texts: Gibberish volume in finder which is inaccessible and un-deletable

texts: I'm not sure when it got there, but there is what looks like the icon for a time machine volume in my favorites sidebar for finder, but its name is gibberish : "_fTz328nSUG4ZgV4k5KaRm." If I click on it the name flashes the top of the finder window with the body blank then goes back to whatever the window was displaying before. I can't right click it. I can't drag it into the trash, although I can drag it around the favorites bar. I don't know where it came from, but I would like to get rid of it so I don't have to look at it any more. I am running OSX 10.7.5 on an early 2008 Macbook Pro.


texts: Conflicting Settings in OSX Server Profile Manager (Groups and Users/Devices)

texts:
please help me understand what happens if you have nested groups in Profile Manager and you apply conflicting Settings. Which Setting will be Carried oft?
E.g.:
I have the following groups:

All
|-Teachers
|-Students

So Teachers and Students are nested in All.
When you activate a Setting or configure a payload in All. And you deactivate the Setting in Teachers: how will a User belonging to teachers be configured?

And what Happens if you additionally change this users' settings conflicting with the above.


texts: AppStore Checking for updates.. consuming massive amounts of memory

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Is this normal? (softwareupdated is an apple helper checking for updates)

I restarted my mac and it started again

slowly climbing the numbers

The AppStore is spinning trying to check for updates, and i am unable to update my mac >.<

So i guess my actual question is

Can it be fixed? Do i need to reinstall Yosemite or can it be resolved with a simple Patch without going through AppStore?

Specs:


texts: My iPhone is over capacity. Is there a way to remove specific data from an iPhone Backup?

texts:
Let me explain my situation.  I jailbroke my iPhone 4 when the untethered 4.3.1 jailbreak got released last week.  As precaution, I did make a backup of my Cydia apps back when it was 4.2.1 and my iPhone's personal data as well.  When I restored the Cydia apps it had to remove my phone's apps.  The problem is when I restore my iPhone data back on, it does not restore all of my apps due to it being over capacity.  And thus I don't have my app's data.

So, I want to remove the photos and movies from my iPhone's backup as they eat up most of the phone's memory.  Is there a way?  Or is there another solution to handle this problem?

What I did so far
Remove any large Cydia apps.  Still over capacity.

iTunes ver. 10.2.1  Mac OS 10.6.7  iPhone iOS 4.3.1


texts: How to set up OS X Server Mail to auto-configure Mac Mail IMAP clients?

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Our Thunderbird mail clients successfully pick up their IMAP settings for their accounts on (Mountain Lion) OS X Server automatically. They just supply their email addresses and Open Directory passwords at mail account setup and Thunderbird does the rest for the client user.

At autoconfig.myexample.com we simply supply a small XML file containing IMAP and SMTP server names and which connection protocols are offered.

Mac Mail does not use this convention though. So the question is: how does the Mac Mail client do autoconfigure - if at all?

I see many discussion threads concerning Mac Mail "autodetect"ing MS Exchange account settings but none answering the question re Mac Mail to IMAP accounts on OS X Server.

If Mac Mail can make it easy for Exchange users I assume that it can also make it easy to get their mail from OS X Server? But how?


texts: Key Needs to be Pressed Repeatedly to Start Working

texts: When I leave my computer alone for around five minutes, to get the "w" key to function I need to spam press it, after which it starts functioning correctly. Holding down the key for ~10 seconds also works. Thoughts?


texts: Resize display resolution of a macOS Mojave guest running in VMware Fusion 11.1

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➥ How does one change the screen resolution of their macOS Fusion guest?

On my Mac mini (2018) running macOS mojave 10.14.5, I am running VMware Fusion 11.1 with a BenQ 4K monitor on DisplayPort. Inside that is a macOS Mojave 10.14.6 guest OS.

I want that macOS guest to have its display resolution (size) grow when I stretch the VM window. I am used to this behavior as a feature in Parallels Desktop (competitor to Fusion).

When I stretch the VM window, the contents are stretched and pixelated but the logical size of the guest display does not change.

When I go to System Preferences > Displays > Display > Resolution > Scaled, I see no other options but 1024 x 768.

My Fusion preferences are set to the default, Resize the virtual machine and the window. The documentation says that should change the resolution of guest VM.

There are older Questions on this topic such as this one. But they seem outdated or unclear.


texts: When I purchase TV shows on my iPad 2, why are they automatically downloading on my Mac?

texts:
I would prefer not to download these shows to my MacBook Air as

it doesn't have enough free disk space and
it leads to sync issues when I plug in my iPad.

They don't seem to recognize the shows as the same so I end up with duplicate copies of many episodes.

How can I configure iTunes to achieve this?


texts: Transfer MKV files to VLC player on iPhone using Airdrop

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I Airdropped a folder containing MKV files from my Mac to my iPhone. Where can I spot them on my iPhone 8?

I am not able to see the Folder with the files. They don't seem to appear in VLC app as well.

How do I wirelessly (such as using AirDrop) transfer files to VLC player on my iPhone from my Mac?


texts: Can't Enable Filevault because Recovery Partition Missing

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I'm trying to enable FileVault for my home directory on my Macbook, but every time I try it tells me it can't because the Recovery Partition is missing.

however, if I drop to a terminal and run "diskutil list", I do see the "Apple_Boot Recovery HD" partition of 650Mb, and I can boot into it at launch.

I have reFIND setup on this mac, to dual boot it with Ubuntu 12.10.  Any idea how to get past this ?


texts:
My whats app is requesting me to update in the App Store, when I agree, it takes me to a screen which requests my password, but the id is not mine, so I cannot update it. This only happens with whats app, and not with any other apps.
I had no problem with previous Whats app updates.

Please advise.

Thanks


texts: AppleScript : separating number from text in variable

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I have a script which calculate the timeframe between date and return the result in days or month or years.

For exemple, given myResult = "6 Days"
How can I separate the number from the text ?

I managed to get the number only using this :

set myResultNumberOnly to number of myResult

but I can't manage to do the same from the text :

set myResultTextOnly to text of myResult

I also tried

set myResultTextOnly to word of myResult

Maybe I can go with text delimiting?
I can't tell the length of the number using this :

set theLength to (get length of (myResultTextNumberOnly as text))

Or should I go with if statement?

How would be the best way to do it?

UPDATE

I just realised that set myResultNumberOnly to number of MyResult  give a wrong number, I don't really understand why ?

set MyResult to "Account Value:$478.01"
set myResultNumberOnly to number of MyResult

  Result: 21


texts: How to wipe an iMac that can't be turned on?

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I have a 2008 model iMac that just can't be turned on. When it died, it shorted the house's fuse with it. Is there any way that I can wipe out the hard drive (without much effort) before throwing it away?

Opening the case and removing the hard drive is not an attractive option. I've read an iFixit tear-down and the hard drive is located behind the screen, which requires me to have plenty of tools to remove it.

Note: there is a similar question with the exception is that my iMac has a Firewire port. I wonder if that makes a difference, since it won't power on in the first place.

Some movies show a magnet-like device to clear out hard drives. I wonder whether that's doable in real life?


texts: How do I kill "SQL Developer" that seem to be in deadlock using ps aux and kill -9?

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I have SQL Developer from Oracle installed. It seems to be frozen at the moment and I can't force quit it.

I can't open it because of this and hence can't use it too

I don't want to shut down my Mac every time so I want to kill it using kill -9 but I don't know its name nor pid so I'm clueless.

How do I kill it?


texts:
I have an old iMac, but also acquired a new one, and now run them both, side by side. I set up the new one to have the same AppleID as my old iMac, which has an enormous amount of music in iTunes. While there are a few iTunes purchases in there, mostly this music is from my CD collection that I imported over the years into iTunes on the old iMac.

I thought that these would sync, but that music won't appear on the new iMac's iTunes, even though its signed in with the same AppleID credentials.  To confirm the credentials are identical, I can see (for example) that my "Purchase History" in iTunes contains identical information on both iMacs.

So why is it that my imported CDs (in the original iTunes) can't be seen on my new iMac?   many thanks for any thoughts - very concerned that I'll lose all those old songs, and all the effort it took to import them - I had hoped to migrate it all to the new iMac :(


texts: How much free space needs to be available in order to download from iCloud Drive?

texts:
Yesterday I discovered an unfortunate thing: iCloud Drive had apparently detected that I had too little free disk space for its tastes, and then it had decided to upload my ~180 GB VM image to iCloud and delete it from my local hard drive.

Since then, I have freed lots of space, totaling around 280 available GB – but iCloud Drive refuses to download my VM, saying that I have too little available disk space!

To make matters worse, the web-based download accessible here consistently fails after having downloaded a few GB. I am of course trying to download the file to a file that is not synchronized by iCloud Drive.

Does anyone know 1) How much space does iCloud Drive actually need in order to be able to retrieve a file?, and 2) Is there any other way for me to retrieve the file?


texts: Force any printer to convert all colors to Grayscale automatically?

texts:
I've got a color inkjet printer, and I only have black ink left.

I want my printer to automatically convert all colors printed to a grayscale equivalent.

I'd like a solution that works with any printer, not just my specific printer.

Is this possible using a virtual printer or something like that?

Note that as stated in the title, I'd love to be able to do this automatically, so I don't have to select options in a print dialog every time.


texts: Share options not working in finder and after right clicking

texts:
Here is the description https://discussions.apple.com/message/29155662#29155662

This is what it looks like after I select any one of the options from share


texts: I cannot see the body of my messages in Mail

texts:
Apple Mail 10.3. I just downloaded Sierra 10.12.5 on my MacBook. I had to set up mail and it automatically started downloading a lot of email that I had already read.
I opened the screen all the way blocking the body of the message so that all I could see was the email senders so I could easily delete all of the unwanted emails.
So now my issue is for some reason I cannot move that curser back up to see the body of messages. It simply will not move.


texts: 'du -hs *' on Mac failing with "du: illegal option -- n"

texts:
I want a list of all the sub-directories and their total sizes. I can do it with the du -hs * command in CentOS and Ubuntu, but why doesn't it work on Mac?
This is the output I get:
MyMac:~ user$ du -hs *
du: illegal option -- n
usage: du [-H | -L | -P] [-a | -s | -d depth] [-c] [-h | -k | -m | -g] [-x] [-I mask] [file ...]

As far as I know, * is a wildcard. Does macOS not support wildcards?


texts: Calendar sharing with iCloud and MobileMe

texts:
There are 3 different people, each needing to publish their own calendar, and view/edit the other calendars. Each has an iMac or macbook, and iPhone. Person 1 has MobileMe and is unable to upgrade to iCloud (iPhone 3g). Person 2 has already upgraded to iCloud. Person 3 can upgrade but is waiting for the solution to this calendar dilemma.

All 3 were happily sharing via MobileMe until Person 2 upgraded to iCloud, at which point their calendars were no longer visible to Person 1 & 3. There seems to be no way to share between iCloud and MobileMe - does anyone know of a solution??


texts: App Store Updates staying in queue after installation?

texts: There definitely seems to be a bug here. I just installed these, possibly already more than once, but they're still "Available":


texts: How to keep last modified date of directories unchanged when files in directory change?

texts:
I am syncing files between macOS and a remote Ubuntu server.

On Ubuntu, the date of last modification of a directory doesn't change when I store, modify or delete a file inside this directory. This behavior makes sense to me, because it's the directory's content, not the directory itself, that has changed.

On macOS this behavior is different (and seems irrational to me): Although the directory itself stays unchanged, its "last modified" date gets changed every time when something inside this directory gets changed.

So, when I create a directory on macOS and sync it to Ubuntu, everything is fine: both have the same date. But when I move files in one of the directories, and sync those files, the directories date on Ubuntu keeps its old value, but the date on the corresponding directory on macOS will be changed, and then, because of this different date, my sync-programm shows differences where in fact no differences are.

Is there a setting in macOS, that induces my iMac's directories to behave like their counterparts on Ubuntu?


texts: How to use iMac mid 2010 (21.5 inch display) as monitor

texts: I have a late 2014 macbook pro, and i am trying to use my 21.5" iMac as just a display via the thunderbolt cable. But it doesn't seem to be working, what do I need to change to do so?


texts: ipod Touch Account Reset with a new user and Ipad 4 account currently used

texts: I had my iPod Touch and created an apple id account. When i bought iPad4 i sold the iPod Touch but i used same apple id that was registered in my iPod. Will there be no conflict at all with regards to application, photos and updates since I am now using an Ipad? Now the iPod was reset and used by another user name. does the new owner of Ipod can still access my info? please help, i am worrying of the security and privacy. Thank you.


texts: MacBook Pro can't mount an exFAT external hard drive when having too many files

texts:
I need to share files between Windows and Mac, so I chose exFAT as the file system for my external hard drive.

But soon I found a serious problem, when I put too many files (like 5M) in the hard drive, OS X can't mount it. Then I have to delete them in the Windows machine, after that it works well in Mac. Does anybody know how to solve the issue?


texts: Is there an app that can tell me someone else's exact or general location by entering their phone number, no matter if they give permission or not? (Preferably not.) Or is there some other device, software, etc. that I can purchase? Something that is real and not just for entertainment purposes.


texts:
I'm trying to install C++11 on 10.6.8, following this macports guide

Unfortunatley the guide fails when I get to step 7: Rebuild cctools and ld64 to use the newer version of llvm:

sudo port -v -n upgrade --force --enforce-variants cctools -llvm34 +llvm40

fails with the error messsage:

In file included from /usr/include/limits.h:64:

/usr/include/machine/limits.h:10:2: error: architecture not supported

#error architecture not supported

/usr/include/machine/limits.h is:

/* This is the `system' limits.h, independent of any particular
   compiler.  GCC provides its own limits.h which can be found in
   /usr/lib/gcc, although it is not very informative.
   This file is public domain.  */
#if defined (__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__)
#include <i386/limits.h>
#elif defined (__arm__)
#include <arm/limits.h>
#else
#error architecture not supported
#endif

/opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf contains:

# CPU architecture to target. Supported values are "ppc", "ppc64",
# "i386", and "x86_64". Defaults to:
# - OS X 10.5 and earlier: "ppc" on PowerPC, otherwise "i386".
# - OS X 10.6 and later: "x86_64" on Intel 64, otherwise "i386".
#build_arch             i386

and

# Space-delimited list of CPU architectures to target when building
# universal. Defaults to "i386 ppc" on Mac OS X 10.5 and earlier,
# "x86_64 i386" on Mac OS X 10.6 through macOS 10.13, and "x86_64" on
# macOS 10.14 and later (the 10.14 SDK is not universal).
#universal_archs        x86_64 i386

Does anyone have a working method to install C++11 on 10.6.8?


texts: Two factor or two step requirement for developer accounts - which is it?

texts:
Apple will soon require "two factor authentication" on accounts that access App Store Connect or their developer portal.
I have been trying to figure if they actually mean "two factor or two step" authentication, or they really mean only two-factor.
Background:

Two-factor = using a trusted Apple device
Two-step = using SMS

However, although these are the strict definitions, Apple often uses the phrase "two factor" as a shortcut for "two factor or two step".
I wouldn't really be concerned, except they keep sending us warning emails about this change on our Apple developer account which does already have two-step verification enabled.
I'm trying to get their support line to clarify, but maybe someone else knows for sure?


texts: Why won't my new iMac El Capitan print from Word?

texts: I have a new iMac El Capitan (and I'm a new Mac user) attached to the Canon Pixma MX926 printer (about 4 years old) with a USB cable.  I can print from the Apple help menu, but can't print any Word documents. I'm sure I'm doing something very simple wrong, but can't figure out what.  Can anyone help?


texts: What causes chmod to not work on an ssh file in OSX?

texts: I am trying to mount private keys from USB stick. OSx does not allow me to change their permissions, why? How can I change them? In other words, how can I add private keys from random USB stick to ssh-agent?


texts: I recently purchased an old Mac running macOS High Sierra. I installed macOS Server from the App Store and got it setup as a VPN server. However, somewhere along the line I somehow messed up my local user account's access to the VPN. Every time I use it to connect, I get "Authentication Failed". I know I am typing the username, password, and secret correctly, I have tried multiple times. If I make a new account on the server and connect using that account, the VPN works just fine. I have also checked the permissions, VPN is set to all users and all networks. What can I do to fix this? Is it some weird group membership or something? I don't want to delete this user and make a new one because I also use this account to login to the machine.


texts: The safari in my iPhone 6 can not play audio file in Wikipedia,  for example, the following picture shows a audio file one a Wikipedia page but I cannot play it. what's wrong with it and how to fix it?


texts: Can I track my stolen iPhone 5 if the SIM is removed and the thief tries to hook it up to iTunes to restore it?

texts: Can I track my iPhone 5 if the thief removed the sim card but tries to use iTunes to factory reset it? Could I track it if does not have a network connection without the sim?


texts: How do currently downloading files show a circular progress indicator besides them in Finder?

texts:
When downloading a file using Google Chrome, Mac App Store, or some other app, Finder usually displays a circular progress indicator besides the file name.

Out of curiosity, is there any technical way this is accomplished on Mac? Is there some sort of metadata attached to the file that is constantly updated?

How does Finder know when to display the download progress indicator?


texts: stuck with name and new and enter password prompt

texts:
I reinstalled Catalina and everything works just fine with installation. but I am stuck at here and the setup assistant doesn't show up after the installation.
I tried I Cloud account and I tried also the old user password


texts: Is it possible to restore messages to an iPhone when they're backed up on a computer?

texts:
I'd like to restore a series of deleted messages (a whole conversation) to an iPhone. The snag is - they're backed up on my computer but not on iCloud.

Is that possible at all?


texts: How can I use Applescript or any other utility to send a daily text message to my bank?

texts:
I have searched and I find a lot of results for specific methods of sending an iMessage with Applescript, but they all seem to contain extraneous code for specific needs that I don't need. I'm wondering how I can schedule automated text messages based on a repeating time. For instance: text my wife every morning at 9am, or text my bank every morning at 5am.

So the specific help I need is (I think):

how do I send an iMessage with Applescript,
and how do I schedule an Applescript to repeat daily or weekly etc. at a given time?


texts: Cannot set permissions on Parallels volume

texts:
I have Parallels Desktop 9 running on Mac OSX 10.9.4.
Whenever I try to [sudo] chmod +x a file on the Parallels volume it doesn't do anything.
I have to copy the file to a local folder for this to work.
I suspect this is related to how the Parallels volume is mounted.

Is there a way to get chmod to work on the Parallels volume?


texts: How do I set permissions on a directory so that all files created there will be read/write/execute for everyone?

texts:
I have a cache directory in which several different programs owned by several different accounts create/read/write/delete etc new files and directories. I want everyone to have all the possible rights to all of these things in this directory and everything that is ever created in it in the future.

How do I do this?


texts: Outlook 2011 Reading pane: wrap the subject text instead of truncating with ellipsis

texts:
When viewing a mail with longer subject, in reading pane it shows the subject only in one line and if it exceeds it truncates with ellipsis notation.

Is there any way to display the complete subject with line wrapping?

One alternative is on hovering the subject,it shows the complete subject in a tooltip.


texts: I don't want to carry all of my old contacts on my iPhone. How could I select which groups to sync with iCloud?

texts:
I have about 800 contacts in different contact groups on my iMac. Some of these groups are a sort of archives. I don't want to use all my contacts on my iPhone but still I don't want to delete the permanently from my iMac.

I could select groups for sync until iCloud arrived. Now I'm syncing everything on the air, and now I need to sync all my contacts with my iphone since there is no contact group selection in iCloud.

If you know any method, how could I choose which contact group to sync with iCloud, pls let me know.


texts: Missing Add To button in photos app on iOS

texts:
On my iPhone 7, I go and open up photos, then click on "select" photos. I then select a photo. There used to be a "Add to" button in the middle of the bottom (to the left is "upload" and to the right the "trash" button).

The "add to" (which allowed me to send the photo to another folder) is no longer there. Disappeared.

Hope that explains it better.

How do I add this photos to other albums?


texts: After downloading my phone to a MacBook Pro I have experienced multiple photo duplicates in iCloud. 30,000 plus photos are now on my iCloud and the duplicate photo fixer only scans 2200. Any advice?


texts: One iPhoto face is unavailable for syncing to my iPhone in iTunes

texts:
In iTunes, under "Photos", it's possible to check "Sync Photos from iPhoto" and then "Selected albums, Events, and Faces..." to sync only selected albums, events and faces. In the list of faces I can sync, there is one face missing from the list. The face is prominently visible in iPhoto, but unavailable in iTunes. Does anyone know what might be causing this?

The particular missing face has around 1300 photos in it, might that be relevant to the face's unavailability? How do I go about making this face (which is of my wife and the only one I'd like to sync to my iPhone) available and synced to my iPhone?


texts: Alternative to id3v2 that is Unicode-compatible

texts:
id3v2 assumes its inputs are ISOLatin1.  I have many audio files that need tags that can't be represented in ISOLatin1.  (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Turkish, even a few Cyrillic.)
My locale is en_US.UTF-8 and when I write a script to make a lot of tag changes, many of them end up looking like cussing in cartoons.  I have to fix them one at a time—a nuisance.
Is there an alternative that is compatible with the shell and with UTF-8?
Second best would be something that can put all the tags from multiple files in a tabular format for editing and the save all.


texts:
One of the apps I have installed is not working super well and I'd like to try deleting its data to see if that helps.

Usually, when you delete an app on iOS, it warns you that all data will be deleted. As such, the common advice is simply deleting the app and then redownloading it from the App Store.

However, this app has been delisted from the App Store, meaning it can't be redownloaded, so I don't want to delete it. What else can I do?

For what it's worth, this is an iPhone 4 running iOS 7.


texts: Why is a 2.7 GHz iMac slower than a 1.8 GHz MacBook Air?

texts:
I have a Late 2015 iMac which has a 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 processor and 8 GB of memory.

I also have a Mid 2012 MacBook Air which has a 1.8 GHz Intel Core i5 processor and 4 GB of memory.

The iMac uses a Apple HDD in contrast to the MacBook Air's Apple SSD.

However, it seems like the iMac is running much slower than MacBook Air from the day it was bought. It would occasionally show the spinning wheel, when opening files and it would take an average of 20 seconds to open applications.

Q1: Is the HDD/SSD the main cause of this? Since all the other configurations are better than MacBook Air.

Q2: Would its speed improve if I switch the HDD to a SSD?


texts: Secondary display turns off when I close the flap of my MacBook pro running on High Sierra

texts:
I wanted to play some retro games, I connected a ps3 controller so that i could play on a big screen.
As soon as I close my MacBook pro's flap, monitor also mirrors it.
I saw on youtube that a person was using the mac and he closed his flap, but everything was running fine.


texts:
Some contexts:
My Macbook Pro (15-inch, 2016)

OS: Big Sur 11.1

WI-FI: I am currently using my organization's WI-FI.

Every time I click the bluetooth or sound button on MacBook menu, the activity monitor shows the AirplayXPCHelper creates a spike of CPU load (~200% CPU) because it tries to scan all Airplay-able devices in LAN. It is an organization WI-FI, so it has like thousands of devices connected. My MacBook just freezes for ~3 seconds during that time.
What does AirplayXPCHelper do? Is there a way to disable the scanning behavior? And I didn't experience similar issue with older OS version when I was using the same WI-FI.


texts:
I have an application which generates new log files each time it is run.  They all go to one folder, with filenames like this, and the next log isn't started until the current one is finished.

Log-20140122102407.txt
Log-20140122102739.txt
Log-20140122103640.txt
Log-20140122162121.txt
Log-20140122163145.txt

I want to monitor the current progress in a terminal window like tail -f but that won't work with multiple files.  I've heard of multitail, but don't know how to use it, and I don't want my terminal window split into multiple sections.


texts: Mac OS X Notes moved to Exchange disappear

texts: I moved the notes from Local notes to Exchange, and then my Notes crashed. When i reopen the Notes, i dont see them in Exchange and neither in local Notes I dont see these are present in Recently deleted either. I tried reading NotesV6.storedata.html as well, but didnt work. Please help.


texts: Any way to have Safari/Keychain autofill password on a single site with prompting on all sites?

texts: I use a different password manager for most sites, but there is one site it doesn't work correctly on, but Safari/Keychain does work.  I can manually store my password in Keychain for that one site, and it works correctly. However, turning on password autofill makes Safari prompt to save passwords on all sites, which I don't want. Is there any way to tell Safari to autofill passwords that it knows about but not to prompt to save any new ones?


texts: Not able to mount EFI partition with diskutil after installing Ubuntu

texts:
I installed Ubuntu as dualboot for a specific task to a 30 GB partition. It worked, however I found out I could do the same thing in macOS, so I removed the 30 GB partition. I also wanted to remove Ubuntu files from the EFI partition, but diskutil no longer mounted the partition.

$ diskutil mount disk0s1
Volume on disk0s1 failed to mount
If the volume is damaged, try the "readOnly" option
$ diskutil mount readOnly disk0s1
Volume on disk0s1 failed to mount
If the volume is damaged, try the "readOnly" option

However, I can still mount the partition with the mount command and modify it's contents.

$ sudo mkdir /Volumes/EFI
$ sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/EFI

I can also still boot into Windows, meaning the EFI partition is fine. Why is diskutil failing to mount this partition and how can I fix it? I also read that formatting the EFI partition will break future firmware updates, so I don't want to format it.

Here's the output of diskutil list:

$ diskutil list  # Not the full output
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         425.1 GB   disk0s2


texts: How to change Cmd+Tab on OS X to make it behave like on Windows or Linux?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Best app to switch between all open windows (Witch alternatives)

I'm looking for a way of making the window switching behave more like on Windows, to switch to last open Window instead of switching to the next.


texts: What's the best adhesive to use when reattaching an iPhone 5 home button?

texts: I've carried out a couple of repairs on my iPhone 5 over the last fortnight, including replacing the screen. I detached the home button from its mounting in the original screen, and placed it in the new screen. It works fine, but I need to glue it to the contact that it sits on top of. What glue does Apple use to do this? Where can I buy this, or a suitable alternative?


texts: Twitter And Facebook Integration Missing In Notification center?

texts:
I have recently installed Mountain Lion and noticed that 'Sharing' via Facbook and Twitter are missing!

I have checked the System Preferences to enable this feature but I am stuck. Can anyone help me?


texts: AppleScript to close "About this Mac" window

texts:
How could I use AppleScript code to close the window named "About this Mac" (A propos de ce Mac in French). I need an AppleScript for this because I use Dragon Dictate 3 commands. I am handicapped and I don't manage to use any keyboard or mouse. Only Voice and edited commands.

I tried Command+W shortcut but it didn't work for this window. It works for all other Finder windows except this one.


texts: Restore an iPhone from iCloud backup of newer iOS version

texts:
I have an iCloud backup from an iPhone running iOS 8.3. Now, I'd like to restore another iPhone from this backup. The problem is that the other iPhone is running iOS 8.2 (this iPhone cannot be updated to 8.3 as I need it to run this very version).

I found some guides on the internet explaining how to do a downgrade from a beta version (I didn't find anything about downgrading from non-beta versions). But they are about downgrading from a major release to another major release (eg: iOS 8 to iOS 7).

My thought is that, unlike the iTunes backup, iCloud backup saves only information about the data on your iPhone (a list of all installed apps, a list of all downloaded music, movies, etc.) and when you restore from an iCloud backup, it will just re-download this media from iTunes and the App Store.

I didn't just try this yet as I don't know whether some data in iCloud may get corrupted by restoring to an older version.

Does anybody have any experience with this kind of thing?


texts: why ping registry-1.docker.io returns Request timeout for icmp_seq even when I can nslookup or dig?

texts:
I used google and cloudflare and  can dig with both set as DNS server on my mac.
$ dig registry-1.docker.io

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> registry-1.docker.io
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16322
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;registry-1.docker.io.      IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
registry-1.docker.io.   5   IN  A   107.23.149.57
registry-1.docker.io.   5   IN  A   34.195.246.183
registry-1.docker.io.   5   IN  A   23.22.155.84
registry-1.docker.io.   5   IN  A   34.238.187.50
registry-1.docker.io.   5   IN  A   52.1.121.53
registry-1.docker.io.   5   IN  A   52.5.11.128
registry-1.docker.io.   5   IN  A   18.213.137.78
registry-1.docker.io.   5   IN  A   54.236.165.68

;; Query time: 62 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Sat Feb 20 23:32:34 GMT 2021
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 177

worked with cloudlfare too
$ dig registry-1.docker.io

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> registry-1.docker.io
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 64168
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;registry-1.docker.io.      IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
registry-1.docker.io.   29  IN  A   54.236.165.68
registry-1.docker.io.   29  IN  A   52.1.121.53
registry-1.docker.io.   29  IN  A   54.85.56.253
registry-1.docker.io.   29  IN  A   34.238.187.50
registry-1.docker.io.   29  IN  A   34.195.246.183
registry-1.docker.io.   29  IN  A   54.236.131.166
registry-1.docker.io.   29  IN  A   18.232.227.119
registry-1.docker.io.   29  IN  A   52.54.232.21

;; Query time: 60 msec
;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Feb 20 23:30:34 GMT 2021
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 177

using nslookup too gives result:
$ nslookup  registry-1.docker.io
Server:     8.8.8.8
Address:    8.8.8.8#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   registry-1.docker.io
Address: 54.236.165.68
Name:   registry-1.docker.io
Address: 54.85.56.253
Name:   registry-1.docker.io
Address: 3.211.199.249
Name:   registry-1.docker.io
Address: 34.195.246.183
Name:   registry-1.docker.io
Address: 52.55.168.20
Name:   registry-1.docker.io
Address: 34.238.187.50
Name:   registry-1.docker.io
Address: 18.232.227.119
Name:   registry-1.docker.io
Address: 54.236.131.166
but when I try to ping this is what I am getting:
$ ping registry-1.docker.io
PING registry-1.docker.io (54.236.165.68): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4

I was trying to build a pod when I discovered this issue ! and I am getting ImagePullBackOff while trying
kubectl run redis --image=redis:alpine


texts:
I have four drives inside my Mac Pro.

Bay 1: /dev/disk1s3
Bay 2: /dev/disk0s2
Bay 3: /dev/disk2s2 (also, my boot drive)
Bay 4: /dev/disk3s2 and /dev/disk3s3

How are the disk numbers assigned?  If I swap Bay 2 and Bay 1, will the disks in those drives swap disk numbers (so I have /dev/disk1s2 in Bay 1, and /dev/disk0s3 in Bay 2)?  Also, does it make any difference that the boot drive is in Bay 3 and/or that it isn't /dev/disk0s2?


texts: Why is Options button for Photos app missing in iCloud settings?

texts:
I've turned on family sharing and want to share photos. There should be a shared album in Photos called "Family" but it's not there. I've found instructions that say I have to use the Options button in the iCloud settings for Photos, but that button doesn't show up for me.

How can I get that Options button to show up?


texts: I set my iPhone in Lost mode, but I receive today an Activation lock mail?

texts:
two thieves stole my iPhone 11 Pro and it's located in Vietnam now (it's offline now but as it's iOS 13, it sends me location). I already set my iPhone to Lost mode when it was still online, the thieve was able to send me phishing SMS using the phone number (I leave on the Lost mode screen). So I assume it's locked and it's safe from being unlocked.

But today a weird thing happens, I received an Apple mail (official) telling me someone tries the activation lock using the iCloud account. I'm confused because that means the Lost mode is no longer there? How they were able to go through the Lost mode to the activation lock screen? From the "Find me" screen on my Mac, I can still see this iPhone related to my iCloud account, and it's still in Lost mode.

And what should I do to protect this iPhone? I know I can no longer get it back, but I wonder if the thieve is able to unlock my iPhone?

Thanks.

P.S. I am sure that this email is genuine, it's sent from noreply@email.apple.com


texts:
This is my first apple computer (MacBook air 2015). I had to install windows on this because my school wanted it.

I tried installing through bootcamp and it failed the message was "windows support software could not be installed on targeted device" then it said it was removing the partition and for hours nothing happened.

Then again opening bootcamp assistant the message was "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition"

My original storage was 128GB now it's 84GB, how can I get the rest back?

 $ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         84.0 GB    disk0s2
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +84.0 GB    disk1
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            43.5 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 44.8 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                517.0 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4
$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

Also when I open disk utility


texts: How to sort column by numbers in Numbers?

texts:
I would like to sort a column in ascending or descending order by number of objects in Numbers. However, despite setting the 'data format' as 'number' it doesn't understand the right order.
This is the ascending order of the column in Numbers:
1 apple
1300 oranges
16000 peanuts
671 mangos
91 potatoes

When I want it to be in this order:
1 apple
91 potatoes
671 mangos
1300 oranges
16000 peanuts

Please, see screenshot:


texts:
I've combined two partition formatted as NTFS for dual boot system with bootcamp. I did this while running windows using a special program to adjust partitions.
but after a necessary restart according the program some texts rolled by.
after that i lost access to the bootmanager and was unable to choice to boot to windows or Macintosh.

now I installed a fresh copy of mac os on the old partition where Windows was installed before.
I figured out that the partition where my Mac installation was on still exists, but its name has changed to "Windows Recovery" somehow.

disk0s2 is for as far as I know still the partition where my files are on.

what I like to accomplish now is get access somehow to this partition and copy my files before completely format the whole disk and install a fresh installation of Mac OS.

please help!

Below is the output from the following commands.

diskutil unmount disk0s2
sudo dd if=/dev/disk0s2 bs=512 count=3 | hexdump -Cv

Below is the output from the command diskutil info disk0s2 | grep -e Size -e Offset.

   Partition Offset: 314597376 Bytes (76806 4096-Byte-Device-Blocks)
   Disk Size: 351.0 GB (351027175424 Bytes) (exactly 685599952 512-Byte-Units)
   Device Block Size: 4096 Bytes


texts:
The latest version is from 2016:

https://www.xquartz.org/

I will try it out .. but wonder if there were some pointers / warnings about this..


texts: Automate iOS build installation on devices

texts: We have a large number of iOS applications which we would like to install on several devices. Is there a way to install the ipa files from a dropbox location?


texts: what will happen if I will renew developer account 6 months later?

texts:
I know that my apps in app store will not be available, until I renew.

But, from the developing perspective.
what will be the different when I'm developing apps ?
Can I develop and test notifications and iCloud in the development apps ?


texts: Mac os Upgrade 10.13.4 Cannot Find Installer Resources

texts: when I try to upgrade my MacBook Pro to 10.13.4,it reported that it cannot find Installer resources. Anyone has solution to solve it?


texts: Where does homebrew install a legacy php version?

texts:
In order to make some old software work, I need to downgrade my PHP version from 8 to 7.4. I run this command without any problems:
brew install php@7.4

... and homebrew buzzes and whirs and dutifully installs php 7.4.
Now the problem is that I have no idea where the binary for php 7.4 lives.
I tried ls -al /usr/local/bin/ | grep "7.4", but that didn't come up with any results.
When I do php -v, I still get version 8 showing up.
Where can I find the version-specific legacy binary for php 7.4?


texts: Is iOS 4.2 faster than 4.1 (iPod Touch)?

texts:
I've read that iOS 4.2 is faster on the iPhone 3G -- they're making a big deal out of this.

Is this performance improvement limited to the 3G?  I have an iPod Touch 4gen and I'm wondering if I'll see any difference.

There's no features of iOS 4.2 that interest me, so I wouldn't bother with the upgrade, but if it also gave me improved performance, I might.

Thanks!


texts: How do I fullscreen browser content in Google Chrome?

texts: I realize that one can run apps in a macOS full screen mode, but sometimes I really want the webpage itself to take up the full screen real estate. And ideally, that would not require me to open such a page in a different browser.


texts: Gatekeeper preventing from opening files from Finder (launching apps is fine)

texts:
Here's what's happening (in Sierra, 10.12.5)

try to launch a non-application file which ISN'T a bundle (e.g. pdf, png -- numbers bundles will be fine) -- by double-clicking, or using open in the Terminal
A dialog is prevent with "FILENAME" is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

What I've tried:

safe mode
running as a separate user

What I've discovered:

It's definitely related to gatekeeper: Turning gatekeeper off with sudo spctl --master-disable makes these images launchable.
Something is wrong with spctl the underlying command line utility which manages security policies. See below.

Problem with spctl:

If you run a basic command like spctl --assess -vvv --raw /bin/ls it replies with One or more parameters passed to a function were not valid. (I tried this as it is a diagnostic step in an old but closely related fix.

However running this same command with gatekeeper off gives the correct result.
I've also tried to restore the SystemPolicy db from the original by:

sudo spctl --master-disable
turning gatekeeper off
sudo cp -p /var/db/.SystemPolicy-default /var/db/SystemPolicy
copying the system policy
sudo chmod u+w /var/db/SystemPolicy fix perms
restart the computer
sudo spctl --master-enable
turning gatekeeper back on

But this hasn't helped (but in fact I don't think the SystemPolicy db has reverted back to the defaults -- it seems to grow massively in size (or possibly just revert back to the previous db) when I turn gatekeeper back on.

Any thoughts?


texts:
I am looking to start refurbishing MacBooks with the intention of reselling them. If they come with the original disks, then I can’t see any problems arising, as I should be able to restore them to as factory release and resell with the disks.

I can, however, see a problem arise if they do not come with original disks, and the software is corrupt, or has no recovery partition etc. What I would like to know is the legal implications of reinstalling a copy of the original software, in order to resell the machine.

Is there a way to establish what the original software was when supplied new, and what would be the licensing issues, in obtaining a copy of OS X to perform a recovery?

Presuming machines would be from 1-3 years old, would I be able to just use one disk of say Snow Leopard, Lion etc to reinstall to original specifications, or would I need to purchase a new software pack for each machine that does not have the original disks?


texts:
I found /usr/bin/java linked to /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java. And its file content is different from /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_121.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java. But when I type /usr/bin/java -version it prints

java version "1.8.0_121"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_121-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.121-b13, mixed mode)

So I'm curious about the implementation of /usr/bin/java and wondering why it can always point to the latest version of my JavaVirtualMachines?


texts: Can I run my Mac in safe mode but with better graphics bootstrapped?

texts:
I have an issue with OS but it seems to work stably in safe mode but the graphics are unbearable. For example the graphics flicker a lot when I use GitHub desktop app in safe mode.

Can I run in safe mode but with the graphics working full mode?
But with the other features such as user extensions and caches disabled?


texts:
I'd love Safari to open in fullscreen mode.

It doesn't look like Safari natively supports this.

After some research I thought the best alternative may be to run an AppleScript when Safari opens forcing Safari into fullscreen mode.

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari"
    set value of attribute "AXFullScreen" of window 1 to true
end tell

How can I run this script every time Safari starts?


texts:
I tried to make a partition and then tried to undo it. Now, I don't know how to get the missing disk space back.

As you can tell, I have 751.28 GB disk. Macintosh HD and Recovery HD have 557.4 GB. About 180 GB are missing. Where did it go? How do I figure out where it went? Most importantly, how do I fix it?

I ran

diskutil list

and it showed

    0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *751.3 GB disk0
    1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
    2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            556.7 GB   disk0s2
    3:                 Apple_Boot                         650.0 MB   disk0s3
    4:                 Linux Swap                         16.4 GB    disk0s4

Edit:

I ran

   sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0

Output is:

     start        size  index  contents
         0           1         PMBR
         1           1         Pri GPT header
         2          32         Pri GPT table
        34           6
        40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
    409640  1087392760      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1087802400     1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1089071936   344263872
1433335808    32049152      4  GPT part - 0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
1465384960     1954819
1467339779          32         Sec GPT table
1467339811           1         Sec GPT header


texts: how to prevent music on iPhone from automatically syncing songs to iTunes

texts:
I've created an iTunes library - around 1000 songs. My wife has an iPhone and has downloaded her own music to it. She recently connected the iPhone to our home computer (where my iTunes library resides) and all of her music was automatically added to the iTunes library. However, our music tastes differ considerably.

At this point, what's the easiest way for me to remove her songs from the library? I can go through and delete each song, but I believe if she ever connects her iPhone again, it will delete the songs off of her phone too (or sync them back to iTunes). Is there some way for her to have her own library that she syncs with and a separate library for my music?

I suspect this is a pretty basic question with an easy answer, but would appreciate some help.


texts: Activating screen saver from AppleScript in Mountain Lion

texts:
I had a script that I used to use to activate my screen saver, and it no longer works in Mountain Lion.

It was a shell script that called an AppleScript script:

#!/bin/bash
osascript /Users/lorin/scripts/lockscreen.scpt

This is what the lockscreen.scpt file looks like:

tell application "ScreenSaverEngine"
        activate
end tell

If I bring up lockscreen.scpt in the AppleScript Editor, I get the "Choose Application" dialog popping up asking "Where is ScreenSaverEngine?"

Anybody know the Mountain Lion-y way to activate the screen saver?


texts: So I've been looking for a way to change settings on the iSight camera built into my Macbook Pro.  I know iGlasses exists (for those that don't know what it is: http://www.ecamm.com/mac/iglasses/).  I was wondering if anyone had any insight on how it exposes settings to change iSight settings?


texts:
I forgot the answer to my security question and no email to rescue mail received.

How can I change my rescue email? Or is there a way to change the answer to something like "used code for mobile No."?


texts: macbookpro/wireless vlc/qt to a projector

texts:
Airfoil, connects nicely to my speakers and the 3 macs + pads/phones in the studio connect nicely to it but what about wirelessly sharing the projector?

is there anything (NOT an apple tv) which can connect my projector (has only hdmi/vga/composite) to the rest of the network?

Perhaps a dongle, or wireless thing I can plug in to it?
I really dont want an apple tv, just some hardware w. software which i can install to project from any device wirelessly.

Seems simple but I cant find anything ?

Surely there's an answer? Google's not giving me much.


texts: My iCloud storage was not updated to 50GB

texts: So far I had iCloud Storage 20GB. But since Apple changed their storage, I should have 50GB, but there is still 20. Why?


texts: Remapping keys in KeyRemap4MacBook, how do I find keycodes?

texts:
I'm currently remapping some of the keys on my MacBook using KeyRemap4Macbook - in that process I need to remap the keys using this xml-file, namely private.xml, that is referenced here:http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/xml.html.en

This is an example of how private.xml looks like:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
  <item>
    <name>Swap Space and Tab</name>
    <identifier>private.swap_space_and_tab</identifier>
    <autogen>--KeyToKey-- KeyCode::SPACE, KeyCode::TAB</autogen>
    <autogen>--KeyToKey-- KeyCode::TAB, KeyCode::SPACE</autogen>
  </item>
</root>

Does anyone know where I find a chart of the keycodes referenced in the XML, the capitalized words (SPACE, TAB)?


texts:
We are accessing an URL (https://mobimytravel.wipro.com/APIMapper) but it is not opening in iPhone 5s & iPad using Wi-Fi but the same URL is opening in 3G.

This URL is opening in Android & other different iOS phones using Wi-Fi.


texts: Change Snow Leopard Terminal window dependant on SSH Server

texts: I can find it hard to differentiate between my dev and production server. I am using SSH to connect to the machines (both Ubuntu 10.04), and I was wondering whether there is a way to change the colour of the Terminal window depending on what SSH server it is connected to as I will forget to change the colour for each server...


texts:
So I’ve noticed when my hand or anything gets close to the little dot on the screen above the speaker my iPhone screen turns off. It’s not the camera on the back or the front. It’s the little dot above the speaker on the screen.

Is there anyway I can stop that from happening?


texts: Length of Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable

texts:
So, I just asked and had answered this question, Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable vs. adapter - for MBP mid-2012, about the adapter vs. the cable. I am leaning toward cable now, but was wondering about the 3ft, 6ft, and 10ft versions. I'd likely go with 6ft. But my question is, will there be any degradation in performance due to the length of the cord(s)? In other words, will the 6 perform better than the 10 and the 3 perform better than the 6?

Yes, I realize we're talking about a grand total of about $10 here, but it's less about that than it is about my desire to avoid having to re-replace something! Thank you!


texts: Karabiner quit working in Sierra. How do I map my menu/application key to be Command?

texts: I have a microsoft keyboard. When I upgraded to Sierra Karabiner quit working.  It was previously mapping my menu/application key to act as pressing the left Command key instead of doing nothing.  How can I repair this behavior.


texts: Upgrade this iMac to the latest version of Os X?

texts:
I have an iMac running 10.5.8. How well/badly do you think it would work if I upgrade to the most recent version of MacOsX (and can I leap there in one go, or do I need to first upgrade to an intermediate version of the operating system)?

Here is what System Profiler tells me:

   - Model Name: iMac
   - Model Identifier: iMac5,2
   - Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
   - Processor Speed: 1.83 GHz
   - Number Of Processors: 1
   - Total Number Of Cores: 2
   - L2 Cache: 2 MB
   - Memory: 2 GB
   - Bus Speed: 667 MHz
   - Boot ROM Version: IM52.0090.B09
   - SMC Version (system): 1.6f0
   - Serial Number (system): W86450CMWV7
   - Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0016CBA120C3

Thanks for your help.


texts: Do I need a credit card on file to get free apps?

texts:
I am going to preface this by saying I don't think it is duplicate because the other questions are older and ever so slightly different.The only question that really might be a duplicate was asked three years ago and based on someone who is in Argentina.

Do I need to provide a credit card number to get a free app in the United States? I am asking because I want to buy and iPod touch and do not have a credit card!


texts: MacBook Pro Retina 13": change resolution to 1920x1200 pixels

texts:
How can I change the resolution of my MacBook Pro 13" Retina (Late 2013) to 1920x1200 pixels?

The MacBook is able to use this resolution! It's e.g. using it, when connecting a second display which uses 1920x1200 pixels and checking the 'mirror displays' option.


texts: Putting files outside the user/home folder

texts: Can I put my folders outside the user folder (e.g. on the root of Mac HD), such as personal folder or work folder, where I have many files? The reason I want to do it is that OS X may have performance issues where one folder has too many files (reference), and as a recent Windows switcher, this is more like the partition/disk letter approach to file organizing. I'm the only user of my macbook so there's no privacy issues. When I first copied the files to the root, the os asks for admin password. Will I have issues with permissions if I do that? And in general, what's the potential cons with this and what's special about the home folder?


texts: Set tapping instead of clicking for Arch Mouse

texts:
I am looking for a way to TAP the arch mouse and NOT click the mouse button for the same clicking action. I am using a MacBook Pro 2017.

I go to System Preferences -> Microsoft Mouse and there is no option to replace clicking for tapping.  My index finger is taking a toll every time I click the left mouse button.


texts: Why isn't iTunes Radio presenting the options affecting station variety?

texts:
I am not seeing the options in iTunes Radio for "Play More Like This" and "Never Play This" for individual songs, nor the "Variety" slider for each station.

Per iTunes Help docs:

While a song is playing, click  near the top-left of the iTunes window, and choose Play More Like This or Never Play This Song from the pop-up menu.
Adjust the balance between new and familiar songs (on the selected station only): Click a station to display its contents, and click Hits (familiar), Variety (mixed), or Discovery (new).

These features are consistently missing across all of dozens of songs on multiple stations. I can't find anything in the Preferences (or the View, Window, or contextual menus) that seems relevant, except perhaps that I have "Share details about your library" turned off. Is it related? I tried turning it on and see no change.
An interesting twist is that I created a station on iOS 7, using an identical starting condition - the name of a band - to one of my existing stations, which has now synced to my OS X iTunes radio, and includes these options. The stations created on OS X have not transferred to the iDevice, however.
1st Created on iOS, appeared on OS X.
2nd Created on OS X, not present on iOS.

Why can't I tell iTunes that I don't ever want to hear "Margaritaville"?!
This is iTunes 11.1 (126) running on OS X 10.8.4


texts: Add a word count feature that determines pay (for freelancer paid per word)

texts:
I am a freelance writer and I frequently use Pages to draft my articles. I appreciate having the word count on the bottom of the document because I am often paid by the word. Periodically, I'll see how many words I've written, break out my calculator, and see how much money I've made for a bit of motivation.

However, I think it'd be really nice to have a little box next to word count that said how much money I've made so far. The function would get the current word count, I would pass it the constant of 'rate of pay per word,' and it would calculate how much I've made as I type.

I want to set the rate of pay per word in a drop-down or something and have the "money made" display next to the word count box.

I have some programming experience but I've never used Applescript or Automator. Can someone get me started with this? Thanks!


texts:
So far as I've been able to determine, group ACLs appear to have no effect at all in macOS 10.13.3.

Given a group "editors" with members "joe" and "jane" who belong to no other groups, and a folder "Revisions" with the following permissions…

drwxr-x---+ 38 mary  reviewers  1292 Jan 26 13:37 Revisions
0: group:editors inherited allow list, add_file, search, delete, add_subdirectory, delete_child, readattr, writeattr, readextattr, writeextattr, readsecurity, writesecurity, chown, file_inherit, directory_inherit

…neither "joe" nor "jane" can access the folder.

It appears, though, that user ACLs work.  The following ACL, for example, does allow "joe" access:

drwxr-x---+ 38 mary  reviewers  1292 Jan 26 13:37 Revisions
0: user:joe inherited allow list, add_file, search, delete, add_subdirectory, delete_child, readattr, writeattr, readextattr, writeextattr, readsecurity, writesecurity, chown, file_inherit, directory_inherit

This appears to be true for both local and open directory users, on both local storage, AFP, and SMB shares.

It's such a massive, obvious flaw that I have trouble believing I'm not missing something obvious.  Suggestions would be much appreciated.


texts: Can i send an email from me.com with an email using a different domain?

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I have had a dummy email (with a non me.com domain name) address created for my website and this email is redirected to my me.com account. This works fine.

But how can i send email from my dummy address?
The dummy address is not gmail/hotmail or so on, it is using my website domain name. For far,i have only managed to reply using my me.com account.

Thank you,
Aurélie


texts: Built-in MacBook screen recognized as a separate display

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I have a late 2011 Macbook Pro 13 inch. It was running macOS High Sierra and decided to try installing macOS Mojave using this patcher tool: http://dosdude1.com/mojave/. I successfully installed it with all its' kext files to be able to work with my Mac.
Unfortunately, not everything worked perfectly. My built-in screen is showing up as an external display, which is causing it to always be open, even when it is in sleep mode. I also cannot dim the screen using the buttons on the keyboard.
Another problem is that my internal speakers are not showing up in my sound preferences. I tried plugging in headphones in the headphone jack, but that didn't work either. When I boot up the computer, there is a chime that plays, so that is a good sign that the speakers work.
If there is anyone that can suggest any additional kext files I can download to make the display and audio work properly, that would be appreciated.
Thank you!


texts: Synced video in photos app doesn't load in airplane mode

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I've got a weird problem with Photos App, either on iPhone and iPad.
I have all my photos on iCloud.
On both my iPhone and iPad, I checked "Download and keep originals", in order to keep everything on the device.
That is working correctly with photos, but not videos !

For example, if I take a short video with my iPhone, it appears a little bit later on the iPad thanks to iCloud synchronization.
I can read the video on the iPad, but as soon as I turn airplane mode ON, I can't read it anymore.

This is not a storage problem as I have a lot, and I even reset completely the device, but still got the problem.
Updating to Catalina and iOS 13 didn't fix the problem too.

Apple support admits the problem, but they are not able to solve it for months...

Does anyone experience the same problem or has an idea ?


texts: MacBook Pro mid-2012 have to wait 30min between reboots

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My MacBook Pro mid-2012 has been acting up lately. A year ago I replaced the original hard drive with a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB, and everything was fine. Then the SSD became corrupted and was exchanged under warranty. Since installing the second SSD I've installed a fresh copy of the latest macOS Sierra on a single 1TB partition and have been having issues ever since.

The symptoms are:

Random fails: When I wake it up from sleep or open the lid I find it with the "grey screen with crossed circle" (Similar to this: https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b29f58e707cef6f20a882248f4ee558c).
Fails to find a bootable volume when rebooted (or even after a shutdown and reboot) within a ~20-ish minute timeframe (boots to the folder icon with a question mark, similar to this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/V5agg.jpg). I have to wait and try to boot it again later. Then it boots as if nothing happened.

What I have done:

Reset the NVRAM. Result: no significant change in behaviour
Reset the SMC. Result: no change in behaviour
Did the Disk Utility trick where I modified the size of my partition, then set it back to a single 1TB partition again, in order to have Disk Utility rewrite the partition map (or something). Result: now it doesn't constantly fails when I close and reopen the lid. Although it may have been the result of the next point.
Changed the energy settings to default (I have a script I run when I setup a new computer, and it includes some non default power management settings). Result: see previous point.

Questions:

Does this seem like a hardware failure or a software failure?
What can I do to be sure either way?
Any suggestions on how I can reliably fix this?

I have several full backups of my data, so I can try virtually anything. I'm determined to find out how to fix this. Perhaps installing a stock version of macOS Sierra and not changing anything at all, and using it like this for a few days could help me figure things out in more detail?


texts: Why are USB devices drawing power, but not being recognized by the OS?

texts:
I have an issue with the USB ports on my Macbook Pro. When I plug a device in, the device draws the power, but nothing else happen. This is what I know about this problem:

1- USB Prober can see the connected devices and identify them
2- VMFusion it's able to connect the device into the guest OS but nothing happens
3- If I reboot in windows all works good (no HW fault)
4- I tried to reboot in safe mode, login, reboot
5- I tried to reset SMC, nothing.

Later on I realized that apparently this issue it's related only to the composite devices, a simple USB disk work. An iPhone, iPod or Broadband Modem will not work.

Any idea ?


texts: Does my computer get securely erased if I do it through Find my iPhone?

texts: I had a catastrophe last night. I accidentally erased my computer from my iPhone using find my iPhone. So I am wondering if my computer gets securely erased like zeroing it out or does it just erase it?


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Last week my Macbook Pro from 2012 suddenly had a display issue. I was working on something using my external monitor (through thunderbolt -> displayPort) when the screen showed some banding and the computer suddenly turned itself off..

Here is a description of what it is currently doing when I turn it back on:

shows the normal apple start screen with progress bar
progress bar slowly moves across and then I get some strange banding in the top (see screenshot)
eventually the progress bar gets stuck about 75-80% of the way and the screen goes to just gray
and then it switches to being black

Now the screen stays lit up but I don't have a cursor or any way to control it.

I have tried to connect it to various monitors in this state (display port, DVI, etc) all through the thunderbolt display but nothing registers...

Here is a list of what I have tried so far:

resetting PRAM - keyboard combo works, PRAM resets as it boots again
but no change
resetting SMC - keyboard combo works, computer resets
but no change
target disk mode - this works, i have it in target disk
mode now and am backing up files onto my macbook air. I also read a
post about deleting the com.apple.loginWindow.plist preferences which
I did but no change

Oddly I found that a lot of 'normal' startup key combinations are not working anymore, even though this used to when i had other issues on this.

Does not work:

holding down SHIFT to go into safe mode: does not work / no
difference in startup
holding down D for diagnostics or V for verbose: does not work
holding down Control-R for recovery mode: does
not work

I am making an appointment to at the apple store today after I finish the backup but I am wondering if anybody has any advice. Isn't it odd that these startup options don't work? Also the display lights up and displays the thunderbolt icon fine when it is in target disk mode so that seems like the display is working...

Thank you!
- J


texts: iPhone in iPod Mode in Car Switches to Different audio App Intermittently

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After plugging the phone into the car, and playing a podcast or music from an app, a few minutes later, the music stops playing. Sometimes it just stops playing. Other times, it switches to a song in the Music.app that had not previously been played, queued, etc.

Orginal car had a Kenwood head unit with a USB port. Now the car is a BMW 328i with the stock system -- also hooked up via the iPhone's lightning port to the car's USB.

I've had this problem in two cars now, and it's only when playing via the iPhone 6 via the lightning to USB. When playing podcasts/music via Bluetooth, this never pops up as an issue, but I want it plugged in so that it charges, plus I get track info and album art on the car's screen via USB.

It's an intermittent problem, but seems to happen most often at the beginning of the day for the commute into work or on the way home.

I typically listen to podcasts in the car and it happens with both the native Apple Podcasts app, as well as Overcast. I've also had it when playing Pandora and even the Apple music app.

It's been happening quite awhile (over the course of owning two cars). Phone is currently running iOS 9.3.5, but has happened over the course of the last 2-3 major iOS upgrades.

I have tried multiple lightning cables, and as stated before, it's happened in multiple vehicles.

Any ideas to make it stop pausing/stopping/switching to a seemingly random song without having to resort to Bluetooth?


texts: Modify router port-forwarding rules from Terminal

texts:
I'm trying to modify my router's NAT Table / Port-forwarding rules using the terminal on my Mac. My current setup looks something like this

Public  <->  Internet  <->  Modem + Router (1.1.1.1)  <->  Macbook (192.168.1.2)

There's a webserver / app running on port 7919 on my Macbook and I'd like to port-forward it so anyone can access it publicly from the internet. Specifically, I want 1.1.1.1:7919 to forward data to 192.168.1.2:7919.

I know I can do this by going in to the Router settings web interface, or using other GUI apps such as PortMap, but I need to do this using the command line.

I've been searching for a solution for hours and still haven't been able to find a simple solution that does this for me. The closest I came was to natd, but it has been deprecated in favor of pfctl, and I can't make any sense of it.


texts: Can I exchange an iPhone 4 with an iPhone 5 without getting a new SIM?

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I understand that for certain iPhone models it is necessary to get a new SIM if I want to exchange them.

If I have a 4S and want to exchange it with a user who has just purchased a 5, is this possible to do by simply following the same straightforward SIM-transfer procedures used to exchange (for example) a 4 with a 4S.


texts: How to open Markup tools faster in Preview

texts:
Since a recent update to Preview (Big Sur?), the edit button is two clicks away on "narrow" images:

How can I force Preview, regardless of the image dimensions, to always open a window that is wide enough for the Markup button to be only one click away?

In fact, even better would be if someone has a method that can just open the Markup options by default:


texts: Is there a way to detect what program is stealing focus on my Mac?

texts:
I've got a problem with some app on my Mac stealing the keyboard focus (the current window's title bar becomes inactive). However, it is not actually putting up any windows or menu bar of its own, and it does not respond identifiably to keyboard shortcuts.

Is there a way to determine what application has the keyboard focus even if it is one of those which has no menu bar or Dock icon? I know of one built-in feature that almost does this; the Force Quit dialog, if invoked from the keyboard, will open with the focused application selected. However, it only lists normal has-a-dock-icon applications, so it doesn't help in this case.

This started occurring around the time when I upgraded from 10.8 to 10.9; I suspect that one of the apps I already had installed, or upgraded along with the OS, is newly misbehaving.

I am open to solutions involving a small amount of programming (or AppleScript, say), use of developer tools, etc.; but not ones like “Uninstall things until it goes away” because that would be excessively disruptive at the moment. I'd like to definitively identify the application and file a bug report or fix its configuration.

My research has only turned up a couple of threads requesting the same on Apple Support Communities which did not contain an answer.


texts: In Pages, trying to bold everything that is inside {curly brackets}

texts:
I have a source document that I'm trying to clean up, it's essentially plain text. But the author has bold text indicated with { } brackets, and italics indicated with < > brackets.

I would like to be able to automatically convert these to the proper style. Is there a way to accomplish this? It's nearly 200 pages, and on some there are 30+ instances on a single page. This will be weeks of work at the rate I'm going.

I've got the latest Pages (and no older version to fall back on). Is there a way to do this?


texts: Turning Off Keyboard's lights while in Bootcamp's Windows 8

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When I start Win8 (installed with bootcamp) the keyboard lights are always on. How do I disable this?

Is there a possible way to never ever let them turn on again? (Besides opening the hardware and cutting off the wires).

I have looked in power settings but didn't found anything helpful.


texts: Music Sharing - Different iTunes Accounts

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I have a relative who will be visiting from out of state, and I would like to share my music. My music is purchases from iTunes and CD's that I've copied onto my iMac. I'm trying to figure out he can play my music when he returns home to his Apple TV, iPad set up. What options do I have to do this?

thanks...


texts: Setting up a web server with a domain name on an iPhone

texts: Is it possible to set up a proper web server with a domain name on an iPhone or on iOS?


texts: Single User mode (10.13.6) write locked with SIP disabled

texts:
In the light of unbricking my 2011 MBPro due to the known dGPU failure, I am following LangLangC's (great!) response/guide in GPU problem - Boot Hangs on Grey Screen; combined with some other threads I found regarding the extra challenges that come with High Sierra.

I was able to disable SIP, so that works (checked via csrutil status: S.I.P. status: disabled (Apple Internal)).

However when I try /sbin/mount -uw /  it responds "disk2s1: device is write locked", so impossible to mkdir ... to start moving the kext.

Most Q's and A's I found about this issue are about getting SIP disabled, which apparently worked for me?
Where is the mistake and how can it be solved?

EDIT:
Being in single-user-mode my command line started with sh-3.2, now it is localhost: root# and saying HID: legacy shim 2. Which after Googling happens most with Hackintoshs, strange (even after resetting PRAM again). Any help or thought is appreciated.


texts: Where are the popcorn time temporary files stored on OS X Mavericks?

texts: I want to find the location of temporary files created by popcorn time so that I can stream via the chromecast player to my TV. I can find that on Windows but don't know where  is it located on Mac.


texts: Using two different drives with Time Machine

texts:
I have two drives that I want to utilize with Time Machine.
Every week, one is rotated offsite.

Week 1 - Drive A is utilized for Time Machine.
Week 2 - Drive B is introduce, and utilized for Time Machine.

Rotation:

Week 3 - Drive A is used, Drive B is offsite
Week 4 - Drive A is offsite, Drive B is used

So at most, one week of work is at risk.
When I introduce Drive B at week 2. It has no backups. Time Machine present option, "Do you want to use both?"
Just select "Use Both". Thats is all that is required. Both Drive A and Drive B will have full backup, one week apart?


texts:
Safari has a built in feature called reading list, for a few years I used it as an alternative to bookmarks for articles. When I was looking at storage usage I saw that safari has 200mb+ for offline reading list, therefore the pages must have been chaeched. However, when I turn my phone into airplane mode and try to access any of the pages from reading list it prompts me an error 'The operation couldn;t be completed. Operation not permitted'
I tried to search the web for troubleshooting the reading list and the only suggestion I found was to make sure that enable downloading for reading list using cellular is on and it was on. I am not sure what I can do in order to fix it.


texts: 'No machine certificates found' when adding machine certificate into VPN

texts:
I've 2 certificates, one for user authentication and another for machine authentication.

My user authentication includes certificate and private key based on which I've generated pkcs12 file using the following command:

openssl pkcs12 -export -clcerts -inkey private.key -in certificate.crt -out MyPKCS12.p12 -name "Your Name"

as suggested here: How can I add a private key to my keychain?

So User Authentication certificate loads fine in VPN configuration, but the problem is when I'm trying to select Machine Authentication. OSX can't find any suitable certificates, even I've imported it into Keychain (ca.crt).

The error says:

No machine certificates found
Certificate authentication cannot be used because your keychain does not contain any suitable certificates. Use Keychain Access to import the appropriate certificates into your keychain. If you do not have the certificates required for authentication, contact your network administrator.

How do I load my machine authentication certificate, so can be recognised by Keychain when configuring VPN (ca.crt & tls-auth ta.key)?

Related:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5401088/key-chain-warning-the-system-roots-keychain-cannot-be-modified


texts: How can I downgrade iTunes 11 to 10.7 in Mountain Lion?

texts:
Is it possible to downgrade from iTunes 11 to 10.7 using Mountain Lion?

I tried to replace it by simply installing the 10.7, but it says that i can't replace a newer version.


texts:
This icon is on my desktop. Can't click it or remove it.
I tried changing the desktop background but it didn't remove it.
Any idea what is it and how I can remove it ? Cheers


texts: Cannot turn off built-in Mac iSight camera in Windows

texts:
Recently I am developing video-related programs in Windows platform under a MacBook Pro 15″ Retina (mid 2014). The programs usually have functions to turn on the iSight camera to capture images. However, I found that even if the program has been closed, the camera was still on, which could be seen from 2 aspects:

If I re-run the program, the camera cannot be turned on again.
The green light beside the camera is always on.

This phenomenon doesn't exist if I run the same code under OS X.

So how can I manually or automatically turn off the iSight Camera in Windows for a MacBook?


texts: Cross Platform GUI-compatible Encryption

texts:
I am looking for an encryption tool that is completely cross platform - effectively like FileVault or BitLocker but compatible with both operating systems.

My use case is that I'd like to encrypt a drive that is used heavily between two sites (it travels, hence the encryption) - one Mac and one Windows. Ideally, I'd like to encrypt the whole drive and when I plug it into either machine, it prompts me to enter a key of some form to decrypt it.

I understand that TrueCrypt used to be a great way of doing this - but unfortunately it is no longer supported / developed (ref). I'm not at all adverse to using a command line to unlock and relock the drive provided it is fast enough to be relatively transparent.

Has anyone else encountered this kind of thing / have any suggestions? I'm running Mavericks on all Macs and 8.1 on all Win machines.

Thanks!


texts: How does finder figure this directory is 6MB?

texts: The directory says it's 6 MB, but there's about 10 160-byte files.


texts: Particular websites blocked when using Internet Sharing

texts:
I have the following setup. I have a Macbook Pro with an external monitor plugged into it via HDMI. I then have another external monitor plugged into the Macbook Pro via a Thunderbolt to DVI adapter. Finally I have a thunderbolt cable running from my Macbook Pro to an iMac. I am using this iMac in "Target Display Mode". I also have an ethernet cable plugged into the iMac and the iMac is sharing it's Internet Connection with the Macbook Pro through the thunderbolt bridge. This all works great, except for one very weird thing. There are certain websites that I cannot access. In chrome I get a "ERR TIMED OUT" error when I try to visit certain websites. So far I have only noticed this on two websites:

console.aws.amazon.com
key.com (key.com itself is accessible but there is a bill pay iframe that doesn't load and it gives the same error)

Any suggestions on what could be causing this?


texts: Unusual iMessage received from my mom, who wasn't aware she sent it

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I received a iMessage via my mom's locked iPhone 4 while simultaneously calling her.  I stated I just received a message from you. She was confused because she doesn't use or know how to use this feature.

The content said "Can't talk now - On my way.".  I sent her a screenshot of this verbage to which I was referring to.  She allowed another family with more experience of iPhone to investigate.  They had no record or proof on their end of what I had sent but the rest of the message thread was identical.

How can I receive a random message seemingly via my mom's telephone number that she did not send?  Can we be part of someone else's spying on and unlocked phone?

I am extremely confused.  I called AT&T and Apple and neither could help me.


texts: Weird behaviour of mysql-connector-c++ in OSX

texts:
I'm developing an application in c++ in OSX Yosemite that uses mysql. I've installed both mysql and mysql-connector-c++ using brew.

I could use the library without any problems until recently, butnow I'm having some problems.

Basically, when I try to run my application I get the following error:

libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type
sql::SQLException: Unknown MySQL server host 'K@??' (0)

I've checked and I'm correctly passing the host name, which is localhost. I've tried to reinstall mysql-connector-c++ but the problem remains. Does anyone have any idea on how to fix this?

I'm using mysql version 5.7.14 and mysql-connector-c++ version 1.1.6_1.


texts:
So I have a Mid-2010 MacBook and I tried to upgrade the RAM. I put in 2 4GB sticks and it started to beep. I took out one, and it still beeped. When I put in one of the original 1GB sticks and a 4GB stick, it worked. Any help on getting it to 8GB?

Edit: I figured out only one of the 4GB sticks work in the 1/4 configuration.


texts: MacBook Pro Retina (13-inch, 2015) keyboard and trackpad unresponsive

texts:
As in the title. I can only work with mouse and keyboard via USB/BT. Built-in keyboard and trackpad are unresponsive during the boot, login screen nor in OS. Tried: SMC, PRAM reset, safe boot, 3rd party service.

Surprisingly that tricked worked 2 times in a row: Remove Existing Wi-Fi Preferences in macOS Sierra

I have no clue - nothing was spilled onto it, it just stopped working and becomes responsive very rarely (apart from the trick described above). I want to avoid keyboard/trackpad/board replacement.


texts:
I'm trying to setup CUDA on a Macbook Pro, I've installed cuda with brew:

brew tap caskroom/cask
brew cask install cuda

Added this to my .bash_profile

export CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH:$CUDA_HOME/lib"
export PATH="$CUDA_HOME/bin:$PATH"

I also installed cuDNN v5.1

sudo mv include/cudnn.h /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-8.0/include/
sudo mv lib/libcudnn* /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-8.0/lib
sudo ln -s /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-8.0/lib/libcudnn* /usr/local/cuda/lib/

I'm now trying to test it:

cp -r /usr/local/cuda/samples ~/cuda-samples
pushd ~/cuda-samples
make

but I get this error:

make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
clang++  -rpath /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-8.0/lib -L/Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-8.0/lib -framework CUDA -o clock_nvrtc clock.o  -lnvrtc
ld: framework not found CUDA
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[1]: *** [clock_nvrtc] Error 1
make: *** [0_Simple/clock_nvrtc/Makefile.ph_build] Error 2


texts: Launchctl starting Virtual Machine before USB is intitiated

texts:
I have a plist file located in /Library/LaunchDaemons that starts a Virtual Machine headless with Ubuntu on it.

The problem is however that USB probably isn't initiated before the VM is started, and hence an USB stick located in COM port /dev/ttyACM0 (on VM) isn't available.

Output from "VBoxManage showvminfo userver" when running an normal start:

Currently Attached USB Devices:
UUID:                        73eb5973-ce2a-4410-8820-4ec7376e3f1d
VendorId:                    0x0658 (0658)
ProductId:                   0x0200 (0200)
Revision:                    0.0 (0000)

Address:                     p=0x0200;v=0x0658;s=0x0000000c8eba2f72;l=0x14200000

And with an autostart:

Currently Attached USB Devices:
<none>

Is there a way to delay startup of the script?


texts: Removing shutdown and sleep button from the Apple menu on Mavericks

texts:
I'm trying to remove the "Sleep" and "Shutdown" entries from the Apple menu.
So far I managed to do it by editing /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/StandardMenus.nib/objects.xib but that solution is quite ugly.
It can be a cause of some instabilities?

I tried the following commands:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow ShutDownDisabled -bool true
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow ShutDownDisabledWhileLoggedIn -bool True

but they don't seem to work anymore (I used this in Mountain Lion).
I wondered if there was any better way to do disable those entries.


texts: MacBook Pro can't run hardware test with pressing "D" key on reboot

texts:
I have a 13" Late 2012 MacBook Pro which works fine. I am trying to run Hardware test following the instructions in the Apple Support document, How to use Apple Hardware Test on your Mac, but it is not working.

If I hold the D key while booting, it does not do anything. However, If I hold Option + D and then chose Wi-Fi connection in recovery mode, it shows the following error:

Error: 0x8000000000000003. Cannot Load 'EFI/Drivers/TestSupport.efi'
Status: 0x00000003

There is installed macOS Mojave 10.14.4 over USB today.

Update: The question:

Why is Apple hardware test (AHT) not loading when pressing key D on system start?

doesn't describe my situation, because in the mentioned case, Option + D works, and no error message is thrown.


texts: Lost the Option to Boot into macOS After Windows 10 Bootcamp Installation

texts:
Recently I tried installing Windows 10 using Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro. The initial steps went smoothly until the actual windows installation where I was unable to install Windows on Boot Camp drive. I don't recall exactly if it was a MBR/GPT or NTFS/FAT32 issue, but after formatting the drive I was able to proceed with the installation.

Now Windows 10 is installed and working as expected, and so is the Boot Camp Utility software inside Windows.

The problem is that I have lost the option to boot into macOS. After restarting the machine and holding the Option key, "Windows" is the only option I have. Even after setting the default boot option to macOS inside the Bootcamp utility and restarting the machine I am back in Windows.

I tried the Apple recovery tool by holding the CMD+R at startup and downloading it. After going to the Disk Utility section the the Macintosh HD drive is greyed out:

Which is solved by unlocking the drive and entering my macOS password. But after restart and going to the Disk Utility it's still greyed out.

And this is the result of running "Verify Disk" on Macintosh HD.

Looking at the free space on the drive it seems that the data is there.

Since I don't have access to an Apple Store in my area to seek support I was wondering if there's a way to repair the boot and boot into macOS without losing any of my data?

And this is the output of gpt -r show disk0 and diskutil cs list entered in Terminal:

UPDATE: Recently I tried decrypting Macintosh HD after unlocking from Disk Utility and nothing happened. Then I tried the same process from the command line and this is what I get:

Error: -69750: Unable to modify a FileVault context


texts: Can timestamps be preserved when copying files on OS X?

texts:
I'm interested in combining the files from three Macs by copying the files from each one into a single folder hierarchy of my design on an external hard drive.

In my past experience copying files in OSX, sometimes the files lose their Created and Modified timestamps; i.e. they are changed to the present moment when the file copy happens.

How can I make sure this doesn't happen?


texts: Unable to download or stream purchased song from iCloud Library

texts:
I noticed an issue a few months ago that songs that had been uploaded to my iCloud Library (a feature of Apple Music) were occasionally not playing on my iPhone. Trying to download or stream the song would result in my phone waiting a few seconds and then start playing the next queued song. The phone never threw an error and it always happened on the same songs.

All of my music is available locally on my computer, so I never saw the problem there. But out of curiosity I removed the download of one of the problematic songs, tried streaming and it failed on my computer. iTunes throws an error: "There was a problem downloading [song artist/ title] An unknown error occurred (-206). Please check the connection to the network is active and try again"
After doing some digging I discovered that songs that had either been purchased from iTunes OR downloaded from iTunes Match and then uploaded to iCloud Library (instead of being matched by iCloud Library), will always fail to download from iCloud Library. In iTunes it can be filtered like this:
Kind: “Purchased AAC audio file” OR “Matched AAC audio file” iCloud Status: “Uploaded”
I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue? And if so, do you know how to force the song to upload?

And if anyone is willing, and I’d be very interested in knowing if you filter for those types of songs and remove the downloaded version, are you able to re-download or stream them? PLEASE BACKUP YOUR MUSIC BEFORE TRYING THIS — in my case, if I had not had a local backup of my library I would have lost these songs.
Some example images of the errors:


texts: MacBook Pro showing prohibitory sign on start up

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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite. On the start up my MacBook Pro is showing a circle with a line inside which is prohibitory sign. It goes no further. Tried but the Disk Utility.
Stuck with my OS X Utilities for couple of days. I tried the Disk Utility.  Finding the way out.

I tried to do an Internet Recovery.
Then I came to a window for install OS X. My current version is OS X Yosemite. I click to continue. It varieties computers eligibility, then I click agree to go forward. Next, it says select the disc where you want to install OS X. It won't let me install.
What's that mean?
Where is the problem? What to do?


texts: Upgrading from Windows 8 to 8.1 RTM on a Boot Camp partition

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Have anyone been able to upgrade/install Windows 8.1 on a Boot Camp partition?
When trying to upgrade to 8.1 RTM it goes into blue screen on first boot, claiming that "A required device is missing" and then rolls back the update:

This is the error message I get after rollback:

0x101 - 0x20017

UPDATE: When upgrading via the Windows Store, I get this error message after rollback:

0xC1900101 - 0x20017


texts: MTMFS consuming an entire CPU core and fans running full bore with Lion

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You may be aware that Lion introduced MTMFS, the Mobile Time Machine File System.

I've had a couple of instances now where MTMFS has been chewing up an entire core of my dual-core (mid 2009) MacBook Pro for hours on end with no evidence that it's actually doing anything constructive.

As a consequence, CPU temperature rises and the cooling fans run fast and noisy.

Restarting the machine quietened things down again, but I'm expecting it to start again.

Does anyone understand MTMFS well enough to suggest why it's keeping itself busy (or is it most likely, simply a bug), or if there's currently any solution? I fear I may have gone deaf or been scalded to death before Apple release an update...


texts: Arrange brightness sliders in command strip for multiple monitors

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I have a multi-monitor setup with two external monitors (whose brightness is controlled by OS X, not physical controls) and the built-in laptop display. I have my displays arranged with the two external monitors flanking either side of the laptop. When I go to adjust the brightness of the displays using the command strip the brightness indicators place both external displays to the left of the built-in display, and additionally reverse the order of the controls (the right monitor is controlled by the left-most brightness slider). I am looking for a way to re-arrange the brightness sliders in the command strip to reflect the real-world arrangement of my displays.
How I actually have my displays arranged:

How the command strip has its controls arranged:


texts: Receiving an Unknown iOS Notification -- Audio Only

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I occasionally receive an iOS notification (an Apple push notification) that has sound only and no text.  Because it has no text, it does not appear in the notification center and I therefore cannot determine what app is causing this.  Kind of annoying.

Is there anyway to identify which app is sending an audio-only notification?


texts: Upgrade dual booted MacBook Pro to Lion from Snow Leopard/Ubuntu

texts: I have a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard and Ubuntu on separate partitions. I use rEfit to choose which operating system I want to boot into. I would like to upgrade to Lion, but I'm concerned this will cause major problems due to my partitioning scheme. Has anyone else done this?


texts: How to open path in Double Commander from Terminal

texts: If I type open $(pwd) or open /anypath/ I will get the path opened in Finder. How I can achieve similar results but with the path opening in Double Commander instead?


texts: How to have two owners access the same files

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I'm trying to give full access to two different users in the same directory.

When I run Laravel via Apache, it uses the _www user. When I run Laravel via PHPUnit (on the command line), it uses my own user. At some point I managed to add the user _www to my Laravel storage/ directory so it has access to all the files. However, now it has created some of its own files that can't be accessed when running tests. How can I get both users to have full access to all current and future files in storage/?

This is the output of ls -ale storage/framework/views/:

drwxrwxr-x+ 22 administrator  wheel    704 23 Nov 12:33 .
 0: user:_www allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxrwxr-x+  7 administrator  wheel    224  4 Sep 23:12 ..
 0: user:_www allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
-rw-rw-r--+  1 administrator  wheel     14  4 Sep 23:12 .gitignore
 0: user:_www allow read,write,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
-rw-rw-r--   1 _www           wheel    564 27 Sep 12:18 6cb8d6ae8cab36b3c68a6e462a5bf6ea6343e382.php
-rw-rw-r--   1 administrator  wheel    580 22 Nov 14:59 90839493114c3ceef215929146f8be634f4674a5.php

When the test tries to write to 6cb8d6ae8cab36b3c68a6e462a5bf6ea6343e382.php, it fails due to a permissions error, because it was created by and belongs to the other user.


texts: Spotlight shortcut (cmd+space) no longer working

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I commonly use the cmd-space shortcut to bring up the spotlight, but as of yesterday it no longer works. I did not knowingly update my software beforehand, I do not have any conflicts in the keyboard shortcuts (no yellow triangle), and I only have one input source.

I have done a pretty thorough search for solutions; here are some pages I have read: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6). Below are the common solutions that have not worked for me:

Restarted the machine. No change.
Restored the defaults on all keyboard shortcuts. No Change.
Changed the desktop resolution. No change.
Changed the shortcut. Spotlight works with essentially any other shortcut, but I am used to cmd-space.
Reset the spotlight index (sudo mdutil -E / or killall Dock). This temporarily enables the shortcut but the problem surfaces after either closing the laptop's lid or changing the application window.
Remove the HIToolbox.plist and restart (rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist). This enables the shortcut for a couple seconds immediately after startup but then the problem resumes.
Closing applications with potentially conflicting shortcuts. I can't say with 100% certainty that I have covered everything but I have combed through my app shortcuts and closed out of anything that might be the problem. To reiterate, this was working fine until yesterday.
First aid on the disk. No change. I assume this would fix permissions issues if there were any.

One last piece of odd behavior: I can change the shortcut from cmd+space to cmd+option+space (and everything works), but I cannot change it back to cmd+space without hitting "restore defaults". The shortcut window remains empty until I close it or hit another shortcut.

At my wits end here! Has anyone solved this before?


texts: Generate PDF with table of contents from Microsoft Word on Mac OS X

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I need to generate PDF documents with a PDF table of contents from Microsoft Word 2011.

The PDF table of contents can for example be viewed in Preview using View -> Table of Contents.

This works well on my Windows machine. I just:

Select Save As > PDF
Click Options
Check the Create Bookmarks using headings check box.

But on Mac OS X this option is not available.

This has been asked multiple times before, for example here on SuperUser, but the only solution is to use the Windows version of Word, or using online tools like doc2pdf.