete them from my phone without it deleting them without screwing up the other 2 phones?


texts: I have an iPad Air and I want to update this game that needs 1.4 GB. I only have 5 apps on my iPad and when I go to Settings to look at my storage it says I have used 11 GB. I added up the usage for all my apps and I counted only 3.3 GB. I don't know how to fix this, I've restarted my iPad but it didn't work. I don't know where the other 8 GB is coming from. I also have the same problem on my iPhone 4s.


texts: Is there an emulator for the Apple Watch?

texts:
I was wondering if there were any simulators that I could download that would emulate the functionality of an Apple Watch?

I know the watch was just released, but is there something that simulates its functionality?


texts:
Yesterday I did two workouts using my Series 6 AW. One HIIT and one walk. Today, when I look at the fitness app on the phone, only one of the workouts is there, the HIIT. Is there any way to force the other to sync?
I’ve restarted both devices.


texts: Using Find my iPhone to track my daughters phone

texts: Can I use find my iPhone to track my daughters phone if we each have different apple ids?


texts: Mac Terminal and Vim syntax coloring on CentOS server

texts:
I am using a Mac Terminal window to ssh to a CentOS server.  I have installed vim-enhanced on the server, I have created an alias for vi=vim in my .bash_profile, as well as confirmed I am using /usr/bin/vim. I still can't get syntax colors when editing files.

Is there something I need to do with Mac Terminal settings? Any thoughts as to why it's not working as I expect?


texts: Tool to monitor home network traffic & stats?

texts:
I have a home network with several users, using both LAN & Wifi. I have a Billion 7800N router which is also my ADSl2 modem.

Is there a tool or something I can use that monitors all traffic going through the router, including capturing packets? Some features im looking for is broadband usage per user/ip, packet inspection (not required but handy) and other general network stats.

I was looking at Netuse network monitor from AppStore as it also uses the SNMP data on the router, but with no trial version im not willing to buy just yet.

Thanks


texts: Delete (not hide) calendar events automatically or via CLI

texts: There are many answers online on how to hide old events from iCloud calendars, but not many on how to actually delete them. From the settings, it appears to not be possible to do automatically. There may be, however, a command-line way to do it. I’m looking for something that doesn’t rely on AppleScript to call the Calendar app and doing it there, as I’ve gotten mixed results with such solutions, and would rather not invoke a GUI.


texts: Clean install Mac, restore backup without command line tools

texts:
So, I'm a developer with brew installed along with several other programs installed from source(openCV, boost etc.). I want to do a clean install of OSX(to get rid of some other issues as well), then restore from a time machine backup(I have important apps and files I need to restore). Is there any way I can exclude my user installed command line tools from the restore? (effectively, starting afresh there?)

EDIT: I've just discovered you can exclude the system folder. This should do the trick, right?


texts: Registering as an Apple Developer as a sole proprietor using a dba (doing business as)

texts:
Is it possible to use a "dba" (doing business as) when registering as an Apple Developer as a sole proprietor? The objective would be to have the "dba" show up as the developer in the App Store, instead of the legal name of the sole proprietor person.

Please note that this question is specifically about being a sole proprietor. Registering an LLC is not an option here.


texts: Separate download of Photos App for Yosemite

texts:
I accidentally deleted the Yosemite's Photos App from my Applications folder but I can't seem to find a separate download link anywhere.

It can't possibly be that I have to re-install Yosemite just to get the app, can it?


texts:
I wrote a patch/utility that disables OS X's default functionality of starting iTunes when the play button is pressed.  This utility basically modifies the Remote Control Daemon (rcd) and comments out the Apple Script command to start iTunes.  This has worked fine until 10.7, but with 10.8 rcd now has code signature.  The patch now causes Exception Type:  EXC_CRASH (Code Signature Invalid) after the executable is patched.

Obviously, the code signature checking is working as designed, but I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on what options I might have.  Is there a legit way to turn off this check on a single executable?  I have tried turning of GateKeeper, but that, understandably, didn't do it.

Any other suggestions for disabling the play button?


texts: macbook pro - disable csrutil without recovery mode

texts:
So, my MacBook Pro just died and it appears to be the standard known issue with the graphics card. There seems to be a possible fix by moving some system files around.

However, to do this, I have to disable SIP protection.

To disable SIP, i have to boot up in recovery mode.

MacBook won't boot up in recovery mode - grey screen of death

MacBook can boot up in single user mode however.

There are tales that you can boot in single user recovery mode by holding down command-R-S on boot, but that did not work for me.

What can i do?


texts: Is 64GB the max amount of memory for an Apple computer?

texts: I was looking at a comparison between 2017 Apple computer offerings and the highest end system appears to be the Mac Pro, a tower-type computer 6 inches in diameter and 9 inches high. This system is described as expandable in memory up to 64 gigabytes. So, is that the top-end limit on memory for current Apple computers?


texts: Trying to install CocoaPods using terminal getting command not found

texts:
Im trying to install CocoaPods using terminal. In their official website it is written:

installing it is as easy as running the following commands in the terminal:
$ [sudo] gem install cocoapods
$ pod setup

But when i enter the first line in terminal i get the following error:

-bash: $: command not found

What can I do with it, I tried looking in the web but since I'm a noob with terminal I couldn't really figure out what to to do.


texts: How do I get my windows (UK Layout) keyboard to work on Mac?

texts: How do I get my windows keyboard to work on my Mac? I want to be able to bind the keys so it's like I'm using a windows computer, i.e. ctrl maps to command, but I've tried everything to no avail. Also, how would I map the symbols to the correct places, for instance \ is where ` should be, etc.


texts: Trying to modify keys to left and right arrow keys but doesn't work

texts:
I have this Json file and it does not apply to the left_arrow key. But it is mapped with something else.
How can I find my keyboard key to find what is which 'key_code'?
{
  "title": "For Korean PC Keyboard",
  "rules": [
    {
        "description": "Change Kor/Eng key to command+space",
        "manipulators": [
        {
          "from": {
            "key_code": "lang1"
          },
          "to": [
            {
              "key_code": "left_arrow",
            }
          ],
          "type": "basic"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
        "description": "Change Hanja key to option+return",
        "manipulators": [
        {
          "from": {
            "key_code": "lang2"
          },
          "to": [
            {
              "key_code": "right_arrow",
            }
          ],
          "type": "basic"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}


texts:
I upgraded to OS X El Capitan and tried to install a new app (MPLAB X from Microchip) but I got an error because it couldn't copy a library to /usr/lib even when it asked for root password. I tried to manually copying the library using sudo cp libSEGGERAccessLink.dylib /usr/lib but it says cp: /usr/lib/libSEGGERAccessLink.dylib: Operation not permitted.

Is this a permission issue? How can I write to /usr/lib?  ls -ld /usr/lib returns:

drwxr-xr-x  263 root  wheel  8942 Oct  2 15:49 /usr/lib


texts: How can i get back information wiped off my Iphone by accidental restore?

texts: I plugged in my iPhone to attempt to sync so that I could update my software.  The sync was not working.  I looked up problem on internet and they suggested that I restore the settings on the iPhone.  I followed the directions.  When I did so the phone rebooted and I lost everything (contacts, calendar, photos).  Is there any way to recover this information?


texts: How to permit running an application only within a predefined time

texts: I am looking for a way to forbid myself from running an RSS application I am spending too much time on during the day. What I want is to turn on the app when I wake up, read the news, and once I am done, to quit the app, and not be able to run this app until the next morning.


texts: I selected to send SMS instead of iMessage to a contact once, and it won't switch back, Why?

texts:
I sent an SMS text instead of using iMessage to a family member when I had bad cell service about a week ago. I have FaceTime-d with them since and even deleted and recreated their contact info, but my iPhone and MacBook still keeps sending SMS texts to this one specific phone number. It is not doing this for anyone else that is sending my family member iMessages, so I know it's on my end.

I've tried logging out of iCloud on my phone and MacBook and turned "Send as SMS" on and off. I have even tried deleting the contact, and re-creating it.

What am I doing wrong?


texts: Are iPhone Wireless Chargers Good for Batteries?

texts: I heard that the external wireless iPhone chargers for the XS MAX are not good for for the battery. Anyone know anything about this?


texts: How to tell what program is launching softwareupdated?

texts:
My Macbook was running really slow after opening it up and so I opened Activity Monitor and saw one process called softwareupdated that was not responding. It didn't say it was using any CPU but my laptop was crawling. I force quit it but then it restarted again. So I looked it up online and saw that App Store uses it (and maybe others). So I opened App Store and ran update. It seemed to use the process as it showed 104% CPU. Then when it was done it went back to 0 CPU. Still it showed in red that it was not responding.

How do I know what process is calling this? How do I prevent it from being called?

Pictures:
softwareupdated process:

softwareupdated process when clicking update in OS X App Store:

double clicking on the process in Activity Monitor:

app store preferences and settings:


texts: I am working on completely resetting my macbook air. So far I did a 7x disk erase and reinstalled OS X. In addition I cleared the NVRAM and the SMC. Is there any other possible system settings I can reset besides cleaning the disk, reinstalling OS X, clearing the NVRAM, and clearing the SMC?


texts: Google Backup and Synch constantly crashing since update to Bug Sur

texts:
Since updating to macOS 11 (11.1), Google Backup and Sync crashes every few minutes. As near as I can tell B&S should be compatible with Bug Sur, but I've tried rebooting, uninstalling and reinstalling B&S, but still keep getting the repeated and frequent crashes.

How do I prevent Google Backup and Sync from crashing on macOS 11?


texts: How can I make iTerm2 hotkey window fill out the whole screen?

texts:
I am using MacOS Catalina, and I use iTerm as my terminal. My problem is, that every time iTerm has been closed, and opened again, it only opens in half screen. I know I can drag it down to full screen with my cursor, but it's super annoying if I have to do that every time I open it.

Is there a way to make it full screen by default?


texts: Why does Apache want to use xcode for installation resources?

texts:
When I try to run ./configure When building Apache with no unusual options this is part of the output:

checking for APR... yes
  setting CC to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc"
  setting CPP to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -E"
  setting CFLAGS to " "
  setting CPPFLAGS to " -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK"
  setting LDFLAGS to " "
configure:
configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime Utility library...
configure:
checking for APR-util... yes
checking for gcc... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc
checking whether the C compiler works... no

I don't have xcode installed, so why does it assume I do?  I tried running the configure like this after installing apple command line tools which includes gcc, etc. into /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/

CC=/usr/bin/gcc CPP=/usr/bin/cpp LTFLAGS=--tag=cc ./configure --prefix=/Users/<me>/it/apps/apache2/ --with-pcre=/usr/local/bin/pcre-config

And the configure works (although I'm running into issues running make that I think are related).  Why, when which gcc returns /usr/bin/gcc, would Apache insist on looking in Applications/Xcode...?


texts:
I don't remember if I was using android or the gmail app, but I was able to swipe to move to the next or previous mail (in any of the mail apps).

I am now using an iPhone, so how can I achieve this? is it configurable? another mail app?


texts: How can I tell if one iPhone receiver works as well as another?

texts:
My spouse and I were driving onI84/81 in Annville, PA.  Her iPhone 6S was in LTE mode. My iPhone SE was in Edge. We both have T-Mobile as a carrier.

Do the two iphones have the same radios on the same frequencies?
If so, why would I have Edge on one and she had LTE?
Is there something wrong with my iPhone 6S?
Is this something that can be tested in the T-Mobile store?

In a nutshell - what process can I use to get answers to these ideas I have as to why one phone isn't working as well as another?


texts: How do I rename an app in MacOS properly?

texts:
I am trying to rename an app in MacOS. I tried it using Finder, navigating to Applications, right clicking on the app to rename, moving to "information" and renaming it there.

This works in most places where the app name appears, but if I have the app opened in fullscreen and I swipe up with 3 fingers I still see the old app name in the menu at the top of the screen.

How can I change the app name also there?


texts: Auto Unlock not working on MBP Early 2013 - iOS 10 - watchOS 3.0 - macOS Sierra GM

texts:
For some reason, I cannot get "Auto Unlock" to work.

Currently running macOS Sierra GM on a MBP Retina Early 2013, watchOS 3.0 and iOS 10 GM.

I've already disabled Two-Step verification and enabled Two-Factor verification for my Apple ID. All devices appear registered on iCloud devices.

Any ideas of what could be the reason?


texts: Keychain: Application still requesting access with entry created via "security add-generic-password"

texts:
I'm adding a Keychain entry programatically onto a machine via the security command as such:

security add-generic-password -a "username@exchange.server.here" -s "Exchange" w "P@ssw0rd!" -T "/Applications/Microsoft Outlook"

It looks great, just like one generated one when you set up Outlook! However, I still get the "Microsoft Outlook wants to access key Exchange in your keychain" prompt when the user opens Outlook.

Have I missed a step here somewhere? I was of the impression that -T allowed applications to access a keychain entry unprompted?


texts: Is there something like a "hidden mode"?

texts:
When somebody else uses my laptop, he can of course see all the windows I have currently open. I'm looking for a mode, which allows me to completely hide some windows but without closing them.

This could be useful if you have your private email and Facebook always opened in a browser window, but you don't want that coworkers could accidentally or intentionally open them when they do something at your laptop.

I'm not thinking about situations when somebody really wants to spy. I think about situations when - for example - a coworker explains you something at your laptop and you don't want him to accidentally see your private mails when he - for example - switches into the browser.


texts: Does any OS X hardware contain on chip h.264 encoding/decoding?

texts:
I know that iOS devices have the h.264 instruction set on chip, which helps to dramatically reduce processing (and thus, power, battery drain, etc.) when watching native video.

Has this been added to Intel CPUs, or ATI/nVidia GPUs, in Apple's Desktop/Laptop hardware?


texts: iPhone: Disable syncing for mail account, but keep existing e-mails

texts:
I have a university e-mail account (Exchange, if that makes a difference) which for reasons that aren’t relevant to this question does not work at the moment. The underlying user account has been disabled on the university’s servers, and I cannot log in.

This means my iPhone is constantly asking for a password – it obviously can’t connect since the account is frozen – and telling me it cannot fetch e-mail for this account. That is exceedingly frustrating. (It’s also terrible UI/UX to repeatedly block the entire interface from the user every time the app is opened, but that’s a different matter.)

In order to get rid of this infuriating, incessant pestering for a password that I can’t give, I would like to temporarily disable syncing from this account, but only syncing. Old e-mails which have been fetched should still appear in the inbox and subfolders and be searchable; it just shouldn’t try to actually connect to the server to fetch or send new e-mail.

This question asks about more or less the same thing, except it’s for OS X Mail, which works quite differently from iOS Mail, and it is about a permanently defunct mail address, whereas this question is about an account which will hopefully be online again at some point in the not too distant future.

Googling this, I found hundreds of tutorials on how to set up and remove e-mail accounts (I know how to do both; neither is what I’m looking for), but nothing useful.

The closest I got was a site telling me to uncheck the “Mail” option in the account settings. While this does indeed stop Mail from trying to connect to the server, it also completely wipes the account from the Mail app, deleting every trace of the account’s inbox and folders, which rather defeats the purpose. (In another case of shockingly bad UX, it does this without any kind of warning, meaning I’ve now already irreversibly lost all e-mails in this account on one phone – thankfully the one I don’t use much.)

Is there no way to tell Mail to stop trying in vain to sync this account, but not change anything else?


texts:
I uninstalled Python on my Mac by moving all python-related files in my Mac (including system files) to the trash and emptying the trash. Now, I can't get Python 3 to work at all (despite reinstalling it). How can I get all of the deleted Python files back?

Update: I deleted the following files:

/Applications/Python
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework
/usr/local/bin/py

thon


texts: Use caffeinate to prevent sleep on lid close on battery

texts:
The native caffeinate utility is not working to prevent my macbook from sleeping when I close the display.  Instead, the system sleeps and various network services ( VPN, screenshares, VOIP calls, messaging clients, file transfers ) to fail while I walk from my desk to my meeting in < 5 minutes.

Walking around with the laptop lid half open makes it difficult to safely carry with my coffee, and is distinctly uncool.

The native caffeinate utility is designed to handle this as a user-friendly replacement for pmset, but appears to be designed not to work when disconnected from AC power.

Docs via man caffeinate

  -s Create an assertion to prevent the system from sleeping. This assertion is valid only when system is running on AC power.

Looking for a native alternative to InsomniaX or nosleep.

A timeout feature is essential so that I avoid accidentally stuffing my undead macbook into a bag, resulting in a hot mess.  ( caffeinate -t, specifies the timeout value in seconds )


texts: How to manually determine version control metadata for Finder?

texts:
I have a Scripts folder where I keep Automator actions, Applescripts, and shell scripts. Automator scripts are automatically assigned a version of 1.1.1 it seems. When I make revisions to any of these kinds of documents, how can I manually set the versions so that info will display in the finder, either with Get Info or in a folder list with Version view enabled?

Especially in the case of shell scripts (zsh), is there a comment format where I can enter the version of the script and Finder will see it? Or is there a way to associate an editable system resource to the scripts that will make the script version visible?


texts: How to install subordinate CA certificate into keychain from Terminal?

texts:
I'm a Windows engineer, setting up a Active Directory PKI, but know very little about Macs.  I'm aware of how to install root certificates into the system keychain using:

sudo security add-trusted-cert -d -r trustRoot -k \Library\Keychains\System.keychain rootca.crt

However, I'm not too clear on how to install a subordinate CA's certificate (that was issued by the root CA).

Do I simply use the exact same command, or would i use add-certificates instead?

What is the difference between the resultypes: trustRoot, trustAsRoot, unspecified?


texts: MacBook Pro: How to open last terminal tabs on restart?

texts:
On my Macbook terminal I have 1 window opens with 4 tabs.

When I am restarting, it asks to 'Terminate processes' once I click & restart MacBook pro.

Terminal opens with Basic profile only.

How can I open my last windows 4 tabs again.

I can't find in preferences.


texts: What is libgio and how can I update my library?

texts:
I downloaded a plugin for gimp, but when I execute this, I get:
Reason: Incompatible library version: gmic_gimp requires version 4201.0.0 or later, but libgio-2.0.0.dylib provides version 4001.0.0

But does anyone know what libgio stands for?

I know it is a library file, but I don't know how to upgrade my library version


texts: In GatsbyJS, when passing props to a linked page, how do I set a defaultProp?

texts:
I'm experiencing a TypeError: Cannot read property 'serviceCategory' of null issue when the "linked page" refreshes (f5) or when the page is visited as direct traffic.
I've tried setting defaultProps, but it's not triggering.
Here is my current setup:
<Link
  to="/locations"
  state={{
    serviceCategory: "FILTER",
  }}
>

linked page
const Locations = ({ location }) => {

  const { state = {} } = location
  const { serviceCategory } = state

  const [category, setCategory] = useState(() => {
    return location.state === null ? "ALL" : serviceCategory
  })
}

...

Locations.defaultProps = {
  location: {
    state: {
      serviceCategory: "ALL",
    },
  },
}

export default Locations

defaultProps is no where to be found in Gatsby's documentation, so i'm thinking of a different solution.


texts: How to turn off 'Updates Available' in Big Sur?

texts: Ever since upgrading to Big Sur (from Mojave) I keep getting 'Updates Available' Popup in upper right hand corner of my screen. I am not logged into my apple ID in preferences either. Is there a way to stop this?


texts: I would like to know what kind of speed implications using FileVault2 would have on my MBPr (late 2013). As there are much faster SSD's in these machines I want to know whether there is a noticeable speed difference compared older generations.


texts: I have problems with my Word files when I try to open them on Windows machines. So, I checked the file and got that Word file has Unicode symbols. How to fix it? Thank you.


texts: How should you say an app is coming to the app store prior to being approved?

texts:
This is likely a silly question, but I can't seem to find anything official on this subject.

Often on pages for upcoming games and applications, you'll see an image that states "Coming to Apple Store" (Along with similar mentions of FaceBook, Windows Phone, Android, etc).

My application is currently in development and I intend to being it to the app store, however, I am not yet an approved developer.

So, on the application's webpage, should I simply mention that I intend to port it to iOS, or is it alright to use an 'official' "available on the app store" image accompanied by a "coming soon" overlay banner? I wouldn't want to step on anyone's toes, but likewise, I'd like to let it be known that the game will more than likely be available on iOS upon completion.


texts:
I want to run ipfw or pf on my iPhone -- or the equivalent.  Seems simple, but I can't find anything that works.

Device is jailbroken, looked very carefully through Cydia, and even through some of the alternate repositories.  I've tried off and on for months, digging and digging, it's been really frustrating.

I found this post: Can I block ports and network traffic when using Personal Hotspot? here on apple.stackexchange, and tried installing ipfw via theworm.altervista.org/cydia.  It installed without issue, but no matter what I do it just says:

ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_GET): Protocol not available

Found this post: http://nixcraft.com/all-about-freebsd-openbsd-netbsd/3726-ipfw-getsockopt-ip_fw_get-protocol-not-available.html which suggests creating a file: /etc/rc.conf, with the following:

firewall_enable="YES"
firewall_script="/usr/local/etc/ipfw.rules"

But that didn't help at all, still get the same error.

I'm aware of the Cydia/commercial software "IP Firewall", which would help with much of what I want to do, but not everything.

Please help!


texts: Is it possible to connect iTunes playlists to folders?

texts: Is it possible to connect iTunes playlists to folders so that playlists update automatically when I add new song to a folder?


texts:
So I've got a MacBook Pro which I use for work (and thus every file is precious information) and my BootCamp partition was getting a bit small, so I resized it with GParted, but not before resizing the OS X partition using diskutil.

However, after modifying the partitions, when I hold the option key at boot, I exclusively see the "Windows" partition, no Macintosh HD or Recovery HD.

I can see both of these drives from Windows, and all files are intact.

Is there anything I can do to repair this without

Requiring a backup drive (My backups are done to a NAS and thus cannot be booted)
Damaging any data on the device
Going to the Apple Store (Nearest one is a good few hours away)

Can I use the Internet Recovery system to get into a recovery environment?

Edit: I should mention I have a 64GB flash drive that I can use for anything, and the backups are exclusively of my "Documents/IdeaProjects" folder since that's the "important" work-related stuff. All of Windows and my personal files are not backed up (since the NAS is a work-owned system)

Further edit: I can no longer boot to Windows. I should mention that the value of th data on this drive is such that I am fully willing to pay a professional recovery company anything to recover it. How does that process work if I need to do it?


texts:
Does anyone know a way to ask Siri on iPhone or iPad to play an artist, but have the songs go in album order instead of shuffled?

I have tried asking "don't shuffle" and "play X in order" and also "play albums by X"...


texts: iOS 14.2 - No text notification when message is open but screen is off

texts:
I think this issue started after upgrading to the new iOS.

iPhone 11
iOS 14.2

Steps to Reproduce:

Open Messages.
Open a specific person's message thread.
Lock your phone screen without closing the page.

Expected: The next time a text comes in from that person, you get the normal text notification via sound/banner/notification center.
Actual: The next time a text comes in from that person, you will not be notified via sound/banner/notification center.

Go back to the general Messages list of texts from all people OR go to the home screen and keep the app active OR close the app altogether.

Expected & Actual: The next time a text comes in from that person, you will get a text notification, like normal.
I want to know if anyone else has seen this issue and if they know of a way to resolve it.


texts:
I'm trying to create an automator workflow that starts out by finding all symbolic links in a given directory.

What's happening however is that even if I set it to return "all files", I end up with every single file except symbolic links.  Automator seems to be unable to see them at all.

Is there a way to get Automator to return symlinks (not aliases)?


texts: App Store on OS X broken after system restoration from backup

texts:
I recently had to restore my installation of OS X 10.9.4 from a backup. Since then(*), the App Store application is broken. It displays an empty window showing the MAS symbol and the menu bar. Clicking icons in the menu bar highlights them all. Nothing else happens. See the console output below:

  01.10.14 19:09:08,079 storeagent[759]: * Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '* setObjectForKey: key cannot be nil'
  *** First throw call stack:
  (
      0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8c63425c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
      1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff8cdb1e75 objc_exception_throw + 43
      2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8c52f22e -[__NSDictionaryM setObject:forKey:] + 1102
      3   storeagent                          0x000000010e751b0b storeagent + 31499
      4   libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff904df1bb _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 12
      5   libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff904dc28d _dispatch_client_callout + 8
      6   libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff904de673 _dispatch_queue_drain + 451
      7   libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff904df9c1 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 110
      8   libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff904ddf87 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 75
      9   libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff904df177 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 40
      10  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff96e9bef8 _pthread_wqthread + 314
      11  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff96e9efb9 start_wqthread + 13
  )
  01.10.14 19:09:08,519 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[163]: (com.apple.storeagent[759]) Job appears to have crashed: Abort trap: 6

Enabling the debug menu (terminal: defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true) and resetting the application had not effect (same console output as mentioned above).

I installed OS X 10.9.5 using the terminal. The Mac App Store application worked until the next reboot.

What can I do short of reinstalling OS X from the recovery partition?


texts: Is it possible to automatically exit full-screen mode in Safari on cmd-tab press?

texts:
I have a problem that while watching videos in Safari in full-screen, I need to access another program, but at the same time keep watching the video, in not-full-screen mode though. Currently if I cmd-tab from full-screen of Safari to another program, that covers only a part of the screen,
I get this in my Safari window:

How can I switch to non-full-screen move automatically after using the combination of alt+tab?
Or is there any alternative that could be tailored to my need?


texts: How do I run a script when a particular bluetooth device wakes up?

texts:
I use a Microsoft Natural Bluetooth Ergonomic keyboard with my MBP.  I remap the Windows & Alt keys on the Windows keyboard to ⌥ and ⌘, respectively, for the keys on both the left & right of the Windows keyboard's space bar.  The script with which I do this can be found at https://gist.github.com/matthewadams/9e758139d0400738513ae9997f901b39.
Assume that the keyboard is already paired successfully with the MBP.
I want to run this script automatically every time I come back to my desk and the keyboard wakes up and becomes available to the MBP.  Here's what I have so far, but I'm having trouble finding the docs on com.apple.iokit.matching whatever bluetooth "connected" or "woken up" event with the vendor id & product id for my bluetooth keyboard (0x045E & 0x0817, respectively).  Here's what I have so far, that will go in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/me.matthewadams.macos.bluetooth.keyboard.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>me.matthewadams.macos.bluetooth.keyboard</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/Users/matthewadams/bin/hid-remap</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
    <string>-p</string>
    <string>0x0817</string>
    <string>E2:E3</string>
    </string>E3:E2</string>
    <string>E6:E7</string>
    <string>E7:E6</string>
    </array>
    <key>LaunchEvents</key>
    <dict>
            <key>com.apple.iokit.matching</key>
            <dict>
                    <!-- THIS IS THE PART I CAN'T FIND DOCS ON -->
                    <key>com.apple.bluetooth.hostController</key>
                    <dict>
                            <key>idProduct</key>
                            <integer>0817</integer>
                            <key>idVendor</key>
                            <integer>045E</integer>
                    </dict>
            </dict>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Can someone please either RTFM me to the docs for the right com.apple.iokit.matching <dict> entry to be triggered by whenever this particular bluetooth keyboard reconnects, or just tell me what the content of the <dict> should be outright.
Thanks!
PS:  should the ids be expressed in hex without the leading 0x, decimal, or something else?


texts:
I've been writing a script for my Mac Mini (2014) that does a speed test and logs the data to a database. All that works great, but the results were a lot lower than I was expecting.

I have a gigabit connection and my Mac Mini is hardwired directly to my Airport Extreme. I was expecting to see something around 900 Mbps, but it was more like 500 Mbps. I would usually blame my ISP at this point, but I decided to run the test from my Macbook Pro as well. My laptop was spitting out in the upper 900s consistently. My setup between my Mac Mini and my Macbook Pro are identical, both hardwired (with the same cable) to my Airport Extreme.

I looked up the specs for my Mac Mini and it says that it's 10/100/1000BASE-T
https://support.apple.com/kb/sp710?locale=en_US

I'm confused, why am I getting such drastically different results?


texts: macOS - Safari function to prevent website appearing in history?

texts:
I'm looking for a solution in order to prevent certain website to appear in the Safari (macOS) history (no suggestion visibility, history appearance, …).

Using Private browsing, is not an option due to the usage of cookie in order to authenticate the user against the website which should not appear in the history.

The main reason is not privacy, but preventing passive information disclosure, i.e. an IT consultant browses the internet at company A and Safari shows suggestion (URL autocompletion) & history of company B intranet which is a direct competitor of company B.

Is there a way to configure such a blacklist of domains/url in Safari. Or using an extension?

UPDATE: Manually editing/deleting the history to get rid of the websites/domains is not an option. The goal is to define a configuration with domain/websites/rules which will prevent the incriminated website to never appear in the history or autocompletion.


texts:
The terminal writes about a successful installation, but it is nowhere to be found. And no program can be run through properties.
After such a problem, I tried to find the old program in the store and start the installation like this. But it's strange. Programs that have not been updated for several years are quietly launched.
softwareupdate --install-rosetta
I have read and agree to the terms of the software license agreement. A list of Apple SLAs may be found here: http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/
Type A and press return to agree: a
2021-04-16 17:32:59.495 softwareupdate[2131:42413] Package Authoring Error: 071-08933: Package reference com.apple.pkg.RosettaUpdateAuto is missing installKBytes attribute
Install of Rosetta 2 finished successfully

I do not appear in the properties to run through Rosetta
I even downloaded an old Intel program from 5 years ago and it started quietly but Photoshop does not work.
How do I install it so that everything works? help me


texts:
I'm looking for an app to manage copy and paste tasks.

What I need is to have shorcuts to the last copied text.

Let's say I copy these 4 lines in 4 times:

111111
222222
333333
444444

Then I'd like to have 4 shortcuts to paste every one of them. Something like:

cmd + 1 (to paste '111111')
cmd + 2 (to paste '222222')
and so on..

The closed match I found is Clipmenu since it seems that you can use the shortcuts I need (cmd + 1, cmd + 2...) but it doesn't work though


texts: How to really exclude Time Machine Backups from Spotlight-indexing?

texts:
I try to exclude my TimeMachine-backup-storage from being indexed by spotlight and got some weird behaviour. The backup storage is a Time Capsule.
To exclude it, i did the following in terminal:
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/Time\ Machine\ Backups

Output was:
/Volumes/Time Machine Backups:
2016-04-25 11:05:25.036 mdutil[2896:441987] mdutil disabling Spotlight: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups -> kMDConfigSearchLevelFSSearchOnly
     Indexing and searching disabled.

Seems pretty fine. But when switching spotlight-indexing from on to off, the following lines will be printed out indicating, that the Time Machine subfolder for my machine will still be enabled for being indexed:

(The spoton-command is an alias for "sudo mdutil -a -i on")
However, i tried to exclude also explicitly the subfolder "Backups.backupdb":
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/Time\ Machine\ Backups/Backups.backupdb

The weird output is:
$ sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/Time\ Machine\ Backups/Backups.backupdb
/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb:
2016-04-25 11:05:28.815 mdutil[2914:442054] mdutil disabling Spotlight: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb -> kMDConfigSearchLevelFSSearchOnly
    Indexing enabled.

Please note: "Indexing enabled".

In preferences pane of Spotlight one can see, that the Time Machine Drive is excluded as expected:

My Questions:
Is the output just a "wrong" output since the parent folder is disabled for spotlight? Or is the spotlight index essentially for TimeMachine to work properly? And if both questions will be answered with "No", how to finally stop spotlight from index my time machine backups?


texts: How can I add login and logout sounds to OS X 10.8.x?

texts: I would like to add login and logout sounds to my Mac. How can I do this?


texts: How can I prevent macOS from restoring all applications after a hard reboot?

texts:
At least in macOS 10.13, if my iMac reboots due to a kernel panic or when a software update requires a reboot, the system restarts the applications that were running immediately before the shutdown even if I have unchecked the "restore windows when logging back in" checkbox in the restart dialog the last time I was shown that dialog.  (Of course, upon a hard reboot, this dialog is not shown anyway.) Restarting all applications automatically is exactly the wrong thing to do if the problem was caused by the applications running at the time.

I want to turn off this application restoration feature completely. How can I achieve this?

Note that I do not want to prevent the system from restoring the windows of the aplications that I start and stop deliberately. My settings in Systems Preferences ➜ General are the following:

I never want the applications I was running to be restarted automatically for me, apart from those that are in the list of "Login Items" in my User & Groups system preferences.


texts: Is there a way to throttle nsurlsessiond/cloudd?

texts:
I have been looking for a way to permanently throttle these two processes.  By default, they are all or nothing processes killing my network connection unless I manually "pause uploads" for iPhotos (nsurlsessiond) or killing/logging out of iCloud for cloudd.

I don't mind them running in the background but would like to control their bandwidth consumption without killing them off completely.  Similar to the way that I can throttle oneDrive upload/download (which to my chagrin, Microsoft does this better than Apple in this case!)

Thanks in advance.


texts: Verifying zsh version on macOS Catalina upon brew install

texts:
The default zsh version located at /bin/zsh is 5.7.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin19.0).

I brew installed a new version, added /usr/local/bin/zsh to /etc/shells, and issued chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh to change it to that one - it's output: chsh: no changes made. I've also tried issuing sudo dscl . -create /Users/$USER UserShell /usr/local/bin/zsh and still see, upon restarting the command line and the machine itself, which zsh and type zsh showing /bin/zsh.

I checked System Preferences -> unlock -> right click my user and click Advanced Options -> and I see /usr/local/bin/zsh for Login shell.

On command line:

which zsh outputs /bin/zsh
echo $0 outputs -zsh
ps -o comm= $$ outputs -zsh
echo $SHELL outputs /usr/local/bin/zsh
type zsh outputs zsh is /bin/zsh
/usr/local/bin/zsh --version outputs zsh 5.8 (x86_64-apple-darwin19.3.0)
zsh --version outputs zsh 5.7.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin19.0)

I'm wondering, how can I ensure version 5.8 is being used?

Could it be that because /bin is before /usr/local/bin in my PATH, that /bin/zsh is resolved instead of /usr/local/bin/zsh, assuming shell binary is also resolved using PATH?


texts:
I have tried numerous ways to fix this problem :

Clean uninstall and re-install of Office 2011
Download individual updates
Download older Office updates

I always stop at "Destination Select" step of installation, where a small yellow triangle with an exclamation mark appears on top of the harddisk image. Saying that  A version of the software required to install this update was not found on this volume.

I had Microsoft Office 2011 running perfectly before, but after deleting it and reinstalling it later, the whole problem started occuring.

I can install office 2011 14.0.0, 14.1.0 and 14.2.0 individually. However I cannot update them to any versions in between, including the full versions (14.0 to 14.1 or 14.1 to 14.2).

Oh and also, I sometimes get this error when I tried installing BUT word runs fine afterwards, although installation fails.

Would like to hear some advice. Thank you

I am not sure if this may cause it, but I have two-sided printing package installed :

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&softwareitem=mp-88750-2

The option is always there even after uninstalling and reinstalling, but I don't think this might be causing the error right ?


texts:
My friend has a circa 2006 A1212 Macbook Pro 17inch. It has issues starting up but when it boots everything works fine but the screen is all pixelated, flashes randomly, and some parts have a red tint.

I think the video card is dying and that was the general consensus on the internet (note: external monitor has same effects).

Is there a way to salvage this machine or get it in a better working condition without replacing the logic board?


texts: "Open with" in Finder.app gives duplicate entries

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How to omit apps from external drives in “Open With” menu?

in finder's open with menu are a lot of dups. I am running latest OX X and patches.

I googled and found this command, which didn't help

sudo /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/Current/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user


texts: Spotify Mac: Is there way to "Like" currently playing song using a shortcut?

texts:
I don't want to open spotify app every time to like the song i'm listening. I'd like to just press a global shortcut button to like current song while working in another app.
Is there way to do it?


texts:
I'm trying to get Aquamacs Emacs to play a sound.

I have this:

(add-hook 'org-after-todo-state-change-hook 'my-org-after-todo)
(defun my-org-after-todo ()
(play-sound-file "~/Library/Sounds/InkSoundStroke3.aif"))

But I get this error:

This Emacs binary lacks sound support

Any ideas?


texts: iPhone 4 dropped in the toilet briefly and now it won't turn on or be recognized by my computer

texts: I dropped my iPhone 4 in the toilet for literally 3 seconds, dried it off with a towel, and it was actually lit up and working, so I thought I had just cheated my poor phone's death when all of a sudden it went black. It continued to vibrate when receiving messages and then began to vibrate every few seconds until it stopped working completely. I quickly put it in a bag of rice and the liquid indicating sensors don't seem to be activated but it still won't respond or be recognized by my computer. Is it time to give up or should I be patient and give it more time? If so, how long is long enough to know that it has reached the point of no return?


texts: My MacOS Sierra won’t load up stuck at boot

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Yesterday night while working my MacBook got stuck since it was too late instead of waiting for it to restore to normal I forced shutdown today morning I got up and MacBook with Mac OS Sierra installed is not loading and gets stuck at screen below, I managed to boot to repair mode using OPTION + Command + P + R , and repaired disk then I even tried reinstalling whole Mac OS Sierra nothing has helped so far. Please help

I think when booting normally keyboard and touchpad doesn’t respond as cursor is appearing but when touch move finger on touchpad cursor stays there. Caps lock led on button doesn’t turn on when I press it.

However keyboard and touchpad works in safe mode


texts: I am senior, just purchased and hooked up the Apple TV, was trying to download the German TV stations but found them but was not able to open them up, it keeps saying enter your I tune password...I thought having a password for Apple goes across all accounts and I finished my account information.  Do I need to pay for the German channels, willing to do that but I am confused my apple account should be my account information across and my apple id and password? I have no interest in music so why should I have a password for my Itune account?


texts: Is it possible to make Modbook-style tablets from MacBook Pros ...?

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I ask this question because the Axiotron website and their Facebook presence seems to suggest stasis and/or the end of the company. Hence the DIY approach.

A few years back I lusted after a Modbook from Axiotron - they would take your Macbook and put a touchscreen panel on the top. This would give you a tablet with some serious grunt and connectivity.

I was wondering if it would be possible to do something similar with my current 13" MacBook Pro and, if so, how difficult/expensive/tricky would it be? I'm not bothered about multi-touch (tho it would obviously be very nice), just basic point, click/double click, drag functionality.


texts: Is it okay to install OS X on an external drive, and then install that drive as an internal drive?

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My internal drive is suffering hardware failure, so I bought OS X Snow Leopard (to upgrade my iMac from Leopard), a new drive, and a cheap external USB 2.0 enclosure.  My plan is to install a clean copy of Snow Leopard on the new drive as an external drive, restore a time-machine backup to it, and then finally swap the new drive into the iMac.

The main reason I'm doing it in this order, instead of just putting the drive in first, is timing.  It's easier to install OS X on a fresh drive and restore the time machine backup during the week, when I have less time to mess with it, because those are fairly hands-off activities.  I plan to do the drive swap this weekend when I have time for it, as I hear it is a fairly involved process to replace the internal drive on an iMac.


texts: What free software can I use to read any PDF file I want on my iPad?

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I have some PDF files on my computer that I'd like to read on my iPad on the go.

What free software can I use to read any PDF file I want? I would obviously need to transfer these PDF documents somehow to the iPad device, correct?

I prefer something with nice turn pages effects, if possible, but free is a must.


texts: The shared library "Cloud Music Library" is not responding. (503)

texts: What is an error? I cannot log in to itunes store at all. What is wrong?


texts: I mistakenly disabled all services in Yosemite (10.10), now it can't boot

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I ran:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/

by mistake, now my Mac does not boot... Any idea how to fix that?

OS version: Yosemite.


texts: Issues with the softwareupdated daemon after upgrading to Yosemite?

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Ever since the upgrade to Yosemite, the softwareupdated process always consumes around 100% CPU.

I noticed this the other day when I closed my laptop at the end of the day and the area above the left side of the keyboard was very warm. Looking at Activity Monitor, the softwareupdated process was running at full blast. That also explains the horrible battery life that I have had since upgrading.

I waited to upgrade to Yosemite until after the first xx.xx.1 point release and ever since then the softwareupdated runs constantly, no matter how many times that I kill it.

Is there a solution for this?

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)


texts: I am trying to understand the output of the who command. When I add the -H flag to print the headers, the second column ( the one signifying the users logged in) is titled LINE. I am trying to understand what LINE is. I am logged into my computer twice, according to the who command, but one of the lines is bad. To understand what that means, I would like to know what LINE is.


texts: osx mavericks update deleted all my files and apps from osx lion

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after osx mavericks update i lost all my files and apps from osx lion, is there any way to get it back ?
everything was deleted what was on destop in osx lion, apps, pictures and etc.


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I'm thinking about getting an iPad 2 3g & I was wondering if one can set up a personal hotspot from the iPad to share the 3G internet with wifi enabled devices (i.e laptop etc.)

Is it possible in any way to tether an iPhone or other devices to the iPad, rather than using an iPhone to tether against which is the normal method?


texts: itunes connect bank account with a different name

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My girlfriend opened an individual developer account with her name because i don't have a credit card;

i wonder if i can put my bank account in the "bank info" in itunes connect with my name or that will be a problem note that the account is of type individual and supposed to be only one owner.

thanks


texts: MacBook Pro 2011: unable to get into terminal via Recovery Mode

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I have a MacBook Pro 2011 with the well known AMD GPU failure. So I know about the procedure to de-activate the AMD GPU and activate the Intel GPU on the mainboard. This has to be done via the command line in Terminal, for which you need to start Recovery Mode and get into OSX Utilities and then start Terminal.

Unfortunately, booting in Recovery mode ends before I get into OSX Utilities. The screen goes grey and then either shuts the system down, or it starts rebooting.

The MacBook is currently installed with High Sierra.

What can I best do?


texts: Turning off or restarting iPhone if lock button is broken?

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Now that I know how to lock the iPhone if the lock button is broken, I was wondering how I can restart the phone or turn it off.

The lock button is completely unresponsive and holding it down does nothing. Are there any workarounds besides replacing the button?