texts: Clipboard survives a reboot. Is it secure?

texts: I noticed that things in my clipboard survive a reboot - love it, very convenient. But I'd guess that's written to disk, and if I had physical access to your machine, I could reboot it and access the file the has the clipboard contents in it. It's gotta be secured in some way, right?


texts: Macbook freezes, disk errors, symptoms of SSD death?

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Macbook freezes, system disk "disappears" from system, I get errors about reading/writing. Spinning ball of death appears on the screen, I am able to move pointer for a few seconds after first symptoms but then computer freezes completely.

After hard reset everything is ok. After 30-60 minutes of work it happens again.

Since I am able to use Macbook after reset it doesn't look like problems with SSD, does it?

Tried to boot from Live CD — system freezes too.

Memtest — perfect results for short test, system freezes on 40+ minutes test.

Tried to make fresh installation of Mavericks — system freezes after some time spent for install.

ps. Macbook 13" 2011, 10.8, SSD Crucial M4 (about two years old).


texts: How to make Siri aware of Google Chrome browser on Mac?

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I have Google Chrome browser installed on my Mac. It's set as my default browser.

When I tell Siri:

  Siri, open browser

It launches Safari.

I tell Siri:

  Siri, open Chrome browser

It says "It doesn't look like you have an app named Chrome Browser...". But I have it installed. How to teach Siri that I have it and to launch it? I am running macOS Mojave 10.14.4.


texts: How can I share an album publicly (i.e. with non-icloud users) on iCloud

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Using "Photos" Version 1.0 (209.52.0) that just got "put" on my computer at last update. Here's what my share menu looks like:

Here's the support page where I looked for help.

Goal: expose photo album via a URL I can copy/paste to people.


texts: I have an Apple Watch Series 3 and MacBook Pro 2017.  I tried pairing my Apple Watch to my MacBook and it worked, but I can't use it for login.  I can only use my Apple Watch to authenticate within apps (ie. in the security tab of system preferences, I can click the lock icon and unlock it with my Apple Watch).  I can't use my Apple Watch to unlock the MacBook.  Does anyone know how to fix this?


texts: Track appearing in iOS Music as an iCloud track that I do not own

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I was listening to one of my playlists (not Radio) on my iPhone, and (at least) two tracks came up that I do not own and are not in my iTunes library on my Mac. I am the only person using this iCloud account and I've never purchased these tracks or had them in my library. The tracks did appear in the playlist with an iCloud icon, which I used to think showed tracks that I have in iCloud but not on my phone, but I don't know why these tracks are in iCloud.

Why did these tracks play and/or where did they come from?


texts: I have a two-disk NAS in RAID 1 that's not cooperating. I tried taking one of the disks out and plugging it into my iMac via a USB enclosure to copy the files off of it, but MacOS can't read the disk. I assume it's probably Ext3 or Ext4, some kind of Linux format. How can I get the files off of the disk?


texts: MacOS - /Library/Updates - Is it safe to delete or not?

texts: I don't have enough space on my MacBook (running on Catalina 10.15.7) and I found 6GB folder named Updates which is located in Library - my question is: Can I safely delete that folder ? I think that folder is filled by old updates from Catalina old version so.. I don't know if is it safe to delete everything which is in folder or not.


texts: Only account is a locked "Guest" after upgrading to OS Lion

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My friend updated his 13" MacBook Pro to OS X Lion today. After upgrading he has been met with a login screen showing a single account, "Guest". This "Guest" account is password-protected and none of the existing passwords he used on the computer seem to work.

My friend had previously installed rEFIt on his computer, which apparently hasn't been updated for Lion yet.

I found this thread on MacRumors where a few other people are reporting the same problem.

Does anyone know of a solution?


texts:
Is it possible to create a virtual video capture device in Mac OS?

Sort of like how Loopback creates virtual audio devices...?

I'd like to have a setup where I can take the input from say my laptop's HD camera, processed it with opencv, and then pipe that to some other program that is pretending to be a video capture device (ie it would present itself on video input selection dialogs).

Is it possible to create such a virtual video device, similarly to how audio ones are made?


texts:
I have an iPhone 11 Pro Max running iOS 13.3 and a Macbook '16 running macOS Catalina 10.15.2.

When I connect my iPhone to my Macbook, it is recognised in Finder "locations" but I do not have access to the files, videos, etc. in the iPhone from within Finder.

I have made sure that my iPhone is "trusted" by the macbook.

What is see is the picture below (and this is the only thing I can see):

i.e I don't see the following:

I have no idea why. My iPad works fine and shows me the files, movies, general tab, etc. But not my iPhone.

I have tried the following:

Resetting my privacy and location settings on the iPhone. After I do this, I get asked to "trust" the iPhone again, but it still does not display the files.
I have restarted the iPhone and Macbook several times.
I tried this on iOS 13.2 before updating and it already had this issue, so I don't think it's a bad update problem.
I have tried different cables. No luck.
I have tried restarting Finder on the Macbook, no luck.
The interesting thing is that Photos on the Macbook can detect and load photos from the iPhone.
As I said above, my iPad works fine and shows me the files, movies, general tab, etc
I made sure the iPhone is unlocked during this whole time.
Even if not needed, I made sure that "USB accessories" is allowed access when iPhone is locked inside the "Face ID and passcore" settings menu.
Airdrop works fine.


texts: The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition

texts:
I have two partitions on my MAC both formatted as Mac OS Extended but only one has macOS on it. When I start the Bootcamp Assistant to install Windows 10 I get the following message:

How to fix this issue? Do I have to erase the other partition?


texts: Adding newline to lists inside Notes app

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When I'm typing a list, I very often want additional newlines between some (or all) of the items to provide some clearer separation. In many apps that allow lists, you can type Alt+Enter or Command+Enter to add a newline without adding a new list item. However, this doesn't seem to work in Notes.

Is there something similar for the Notes app so that I can add newlines in the middle of a list without creating a new list item?


texts: Send message on iPhone 4S using PC Bluetooth keyboard?

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I have successfully paired a Bluetooth keyboard with my iPhone 4S, and it works great for composing messages.

However, I can't find a way to send a message from the Messages app using just the keyboard.
I've tried Enter, Alt+Enter, Ctrl+Enter, and Shift+Enter.

There's a thread on Apple's site that covers the same topic - one of the posts alluded to a "send" button on a full-featured iPhone keyboard.

Does anyone know what extended key code or combination the "official" keyboard is sending?  If not, is there a way to find out?


texts: Weird LCD / Boot problems on my MacBook Pro Late 2011

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My Mac is a MacBook Pro Late 2011 model with the 15 inch screen.

It began all with me, connecting my Nexus 5 to the Macbook. I imported some videos with iTunes (yes, iTunes popped up automatically and I though I just give it a try). In the import process, the mac suddenly hung up and gave me a gray screen! I then restarted the mac and since then, I have these strange LCD problems on the boot up and crashes as well in normal operation. I never had any problems with my mac so far, so it must have something to do with me connecting my nexus to my mac!.

The Problem

It's not reproducible for me but sometimes when I boot my mac, some strange lines appear on the LCD and after that, the mac hangs up (all I can see is a gray screen with no content). The mac also gets very loud at that moment. I have to restart and try it over and over again until I can finally login.

Picture of the boot-screen (I zoomed intentionally so you can see the lines):

Then, sometimes in normal operation, my mac freezes and the lcd displays the same lines as shown above (but with other colors: sometimes just blue, sometimes red and blue etc.). I also can provoke a crash when I connect my Thunderbolt Display to the thunderbolt port. But this does not cause a crash everytime AND sometimes it just crashes with no monitor connected to it.

What I tried so far:

Make the apple hardware test (normal and extended) --> no failures were detected.
Make a clean install of OSX 10.10.3.
Restetted NVRAM and SMC. (both before and after clean installation)
Changed the internal storage from an SSD to the original HDD from apple.

None of it solved the issue.

Additional Informations:

EtreCheck report: http://pastie.org/private/jvogbqnurymvffvzbslxsq
Currently installed OSX Version: 10.10.4
Used SSD: Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series (256GB)
Used Trim Enabler for the SSD (now known as Disk Sensei)
I have currently no kernel extensions installed.
This message appears on every boot (in SUM):

AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::checkStatus - received Status Packet, Payload 2: device was reinitialized

Restoring the mac over the internal recovery partition did not work.
Restoring the mac over the air did also not work.
Today, /sbin/fsck -fy failed on the startup and I had to repair the volume (Maybe the SSD is damaged?).
I'm also experiencing kernel panics. Sample log: http://pastie.org/private/i5j5cuv0isb9ttjnllia
Nexus system informations:

Android Version: 5.1.1
Kernel Version: 3.4.0
The nexus is not modded in any way.

Just got another crash with a new type of failure:

Here is a screenshot of the single user mode after the crash: (note the green lines in the background)


texts: Applescript: forward Outlook email as attachment

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I have an AppleScript service that helps me automate reporting spam/phishing email to our IT group.  I noticed that it forwards by embedding the content directly in the forwarded message, which triggers loading its images by URL, which is undesirable for spam because it can reveal to the sender that I opened the message.  (This happens despite having "Automatically download pictures from the Internet" in Preferences -> Email -> Reading set to "Never".)

Right now I do the forwarding like this:

tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
    -- See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42982738/applescript-for-outlook-v15-recipients-wont-populate

    set fwdMessage to forward theMessage without opening window
    make new recipient at fwdMessage ¬
        with properties {email address:{address:"spam@example1.com"}}
    make new recipient at fwdMessage ¬
        with properties {email address:{address:"spam@example2.com"}}
    open fwdMessage

    move theMessage to junk mail
end tell

How can I modify that to do a "Forward As Attachment" instead of a regular "Forward" action?

I'm using Outlook version 16.16.16.


texts: Can I use my iPad to organize photos that are stored externally?

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I would like to organize my photos with iPad (remove, edit, create albums etc).

I have the synology NAS and I can run the Photo app on the NAS (server) and I can use the DS Photo+ app on iPad (client) but this app can be used only as a viewer (I can't organize photos).

I also have the Aperture on the Mac and I can use the iTunes to sync the photos to the iPad but it is the same problem as with the NAS. I can't delete the photos or organize them in any way - it is only a viewer.

I have around 100k photos and I have to keep them externally. Thus, I have to use the iPad only as a remote viewer (client). I don't want to use any web related service for that like flickr, picasa etc.
It is not a problem for me to download photos from the camera to the iPad and then organize them and finally move them to the NAS.

Any ideas how can I do that?


texts: What happens if you uncheck iCloud for photos?

texts:
I accidentally unchecked iCloud for photos on my Mac and quickly turned it on again. Does anything happen when you do that? I think I have read that if you turn off iCloud, your photos will get deleted within 30 days. Could this happen even though I only unchecked iCloud for a short while?
I have attached a picture of the place I unchecked iCloud for photos (even though it is turned on it this picture). It is marked by a read circle. The text above the box says: "Apps using iCloud".
Thanks in advance:-)


texts: I find my self on my iPod (5th Gen) late at night (until 12 or 1 in the morning), and want to know if there is a Cydia tweak that locks me out of my device at a specific time.


texts: Do the chips in 2018 Macbook Pros have fixes for Spectre and Meltdown?

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I know there are software fixes in macOS, but I want to know when the hardware is fixed. I'd like to buy a new Macbook Pro, but only after the hardware is completely fixed.

The 2018 Macbook Pros have "Coffee Lake" Intel chips.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro#Technical_specifications_4

Various articles say that Intel would release fixed chips in mid 2018, but I don't see specifics.

Did a hardware fix make it into the chips in these 2018 Macbook Pros?


texts: How to use Time Machine to back up a partitioned drive?

texts:
My MBP was originally a single SSD partition, which I backed up with Time Machine to an external USB HD.

I created a new partition on the SSD for Yosemite, and am running the MBP on 10.10, although my apps and my work docs are on the original partition.

I would like to continue to use TimeMachine to back up the original HD with my documents and such, so if Yosemite fails or corrupts the HD, I can buy a new HD and restore the Mavericks HD to it.

How can this be done?

Failing keeping it separate, could I at least set up TM on a new disk to back up both partitions?


texts: Can't share ethernet connection of college ethernet on Mac - but can do it on windows without problems

texts:
I'm trying to share my college dorm ethernet connection of my Mac over the WiFi of the laptop with internet sharing in MacOs. Previously, I used a Windows pc and could switch on "Hotspot" in the windows taskbar pretty easily without configuration or error message.
Now trying to do it on the Mac and results in the error that I can't share the connection, because it is protected 802.1x and therefore can't be shared.
I already read other stackexchange posts which only seem to have the answer that it's not advisable to share it and they give no solution (other than using a vpn). I understand that the admins of the network have their objectives, but why was I able to share it on the Windows PC pretty easily, without configuration but can't do it on the Mac?


texts:
Okay, so I have an AppleScript that is really just a wrapper for a simple shell script, so I could turn it into a double-click to run application, droplet and URI handler on OS X.

Anyway, this works fine but the only problem is that the shell script can take a while to run. So I'm wondering, what options do I have for displaying some kind of progress indicator?

I'm not looking for anything too complex, ideally something I can do simply via AppleScript commands. For example, is there a way I can trigger a shell command to run in the background at the start of my script, then use a loop to query whether the command is finished or not, and somehow provide feedback to the user?


texts:
I incorrectly edited the plist that goes with an .ipa file and tried to install this .ipa.
Thereafter the app shows with a missing icon:

So now I'm not able to delete application that incorrectly installed.

Long press on app, selecting ✕ and Delete option does nothing.
Have tried to do it through iTunes with no result.
Rebooting doesn't help.

I can remove all other applications on device.

UPDATE 1:
After fixing plist, installation goes with success, but old application remains:

I'm using iPad mini with iOS 7.0.3.
I know how to correctly install my app, my question is about how to remove aftermath of my last try.


texts: Retina MacBook Pro takes a long time to wake from sleep

texts:
So here's the thing. The rMBP is on Mountain Lion with all possible updates. When I open the lid I can see the login screen just fine but it is unresponsive for several seconds, can't enter my password or move the cursor.  Sometimes it makes the 'pop' system sound like it's getting a new mail or something several times in immediate succession, like pop-pop-pop-pop, just after opening the lid. Now this might make you think it might be related to power nap but this is happening before power nap came along. If I remember correctly, this happened before I installed Mt. Lion too.

Another very clear symptom is whenever I log back in from sleep and had the problem just described, the RAM in activity monitor is always clear. All green.

It is almost faster to cold boot it. Any ideas?


texts: Big Sur 11.3 beta removes command line tools (CLT) and reinstalls same version present on 11.2

texts:
Prior to 11.3 beta install:
Xcode: 12.4.0.0.1.1610135815
CommandLineTools: 12.4.0.0.1.1610135815

Post 11.3 beta
Xcode: 12.4.0.0.1.1610135815
CommandLineTools: not installed <---------------

I started a script (that does some git stuff) and was prompted to install the CLT.
I was stumped (I knew I had CLT installed), but I went ahead and allowed the reinstallation of CLT.
Afterwards, this is shown:
Xcode: 12.4.0.0.1.1610135815
CommandLineTools: 12.4.0.0.1.1610135815

So it appears that the beta uninstalled CLT and then reinstalled the exact same version of CLT I had prior to the beta release installation.
Anyone else see this behavior?


texts:
I bought a 15'' MacBook Pro a few days ago and it gets too hot under load. Idle temperatures are about 40-50 degrees light use 60 degrees but opening a light game like league of legends will set the CPU at 80-90 degrees.
I want to know if this is normal or not and if it will damage my battery.I still have time to return the laptop. Thank you.


texts: Suddenly, some of the keys (Q to O) isn't working. I don't have any idea what wrong I have done. Only Q, W, E, R, T, Y, U, I, O aren't working. All others keys working fine. Anyone have any idea how to fix this problem?


texts:
Today I was scrolling through my photography gallery with Preview app. I was playing around with files rotating them etc, only to discover that it was actually saving those files (overwriting originals) without giving me a notice!

Is there any way to make it ask me for changes everytime? not only when file is locked...


texts:
I'm not sure if I have an issue or if what I am seeing is by Apple-design.  I have an iPad Pro (11.4) that I have the Personal Hotspot switched on.

My iPad Pro is active and screen on.
I connect my iPhoneX (11.4) to the iPad Hotspot.
Everything works fine.
I sat working on laptop and then the iPhone X and iPad screen locked.  After X minutes I then unlock iPhone to check email etc..
The iPhone X has disconnected from the hotspot and is back to using the cellular plan on my iPhone.  If I go to Settings -> Wi-Fi then my iPad is not listed.
To make the hotspot reconnect I have to go back to my iPad and toggle the Personal HotSpot switch (On -> Off -> On).

Is this by design or not?  Should the iPhone remain connected if the devices screen lock?


texts: How to always allow "[program] wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this."

texts:
I use a program which prompts me often to "make changes" (make a system-level/root-level change). I trust this program and want to always allow it to do so. How is this done? I would expect an "always allow" button, but there isn't one.

I know the system directory which the program wants to modify and that I could lower the permissions of that folder; however, that may have an impact on other applications which expect certain permissions on that folder, so I don't want to do that.

Here is an example of the dialog. (I removed the name for privacy.)


texts: I recently started using a MacBook Air and find some of the gestures such as the double click zoom in Safari extremely useful, I'm aware I can zoom normally using cmd - (+) but find the gesture zoom much better. Can I simulate the touchpad or another way to do this on my iMac.


texts: iCloud has sucked up all my files - can you transfer files directly from iCloud to Google Drive?

texts:
I'm trying to disconnect my macbook from iCloud, as it's been creating major problems for me. I was told by an Apple Support employee that doing so is only recommended once you've backed up everything from your Mac somewhere, to ensure you don't lose any files - so my goal is to upload everything to Google Drive before turning iCloud off.
The problem is, almost none of my projects are truly on my laptop - instead I mostly just have folders full of file names, which are placeholders for the real files that have been sucked into iCloud. This means I have to re-download everything to my computer before uploading it all to Google Drive. Another crucial piece of information is that I only have 1 GB of storage left on my macbook, which means I can't re-download any complete projects/folders at a time.
So unfortunately my current method is downloading 1-5 files at a time, uploading these few things to Google Drive, deleting the copies from my laptop and trash... repeat (thousands of times). So, I was wondering if anyone could offer any alternative solutions - for example, is there a way to transfer files directly from iCloud to Google Drive without having to download them to my laptop first?
I should probably mention that I've scoured my laptop for duplicated files and applications I no longer use, make sure to empty my trash regularly, etc (I also asked Apple Support to help me make sure I wasn't missing out on any other ways to maximize storage space). The most obvious culprit for my lack of space is the massive 150 GB iCloud folder on my laptop, which appears to contain duplicates of everything on my computer. I can't seem to do anything about it until I've disconnected from iCloud itself. (The reason for its existence in the first place is beyond me but that's beside the point I guess, lol)


texts: On lid open Macbook Pro 2016 boots automatically - after turning off I need to juggle 10 seconds with the touch id power button to boot

texts:
I have the late 2015 (15 inch) MacBook Pro. By default it turns on when laptop lid is open. This is not good for me, sometimes I open the lid on weak battery to make sure it's not turned on, so I wanted to make sure it's off. And then it just wants to boot up, imagine.

(Side note - I don't use sleep function, because it eats up an unoptimally lot of swap and compressed memory (which also cannot be changed since 10.9, see Can I turn off swap and/or memory compression on macOS 10.12, Sierra? ), I use nosleep extension to just lock the screen on lid close when on AC, or on battery for short)

Thankfully there is a leaked (not documented) bash command to change this in terminal:

http://osxdaily.com/2017/01/19/disable-boot-on-open-lid-macbook-pro/

sudo nvram AutoBoot=%00

But then if the machine is turned off, the power button behaves strangely:

On first press (no matter long or short) the battery status will show with a percentage.
Until this screen and this mode goes off (few seconds), everything you do with the Touch ID power button is ignored.
Then you can press the Touch ID button long to power on, when you release it, Apple logo shows up so the system is booting finally.

So I'm happy the startup tune is off now, but instead you need to morse a startup tune through the power button to power on your MacBook Pro ;)

Is there a tweak to make this work as expected for an old physical power button to turn on properly in the old easy way?


texts:
My phone says it has paused uploading images to iCloud, despite there being 25Gb space free there, and it won’t record video due to lack of storage on the device, despite it having over 2Gb free.

What’s wrong with it?


texts: Can I upload songs to Itunes from second HD?

texts:
I have 2 Hdd's one solid state and the other is moving parts. I have Itunes on my solid state and all of my music on the secondary. Is it possible to to have iTunes play music from that drive without me having to waste all of my ssd with mp3's? Windows Media Player can do it with no problem so I'm sure iTunes can. Anyone understand what I'm asking for or have a solution?

If it matters I'm using Windows 7 Pro and Itunes 11.4


texts: Seagate Ironwolf NAS 4tb drive Error: -69877: Couldn't open device

texts:
I am a relative newbie setting up a NAS unit to host my Wordpress website in attempt to speed it up from my slow hosting provider. I have a Synology 118+ and the above mentioned drive. I am attempting to initialize the drive so that the NAS unit till recognize it.
I have tried various erase/ partition and other terminal commands as well as disk utility erase procedures, on both my Mac mini and MacBook Air, those procedures all resulted with an error that the disk utility could not open the drive.
I have also tried many times on a windows 10 laptop to initialize with disk manager. which also returned an error that the drive could not be opened.
I looked on the seagate website and found instructions to initialize the drive but those were the same as steps I have already taken to initialize it.
I googled and found various methods of using the terminal command to force JHFS+ journaling but they return the above mentioned error.
I am thinking the drive is bad, but before I go down that route wanted to make sure I am not missing something elementary.
any help would be appreciated.
Also worth noting, when it shows up in my Mac it does not show more than one volume, just the model number of the unit.
thanks in advance


texts: When does Safari on iPhone change the text size when the orientation changes?

texts:
I've noticed that when I am browsing a web page in Safari on the iPhone and change the orientation from portrait to landscape, sometimes the text size and/or wrapping changes.

For example, in portrait there may be 10 words on a line, but when I turn it sideways the text size changes and there are maybe 8 or 12 words on that line. Usually when I turn it back to portrait again it stays at that number instead of going back to 10.

I don't remember any specific examples off-hand but they were just regular sites (not mobile versions). Text appeared to be in a fixed column, it wasn't just wrapping to the entire window width.

Can anyone clarify in what ways this is changed or determined?

[also, I couldn't create 'safari' or 'zoom' tags]


texts: Can you recover a password stored in Apple Remote Desktop?

texts:
I have two servers that haven't been touched in ages. Their passwords have been forgotten and I have a Mac where Apple Remote Desktop has saved their passwords. Can I view those saved passwords? I'd prefer not to reset both these servers and start from scratch.
What I've checked so far:
Keychain Access - This appears to only store the ARD password. I presume this password encrypts the connection details separately (and I recall the password here being the one I used to setup ARD in the first place).
The documentation (for V2 anyway) suggests data is stored in three places, user library plist, /Library plist, and /var/db/RemoteManagement/: images.apple.com/remotedesktop/pdf/ARD_Admin_Guide.pdf
The data in /var/ seems to be an sqlite3 database with usage statistics
The /Library/ plist seems to be nothing eye catching.
~/Library/ plist (in containers nowadays) has all the machine details but I don't see anything resembling a password (encrypted or not). Oh, they're stored with the key name "accessCredentials". Time to learn how to decrypt.


texts: What app is making my phone vibrate, without putting a corresponding notification up?

texts:
There is an app I can't locate that is constantly making my phone vibrate. When it does, I immediately check the Notification Center. Nothing new there.

The vibrate could be a setting for an email application, or some other app.

One thing to note, I always have my app on silent/vibrate.  I just unmuted it in the hopes that the sound will help me figure out what is going on.

Question

How can I determine which app is sending rogue vibrations without any notification?


texts: Is it possible to send message to shared iTunes library owners on the network?

texts:
I wonder if this is a way (or an app) to send instant messages to iTunes library shared owners, visible on the network.

It would be really handy to be allowed to communicate with them :-)


texts: Why might a oui.txt file have appeared in my home directory on my MBP?

texts:
oui.txt has "suddenly" appeared. I don't know how/why.

It's 4.1MB, so it's probably this: https://linuxnet.ca/ieee/oui/

  Sanitized oui.txt Wed, 12 Feb 2020 03:10:16 -0400  •  4.1 MB (4,050,564 bytes)  •  ASCII

The result of ls -le@ oui.txtis:

$: ls -le@ oui.txt
-rw-r--r--@ 1 user staff 4047610 31 Jan 12:20 oui.txt
        com.apple.TextEncoding 15


texts: How to reduce Safari/WebKit logging verbosity?

texts:
I only recently updated to Sierra (10.12.4). Now when I use the Console program to view console messages, I see a massive amount of logging by WebKit, especially about "Current memory footprint":

This makes it very hard to use Console to view messages by any other application.  Is there any way to hide specific application messages in the new version of Console? Failing that, is there a way to make Safari stop logging this level of detail, or log them elsewhere?


texts: Will the 2018 Mac mini be able to use my 2011 iMac in Target Display Mode?

texts:
I'm currently using a 2015 MacBook Pro and using a Thunderbolt cable to my 2010 27 inch iMac as the screen in Target Display Mode. I want to upgrade the MacBook Pro to a Mac mini, which has Thunderbolt 3, not Thunderbolt 2.

Will the Mac mini do that, and will I need an adaptor or something?


texts: No macOS update after 10.14.3 on early 2015 MacBook Pro?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) 3.1 GHZ i7 (16 GB memory, ~380GB diskspace left). It is currently running Mojave 10.14.3. It seems like the latest version is actually 10.14.6, but when I go to System Preferences > Software Update... it says "Your Mac is up to date". (Under Advanced..., every box is ticked.)

Does my Mac not support the newer update? If it does, how do I make it see the update?


texts: How do I emulate Internet Sharing from the command line?

texts:
I'm trying to set up my Macbook Air to share an OpenVPN connection for use while I'm on the road and don't want my iOS traffic to go over the open Internet. Sadly, Mountain Lion's Internet Sharing feature doesn't include the VPN interface in the list of shareable network interfaces, so I assume I'm going to have to emulate Internet Sharing from the command line.

I've figured out some of the moving pieces that are put in place by the InternetSharing wrapper:

ifconfig to set up the bridge interface
ipfw to set up forwarding of traffic
bootpd to offer DHCP service to clients
natpmpd to handle port forwarding
named in a cache configuration to handle DNS queries

One piece I haven't figured out is the configuration of the wireless network, namely the SSID and WPA2 configuration. What service is responsible for that, and how does one activate it? It seems like it might be airportd, but I don't see any relevant-looking options there.


texts: Setting dock position to immutable not working

texts:
I tried to make the dock position immutable by using this command:

  defaults write com.apple.dock position-immutable -bool yes

and then

  killall Dock

But this didn't work. It did write somewhere the line:
"position-immutable" = 1;
as this appears in the output of

  defaults read

However, it has no effect on the dock behavior. Is there no way to prevent it from jumping around? I'm willing to install whatever tool is necessary to accomplish this.
Thanks


texts:
I have been using this simple TCP Test Tool on Windows. It is a very basic GUI for listening ports and making TCP requests, yet it was very handy. However I could not find anything similar which works on Mac OS X.

Does anybody have any suggestions?


texts:
On my iPhone, I normally turn off Location Services on the Camera for privacy.

I turned it in today for a specific event, but not before I had taken several photos without location information.

How can I retroactively fill in the location information? I know exactly where each photo was taken, and even have pins bookmarked in Maps for each location.

It needs to be lossless, no JPEG recompression. An iOS app would be nice, or a Windows/Mac solution.


texts: Can I have Apple replace my wireless card with a newer model

texts:
I have a 15" MBP mid 2010. I also have a 3rd gen iPad 64GB wifi which I have recently discovered (following update to IOS 8.xxlatest) is unable to work with AIR DROP. I thought about upgrading to the iPad Air 2. Fortunately, I didn't as I now discover that my MBP might not work with Air Drop either.

I find NO reference on my MBP to "handoff". My wireless card is the BCM43xx 1.0. According to another community supplied "Continuity Tool", it says I need a new Wireless card.
 Since this is not a 17" (never seen one), there are NO additional ports to add in a newer wireless card. My wireless in-house network seems to function just fine.

When I click on Air Drop on the side panel, I see my wife's MBP show up. However, I click on it and nothing happens. What am I missing?

QUESTION: Do I need a newer wireless card for AIR DROP to work. I am running Yosemite.

Air Drop should work with my two MBPs. Question is, will they?


texts: How do I revoke access to twitter for a single app on iOS 5?

texts:
I sometimes let my kid (6 years old) use my IPhone 4s (iOS 6.1.3) to play angry birds.
Lately friends have been telling me that I tweet silly angry-bird tweets.

It seems that the Angry Birds application uses iOS integration to tweet in my name, and makes it very easy for my son to make those tweets.

I would like to block this application from sending tweets in my name, but I would rather not log out entirely from twitter on my IPhone.

All I could find on the matter is here, which claims that I would need to revoke access to the entire iOS integration:

  Note: Though you will see other specific apps like Twitter for iPhone or Camera for iOS listed in your active connections, you cannot revoke access to these individual apps; you have to revoke the entire iOS integration

That doesn't sound right - by allowing one app to integrate with twitter, I allow any app to do so? Is there no another way?

Thanks!


texts:
So, I'm developing software, where I organize code in different folders.
I got a folder named Company.Software.Logic.
This is used on different OSes (developer chooses him/herself).
But beeing on Mac, this causes a problem. It says my folder is a "Logic Pro-project".
I do not have Logic Pro installed, and I don't intend to ever install it.
I want my folders to be treated like folder, not application specific files.
Anyone know how to turn this "feature" off?
Renaming folders is a NO GO option.


texts: Update applications with another users AppleID - possible bug?

texts:
The situations is this.

I installed all the the relevant apps from the App Store on my MacBook Pro using my AppleID and the apps could be updated for a long time using my AppleID.
Some time ago I created a user account on my machine for my daughter and for unrelated reasons made it an admin account.
Some apps installed as per 1. now require my daughters AppleID to update.

From reading lots of answers on this site it seems that apps installed by other users must be uninstalled/reinstalled to work resolve this issue. As this is not the case for me, does anyone know what might be causing this change of AppleIDs and if it is possible to revert back? As far as I can see this must be a bug.

Have anyone experienced this and is there a way to resolve this other than the uninstall/reinstall solution?


texts: Using AirPods on MacBook Pro causes the on-board speakers to produce static

texts:
I have an early-2015 MacBook Pro (running the latest OS). I recently bought AirPods 2 and began using them primarily on my MacBook Pro. After I have used them with the MacBook Pro for a while (I don't know how long because I haven't measured), if I disconnect and use the on-board speakers, they produce sound with a lot of static -- enough to convince anyone the speakers have gone bad. I have to restart the laptop to get them to go back to normal. While they throw out the static, if I go back to using AirPods, the sound is fine.
Would anyone know what's happening and how I can prevent it?
Thank you.


texts: Using caps lock indicator for other purpose

texts: Can I use the caps lock indicator light for another purpose; like indicating that the current keyboard layout is Greek?


texts: iOS 7 app to create a password protected PDF or DOC file

texts: I would like to create a file on my iPad, password protect it, and email it to a colleague.  Is there a way to do this?  It would have to be in a format that is readable by others, like a password protected PDF file or a password protected Word file.


texts: Where can I find an iPhone 4S skin image?

texts: We need to build a static web page with an iPhone on it containing animated views to showcase our app. To start with we need an iPhone 4S skin, better to be a white one to hold the rest of images, so I was wondering where can we find such skin. Can anyone help?


texts: How to disable Chrome/Safari notifications on multiple devices

texts:
I have a macbook, iPad and two iPhones (one is mine, second - my wife's). All of them are connected to the same iCloud/apple account. Now, after last updates (starting from iOS 9), once my wife open some page at Chrome/Safari on her iPhone, I receive notifications at my macbook (some app icon at the left side of Dock menu). Moreover, after installing 9.0.3 on iPhone, once I open some page at Chrome/Safari on my macbook, she receives the notification at her iPhone..

The question is - how can I disable it? Is there some option that disables only this feature without disconnecting the whole device from apple/iCloud account?


texts: How to disable smart quotes in Outlook 2016

texts: Same question, different version. Outlook 2016 doesn't have the Edit > Substitutions menu item, and it ignores the setting in System Preferences > Keyboard > Text > Use smart quotes.


texts: Lock & Unlock the screen via WLAN - Keyboard

texts:
I use Synergy to share my mouse and keyboard across different computers.

Now i want to lock and unlock the screen of my mac. I have activated corners, so when i move my mouse at the left corner of my screen, it gets dark.

  But when i want to unlock the screen, nothing happens! My Mac doesn't
  recognize any mouse movements or keyboard actions.

I need to lock & unlock the mac screen for testing purpose.

Is there any script command which can lock and unlock my screen by itself?

  For example: lock my screen for 5 secondes, and unlock it again after
  this period of time.


texts: Have find my iphone istalled in ipad and it's working, can't log into icloud

texts: my ipad was recently stolen, I setup find my Iphone app and have it activated, but when I try to log into Icloud it tells me I have to setup a device with that account. If I have log into itunes and have activated the find my iphone app, doesnt that mean I have activated a device with that id?? If any could help I'd appreciate it.


texts: Is there a way to connect to office VPN using parallels (windows) but surf on host Mac OS X?

texts:
My office VPN called Juniper does not gets installed on Mac OS X. I am using Parallels to run guest Windows on my macbook pro with OS X Yosemite. I don't know what I am asking, and if it is even logical or not, but here is my question:

Is there a way that I can share my guest operating system's VPN connection with host operating system? What I mean is, that I connect to my office VPN using my guest Parallels Windows OS and that can be shared with my host macbook Mac OS X?

By doing this what I want to achieve is, that I want to just open Windows using Parallels and then connect to my VPN and then minimize it and come back to OS X and then surf all my internet websites on Safari or Chrome (on Mac and not W indows).

Is this possible? Could anybody guide me on how to do this if its possible?


texts: Cmd + PgUp/Down shortcut to navigate through terminal tabs

texts:
is it possible to make Cmd+Page Up / Page Down shortcut performing switch tab in Terminal?

At the moment I can use Cmd+Shift+[ or Cmd+Shift+] shortcuts to do the thing, but this is horrible for me. I'm using external USB Keyboard and Karabiner, if that may help somehow.


texts: Go to the Running Safari And Press Enter Using AppleScript

texts:
I'm very new to AppleScript and I'm trying to do this. I have an Safari process running on my machine. I wish I could go to the running safari and stimulate an enter key event.

Is it possible to do so?

The code I'm trying is:

on is_running(appName)
    tell application "System Events" to (name of processes) contains appName
end is_running

set safRunning to is_running("Safari")
if safRunning then
    run script "tell application \"Safari\"
         key code 36
    end tell"
    return "Running"
else
    return "Not running"
end if

Inside the run script the key code 36 (for stimulating enter) is giving me error:

error "Expected end of line but found identifier." number -2741

Any guesses where I'm making mistake?


texts: How to track down a mystery autocompletion

texts:
Every time I type

nvm install

it magically autocompletes to

nvm install 9.2.1 --reinstall-packages-from=9.2.0 --latest-npm

with a return at the end, which errors as I'm using node 10.12.0 these days.

It doesn't matter what app I type this into, terminal, text editor, or even the browser (it autocompleted above when I typed this).

I've never set up any such autocompletion rules, and this wasn't happening previously.  How could this happen and how do I stop it?

Running macOS 10.14 (Mojave)


texts: How to create an email group easily in Mac OS X?

texts:
I have a list of email addresses to which I frequently send emails. How can I create an email group in my address book easily? Is there any method other than add one email address at a time? I'm using Mail.app to send/receive emails.

When I used Gmail, it was easy to add many email addresses at one time. I just needed to create a list of email addresses separated by commas. Is a similar action possible in Contacts.app?

I'm on Mountain Lion.

ADD. My situation is that I want to create a contact group for 100+ students who will take my course in the next semester. They are not in my current contact book and I just have their email addresses. Any easy way to do it?


texts: ios/mobileconfig ikev2 ondemand via apple configurator 2

texts:
I am trying to use Apple Configurator 2 downloaded from AppStore, and I cannot find ondemand settings in the vpn section. Please help. I can manually add ondemand section to my plist and it works. If I open this plist, Apple Configurator does not remove this section, so I assume it knows and recognizes it.
The settings are as simple as that:
<key>OnDemandEnabled</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>OnDemandRules</key>
<array>
    <dict>
        <key>Action</key>
        <string>Disconnect</string>
        <key>InterfaceTypeMatch</key>
        <string>WiFi</string>
        <key>SSIDMatch</key>
        <array>
            <string>myWifi</string>
        </array>
    </dict>
    <dict>
        <key>Action</key>
        <string>Ignore</string>
    </dict>
</array>

But I cannot find it in the Apple Configurator 2! Here's the same file opened in the AC2:

Please tell me, how to configure it using AC2?


texts: Can I tell Photos I never want to use it with iCloud?

texts:
I have both iPhoto and Photos installed on my Mac and use both independently of each other. However, whenever I launch the Photos app I get the following prompt:

Is there a way for me to permanently tell Photos that I never want to use iCloud with Photos? I only want to use iCloud with iPhoto and worry that one day I will accidentally pick the wrong option when the above message appears.

—UPDATE—

Yes, I know that iPhoto is old software replaced with Photos.

I have a particular library I use with iPhoto because of a number of shared albums via iCloud and because one of my Macs cannot use Photos.

I do use Photos, but only with another library I never ever ever want to use iCloud with.

I am happy to only have one library connected with iCloud and that is my iPhoto library.

I am not familiar with Terminal (quite frankly it scares me) but if I can do this with terminal, please provide very clear instructions. That’s what my bounty is for. Any answer that can achieve what I want.

Thank you!


texts: iCloud cannot enable Calendar and Reminders at the same time

texts:
Recently to solve a problem I have been encountering related to iCloud, I had to sign out of iCloud and sign back in.

Normally I have all the options enabled except for mail. When I signed in I started enabling all of the features and came across a problem where if I were to attempt to enable Calendar while Reminders is enabled, Calendar would say the words "Setting Up" and a spinner would appear and the checkbox would be greyed in. After about 20 seconds the words, spinner and checkbox clear away leaving Calendar still disabled.

This works the other way around if Calendar is enabled first and I attempt to enable Reminders.

I have tried extremely basic things such as rebooting the system to clearing the cache files in the libraries but still nothing. Anyone got any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks!


texts:
I'm having trouble emptying the trash on Catalina.  FileVault is enabled.  Trying to empty from Finder warns X11R6 can't be modified or deleted because it's required by macOS.  It's a link to /opt/X11 which is a regular directory.

OK let's try in Terminal:

fifteen:.Trash elliott$ pwd; ls -al
/Users/elliott/.Trash
total 272
drwx------    4 elliott  staff     128 Nov 11 21:44 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 125 elliott  staff    4000 Nov 10 22:23 ..
-rw-r--r--@   1 elliott  staff  135172 Nov 11 21:44 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     wheel      96 Nov 11 21:42 Security

fifteen:.Trash elliott$ sudo rm -rf Security/
Password:
rm: Security//usr/X11R6: Operation not permitted
rm: Security//usr: Directory not empty
rm: Security/: Directory not empty

fifteen:.Trash elliott$ ls -l Security/usr/
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8 May 19 11:37 X11R6 -> /opt/X11

I have already given Terminal full disk access in System Preferences.

Checking the rm command with dtruss I see it fails here:

unlink(".Trash/Security/usr/X11R6\0", 0x0, 0x0)      = -1 Err#1
write_nocancel(0x2, "rm: \0", 0x4)       = 4 0
getrlimit(0x1008, 0x7FFEED8FA680, 0x0)       = 0 0
write_nocancel(0x2, ".Trash/Security/usr/X11R6\0", 0x19)         = 25 0
write_nocancel(0x2, ": \0", 0x2)         = 2 0
write_nocancel(0x2, "Operation not permitted\n\0", 0x18)         = 24 0

I also verified that this file is on the read-write Data partition:

sh-3.2# ls -l /System/Volumes/Data/Users/elliott/.Trash/Security/usr/
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8 May 19 11:37 X11R6 -> /opt/X11


texts:
I have charged this keyboard for an hour and turned it on, and it still won't show up on the bluetooth to pair it to the iPad I’m using, when I turn the magic keyboard on the light lights up green then flashes blue then it stops, I don’t know what that means,

Also, I don’t know what the button above the power button is for. This keyboard doesn't have a place to change batteries cause it stuck on a fabric that the keyboard doesn't come off, so it's like a book.


texts: is it safe to remove language files to save space in osx?

texts:
It seems like by removing Language Files I can save about 1.18Gb space.

I did a google on this and I find conflicting views regarding this.

I don't need these language files. I just want to confirm it is side-effect free


texts:
I have a Macbook Pro 15" Retina Mid 2014.
Off late, whenever i put my mac to sleep and when i try to wake it up, it doesnt! I need restart it, but then it takes lot of time and just hangs at the end with the Apple logo and the status bar as complete!
I then have to restart with Command+Option+p+r and then wait for 2 beeps and then finally it starts!
Any advise to sort this out would be really helpful!


texts: Are there alternative ways to interface with Mavericks tags?

texts: My company hosts quite a large amount of reference material (images, video, pdfs) on a server, and we're looking for a good way to organize these assets by tags. Searching for these tags in Finder is very slow.  Are there any other ways to interface with any of these tags/files?


texts: Why is the iCloud Photostream option not available in iOS preferences?

texts:
My iPhone 4 runs iOS 5.1.1.

When I go to settings > iCloud, the Photostream option is not available.
I've tried to restore my phone, but the option is still not available.

How can I activate this setting when it's missing from the preference?


texts: Found iclouddnsbypass.com pop-up when connected to personal hotspot

texts:
Today I'm trying to connect to my personal hotspot but a iclouddnsbypass.com pop-up appeared, the device is connected to WiFi but no internet connection.

My question is what is iclouddnsbypass.com and how it can be appeared on my mac even though I never install their apps. Could be someone trying to gain access to my WiFi using this tool?

Found similar situation https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7694703 but no answers.


texts: Run shell script by double clicking in non-login prompt in terminal

texts:
This question is super similar to this, but I'm curious how to launch the shell script in a non-login shell prompt. I already have it set up to run with iterm2 when I double-click. I don't really care if it uses iterm2 or Terminal, I can easily switch that if needed. I really am just interested in getting it to run in a non-login prompt.

I have my script set to run by dash (!#/usr/bin/env dash) but because it first starts up a zsh login prompt it sometimes prompts me things I don't want it to bother with (e.g., starting my ssh agent and asking if I want to update oh-my-zsh).

My guess (I might be wrong) is that if it started as a non-login prompt it wouldn't try to do these things. If it turns out that zsh non-login prompt still does this then I can probably set it up to run straight in dash in a similar way.


texts: When will Finder use large amount of memory?

texts:
Sometimes I see the iMac with 4GB of RAM having a few MB of swap file only, and after I left for a few hours and come back, the swap file is 2.7GB.

Looking into the Activities Monitor, the Finder is using 796MB.  How can it use so much memory -- could it be due to some "Search" that was left over in a Finder window?

I then chose File -> Close All (by pressing down the Option key while clicking File, and closed all Finder windows, only that it still won't close but just hidden, and looks like the only way is to reboot.  How can this situation be prevented?


texts: Prevent notifications on Mailbox app for Gmail's Social/Promotions/Updates emails

texts: I just switched over to the new Gmail inbox with the smartlabel filters. Now whenever a social, promotions, updates or forums email comes in I get a notification on iOS from the Mailbox app. Previously I would just get notifications for "real" inbox emails. How can I continue to only receive iOS notifications for these?


texts: Will iPhone App Update to new version will remove all the ratings?

texts: I plan to update my app with new features. If I publish a new version say V 1.0.1 then will I loose all my ratings from version 1.0.


texts: Connecting to Ubuntu 16.04 LDAPv3 server from macOS clients

texts:
I've been working on an Ubuntu 16.04 server that has LDAPv3 active via OpenLDAP, my client machines are all macOS from El Capitan upto High Sierra.

On the server I have the samba schema implemented, along with the apple schema implemented:

serveradmin@Magic:~$ sudo ldapsearch -Q -LLL -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -b cn=schema,cn=config dn
dn: cn=schema,cn=config
dn: cn={0}core,cn=schema,cn=config
dn: cn={1}cosine,cn=schema,cn=config
dn: cn={2}nis,cn=schema,cn=config
dn: cn={3}inetorgperson,cn=schema,cn=config
dn: cn={4}ppolicy,cn=schema,cn=config
dn: cn={5}samba,cn=schema,cn=config
dn: cn={6}apple,cn=schema,cn=config
serveradmin@Magic:~$

On my client machine I am able to connect to the LDAPv3 server from the Directory Utility by changing the connection type to RFC2307 and editing the base to be ou=People,dc=salty,dc=domain,dc=com. I can see my users in the Directory Editor:

I can connect to my file share over smb://<IP>. However, when I try to log in as one of my users it will not allow me to log in. The log files show something like the following:

<DATE> <TIME> CDT - AID 0x000..26 93.7657.7246, Node: /LDAPv3/10.0.1.57, Module ldap __odnode_copy_record_block_invoke: 4101: No predicates provided

or

<DATE> <TIME> CDT - AID 0x000..1042 394.3858, Node: /LDAPv3/10.0.1.57, Module: ldap - failed to retrieve password for credential

No matter what I do it seems like I keep getting the same error message. What is causing this problem, and how can I fix it?


texts: What is the latest version of OS X that I can run on a Black MacBook 4,1 (Early 2008 model?)

texts:
I would like to run OS X El Capitan on an older, black MacBook 4,1 (Early 2008 model with 2GB of RAM).

However, after looking at the El Capitan specifications, it appears that OS X 10.11 requires at least a "Late 2008 Aluminium" unibody MacBook.

My first question is:

Does anyone here have OS X 10.11 running on a MacBook 4,1?

Probably a more realistic second question is:

What is the latest version of OS X that I can get running on a MacBook 4,1 Early 2008 model?


texts: Is it possible to have more than one VPN active at a time on iOS?


texts: I have iCloud on more than one phone—my old iPhone 5c broke and the screen doesn't work. I now have a new phone with iCloud backed up and it works fine. I want to sell my old phone but they state that iCloud must be removed. How do I do this on icloud.com without wiping my other phone?


texts:
I've tried everything with keychain, and I can't get it to just leave me alone. It pops up and says it can't find a keychain to store something, giving me choices like "cancel" or "reset to defaults".

If I try "cancel", the same dialogue box pops up immediately. If I try "reset to defaults" it asks for my login password. I enter it, it tells me that it wants to use the "Local Items" keychain, asking for a password.

At this point I can enter a password (which it tells me is wrong) or click cancel which starts the loop over again.

Is there a way to get keychain to just leave me alone, always? Chrome does fine with my passwords, I don't think I need Apple to be involved in this at all.


texts: Can you edit the keywords for the emoji picker in Mojave?

texts:
TL;DR: Is there any way to edit the keywords for the emojis that show up in the character picker?

In the emoji-picker on Mojave (10.14.3) the keywords for filtering/selecting emoji via Cmd+Ctrl+Space typing and hitting Enter (described in this thread) seem to have changed — e.g.  is no longer present if you type joy (which is both in the literal emoji description, and happens to be the keyword on Slack, various other iOS keyboards etc.).

The emoji is still described as "face with tears of joy" in the emoji picker and character viewer:

But, if you type "joy" you get the joystick emoji. I thought it might be that the emoji name had to begin with the typed keyword, but "HEXAGRAM FOR THE JOYOUS LAKE" still shows up:

To get , you have to type laugh (or some variant thereof):

Is there any way to edit the keywords for the emoji that show up in the character picker?


texts: Is there a way to burn a Lion installation DVD-R from a new Mac mini or Macbook Pro?

texts:
I got a new Mac mini and Macbook Pro, and hope to burn a Lion installation DVD-R if it needs to be used in the future.

But I searched for any file greater than 1GB on the hard drive and didn't find any.  Since we can use command r to boot up a partition for reinstallation, is there a way to mount that partition and burn the image to a DVD-R?


texts: Sidecar: use tap gesture as "click" with a mouse

texts:
I'm using Sidecar with iPad Pro 11 and MacBook Pro 15 2016.

I noticed, that I could use Apple Pencil to interact with the interface elements on the second screen, e.g. open a new empty tab in Safari.

However, in order to scroll the page, I have to use the "two finger drag" gesture. This is inconvenient and I'd like to use "single finger tap" gesture to interact with elements on the screen, so that it would simulate a mouse click. How can I achieve this result?

The problem is that the switching between having a pencil on the screen or the two fingers is inconvenient and I'd like to either do both actions using gestures or with a pencil.


texts: MacBook Pro CPU temperature is over 90 degrees while playing video

texts:
I have MacBook Pro:

13-inch, Late 2011
2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 3000 384MB
OS X Lion 10.7.4

When it plays a video, the CPU temperature goes over 90 degrees celsius and the fan makes loud noises. Is this normal? Or should I change speed of fan and make it faster for better cooling?


texts:
I have a game app installed on my iPhone by the name of Odyssey. One of my friends likes it, and asked me to share it with him. I asked him to search by the name on the App Store, but he was unable to do so.

How do I share the app with him? Is there a quick and simple way to do so?

I am using an iPhone 8 and my friend is using an iPhone 7.


texts: Very low audio output to headphones on Macbook Pro Retina 13 inch

texts: I get great sound output to an external speaker with my Macbook Pro, however, when I output to headphones the sound diminishes greatly.  I have reset PRAM and the sound volume output improves, but only for a short time.  Settings all appear to be set properly.  I'm thinking there's a hardware problem.  This is why:  I have a monitor that I connect to my Macbook with an HDMI cable.  The monitor has a headphone jack.  If I plug my headphones into the monitor's headphone jack the sound output is great.  Any thoughts?  Thank you.


texts: diskutil verifyVolume / : POSIX reports: Exec format error

texts:
I'm having problems with my main system OSX volume.

When running sudo  diskutil verifyVolume  / :

$  sudo  diskutil verifyVolume  /
Password:
Started file system verification on disk1 OSX
Verifying storage system
Checking volume
disk0s2: Scan for Volume Headers
disk0s2: Scan for Disk Labels
Logical Volume Group 986FADEF-FEF3-428E-944A-82EBB8F38184 on 1 device
disk0s2: Scan for Metadata Volume
Logical Volume Group has a 24 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancy
Start scanning metadata for a valid checkpoint
Load and verify Segment Headers
Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
Load and verify Transaction Segment
Load and verify Transaction Segment
Incorporate 1 newer non-checkpoint transaction
Load and verify Virtual Address Table
Load and verify Segment Usage Table
Load and verify Metadata Superblock
Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
Load and verify 126F7B49-5C33-457F-B6AB-3A6CD220F151
Load and verify D073860B-299F-4146-B68B-7233BD5488CB
Load and verify Freespace Summary
Load and verify Block Accounting
Load and verify Live Virtual Addresses
Newest transaction commit checkpoint is valid
Load and verify Segment Cleaning
The volume 986FADEF-FEF3-428E-944A-82EBB8F38184 appears to be OK
Storage system check exit code is 0
Verifying file system
Using live mode
Performing live verification
Checking extents overflow file
Incorrect number of file hard links
Checking catalog hierarchy
Checking volume bitmap
(It should be 22232741 instead of 21777947)
File system check exit code is 8
Error: -69845: File system verify or repair failed
Underlying error: 8: POSIX reports: Exec format error

The error:

Checking volume bitmap
(It should be 22232741 instead of 21777947)
File system check exit code is 8
Error: -69845: File system verify or repair failed
Underlying error: 8: POSIX reports: Exec format error

Also tried:

    $  sudo  diskutil repairVolume  /
Error starting file system repair for disk1 OSX: Unable to unmount volume for repair (-69673)

So I tried it in recovery mode (Cmd+R on boot), but I have troubles getting past the encryption (diskutil coreStorage unlockVolume) giving me a generic error that it cannot unlock the volume.
Here my noobish OS-X volume management "skills" end.

The system works, overall, but I cannot resize the volume, for example and all volume checks end in mysterious errors, like the first one above, for example, which is unnerving.

Need help. TIA.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X 10.11.3


texts: iPhone has WiFI turned off, but router is asking ARP to IP

texts:
I am using wireshark to diagnose a WiFi problem at my house. I turn everything off, except me of course, and traffic looks normal.

However, when I turn my iPhone on, the router instantly starts sending ARP packets to the IP address. Even when I have WiFi turned off!

Why is this happening?


texts: Temporary files listed by lsof don't exist

texts:
I like copying flash videos for offline viewing later. I used to do this by loading the video in the browser (Firefox or Google Chrome), then running this command to see where the flash file was being cached:

lsof | grep ^Google | grep folders

This will show all the temporary files Google Chrome has open at the moment, for example:

...
Google    311 mike   21u     REG       14,1    262148 17819373 /private/var/folders/zz/zzTLi2haPMrCYxEbpkwFmS+++TI/-Tmp-/.com.google.chrome.p22bCa
Google    311 mike   22u     REG       14,1      9974 17819369 /private/var/folders/zz/zzTLi2haPMrCYxEbpkwFmS+++TI/-Tmp-/.com.google.chrome.MUo4JT
Google    312 mike  txt      REG       14,1      9974 17819369 /private/var/folders/zz/zzTLi2haPMrCYxEbpkwFmS+++TI/-Tmp-/.com.google.chrome.MUo4JT
Google    312 mike  txt      REG       14,1    262148 17819373 /private/var/folders/zz/zzTLi2haPMrCYxEbpkwFmS+++TI/-Tmp-/.com.google.chrome.p22bCa
... etc

None of the files exist, though:

$ ls /private/var/folders/zz/zzTLi2haPMrCYxEbpkwFmS+++TI/-Tmp-/.com.google.chrome.p22bCa
ls: /private/var/folders/zz/zzTLi2haPMrCYxEbpkwFmS+++TI/-Tmp-/.com.google.chrome.p22bCa: No such file or directory

Listing the directory doesn't show any files or directories like this existing:

$ ls -lA /private/var/folders/zz/zzTLi2haPMrCYxEbpkwFmS+++TI/-Tmp-/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 mike  staff  102 Jul 24 18:14 TemporaryItems
srwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff    0 Jul 24 12:10 com.apple.notify.206.32
srwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff    0 Jul 24 12:10 com.apple.notify.206.33
drwxr-xr-x  2 mike  staff   68 Jul 24 18:25 hsperfdata_mike

What's going on here? Why can't I access the temporary files?

Since my goal is to copy the flash file for later viewing, is there anything else I can do?


texts:
I'm using MBP and external monitor, keyboard and mouse. I'd like to be able to zoom in the text in Safari. Safari keyboard shortcuts for zooming text areCommand +/-. I would like to use Ctrl+scrolling with the mouse. This works in Windows 7 for instance.

Currently, Ctrl+scrolling is zooming the entire screen, not text.

Can I zoom text in Safari using a mouse?


texts: Problem "do shell script" on curl – Works in Terminal, but not via "do shell script"

texts:
I want to use "curl" with "do shell script" in an apple script. It already worked some months ago, but then the provider changed to https-only service.

So I update curl on Mac OS Terminal:

$ curl -V
curl 7.49.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0) libcurl/7.49.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2h zlib/1.2.8
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz TLS-SRP UnixSockets

So it works in Terminal and gives back the right answer:

But when I try to call the same command via do shell script in Apple Script it responds this:

So – is the problem, that curl in the do shell script environment isn't updated - and how could I do this? Or what is the problem?


texts: How can I password protect the web.me.com/USER?

texts: Mobile me users have web.me.com/USER to use it as a HTML server. Is there a way to password protect some/all of the contents?


texts: How do I get my S1300 scanner to show up in Yosemite Preview File > "Import from scanner" option?

texts:
I have a Fujitsu S1300, and a MacBook Pro 15″ with Yosemite.

My patience is running thin. I can scan using Fujitsu's software. But I can't using Preview.

But when I look at Preview > File > Import from Scanner, it's greyed out.

I've done all the things listed here.

And... there is paper in the loader. I'm connected directly to usb (no hub).

PS: I was inspired to use preview to scan from this article.


texts:
After I key in the code for pairing the remote app on iTunes, the app just shows "Looking for ..." for a long while, then says "could not find".

After that, the library seems to appear on the library screen of the remote app, but it doesn't have a name! There's an icon with no label below...

Pretty odd. Googling shows that many others are having similar issues, but no one seems to have a solution.

I've also tried to use "home sharing" to use the app, also doesn't work.

Any suggestions on how to solve this?


texts: In the past if I wanted to install Windows on Bootcamp, and then also use Parallels/VMware to open up the Bootcamp installation as a VM I would need two separate Windows licenses. Is this still the case with Windows 10?


texts: How can I fix Chrome 32.0.1700.77? CPU use and fonts issues

texts: I am on Mountain Lion (OS 10.8.5), and I am using Chrome 32.0.1700.77.  I notice that Chrome (the Google Chrome Helper to be precise) has developed the annoying habit of using ~ 10% of each CPU core (something it did not used to do), and the font rendering is increasingly erratic (i.e. Wikipedia or other pages change fonts as I scroll through a page).  These problems can be either on my computer or a seriously buggy release of Chrome (which did not have these problems for me).  If the former I'd like to have your opinion about a possible fix, if the latter I hope a new release of Chrome will come out soon...


texts: do artists get paid more for iTunes streams or Youtube streams?

texts:
The main ways I listen to music on my computer are via iTunes or Youtube.

Which method should I use if I want the artists I'm listening to get the most money from my listening activity?

(Apologies if this is not the best Stack exchange to ask it, of course please move the question if you think there is a more appropriate place it belongs.)


texts: OS updates on a MacBook without Apple ID

texts:
I am planning to use a MacBook without registering an Apple ID account. I don't need to install applications from app store, so it is not an issue. But I wan to receive OS updates.
Is it possible to receive OS updates when using a MacBook without having to sign in for Apple ID?


texts: When did the colon character : become an allowed character in the filesystem?

texts:
Just noticed it works on Maverick.. the colon character : is valid for file and directory names (I accidentally entered it for a filename in Atom).

Can't find any reference to it becoming valid though (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_File_System still marks it as invalid).

It works in the Atom editor.

I can create a file called : with nano.

This works echo 'test' > : && cat :

In TextWrangler it only works if the file already exists but won't create it (with command line tools installed edit :)

Is this new from Mavericks? Works in Yosemite? Before?

Edit: A few more tests:

TextEdit won't allow me to enter it and always replace it with -
Finder won't allow me to create a folder with the name :

A : file created via command line is displayed as / in Finder.. and double clicking it will open it in TextEdit. TextEdit will load its content but show the name / in the title bar.


texts: How can I have 1805 threads when I only have 4 virtual CPUs?

texts:
I was wondering if someone could explain to me how in my Activity Monitor it says that I currently have 1805 threads

But I only have 4 virtual cores on my computer (which means that I should only be able to have 4 threads). Does the thread count mean all the threads that are being handled by the CPUs when they are deciding which thread to execute?

EDIT: The reason I think that there can only be 4 threads on my machine comes from this answer. I believe that my misunderstanding stems from the word 'thread' being used in a different context.


texts:
I have an iPhone 5s (iOS8.4) and an MBP 2012 (10.10.4). I had this problem since Apple introduced Airdrop.

I set bot the MBP and iPhone Airdrop to "everyone". MBP sees the phone and can send all sorts of files.  The phone receives them fine, it prompts then I say yes.  The other way it does not work. The iPhone does not see the MBP. However, if I try hard enough, (including hard resets) it ends up working.

Now iPhone 5s - iPad mini 2nd generation work like a charm, both ways, and so does iPad mini 2nd generation - MBP.

My questions are

Is this expected? Does iPhone 5s have partial Airdrop support?
In general, how does Airdrop work under the hood?  Bluetooth? Ad-hoc wifi? Does it make a difference if the devices are on the same wifi network?


texts:
It just keeps giving the Update option, even after "updating" the app. Take a look at this video. Clicking the update button starts the process, but in the end, it reverts back to "update" instead of completing the process and becoming "open"

How do I update the app ?


texts: Can ffmpeg merge multiple m4a files into one ~chapterized~ file?

texts:
Given a folder full of 'm4a' files, I can merge them all into one big m4a file using ffmpeg like so:

ffmpeg -f concat -i <(for f in ./*.m4a; do echo "file '$PWD/$f'"; done) \
-c copy ../OUTPUT.m4a

However, what I would like to do is have OUTPUT.m4a contain chapters for each one of the original input files (each chapter just needs a number, not a name).

I have tried googling for this, but everything I have found seems to be about merging video files and MKVs, not m4a files.

Ideally, I would like to be able to do this via the command line, as I have 60+ folders, and would like to be able to script this rather than loading it into an app of some sort.

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: How to make spotlight index specific files immediately?

texts:
I have a lot of new files and the CPU is quite busy. When I just add a new file, the command mdfind won't find it immediately. I have to wait for some time (definitely longer than the time needed to index the file as the file is small.)

Once the file is successfully indexed, then I move the file out of the current directly, mdfind -only . still find the moved file but the path printed in the output is outside of .. So the spotlight index is not updated completely.

Is there a way to force the index to be updated immediately as least for certain user specified files and directories? Thanks.


texts: Are there apps that allow two iPhones to communicate directly without the need of any network?

texts: I would like to be able to use 2 iPhones as true walkie talkies in the middle of nowhere where there are no networks available. Is this possible? If so, would it be possible to use 3G for this?


texts: Looking for a decent time-tracking application for Mac

texts:
I am a freelance graphic designer and need to track the time spent on projects so I can bill my clients accordingly. There are a ton of services and applications out there but somehow none of them really fits.

Here's what I am looking for:

A stable desktop app. I don't want to do my time tracking in the browser.
Stop recording when screensaver or sleep mode starts.
A product I can buy, not a subscription service. I feel more comfortable and in control if I pay $100 upfront than pay $10 a month
An easy-to-use UI that tracks time by client, project and task.
Billing support is a bonus, but not necessary.

Here is what I don't need, so if the solution contains it, at least is shouldn't interfere with a simple workflow and efficiency:

Not necessary: Smartphone app, team collaboration, cloud.

All I want is a pay-once, stand-alone, well-supported and nicely designed time-tracking app. Do products exist in this space for OSX?


texts:
I have a problem that follows me from 2015 MacBook Pro with macOS Sierra → macOS High Sierra → macOS Mojave and now on to 2018 MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave.

I have configured two input sources: English and Russian, and I prefer to switch between them with Caps Lock key.

The problem: Some times switching does not work. I press Caps Lock key and the layout stays the same. I press it again and it still stays. Eventually, it gets changed but it takes 5-6 Caps Lock key press.

This happens in both cases, US → RU and RU → US.

I have Siri disabled.


texts:
When I open Terminal it shows this:

Last login: Fri Apr 1 17:04:59 on ttys000
-bash: export: /opt/local/bin': not a valid identifier
-bash: export::/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin': not a valid identifier
Josh@Macbook-Pro~$ export

I installed something yesterday and modified bash_profile. Now I cannot do anything in Terminal. Even "ls". It returns…

bash: ls: No such file or directory

How can I fix it?


texts: Bluetooth headset connected to Mac and iPhone: Cannot play music/music stops

texts:
I am encountering a weird bluetooth issue and even after extensive googling I don’t have so much of a start of an idea what is going on. Here is the situation:

I have a Jabra elite 65t headset which is paired with both my mac (mid 2018 hardware, latest mojave version) and my iphone as I use it for listening on both devices. When I take them out of the case and they turn on they always connect to both devices if they are in range (no matter if the mac is open and running or in standby mode). So far all good. When my mac is open and I am working on it I can listen to music on either device, do calls with my phone through the bluetooth headset no problem.
But when I am on the go and have my macbook in my backpack, pull out my earphones and they connect to both devices it is impossible to play music from my phone: The music player (tried apple music, spotify and soundcloud) indicates the music is playing but I don’t hear anything and after 0.5 seconds it switches back to paused. I can’t play anything until I open the macbook and disconnect the headphones/turn off bluetooth on the Mac. Sometimes my Mac also disconnects for a second and the reconnects with the headphones, in that case music also all of a sudden works again.
At first I thought it is a spotify issue but it affects all audio output of the phone which is linked to a play/pause, it’s as if the mac would always send a pause signal when I start playing music on the phone.

I have tried to prevent my mac from auto connecting to bluetooth headsets with the defaults command for that but my headphones still autoconnect.

I have no idea what is going wrong, any ideas?


texts: Where is the text expansion file located with OS X?

texts:
I'd like to give a colleague all of my text expansions without her having to re-enter them on her Mac. I was hoping to locate the file, then simply send her a copy to replace her own. (She doesn't use the feature.) I've searched the Library folder, but can't locate the file that contains the text expansion data.

Does anyone know where the file produced by System Preferences > Keyboard > Text is kept?


texts: Is there a list of Google Drive compatibility issues?

texts:
Is there a list of compatibility issues?

Has anyone any information on compatibility issues between Google Drive and other Mac software?

I would like to use Google Drive for Google Docs support, though I find it disappointing right now. Google Drive has been so troublesome that I had to abandon it and use Dropbox only instead.

My problems with Google Drive include:

regular crashes
losing all file and folder aliases (turned into blank files)
several formats where the file might get erased, i.e. turned into a 0 kb file (seems to affect resource forks for .webloc .textclipping .pictclipping)
long, buggy syncs that renamed several hundreds of files and folders (out of a 50GB folder) to WhateverName (1) – sometimes as a duplicate copy of the original, sometimes not.

Some of these crashes seem related to GitHub for Mac, perhaps because of swaps between visible and invisible files when switching branches.

Other crashes could relate to my use of TotalFinder, an application that modifies the Finder.

Do you have more information on such a problem?

My SE and Google searches were inconclusive.


texts:
Is there a plugin, or some third party solution that I can install on OSX to get EAS support for native calendars and contacts apps?

I'd like to add "internet accounts" in the settings for my hotmail calendars and contacts, which use EAS (Exchange ActiveSync).


texts: How can I get Time Machine to ignore the data created by Spotlight?

texts: I would like Time Machine to ignore the indexes and other metadata created by Spotlight, where are those kept on 10.6?


texts: Custom app keyboard shortcuts: different commands with the same name

texts:
I've created some custom keyboard shortcuts for Sketch within system preferences:

I'd like to create some additional shortcuts, but what do I do when the commands have the same name within the dropdowns? e.g. there are multiple commands called 'Left' depending on which dropdown you use, see one here:


texts:
I made some optical character recognition on a scanned PDF File. The original document contains special characters like öäü and so on. The problem is that sometimes the characters get recognized wrong (ex. ö=u), Preview will then let me highlight the character image ö but when copying the character it will output u.

Can Preview show me what the actual recognized characters are without the Image?


texts: Copy files from a hard drive onto an iMac?

texts:
I had an old Mac 5.1 that now, sadly, broke down. Now I still have the SSD, can I completely copy everything (including OS etc.) onto the new iMac I bought? I have an USB/Hard Drive connector.
I also don't want to completely replace the new SSD in my new iMac, because it has more capacity.


texts: Failed to run VirtualBox on macOS 11 Big Sur


texts: Screenshots and screen sharing have a yellow tint that doesn't match my actual screen output

texts:
Screenshots and screencasts taken on my Macbook Air (Sierra 10.12.2) have a yellowish tint to them which doesn't match the actual display output on the screen itself. It's very odd.

For example, here's a screen grab of this page:

...and here's some screenshot-ception to show that the screenshot is yellower than the thing it's of and how screenshots within screenshots get progressively yellower:

Three levels deep, and the bar which appeared neutral grey on my screen is now almost pure yellow from being yellowed by screen capture three times:

You get the idea. Something is adding yellowness to my screenshots.

Changing my display profile changes the appearance on the screen quite a lot, but barely changes the yellowness of the screenshots. These three all looked very different when I took the screenshots (the last one was almost blue), but the screenshots are all almost the same yellow:

With the last one selected, Adobe RGB, all the screenshots look okay on my screen, but everything else looks tinted blue and they still look yellow to everyone else.

The same thing happens if I share my screen - people I'm sharing my screen with say "Why is your screen so yellow?", and I have no answer for them.

What could be modifying the screenshots and screen shares in this way, and how can I stop it doing it?


texts: Can I connect my Time Capsule wirelessly to my mobile router?

texts:
I've just received a router with my new internet access. This router is wireless only and therefore has no ports except for power.

How can I connect my Time Capsule to this router now that I can no longer connect it directly through a network cable?

Using the AirPort Utility, I've tried to choose the Wireless Network Mode: Extend a wireless network. Even though I provided the correct settings for the existing wireless network my Time Capsule doesn't extend it and there's no wireless connection to my wireless router. It just keeps blinking orange...


texts: "Photos cannot load adjustments for this image" error since upgrading to Catalina

texts:
Steps to reproduce:

Migrate large photos library from a MacBook 2016 running Photos Mojave to a MacBook 2020 running Photos Catalina (in my case 120,000+ photos)

A subset of photos (in my case 10,000+ photos from 2016/2017) cannot be edited: when you click on the edit button you get "Cannot start editing: Photos cannot load adjustments for this image"

Hypothesis: it is likely that the affected photos where previously edited with Aperture and/or earlier versions of iPhoto.

I have already tried all of the following: repair library, boot in safe mode. Nothing helped.

Related discussion forum threads (all of these threads were closed due to lack of activity, cannot be re-opened, and offer no solution)
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250932769
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250852440
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250870058
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250771558
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251094038
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251245094
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251602029
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251036700
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251382514
Maybe it is related to this: "In June 2014, Apple announced that development of Aperture has been discontinued. Since then, Apple has released six major macOS upgrades. For technical reasons, macOS Mojave is the last version of macOS to run Aperture. Starting with macOS Catalina, Aperture is no longer compatible with macOS."
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209594
I suspect (but am not 100% sure) that the affected photos in migrated photo library were at some point edited by Aperture.
Just to be clear: I am not trying to edit any photos using Aperture on Catalina. I had already migrated all my photos from Aperture to Photos back on Mojave (or earlier) before I migrated from Photos on Mojave to Photos on Catalina.
Update 1: Apple tech support has escalated this issue to Apple engineering on 13-Aug-2020
Update 2: I was able to determine a difference in the plist for a "bad" photo (= affected by the issue) and a "good" photo (= not affected by the issue):
Good photo:
adjustmentEditorBundleID = com.apple.Photos (upper case P)
adjustmentFormatVersion = 1.5

Bad photo:
adjustmentEditorBundleID = com.apple.photos (lower case p)
adjustmentFormatVersion = 1.4

Hypothesis: the photos that were edited in Aperture and migrated to Photos (years before the migration from Mojave to Catelina) have adjustmentFormatVersion 1.4 and I suspect that Catalina Photos cannot parse adjustmentFormatVersion 1.4 since support for Apterture was removed.
Or maybe, Photos is confused by the uppercase P versus lowecase p (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7688379/is-bundle-id-case-sensitive)
Update 3:
While debugging the issue, I discovered another and likely more important difference between "good" and "bad" post-migration photos on the new MacBook 2020 running Catalina:

"good" photos have a JPEG file somewhere in the originals directory in the Photos library.

"bad" photos do NOT have a JPEG file somewhere in the originals directory in the Photos library.

Also, I found some interesting differences in the pre-migration photos on the old MacBook 2016 running Mojave:

"good" photos have:

path = empty
ismissing = True

"bad" photos have:

path = a fully qualified path pointing somewhere into the Masters/<year>/<month>/<day>/<timestamp>/... directory in the photos library
ismissing = False


texts: Folder with question mark when booting including recovery partition on MacBook Pro 2010

texts:
I have an old MacBook Pro (2010) whose hard drive was long dead. I recently had to replace the hard drive in my 2012 MacBook Pro; it wasn't dead yet, but had a bad block. I use the laptop for work, so I bought a new one. Anyway, I decided to try and install the old, bad block drive in the old MacBook 2010.

I got the folder/flashing question mark, so tried option key at startup. That gives me the Recovery partition, which I can select. However, once I do so, I'm back to the folder/question mark. Wondering if because the drive in question had OS X Mavericks on it, it's not playing nice with the 2010 MacBook Pro's architecture/motherboard/etc?

Anybody have any ideas as to what I can do here? Would like to give the laptop to my daughter if I can get it working.


texts:
In iTunes and on iPods (excluding the most recent Nano) there is an option to playback a playlist shuffled by album. This option does not exist in "Music.app" on iOS-devices. However, since you can play a playlist in order I was thinking that it would be possible to emulate the shuffle by album-behaviour if you somehow managed to sort the playlist in a random by album order and then just play it from the first track with shuffle disabled. This raises two questions:

What determines the sorting order for a playlist on an iOS-device?
Can you somehow (maybe with an Applescript) sort a playlist in iTunes in a shuffle by album order?


texts: I have Vmware Fusion 4 on my Mac. I used it for work for awhile and had windows 7 installed and was joined to a AD Domain. When I left the company I had to un-join it from the Domain. Now, I cannot delete files that were shared between the mac (iOS 6) and Windows. How can I change the permissions so I can clean up my mac?


texts: Macbook pro, disk utility and external hard drive

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro running on Lion.  My external hard drive is a Buffalo and used as data backup only, and is formatted to Macs.

I have used the ext. hard drive for two years with no issues. I am considering running "disk utility" (specifically "verify disk") to check its health.  Is there a minimum or maximum amount of times you can run it on an external hard drive?  I am aware of the different types of software you can buy, but running "disk utility" on an external hard drive is my only option right now.


texts: Archived mail keeps reappearing in Inbox on OS X

texts:
I have a problem with Mail in OS X El Capitan (10.11.5).
If I archive messages from my Inbox, go to another folder, then back to my Inbox, the messages are there again.
Quitting mail and starting it again doesn't solve this..
I rebuilt the mail database by deleting the Envelope Index files from /Users//Library/Mail/V3/MailData/, but that didn't solve the problem either.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, Richard

ps I know there's a comparable thread on this forum, but it's specifically about Mail on the iPhone and Gmail.


texts:
Before El Capitan I used to enable pfctl at boot by adding -e to the start up parameters.

In /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.pfctl.plist

<string>/sbin/pfctl</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
    <string>pfctl</string>
    <string>-e</string>                <---- this line
    <string>-f</string>
    <string>/etc/pf.conf</string>
</array>

Now I am not able to edit the file anymore (because of System Integrity Protection).

Is there a way to achieve the same without disabling System Integrity Protection?


texts:
In IOS8 it was possible to scrub through videos without first pressing the play button.   In IOS9 it seems that the only way to access the scrubbing tool is to first start playing the video and then the scrubbing tool becomes available.

Anyone with a workaround for getting to scrubbing quicker?


texts: How to manage my own reviews and ratings in Mac App Store?

texts: Is there such an option in Mac App Store? I know in iTunes Store we can manage reviews and ratings in personal account.


texts:
I have a DMG which I downloaded using Safari. When I double click it, the volume mounts but it doesn't open in a new Finder window.

Any idea why this would happen, and how I can fix the DMG so that it does? (PS - I've created the dmg and hope to distribute it, but it not auto-opening sucks)


texts: Is there a way I can obtain Mavericks without having to download?

texts: My Wifi connection is not stable enough to be able to download 5.3 Gb. Is it possible to download from a thumb-drive? Does the Apple store sell Mavericks on a thumb-drive?


texts: Application "Preview" is not letting me mail a pdf

texts: Why can't I share a pdf file from the Application Preview and mail it in Yosemite?


texts: How to change credit card data for Apple ID?

texts: How can I change my credit card data? My credit card was stolen and I want to use a new one for paying apps. I don't know how to do that.


texts: How much RAM does the 6th generation iPod touch have?

texts: I would expect to have the same as the iPhone 6 - 1GB since it also has an A8. How much does it have?


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch the cursor between panels of iPad split screen?

texts: Is there a way to switch back and forth between two functionalities open in split screen easily on the iPad?


texts: Wifi failing after update to 10.15.5 - Macbook Pro 15 (2018)

texts:
I after an update to 10.15.5 or even 10.15.4, my WiFi has periodically been failing.

At first, I thought it could be my internet or access point.

At failure, I would test with my mobile phone on the same network using a speed test app. My mobile phone always had connectivity and faster speeds (about 40mbs)

I tried my iPad with the same results.

Internet would fail for 30-60 seconds then come back.

Finally, I have plugged directly into ethernet and I am consistently getting 180mbs

As a side note: I am running SONOS and it never drops. It is on WiFi.

I am using Google WiFi with 4 access points. I am getting a "Great" signal on all 4 WiFi access points.


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Please, does anyone know whether Macbook (2015) with MacOS Sierra (10.12) is able to drive Dell P2415Q 4K (3840x2160) monitor at 60Hz? What dongles do I need?

I have USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter which is said to support "UHD (3840 by 2160) at 30Hz". But Apple's Using 4K displays, 5K displays, and Ultra HD TVs with your Mac states:

  With macOS 10.12 or later, MacBook (2015 and later) and MacBook Pro (2016 and later) support these resolutions and refresh rates over HDMI 1.4b using the USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter:

  4096x2304 at 48Hz refresh rate
  3840x2160 at 60Hz refresh rate (mirroring is not supported at this resolution)

  MacBook (2016 and later) and MacBook Pro (2016 and later) support 60Hz refresh rates over HDMI when used with a supported HDMI 2.0 display, an HDMI Premium Certified cable, and a supported USB-C to HDMI 2.0 adapter.

So I'm confused now: would it work somehow? Would it work over HDMI? Would it work over DisplayPort? Is the adapter I have suitable?


texts: Switch between two devices on one Thunderbolt Display

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I'm using a Late 2011 Mac mini with High Sierra on a Thunderbolt Display, connected by a Thunderbolt cable to the Thunderbolt port on the back side of the display.

My wife has a Mid 2015 MacBook Pro, which she wants to use on the Thunderbolt Display when I'm at work. For the connection to the MacBook Pro I´m using the fixed power/Thunderbolt cable from the display.

I'm looking for a way to switch between the two devices when both are connected to the Thunderbolt Display.


texts: Apple Wireless Keyboard on Windows PC - How to make FN and Eject keys work?

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I have Apple Wireless Keyboard (A1255, from 2007, US English layout) and I want to use it on non-Apple, Windows PC. But I have two problems.

Firstly, Windows does not detect when "fn" and "eject" is pressed on.
Secondly - I want to rebind/swap these keys: "fn" to "control" (and "left control" to "fn") and "eject" to "delete".
I installed BootCamp on my machine but it has not changed anything.

Thanks for any help.


texts: PDF in iBooks is blank but text is shown in magnifying glass

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After reading about 20 pages of data mining book in iBooks, next page rendered itself as blank. And all successive pages failed too.

When I go to arbitrary (usually blank) page, then return to library and reopen book, the page in question sometimes shows its content. But all other pages are blank as clean paper.

Oddly, there is a text on a page indeed. It's just not visible! If I use magnifier glass on a blank page, it reveals underlying text. (And no, I can't read the entire book this way:)

Some facts:

Restarting application or iPad does not make any changes to this behaviour.
The file renders just fine in desktop Adobe Reader.
iOS 5.1.1, seems to be quite "old", but I have never encountered such issue. (Viewed at least several hundred documents)
PDF version is 1.4, no any extraordinary protection.

How to fix the issue, or what other things to check?


texts: Not booting after replacing the SuperDrive with SSD

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I am having trouble after replacing my iMac's SuperDrive with a Solid State Drive (SSD).

I kept the original Hard Disk Drive (HDD) in place. I configured the SDD as the main startup disk and I transferred all the libraries in HDD.

The malfunction is that in the process of rebooting the iMac turns off.

Booting into safe mode the Disk Utility shows the new SSD drive is full, although before rebooting it has used only 90GB out of 480GB. I do the same procedure again, clean install of macOS 10.12, and again the same problem. Any ideas please for solution of this malfunction?

I have to say that if I do not reboot the iMac, it runs excellently, and the SSD drive has the same empty capacity 90GB used out of 480GB.

iMac 21" 2009/late. SSD Kingston 480Gb / macOS 10.12, Sierra.


texts: Access to full FaceTime and Continuity-enabled phone call log (call history) on a Mac

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The Mac's FaceTime application, as of macOS Sierra, presents a very simplified call log (call history) in its main window:

For any given contact,

only a (time-stamped) SINGLE entry for the MOST RECENT conversation is shown,
WITHOUT indicator as to whether the call was INCOMING or OUTGOING.

Only missed calls (printed in red) imply the call direction (they're by definition incoming).

WITHOUT information about the DURATION of the (most recent) call.

With phone calling via Continuity enabled, iPhone-mediated calls are shown in the same fashion.

Contrast this with the iOS 10 Phone app, which shows a full call log.

Is there a way to gain access to the full call log on a Mac, providing all the information that the iOS Phone app exposes?

Note: Ideally, there'd be a way to access the full call log from within the FaceTime application (I don't think there is), but I'm open to any Mac-based solution (physically accessing the iPhone that mediates the phone calls is not an option).


texts: Since yesterday, my Macbook Pro early 2013 running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 beta has been randomly shutting down. After shutting down, it would take several tries for it to boot up and login, but then it displays this error message every time I login (see picture attached). I already tried resetting both PRAM and SMC, but the problem still occurs. Booting into safe mode wouldn't work when I pressed shift after the boot chime sound came (safe mode worked before this problem). Is there a way to fix this?


texts: apple.local Dock[255]: ECFileOperationRevealURL failed with -43

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Cmd+click on any file can reveal them in Finder but now takes no effect.

I reviewed the console log and found following error:

May  2 00:14:12 apple.local Dock[255]: ECFileOperationRevealURL(file://localhost/Users/suyejun/Downloads/code/) failed with -43

I installed PathFinder and uninstalled it after I found this error. But the error still exits.

I'm sure that before installing PathFinder, the functionality is ok.

How can I fix this? Thank you.

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)


texts: IOS 13.1.3 does not have a sync over wifi button on my phone, what do i do

texts: I have never tried to sync over wifi, but I have followed online directions, problem is, under my general settings there is no option to sync over wifi. It seems the button should be located next to VPN but its not there, has it moved? I have searched all through my phone settings, I cant find it


texts: Macbook Pro Retina – "Battery Is Not Charging"

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My Retina MacBook Pro is currently on 4% battery power, but when I plug it in, the battery icon up the top shows the plug icon instead of the lightning bolt icon inside it to say it's charging and stays on the same 4%. How can I fix this so that my laptop charges fully?

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texts: Updated XCode to 7.0.1 via the app store but it still shows itself at 6.4 in the app and missing the new features

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I tried to update Xcode to 7.0.1 today and it told me that I needed to get OS X 10.10.4 or greater (I had 10.10.3). I agreed to that update, but it didn't update OS X and has now marked XCode as being at 7.0.1 in the App Store. However if I go into XCode it still shows 6.4 and lacks the new features like iOS 9 in the simulator.

So I had it do the OS update to 10.10.5 and let it do the reboot and install process. It came back up and it still shows that XCode is at 6.4 in the application itself, but as updated in the App Store.

What gives? Any idea how to get it to actually update?


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I have a MacBook Air 11-inch early 2015. I recently updated it to Catalina. Everything seems to work fine apart from one annoyance.

For some reason, Command + S stops working in all apps. It will work for several hours then stop without warning. (It's happening right now and I've tested it with Sublime, Safari, Terminal and Mail.) To fix it, I have to reboot the laptop.

The S key on my keyboard is fine, and Command + C and Command + V keyboard shortcuts work as expected.

I have no idea at all why Command + S doesn't work. Any ideas?

Update

It's happened again. It looks like a single app might have been causing it. I've narrowed it down to three possible candidates.


texts: Read/Edit Textedit icloud files on an iPad

texts: Does any one of you know a solution to either read or edit on an iPad files stored with Textedit on iCloud ?