texts: notification when in range of cellular signal, or graph or monitor cellular signal strength over time

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Dream is to have iPhone notify me when I am back in cellular signal range. Standard iOS notification would be great. Sending a text or email would also be fine.
However, any kind of monitoring and/or graphing cellular signal strength over time would suit my purpose.
I do not need to see my signal strength when I'm paying attention. I need to see it when I'm not paying attention. Therefore iOS field test mode doesn't help.
I have a bunch of system utilities downloaded that show information about the cellular signal, including whether it's on or off, but none have any graphing or monitoring capabilities, it seems.
I considered Shortcuts but I am behind (iOS 12.0) and Automation (triggered shortcuts) were introduced only in iOS 13. However in Shortcuts in iOS 12, no system utilities were available to get data from anyway. Maybe that changed in iOS 13? (I can't upgrade to 13 yet because an app I need is not compatible yet.)
I considered IFTTT (If This Then That) but that seems entirely focused on web apps, and can not trigger based on an app running locally on your phone, it seems.
So, I'm out of ideas.
BACKGROUND: I have bad cell service in my basement office--most often zero (0) bars and a "No Service" indicator. So I'm using Verizon WiFi calling, since my WiFi router is right next to me. That mostly works, but calls are dropping after 1 to 30 minutes. This thread on the problem suggests that maybe what happens is that cell service pops in for a second, iPhone switches my call from WiFi calling back over to regular cellular calling, but this newly discovered, non-zero cellular signal is either too weak or too short-lived to sustain a phone call, and the call drops.
I'd just like to test that theory by looking at what the cellular signal strength was when the call dropped. Was it non-zero?
Possible?


texts: How do I get Safari to always display the tab bar?

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When you first open Safari and only have one page (one tab), the tab bar is not shown. When you open your second tab (e.g. by center-clicking a link to open it in a new tab), the tab bar then appears, which makes the content of the original page jump down a bit.
I expected to find an "Always show the tab bar" checkbox in Preferences, but apparently not.
Is there a way to force the tab bar to always appear, even if there's only one tab open?


texts: AppleScript: Check if "System Events" has loaded

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When an Active Directory (AD) user logs in, my AppleScript fires and attempts to put their AD home directory in the sidebar for easier access when opening and saving documents.

It works great, but about 10% of the time it fails because "System Events" hasn't loaded.  I've tried adding delays using:

do shell script "sleep 2"

But that doesn't solve the problem.  I've put the delay up to four seconds, and although it helps, it's certainly not ideal.

It would be a lot easier if I could somehow detect when the "System Events" process has loaded.  Does anyone know how to do this within AppleScript?


texts: iMessage sent to one phone is going to another phone instead

texts: My brother in laws daughter is intercepting all his iMessages on her iPhone. Someone sends him an iMessage and instead of going to his phone, it goes to hers???? This started right after she updated his phone and used her info and wifi. Plain texts still go to him


texts: How to clear new Music app's cache of streaming music on iOS?

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I have the latest iOS on my iPad and iPhone with the new Music app. I speculate the Music app's cache of downloaded streaming songs is taking about 1.5 to 2.0 GB of space, which is causing both of my devices to now report "storage almost full." This will be an issue in the future when I want to add a new app to the device. How do I clear this cache?

Some details. I activated iCloud Music Library on both devices since I'm trying out Apple Music. My iPad previously had no local audio files, but a few days after activating iCloud Music Library, the "Audio" usage on the iTunes app on OSX reported about 1.5 GB. The Music app does not show up on the iPad's General>Usage>Storage page, as there is no explicitly stored music.

My iPhone on the other hand had locally stored songs. The phone reports Music app's usage as 3.0 GB, while the iTunes app on OSX reports 4.98 GB.

EDIT: Auto music downloads are disabled on both devices


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I installed the newest Mono framework on Lion. After that I tried installing KeePass 2.17 from http://keepass2.openix.be/. When I try to start the application it probably fails, silently (it looks as if nothing happened). How can I check what happened?

Does anybody know how to use KeePass 2.x on MacOS Lion?


texts: How to completely disable the sound effect at all for an invalid action?

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Here's the problem that I have

My Bluetooth headset is connected to my smartphone and laptop.
I'm listening to music using the smartphone.
When I do some invalid action using the laptop my music gets interrupted.

I know how to volume down not to make a sound effect for an invalid action but what I want is to completely disable the sound effect so that my Bluetooth headset is not interrupted by it.

How can I completely disable the sound effect?

FYI, these threads don't have the answer

How do I disable the beep in OSX Leopard when I perform an invalid action?

How can I get the Mac Terminal to not beep?

Mac: disable the “boop” sound played when search results are not found

Update

I still want to listen to the sound of my laptop when it plays videos or something. I want to disable only the sound of an invalid input.
Even if I set the alert volume to zero my music still get interrupted by the sound effect of an invalid action - the sound effect doesn't make any sound but my music stops for some seconds as my laptop plays a sound effect without a sound.

So I want to know the way to completely disable the sound effect of an invalid input, not the way of muting it.


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I do backups of Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6 with Time Machine to USB external HDD's and at some point I couldn't wait for any backup to complete.
For example it can be like this for maybe over 6 hours, until I just press "Skip This Backup"

If I check sudo fs_usage backupd, it's just lots of these lines

09:55:49.515864    RdMeta[ST3]     D=0x3e5fe8a8  B=0x2000   /dev/disk3s1                                                                                0.016663 W backupd.824910
09:55:49.533957    RdMeta[ST3]     D=0x3cafd768  B=0x2000   /dev/disk3s1                                                                                0.018043 W backupd.824910
09:55:49.565517    RdMeta[ST3]     D=0x3af3e360  B=0x2000   /dev/disk3s1                                                                                0.031517 W backupd.824910
09:55:49.575010    RdMeta[ST3]     D=0x2c4e29b8  B=0x2000   /dev/disk3s1                                                                                0.009424 W backupd.824910
09:55:49.591100    RdMeta[ST3]     D=0x399f9a78  B=0x2000   /dev/disk3s1                                                                                0.016015 W backupd.824910
09:55:49.610730    RdMeta[ST3]     D=0x399a8458  B=0x2000   /dev/disk3s1                                                                                0.019583 W backupd.824910
09:55:49.634997    RdMeta[ST3]     D=0x366a0e50  B=0x2000   /dev/disk3s1                                                                                0.024226 W backupd.824910
09:55:49.675542    RdMeta[ST3]     D=0x2fd33260  B=0x2000   /dev/disk3s1                                                                                0.040490 W backupd.824910
09:55:49.696395    RdMeta[ST3]     D=0x2d39c3d0  B=0x2000   /dev/disk3s1                                                                                0.020778 W backupd.824910
09:55:49.704406    RdMeta[ST3]     D=0x2c560448  B=0x2000   /dev/disk3s1                                                                                0.007943 W backupd.824910
09:55:49.722183    RdMeta[ST3]     D=0x2a9fa720  B=0x2000   /dev/disk3s1                                                                                0.017714 W backupd.824910
09:55:49.752376    RdMeta[ST3]     D=0x00847a20  B=0x2000   /dev/disk3s1                                                                                0.030050 W backupd.824910
09:55:49.794376    RdMeta[ST3]     D=0x417a1b50  B=0x2000   /dev/disk3s1                                                                                0.041950 W backupd.824910

occasionally interrupted by

09:55:42.201947  getattrlistbulk                                                                                7.885756   backupd.824910

UPD:
tmutil listbackups doesn't show any .inProgress entries, so deleting them couldn't work for me

My current backup session is frozen on 919.2Mb. tmutil status output is:

Backup session status:
{
    BackupPhase = Copying;
    ClientID = "com.apple.backupd";
    DateOfStateChange = "2019-04-13 21:47:32 +0000";
    DestinationID = "80DD4AE0-6BD5-4E91-9A67-2C3346B95A68";
    DestinationMountPoint = "/Volumes/yellow backups";
    Percent = "0.01760709905511998";
    Progress =     {
        TimeRemaining = 143771;
        "_raw_totalBytes" = 46987386344;
        bytes = 919235073;
        files = 548346;
        totalBytes = 51686124978;
        totalFiles = 1048225;
    };
    Running = 1;
    Stopping = 0;
    "_raw_Percent" = "0.01956344339457776";
}

The output doesn't seem to update over time

UPD2: after approx 18 hours of hangup, backup has completed and now it's on Cleaning up... phase.
I'm still wondering what's causing this behavior and if I can somehow avoid it.


texts: iMovie before and after color correction

texts: In most popular image editing applications you can easily toggle the corrected image (thinking holding down on the photo in instagram), with the original. I it possible to view the original shot without resetting?


texts: Google Search asks for my location once a day on my iPhone

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On my iPhone, when I perform a search on Google in Safari, once a day it will ask for my location. So, it won't ask for that day, and then the next day, when I perform a Google search, it will ask for my location again. It seems to ask for my location even if I perform a search that doesn't even require my location.

I want Google to permanently remember my location, or at least stop asking me for my location at all.

I have already tried going to the Google homepage and clicking on the "Use precise location" link to try to get it to remember my location, but that didn't work.

I've also tried clearing all Safari iOS data.


texts: Can't burn newly created playlist to CD with iTunes 12.1

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I just want to burn some music for my Mom to a CD-R.  I've done this multiple times. If I check MP3 CD box, I receive message stating all music is not MP3, and it won't allow. If I check other option, Data CD or DVD, it copies but if I insert into CD player, message is, " No Audio."

This can't be this hard.

Any help is appreciated.

I have OS 10.7.5

Thanks


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My MacBook Pro (mid-2012, 16GB, i7 2.3) has started to misbehave:

very slow to start up and shut down
application launches are slow
system becomes nearly unusable when "free" memory approaches zero.

Disk Utility is showing SMART status of the drive as "verified". However, Blackmagic Disk Speed Test is showing a read speed of 27 MB/s and a write speed of 25.7 MB/s. This seems slow to me, though I'm have trouble finding any benchmark values to compare against.

I've run "verify disk" in the Disk Utility app twice. The first time it completed with no errors. The second time the computer froze before the procedure finished.

Here is the system profiler information for the drive.

Capacity:   500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
  Model:    APPLE HDD HTS547550A9E384
  Revision: JE3AD70F
  Serial Number:          J226008BJ65LKC
  Native Command Queuing:   Yes
  Queue Depth:  32
  Removable Media:  No
  Detachable Drive: No
  BSD Name: disk0
  Rotational Rate:  5400
  Medium Type:  Rotational
  Partition Map Type:   GPT (GUID Partition Table)
  S.M.A.R.T. status:    Verified
  Volumes:
disk0s1:
  Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
  BSD Name: disk0s1
  Content:  EFI
Macintosh HD:
  Capacity: 499.25 GB (499,248,103,424 bytes)
  Available:    101.87 GB (101,868,064,768 bytes)
  Writable: Yes
  File System:  Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name: disk0s2
  Mount Point:  /
  Content:  Apple_HFS
  Volume UUID:  BBF6F6B8-26B8-39B4-A206-81471EA7F2B2
Recovery HD:
  Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
  BSD Name: disk0s3
  Content:  Apple_Boot
  Volume UUID:  DB9ED89F-80DF-3A80-BCC4-58DF1F234256

Does any of this indicate an imminent drive failure? The AppleCare plan for this computer expires in 6 days.


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I know this is not a new problem, but I haven't seen a solution to it so I figured I'd go ahead and see if anyone has come across a solution here:

Sometimes iTunes grays out menu bar options such as Quit iTunes and Add to Library. I never noticed any pattern about when this happens, but I've read that others experience it after editing tracks in their libraries. I've also checked for open dialog boxes somewhere, but I don't have any of those.

Anyone know why this is still happening (years after I first saw this), and if there is any solution yet? I am on OS X 10.7.5 and running whatever version of iTunes is the latest that is available via Software Update (the About iTunes option is grayed out as well so I can't check that right now). Any ideas would be much appreciated -- thanks!


texts: Does not boot after drive decryption log in, hangs after 100%

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This morning the laptop hung on me before a forced restart after a message appeared.
After entering my credentials at the first log in screen (drive encryption) the status bar continues to 100% and does not proceed from there, it stays stuck on that screen for hours (I left it for about 7 hours)
Booting into safe mode doesn't seem to work either - after I enter my login, it gets about half way before all of a sudden shutting down completely.
Recovery mode isn't great either - the reinstall option appears, but after when I click continue, it is grey out and nothing happens, and remains on the screen with the multiple options of recovery.
Time machine back up - one which I thought would have been covered as I have a backup that is 2 weeks old and happy to restore this. But after I enter my password as its an encrypted drive, it doesn't proceed to show me what available to back-up.
I've called Apple, they're reading from a script I'm sure, so limited help there, and they've advised me to take it in to a technician.
What are my options?


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My main HD has 222GB in use, and is formated OS X 10.10 Yosemite (latest). I am marrried to 10.10, no time to upgrade.  I bought a 256GB (244 reported) USB stick (Sandisk midrange, their $56 midrange) and would like to image my whole hard drive to it, and be right up in my environment.

How do I make this bootable and clone my HD to it?

To not "XY the problem", I want to finish with a bootable USB stick that is a clone of my current operating environment and can boot any iMac of my same model.

Where I'm stuck, particularly, is "blessing" this USB stick to make it bootable. I.E. I don't know how to do MS-DOS 3.3's "format A: /S".

What I've tried

I only install software from the app store.

I tried booting up in 10.11 El Cap (external drive).  Its new Disk Utility "restore" blew an error "Not enough free space".  (300GB total, 222GB used, 244GB on USB).

Unable to boot in 10.10 Yosemite since only the internal HD has a 10.10 image, and that's the one I'm trying to copy!  10.10 disk utility won't "restore" from the boot drive.

Buying a 512GB stick is not an option.

Resources at my disposal:

App Store.  Not afraid of Terminal.

Noooo!  My copy of Install OS X Yosemite is  corrupted.  I store it as a tarball to keep it from exploding and self-deleting, and 'tar xzvf ' is giving a corrupted result.

I am fairly adept with rsync (as local backup) and do my regular disk-disk backups that way, works slick.

I also have a bootable 10.6 (Snow Leopard) volume.  Is it new enough to do this copy?


texts: 'Choose file' sidebar options disappeared

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When you go to a website with a file uploader you click on a choose file and a pop up window appears with a sidebar similar to what you have in your standard finder window, however recently all of the options like Documents, Downloads, Pictures etc are no longer present, now I can only see ak52-macbook and remote disk. In standard finder windows I have all my standard folders plus custom ones that I added. I made sure in finder preferences that all of them are displayed.

I could not find anything in the finder or chrome browser preferences regarding this so here is my question, how do I display all of those folder in the pick file to upload pop up sidebar?


texts: What are the shutter speed and ISO ranges for the iPhone 4S camera?

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Despite some googling, I can't find any information on the hardware limits of the camera in the iPhone 4S. What ISO and shutter speeds are possible from the still camera?

I know the exposure is programmed and you can't choose ISO or shutter speed, but I'm looking to at least know what the ranges the phone is capable. I have a lot of iPhone 4 images and can scrape the minimum / maximum values from EXIF data, but lack this resource for the iPhone 4S.

What ranges are possible with the iPhone 4S hardware? I'm most interested in the shutter speeds, but anything will help since at f/2.4 the two are linked to exposure in an understandable manner.


texts: Are restrictions in iOS by device and not iCloud account?

texts: Just getting to grips with restrictions on multiple iOS devices using the same AppleID. Are restrictions device specific? If yes, do I have to set them up again on the other device?


texts: How to avoid OS X downloading things while using tethering

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When on the road, I would like to use my phone's LTE connection and tether it to my macbook.

However, I do not have an unlimited data plan, so I don't want the mac to download a bunch of stuff (OS X updates, Chrome updates, and so forth) and kill my monthly allowance.

As far as I know, when tethering from the mac side it looks like a regular wlan connection, so I am not sure if there is an easy way to do this. I use Little Snitch, so I was considering creating a restrictive profile there to block connections when in this mode. Is there an obvious way to do this that I am missing?


texts: My Mac Pro fans completely refuse to speed up

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I recently purchased this 4,1 Mac Pro in pristine condition. Only issue is, none of the fans will speed up under heavy load. The temps can go up to 90°C and none of them speed up. I can manually speed them up, but that’s about it. Already reset SMC, PRAM and tried my troubleshooting booting from the secondary hard drive on which lays a clean OS X that got installed using this Mac Pro, since I took the main hard drive out of my iMac (thought maybe OS X installations are hardware-specific). I could just keep using MacsFanControl, but I rather have the underlying issue fixed.

Clue: I read somewhere online that somebody had the opposite issue, their Mac would ramp the fans up all the way. Said person found out that a parameter in their firmware was set to the maximum fan speed (rpm) where it should define the minimum.

I’m out of ideas.


texts: I have some privacy concerns and would like to know how to disable screen sharing. I have tried turning of the WiFi but was then not able to use the internet.


texts: Before updating to 10.9 I frequently deleted all the small files some apps leave behing by searching for invisible system files. Now it doesn't seem to work, I can navigate to the file manually just fine, but it doesn't show up in the search. Is there a way to index Library?


texts: Why isn't my apple id letting me download songs?

texts: I pre-ordered an album, but I haven't been able to download the singles released because when I type in my apple ID it asks for verification, and every time I try to answer one of the verification questions it says I'm answering it wrong. I'm not though. I really need to download more songs because the album comes out tomorrow. What should I do?


texts: Can an app that runs on iPad be forced to be displayed in iPhone's resolution or aspect ratio?

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The example is Pokemon Go: when it is running on the iPad Pro, almost everything is fine, except you cannot see part of the upper screen and part of the lower screen.

As a result, in a gym battle, when your move is super effective or not very effective, the message at the top of the screen cannot be seen. And when you try to catch a Raid boss, the number of Premier balls remaining at the bottom of the screen cannot be seen either. (unlike iPhone).

So can you force the app to run on the iPad Pro like it is an iPhone app (or use the iPhone's screen aspect ratio -- long screen size instead of 4:3)?

(The app is published as an iPhone / iPad universal app, and all it takes is one click for the developer to publish it as an iPhone only app, and it will be running as an iPhone app on the iPad and everything will be visible on screen. The fact that the developer chose to publish it not as iPhone only app but with some elements not visible on screen on the iPad, is really a bad decision and therefore the user really should be allowed to choose to use it as an iPhone app on the iPad).


texts: is there anyway to add a song to an existing specific playlist from my ipod touch

texts: If I am listening to all my music and I hear a song and I think it would be great to add to a certain playlist (lets say a playlist i called "gym mix", is there anyway to do this from the iPod touch itself, instead of having to remember this and them do it from iTunes when i am at my computer.  This seems like a basic function but i can't find it anywhere


texts: How do I fix enourmous CPU usage & temperature on MacBook Air when trying to install Wine?

texts: I have a 2012 MacBook Air Intel Core i5 8 GB memory (Mountain Lion).  I am trying to install Wine through MacPorts, but after about a minute of building Wine, CPU usage rapidly rises into the 90s, and the temperature goes from 60 degrees Celcius to 90-95 very quickly.  Both the CPU usage and the temperature continue rising until I shut down my MacBook. The fan becomes very loud and occasionally makes screeching sounds.  I have tried several times and reinstalled MacPorts but to no avail.  What can I do to fix this? Any help is greatly appreciated.


texts: ExFAT does not support resizing - how can I partition it in order to use TimeMachine backup?

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I have a 4TB external drive formatted as ExFAT file system with single partition, and I've already stored approximately about 800GB of files on it, and I decided to create a partition on this drive to use TimeMachine backup. But then I tried to add a partition (Mac OS Extended Journaled) to it and I found out that ExFAT does not support resizing, so I realized that the only thing I can do about it is to move away all the files on this drive temporarily and reformat this drive with two partitions. (I can't buy a new hard drive and I don't have another hard drive that's empty)

Is there ANY other way (it seems that's it) other than this solution to partition my drive (cause it's gonna take a lot of effort on transferring the files)? Like using windows computer or other third-party application?


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Adobe Acrobat Pro allows the user to convert an entire website (or subset) to a PDF. Is there anything else available for OS X to do the same thing? I don't want to spend several hundred dollars.

Ideally, it would allow the user to rip a URL and all other URLs on the same "prefix" to a single PDF. For example, given the URL "http://example.com/a_web_page", it would pull "http://example.com/a_web_page/index.html", "http://example.com/a_web_page/a", "http://example.com/a_web_page/b", etc., but not "http://example.com/index.html" to a single PDF.

I have found whole books released under Creative Commons licenses as HTML pages (one per chapter, or section). I would like to capture the entire book to a single PDF to read on my iPad.

Thanks.


texts: Is there an app that will track "Time since last full charge" on OS X?

texts: I am trying to troubleshoot battery life issues in OS X Lion on my MBA13. Is there an app (or hidden system information) that can tell me how long my computer has been on since last full charge. I am not looking for uptime, but looking specifically for Time Since Last Full Charge, just as is available in iOS.


texts: How to allow install of non app store or identified developers on MacOS Sierra

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I'm getting this error trying to install software on MacOS Sierra (10.12.5):

Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the App Store and identified developers.

I'd like to change the settings so that these types of installations are allowed. Similar to what is shown here:

http://www.synergy.com/wordpress_650164087/faqs/if-you-get-the-following-error-trying-to-install-kg-under-os-10-8-your-security-preferences-allow-installation-of-only-apps-from-the-mac-app-store-and-identified-developers/

However, my system doesn't seem to have the Anywhere option (screen shot below). This option is also not available if the Advanced button is selected.


texts: applescript - do shell output to variable is blank

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Hi I'm trying to get the cpuValue but I get "" for the variable.
set cpuValue to ""
getProcessPercentCPU("Safari")

on getProcessPercentCPU(someProcess)
    set cpuValue to do shell script "/bin/ps -xco %cpu,command | /usr/bin/awk '/" & someProcess & "$/ {print $1}'"
end getProcessPercentCPU

log "output:" & cpuValue

Output
""


texts:
I have an applescript :

tell application "System Events"
    tell current location of network preferences
        set VPNService to service "VPN (Cisco IPSec)"
        if exists VPNService then
            connect VPNService
        end if
    end tell
end tell

When I execute it a dialog box is showing up and ask me for my password. I would like to automate this process and put directly my password in my script and validate automatically the dialog box.

Is there a way a to do that ?


texts:
On my imac I have system Preferences -> hardware -> keyboard -> keyboard & text input set with a checkmark for move focus to menu bar with ^F2.  It works.

On my (pretty new) macbook air, I set the same thing, and it doesn't work.

I have (Text boxes and lists only ) checked on both machines, but I seem to get the same result with all controls checked..

Both are os x version 10.8.4

--

On the other hand, Under mission control, when switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application WORKS for macbook air, but not for the iMac.

What am I missing?  Anyone else have these kinds of problems?


texts: iMac refuses to boot, Disk Utility always says there are drive errors it can't repair -- what to do?

texts:
This is a follow on to the question I asked about replacing the hard drive in my iMac. The restore from TimeMachine finished and the machine still won't boot. Just the white screen, Apple logo and spinner. I booted to the Snow Leopard DVD and ran Disk Utility on it again -- and again Disk Utility told me:

  Verify and Repair volume "Main"
  Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
  Checking extents overflow file.
  Checking catalog file.
  Invalid node structure
  The volume Main could not be verified completely.
  Volume repair complete.
  Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
  Error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.

Is this drive dead? Seems odd I could restore to it if it's dead. Should I try an older backup from TimeMachine? Could the most recent backup be restoring something so corrupt to the disk that it's un-bootable after the restore?

Edit: SMART status for the drive was fine. No problems reported.

Edit: I restored from a TM backup that wasn't the latest. A few hours before that. It still won't boot, but I get a little further in the Repair Disk function now. Mean anything to anyone?

  Verify and Repair volume "Main"
  Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
  Checking extents overflow file.
  Checking catalog file.
  Invalid sibling link
  Rebuilding catalog B-tree.
  Invalid key length
  The volume Main could not be verified completely.
  Volume repair complete.
  Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
  Error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.

Update: it was an issue with my primary drive. It had something going on with that was preventing it from being boot-able. Replacing the drive (more or less) fixed the problem.


texts: While using a brand new MacBook Pro, with Touch Bar, somehow the Dock got locked.  I didn't do anything that I know of.  Nothing moves at all, in or out.  I'm trying to remove and add items, apps, and nothing takes.


texts: Yosemite fail - how do I revert back to snow leopard?

texts: How can I revert back to snow leopard? My machine won't start up. Macbook pro 17"


texts: How can Apple Mail be configured to mimic Gmail's "Archiving" behaviour for a generic IMAP account?

texts:
It is straightforward to configure a Gmail account being accessed through Apple Mail to Archive messages when you "delete" them from the mail client. With generic IMAP accounts, however, the only options for deleting messages are:

Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox (which, when unchecked, leaves them in the Inbox)
Store deleted messages on the server (which, when unchecked, stores them in the local mailbox only, I suppose)
Permanently erase deleted messages when <time interval>...

Is there a way, through a combination of server configuration and, perhaps, Apple Mail rules, to move messages to an IMAP "archive" folder when I Trash them?

(I note that there seems to exist no condition in Apple Mail's rules to take action when a message is deleted...)


texts: External monitor cuts out on MacBook with Multiport Adapter

texts:
I have a newer MacBook with only a USB-C port. I use an Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter, and the HDMI output has worked in the past.

When hooked to my new ASUS monitor with an HDMI cable, the display cuts in and out. Changing the resolution makes no difference.

I have tried three different cables, including a known good one.

I tested the display with a PC over HDMI, and it worked flawlessly in multiple resolutions (over a cable I had previously tried with the Mac).

What's my next step?


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In short, I need to kill all httpd processes so I can run a particular program. When I go to Activity Monitor and Quit all of the httpd processes, a new one is immediately spawned. I'm not sure what is causing this, and would like to know how to effectively kill httpd without it launching again. I'm guessing something else is requiring it and thus the automatic spawning, so maybe you can help me determine where that's coming from.

I'm running 10.8.2, and trying to run Tiny Umbrella to store my SHSH blobs so I can downgrade my dev phone after upgrading to iOS 6.


texts: My MacBook gets stuck but still has 44 GB of storage left

texts:
My MacBook has 125 GB storage space (other 125 GB is for Windows). It still has more than 44 GB available but it gets stuck every two hours. I have tried all the methods I can find and have deleted what I can delete. But it still doesn't work! Now I can't write my final paper in Word!

When it starts up it still has 44 GB available

Less than 2 hours later it would be like that

And then all the application paused and I have to re-start.


texts: How to get a higher res image in the Login page?

texts:
For years, I've been using the 'Calico Cat' image that ships with OS X for my account.

Since upgrading to Mountain Lion (maybe since Lion?) the Login page has larger round account images, and it shows the 'Calico Cat' image as a rather stretched and fuzzy rendering.

Is there a way to fix this?  Did Apple simply not provide a higher res version of the default account images?  If not, this seems like an oversight, Apple used to be very conscious of such things, for example, I know that every application icon has an embedded hi-res version it's image.

Any suggestions are welcome.  Thanks!

Rob


texts: Quicktime now reopens last video. How to avoid?

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It seems to be a new behavior in Lion but here is what is happening for me:

I open a video file
Quicktime launches and play the video
When I'm done, I hit CmdQ

Now, with Lion, when opening another video the same way, it opens but the previously opened one also...
To avoid this I have to do a CmdW before my CmdQ.

I suppose it's linked to the General System Preference Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps.
If so, is there a way to deactivate it for some of the apps and not globally (as I must admit it's quite handy in other applications)?


texts: Preview.app: easily print current page only?

texts: When printing a PDF from preview, is there an easy way to only print the currently displayed page? Now, I look up the page number and enter it two times in the page range. But maybe there is a keyboard shortcut to do so?


texts: Any partition software just to partition unused space?

texts: Currently I have one portable external hard drive which I use for Windows. It's 1TB and over 300GB is used space. I would like to partition it so I can access the unused space from my Mac. Can you all recommend any partition software which does the job? I am afraid that it would wipe out my current data that's why.


texts: Fonts are not displaying properly - after Google Fonts was installed via terminal

texts:
The above picture tries to introduce that some websites are not reacting well of Google Fonts installation.
Originally I installed these fonts via terminal
 cd ~/Library/Fonts/
 git clone https://github.com/google/fonts.git google-fonts

On the other day after the first boot-up I realised that both in Opera and Firefox were showing wrong characters mostly Z letters, see below.
When I simple deleted with the Font Book "Restore Standard Fonts.." everything goes back to normal.
Any command or modification which are capable to solve this thing is known?
Thank you!
Late Alu 2008
OS X 10.11.6
El Capitan


texts: Is there a way of finding which app is already using a specific keyboard shortcut? (macOS Big Sur)

texts: I would like to use the Google Docs shortcut for inserting a page break ⌘ + Enter. It doesn't work, and I have no idea which (or if another) app is using the shortcut. I can't even find it with Cheatsheet. The Google Docs menu even confirms that ⌘ + Enter is the shortcut for a page break.


texts: I am a dj playing live in a club.  after playing live music with traktor software for a couple of hours sound gets muddy and starts getting muffled then fades out/drop out.I am using a s4 mk2 traktor controller which has a sound card.  When i closed the program the let the system's quick player run it did the same time, but it was still running through usb controller.


texts:
I want to allow traffic to flow from the Internet to my Raspberry Pi, the IP address of the Pi needs to look as though it is from the router (NAT).

The ports that need to be allowed through are port 80 (http) and port 22 (ssh).

Where can I find these NAT settings? How do I allow ports?


texts: Replacing external drive, reuse the drive name?

texts:
I want to upgrade my external drive. Due to the small capacity of of my Macbooks HD, the external drive is used to store everything except for applications.
I want to change out the drive and try to avoid spending the next several weeks pointing apps to the new drive whenever an app looks for the old drive.
Yesterday, I put an entire copy of the old drive (lets call it Alpha) onto the new external SSD.
Can I disconnect the old drive (Alpha) and then change the name of the new one drive to "Alpha"? Will my Mac and Time Machine see this new drive as the old?


texts: Installed PC 16gb Ram into Macbook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011) - Errors happening

texts:
I installed PC Ram into my Early 2011 15 inch Macbook Pro (Ver. Sierra 10.12.4). It works great but occasionally restarts without any warning and sometimes, when I turn it on, this code appears. It is gone if I do a hard shut down and then start it again. I did a hardware test (pressed 'D' on restart) and that hardware test said there were no issues. Thoughts???

Type of ram - Komputerbay 16GB Dual Channel Kit 2x 8GB 204pin DDR3-1600 SO-DIMM 1600/12800S (1600MHz, CL11) for MAC and PC

Image of error message is attached.


texts: iCloud mail sync with outlook 2016 on MAC

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I have all the latest software - El Capitan, Outlook 2016 fully patched, and an iCloud account that I can log into (from Safari) using either thisIsMe@icloud.com or thisIsMe@gmail.com with thisIsMyPassword.

I setup Mac Outlook 2016 as per web instructions...

E-mail address: thisIsMe@icloud.com
User Name: thisIsMe
Password:  thisIsMyPassword
Incoming Server: imap.mail.me.com:993 (SSL checked)
Outgoing Server: smtp.mail.me.com:587 (SSL checked)

I have tried everything... sadly no combination of anything makes it all 'just work'. :(

What am I doing wrong?


texts: Cannot connect my Google account on an iPhone 5 / iOS 10.3.3

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I have a new iPhone 5 and I tried to connect to my Google account, but without success.

I first open the Accounts view:

When clicking on Google, the OAuth view appears and I enter my email/password.

I immediately receive a security alert on my Gmail indicating that a new device is trying to connect to my account. I click Check my activity and confirm that I'm at the origin of this connection.

Unfortunately, my iPhone goes back to the Accounts view without adding my gmail account to the list.


texts: How to re-span a cron-like launchd script in case of script error?

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I have a cron-like launchd script (StartCalendarInterval) that does a backup of some website data once per day:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.example.backup</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Volumes/Example/backup.sh</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>Hour</key>
            <integer>2</integer>
            <key>Minute</key>
            <integer>15</integer>
        </dict>
    </array>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/var/log/com.example/backup_error</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/var/log/com.example/backup_output</string>
</dict>
</plist>

In rare cases it might go wrong when the Internet is not available. The backup.sh script then sets a proper error code that is larger than 0.

Now I would like that the script is automatically relaunched an hour later after an error. And again and again until there is no error. But not after 24 hours to avoid two instances of the script running at the same time.

I believe this must be possible with ThrottleInterval and SuccessfulExit. My problem is that SuccessfulExit is linked to KeepAlive. I do not want the script to run all the time, but just once a day via the StartCalendarInterval.

Is my task doable directly with launchd? Or should I simply add wait 1 hour and try again after error to my script? The script would require resources all the time when set up like this. I would like to avoid this.


texts: Is there a way to restore the functionality removed from Health in iOS 10?

texts:
Prior to iOS 10, the Health app made it easy to collect and focus on health aspects  of interest, and to view how these change over time. It was possible to:

collect (only) specific aspects (weight, steps walked, body fat, etc.) together so on a single page,
view graphs all of these aspects together over varying time frames (day, week, month, etc.), and
sort the order in which this information appears.

In iOS 10, all of these features have been removed, and what remains of this functionality is scattered in different places (a page of textual panels that just lists the current day's numbers; a single graph and app advertising page).

Are there settings for restoring this functionality, or at least getting most of it back?

Alternatively (off topic here) is there a good app that provides this functionality.


texts: How can I stream all audio from my imac into a PC on the same network?

texts: I would like all iMac sounds to go through my network into my PC speakers. Is there an available solution for this?


texts:
Is the Nvidia's Titan XP compatible with Apple's MacBook (mid-2017)? I have never used external GPU but it seems to be that you can use it on MacBook Pro.

However, MacBook doesn't have Thunderbolt.

Is it possible to use Titan XP on MacBook, with a connector like Thunderbolt to USB 3.1? Is the performance drained via the connector and not a good solution in general?

The use cases are deep neural net and I don't use gaming, for your information.


texts: Can I copy from Finder the current Path?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Copying the current directory's path to the clipboard

Is there a way to copy to clipboard the current directory I'm at? (I'm running ML).

EDIT: There is an option to simply drag the file/folder from Finder to the Terminal and it will automatically enter the path name.


texts: I can reduce the size of pages to make multiple of them fit on my screen, but then they are never oriented properly :( Is there a way to actually split my screen as a command on my MacBook Air? I imagine that would line the pages up automatically.


texts: Magic Mouse disconnects macOS Mojave (MacBook Pro 2018)

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I bought a new 2018 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. I am experiencing Bluetooth issues such as my Magic Mouse disconnecting randomly and lagging. These are the steps I have taken (not in the order as listed here) though I am still experiencing the dropouts. Any other suggestions?

Removed Bluetooth devices from existing connections.
Turn off and on Bluetooth and Wifi.
Remove Bluetooth PAN from network interface.
Have fresh batteries.
Remove the cover from the mouse.
Put a piece of paper between the batteries and the cover.
Clean connectors from mouse.
Debug Bluetooth.
Remove and reconnect Bluetooth devices.
Disable Handoff.
Reset NVRAM.
Restarted in safe mode to isolate issues with your Mac.
A combination of disconnecting, resetting NVRAM, safe mode, and pairing.
Unplugged USB-C hub to avoid interference.
Checked for metal objects and 2.4GHz interference.
Renamed my Bluetooth devices.
Removed com.apple.Bluetooth.plist (whenever the Bluetooth is about to cut out a copy of com.apple.Bluetooth.plist is created, not sure if this means something).

[Edit: I have had my Bluetooth antenna in my MacBook replaced and it is somewhat better, though, still not fully solved]


texts: When I attach a document to my email, it can come out as an icon, or sometimes as a printed document. Can I control this?


texts: Mirror macbook air screen to external display and then extend that display with another external display?

texts:
I have MBA mid 2013 and two 24 inch Dell external monitors. How to make mirror of laptop screen to one Dell display and then extend (or maybe I don't know which term should I use) with another Dell screen .

Like this one :


texts: Can one restore a Time Machine backup to a new computer?

texts: I am currently backing up my MacBook Pro late 2013 to a Time Machine. If something happens to my Mac (I can't use it anymore), can I retrieve my files and data onto another Mac? Thanks.


texts: Is it ok to mix 2 GB and 4 GB DIMMS in an iMac (mid 2011)?

texts:
I've been told it is important to use matching DIMMs when installing memory to take advantage of the 128 bit throughput. I'm looking to buy a new 27" iMac (mid 2011) which has 4 memory slots. If I put matching 2x2GB in 2 of the slots and matching 2x4GB in the other two slots, will that reduce its throughput or cause any problems?

Do all 4 have to match or do each set of 2 need to match?


texts: Stop iPhone from sending iMessages to OS X

texts:
I recently got an iMac and I set up that my photos and music from my iMac get downloaded to my iPhone.

But now my messages on my iPhone are getting sent to my iMac. I went on my iPhone and clicked Settings > Messages > Send and Recieve but it doesn't show an email that is set up to my Mac. I also can't find preferences for messages on my Mac. How do I stop iMessages from my Phone going to my Mac?


texts: Can the 2011 Mac-Mini (not the Server Edition) Support an Additional Hardisk, SSD?

texts:
Is it possible to add an additional HDD or a SSD to a 2011 mac-mini (no the server edition) in addition to the 500GB HDD that comes with the computer?

If so, are additional parts required? Are these parts readily available?


texts: New iPhone 4S using 10 times faster battery than old 4, why?

texts: iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 have the same settings but the new iPhone 4S uses 10 times more battery in standby than old iPhone 4. Why?


texts: Install oracle 12c database in OS X Yosemite without Virtual Machine

texts: Can we install Oracle 12c Database without using any Virtual Machine ? Currently I have installed it in VMWare Fusion but it is consuming a lot of power.


texts:
I have a USB drive that I cleaned and formatted as FAT32 on my Linux machine because Diskutil disableOwnership wouldn't work.  I plugged it into the Windows machine with the files I need and copied them onto the USB with no problems.  But when I plugged the USB into my Mac, it gave the error, "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer."

I reopened terminal and ran diskutil info.  Here's the output for the particular disk:

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *30.8 GB    disk2
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         4.1 KB     disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS                         2.4 MB     disk2s2

Windows and Linux are both recognizing the disk correctly as a FAT32, but MacOS thinks it is an Apple Partition scheme.  What is a possible cause?  Is there a way to force MacOS to recognize the disk correctly?

Note: The reason I formatted the disk with Linux was that I get the error "Couldn't modify the partition map" when I use Diskutil to erase the disk.


texts: Is there a way to add a background color in Apple notes?

texts:
I'm using MacOs Mojave 10.14.6

I've looked for the function, but can't get any useful info on it. It seems like a simple function to me, but I can't find it on the menu.


texts: Can I force my iOS device to connect to 1 Wifi network over another

texts:
We have 2 wifi networks quite close to each other in our workplace, but I need to connect my iphone or ipad to 1 over the other out of preference.  It's fine for myself as I can simply change wifi networks, but if my boss's device connects to the wrong one (which connects to a seperate subnet) he want's it to just work?

Is there a way I can simply order them, or get it to pick one over the other?


texts: Pages - Why dont numbers like 6th format like they do in Word?

texts: Whenever I type something that involves order, like 6th or 2nd, in Pages, I want it to be able to do the behavior that Word does, i.e, make the 'th' or the 'nd' part a superscript. Is there any setting to do this? If no, is there any other possible way?


texts:
I have some actions I see on a Mac computer,
specifically----> Move "syncstatus.plist".

What exactly is syncstatus.plist

Is it an iPhone backup or something???


texts: How to adjust the color of the folders in Finder in Yosemite?

texts:
After upgrading to Yosemite, the color of the folders in Finder changes from a nice soothing blue to some brighter blue that has much higher contrast.

I am curious that is there any way to change that back? Like creating some user defined css file.

There is a dark mode for the system wide menu, is there a dark mode for the Finder?


texts: How can I disable Siri for making reminders and calendar items?

texts:
I would like Siri not to be able to make reminders and calendar items without asking for the lock screen password.

When I ask Siri to create a new reminder, I would like to ask it to unlock my phone first.


texts: I have installed Ubuntu os in my macbook Pro mid 2012 in 100gb partition storage. Today I want to delete that partition so I was using terminal for that but due to some mistakes by mac os get deleted and when I power on my macbook it shows question mark folder so I boot it in internet recovery mode but when I go to disk utility to first aid my disk it shows that disk0s2 is not mounted nothing happens when I click on Mount.... please help me what I have to do


texts: How to restore iTunes DVD backup to v10.5

texts: I had an old mac mini die on me, so new machine has itunes 10.5. I backed up the old machine itunes library on DVD, using the backup functionality in itunes. There is no restore from dvd option in 10.5. How do I recover my music ? This seems idiotic to not support restoring from dvd in the new product. Fine, get rid of backup, but at least allow restore.


texts: iTunes 12 didn't read id3 tags on Windows

texts:
My Hard drive and backup image drive died at the same time.
My Music was all stored on a third HD (Thank goodness) but I lost the itunes Database.
I've re-installed with iTunes 12.2.1.16 With Windows 7.
My issue at this point is that the files have the correct ID3 tags (Album, Artist, song title, but the file title might be: 03 song.mp3
Dragging the mp3 into itunes shows the file as '03 song' with no artist or album.

How can I force iTunes to read the id3 tag that is there in the file so I don;t have to go in and manually fix all the files that are wrong? (We're talking hundreds)


texts: Apple Remote Desktop - Safari Homepage - How to set to Home Page

texts:
Using Apple Remote Desktop, how do I initiate Safari, to began with a preferred web site?

Example, I have 50 Mac(s) on my network, and I want each users automatically began on a specific default web site as their Safari Home Page.

Thank you so much and have a beautiful day.

Fabio


texts: Should we use smb or cifs to connect to a Linux NAS?

texts:
If it is a Linux NAS (WD EX2100 or EX4100), should we use

smb://MyCloud

or

cifs://MyCloud

to connect to it if for some reason, it doesn't show up at the side panel of Finder?

The above line is to be typed into

Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server

and for a Windows PC, I think it is to use smb. For an NAS, we can use either smb or cifs but which one should be used?


texts: MacBook Pro Retina 15" native resolution compromise?

texts:
It's been two weeks now since I got my new retina and I find it awesome.

I'm a frontend developer so I need a lot of screen estate to get things done in a good fashion and the way I was used to.

My big conundrum is this:

When I am at "Best for Retina" everything is big, clear sharp, etcetera. At the office or at home I usually have a external monitor which makes things better, but when I want to use only the mac display for the development I have  the following issues:

best for retina is to small to get things done (can't even see properly the google developer tools bar)
using setresX I am changing my resolution to 2048x1020, that seems to be the best resolution that makes the compromise between the size of the display and how big the items are on screen. The drawback is that EVERYTHING is blurry
that is because the default non-Retina resolution of this mac is 2880x1800, on that resolution everything looks sharp, but it is incredibly small, my eyes hurt and I shed tears after 10minutes of usage.

(I'm not talking about other best for retina resolutions because they decrease the performance heavily, and it is annoying in its own way.)

So, what I was thinking is to leave the display at 2880x1800 but increase the system's font size, I think that would do the trick, would it?

Other similar threads are also present but none discuss this exact issue,

How can we make the 2880x1800px resolution usable on this 15" screen?

Please come up with some ideas, I'm about to try TinkerTool (http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html) to increase the font-size, but I don't know if it's a good solution yet.

I'll come with some possible options, up until then please come with some feedback of your own.

Thanks,
Arthur.


texts: How to fix very slow server performance on OS X Lion?

texts:
I have a 2008 Mac Pro (MacPro3.1 -- dual 3 GHz quad-core Xeon, 6GB memory) running Lion (10.7.3) that I'm using for as a server for a business (files, print, media, etc.) as well as a development server for a pretty standard PHP stack.  From time to time, but most of the time, other machines take a VERY long time to reach the machine over the network -- ten seconds to display a trivial html page, for instance.  The problem seems to be one of reaching the machine -- if I watch the apache server logs after making a request, I'll initially see nothing happen, and then a burst of activity once (I'm guessing here) the request reaches the server and gets handled.  But there are other times when performance is fine.

Some details:

I mostly see this with web access, but I sometimes also get long delays in opening up a Screen Sharing or ssh connection to the machine.  Thus I don't think it's an Apache problem.  Restarting Apache also doesn't have any effect.
If the problem is happening and I hit the same website from the Mac Pro, performance is OK.  This makes me look towards the network.
I have another server -- a linux box -- on the same network, and it does not have these problems.  So, unless there's something weird about the domain name, it doesn't seem like it's a problem with my internet service.
The machine is typically not under significant load -- top reports the load average as around .3, and my attempts to crank up the load (screen sharing, playing videos, etc.) don't seem to have much impact.
I've disabled IPv6 in the Network control panel.
There's nothing of obvious (to me, anyway) interest in the log files.

I realize this isn't a lot to go by, but does anyone out there have any insights?  This is starting to be a real issue.  Thanks!


texts: Entering Time Machine on an external drive does not work

texts:
If I open an external drive, or an folder on that drive, in the Finder, then enter Time Machine by clicking on the menu bar icon and selecting "Enter Time Machine", then Time Machine runs, but it jumps me back to my User folder, rather than using the currently open folder that I have opened up on my external drive.

This problem does not occur if I enter Time Machine on my internal drive. Does anyone else have this problem? I think it started happening recently, perhaps after I upgraded to Mavericks.


texts: How to force xip files to use Archive Utility?

texts:
When I try and open a .xip file macOS always opens it in TextEdit instead of Archive Utility even though the file is an archive.

The main file I'm having an issue with is the xcode.xip which is from Apple's website.


texts:
Device: iPhone 8+ / iOS 14.2
After installing a certificate Mail was happy with and enabling S/MIME signing,
I was able to send emails directly from the Mail app that passed verification
on the receiving end.
On the other hand, if I try to email a link / document / whatever via the share sheet, the received
message contains no signature.
Is there a magic setting I'm missing or is this just broken?


texts: Finder sidebar icons showing as circles for disks

texts:
My Finder looks like this - the icons for local and external volumes are shown correctly in column view, on Get Info and on the desktop but in sidebar Locations all (except for boot volume) are all just plain circles:

I checked this question Changing the Finder icon for an external disk formatted as ExFat? and none of the volumes have a .VolumeIcon.icns file and I have renamed the volumes with no effect.

This question Change Mac OS X Finder sidebar icons suggested looking at ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist but this doesn't seem to exist in Mojave.

This question How to reset default sidebar favourites icons in Finder? suggested deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist and restarting Finder.  Sure enough this works and the sidebar icons are corrected but after a reboot they are back to being circles.

I am running Mojave 10.14.6 on a mid 2014 MBP.


texts: Is it possible for search terms to appear in the search bar of an iPad just from going to a "bad" website?

texts: I was told that some search terms appeared in the search bar of an iPad because that person had gone to a "bad" website and the terms must have come from that visit.


texts: Can I update to OS X 10.8 from OS X 10.7 without doing all softwares updates?

texts: Do I have to perform all system updates to Lion before I update to Mountain Lion?


texts: ScreenFlow won't record screen after transferring data to new MacBook Pro running Catalina

texts:
I've just bought a new 16" MacBook Pro and I've transferred all my data, but now ScreenFlow won't record the screen anymore.
It must be a permission problem, so I've opened System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Screen Recording but I can't add ScreenFlow:

Can someone help me to add ScreenFlow again to the authorized list?


texts: Timemachine backups to Encrypted APFS partition. Checkbox turn off encryption

texts:
I am trying to use a newly created APFS encrypted case sensitive APFS partition with Time Machine backups. If I do not check the box encrypt backups, it prompts for the password to turn off encryption.

Does that mean the contents on the disk will no longer be encrypted on APFS encrypted partition?

I do not get it.

How is it able to store data unencrypted on an encrypted APFS partition, or turn it off for that matter.

Will that data be accessible without the password setup already for the encrypted APFS partition?

If I check the box encrypt backups, Time Machine will reformat the partition into an extended journaled partition.
So no APFS encrypted partition.

Can someone shed some light on this ?

I mean, how can my encrypted partition suddenly be turned off or is encrypt backups checkbox not needed on backups to an already encrypted APFS partion?


texts:
Are there any image viewers out there that can navigate a truly massive (i.e. 500 megapixel/250MB) JPEG image? Everything but Preview has crashed for me.

Preview does OK, but doesn't have many features.


texts: How to make sublime text the default file viewer for all file types it supports

texts: I want sublime text to open all the file types it supports. For e.g., if I double click on .hpp file, Xcode tries to open it. I want sublime text to open the file. I've looked at RCDefaultApp, but it doesn't do the job.


texts: Quit if idle for X time, problem when saved script as app

texts:
I got a small script that quit app when the computer is idle for X amount of time. It works fine but if I save it as an app and start it, I can't quit it. Result is I have to force quit my script app to restart my computer. Can I fix this? Is it the repeat loop that not the way to do it?

Thanks

    # Action lorsque que l'ordinateur est sans activité pendant un certain temps
#
set cmd to "echo $((`ioreg -w 0 -c IOHIDSystem | sed -e '/HIDIdleTime/ !{ d' -e 't' -e '}' -e 's/.* = //g' -e 'q'` / 1000000000))"

#
# Définir ici le nombre de seconde en idle avant d'exécuter l'action
#
set maxIdleAllowed to 90

#
# Conbien de fois vérifier le idle en seconde
#
set checkInterval to 5

#
# On loop indéfiniment
#
repeat
    set secsIdle to 0

    try
        set answer to (do shell script cmd)
        set secsIdle to (answer as number)
    on error
        # May want to do something fancy here...
        exit repeat
    end try

    log secsIdle

    if secsIdle > maxIdleAllowed then
        # Changer le nom de l'application TextEdit pour votre application
        tell application "FileMaker Pro" to quit
    end if

    delay checkInterval
end repeat


texts: Are there any to-do-list-creating apps that allow for persistent task lists in Notification Center? Does Apple's iOS even allow for this?

texts:
Apple's iOS Reminders.app has the great functionality that it can list reminders in the Notification Center 24 hours in advance of the actual alert time. This is very useful, since it allows one to swipe down the Notification Center and quickly view what tasks are awaiting future completion, which is, naturally, great for efficient planning purposes -- and, moreover, all this can easily be done without ever having to open up the Reminders app itself.

This functionality, however, seems to be missing from third-party productivity apps. Any apps designed to create to-do lists can seemingly only create an entry in the Notification Center once the alert time has passed, but this creates the typical alert entry with a blue circle to its left -- which does not seem to me to be the most appropriate format (both aesthetically and functionally) for a persistent reminder (compare this to Reminders app entries, which do not have any symbols to the left until after the alert time has passed, at which point the symbol is a white bell rather than a blue circle).

Of course, one can simply use the Reminders app to bypass this problem, but, in my experience, the Reminders app is not ideally suited for daily to-do lists.

So the question is whether there are any apps that have the same Notification-Center functionality as the Reminders app and, if not, whether that is because Apple does not allow for third-party apps to have that functionality (i.e., because that functionality is not available in Apple's Notification Center API). Perhaps some comments can also be made on how to overcome this apparent limitation.


texts: How is the battery level calculated in the magic mouse?

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I wonder how the battery level in the magic mouse is calculated.

This question about battery problems raised another one, I would like to know how the electronics in the magic mouse work and evaluate the remaining energy left as it seems quite inaccurate with some of my batteries.

If you don't know how the magic mouse does its calculation maybe you know how other electronic devices calculate the level?

I am no electrician and I have no skills in e- engineering. But maybe this image from iFixit might give a clue to a someone with the right knowledge (click the image for the original high-res version):

High res pictures available here if you need more details.


texts: I cannot see a particular USB printer from AirPort Extreme

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I have an older AirPort Extreme (UFO, Version 5.7).

I can connect an Epson MX330 printer to the USB port of the AirPort Extreme and it appears on the AirPort Utility "Printers" tab, and I can print to it.

I can connect a Ricoh Aficio MP C4500 directly to a MacBook Pro (10.6.8) USB port, and it automagically downloaded and installed the driver and will print to the Ricoh.

But when I plug the Ricoh into the AirPort Extreme USB port, it does not show up on the AirPort Utility "Printers" tab, and of course, won't show up on any AirPort connected device, either.

I have tried re-starting both the Ricoh and the AirPort Extreme while they were connected.

Any clues on how I can get this $20,000 printer to work with AirPort Extreme like the Epson that came free with my MacBook Pro does?


texts: In Apple Mail (7.3) on Mavericks (10.9.4), when I compose a new message, I cannot choose which of my two accounts to send from.  Bizarrely, when I open the New Message window, there is a From field, but it quickly disappears.  I'm including an animated GIF showing this behavior below.  How do I stop the From field from vanishing?


texts: I travel a lot and change timezones quite often. Is there a way to let Calendar detect and change timezone automatically so I can work with Calendar in the same timezone I'm currently in?


texts: kernel_task high CPU consumption and slow Mac

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It's not a new problem, I'm facing it for sometime now. My MacBook runs fine all the time but this kernel_task issue occurs whenever it awakes from sleep. No issues with DisplaySleep. I can't put the lid down and have to restart every time. I have googled a lot and tried the following:

reset smc/nvram/pram multiple times, ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin.kext Solution, also left the macbook running for whole day and rebuild the spotlight index.

I've gone through the following two links on this forum:
debug kernel_task process and investigate high kernel_task memory

Output of above mentioned command follows:

kextstat | grep -v com.apple

 Index Refs   Address               Size       Wired      Name (Version) <Linked Against>
  110    0    0xffffff7f80b77000   0x5000     0x5000     com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (1.6.6) <109 5 4 3>

kextstat -l -k | awk '{n = sprintf("%d", $4); print n, $6}' | sort -n

kexstat_result at pastebin

Edit:

Ran syscallbypid.d while facing the kernel_task problem and again ran sudo syscallbypid.d while system was normal. After comparing the output of these two commands, I found the following process were unique to kernel_task problem and were not shown in the normal run.

AirPlayUIAgent, WorkflowService, locationd, networkd, diskarbitration, SleepServicesD, EscrowSecurityA, mdworker & launchd sysctl.

Any one of these might be causing the problem. Another difference I noted was com.apple.iclou process was running in normal run and not in the problematic one.

Can this problem be narrowed down further ? Any light on how to overcome the CPU throttling will be of immense help.


texts: Safari AppleScript - Can't Filter Tabs of Inactive Windows

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I've got a bit of AppleScript that is frustrating the heck out of me. I need to get a list of all Safari tabs, then filter them down. I was expecting this to be very simple. It's not.

tell application "Safari"
    set tabSet to {}
    repeat with w in (get every window)
        repeat with t in (get every tab of w)
            set the end of tabSet to t
        end repeat
    end repeat
    --set tabSet to every tab of every window -- a one-liner here would be convenient

    set firstTab to first item of tabSet -- works, see edit
    set targetTab to first item of tabSet whose name is "Untitled" -- this fails
end tell

First of all, every tab of every window returns a nested list of lists of tabs (grouped by window) instead of just a flat list. I just ended up going with repeats. (If there is a way to make this a one-liner, it would be nice). But so far, so good.

The result I was getting from first item of tabSet was throwing me off because it looked like it was returning a form of the entire list:

item 1 of {tab 1 of window id 15557 of application "Safari", tab 2 of window id 15557 of application "Safari", tab 3 of window id 15557 of application "Safari", tab 4 of...

The actual problem occurs on the filter line where I try to get the first item of tabSet whose name is "Untitled". (Replace with a valid name of course). Then, I get this error:

error "Safari got an error: Can’t get tab 1 of window id 15561 whose name = \"Untitled\". Invalid index." number -1719

EDIT 2:

I added the following block:

repeat with t in tabSet
    set n to (get name of t)
    try
        set targetTab to (first item in tabSet whose name is n)
        set targetWindow to (first window whose tabs contains targetTab)
        log (get id of targetWindow) & (get name of t)
    on error
        log "ERROR: " & n
    end try
end repeat

This revealed that, once again, the problem was not as it seemed, but was actually something completely different:

Only tabs in the frontmost window can be filtered. It appears that the statement first item of tabSet whose name is "Untitled" fails if the tab "Untitled" is in any window other than the frontmost window.

Any ideas?


texts: Iphone X randomly shuts down and keeps restarting and is hard to turn on afterwarss

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I have an iphone X for 3 years maybe now (bought it after a few months from release) after a few months from buying it, if i remember correctly in summer, it shut down suddenly and kept restarting with apple logo until battery ran out.
I tried out different combinations afterwards and it sometimes worked at some combinations and sometimes didn't.
For some reason this happens rarely in winter but happens almost 3 times or more a day in summer. Today it flashed a red screen between restarts (by restarts i mean when it shutdown and kept showing apple logo then turn off then show apple logo then turn off for so many times)
The way i fix it is by pressing
Volume Up->Volume Down->Hold power button until it shows apple logo then turn off (turns off because i held down the power button and not because it completed a cycle of turning on and then off). Doing so will make it stop this restarting cycles. Then after doing so i try different combinations, it seems to work on different situations as for example: sometimes it works when holding power button + volume up until 3 seconds after apple logo shows (but this method rarely works)
Or ,which is the better one and has a higher chance of working, by pressing volume up then down then power button until apple logo appears for a few seconds.
What annoys me is that the iphone doesn't get too hot and other phones (even another iphone x that i know a person uses) don't do such things at the same temperature even though they might be on Cellular Data and having a really thick case for their phone.
I thought it was a graphics card issue but if it was so, then why does it occur at summer most of the times.
Also it never shuts down while the phone is unlocked, it only shuts down whenever i turn it off or the screen turns off by itself. And somwtimes in summer i try to put it in the fridge to lower its' temperature but still this thing happens even when the phone is at 4°C (after putting in the fridge for a while so it might be 10°C but the thing is that it is cold and definitely isn't 40°C or more or somewhat less)


texts: When buying online, how do I know the exact CPU type?

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Apple seems not to be willing to give details about the CPUs it embeds in its laptops. Nothing beyond "i5" or "i7" anyway. The thing is, I want to choose a CPU that performs well on benchmarks.

I want either to be able to check whether the CPU is one of those I think are ok or look for benchmarks for the CPU of a particular laptop.

I couldn't find any model ID I could look up.
Did I miss something ?


texts: Download OS X from Windows to install on Mac from USB

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Trying to install Windows along with OS X I ended up erasing all the data on my MacBook Air. Right now I have one empty parition, so, I tried to install from internet - pressing Control + Option + R during turning it on. My internet connection is being disconnected often, and during component download - it is being disconnected (already the 3rd time) and after the connection is back after a few mins, when I click Retry it does not work anymore: from the log list I can see, that it is stuck on row

  Chunk validation failed, retrying…

I have not used OS X before, so question might be strange, but is it possible to download the OS X DVD/ISO or something else in similar format from my home PC, when make a bootable usb from it, so I can install on Mac?

As I Googled, I just found info that perhaps I can download from App Store? Is that true, and if so can I download that for free? e.g. providing my original Mac's ID or something, or I have to pay for it?


texts: connect to relative remote iMac via finder hanging

texts: I want to connect to my Mother's mac mini computer (who lives in another state) via the "Connect to server" so that we can transfer files over the network. This is the first attempt so forgive me for my basic knowledge on this. When I enter in the server address I click connect and it just hangs. Is there any other configurations that need to happen in order for this to work?  I have tried using the address that is displayed in System preferences and as well as her apple ID. She has Remote Login turned on and remote management and file sharing but for some reason it hangs as if it is trying to connect but nothing happens. Is there any other configurations that need to happen in order for this to work?


texts: iTunes Home Sharing on Apple TV drops after a few minutes on Belkin N750

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Just bought an Apple TV and connected to my TV and all looks good. I'm having an issue with Home Sharing, however. The library is found, I play something from the library, it plays for about three minutes, then drops. I then cannot find the library in the "Computers" section of Apple TV. If I then quit iTunes and start it again, it shows up again on the Apple TV and I can start again only to be dropped three minutes later. I have seen some posts blaming the router not supporting Bonjour. I am on the phone now with Belkin.

Using: Apple TV connected via HDMI to a Panasonic LED TV, streaming from a MacBook Air 2010

I really think this is a Home Sharing issue.


texts: Windows 7 only boots to Windows boot manager with Continue Recovery not going anywhere

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Windows 7 Boot Camp doesn't boot on MacBook Air 2011. The only option I get in Windows boot manager is "Continue Recovery",

If I press "Continue Recovery", I get a black screen with flashing cursor. macOS boots as normal. I wanted to boot Windows in Safe Mode to try repairing it there. However, there is no reaction on either F8 or fn+F8: whatever I press I'm being brought back to Windows Boot Manager.


texts: Web/PC interface for iPhone text Messaging

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There is a great web app at https://messages.android.com that syncs with an Android phone's SMS/messaging to allow texting from the computer.

(This is great for those of us who type faster than we text on a little phone; and for those who are sitting at a desktop all day and don't want to open their phone to address every incoming text message.)

Is there an analog for iPhone Messages?  I.e., a web or PC app that can send and receive native text messages for an iPhone?


texts: iMessage shows error message: "Not Delivered"

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I updated to Yosemite a while back, but yesterday iMessage started sending the error message "Not Delivered". I can send messages to non-Apple devices (SMS?) just fine, but not to Apple clients (Apple server?). No problem at all with iPad Air or iPhone 5S, both iOS 8.1.3.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

-Macbook Pro Retina (late 2013)
-iPhone 5S
-iPad Air


texts: Is there a method to unzip .exe file on a Mac OS X without downloading and/or buying applications that do this for you?


texts: How can I save a vertical (not horizontal) multiple display arrangement?

texts:
I have two displays. Mac OS X frequently "forgets" the digital arrangement of the monitors and defaults them to a horizontal side-by-side arrangement. This does not correspond to the physical arrangement of the monitors.

In this arrangement, my desktop is extended upwards, not to the left or right.

How can I save the arrangement?


texts: Are there default shortcuts for special hyphens and minus sign?

texts:
On Mac, en dash and em dash characters can be typed with Opt - and Opt Shift -, respectively.

But are there default shortcuts for other bar-like characters, especially for these ones:

U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN,
U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN,
U+2012 FIGURE DASH,
U+2212 MINUS SIGN?

I did not find them, but maybe I was not searching properly. If you are going to answer that there are no such shortcuts, please point me to some reliable evidence like an official article on Apple’s website, or a full list of all existing shortcuts in latest version of macOS etc.

Also, my question is about default shortcuts in a freshly-installed system, not for custom settings, tweaking DefaultKeyBinding.dict file, using third-party keyboard managers etc.


texts: Set the Working Folder of `.app` Created by Apple Script

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I have a simple Shell File .sh which copies files form the PWD to a destination folder.
This is basically Hand Made installer of a program.
I want to create an APP from it.

The idea is to have the following structure of the files at the user:

- MyApp
    - SourceFiles/
    - MyInstaller.app

Something like:

#!/bin/sh

# Copying

cp -r './SourceFiles/.' '/DestFolder/SourceFiles/'

exit 0

I created an Apple Script (MyInstaller.scpt) file which looks:

tell me to activate

display dialog "Run My Installer?" buttons {"Run", "Cancel"} default button 1

if the button returned of the result is "Run" then
    do shell script "cp -r './SourceFiles/.' '/DestFolder/SourceFiles/' & exit 0;" with administrator privileges

    display dialog "Finished Successfully!" buttons {"OK"} default button 1

end if

I compile it with osacompile -o MyInstaller.app MyInstaller.scpt.

Then I try to run MyInstaller.app it doesn't work.
Though if I run the sh Shell Script form the same location it works.

I had a feeling it is related to the PWD of the APP when it runs.
So I did the following trick, I compiled an .APP from the following Apple Script:

do shell script "pwd > ~/Temp.txt & exit 0;"

Then I saw at Temp.txt that the PWD is / (Namely the Root).
Indeed if I copy SourceFiles/ to the root and run the APP it copes the files correctly.

Is there a way to make the APP of the AppleScript to run relative to the location of the compiled APP?


texts:
PVstar+ was my favorite Android app. However I got an iphone and it's not even listed...

Are there alternatives to this for iPhone?


texts: How to Convert a Webex ARF File on OSX (a Mac)

texts:
My company is in the habit of adopting Windows-centric solutions.  The latest is Webex for hosting and recording meetings.  Webex records the meeting and makes the file available for download in the form of their proprietary ARF format. Predictably, their own player supports converting to MP4 only in the Windows version of the player, and not in the Mac version of the player.  So the question I have for this community is:

How do I convert an ARF file to an MP4 using a Mac?

Update:  Things I have tried:

Applications:

-- IdealShare VideoGo claims to convert ARF files on a Mac but this is not true. I downloaded their free trial and was told that ARF is not a valid media type.

-- Aiseesoft will come up in google searches as an option but their software is also PC only for purposes of converting ARF.

nbr2mp4 does not work on a Mac. You will get an error about not being able to open a display.


texts: How can I disbale login animations in macOS?

texts:
How can I disable the hideously irritating 'rolling cube' animation when logging in?

When I switch from one user account to another, at first it appears to switch instantly to the selected user, but then after entering the password that annoying rolling animation kicks in.
I would be so happy if I could disable this, as it is not smooth and it's both unnecessary and irritating.

I tried defaults write -g userMenuExtraStyle 0 in Terminal, but this did not work, even after reboot. I found this on how to turn off all animations on OSX. I am using macOS Mojave
I already have Reduce motion ticked in Accessibility Preferences which reduced desktop switch motion, but not user switch animation. how can I disable animation when switching desktops in Lion

Is there a way I can disable this animation?


texts: Does Safari for iOS 4.2.1 support WebGL?

texts: Does iOS 4.2.1, the latest release at the time of this question, support WebGL?


texts:
Whenever I try to turn on my iPhone 4S, it comes out with the Apple logo for a few seconds and then turn off.

Turning it on while holding the + button makes the iTunes screen appear. (The provided link is just an example - not my phone)

When I try to Restore and Update it, it extracts the software, starts to update and then suddenly and slowly fade away the Apple icon and turn off. Then it comes back to the iTunes screen again and the computer shows an unknown error 4013.

Yes, I did try another computer. Another USB cable. It simply won't work.

How can I overcome this?


texts: Can't answer phone call if connected with both ethernet and wifi

texts:
I have followed all the steps listed on: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209456

Works fine if I'm only connected to either ethernet OR wifi, if I have both connections active (even tho they are the same network), I can't answer calls phone with the error: "Call Failed"

And I can't just disable WiFi and lose AirDrop/etc neither disconnect the ethernet cable and lose speed/stability.

Any options?

Edit: Found this 5 years old question, but it doesn't have a solution.


texts: Does the coupons.com printing uninstaller leave anything behind?

texts:
A family member installed the coupons.com printing software on my Mac. Googling around tells me that the uninstaller doesn't fully remove elements of the installation from the Windows version. I haven't been able to find any information on the Mac version, however.

I'm not encouraged by the fact that the installer wants you to quit your browsers before running it, but there are no obvious extensions installed in either Safari or Chrome.


texts: Does a Contacts Nickname transmit to anyone else; iMessage or email?

texts:
iOS 9.0.2

So I asked Siri to call me Sugar Daddy... Hilarious, right?

Well I was using the e-mail app this morning, and when looking at a few e-mails I sent last night, I noticed that my name was put as "Sugar Daddy" in those e-mails as well. I then realized that Siri had put "Sugar Daddy" as my nickname (while retaining my real first and last names) in Contacts and that the e-mail app displays the nicknames of contacts.

Is there any chance the people I sent e-mails to also saw my name as "Sugar Daddy" in the sender field? At least one of them uses iOS himself. Please tell me this is not possible... I realize this is unlikely, but I just want to make sure.

Btw, I'm honestly not trolling, this seriously happened to me.


texts: A feature of having an Apple TV is Dual Screen with an iPad. I would like to find games and apps that use this feature. How would I specify this within the app store? or is there a list online somewhere.


texts:
I have a little snitch rule effective in all profiles to allow any process to connect to *.apple.com

Why do I keep getting request for applications to connect to apple.com? Here are 4 different processes requiring permission. I thought that the rule above should cover these...??


texts: How to update 10.4.6 to 10.4.11 on PowerPC?

texts:
So, my father randomly unearthed an old iBook G4 from somewhere and wanted me to make the Internet working. It has Safari and Internet Explorer preinstalled, but they both come from more than a decade ago and have troubles with modern HTML5 and certificates CAs. Thus I decided to install Firefox fork named "TenFourFox", but it can only launch from operation system older than 10.4.11. I have 10.4.6.

So, Apple website has a lot of dead links, but I managed to find a working cumulative update 10.4.* → 10.4.11 here. The problem is – it just won't install.

Some techincal info: OS has build 8I127, CPU is 1.33GHz PowerPC (ppc7450), has 512MB RAM. Don't know what the disk is, I cannot get lsblk or something running. :/
diskutil info disk0s3 prints only its UUID and HFS+, but nothing more of importance. To me, at least.

Rebooting the PC did not help.

➥ Does anyone remember how they dealt with installing the update in the past or knows any other browser that will show modern sites?

UPD: diskutil output:

>> diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                   type name               size      identifier
   0: Apple_partition_scheme                    *55.9 GB  disk0
   1:    Apple_partition_map                    31.5 KB   disk0s1
   2:              Apple_HFS Macintosh HD       55.8 GB   disk0s3

>> diskutil info disk0
   Device Node:        /dev/disk0
   Device Identifier:  disk0
   Mount Point:
   Volume Name:

   Partition Type:     Apple_partition_scheme
   Bootable:           Not bootable
   Media Type:         Generic
   Protocol:           ATA
   SMART Status:       Verified

   Total Size:         55.9 GB
   Free Space:         0.0 B

   Read Only:          No
   Ejectable:          No
   OS 9 Drivers:       No
   Low Level Format:   Not Supported

>> diskutil info disk0s1
   Device Node:        /dev/disk0s1
   Device Identifier:  disk0s1
   Mount Point:
   Volume Name:

   Partition Type:     Apple_partition_map
   Bootable:           Not bootable
   Media Type:         Generic
   Protocol:           ATA
   SMART Status:       Verified

   Total Size:         31.5 KB
   Free Space:         0.0 B

   Read Only:          Yes
   Ejectable:          No

>> diskutil info disk0s3
   Device Node:        /dev/disk0s3
   Device Identifier:  disk0s3
   Mount Point:        /
   Volume Name:        Macintosh HD

   File System:        Journaled HFS+
                       Journal size 8192 k at offset 0x1c1000
   Owners:             Enabled
   Partition Type:     Apple_HFS
   Bootable:           Is bootable
   Media Type:         Generic
   Protocol:           ATA
   SMART Status:       Verified
   UUID:               03AB652C-D223-3FA3-AABF-C0684FDB1EEB

   Total Size:         55.8 GB
   Free Space:         43.8 GB

   Read Only:          No
   Ejectable:          No

UPD2: There could be something with partition schemes, as per this site. However, this one says

  Intel Macs require the GUID Partition Table for their startup disks, while PowerPC Macs use Apple Partition Map, so my case looks ok from this perspective.
  Unfortunately, this MacOS cannot repartition the volume it's currently running from. Who could guess. :D

Well, I'll try to find an Opera 10.6 distributable for PowerPCs and postpone this task until I have a bootable CD-disk. (Was mentioned in help in Disk Utilities as a way to manipulate the sole hdd.)


texts: can you load an app developed on a mac "in the cloud" onto your ios device?

texts:
I'm curious if it would still be possible to develop for the iPhone with a non Mac laptop. Assume I buy some sort of "Mac in the cloud" solution (they exist), can I download apps I'm developing onto my iOS devices from Xcode on this "remote Mac" via my iCloud/developer account or do I need physical access to a Mac (usb cable) to do that?

This answer seems to indicate that it's not possible to load apps onto local devices from a remote Mac, but he's not sure.

EDIT: Actually, it seems to be possible to debug too, see my answer below.


texts: How do I get a folder to stop forgetting its sorting options?

texts:
I have a folder (my home folder) which I like to have in icon view and kept arranged by name.

However, every day or so it seems to forget the sorting - although the view options panel seems to think that the option is still valid.   I have to change it to arrange by another criterion and then re-select arrange by name.

This is rather irritating, to say the least.  Does anyone know how to fix the Finder's forgetfulness


texts: Macbook Pro 2014 shuts down at random intervals

texts:
Thanks @fbara for suggestion to add more details

Device: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)

OS: 10.11.6 (15G1004)

pmset -g log from one of the times it occurred

  UUID: (null) 2016-09-07 20:15:11 -0700 Start                  powerd
  process is started 2016-09-07 20:15:11 -0700
    Summary- [System: No Assertions] Using Batt(Charge: 81) 2016-09-07
  20:15:11 -0700 Assertions             Kernel Idle sleep preventers:
  IODisplayWrangler 2016-09-07 20:15:43 -0700 Assertions            PID
  104(hidd) Created UserIsActive
  "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle" 00:00:00  id:0x0x9000001f5
  [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp] 2016-09-07 20:16:52 -0700 Assertions
    PID 261(Google Chrome) Created NoDisplaySleepAssertion "Playing
  video" 00:00:00  id:0x0x500000223 [System: PrevIdle PrevDisp DeclUser
  kDisp]


texts: What is SIMBL Agent and why is it running on my machine?

texts: Is this something loaded by Apple or did it come with some third party app I must have downloaded.


texts:
I have a late '10 MacBook Air with 64gb ssd, it was getting very slow and very full so I decided to wipe and start afresh.
I followed some online instructions, signed out of everything then erased the drive. The MacBook did its thing and updated via Wi-fi then I came to the point of installing Lion OS X.
My problem started when I was asked to select a disk to install the os, there wasn’t one to choose. When I look on the Disk Utility, left hand pane shows 60.67gb Apple ssd TS064C Media with a sub heading of disk0s2.
If I click on this it states Not mounted, verify disk states Verify volume failed:Unrecognised file system.
Under this in the left pane I have disk1 with a sub heading of Mac OS X Base System. This amounts to 1.39gb.
My question is how do I get the Mac to recognise the drive to reinstall Lion?
Any help would be massively appreciated.
Thanks


texts: Safari complains about SSL certificate on redirect page

texts:
I have gotten reports from people navigating to our site without entering the www. part of the URL that our SSL certificate does not match and so generates a warning. This is technically correct I suppose since our SSL certificate is for the www. domain and two other subdomains.

But I have a redirect function so that anyone who enters the non-www url gets instantly redirected to the www URL. I have tested this on several browsers and on android phones. It seems only on Safari have any problems been found. Anyone have any suggestions on why this is happening with Safari and how to avoid it? The server is a windows server running IIS.


texts: Is it possible to "hack" a MacBook so as to be able to install macOS Mojave?

texts: I know you can hack an iPhone, but is there a way to "hack" a Macbook? I have a late 2010 model that has been upgraded so it has the RAM, hard drive space etc... and it works beautifully, but I would really like to put Mojave on it. I am able to download the developer file, but then I got told by the iTunes Store for Mac that it is not compatible with this model.


texts: "Encrypt backups" disabled for Time Machine on Mavericks; due to partition?

texts:
I picked up an external hard drive a while back and have been using it for Time Machine back-ups. Recently I thought to confirm that the disk is encrypted so that it won't be useful if someone nicks it while I'm gone, but it wasn't, and the check box to make it so is disabled.

The disk is using HFS+ (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) as its file system. The only thing "weird" that I can imagine that might be causing this is that I'm not using the whole disk for back-up; it's about four times larger than my internal SSD, so I just partitioned half to use as the Time Machine partition and intend to use the other part for general storage (once I have something I need to store on it). Does Time Machine need the whole disk to do encryption? I tried selecting the empty partition to see if it would make an encrypted back-up on there, but still, no dice.

If I have to repartition the entire disk to be able to do encrypted back-ups, I will, but I'd like to ensure that that will do any good before I do so.

If partitioning isn't the problem, any suggestions for figuring out what the real one is?


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My mail account (OS X Lion) refuses to send email. It receives mail fine and I have checked and rechecked all the settings etc. My iPhone and iPad send and receive mail with no problems, using the same settings, the same network, and the same accounts.

Any ideas why this is happening?


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My MacPro (Late 2013, OSX Yosemite) has two AMD FirePro D500 GPUs and three Cinema HD Displays.  When I look at the System report all of the Displays show up under one GPU and the other GPU has nothing.

Is the other GPU (slot-1) being utilized at all?  How do I tell?

Can I move a display to the unused GPU?
Will this help performance for rendering or calculations?

AMD FirePro D500:

  Chipset Model:    AMD FirePro D500
  Type: GPU
  Bus:  PCIe
  Slot: Slot-1
  PCIe Lane Width:  x16
  VRAM (Total): 3072 MB
  Vendor:   ATI (0x1002)
  Device ID:    0x679e
  Revision ID:  0x0000
  ROM Revision: 113-C3861J-687
  gMux Version: 4.0.11 [3.2.8]
  EFI Driver Version:   01.0B.687

AMD FirePro D500:

  Chipset Model:    AMD FirePro D500
  Type: GPU
  Bus:  PCIe
  Slot: Slot-2
  PCIe Lane Width:  x16
  VRAM (Total): 3072 MB
  Vendor:   ATI (0x1002)
  Device ID:    0x679e
  Revision ID:  0x0000
  ROM Revision: 113-C3861J-687
  gMux Version: 4.0.11 [3.2.8]
  EFI Driver Version:   01.0B.687
  Displays:
Cinema HD:
  Display Type: LCD
  Resolution:   2560 x 1600
  Pixel Depth:  32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Display Serial Number:    [redacted]
  Main Display: Yes
  Mirror:   Off
  Online:   Yes
  Rotation: Supported
  Adapter Type: Apple Mini DisplayPort To Dual-Link DVI Adapter
  Adapter Firmware Version: 1.03
Cinema HD:
  Display Type: LCD
  Resolution:   2560 x 1600
  Pixel Depth:  32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Display Serial Number:    [redacted]
  Mirror:   Off
  Online:   Yes
  Rotation: Supported
  Adapter Type: Apple Mini DisplayPort To Dual-Link DVI Adapter
  Adapter Firmware Version: 1.03
Cinema HD:
  Display Type: LCD
  Resolution:   2560 x 1600
  Pixel Depth:  32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Display Serial Number:    [redacted]
  Mirror:   Off
  Online:   Yes
  Rotation: Supported
  Adapter Type: Apple Mini DisplayPort To Dual-Link DVI Adapter
  Adapter Firmware Version: 1.01


texts: How do I change the iTunes country while maintaining Family Sharing?

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My whole family is moving to different countries. My sister and I are going off to university in Europe and my parents are moving to Southeast Asia. And we are all linked with Family sharing as we share Apple Music.

So how do I change my location on Apple with my parents being in a different country? Can the "child" even be in a different country?

This only thing I can think of doing is getting a new family sharing set up, but I'm still not sure it can allow different countries.
Should I abandon the Family Sharing altogether?

Thanks in advance.


texts: How did NordVPN implement the kill switch in their iOS app?

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NordVPN provides an app for their customers that manages the VPN connection to their servers. The app comes with a kill switch feature that ensures that all network traffic goes through this connection. NordVPN claim on their website (emphasis by me):

  The Mobile version of the Kill Switch, used in our Android and iOS apps (as well as the IKEv2 version of the Mac app), disables system-wide internet access if the VPN connection suddenly disconnects - that way it protects all apps, without terminating them. It will also try to reconnect you to the last server you were connected to.

How is this possible? I find it hard to believe that the iOS API allows access to such an important system-wide function to an app. Can anyone explain how NordVPN implemented this?


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I use an iPad with iOS 14.2 and try to create a small clip with iMovie. But I run into a problem:
Internal camera application takes photos with 4:3 ratio.
Internal iMovie software creates only 16:9 videos.
If I add several images from the internal camera to iMovie the exported film crop my images. I find no way

to swap the camera app to 16:9 or
to change iMovie to 4:3 or
to say: instead of cropping use black bars left/right hand

I need this for an educational reason, so additional apps are not allowed to install. I was surprised by this inconsistency.


texts: Order of parameters for command-line tools

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Possible Duplicate:
  Can command-line commands be made insensitive to order of filenames and options?

It looks like the OS X built-in command line tools, such as ls, du etc are rather strict with regards to the order of parameters.

To illustrate, a command for showing disk usage, 'du', accepts -h as a 'human readable' formatting directive for sizes. If you run the following under OS X Lion, this parameter is ignored:

du . -h

To get it to work, you need to specify the parameter fist, then the location, like that:

du -h .

Coming from Linux (ubuntu) background this seems strange to me - under Ubuntu you can do it either way. This is also becomes quite annoying at times, especially when you realise that you've forgotten to specify a parameter for long command and have to move the cursor to the beginning of it.

Hence is the question: can I change the 'default' behavior of command line tools to be more forgiving? Also, what's the reason for that restriction? A BSD legacy?


texts: Notes app not showing collaborative edit option

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I don't remember exactly the sequence of events, but I tried to update stock apps like Notes, Numbers, and Garage Band first before updating to iOS 10.

Now I am using iOS 10 smoothly but just noticed that Notes does have share notes (collaborative editing) feature added with this release. I went back to the App Store to find only an "Open" option for notes, and not update or download.

I noticed though I have Numbers and Garage Band on my phone, but it showed in the App Store that they need to be downloaded again.

I am new to iOS.


texts: Is it OK to install one Office 2019 license on both Mac and Windows?

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I have purchased a standalone version of Office 2019 for my Mac. So far so good. I also have a spare Windows 10 notebook and would like to occasionally run Office apps on it (not at the same time as my Office 2019 Mac version).

Does the license key allow such an installation scenario?


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I have my Remote app set up on my iPhone to work with my Apple TV.  This was easy because my Apple TV is linked with my Apple ID Account (which is obviously identified with both my phone and my computer).  When I went to set my wife's Remote app up on her iPhone, I get a message that says "Turn on Home Sharing in iTunes on your computer or on Apple TV using the account [Name of Wife's Account]."

On the Apple TV, Home Sharing is on and I still get this message.

My wife does not have an Apple computer.  Only an iPad.  She does not use iTunes at all.

How does this work if she does not use iTunes?

Apple TV has Home sharing turned on and when I go into the Remote app on her phone and go into settings, it says Home Sharing is turned on.

I just want to link her phone up.  How do I do this and why do I have to?  Shouldn't there just be a way to use her phone as a remote without making it a part of my Home Sharing network?