texts: What variable in the operating system determines the fans in OS X?

texts:
Right now my fans have been spinning for a couple of hours.

However, the cpu usage is low, nothing seems to be running, spotlight is not indexing, all the diagnostics i can think of tell me not much is happening except i have a few connections open.

I know the fans turn on because of heat, and indeed the heat is high on my laptop right now.  Yet, I don't see an actual cause for this.  What am I missing in my search?


texts: lpr fails to print asking for manual paper feed

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I use macOS High Sierra with a HP LaserJet Pro M12w printer. I can print regularly from macOS applications. However, when I print from lpr, the file remains enqueued with a message asking “Load paper in the manual feed tray”.

Note that the printer has only one tray.

With lpoptions -l I've found:

InputSlot/Media Source: *Manual

Which means the default is Manual, and it is also the only option (there is not an Auto option), so I suppose this is the problem (the other options are reasonable and reflect the current printer settings).

I tried to change that setting from the lpoptions command, but it does not change (probably because there is only one value), while from the UI (for instance from the print dialog of applications) there no possibility of changing the input slot (probably because there is only one option).

I suppose that the problem is generated in the ppd file for the printer, where the are the two lines:

*DefaultInputSlot: Manual
*InputSlot Manual/Manual Feed: "<</MediaPosition 4>>setpagedevice"

I'm not sure if this idea is correct, and I'm afraid of modifying that file.

Any idea on how to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.


texts: The check mark for documents in iCloud keeps disappearing on my desktop

texts: How can I get the check mark to say on the documents box in iCloud? When I click "Done" and exit out, then go back in, the check mark is removed. This is frustrating! How can I get it to stay?


texts: What's the difference between the OS X version and build numbers?

texts:
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, from a software and hardware perspective, what's the difference between the OS X version and build numbers?

Example: Version 10.10.3 (14D136)


texts: Cannot enter Recovery mode in order to csrutil disable

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I'm trying the GPU fix. I formatted and drive and installed Sierra onto the HD (not High Sierra because apparently the latest version has issues with this fix).

I can't enter recovery mode. Cmd + R brings me to internet recovery only. It did this before when I originally had High Sierra . So I installed regular Sierra on there and I still have the same problem. It brings me to internet recovery only. Holding option does not show a recovery drive.

Could it be an issue with how I formatted the drive?
Here are some pics:

https://imgur.com/NimjKDW
https://imgur.com/t6wN508


texts: Is it possible to create a Mac-Based Distro?

texts:
ElemenataryOS is a linux distro.

But I like things like Hammerspoon. Is it possible to make an OSx distro? With custom stuff like custom apps installed?

Then I can re-install things quickly on all my OS devices.


texts:
I have a client SSL certificate for authentication. I'm trying to map it to a URL in Chrome on OSX, however the Chromium documentation is of no use.

I have no idea what file to put the AutoSelectCertificateForUrls preference in. My guess is it will be some file in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default, based on this.

Best I can do is find some random files with .json extensions via find. They're all extensions and have bizarre paths, e.g.

  Default/Extensions/pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia/7_1/_locales/nl/messages.json

Can someone tell me what file to put the AutoSelectCertificateForUrls setting in?


texts: Why is my external hard-drive is not appearing (most of the time)

texts:
I recently bought an external hard-drive, Western Digital 4GB, and I have a MacBook-pro 2015 (15inch).

When I received the hard-drive, it worked like a dream, I just re-formatted it to apple's file system (non-encrypted). One time the USB cable got accidentally knocked out the left side, and then from then on, if I plugged the hard-drive in the left USB, it wouldn't show up. So I started using the right side USB, no problem. And then a week later, the same thing happened, accidentally knocked the cable out, and from then on, it wouldn't show up.

I have an external USB hub (USB powered), and now that is the only way I can use the external drive, (most of the time), it usually appears with a 1/5 chance, but once appeared, it is stable. This is not due to the USB hub, as I have two other 4TB hard-drives in a 5 bay 3.5" enclosure.

How can I remedy this problem? The drive does not show up in the Disk Utility program, nor does it show up under USB in the System Information program, nor does it show up with $ diskutil list, nor does in show up in /Volumes. I thought it might be a cache problem, maybe Mac does some caching of hard-drives used, etc.., so I removed the cache's from /Library and /System.

I'm a programmer, so any command-line solutions are very welcome.


texts: How would I force Mac App Store to save my password indefinitely, rather than for 15 minutes?

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I'd like to either force App Store to save my password, or have it automatically entered (just for the Mac App Store password prompt) when it asks for my password. I want this because "require after 15 minutes" is far too limiting, since it's a pain to get my password. How can I force App Store to extend the duration of saving to indefinite, despite that it's designed to save the password for 15 minutes?

Note that I know this isn't the case for free apps. I want to purchase apps without having to enter my password. Is there a way to do this?


texts: How do I monitor bandwidth use of specific websites?

texts:
I'm using Chrome on SnowLeopard.  I use the www a lot.  I want to monitor how much bandwidth I use for all SE sites in one month.  I don't care how much bandwidth is used on any other website.

What is the easiest way to do this?

Best answer will be an accurate tool to measure; but a reasonable estimate is acceptable too.


texts:
I have been working on my scenario for a week on textedit, and this morning while I was making correction my file disappeared, while the other textedit files that were open remained on-screen.

I can't find the file anymore. I have tried the library autosave and there was nothing. When I looked in /private/var/folders there are files that correspond to the time this error happened, but they are forbidden from access.

How can I get my textedit file back?


texts: Orange smudge/splotch near edge of screen on MacBook Pro

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I have a Macbook Pro w/ Touch Bar, and on the corner of my screen there is a dark orange discoloration. It appears every now and then in different locations of the screen and then dissipates with time.

I want to know if this is normal or something that I need to fix.


texts:
I am running a 2019 macbook pro with GIMP 2.10 installed

For some reason, gimp's windows will stay open, even after the app is quit

how can I close these windows?


texts: Four 4k simultaneous playbacks from new Macbook Pro?

texts: Is the new 15" Macbook Pro 2018 capable of playing four 4k videos on four 4k displays simultaneously?


texts: Where can I get Python VTE bindings for the Mac OS X?

texts:
I'm trying to comiple Guake top-down terminal (guake.org) in Mac OS X. I've met a bunch of dependency issues while ./configure phase, but now I'm completely stuck with the following dependency issue:

checking for the python-vte package... no
configure: error: cannot import Python module "vte".
    Please check if you have python-vte installed. The error was:
    No module named vte

I've installed python, pygtk and vte via Homebrew but can't find anything related to python-vte, pip doesn't give me any suitable candidates. I've spent a lot of time while have been googling how to resolve this dependency and didn't find any references of python VTE bindings sources but saw many prebuilt packages for other OSes (http://packages.debian.org/ru/sid/python-vte).

Did anybody meet this issue before or just knows how to resolve it?
Thanks.

PS: Sorry for my intermediate English..


texts: macOS - Difference between /Library/Preferences/ & /Library/Managed\ Preferences

texts:
Just for my learning and knowledge purpose why some .plist files are saved inside of /Library/Preferences/ and some others are saved inside of /Library/Managed\ Preferences?
Basically what is the purpose of differentiate the location of .plist among these two specific directories?
Side Note: the macOS system is managed by an MDM solution.
Thanks


texts: Slow Mac mini (mid 2011) no hardware issues, no software issues

texts:
Mac Mini mid 2011 (5,1) 2.3 GHz i5, 2 GB ram running 10.12.1 with 149/500 GB free.

In application monitor everything (memory, disk, network, cpu usage) is nominal.

Disk check (Cmd+R at boot) - Passed

Hardware test (opt+D at boot) - Passed.

On boot the screen goes white after 45 seconds (half of the boot loading bar) and the dock shows up after about 5 minutes. The top bar take lot longer.

Safe mode - still slow as molasses. 78 seconds to launch a new Finder window. Over 5 minutes for System Preferences. Over 5 more to launch any of said preferences (if they don't fail to open)

Already reset the SMC and PRAM. Turned off all spotlight indexing though that wouldn't affect safe mode. Nothing plugged in besides a keyboard, mouse, monitor and Ethernet cable. Tried single sticking each RAM module. Really banging my head against the wall here. Even ssh'ing in from another machine on the network is a drag. 'ls' of a directory with 12 files takes 4 seconds.

Oh and Console keeps crashing. Because of course.

Could anyone recommend a next step?

EDIT: output of vm_stat after a fresh boot into safe mode

Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes)
Pages free:                                3827.
Pages active:                            103786.
Pages inactive:                          100841.
Pages speculative:                         3730.
Pages throttled:                              0.
Pages wired down:                        118363.
Pages purgeable:                              0.
"Translation faults":                   4213483.
Pages copy-on-write:                    1353750.
Pages zero filled:                       779909.
Pages reactivated:                       566180.
Pages purged:                              9028.
File-backed pages:                        69729.
Anonymous pages:                         138628.
Pages stored in compressor:              526296.
Pages occupied by compressor:            193246.
Decompressions:                          310835.
Compressions:                           1264824.
Pageins:                                 837784.
Pageouts:                                  1602.
Swapins:                                   2409.
Swapouts:                                  3813.


texts: Download icloud photo library without paying?

texts:
I wanted to disable the iCloud photo library and the information said that I could still download my photos for 30 days, so I did. After disabling the library I got an email with the instructions to download the photos to the Photos app on my Mac.

However, it seems that the only way to download the backup of my photos is to reactivate the iCloud photo library for which now I have to upgrade my iCloud plan and pay. I just want to download a backup of my photos and be done with iCloud.

I wasn't told upfront that if I wanted to download a backup of the photos during those 30 days I would have to pay for an upgrade plan I don't want.

How do I do this without having to pay/upgrade to a plan that I don't want?


texts:
On my iPad as well as on my iPhone, after I updated to iOS 13, I started to observe following issues:

The artwork that I had painstakingly added to all my albums was just gone from some. The artwork is present in iTunes (pre-Catalina) and Music app on the Mac but it does not show anymore in iPhone or iPad.
The more sinister one was that some songs were showing on iPad and iPhone, but when I'd click on the song to play it, it would skip and play the next song in the list. If I'd put that one missing song on repeat, nothing would play.

For long time I did not even notice this. It came to surface when I selected a song in CarPlay and the phone started playing the next. Later I realized it was happening with many songs.

What's the fix?


texts: How to change boot picture of Windows partition?

texts:
On a MacBook with Bootcamp installed, I got three partitions:

OS X 10.10
Windows 10
OS X Recovery

On boot, with 'alt' key down, I get the bootloader and I can choose which partition to boot.

On this screen, how to change the Windows (or OS X Recovery) picture?


texts: Is there any possible way to program a LPC1768 Microcontroller(using ULINK-ME) on macOS?

texts:
Hardware: Keil LPC1768 development board.
macOS 10.14
Flashing/Programming device: Keil ULINK-ME (USB-JTAG adapter)

I have tried the VS Code extension platformIO and mbed Studio(standalone), but none seem to find the connected board/flashing device ULINK-ME.

I have tried the same on a Windows VM running on VMware Fusion with the Keil IDE, that does all of the flashing stuff and that worked, but I would really love to get it natively running on macOS.

macOS seems not to mount the board under /dev/tty.* or anything like that, like probably Linux would do.

If any questions arise about my setup, please comment, so that I can update this post.

I appreciate any proper constructive help.
Best regards.


texts: Using terminal to get current fan speed?

texts:
I would like to view the current fan speeds of my MacBook and iMac using terminal. I've found that running spindump then cat /tmp/spindump.txt | grep "Fan speed" will show it, but that's very slow and processor intensive. I would like a faster and more efficient way of doing it.

I'd rather not install 3rd party software, but I will if it's the only way.

Does anyone have any suggestions to how I might accomplish this?

Thanks


texts: My setup (OSX 10.13.6) appears to have two installations of Qt5: one in /Library/Frameworks (/Library/Frameworks/QtCore.framework, /Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework, etc.), but I also have one installed by brew at /usr/local/Cellar/qt/5.13.0. Is it a good idea to have Qt at two locations? Is it a good idea to remove the one at /Library/Frameworks and keep the one brew installed?


texts: Using an iPad for doing web development and programming

texts:
The iPad is my preferred computing device when I'm on the go, be it commuting or traveling. Sometimes I've got a Bluetooth keyboard with me, and sometimes I don't. So this may be crazy, but I would like to use my iPad for full-fledged web development and programming, and want I to know what my options are.

Cloud9 seems to be nearly perfect for this in concept except for a fatal flaw: the web interface does not fully work with iPad browsers Safari or Chrome. You cannot, for example, double click to open files.

What other options do I have? Ideally I would like to have command line access to my editor of choice (Vim), and be able to use web debugging tools like the developer tools in Chrome.


texts: How to delete synced photos from iPhone without connecting to mac?

texts:
I have synced a folder which contains some pictures to my iPhone. The synced photos are successfully copied to my iPhone. But I can not see any "delete" option in my iPhone to remove the synced photos.

The "Camera Roll" which has the pictures that I took via the iPhone's camera have an option "delete" in the bottom of the picture. But synced photos does not have that delete button.

Should I use iTunes/Mac to delete synced photos? Can't I delete the synced photos with a single touch?


texts: I have a mid-2012 MacBook Air, and the Service Battery alert is showing

texts: My 13" Macbook Air recently started showing the "service battery" alert. It's the mid-2012 model, and is still under Apple Care. The alert seems to appear mainly when I'm running off the battery. Is this a battery issue or a bug in the system?


texts:
I've noticed that when a family members iPhone 4S connects to the WiFi, the general internet slows to a crawl, i.e. a normal ping to bbc.co.uk would give me 25ms, but when her phone is connected, it rises to 1000+ms.

I have no idea to check what app may be causing this or what service on the phone might be causing this.

All ideas welcome.


texts:
I am on a early 15" Macbook Pro Retina Display with dual Intel 4000 and Geforce 650M GPU.

I know the early MBP 2013 doesn't natively support it. However I was told by this forum and others (posting screenshots with 4K@60hz) that there is a workaround where I am able to achieve 4K at 60hz or at least 50hz.

I already bought the Mini Displayport 1.2 to HDMI 2.0a active adapter and a 4K monitor.

I use SwitchResX and I have done the pixel clock patch.

I just can't get over 30hz in 3840x2160 when outputting to the 4K monitor. I even tried 50hz and no luck.

I know there is a workaround to get 60hz or at least 50hz. I am on El Capitan.


texts: How to use 3 external monitors on 15" late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina?

texts:
Several people have posted about how they use 3 external monitors with their MacBook Pro Retina. see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJhvyLB_Tbw
Using 3 External monitors on my macbook pro, problem with DVD player
How many monitors can the new retina MacBook Pro handle and at which pixels resolutions?

However, when I attempt to do this on my 15" late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina, I can only run 2. Either, 2 thunderbolt, or 1 thunderbolt and 1 HDMI. When I plug in all 3, only 2 of them work.

Apple tech says

  Yep. You can only have 2 external monitors (unless you want to add a usb monitor).

Is there some trick I am missing? Some setting to tweak? I have 3 monitors just waiting for the solution. One of my monitors feels quite left out...


texts: Where does iTunes Match store songs on my iDevice?

texts:
I know in a regular situation (without iTunes Match), the music is stored in /User/Media/iTunes_Control/Music. However, all of my FXX folders are empty. Does iTunes Match cache files in a different location than the regular iOS iPod storage place?

I am running iOS 5.0.1 on iPhone 4S.

Edit: I deleted all my FXX folders, and my entire Music folder and my music still plays. Does anyone have an idea how I can find where these songs, and/ or a database file are downloaded?


texts: Use web page as (refreshable) wallpaper in iOS 8

texts:
I have a web page where the content changes hourly. I'd like to use this as my iPhone's wallpaper. Is there a way to have the wallpaper update automatically / on a schedule, with the contents of a web page?

I don't want to jailbreak my iPhone to do this.


texts: What is really meant by "Invalid B-tree node size"? How to solve it without expensive 3rd party softwares?

texts:
I've been having troubles with my external HDD and have been looking so hard for a solution.
I've tried everything. Diskutil, FSCK, testdisk. But only to find what I already know... "Invalid B-tree node size". It's unbelievable that Apple hasn't included a fixer for this kind of problem within its tools like diskutil.
My concern is, what is the meaning of this error?
Is there any solution to this problem without using a expensive 3rd party software?
Isn't there any open source software to recover my data?
Has anyone fixed this problem before?
I certainly would love just to buy a specialized software like DiskWarrior, but I can't afford that price.


texts: My macbook pro mid 2012 turn off when i unplug charger

texts:
Battery information is given below?? What should i do now??

Battery Information:

  Model Information:
  Manufacturer: SMP
  Device Name:  bq20z451
  Pack Lot Code:    0
  PCB Lot Code: 0
  Firmware Version: 201
  Hardware Revision:    000a
  Cell Revision:    165
  Charge Information:
  Charge Remaining (mAh):   4042
  Fully Charged:    Yes
  Charging: No
  Full Charge Capacity (mAh):   4226
  Health Information:
  Cycle Count:  1050
  Condition:    Replace Now
  Battery Installed:    Yes
  Amperage (mA):    0
  Voltage (mV): 12304


texts: Will Time Machine recognize old files after a clean reinstall of macos?

texts:
I am about to fully wipe and reinstall macos.  However, on my Time Machine backup disk there is not a lot of space left and I am wondering, when I set up Time Machine again after the reinstall, will it redo a full backup or will it recognize files that are already backed up?

Computer name will remain the same.
The home folder structure will also be mostly as it is now.
But I will not "restore from TM backup" and instead manually put everything in my home folder back into place.  The question is if it will require the full size of the backup again (and therefore delete old backups)?


texts:
This isn't launching FaceTime when I want it to! I want it to launch an app, and you get to choose what app it launches, so if I press Google Chrome, then it launches Google Chrome, but it doesn't launch FaceTime.

set the_results to (display dialog "Please Choose User!" buttons {"Admin", "Guest", "Cancel"})
set button_returned to button returned of the_results
if button_returned is "Guest" then display dialog "Guest is not functioning!"
if button_returned is "Admin" then display dialog "Please insert password!" buttons {"Cancel", "Continue"} default button 2 default answer "" cancel button 1 with hidden answer
if the text returned of the result is "Test" then
    set the_results to (display dialog "Welcome! What would you like to do?" buttons {"Chrome", "Messages", "More"})
    set button_returned to button returned of the_results
    if button_returned is "Chrome" then tell application "Google Chrome"
        activate
    end tell
    if button_returned is "Messages" then tell application "Messages"
        activate
    end tell
    if button_returned is "More" then display dialog "Second Page" buttons {"FaceTime", "Thank You!"}
end if
if button_returned is "FaceTime" then tell application "FaceTime"
    activate
end tell


texts: Bootcamp windows drivers downloading stuck

texts:
This is my fourth download, Net speed 12MBPS and everytime its stuck at this place. How can fix this.

I am running Mountain Lion on 128GB SSD, 8GB Ram with Mid 2010 model.


texts: Is there a proper way to clean the iPhone screen?

texts: Is there a particular proper way to clean the iPhone's glass, oleographic coated, screen in order to maintain its luster?


texts: Why would an app constantly monitor /etc/passwd?

texts:
I noticed today that Adobe Desktop Services is constantly monitoring /etc/passwd.

Would would be the point? Passwords are not stored in /etc/passwd so why would an app monitor /etc/passwd? What info might they be trying to monitor?


texts: Change the order of servers in "Connect to Server" window?

texts:
Running Mavericks (OS X 10.9.4) is it possible to change the order that the "favorite servers" are displayed in?

Allow me to explain a little more the use case. In Finder if one presses Command-K or uses the "Go" menu to "Connect to Server..." a dialog box appears. In the top portion of the dialog is the current server you are about to connect to and below it the servers you have indicated are your favorites. These favorites are set by clicking the + button to the right of server line at the top. After clicking the plus button, servers are added to the top of the favorite. This results in the most recent addition being at the top.

The server I want at the top of my favorites list is the one I am accessing most often, not the one that was just added. Ideally I would like to be able to place them in order as things change.

To illustrate further, right now my list looks like this:

Server 3
Server 7
Server 5
Server 1
Server 2
Server 4
Server 6

I would like to make it look like this:

Server 1
Server 2
Server 3
Server 4
Server 5
Server 6
Server 7

Is there a way to accomplish this task?


texts:
The list of available or "other" wifi networks from the menu bar icon drop down has a lethargic scrolling speed...
How can I make it scroll at the normal system-wide standard speed?


texts: How to focus parent terminal tab of shell script for input?

texts:
I have a zsh script where I prompt for user input every 15 minutes. How can I make the tab of Terminal that the script is running in open up / focus? open -a Terminal just opens the whole window.
I'm aware of this trick to get current application and re-open it, is there a way to extend it to tabs/sessions?
term=$(/usr/bin/osascript -e "copy path to frontmost application as text to stdout")
/usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application $term to activate'

Also aware of this trick to go back to an old tab, although (1) I couldn't get it to work and (2) I need the data in stdout so zsh can use it.
osascript \
    -e 'tell application "Terminal" to set oldTab to the selected tab of the front window' \
    -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "t" using command down' \
    -e 'delay 1' \
    -e 'tell application "Terminal" to set selected of oldTab to true'


texts: Create key, certificate signing request, p12 file and provisioning file on Ubuntu for Mac keychain

texts:
I use Ubuntu OS most of the time but I also have used OS X for quite a time and now I only use it to maintain my iOS apps. I am trying to create private key, certificate signing request for certificate and p12 key and provisioning file on Ubuntu and I think I am missing something.

openssl genrsa -out mykey.key 2048

This generates private key for me to generate Certificate Signing Request.

openssl req -new -key mykey.key -out CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest -subj /emailAddress=my@email.com, CN=Umair Ashraf, C=PK

This is generates Certificate Signing Request for me to send it to Apple to sign it.

I downloaded ios_development.cer file from apple and I have 3 files in hand. Now I want to create p12 out of them so I can import them in keychain of my OS X machine.

openssl pkcs12 -export -clcerts -inkey ./mykey.key -in ./ios_development.cer -out ./dev_testing.p12 -name "Umair Ashraf"

This creates me p12 file but with an error which reads unable to load certificates. When I tested this p12 file, it did not seem to work as well. What am I missing.

I also want to ask if this p12 file will be password protected? If not how can I password protect it?


texts: How can I get iTerm out of fullscreen mode?

texts: I must have hit some keystrokes which got me stuck in full screen mode and there are no resize icons when you over mouse at top of screen even though the task bar shows up.  How do I get out of full screen without restarting iTerm?


texts: Installing applications from disk images - what about the resources?

texts: I know that the way to install an application on Mac is to drag the icon from the disk image onto applications. Often these folders don't just contain an application but resources (such as a readme as well). How do I then access these resources later? Do I have to save the disk images as well? This seems kind of silly as then the default instructions for installing the application mean that you can't easily access the readme later (as the disk image has probably been saved to the downloads folder where it will eventually end up being deleted).


texts: How do you force quit an application in iOS 7?

texts:
In iOS 6 and below I could double tap the home button, tap and hold an app, and  click the red - to close an application(s).

In iOS 7 this does not work. How can I restart an app that's exploding without resetting the entire OS?


texts: Would this loophole for stolen MacBook Pro Retina work, or can macOS detect this and stop it?

texts:
Imagine a Late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro. It's got FileVault 2 enabled, it's been shut down (so the disk is encrypted) and the EFI Password is set, so they can't boot from another disk or reinstall macOS. I've also locked the Mac, but we'll imagine Find My Mac hasn't been able to phone home yet.

They can't Command-R or Option-Power their way past, and they can't access the copy of Catalina installed on the drive. My question is this: could they install a copy of macOS onto another compatible SSD and then replace my Mac's internal SSD with said other SSD, bypassing EFI Lock because it's classified as the internal drive? Or can Apple's EFI detect that the drive is different and refuse it, asking for a password?

As someone who carries my MacBook Pro Retina on me at all times, and plans on a somewhat pricey upgrade to a newer model sometime in the future, I'd like to ensure I can make this thing a glorious paperweight for any would-be thief.


texts: iPhone 6S (iOS 9.3.2) starts switching off whenever battery is low

texts:
So I have an iPhone 6S running iOS 9.3.2 and recently, I have observed this very annoying trend.

The phone switches off automatically when the battery level is around 15-25% [It always happens in this range].

I might not be using a very power consuming app, maybe writing a mail or checking my messages and it turns off. When I switch on the phone again, it automatically turns off within a minute.

Only when I leave it as it is for 15 minutes maybe, it turns on again.
This is not regular but does happen once every 4-5 days.

Is there anything I can do to investigate and maybe get rid of this issue?

Thanks.


texts: It is 2013. Is it feasible to purchase an iPhone 3GS for telephony and skype?

texts:
I'm thinking about getting an iPhone for a friend whose vision is decaying because of the possibility of making it display large text.

However, the budget is very tight, buying a new iPhone is out of the question. She needs only basic services: telephony, the occasional text message, and Skype.

Would a used iPhone 3GS make sense for this? According to GSMArena, the 3GS is still supported by iOS up to version 6, which (so I understand) makes Skype compatibility no problem. Is there anything else that might speak against getting her this 4-years-old model?


texts:
Using diskutil, or other command line tools, how can I determine which filesystem I'm using?

# sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion:    10.8.5
BuildVersion:    12F45


texts: LgHub asking for Accessibility features after deletion

texts:
I recently deleted the LgHub application from my mac, yet it keeps asking for Accessibility access. I don't know how it's asking, how to make it stop or what residue is left.

I looked up how to delete LgHub on mac and followed instructions here , here and here.
I deleted everything but still get the prompt.
I also tried to manually edit the access database as per this answer.
As you can see, there are two entries for LgHub, but the database is read only
How to get rid of the message / fully delete LgHub / edit the access database (if it's necessary)?


texts: Can Time Machine files be restored across different OSs?

texts: I am backing up my MacBook Air that runs OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 to an external Hard Drive using Time Machine. I have another older MacBook that runs Mac OS X 10.6.8. If I wipe the hard drive of the older macbook can I restore it using my the Time Machine that was created using OS X El Capitan? Any issues that I should be aware of?


texts: Where are TextEdit files that are not moved to iCloud Drive stored?

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After upgrading to Yosemite I did not migrate to iCloud Drive and iCloud text files were in a local folder which was very difficult to locate.

I can't find these files now. They were in a folder that had a long "com.open" or similar name.


texts: Search all hidden .htaccess files inside a folder and run a terminal command?

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Searching for the issue, I found this Q&A:
How can I show only an .htaccess file in the Finder?

  [...] you could create a symlink to the file in its directory, omitting the dot in the name:

  open Terminal, cd into your folder
  ln -s $PWD/.htaccess $PWD/htaccess

Is there some kind of terminal batch to search for all .htaccess files inside a folder (i.e.: /public_html) and apply the symlink?

Or would it be a combination of Automator and Terminal?


texts: How to force quit and restart a service every hour?

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The Underlying Problem
This is rather specific to my machine but basically, because of how my Mac, dock, & keyboard are connected, my keyboard software (Corsair iCUE) will occasionally freeze/hang until I go into activity manager and force quit it.
It happens once every day or 2 and the specific cause is not known, but it has never happened within a few hours of me restarting the service.
As a result, none of my macros, media keys, custom scripts, lighting effects, etc. work while iCue is frozen.
The Desired Workaround
Given how specific this issue is to my setup and that iCUE is in beta for Mac, I don't expect Corsair to fix it anytime soon.
Also, given that this issue never happens when I have recently restarted the service, my ideal workaround would be to simply force-restart it every hour or so. (It's a lightweight service, so restarting should be near-instant)
My Question: How can I force quit and then restart a service every hour?
Please let me know if I can provide any additional information to help!


texts: IOS 8.0.2 Facebook launch issues - it wont launch!

texts: my facebook wont even open now the update has happended! it flashes open for a nano-second and then automatically closes again. should I also try the delete and re download?


texts: Minimum volume size to enable versioning

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I have certain documents stored on a password protected disk image stored on Dropbox. Since the documents are small text documents, I made the image small (100 MB). But now I'm getting the following message when I save a document:

  The document “foo.tex” is on a volume that is too small to support
  permanent version storage.

  You will not be able to access older versions of this document once
  you close it.

I have another 2 GB image which doesn't give rise to this warning.  So my question is, what's the minimum volume size I should use to avoid this warning?


texts: Is having too much stuff on the Desktop still a performance killer?

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See for example

This article

Or this one

Or this one

Now, the answer to this question seems to suggest that the problem is icons on the desktop needing to be repeatedly redrawn, but the articles seem to indicate that it's a problem even if you've got stuff tucked away in a folder (there's some conflict on this point in the linked articles).

So is having lots of stuff (e.g. 2700 jpgs) in a folder on the desktop a performance killer? Is it the number of files? Their size? Both? If it's not still a problem when did it stop being a problem?

I ask in part because the desktop stacks in mojave seem to be encouraging this practice, when I had always thought that the received wisdom was to not do so.

Clarification:

Adding files to the file system should not (in theory) consume any extra system resources other than space in persistent memory (be it solid state or physical disk), with the obvious exceptions like file system journaling/integrity checks and the like, pre-emptive caching, etc. Certainly, viewing a bunch of files in Finder (especially with e.g. image thumbnails) will use system resources like processor/main memory/etc, but I have read (in the articles linked above) that just having a large number of files on the Desktop, even inside a folder where they are not being drawn to the screen, does in fact consume these resources (and to a large degree at that) on MacOS/OS X. More so than having the same files in a different location on the filesystem. Is this true?


texts: apple numbers Filling data into a table using AppleScript

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I have a document on numbers with 3 sheets.

1-data entry table (based on the "data" sheet).
2-copy dada table with:

--   I.an additional column containing the following formula

        if(reference no of data entery=reference no of this row;1;0)

--  II.filter table, greater than 0

3-data table

I want to use Applescript in order to fill the data from sheet 1 to sheet 2

tell application "Numbers" to ¬
     tell table 2 of sheet 1 of document (1)
          set getRef to the value of cell "A1"
          set fileinfolder to the value of cell "A2"
          set Outof to the value of cell "A3"
          set valqora to the value of cell "A9"
          set valqno to the value of cell "A10"
          set valQout to the value of cell "A11"
          set valcomment to the value of cell "A13"
          set valnoclue to the value of cell "A14"
          set valhard to the value of cell "A15"
          set valok to the value of cell "A16"
          set valeasy to the value of cell "A17"

end tell

tell application "Numbers" to ¬
    tell table 1 of sheet 3 of document (1)
        set the value of cell "K2" to the value of fileinfolder
        set the value of cell "L2" to the value of Outof
        set the value of cell "M2" to the value of valqora
        set the value of cell "N2" to the value of valqno
        set the value of cell "O2" to the value of valQout
        set the value of cell "P2" to the value of valcomment
        set the value of cell "Q2" to the value of valnoclue
        set the value of cell "R2" to the value of valhard
        set the value of cell "S2" to the value of valok
        set the value of cell "T2" to the value of valeasy

end tell

i keep recicing  Syntax Error- Can’t get value of true


texts: Multiple Windows on Startup Items - How to Remove

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I currently have 2 SSDs on my Macbook Pro 2010 13", on which I have successfully installed MacOS & Ubuntu on 1 SSD, and Windows on the other. All is working fine and successfully installed. The issue now only, after I installed Ubuntu, I have multiple Windows drives showing up which created double options. One of these drives are totally useless. How do I remove this so it's back to the original 3 options as it should be? (The first Windows icon from the left is the useless one).
Thanks in advance for anyone that willing to help or advise.

Below my diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0
   1:               Windows_NTFS BOOTCAMP                250.1 GB   disk0s1

/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *240.1 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         151.8 GB   disk1s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data                         7.9 GB     disk1s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         79.9 GB    disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +151.8 GB   disk2
                                 Physical Store disk1s2
   1:                APFS Volume dn1122                  13.9 GB    disk2s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 24.5 MB    disk2s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                512.1 MB   disk2s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      4.3 GB     disk2s4

***sudo fdisk /dev/disk1
Disk: /dev/disk1    geometry: 29185/255/63 [468862128 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE    0   0   1 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
*2: DA 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  296551216] <Unknown ID>
 3: 82 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 296962048 -   15362048] Linux swap
 4: 83 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 312586240 -  156012544] Linux files*


texts: Disable line wrapping for output in the Terminal

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I often read outputs in the terminal that get wrapped as they are too long. Since there is no way that I can modify the printed output, I need to let the Terminal allow for horizontal scrolling.

Is there a modification I can make to the default OS X Terminal to disable line wrapping and allow for horizontal scrolling?

Or do you know another alternative I can use?


texts: Trigger an Automator action with a sound

texts: Is there any way to trigger an Automator action with a sound? I'd like to be able to record a sound and trigger an action every time my computer's microphone receives the sound.


texts:
I have an iPhone 4S and an LG LBS-700 bluetooth headset which I used to use a lot to watch streaming videos on my phone. I haven't watched any in a while - possibly since before iOS 7, but I'm not sure - and in the last week or so started again, and I'm finding that the video will run for about 5 minutes or so, and then start pausing every 1-3 minutes or so, for about 10-15 seconds each time, before picking up and playing again... a couple of minutes later, another pause, etc.

This does not happen when I am not using the Bluetooth headset. It also does not seem to matter what the source of the streaming video is; I've tried Netflix, Amazon and Plex Media Server; they all exhibit the same behaviour.

Does anybody know why this might be happening, and what can be done about it - aside from "don't use Bluetooth"?


texts:
When I switch between spaces, after the transition effect the files on the previous desktop fade back in, so that the same files are on every desktop.

Is it possible to keep separate files on separate Spaces desktops?


texts: With the new update how do I keep my 2 iphones separate one is for work and the other is a personal phone? I don't want to receive work messages and calls on my personal phone and vice versa. And I don't want to create another Apple ID.


texts: What is the use of Background App Refresh?

texts:
I never realised any advantage of having that feature turned on, nor turned off.

How can educate myself about what it does so that I can choose whether to turn it on or off either for the entire system or for specific applications?


texts: How to deny the user the ability to upgrade the latest iOS version on iPad?

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I have 20 iPads I gave to 20 clients. How I can I deny the users the ability to upgrade to the iOS version when available?

So my question: is there a method to disallow the user to update the iOS version on the iPad?


texts:
I've been having issues with many apps where they fail to render properly and take over the whole UI.  Sometimes I need to restart but usually just closing the app solves the problem.

Is there any setting I can tweak to avoid this?

15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display.
Configuration:

2.8GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.0GHz.
16GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM.
1TB PCIe-based Flash Storage.
Intel Iris Pro Graphics + AMD Radeon R9 M370X with 2GB GDDR5 memory.


texts: OneDrive using high CPU while syncing Photos collection

texts:
I recently signed up for a Microsoft 365 account, with OneDrive — my plan is to move essentially all my data into the OneDrive folder on macOS (currently using 11.2.3) so it is continuously backed up. So for it has worked mostly very well - except for my Photos.app data. I moved ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary to my OneDrive folder, and now OneDrive is constantly syncing metadata files in that bundle related to its database (e.g. psi.sqlite, mediaanalysis.db, *.ithmb) and they are not small - some several hundred MB. I have the bandwidth at home, that is not the issue (although it may become a problem…) - the real issue is my MacBook Pro now almost constantly sounds like I have an airplane taxiing next to me. Looking in Activity Monitor I see that the OneDrive and distnoted are often using 100+% CPU, causing the fans to run at top speed near-constantly.
So — is there any way to keep Photos background processes from constantly updating my Photos Library metadata, and/or get OneDrive to dial down the intense CPU usage? I don't want to have to remove my photos from Photos.app, but I may have find another solution if this doesn't work out.


texts: Cancel Apple Music subscription > Subscribe in future > Playlists lost or not?

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If you cancel your Apple Music subscription and subscribe again in the future (say months or a year later), do the playlists you had created and other account data(?) "reappear"? Or when you cancel you lose access to all your Apple Music user data forever ever?

All that the relevant Apple Support article says is:
«If you cancel Apple Music, you'll lose access to the Apple Music catalog, any music that you added to your Library, and the features of Apple Music».

Thanks to anyone who can reply with certainty - not speculation!  ;)


texts:
I have just installed Kali Linux in a separate partition of an iMac with wireless keyboard and mouse and with rEFInd. When I turn on the Mac it boots into Kali Linux automatically and doesn't recognize the wireless keyboard or mouse. Pressing alt during the boot doesn't show me the menu to select the disk. Please anyone can help me?

The kali Linux system selection appears first so I think that it goes straight to Linux or that the keyboard is not recognized and I cannot change the boot disk.


texts: 2015 MacBook Air with Constant High RPM Fan

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I have this MacBook Air that has been having a fan problem over the past few weeks. The fans run at full speed ALWAYS. As soon as you hit the power button, before the system even starts booting, the fans rev up to full speed. And they don't stop until you shut down.

According to SMCFanControl, the fans are running at 7600 RPM even though their max RPM is 6500. I expect the fans going to wear out soon at that high speed.

Also according to Hardware Monitor.app, all of the temperature sensors are returning reasonable values. The CPU is about 150°F and thats the hottest, everything else is much lower. So the fan speed doesn't seem to be reacting to a temperature issue.

Reset the PRAM to no effect.

Checked Activity Monitor but even when fully idle, the fan just revs away.

Ran an Apple Hardware test, it returned that there might be a problem with the fan, but gave no other details, other than 'bring it to apple'.

To me, it seems like its probably a logic board problem, as a fan probably wouldn't make the fan rev UP? And none of the normal causes for fans to rev up seem to be causing this fan to rev up.

I did not try one of the fan utilities that let you set the actual speed, not just the minimum speed. I'll have to try this next. I also realize I didn't reset the SMC, I thought I did but on this Mac, a different process does that. I wouldn't be surprised if that fixes it. But I'm going to submit this question anyway in case anyone else have some insight.


texts: Where do the Windows applications go when Windows 7 is removed from Parallels Desktop 7

texts:
I adore Parallels on the Mac. I forgot my password to Windows 7, so I hunted for advice on web & found that password is essential - so I 'removed' Windows. Tried to reinstall but told onscreen that something was missing. Uninstalled Parallels & reinstalled, then reinstalled Windows 7 successfully.

Where does the Windows software go when Windows is removed? Is it also removed? …or is it still there somewhere - if so where would it be?


texts:
When my iPhone 5c is connected via lightning cable the photos are showing up on one of my macs - which has El Capitan.  The photos do  not show up on another one that has High Sierra (and it did not show up earlier when that computer was on Sierra either).

Here is what is available:

What configuration is needed to get the photos tab?


texts:
I use Sparrow for iPhone with Gmail.

Sometimes it confuses me because the unread count for some of my labels doesn't match with the one shown in the Google Mail app (it's lower, presumably because Sparrow doesn't download all mails).

The thing is, that I know the expected unread counts of most labels, and if they differ from the official app, I can't quickly see whether there is something new in or not.

I think for this to work correctly, Sparrow would have to download all mails, or update the unread mail counts from the server instead of the mails it already has on the device.

Is that possible?


texts:
I often have a bunch of terminal windows with some various tasks. My problem, however, is that I have a hard time seeing which one is on top. This leads to me often typing [arrow up] + [enter] in the wrong window, one time leading to the execution of "git reset --hard HEAD", trashing a full days work.

So, is there a way to make the inactive terminal window look more... inactive, like changing its background color or something like that?


texts: Should I be concerned if the helpd process is eating RAM after an upgrade to Lion?

texts:
Hallo, I've recently upgraded to Mac OS Lion from Snow Leopard on my 2009 Unibody Macbook. Now, checking in activity monitor I often find a strange process named helpd taking large parts of the memory ~400 MB.

What is it? Is there any solution for it?


texts:
Is there some way in Safari, possibly via a third-party extension, to save the running contents of a Web page as a PNG image?

I understand I could print the page to PDF and use Preview to export it as a PNG image. However:

I’d prefer not to create a temporary PDF file and then manually open Preview to export the PDF contents to PNG;
I’d like the contents to be running instead of paginated, i.e., no page breaks;
When the PDF file contains multiple pages, Preview seems to export the current page only to PNG.

I don’t have any experience with OS X automation but I suspect it could be used for this, though I want conditions 2 and 3 to be met.

I’m running Safari 5.1.1 on OS X Lion.


texts: What can slow down/How can I speed up the pre-kernel boot steps?

texts:
I've got a late 2007 Macbook Pro with 4 GB of RAM and an SSD.  I am running Boot Camp and have an OptiBay.  I have partitioned the SSD and secondary drive to devote half of each to Lion and half to Windows 7.  There is an additional Lion 'Recovery' partition - I've considered re-partitioning with gparted to remove this as I don't need it, but have left it alone for now.

The SSD especially makes things very fast; I can boot from the boot selector (this thing) to my Lion desktop (ignoring password entry times) in 23 seconds and to my Windows 7 desktop in 26 seconds. Both are a marked improvement over booting to just Lion with my 500 GB, 5400 RPM Scorpio Blue hard drive, which took some 45 seconds.

However, the time to reach the boot selector has increased greatly: It now takes 25 seconds to reach the boot selector, where previously the computer would spin up the drive, chime, and reach the Apple logo in just two or three seconds.  The increased time to this screen negates the improved boot times in the actual OS.

Is there something I'm doing wrong in my partition scheme to cause this slow boot up?

The boot sequence doesn't seem to have this much work to do in these steps.  The documentation says that the operations performed which are taking 25 seconds are:

Power On: Boot-ROM/RAM check is initialized
BootROM-POST: Power-on self test of Boot ROM
BootROM-EFI: Boot chime
Boot EFI: Mounts drives and loads drivers and other files needed to start the OS

After that, I select a disk (or let the default disk load) and the following steps occur:

Kernel: Grey screen with Apple logo and spinning gear
launchd: Brushed metal screen
loginwindow: Login window appears
User Environment Setup: Desktop and dock appear

It does boot, so I can only assume that the BootROM-POST passed.  Is it possible it's 'barely passing' and testing multiple times or moving slowly?  I don't see how the first three steps could take much time at all, so I assume that it's the Boot EFI step that's taking forever.  I've also read the refit documentation on the boot process, which goes into a bit more detail about hardware discovery and driver loading.  Is it possible that the new drives are re-installing their drivers each time I boot?

Any assistance towards removing or even simply better understanding this delay would be much appreciated!


texts: Which Python packages are installed on Mavericks?

texts: The title says it all: How can I find out which Python packages are pre-installed with Mavericks?


texts: Predictive input doesn’t work on Russian language

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I have iPhone 7 with iOS 11.4 and my keyboard freezes at random times for second. Now it doesn’t show predictive suggestions for the Russian language.

I tried to disable all smart features of keyboard and re-enable them, remove Russian keyboard and add it back, reset keyboard dictionary, reset all content and settings, update to iOS 12 and downgrade via iTunes, restore from iTunes. Now I’m going to restore from DFU, but I’m in desperation.

This is what the problem looks like. In English the predictive bar is normal. But in Russian keyboard there are no words, just three empty spaces.


texts:
I am having a little trouble with my wireless keyboard.

In the past 3 weeks it has disconnected 3 times and then reconnected after a few moments. The Magic Mouse is working fine alongside it, and the power is up over 70%.

Any advice for when this happens or why this happens would be appreciated.


texts: How to kerberize services on Mac bound to Kerberos KDC on Linux?

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I'm trying to kerberize services on an iMac that is bound to an external Kerberos KDC on a Linux computer.

I assume that I have to use sso_util and do it like this:

    sso_util configure -v 7 -r EXAMPLE.COM -f /LDAPv3/kdc.example.com -a diradmin/admin all

where EXAMPLE.COM is the name of the realm and kdc.example.com is the Linux computer which hosts LDAP and Kerberos.

I get the following error message:

GetRealmFromDir: looking up the realm name in the KerberosKDC config record in node
/LDAPv3/ldap.keps.de
GetRealmFromDir: Couldn't get attributes of kerberoskdc record
GetRealmFromDir: didn't find a KerberosKDC record, looking in the KerberosClient record
GetConfigFromDir: failed to find the KerberosClient config record in the directory error = 4101
GetRealmFromDir: didn't find a KerberosClient record either, returning NULL
GetRealmFromDir: realm is :(null)
Invalid Realm Name

It looks like I must put some configuration data in the LDAP database but what data according to what schema?


texts: AppleScript app not responding force close

texts:
I have a simple script:

caffeinate -di

that I saved as an app.  When I click on the app it runs the process and stays in the dock.  When I click on the Dock icon, it says "Application Not Responding" and the only way to terminate the process is to Force Quit.

Is there any way to write this script so that the normal "Quit" menu displays and I don't have to force quit it every time I want to stop it?


texts: Unable to Download macOS Mojave from App Store, error prompted: "Update not found, the requested version of MacOS is not available"

texts:
I'm running Catalina on a MB Pro 2019 and I'm trying to create a separate volume running Mojave through a bootable external device. I've been doing this earlier this year and I had no problem whatsoever doing it, but as of today, when I try to download Mojave from the App Store, as soon as I press the "Get" button, Software Updates prompts and I get this error: "Update not found, the requested version of MacOS is not available", and I can't download it. I've been using the App Store link found at step four of this link:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210190
The result is I'm unable to download this version of MacOS and therefore I cannot proceed in the creation of a bootable device. Any advices on how to solve this problem? Does Apple also provides a direct link to download this OS?


texts: iPhone 4S using 3G to download songs from iCloud after iOS 5.1 update

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I have a limited 3G plan on my iPhone 4S and I also have iTunes Match service.

In order to keep the phone from downloading songs from iCloud, while under 3G connection, I had set 'Settings>Store>Use Cellular Data' to OFF. This seemed to work just fine until I downloaded the iOS 5.1 update.

A couple of days ago I was surprised to find that while listening to shuffled music, I had ran out of credit because the Music App had been fetching songs from iCloud using 3G, even though the Setting was still OFF.

I've been forced to turn off my 3G every time I want to listen to music on the go, which is really annoying.

Is this a known bug? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Is there a fix?

Thanks!


texts: Text Message Forwarding code not showing up

texts:
My Mac Mini, running El Capitan, and my iPhone 6 Plus are both on the same WiFi network, however when I select the Mac Mini in the Text Message Forwarding settings, it does not send a code to my Mac Mini.

If Messages is not running on my Mac Mini, then selecting the Mac Mini in the Text Message Forwarding settings on my iPhone will start the program, but no code. I have signed out and back in to iCloud on both devices, and I have rebooted both devices. Nothing seems to work.

In fact, everything was working as it should until around the time I updated to El Capitan.

How can I troubleshoot SMS handoff from a cell phone to OS X?


texts:
I have a qwerty keyboard, but I type in french and japanese quite often.

Up until now, I used to have kotoeri activated with Romaji writing for english and french. I used to write accentuated letters by :

option + e + letter for  é, ó, etc…
option + ` + letter for à è ù etc…
option + i + letter for î, û, ê, etc…
option + u + letter for ü, ï, ö, etc…

Under yosemite, this doesn't work anymore.

To get it back I had to activate US International – PC. But it still doesn't work properly. There is a huge bug :

when typing ' then a letter, I get á, é, etc… This is preventing me for writing properly stuffs like

l'arrosoir  → lárrosoir
qu'un → quún

There are a lot of stuffs like this in french. And even worse, auto-correction kicks in and transforms:

quún in quant

How can I fix this ? How can I still continue typing without learning a new keyboard layout ?

CLARIFICATION
=============

I am talking about several separate bugs.

Bug on U.S. International PC keyboard layout

While using this keyboard pressing option + e then a vowel produces the right output (for instance á) the key 'actually adds an accent to a letter instead of producing the 'character (for instance quelquúninstead of quelqu'un). This is most inconvenient as the character ' alone is quite frequent in french.

Bug on U.S. keyboard layout

Hitting option + e then a vowel has no effect (same for option + u then a vowel, etc…)
→ Solved by deactivating and and activating again this configuration. This is the only working configuration.

Bug on kotoeri

Kotoeri configuration let the user choose which keyboard configuration to use for romaji. I have selected U.S. as usual, and I have the same issues as with the U.S. configuration below. If I select US International PC, nothing changes, I don't even get the behavior of International PC without kotoeri. This is most definitely wrong.

UPDATE
======

Selecting US Extended yields the desired behavior (the old one from US international PC). However, US Extended is not available for kotoeri.


texts: HDCP Error on MacBook Pro with no External Display

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I occasionally receive the infamous HDCP error (as seen below).

However, I don't have an external display connected. It happens on the MacBook's built in display. This happens MID VIEWING. It starts playing fine, then randomly I get this error. I can always restart it, but it's become a pain. Any ideas?


texts: Strange behaviour of Target Display Mode with iMac, Mac mini and Thunderbolt display

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I bought a 27" iMac and hooked it up to my Thunderbolt display. The iMac is also thunderbolted to my Mac mini.

When I press meta-(fn-)F2, the following happens:

The iMac screen goes dark.
The Thunderbolt display shows the Mac mini's (locked) screen.
I can move the mouse on the Thunderbolt display but not click at anything.
The keyboard doesn't work (except meta-F2).

When I press meta-F2 again, this happens:

Both screens go back to being screens of the iMac.
The screens switch places and the Thunderbolt display becomes the primary display with the Dock.

I am at a loss as to how I am supposed to use this feature.

Are mouse and keyboard supposed to travel with the screen?

Why does the Mac mini screen appear on the secondary display?

Why do the screens switch places when I switch back from TDM?

Update: The iMac is a late 2013 iMac running 10.9 (no updates). The Mac mini was new a few months ago and came with (and still runs) 10.8(.6 I think).


texts: Are Mac OS X 10.4.10 install discs model specific like 10.3?

texts: I have some iBook G4 10.3.3 install and restore discs. I'm not sure if these are actually model specific but since they are labelled as iBook discs I assume they are. Is this true? Also, are 10.4.10 discs model specific? Are there specific discs for Intel/PowerPC? I am trying to install Tiger on an A1134 iBook and I don't want to waste money on discs that will not work.


texts: Can Virtual PC use the Boot Camp Windows Partition?

texts: Both Parallels and VMWare allow you to set up a virtual machine using your existing Boot Camp partition. Does Virtual PC for mac have a similar feature?


texts: Screen wave in Desktop while powering up, then in Chrome & iTunes (started with Finder not responding?) and flickering in Contacts

texts:
I am on OS X El Capitan v 10.11.1, MacBook (13-in, Mid 2010)

I am not a power user so if I should ask this in another community would someone please let me know?

Current issue: kind of like "the wave" fans do in a football stadium, my screen has a wave rolling up the screen in Chrome (where tabs also flicker) and iTunes now. And not sure it's normal but sections of Contacts are flickering.

Possibly related question:  if I have to uninstall something potentially incompatible with El Capitan, how do I identify what that is?

History: Thank you for the answer from Steve Chambers under "My Finder is not responding and there are no documents on Desktop after downloading OS X Yosemite". I had that same issue. I clicked to Relaunch Finder after pulling up the dialog via holding command + option. Then I powered off and rebooted in Safe Mode.

The end of the answer to the above issue included the suggestion there might be something incompatible with Yosemite that would need to be uninstalled--is this the same for El Capitan, and if so how does one know what to uninstall?

Not sure how to describe it but while the desktop started to come back on, horizontal rows started to roll or scroll from bottom to top of the screen. Like a wave in a football stadium, only rolling south to north. This only happened while powering up.

The good news is my desktop files are back and Finder is available to me. And Safari works fine.

Screen wave happened in Chrome as well. I uninstalled and downloaded Chrome again but it didn't help. The top tabs are shuddering and the pixels in the right scroll bar and any website page are rolling up a bit similarly to how my desktop screen acted upon powering up. But I'm okay using Safari.


texts: No option to remove Bluetooth device in iOS Settings app?

texts:
I would like to remove my Raspberry Pi from my iPhone 8 (running iOS 11.2.1) as a connected bluetooth device.

Normally, I would go into my Settings -> Bluetooth and select the Info button (a small blue circled "i") to show the "Disconnect" and "Forget Device" dialogs:

Unfortunately, iOS does not give me this option for my device. The bluetooth device list does not contain an "i" for the item, and there is seemingly no other way to disconnect.

How do I unpair this device if there is no button to trigger to the unpair prompt?

Due to work restrictions I cannot completely reset the device.


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On a recent visit to US I bought a pre-paid SIM for use during my visit.

On my iPad this number (which is now expired) is still shown in a number of places - in particular "You can be reached by FaceTime at".

How can I remove this number?


texts: Keep backing up when I put machine to sleep?

texts:
I use Time Machine, with an external hard drive connected by USB, to back up my MBA.  If Time Machine is in the middle of backing up my drive and I close the lid of my computer, Time Machine will stop the backup and (as far as I can tell) will not resume backing up until I wake my computer back up.

Is there a way to change this behavior?  I want it to continue backing up, until it finishes the backup, even when I close the lid of my computer in the middle of a backup.  Is there a way to do that?


texts: How to transfer iMessage texts from Mac to iPhone?

texts: I accidentally deleted some messages from my iPhone but they still appear on my Mac as I haven't enabled iCloud for messages on either device. Is there any way to transfer the old messages from my mac to my phone?


texts: Big Sur: Sparsebundle created for Time Machine shows wrong free space (APFS, HFS+,...)

texts:
I got myself a  new Mac Mini M1 and wanted to store my Time Machine Backups on my Samba share.
I've created several sparsebundles like mentioned everywhere on the web... with disk utility, with hdiutil,... with AFPS, with HFS+,... and tried to create a backup before moving it to the SMB share.
Here's the problem - and I'm always facing the same issue:

No matter what I do, I don't get the full size... I even installed Spundle and played around with the Band size... no chance.
This leads to the fact, that my time machine can't backup anything as the recognized free space is too low:

The Backup fails after some time, telling me that I don't have enough free space.

Do you have any idea what I'm missing here? I know that the sparsebundle is supposed to expand... but obviously it doesn't...
Thanks so much in advance!
Greetz,
Sascha


texts: I am on macOS Catalina. On a site they say that, if I am having problems, in order to be able to run the app I need to input (sudo chown -R 755 AppName.app) in the terminal. My question is: is it safe to do so? Is there a way to reverse my actions?


texts: Do the iPad 2 and the 6th generation iPod Nano have the same docking connector?

texts:
I am looking to purchase a Speaker docking system for an iPad2, I also want to be able to use a 6th generation iPod Nano with the same dock connection.

Is the connection on the iPad 2 the same as the connection on the iPod Nano?


texts: What are some unusual uses of the MacBook trackpad?

texts: You know, the MacBook has such a beautiful trackpad. Are there applications that use its power for music-making, drawing, or anything else unusual?


texts: Technical comparison: MBP 15" mid-2010 or MBP 13" 2012

texts:
I plan to use the MBP to edit a lot of pictures.

I am torn between spending less than $600 on a mid-2010 MBP 15" (Core i7 2.66Ghz) or a 2012 MBP 13" (Core i5 2.5Ghz) for less than $800.

The MBP 15" tech is too old and it doesn't even have a USB 3.0 port but has a fast processor while the MBP 13" screen is too small for editing pictures (but I can attach it to an external monitor, no problem there).

Should I just wait and save up for the MBP 13" or buy the MBP 15" now?

Can someone share they experiences and advice including the Graphics performances?


texts: Applescript: How to save text2speech and convert to mp3?

texts:
I have this applescript in an automator service. it works.

I cannot however get it to save to my desired directory, or convert to mp3.

At the most basic, I would like to save to /Users/<user>/Music/Mandarin-text2speech.

Ideally, I would like filenames to increase incrementally, convert to mp3 and delete the aiff.

here is my basic script that works for now.

on run {input, parameters}
  repeat with thisText in input
      say thisText speaking rate 130 using "Mei-Jia" saving to file (((path to desktop) as string) & "audio.aiff")
  end repeat
end run


texts: "Ask for Finder items" in automator folder action doesn't show up

texts:
In my folder action, I added "Ask for finder items" action (asking for destination folder for move operation) after filtered items from the folder got stored in the variable.
Whenever I add file to the folder, I can see folder action "gear" spinning in the status bar, but it stuck at "Ask for finder items" action and I don't see any dialog that asks me for destination folder.

I guess I'm missing something here?

UPDATE
Added screenshot:


texts: How can I assign more than 2 phone numbers to a contact on my iPhone?

texts:
A large proportion of contacts I have gained over the years have more than two current numbers.

Examples include: home, work, mobile; home, NZ work no., US work  no., Spanish work no; etc

I have only worked out how to add two numbers to particular contact; after that, when you click add there is no other options.

This is crazy, this is 2010, I must be doing something wrong, can you help me out?


texts: How do i stop Quicktime from opening previous videos?

texts:
I'm on OSX Lion and this is driving me crazy. Whenever i watch a video in quicktime and close it, then open another video, the previous video that i played also comes up.

Is there a way to not have the previous video(s) come up when opening quicktime besides closing out the windows, then quitting, everytime?


texts: In itunes (for windows) can you set podcast location on disk to a different location?

texts: In itunes (latest for for windows) can you set podcast download location on disk to a different location that just the media folder set in preferences?


texts: Why is Airplay from my iPhone to my Apple TV so slow?

texts:
I got the new Apple TV and noticed that it takes ages to stream a video from my iPhone.

Moreover, streaming videos directly from youtube on my iphone over airplay may cause the video to be very blurry for a few secs and then back to normal (HD), this might be due to buffering but im not sure if the internet connection has an impact on that.

Is there a way to improve the efficiency and speed of the device?

I am using a Wireless N router. The Apple TV is connected via WIFI. The iPhone is connected wireless through airplay.


texts: How to recover data from inaccessible Mac hard drive?

texts: My Mac hard drives become inaccessible, and I don’t have any data backup available at present. What should I do now to recover my deleted data?


texts: OS X 10.8.4 not showing updates - how to fix?

texts:
OS X 10.8.4 isn't showing any updates via the App Store or the command line softwareupdate tool. How can I make it start showing updates as usual again?

Edit:

sudo softwareupdate -l outputs "No new software available."

In Console, App Store logs

storeagent[205]: CKSoftwareMap: updateRequestBodyData:includeInstalledApps:includeBundledApps:conditionally:hadUnadoptedApps:waitUntilMapIsLoaded: timed out waiting for mdSemaphore

and softwareupdate logs

storeagent[205]: CKSoftwareMap: _expectedMetadataChangeTimeout: timed out waiting for mdSemaphore

install.log shows

Software Update[7145]: Failed Software Update - trust evaluation failed in SecTrustEvaluate with result: 3
Software Update[7145]: Can't load distribution from https://swdist.apple.com/content/downloads/60/30/041-5397/SPKMyGZ5qPWksQfvZHYwfhTRdB6HHsSjGn/041-5397.English.dist.gz: Host cert invalid or otherwise insecure download


texts: macOS Catalina - Airpods no sound after being out of BT range

texts:
Hopefully someone can help.
Since I use Catalina 10.15 on my Macbook Pro (15-inch, 2017) I have quit annoying problems with using my Airpods.
Whenever I connect them to my macbook and walk out of Bluetooth range to grab a coffee, they disconnect and reconnect to the macbook when I'm back at my Workspace. Just as intended.
But, from time to time audio output is not working anymore. The Airpods are connected, I can configure them as Output Device via Sound Settings but I don't hear anything.
The only fix is to actually reboot my macbook, which is annoying.
What I tried for now:

Disconnect and Reconnect Airpods manually
Remove Airpods from known BT Devices and paired them again
completely reset my airpods and connect them to the mac
reset BT Module via shift + option + Bluetooth settings
Nothing brings it back to life except rebooting my macbook.

Does anyone now what I could try or even what's the problem here?
Thank you in advance!


texts: Enabling external booting on a fusion drive Mac

texts: I am trying to change the secure boot settings so that I can allow booting from an external disk. Normally to do this you would go into recovery mode with command + r and then change the settings. When I try to do this, however, my mac decides to boot up using recovery mode with internet, in which I cannot change the secure boot settings from. After doing a little research, this seems to be because my Mac has a fusion drive, which is causing the regular recovery mode to not start up. My question is: how do I get into regular recovery mode on a fusion drive Mac? If I can’t, how do I change the secure boot settings without going into recovery mode?


texts:
MacPro Mid 2012; quad core 3.2 GHz Xeon processor 24 GB ram
running Yosemite 10.10.5

4 internal 4 TB drives, 2 external 4 TB drives in NewTech cradles.
3 Dell 1920 x1280 pixel LCD monitors.

Microsoft USB corded mouse.

Stopped working yesterday.

Rebooted. Mouse cursor shows up, but doesn’t move with mouse.

Tried different mouse.

Tried different USB port

No joy.

More information:

ALL USB access stops.

Rebooting is not sufficient.

Have to fully unplug, and restart.

(It may be sufficient to reset the PRAM on reboot.  didn't try that.)

Further:  I can now reproduce the problem:  If I connect my iphone 6s to my mac with a 3 meter Lightning to USB cable, the mouse (and USB) stops working.

On shutdown there is a long stream (several screenfulls of probe error messages that flash by.

2017-12-23 10:01:03.000 PM kernel[0]: [0 0  ] target connection status changed
2017-12-23 10:01:03.000 PM kernel[0]: [0 0  ] port handle error (irq status 80000040)

This pair appears about 100 times per second grovelling through the system log.

Connecting with an official apple 1 meter Lightning cable works.


texts: Why are some of music files not being added to my iCloud Music Library?

texts:
I have an issue occurring with my iTunes library an iTunes Match that I'm having trouble diagnosing. I have several albums with tracks that refuse to upload to my iCloud Music Library. You can see some of the tracks in this screen shot, they have the dashed outline cloud next to them:

There are no relevant errors I could find in Console that would shed some light on why these tracks are not updating in my library. And, as you can see, other tracks from the same album updated just fine. I left iTunes running on my machine for several days and no progress was made on any tracks with this problem.

If I try and edit the information of one of the tracks I get the following pop-up:

And the tracks are not visible in the Music app on my iPhone -- they're listed in the album's tracks, but they are dimmed and unplayable.

I am not over my iTunes Match library quota -- I have only ~14,000 songs in my library and the limit is current 25,000.

How can I diagnose the problem that's preventing these tracks from syncing to my iCloud Music Library?

How can I get these tracks sync'ed so I can stream them from my other devices attached to my iTunes account?


texts: In the iOS 8.4 Music app how do I only show downloaded music?

texts:
I only keep a small set of music on my phone of my otherwise large iTunes purchase history, and consequently if I picked a random album or song out of my music app there is a high likelihood that it has to be downloaded.  In the past there have been settings that I could configure to only show downloaded music, but with the latest update I can't find anything that works.  Any help?  Here is the closest thing I could find:

However even with it off I still see this:


texts: How do I backup iMessages to my PC for free?

texts:
I'm getting ready to wipe and sell my old 4th-generation iPod touch, and I'd like to get a human-readable copy of all of my iMessages before I do so.

So far, I've found two solutions, but unfortunately they both cost money:

imessage-backup.com - basically you upload a certain file from the backup and it does some processing on the backend to make it human-readable. $7.99 per backup file.
iExplorer can also grab iMessages. You can see them within the app, but it forces you to register ($34.99) to export them.

Obviously there is some way to extract the data. I opened up the backup file in a text editor, and I could see messages, but it wasn't really "human-readable." I tried opening the backup file in SQLite Database Browser (the format in which the iMessages are supposedly backed up in), but it came up blank.

Is there a free way (preferably on Windows or Linux) to export iMessages?


texts:
I need to edit plist file of TextEdit (TextEdit/Contents/plist.info) for doing this, using Xcode. But TextEdit says that I've got no permission for edit

I've tried to get more permission for me, so I inscribed myself in GetInfo (Pasha is me).

But still the same problem as on the pictures above. I was searching for an answer and found this. As you can see, this answer suggests me to do what I've already done. So I hope you know the different solution for this problem.


texts: How to test for a short to ground on a Macbook Air motherboard?

texts:
I have an A1369 Macbook Air (mid 2011 13 inch model).

It appears that the backlight fuse is blown. I have some hypotheses as to why that happened, but before pluging a new fuse back in, I would like to make sure the short to ground is gone.

How can I test whether there is still a short to ground ? More specifically, where should I point the probes in my multimeter on the motherboard ?


texts: Google maps is not working on my IPhone 5S the last 2 days when on LTE

texts: For the last 2 days when on LTE, my Google Maps will load the data, but once it comes up, it's immediately deleted.  It's only Google Maps I have trouble with, as my Gmail comes up without problem


texts: Mac OS X Yosemite Facebook photo posts to OSX Album only

texts:
The native integration of facebook and Mac OSX Yosemite. I am trying to post a photo with the native integration and the dialog already has "Timeline" Selected but yet it posts to "OS X Photos" album on FB.

How do i configure Mac OS X - to post to my FB timeline? I do not want to post it in an album.


texts: Does AirPlay mirroring have any restrictions?

texts:
I saw that mountain lion now allows full screen mirroring over airplay to an Apple TV.

For awhile when I want to play something on my tv from my computer I've just run an HDMI to DVI cable to my laptop, especially since some things I can't stream through my PS3 (doesn't like anything purchased in itunes) And I know the Apple TV would not stream just any file from my computer.

But since I can mirror audio and video am I now able to stream anything to the Apple TV by playing it on my laptop screen and using mirroring?

I just saw this thread which would imply that even if this would work, it won't since both my Mac Pro and laptop are pre 2011 macs.


texts: Ping on Mavericks on late 2013 MacBook Pro slow and variable compared to Windows

texts:
I had a couple of issues connecting to an SMB share last night so started using ping to test connectivity.

At that point I noticed the ping was very slow and variable - my Windows laptop shows <1ms for all pings to the router.

An example:

64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=335 ttl=64 time=208.350 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=336 ttl=64 time=129.768 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=337 ttl=64 time=51.067 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=338 ttl=64 time=278.491 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=339 ttl=64 time=1.315 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=340 ttl=64 time=120.040 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=341 ttl=64 time=40.420 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=342 ttl=64 time=267.817 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=343 ttl=64 time=188.607 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=344 ttl=64 time=109.445 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=345 ttl=64 time=1.313 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=346 ttl=64 time=1.905 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=347 ttl=64 time=3.662 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=348 ttl=64 time=100.708 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=349 ttl=64 time=21.266 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=350 ttl=64 time=1.674 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=351 ttl=64 time=1.397 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=352 ttl=64 time=89.599 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=353 ttl=64 time=10.996 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=354 ttl=64 time=341.583 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=355 ttl=64 time=159.329 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=356 ttl=64 time=81.145 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=357 ttl=64 time=1.945 ms

I have not seen any other symptoms - network speeds and things like ping test are fine. I see similar behaviour when pinging external sites though - much slower and variable.

I have tried plugging into power (possibly power saving could cause this) and also restarting.

I searched before posting and found no other questions, but now one of the related questions is useful - changing the interval to 200ms makes the pings fast and consistent.

But why would changing the ping interval to be 200ms instead of 1s change the latency?


texts: How can I force a process to swap into virtual memory?

texts:
I'd like some inactive processes to app swap into virtual memory, freeing main memory up for other uses.

I have created a few shell scripts -       sleepchrome,              sleepfirefox, and     sleepsafari to sleep an app when I don't want to quit it, but don't want it hogging CPU or memory.  The scripts work to prevent CPU usage - they identify and send a SIGSTOP signal to the relevant processes.  (Happy to share the code if there's interest - ask a question.)

But for some reason, MacOS seems to be uninterested in swapping them out to virtual memory: Even when there's significant memory pressure, per Activity Monitor, the processes memory usage doesn't decrease.

Is this a bug in the OS?  Seems to be.  Is there a solution?  Perhaps it would require a modification to the apps themselves or a plug-in?  (which would make this more of a stackoverflow question)


texts: Does the “Put hard disks to sleep when possible.” option in macOS have any affect on SSD drives?

texts:
So, I completely understand the value of putting a hard disk (specifically) to sleep in some cases especially in the pre-SSD days of the past. It can save power, lower noise and such. But in the case of modern systems that are increasingly SSD-based, does this option have any value at all?

My MacBook Air (2018) running Mojave (10.14.1) has “Put hard disks to sleep when possible.” checked off by default (in System Preferences > Energy Saver), but this system uses an SSD.

Is this option only focused on hard disk drives and ignored by SSD drives?

I can’t imagine the internal SSD would ever “sleep” but correct me if I am wrong.

In short, does the “Put hard disks to sleep when possible” option have any affect on SSD drives in macOS?


texts: track internet usage app wise on the Mac

texts: On the Mac, is there a way to track internet usage app-wise. Ideally I would want an app the ability to track monthly usage etc.


texts: Embedding Web Snippets in Wiki Server and Security Settings

texts:
I want to edit the embed security settings in Mountain Lion Server's Wiki Service because with the default settings you can't embed anything on pages, which makes it a lot less useful. We're in a school environment where embedding flash apps, video etc. is the norm - and Wiki Server will normally strip out these tags from web snippets for security reasons.

I seems that to do this you change:

/Library/Server/Wiki/Config/whitelist.plist

but I'm not sure how to change it to allow all types of embeds. I'm aware of the security risks but I trust my users on this Server to embed what they need to embed.


texts: How do I stop my iPhone from muting itself when plugged into a Toyota RAV4?

texts:
My parents own a 2013 Toyota RAV4 with a single USB port under the front dashboard.

Any time I charge my iPhone or iPad using the car's USB port, my phone's audio immediately stops working. Apparently the iPhone thinks it's been docked and is trying to play sound through the car's speakers. There is no option to select any audio source other than the Dock Connector.

I've seen this problem reported on forms once or twice before, but the only solutions seemed to be workarounds like "use the cigarette lighter for charging" or "pair to the car's speakers using Bluetooth".

What can I do to prevent my iPhone from muting itself when plugged into a 2013 Toyota RAV4?


texts: Help deleting a stubborn directory via Terminal in Recovery mode? (OSX 11.2.3 Big Sur)

texts:
A folder called "Applications" randomly appeared on my desktop, which has been impossible to delete.  The directory's contents are two baloney files of zero bites each--but neither of which I can manually-assign permission to in order to delete (even by command line).  Goal: delete Applications with the two files inside it.  This can't be done from Desktop--I don't have permission.
From a regular boot (logged in as myself), I run Terminal and type:
sudo rm -R /Users/<me>/Desktop/Applications
I give it my password.  Then see this:
rm: /Users/<me>/Desktop/Applications/Karabiner-Elements.app/Contents: Operation not permitted
override rwxr-xr-x  root/wheel schg,uchg for /Users/<me>/Desktop/Applications/Karabiner-Elements.app?
I type "yes" [enter], and see this:
rm: /Users/<me>/Desktop/Applications/Karabiner-Elements.app: Operation not permitted
Now trying same by entering Terminal by booting into Recovery mode.  Using the very well-written answer provided by @klanomath here, I am somehow running amok.
For starters, my command-line prompt is: -bash-3.2#.  From there, an ls command will present Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD - Data among the handful of volumes listed.  But getting to my username isn't working.  I get a "No Such file or directory."
I'm not a Terminal expert.  If anyone knows the basic navigation maneuvers for me to get to my own desktop from Terminal in Recovery mode, I'd be grateful.  Thanks in advance!
Edit: I am also following this thread and should note that I do have FileVault activated.
Edit 2: Tried Gordon's steps from his comment below.
First, his path syntax DOES work.  By entering this (replacing "ryan" with my username), I end up with another prompt--probably a good thing!  I was confident this would work and just backed-up my internal SSD with Carbon Copy Cloner, so went for the gusto and entered: rm -r /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD\ -\ Data/Users/<me>/Desktop/<directory to inoculate>.
What I got, was totally unexpected: it presented the same override prompts as before.  I typed "yes" and enter.  Then another.  Then another.  Then about TEN more of these, so I got tired of this and said eff it (only because I just backed up my entire HD with Carbon Copy Cloner), so I then did a rm -rf /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD\ -\ Data/Users/<me>/Desktop/<directory to inoculate>
Oh boy! Terminal then goes berserk--a few-thousand scroll through at warp speed--as though a 10GB program is being downloaded by command line.  1-2 minutes pass.  I restart (to my delight, this was even possible!) but then came the blow: my desktop makes its debut with, yet again, the ever-impossible-to-delete folder called Applications.
This is becoming comical.  What more can we do?  Thanks in advance!!
Edit 3: pion asked for results from the mount command from normal/single-user mode.  Those results are:
/dev/disk1s6s1 on / (apfs, sealed, local, read-only, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s4 on /System/Volumes/VM (apfs, local, noexec, journaled, noatime, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s2 on /System/Volumes/Preboot (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s7 on /System/Volumes/Update (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s5 on /System/Volumes/Data (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s1 on /Volumes/Bye Bye (apfs, local, journaled)
map auto_home on /System/Volumes/Data/home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)


texts: Logo of Java application changes after launch

texts:
I have a Java application in my dock, whose icon appears as the following when it is unopened:

However, after opening the application, the icon changes into the Java coffee cup logo:

This makes it hard to distinguish from other running Java apps, which all happen to do the same thing.
Is there any way to prevent this icon change?  I'm running 10.8.4.


texts: Is it possible to downgrade to an older minor version of macOS?

texts: I have a system running macOS 10.14.6, and I'd like to downgrade it to 10.14.5. Is there any way to do that? I can't find an installer for 10.14.0 - 10.14.5, only the latest.


texts: How do I enumerate osx launchctl LaunchAgents with their service/domain/blah blah target stuff?

texts:
What I did in the past was launchctl list // launchctl unload which is now "legacy."
What I want to do is list all items that startup (specifically Adobe) and remove the ones that I don't want starting all the time.
launchctl list | grep adobe
jon@jondb-01 ~/bin % launchctl list | grep adobe
-   2   com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud
-   111 com.adobe.ARMDCHelper.cc24aef4a1b90ed56a725c38014c95072f92651fb65e1bf9c8e43c37a23d420d
-   0   com.adobe.ccxprocess
411 0   com.adobe.GC.AGM

then,
launchctl unload com.adobe.GC.AGM

/Users/jon/bin/com.adobe.GC.AGM: No such file or directory

ok...
launchctl print gui/501/com.adobe.GC.AGM

[A lot of output]
path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.GC.AGM.plist

could go the legacy way, or try the new shiny disable way...
launchctl print gui/501/com.adobe.GC.AGM | grep path

path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.GC.AGM.plist

Wonderful. So I write this nifty script:
#!/bin/bash

path=$(launchctl print gui/501/${1} | grep path)
echo path: $path

launchctl kill SIGKILL gui/501/${1}
launchctl kill SIGTERM gui/501/${1}
launchctl disable gui/501/${1}

Works well until I get to com.adobe.ccxprocess... Back to the service targets??
jon@jondb-01 ~/bin % launchctl list | grep adobe
-   2   com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud
4003    0   com.adobe.CCLibrary.19884
-   111 com.adobe.ARMDCHelper.cc24aef4a1b90ed56a725c38014c95072f92651fb65e1bf9c8e43c37a23d420d
-   0   com.adobe.ccxprocess
jon@jondb-01 ~/bin % ./disableLauchAgent com.adobe.CCLibrary.19884
path: path = (submitted by Adobe Desktop S.3955)
Could not find service "com.adobe.CCLibrary.19884" in domain for login: 100010
jon@jondb-01 ~/bin % launchctl print user/501/com.adobe.CCLibrary.19884
Could not find service "com.adobe.CCLibrary.19884" in domain for uid: 501
jon@jondb-01 ~/bin % launchctl print service/com.adobe.CCLibrary.19884
Unrecognized target specifier. <service-target> takes a form of <domain-target>/<service-id>.
Please refer to `man launchctl` for explanation of the <domain-target> specifiers.
Usage: launchctl print <domain-target> | <service-target>
jon@jondb-01 ~/bin %

Can't seem to locate this thing. Cannot get the path. How do I disable it?


texts: Re-added certificate leads to unknown authority

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Messing around with Keychain Access on macOS Sierra, it seems like I have accidentally deleted trusted root certificates in Keychain Access.

What I did was opening a *.p7s file to add a S/MIME certificate. This threw an error:

An error occurred. Unable to import the certificate.
Error: -26276

, but still the certificate ended up being listed in Keychain Access. Next, opening Mail and creating a new Email I was able to use the certificate. I decided to delete the certificate from the Keychain and re-add it in order to resolve the error. Therefore I deleted all entries containing the name of the trusted source I have used for my certificate (I believe).
Now adding the same certificate again, still an error appears but the then listed entry says: This certificate was signed by an unknown authority, and Mail doesn't let me use it anymore...
I have also created and added a new certificate with the same authority leading to the same result.

Is it even possible I have deleted the default trusted root certificates from inside Keychain Access, or why else can I not use the certificate anymore? Is there a way to reset or fix it?


texts: Is there a way to change the default 6% volume increment on macOS?

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Running into the problem of sound coming from Podcasts apps without volume sliders being just a bit too loud on the lowest volume increment on my MacBook Pro while using external headphones.
I have found that by opening the system preferences I can drag the slider manually to get the right sound level, which is somewhere between 0 - 1, as pictured below, 0% is displayed on hover, however sound is playing at the right level for me.

It seems by default when pressing the keyboard volume buttons the default increment step is +/- 6%. I found a temporary work around that allows quarter-steps by pressing the Option + Shift while adjusting the volume via the keyboard. However the problem still persists lowest level still a-little to high?
Is there a way to tweak this to a custom step value via a property list or other software modification, such that using the keyboard volume adjustment increment can be a custom increment step value of my choosing, I am guessing 0.5% to start would be good to try. Not finding anything on how to set a property to change this 6% default.
Or lastly is there any other fixes for this kind or problem, would external DAC help in this case or some other audio contraption?


texts: Quicktime Video Panning multiple inputs problem

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QUicktime Video Question!

How do you get the audio from multiple inputs on an Interface to blend as mono.

Im using 2 inputs connected to Audio interface.. I have the input set to take audio from my interface through mac sound preferences.

But on play back Input one ends up panned far left, and 2 Far right... I would like it to take Mono Input and merge both signals
 anyone else run into this issue and have a solution?


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My OSX 10.8 machine can no longer reach several machines on my home network's internal IP range.  For example, I have an internal server which is also NAT'd through the router to accept SSH.  The server is at 192.168.1.65.

~$ ssh 192.168.1.65 -v
OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8x 10 May 2012
debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/jakes/.ssh/config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.1.65 [192.168.1.65] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 192.168.1.65 port 22: Host is down
ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.65 port 22: Host is down
~$ ssh myDynDNSDomainToTheSameMachine
jakes@myDynDNSDomainToTheSameMachine's password:

The same thing happens if I try to RDP to another machine -- similar setup.  RDP to it's internal IP does not work.  RDP to my dynDNS domain works fine.

It CAN connect however to the router and wireless access point IP addresses over http: 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.254.

Connection from other machines (including IOS devices) internally to other internal IP addresses works fine, it's just this OSX machine that has started to show this issue.

Can anyone offer any suggestions to troubleshoot?

EDIT:  I found that I'm getting incomplete ARP entries:

~$ arp -a
? (192.168.1.1) at c0:c1:c0:65:c2:0 on en1 ifscope [ethernet]
homedesk (192.168.1.64) at 0:22:5f:2b:d:4c on en1 ifscope [ethernet]
raspberrypi (192.168.1.65) at (incomplete) on en1 ifscope [ethernet]
my-ipad-2 (192.168.1.77) at 1c:ab:a7:94:42:54 on en1 ifscope [ethernet]
home (192.168.1.254) at b0:e7:54:3d:c2:e9 on en1 ifscope [ethernet]
? (192.168.1.255) at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff on en1 ifscope [ethernet]

Is that a problem on the OSX machine, the raspberrypi, or the router?


texts: Why do PDF forms/annotations filled in using Preview.app appear blank to Windows/Adobe users?

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If I fill out a PDF form using Preview.app on Mac OS X, and email it to a Windows user, it appears to be blank when they open it in Acrobat. The same applies to some (most?) annotations.

How can I stop this happening?!

I keep encountering this, both in my own work and friends/family filling in PDF forms using Preview.app. It can be a bit embarrassing in professional circumstances, getting a response of "No, please send the filled out form, not the blank one!".


texts: Airport Express - WiFi network extension with wireless speakers

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Background: I am considering an Airport Express (AE) to my room, but I am getting confusing information about how it can operate in different circumstances. I already have a router, with WiFi and LAN ports.
The AE would be connected by cable to currently owned router and I would also like to connect my Mac by wire to the AE.

Question: What I want to do is extend WiFi signal in our flat and also have the possibility to use my speakers wirelessly. Is it possible with the current AE?


texts: Damaged or Incomplete apps on El Capitan

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I have updated to El Capitan as soon as it came. I faced a lot of issues with SIP enabled, but recently a new issue popped up. Every once in a while the apps installed without using App Store are getting damaged or incomplete.

The apps which are having issues are SourceTree and Fabric. I had to delete those apps and reinstall them to make them work again.

My question is, is it normal or is it a bug? If it's normal, how can I fix it?


texts: How to configure 802.1X without a configuration file?

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After upgrading to Lion, all my 802.1X configurations are gone. There also  does not seem to be a possibility to configure them via the system preferences:

It just tells me to get a configuration file from my system administrator.

Question:

How can I create a profile manually like before, or, if this is not possible, can I create a configuration file myself with the data I have and how?

Update:

It turned out that it was sufficient to just provide my credentials at the when I connected to the network. I was just confused as there was not profile anymore in the preferences as you can see in the screenshot above. I hope the accepted answer will still be useful.