texts: Macbook Pro won't go past OS X Utilities

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My early 2011 Macbook Pro which uses 10.6 Snow Leopard is going straight to OS X Utilities upon startup, no matter whether I use any startup keys or what those startup keys are. I have tried safe mode, resetting PRAM and SMC, recovery mode, everything I know of. Upon pressing the power button, the computer immediately turns on and chimes like normal, then goes to the white screen with the apple and a progress bar. After 5-10 minutes, it asks me to select a language, and then proceeds to OS X Utilities. I tried repairing the hard drive in Disk Utility with first aid, but it says it can't complete the repair. I tried erasing the hard drive (I have a recent backup), but it always tells me "Erase process failed." I tried restoring from Time Machine Backup, and although it found my backups on an external hard drive, it doesn't seem to recognize them.

Now here is what seems to have triggered the issue: I had just downloaded OS X Capitan and was attempting to install it, but the installation failed after the part where the computer restarts. When I go to Disk Utility I see Capitan there, but as with my hard drive, I can't erase it and neither can I eject it. When I go to "Reinstall OS X" it launches right into the Capitan installation, not the OS X 10.6 installation CD which is in the drive. Soon into the installation process, after it asks to verify my information with apple, a message pops up: "An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again." That's as far as I can get, and to clarify, I haven't been able to get beyond OS X Utilities at all.

I have another fresh hard drive that I could swap, but when I did swap it and then turned the computer on, it just goes to the apple and the spinning circle and stays there forever.

Yesterday I also exchanged the RAM and the battery, but I put the old ones back in and it still behaves the same so  I don't see how that could be the issue.

I'm nearing my wit's end as it seems I've tried the few options available at this point, and I would be grateful it anyone has any suggestions or hypotheses as to what's going on and how I could go about fixing it.

EDIT (in response to Daniel): I tried starting up from the DVD installer by holding C down -- it just goes to the apple, the spinning wheel, and after a while ends up on a blank white screen. I've left it going like this for several hours so I'm pretty sure it's not just a matter of waiting. This is what it does every time, even when I startup pressing "option" and then choose the OS X install disk. Interestingly, when I startup with "option," my hard drive is labeled "OS X Install Disk," I guess because it is still in the process of trying to install Capitan.

When I put in my spare, clean hard drive, it actually does boot up from the install disk. However, when it comes time for me to choose where to install OS X, the computer recognizes the hard drive but says I can't install it there (no reason given).

Does all this suggest there is a problem with the hardware on the computer?


texts: I have the CloudReaders app on my iPad.  According to its release notes and other reviews of it, it supports tagging of books to allow for filtering.  However, for the life of me I can't figure out how to do it - only how to search based off tags?  Does anyone know how?


texts: Can't run 60hz on external display with MacBook Pro 15 2019

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I just bought Baseus Enjoy series Type-C to HDMI*2+PD HD intelligent HUB adapter
and it works only on 30hz port on my Samsung  u28e590ds monitor. I use MacBook Pro 15 2019. If I plug into 60hz port it recognized by MacBook but screen is black. I tried different cables - all the same. Is issue with the adapter?


texts: Are there any change or new features about Terminal.app in High Sierra?

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Are there any change or new features with Terminal.app in High Sierra?

There is no leak about terminal, so I want to hear from user who already use High Sierra Beta.

I wish that apple support 24bit color rendering in terminal.


texts: Problems in restore backups to iPhone from PC

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My dad wanted me to update his iPhone X to iOS 14, so I tried to, and iTunes in the PC gave some error about connecting to the iPhone (unfortunately I don't have the exact message error), so then I went to my Mac and updated his iPhone from there.
Now I can't restore his iPhone from backup (from the PC), due to "read and write" error. I have checked the access privilege to the backups folder and discovered it was empty!
iTunes says that the iPhone was backed up.
I would have checked if his iPhone was backed up on my Mac, but I went back to my apartment.
Any thoughts on how to restore from backup (or how to check if its a lost cause)?


texts: How to change the background image of second monitor without connecting to it?

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Is there a way to change the background image of the second monitor without connecting the Mac to it?

I connected my Macbook to a projector and set up a background image. Now that I disconnected the projector, is there a way to change the background image before connecting the projector again?
The reason for this is simple: I need a way to define a single background image on all spaces, monitors and projectors at once so I know which background image my audience will see when I connect to a projector or change to another space. I just want one way to change all desktop backgrounds at once, even displays that are not connected.
I would prefer a Terminal command so I can script this.


texts: battery is not charging after liquid contact

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After spilling a tea into the macbook 11 i have disassembled it. Cleaned everyhing with IPA and brush. Put together. Macbook is working but charger does not charge. LED does not light. System says it does not charge, source of power adapter. There is small icon of battery with flash saying 2%. I have changed I/O Board, battery, performed NVRAM/SMC reset. Still behave the same. No change.

Any other suggestions?


texts: rMBP - El Capitan - External monitor blurry

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I hope someone can help as this is driving me crazy...

At the weekend I got a new Macbook Pro Retina (Early 2015 model). Before connecting it to an external monitor, I upgraded to El Capitan and the device on its own is functioning perfectly.

When I connect it to my external monitor, a Dell U2412M, certain parts of the display are blurry. Some research indicated that it may be using the wrong colour space and using the well known script I generated and installed a new profile to force RGB. There may have been a slight improvement, hard to tell...

I then read about setting 'AppleFontSmoothing' and tried all available settings, again, there may have been a slight improvement. I'd pretty much decided to live with it. Until I previewed a jpg in finder and it looked like image (1) below.

I then dragged the finder window back to the built in retina display, and it looked like image (2) below.

Much smoother, but a higher resolution - no great surprise. Now, without changing anything at all, I dragged the finder window back to the Dell monitor and I was shocked to see that the smooth image was retained.

For information, the effect is not visibly different using either a mini-displayport to DVI-D or mdp to display-port cable.

Just to be clear, images 1 and 3 above are screenshot of the same window, on the same monitor connected the same way to the same machine. The only difference is that between these screenshots the window had a short visit to the built in screen.


texts: Why is Home Sharing not working with iPhone?

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I have a Mac Mini with iTunes 10.2.1 installed, I enabled home sharing in the preferences and the Advanced menu. I also have an iPhone 4 on iOS 4.3, which I enabled home sharing on using the same username and password that my desktop uses.

Both computers are connected to the same home network. When I open up the iPhone's iPod app, however, I don't see any of the songs that are only on the Mac. I only see those that have been synced with the iPhone (i.e. I use this Mac to sync my iPhone).


texts: Cannot download Office 365 on macOS El-Capitan

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I have a powerpoint assignment due for my class but although I purchased Microsoft 365, I can't download it to my computer because my Mac won't update to Mojave. I contacted Apple support and even got an external drive so I could do a time machine backup and upgrade. Did it but the computer is still not taking Mojave.

I would do the assignment on iPad but narrations apparently are only available on Android devices. So, I'm back to square 1 trying to gain access/functionality from the 365 I purchased on my Mac. Apple Support said, it might be a hardware issue since I was practicing scripts on the terminal last year. Any thoughts? I have a week, so any advice would be greatly appreciated!


texts: How can I stop "Word is finishing analyzing your document"?

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I'm writing a document about 100 pages with MS Office 2011 for Mac. While I'm editing the content, Word would halt almost every minutes with "Word is finishing analyzing your document" message and a running progress bar.

At first it's only a short pause; however, as the document gets larger, the halt time gets longer too. Now it would take about 10 seconds to finish each "analyzing", and while Word is "analyzing" any operation is not accepted, until the progress bar runs to the end. And that's driving me crazy.

I've done the search and I know that problem existed since 2004. But all this year it seemed not to be fixed with some consistent method.

I'm using a Apple Mac OS X version of Office, and I don't have any pieces of software from Adobe installed. No PDFMaker, no PDFWriter, no PDF{anything}, no Acrobat, no Acrobat Reader, no CS, even Flash is manually removed.
The "Add-Ins" folder inside Office folder is empty -- I've just ensured that with "sudo rm -Rf *" terminal command under that directory.
The "Startup/Word" folder is also empty, too.
There is no such template called PDFmaker.dot or PDF{anything} in the template tree: I've check them all.
Auto spell check is off. Auto grammar check is off, Auto correction is off. Auto saving is off.

The only thing I've suspected now, is Auto-Text. That document is a technical spec and it's filled with figure captions, table captions, foot-notes, and cross-references. That message would almost surely show up when I'm performing adding something in the middle of document that will push some content to the next page. But I can't find a way to turn-off the auto-update of Auto-Text.

Any idea would be appreciated -- but please focus on MS Office. That's my job and I've to be "compatible" with others.


texts: Is it possible to customise the ‘fixed’ controls at the top of Control Center?

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iOS 11 provides the ability to customise the lower toggle controls in Control Center (show/hide and rearrange) from Settings → Control Center.

Is it possible to customise the other controls at the top of Control Center, showing/hiding or rearranging toggles and controls?


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On a fresh install of Leopard when I look at the root certificates this is what I see when I order them by expiration date.

I find the names, dates, and number of certificates suspicious. Is this all normal?


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My mac wont turn on,

first the battery indicator only blinking, after SMC reset and unplug the battery than plug again, my laptop turn on, after turn on, i tried tu shutdown to put plat cover.

after that my mac wont turn on and when i try SMC charging only change to green and back to orange, but notting happen, unplug battery also not work, evrthing keyboard combination not work, i cannot turn on my mac,

how to fix this?


texts: Can't rip CD into my Son's iPod because of Apple Music

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I'm a simple man. I want to take the CD my son got in kindergarten. Rip it into mp3/aac using my iTunes 11.3 El Capitan based Mac. Plug in my Son's 5th gen iOS 9,2 based iPod Touch. Put the ripped music into his on device's Media Library. Plug the device back into the stereo in his room. Play the good vibes and see him go crazy the toy drums once more.

Alas, Apple broke that:

This in itself is wrong, as I did enable the family package of Apple Music and added my Son's device into my Apple Music account (streaming of music works on his device).

So now I have the newly ripped music claimed by Apple Music and uploaded to iCloud (fine, whatever). The problem is can't move the files to my Son's device AND I can't share my own uploaded media using something I would imagine be called "Shared Family iCloud Music Library".

The music itself is merely uploaded, not matched and not DRM protected.

This all comes down to me not knowing of a method in which I can put my ripped music on my son's iPod. Which makes it NOT OK any more.

Any suggestions?


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I have been unsuccessfully trying to change the Mac sidebar icons without the use of 3rd party software.

As pointed out here, Change Mac OS X Finder sidebar icons, it would seem that editing the file /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Info.plist should be the answer.

The original file converted to xml looks like this:

<dict>
    <key>CFBundleTypeIconFile</key>
    <string>SidebarDesktopFolder.icns</string>
    <key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
    <string>Sidebar Desktop Folder Icon</string>
    <key>CFBundleTypeOSTypes</key>
    <array>
        <string>sbDt</string>
    </array>
    <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
    <string>None</string>
    <key>LSTypeIsPackage</key>
    <false/>
    <key>NSPersistentStoreTypeKey</key>
    <string>Binary</string>
</dict>

To test this, i thought if i would change SidebarDesktopFolder.icns to SidebarDocumentsFolder.icns and Sidebar Desktop Folder Icon to Sidebar Documents Folder Icon and the string sbDt to sbDc i would reroute the reference for the sidebar icon.

However, this did not work, nothing seems any different.

Does anyone know where the reference to the icon file is that needs to be changed?


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I have trouble with my macOS / my mouse where my mouse get disconnected for a few seconds and connected automatically again. When I open console app and start a logging session there get the following logged:
standard    12:41:43.013025+0100    icdd               [Removed] | [USB][ Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro ] ( 0, 0, 0) @ 0x2310000 |
standard    12:41:43.013086+0100    icdd               [Removed] | [USB][ Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro ] ( 3, 0, 0) @ 0x2310000 |
standard    12:41:43.013119+0100    icdd               [Removed] | [USB][ Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro ] ( 3, 0, 0) @ 0x2310000 |
standard    12:41:43.013149+0100    icdd               [Removed] | [USB][ Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro ] ( 3, 1, 1) @ 0x2310000 |
standard    12:41:43.013175+0100    icdd               [Removed] | [USB][ Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro ] ( 3, 0, 0) @ 0x2310000 |
standard    12:41:43.013204+0100    icdd               [Removed] | [USB][ Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro ] ( 3, 1, 2) @ 0x2310000 |

Also the connect gets logged (usually after 3 seconds or something)
standard    12:41:43.149082+0100    WindowServer    Service added: IOHIDService name:AppleUserHIDEventDriver id:0x10000894c primaryUsagePage:0x1 primaryUsage:0x2 transport:USB reportInterval:0 batchInterval:0 events:0 mask:0x0
standard    12:41:43.179883+0100    WindowServer    Service added: IOHIDService name:IOHIDEventDriver id:0x100008967 primaryUsagePage:0x1 primaryUsage:0x4 transport:USB reportInterval:0 batchInterval:0 events:0 mask:0x0
standard    12:41:43.199239+0100    WindowServer    Service added: IOHIDService name:AppleUserHIDEventDriver id:0x10000895f primaryUsagePage:0xc primaryUsage:0x1 transport:USB reportInterval:0 batchInterval:1 events:0 mask:0x0
standard    12:41:43.214725+0100    WindowServer    Service added: IOHIDService name:AppleUserHIDEventDriver id:0x100008958 primaryUsagePage:0x1 primaryUsage:0x6 transport:USB reportInterval:0 batchInterval:0 events:0 mask:0x0
standard    12:41:43.223581+0100    loginwindow KeyboardServiceAddedCallback | Keyboard Service added: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
SenderID:            0x0000000100008958
Manufacturer:        Mad Catz
Product:             Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro X
Transport:           USB
LocationID:          36765696
VendorID:            1848
ProductID:           5912
CountryCode:         0
PrimaryUsagePage:    1
PrimaryUsage:        6
DeviceUsagePairs:
    DeviceUsagePage:     1
    DeviceUsage:         6
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
standard    12:41:43.356348+0100    icdd                   Added | 0x10000358 - [USB][ Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro ] ( 0, 0, 0) @ 0x2310000 |
standard    12:41:43.358520+0100    icdd                Inferior | 0x10000359 - [USB][ Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro ] ( 3, 0, 0) @ 0x2310000 |
standard    12:41:43.360080+0100    icdd                Inferior | 0x1000035b - [USB][ Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro ] ( 3, 0, 0) @ 0x2310000 |
standard    12:41:43.361486+0100    icdd                Inferior | 0x1000035d - [USB][ Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro ] ( 3, 1, 1) @ 0x2310000 |
standard    12:41:43.363310+0100    icdd                Inferior | 0x1000035f - [USB][ Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro ] ( 3, 0, 0) @ 0x2310000 |
standard    12:41:43.364537+0100    icdd                Inferior | 0x10000361 - [USB][ Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro ] ( 3, 1, 2) @ 0x2310000 |

I think this problem did occur after upgrading to BigSur – but do not know exactly.
Any ideas whats going on here and how to fix that?


texts: Safari won't download files, not enough free space when plenty after Catalina upgrade

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I've had a search on the forums and the internet but couldn't find an answer to my issue.

Just updated my OSX to Catalina. I'm having a problem with Safari, when I try and download a file it tells me that there isn't enough space and to delete files. My SSD and my removable volume have more than enough space. As I only have a 128gb Macbook Pro I use an SD card as an overflow and this is where my download folder directs to. If I download using 'download file as..' and select the main SSD, it downloads fine. It just won't let me access the SD card. Chrome works fine.

If somebody could point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it.


texts: USB mouse/ trackpad not letting gestures. Content Caching, Touch Display

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I have in Sharing on My MacBook Pro... Content Caching - Share internet connection. Share this computer internet connection and cached content with iOS devices using USB.

I see on my iPhone under Touch Display - Unlock iPhone to allow USB accessories connect when it has been more than an hour since your iPhone was locked.

My trackpad stopped working a while back and now I have this Logitech that I found around in the house. I have seen on here that Logitech can be used for several computer monitors. So is it possible that I can go on a different computer with my USB mouse and access my MacBook Pro?


texts: How can I make calculations based on smart category summaries in Numbers?

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The latest version of Numbers has a great feature called Smart Categories that are kind of like Excel's pivot tables. I'm using it to group a table by a label and then sum up spending and revenue numbers.

The next thing I'd like to do is calculate the ratio between these two, i.e. a new column that has the value revenue / spending. How do I do this? If I create a new column, the only options are to use built-in summary functions (see below) - I can't enter my own formula.

Example of smart categories:

Options for "Ratio" column:


texts: After Successful Bootcamp Installation of Windows, Mac OS X is unaccessable

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URGENT HELP NEEDED!

I have a Late-2014 iMac. Recently, I tried to Boot Camp it. However, It went horribly wrong and now I can't access Mac OS X. I am still able to access Windows though. Here's what happened:

I went to Boot Camp Assistant, and checked all the boxes, Create a Bootable USB, install Windows 10 Software, and Install Windows. I ran the process through correctly until It asked me to select the partition sizes. I set it to 700 GB Mac OS and 300 GB windows. However, after pressing enter, I pressed esc because I wanted it to be split equally. However, the process already started. So I force quit the Application and restarted the process. This time I gave Windows a little bitmore space. After that, everything went smoothly. I installed windows, installed a couple apps but when I tried to boot into Startup Manager (by holding Alt at startup) it didn't work. Then I tried to boot into Mac OS using the Boot Camp Manager via windows, but it replied with this:

Then I tried booting up Mac OS from Windows Advanced Startup Options, but that didn't work either. Whatever I tried, it just lead to windows. So then I tried to get into Mac OS Recovery using Command + R, but that didn't work so I tried using Alt + Command + R, but that didn't work either. I have absolutely no idea what to do whatsoever. Please Help Me!

EDIT: Using another computer, I installed Mac OS Catalina Install USB. Using This I Intend to use Recovery. HOWEVER, I cannot find a way to boot into it. Can anyone help me attempt to boot the USB from windows?


texts: Stop information syncing between iPad and iPhone

texts: How do I stop my iPhone and iPad from syncing? They currently sync website history, texts, and calls. My iPhone is company owned and iPad is personal.


texts: Triple Boot Mac OS Sierra, Windows 10, Kali Linux 2.0 On A Macbook Pro

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I have successfully dual booted both Window and Mac OS as well as Kali and Mac OS. The problem is installing Kali once I have dual boot Windows and Mac OS. I have tried several tutorials, and the one that got me the furthest was here. Once I had windows and Mac OS dual booted, from within Windows I shrunk the Windows partition to 128gb, and created a 32gb for partition for Kali, a 32gb one for swap, and 32gb for a shared file folder between all three OSs. I then tried installing Kali with the GRUB boot loader. No errors occurred, then when booting with rEFInd I selected the Linux partition, only to receive an error saying "missing operating system." I then deleted all of the partitions, reinstalled Windows and then tried installing Kali without the GRUB boot loader. This did not work any better. Windows still gave the 0xc000000e with the "preparing to repair" message, and Kali still said it was missing the OS. I know this doesn't pertain entirely to Apple, as it involves Linux and Windows, but has anyone successfully done this before?

This is my laptop. It has a 500gb SSD, and 16gb of RAM.


texts: How to Change default fallback font (for non-latin languages)

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My question is: How do I change the default fallback font for Thai (or any non-latin language for that matter) so that the terminal app shows the Thai font of my choice while keeping the English font.

Forgive the long extra details, but I’m really stuck here on Mac OS 10.11.1 and my terminal font is set to Menlo at a font size that is comfortable to me. Menlo does not have any Thai characters, which I double-checked in Fontbook > View > Repertoire and also via the Menu bar > Show Emoji and Symbols. (But interestingly has Lao.) However, when I type Thai characters in the terminal, miraculously Thai appears. Apparently, there is a system wide default fallback font. However, one Thai character does not display properly. (Sara Am, สระ อำ) I can change the terminal font to CS Prajad and the Thai looks very good including the problem character. However the English font is hideously ugly and is useless as a programming font.

I disabled SIP (System Integrity Protection) in order to modify the xml file DefaultFontFallbacks.plist located in

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CoreText.framework/Versions/A/Resources then rebooted thinking that this would solve my problem. However, the original default Thai font is still showing in the terminal.

(Changes I made to DefaultFontFallbacks.plist.)

Substitute default string.

<default>...
    ...
    <string>Thonburi</string> to <string>CSPrajad</string> (no space)
    ...
</default>

add CS Prajad as monospace font as per Han Chinese and Korean xml strings.

<monospace>
    ...
    <array>
        ...
        <array>
            <string>th</string>
            <string>CSPrajad-Regular</string>
        </array>
        ...
    </array>
    ...
</monospace>

How do I change the default fallback font for Thai (or any non-latin language for that matter) so that the terminal app shows the Thai font of my choice while keeping the English font.


texts: iOS MAC address randomization for personal hotspots

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On my friend's iPhone (not sure which one but presumably a recent version) when she creates a personal hotspot, there's a program running on her computer that scans all WLAN networks around it and it logs the SSID and BSSID (MAC address) for all networks it detects.

The thing is the scanner logs a different MAC address for the hotspot every time she stops and re-starts the personal hotspot. I've read about iOS randomizing MAC address when the phone is scanning for networks.

Does that meant that the MAC address of the iPhone's personal hotspot will also show up different to a third party app running on a different machine, scanning for local WLAN networks every time the iPhone hotspot is stopped and restarted?


texts: 13'' 2011 MacBook Air: Stuck at blank gray screen, no boot option working

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I have a 13" 2011 MacBook Air A1369 stuck on a grey screen. When I startup I can hear the chime and the computer proceed to go to a blank gray screen immediately. The screen has no Apple logo or loading bar.

What I have tried till now:

Booting in recovery by holding Command + R -- no effect, blank screen.
Booting in single-user mode by holding Command + S -- no effect, blank screen.
Booting in verbose mode by holding Command + V -- no effect, blank screen.
Booting in Safe mode by holding Shift -- no effect, blank screen.
Booting in hardware diagnosis mode by holding D -- no effect, blank screen.
Resetting PRAM by holding Command + Alt + P + R -- no effect, blank screen.
Resetting SMC by holding Shift + Alt + Control while pressing the power button, then pressing the power button alone -- no effect, blank screen.
Choosing another booting drive or recovery partition by holding Alt -- no effect, blank screen.

Is there something else I could try to get past this gray screen?


texts: If you update your app, does it get bumped to the top of the free apps section? Does it help improve visibility?


texts: Is there a way to apply custom shaders to macOS screen?

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I know macOS has a feature to invert the screen using Control+Option+Command+8.

I was wondering if there is any way, like a macOS feature, an application, or even some API to apply other effects to the whole screen?


texts: Installing Windows 7 on a MacBook Air, keyboard and trackpad stop functioning

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A colleague at work has recently bought a MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013) and instantly asked me to put Windows 7 on it as they don't want to start using Mac OSX. They also don't want to use Windows 8 - which will become relevant a little later! We have a MSDN account so I am able to get a licence key for either easy enough, so I downloaded the iso for Windows 7 Ultimate N 64bit and burnt it to a DVD.

I then installed Windows 7 (as I have done many times on Mac products) using the Boot Camp Assistant and got to the point where you setup the computer and username. Until this point there was no issue, but now the keyboard and mouse were non-responsive. From reading around this is apparently because Windows 7 doesn't come with USB3 drivers on the install disc and so it cannot recognize the peripheral devices (although I'm not convinced by this). Apparently installing Windows 8 can support this and would be a breeze...

I decided to try the building a flash drive method. After serveral attempts (the windows support update drivers never worked) I had managed to get a drive built and booted from it, installed it all again and as before I couldn't control the keyboard or mouse at the install screen. According to Apple, this can be caused when using a USB 3.0 flash drive, however I'm 99% sure that the one I was using is not (it's a cheap chinesey thing, says nothing about USB 3.0 and works in USB 2.0 ports on other machines).

Anyway, so I read a method someone else had luck with using DVD and then installing the trial version of VMWare Fusion to complete the install. So I did this, booted virtually in OSX and boom, completed the install. I ran all windows updates and rebooted and still had no kb or mouse! I assumed that I should get the drivers from Apple so I tried the following in windows (virtually through VMWare):

Installing Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5033
Installing an older version of Boot Camp Software.
Building a USB drive in OSX and then mounting it in windows

Basically all this does is give me an error saying "Boot Camp x64 is unsupported on this computer model" - and yes I did install a 64bit version of windows. Interestingly when trying to install Boot Camp 3.3 it said "The Boot Camp version currently installed on your system does not require the update.", which is strange as there is no version installed.

I then opened up the directories in the Boot Camp 5.0 zip and tried installing the conveniently named, AppleKeyboardInstaller64.exe and AppleMultiTouchTrackPadInstaller64.exe, but as you may have guessed - did not do anything after rebooting.

I read in various places that you can skip the windows version checking and it will install as I want it too, but had no luck getting this to work. I must say I'm very surprised as my previous experience of Boot Camp (albeit, it was when Windows 7 was new) had never thrown up any problems and now it's taken me almost 48 hours to get to where I am.

Does anyone have any ideas about how I can get this to work without virtually booting in VMWare?


texts: Monitor Console.app for a string and notify when found

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Is it possible to monitor all messages in Console.app for a string and then notify the user when this string occurs?

I have the problem that I'm getting disk I/O errors and I suspect that it's not a HDD failure, but somehow is caused by a piece of software. The only way I know that I have disk I/O errors is that I sometimes look through all the messages in the Console.app out of curiosity. Of course this does not give me real time information.
Therefore I want to receive a notification when the following message occurs in the Console:

07/01/2013 20:59:06 kernel  disk0s1: I/O error.

Is this somehow possible? It's OK if this means that Console has to be on all the time.

I'm on Snow Leopard 10.6.8.


texts: Online bank tells me it's Apple devices that displays webpage incorrectly

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My online bank is trying to convince me that it's because I have an Apple computer to log on to their service that's the reason for a table of transactions not displaying correctly:

  The website was formatted to be run using a 720p HD Ready monitor and
  this would be why your Macintosh devices aren't showing the full
  detail as they use a 16:10 Retina aspect ratio.

I don't buy it. Are they correct? Are Apple devices known to display web tables incorrectly? I don't see it on other online services.

Thanks,

Todd.

EDIT: I'm using Safari and Firefox. And have tried them on OSX 10.11 and 10.12


texts: Is there a way to send out my Caller ID info to people not on my contact list, or to people whose contact list I am not on?


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Every time after my Mac (MBP late 2013 with OS X 10.10.5) starts Screen Saver mode and then after some time turns off the screen (even if no program is running) the fan speed rises dramatically.
Is it normal, or does anyone know how to fix this?


texts: Macbook pro - does time machine restore to original state or just add removed files?

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Macbook pro OS X 10.9
If I backup using time machine and 3 months later decide to restore it back because I have a virus, would it be able to eliminate the virus? Also does time machine delete all the new files i've added since then?


texts: Does erasing the HD and then restoring from time machine backup remove applications?

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My wife has a 2017 MBP and after upgrading her OS to Big Sur, the laptop has become dog slow. It takes literally seconds for a new program or browser tab to open. The OS should be called 'Big Slow'.
Anyway, I thought I might try erase her HD and reinstall the OS, but we have some concerns.
We want to ONLY reinstall the OS. We do not want to lose any data and we do not want to have to reinstall any applications. She does regular Time Machine backups.
There are a lot of posts with the same question I have here, but for whatever reason, they all ignore the question about applications... so I am asking again.

Will using the 'reinstall OS' option result in DATA being removed?
Will using the 'reinstall OS' option result in APPLICATIONS being
removed?
Must we reinstall the OS and then restore from the Time
Machine backup, or a simple 'reinstall OS' is enough?

Thanks


texts: Is there a way to decline Mountain Lion updates?

texts: In particular, I receive update notifications for printer drivers where my current drivers work and I don't want to update them. I'd like to clear the updates from the store and stop receiving notifications about them.


texts: How would I use Karabiner elements: to remap the brace key on macOS?

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I'm used to program in linux whereas left ALT+8 and ALT+9 show { and } (it layout).

Now  I need to press "shift" + "option" + "è" and "shift" + "option" + "+" to have it done.

How can I remap the keyboard in Karabiner Elements so I can use the linux style shortcuts to make braces?


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I see a number of posts on how to delete the WhereFrom extended attributes data, but I would like to do the opposite and extract the information into a file.

I download Creative Commons photos from Flickr and provide photo credits on my blog.

I would like to set up a Folder Action that extracts the WhereFrom URL from the photo into a file, that way I can easily copy-paste the URL into my blog photo credit. It would also give me an archive of all my downloads.

I tried to reverse-engineer some of the delete scripts on StackExchange but didn't have any luck.


texts: Blutooth stopped connecting to car automatically

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My iPhone5S always AUTOMATICALLY connected with my car radio upon entering the car and when I made or received a call by pressing the button on the steering wheel of my 2011 Chevy Mailbu, I would hear the call through the car's radio speaker, no problem.

Then with no changes made on my end, bluetooth quit connecting automatically. I can still make a receive a call by pressing the button on the steering wheel but the call is now NOT heard thru the car speaker. I can make it use the car speaker by pressing on the round "audio" icon that appears on the iPhone screen and the pressing "my vehicle" on the next box that appears. However, having to hit these two buttons on the phone while is too dangerous while driving.

I have turned bluetooth off and back on. I have re-paired the iphone to the car. I even installed the latest Apple 11.2.6 software upgrade, all to no avail. So for now I can use the steering wheel button to make/receive calls but only hear the call thru the speaker in the iPhone, not the car. For years the bluetooth worked correctly, automatically connecting to the car upon entering the car and all calls came thru the radio speakers. This bluetooth auto-connect stopped working about a week ago. Apple support on the phone twice could not solve the problem.

Has anyone had this same problem and fixed it. It is driving me nuts as I have tried everything I know of and have read about on google. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Hexadecimal folders showing in the App folder on Macbook Pro, Big Sur

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On my Macbook Pro running BigSur, in the App folder, I see other subfolders with hexadecimal names 00 through ff.  If I delete these, they eventually reappear.   Some of the folders contain a file with the name such as 3e04febc0508c9c31b80dce7066e19cb3af182ac.file
which seems to contain information about an audio file. I suspect it's something related to iTunes but can't find any settings that address this. Problem also was present before I did the BigSur upgrade.
What process is creating them and how do I permanently get rid of them? Or, Are these folders normally hidden and some setting was changed to make them visible?
I've searched extensively but haven't found anything.


texts: Continuity/Handoff keeps failing after a time

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I have a Mac Pro 2013 running 10.15.6. I have an iPhone X running 13.6. BT and WiFi are turned on on both machines, are connected to the same network, and all network functionality is working. Both are logged into the same iCloud account and both can access iCloud functions.
When I restart my Mac, continuity works and I can hand off calls from my iPhone to my Mac so I can use the headset. After some time, on the order of a day or two, this stops working. Attempts to hand off result in "call failed". This happens in both directions at the same time - I can no longer call out from my Mac using my iPhone, call failed, or hand off calls from my iphone to my mac, call failed.
Various troubleshooting guides are all about settings issues, like having the Continuity turned off or not having BT turned on. None of these cases apply to me. It is working, then just mysteriously stops with nothing changing on either device.
Does anyone have any ideas?


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I'm trying to understand how Apple Keychain works. If I understand correctly, only passwords that are in the iCloud Keychain will be shared with my other devices and saved if I lose the computer. Is that correct?
(I mean the passwords in Keychain program top left Keychains > iCloud)

I can create other Keychains: File > Add Keychain. If the computer with that new keychain crashes or is stolen, everything in that new keychain will be lost. Is that correct? Is there anyway to solve that? Is there any way to put that new keychain in iCloud?


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I am interested in using Xcode, but don't currently own a Mac and my dad owns many, but lives far away. What is the best way of remotely accessing his newest Mac running OSX 10.11 so that I can use it at the same time as him, and without an unreasonable amount of lag?

I realise that this question has been asked before, but I can't find any answers from the last three or four years, so was interested if anything has changed. The best advice I can find so far seems to be using a program called Real VNC to connect via SSH, is this still true?


texts: OS X Dictation - more accurate transcription

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Just for my curiosity and knowledge, from a Software stand point prospective, I read on a book that: "Further, the server-based dictation in OS X also sends other user information, like your address book contacts, to provide more accurate transcription."  What does it mean? How can Dictation improve by sending the address book contacts?

Thank you so much and have a great day.


texts: How can I download songs for offline play on my Mac but not my iPhone?

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Long story short I have more than enough space on my laptop to download my whole Apple Music library (which isn't very big at all) for offline play, but I have <1gb of space on my iPhone.
Is there a way to download songs for offline play on my Mac without having it also download them to my iPhone (both which obviously use the same Apple Music account)?


texts: Make iCloud photos upload from phone less aggressively?

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If I have wifi access, after taking a photo, by the time I go to edit or share it mere seconds or minutes later it's already been uploaded from my phone to the cloud. This then means the big delay grabbing the photo from the cloud.

Is there any way to try to make that better, other than turning off "optimize photo storage", which I can't do given my phone+library size.

(I'd also accept a rdar::// number if this is known issue)


texts: How to disable "x days since last backup" reminders in High Sierra

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Since I updated to High Sierra (Version 10.13.1 to be exact) the "x days since last backup" reminders have returned, showing up every day or so in the top right corner of the screen. I checked, and the Back Up Automatically box in System Preferences is still unchecked.

Is there any way to make the reminders not appear again?

I'm not interested in backing up using Time Machine tool I've had poor success restoring my computer with it one previous time.


texts: Mac folder which is Not Shared is shared and fully accessible from a Windows machine

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On my desktop, I right click on Macintosh HD and then on Get Info.
The Shared Folder checkbox is Unchecked and under Sharing and permissions, I have:

  system    (read and write)
  myUser    (me) (read only)
  wheel     (read & write)
  everyone  (No Access)

However, if I access my Mac from a Windows machine, using the Mac's IP address, e.g \\192.168.2.1, I am initially asked to enter my credentials to gain access. I enter my Mac credentials. I then see Macintosh HD as a folder, and basically, the whole Mac system is visible.

I can see the root folders, and access /Users/myUser and see all documents, pictures etc.

This is not good.

If Macintosh HD is not marked as Shared, why do I see that as a shared folder? I believe that having myUser (me) listed under Sharing and Permissions might be the issue here. However, if I remove myUser, then I am not able to view root folders from the terminal/console.

Thank you for all your input!


texts: Macbook crashed, need help finding out why

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I was running Football Manager 2020 with Spotify playing in the background and Firefox was running as well.
Mac suddenly crashed (cursor doesn't move) and audio starts looping – went on for a good 5-10 seconds? Then it shuts down by itself, and the fan ramped up to full speed for a second after it shut down.
Chain of events: cursor/visual stuck - audio loop - display turns to black - fan full speed - fan stops - Mac restarts.
Upon restart, Firefox has logged me out of all my accounts, but not Spotify or Steam client. Was Firefox the reason? I copied the crash report too if anyone could have a look and translate what it all means (can I post on here?) – I hope it's not overheating? I played Football Manager 2020 for some time now on my Mac and this was the first time it crashed, and usually I see the temperature runs on average 55-70c while on it.
Cheers
Macbook Pro 2020 13" i5


texts: How do I make multiple columns in the header and footer in Pages?

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Pages for as long as I've used it had 3 column headers and footers. One day I was messing around, and I managed to remove the columns, and make it a single column. Now I can't figure out how to set it back. I'd like to put the section title in the lower left, and the page on the lower right.

I'm using Pages on OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

I've tried inserting a table into the header, Pages 5.5.3 doesn't let you do that.


texts: How to change application Sharing & Permissions using Terminal

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If I right-click an application and click Get Info, a window like in the following image pops up:

Then, after unlocking the Sharing & Permissions section, let's say I wish to change the permissions for everyone to No Access.

This is fairly simple to do through the GUI, but I was wondering if it was possible to do this through Terminal.

I know I could simply use chmod and change the permissions recursively for the application directory like that, but I would prefer a solution that simply changes the permissions in the same way the GUI does such that it is updated accordingly in the Info window for the app.

Edit:

I do not believe this is a duplicate of this post because the answer to it only shows how to add access control entries, not how to modify them.


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I have a application, I wrote 6 years ago, which includes functionality to compare files. Recently this seems to ignore the compare files command. I did a little digging into the code, and this uses opendiff to perform this function.

I will try to dive into the code to follow up, but my question relates to some of my findings.

There are 2 instances of opendiff

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/opendiff
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  23712  5 Jun 13:22 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/opendiff

/usr/bin/opendiff
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  18304 30 May 09:35 /usr/bin/opendiff

Running the first works as expected.

Running the second produces the following error

xcode-select: error: tool 'opendiff' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

This error is incomprehensible (at least to me), and I do not know where this came from.

I suspected Command Line Tools may be implicated, and I did install brew 2 days ago (to get an up-to-date rsync)

I would just delete /usr/bin/opendiff, but cannot - probably due to SIP.

I just booted up my MacBook Pro running 10.13.3 and all seems OK.

/usr/bin/opendiff runs, and starts FileMerge 2.10


texts: iPhone 5s aware of location even with no cellular service?

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I live in USA and took my VZW iPhone 5s to Scotland; I never purchased a SIM card to use there. I noticed that my iPhone pictures uploaded to Flickr have accurate location data associated with each picture. Example, I was walking around Edinburgh and taking pictures without WiFi/cell connection, but the images still display accurate location of where I took images.

How is that possible?


texts:
I have a Macbook Pro Retina.  When I capture an image in Skitch, it is always twice the size.  I shrink them back down via Preview for social media.

Is there some way to make Skitch capture in non Hi-Res mode?  Or is there a tool that can quickly reduce these images by 1/2?


texts:
I recently bought an MacBook Pro Late 2011 with an i7 2.2 GHz and 4 GB of RAM. I wanted to get started in some mobile development and learn how to work with macOS. So this was a good offer online.

Until now I am happy with this product. But of course 4 GB of RAM are not much when you develop.
I mainly want to work with React Native and eventually with libGDX.
My question is. Is it worth to upgrade to 8 or even 16 GB of RAM or is it a waste of money for this "old" MacBook? Can I expect it to hold a few more years?


texts: Significance of IODisplayWrangler in power management assertions

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When I check my power management assertions (MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra), I see the following line:

$ sudo pmset -g assertions
...
Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler

What is IODisplayWrangler and what does it mean that it is listed as an "idle sleep preventer"?


texts: When I browse certain websites in Safari, I am frequently met with popups with instructions on how to install Java. But I don't want to install Java, especially not the plugin. How do I tell Safari to shut up about it?


texts: What does the "4G" that appears on my iPhone 4S's AT&T network indicator mean?

texts: Since upgrading my iPhone 4S to iOS 5.1 (from 5.0.1), the AT&T network status indicator now reads "4G" where it once read "3G". What has changed from the previous version? Does this "4G" mean the same thing as it does on the "new iPad"?


texts: Updates impact on /usr with SIP Disabled

texts: I have a very complex application that needs a directory in /usr. By complex, I mean it would take thousands of changes to rid the code of /usr references. It has to be done, but I need a newer OS X immediately. When I attempted to upgrade an older OS X system, it wiped this directory as part of the installation. If I run the csrutil disable on the system, place the /usr subdirectory back where it goes, will ongoing OS X security updates within the Mojave version (10.14, not OS major upgrades) purge the directory when applied, or leave it in place?


texts: What are pros and cons for MacPorts, Fink and Homebrew?

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I'm just migrating from Ubuntu Linux to Mac, and everything is new and I'm re-learning a lot of stuff.

On Linux I had the excellent apt-get to manage software packages. I googled for an alternative on Mac and found about MacPorts, Fink and Homebrew.

I will use this computer primarily to develop Ruby on Rails applications.

So, what are the differences between them? Which are the upsides and downsides? Which one is best maintained and has more packages?


texts: Weird system dialog keeps showing up on OSX

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For some time already I get a system dialog showing up in my computer (OSX El Capitan, 10.11.6), saying:

  accountsd wants to use your confidential information stored in "Skype for Desktop MSA" in your keychain. Do you want to allow access to this item?

It also offers three buttons:

Always Allow
Deny
Allow

But no matter which one I click, the dialog keeps poping-up again and again, sometimes immediately, sometimes after a few seconds.

I've tried uninstalling Skype and removing any references to Skype and accountsd in my Keychain, without success. The annoying dialog always comes back. Any idea how to get rid of it?

Thanks


texts: Is it possible to dim the screen from Terminal, in a Mac with OS X Lion? Is there any command to do control brightness and volume?


texts: What are the licensing concerns running Mac OS X guest OS on VMWare ESXi 5.5 with non-apple hardware?

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How do I install Mac OS X as a guest OS on VMWare ESXi 5.5 Update 1 running on non apple hardware?

We currently have a large deployment of HP server hardware running VMWare ESXi 5.5 Update 1. We have numerous Windows and Linux deployments in this environment and all works very well. Now we are in need of a virtual install of Mac OS X. We don't want to hack it in and we don't want to violate any EULA's, we just want virtual Mac OS X in our environment. Does this mean we need new hardware in the data center to support this?


texts: MacBook Pro 2011 has faulty power button - How do I enable any key or lid open boot settings?

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I'm working on an Early 2011 MacBook Pro 13" which suffered a little water damage.
After cleaning the system I can get it to turn on by disconnecting the battery, then reconnecting it and connecting the charger.  It automatically turns on and everything operates fine.
If I do a shutdown though, I have no way of turning it on without repeating the battery/charge sequence (which resets the date and time).  It doesn't respond to the power button press, any keyboard key presses or lid open.
I was hoping there is a way to enable a "turn on when lid open and/or any key" type setting.  Is this possible?
The system is running MacOS X 10.12.6.


texts: Is it not possible to make Apple Watch chime on the hour?

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It's pretty common to have watches announce the beginning of a new time interval (say to beep every hour). Mac OS X allows users to have the system "announce the time" down to the quarter of hour.

Is there a way for Apple Watch users to do something similar?


texts: How can I remove duplicated items in the install updates list?

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I just tried to install the OS X 10.10.3 update from the App Store. My internet is slow and after several hours, it finally finished.  It asked to restart, and I accepted.  But nothing happened.  I clicked the "Update" button again, and told it to restart several times, to no avail.

After a few tries, it started the whole download again!!!!

I cancelled it (I'll have to try again tomorrow), but now my Installed Updates list shows this:

And I don't know how to remove all the duplicate entries... or just a good installation of the update!! This is my first Mac, and is a serious negative experience for me... Other OS beta releases aren't this bad!! Any idea on how I can fix it?

EDIT: I was able to install the update with the combo updater, but the repeated updates are still appearing.  Does anyone have any idea what file I can edit to get it listed only once?


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I own several albums from the same band and want to import all of the .mp3 files into iTunes (v. 12.0.1.26). However, iTunes will not add a few songs from 3 of the albums. All of the other songs were imported without a problem except for these few.

I have tried using "Automatically Add to iTunes" in Finder as well as "Add to Library..." in iTunes for these files. When attempting the former, the files are placed in the "Not Added" sub-folder. With the latter, nothing happens (I check by going to My Music => Songs and sort by Date Added to see if any new files show up regardless of expected ID3 information).

The problem files play normally with Quicktime and VLC player.

My Mac is caught up on all software updates.

Thank you in advance for your support!


texts: Unable to open file in Preview even though I have all permissions

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I've been storing image files on Dropbox (uploaded automatically from my phone via their "Camera Uploads" feature). I just discovered that I don't have permission to open them from my synced Dropbox folder on my computer. The error is a dialog box reading:

The file “20160622_165411.jpg” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it.
To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and choose File > Get Info.

In Console, I see:

2017-02-06 08:12:33.317 Preview[15288]: PVImageContainer initWithURL:file:///Users/zipslime/Dropbox/20160622_165411.jpg failed, error = Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=257 "The file “20160622_165411.jpg” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/Users/zipslime/Dropbox/20160622_165411.jpg, NSUnderlyingError=0x7fea18e85bd0 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=1 "Operation not permitted"}}

This only seems to happen with my computer's default program (Preview). I can open the files in Firefox, and even with Finder's Quick Look. What's going on with Preview, and how can I fix this?

Solutions I've tried:

Check Get Info (already shows the right permissions; see below)
chmod 744 and chmod 777
Move the files out of the Dropbox folder
Downloading a fresh copy of the file via the Dropbox web client does work, but is not a reasonable solution at scale.

From Get Info:

From Terminal:

> ls -l 20160622_165411.jpg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 zipslime  staff   3.0M Jun 24  2016 20160622_165411.jpg

> whoami
zipslime

> chmod 777 20160622_165411.jpg
> ls -l 20160622_165411.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 zipslime  staff   3.0M Jun 24  2016 20160622_165411.jpg*

> open 20160622_165411.jpg
# still fails

I found an unusual attribute (the content was a bunch of inscrutable hex characters), but deleting it doesn't change things either.

> ls -lO@ 20160622_165411.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 zipslime  staff  -  3.0M Jun 24  2016 20160622_165411.jpg*    com.dropbox.attributes    83B
> xattr -d com.dropbox.attributes 20160622_165411.jpg

> open 20160622_165411.jpg
# still fails


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I have a Time Capsule that I use for Time Machine, and am thinking about getting a regular entry level 4 slot Drobo to hang off its USB port as shared, non-Time Machine disk space.  The Drobo appeals to me because I can expand it as my needs grow, and because it has RAID-type functionality built in.  I figured that I could also unhook it from the Time Capsule and attach it to an individual machine should the need arise.

Have you tried this before?  How has it worked out for you?

Edit: Just to clarify, I was not looking to use it for Time Machine data.  The Time Capsule itself has plenty of disk space for my Time Machine backups.  I'm looking to add network based storage for general use (archiving videos, rarely used disc images, etc.)  I don't really need the performance of a Drobo FS, so I was looking to see if I could save some money with a regular Drobo.


texts: How can root launch a regular Mac application from a cron job in /etc/crontab?

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I want the cronjob to do some things as the superuser, and depending on the result, launch an app as me, the logged-in user.

I've tried a bunch of things but nothing I think should work does.

Similar questions:

How can I execute sudo commands as a cron job?
How can I automatically launch an application whenever the Mac goes idle?


texts: iMac applications restored from back-up are not opening

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My  one year old  iMac failed  to  boot, after   SMC  and  PRAM  reseting  I  got  the  hard disc replaced  and it is working again.

Now  when  I  opened  my  back up,  all  the  applications  were there  but  many of them  including  iPhoto  won't  work  with  error  message  saying  that  it  is  not  compatible  with  the Mountain Lion.

I don't know  how  to recover  my  photos. If  I  go  for  data recovery  will  it be  able  to  recover my  photos  and  can  they  be  viewed  normally  or  only through  iPhoto.


texts: How to increase speed between changing photos in Photos/iPhoto?

texts: I am trying to view through the photos, but the process is painfully slow. How do you increase the speed of transition or remove the transition  altogether so that when you press arrow keys or do three finger swipe the change is instantaneous.


texts: Spotlight on Yosemite not launching Apps

texts:
My Yosemite spotlight does not start app anymore. I tend to use it for quickly starting up apps like Terminal, but now it just sort of hangs...

Any ideas to fix it?


texts: How can I free up storage on my MacBook Air?

texts: My MacBook Air is out of storage but I can't figure out how to free up storage. I've tried deleting videos and photos but this doesn't change anything. I've also tried deleting videos off iMovie but thus also doesn't help. I'm quite stuck, and would really appreciate any suggestions!


texts: On a MacBook with macOS Catalina, how do I unlock the Keyboard-en.plist file?

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File path:

/System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app/Contents/PlugIns/PAH_Extension.appex/Contents/Resources/Keyboard-en.plist

After disabling System Integrity Protection (SIP) in macOS Catalina, the Keyboard-en.plist file still remains locked. Each time I deselect the ✓ checkmark appearing in the "Locked" menu in the titlebar of the opened file, the following message appears:

"You don't have permissions to unlock the file "Keyboard-en.plist." You can duplicate this document and edit the duplicate.

My goal is to unlock the original  Keyboard-en.plist file so that I can edit text in the file or unlock the original file so I can replace it with a duplicate file containing edited text.


texts: Very poor rendering quality with my Macbook Thunderbolt 27''

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (2015) with an external Monitor Mac Thunderbolt (2013).

I've NEVER had a beautiful image on my external monitor, no matter the OS X version was.
At work, I'm working with an iMac, and despite being similar in specifications, the image is far better and cleaner than my monitor.

I use the default calibration and default resolution from the general settings.

I get a kind of yellow opacity, and the font is blurry.

Has anyone already experienced it and managed to solve it?

Considering the price it costed, I expect a great screen quality.


texts: Is it possible to clean install mac os and backup on the same drive in a different partition

texts: Just wondering if it's possible to clean install mac os (mojave) while also backing up some files on a different volume/partition on the same drive or will I have to wipe the entire drive.


texts: What cable do I need for 2560 x 1440 resolution on my Mac Air mid 2013? My LG Monitor has HDMI input only

texts: I have an LG monitor with only HDMI outlets. My cable is HDMI to my MacAir mini port. Max resolutionis 1920. Is there an adaptor I can purchase that will bring my monitor up to 2560 x 1440? Thank you!


texts: Getting many paid apps to colleague's personal iPad easily without manually installing them through the App Store?

texts:
I have about 20 apps that are are all paid apps, and I want my team-member to have them. He wants to use his own iPad, but we are tired to individually get apps from App Store. Is there some easy way like restoring from backup or something like that when I only want about 20 apps to the iPad? Suppose I need to do this for 10 people, is there any easy way that I say 'go to this site with your iPad and then you will get the apps and configured desktop for your work'?

If there is no easy way, the guy needs to use two iPads. We are wanting to avoid this situation and not wanting "to force people to new devices" but we want to make sure that everyone has the best apps before any work.


texts: Critical VLC media player security flaw. Remove VLC from my Mac?

texts:
My brother rang me at work today to say I needed to remove VLC media player from my Mac because of some critical security flaw in the program that allows others to remotely run code on my computer.

Thing is, I use it all the time, so this would be a major deal having to remove it.

My question is:

Do I have to remove it, or can I just quarantine it somehow?


texts: SSD w/ brand new clean in stall of Yosemite fails to boot

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I've just installed a new version of Yosemite on a third party SSD (Crucial). When I boot it up it hangs on a gray screen.

Steps that got me here:

Connect SSD to Macbook Pro (with existing HD) using USB2
Install Yosemite onto SSD while connected to MBP
Complete installation (at this point, I'm up and running with a
working Yosemite running on the external SSD)
Install SSD into internal port
Boot MBP
Immediately hangs on gray screen

I've read about issues with Trim and Yosemite, but to my knowledge I've never enabled or installed Trim on this SSD.

The Option key and Command-R are both non-responsive during startup.


texts: El Capitan: Your iCloud session has expired

texts:
After upgrading to 10.11, everytime when I run iTunes get this:

Enter login and password, fix for 20 minutes. How can this be fixed?

What I did:

reset NVRAM.


texts: How do I erase partitions on a drive that's been protected with FileVault 2?

texts:
I want to completely wipe a USB thumb drive, re-partition it, and reformat the partition as ExFAT, not JHFS+. Unfortunately, I used FileVault 2 on it when I made it and that seems to be preventing me from destroying the partition table on the drive now.

In the Disk Utility app I can't save and partition table changes to the drive and I can't format the existing partition as anything that isn't HFS+-based.

From the command line this is what I see:

> diskutil list
/dev/disk6
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS UntitlesHFS            *14.8 GB    disk6

And when I try to erase the disk:

> diskutil eraseDisk ExFAT Files disk6

Unable to begin erase operation: Placing a partition map on a Core Storage logical volume is not supported (-69671)

I can't erase the volume, obviously, because ExFAT wouldn't work with FileVault 2:

> diskutil eraseVolume ExFAT Files /Volumes/UntitlesHFS
The specified file system is not supported by Core Storage for use on a Logical Volume

I do know the password for the drive and can mount it just fine.

How can I wipe this USB drive, repartition and reformat it as ExFAT?


texts: Applescript-how can I expand a list view window's contents so everything shows hierarchically and expanded

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Given a root directory upon selection, I need to traverse the directory and all other subdirectories, expanding all subfolders, so that everything shows hierarchically in the finder's list view.

This answer select-all-non-folders-in-an-expanded-list-view-window acts to select all items in an expanded view.

I need to expand all subfolders, until all subfolders from the root directory have been expanded, showing the contents of the root folder and all subfolders hierarchically.


texts: Limit what a tethered iPhone internet connection can be used for

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I have various background services running on my Mac which use quite a lot of bandwidth: Google Drive, a couple of OneDrive sync programs, iCloud sync, Dropbox, and Backblaze for a general backup of my harddrive.

This is fine when I'm on a regular wifi connection, but when i tether my Mac to my iPhone I have limited data -- only 4GB per month. I'd like to be able to limit the services which can use my internet connection when that internet connection is provided by my iPhone.

Is there a straightforward way to do this? I use Little Snitch and think I might be able to set up a specific profile for when I've connected via a tethered iPhone, but this seems quite complicated.


texts: Does Apple allow crypto-currency mining in ios app?

texts: I have been looking into the feasibility of creating an app that mines crypto-currency. I have been searching the appstore for similar apps but none have come up where the miner is part of the app. Does anyone know if Apple allows mining from app? i.e would an app that does mining have even the slightest chance at being approved?


texts: How can I connect my Mac to my iPhone hotspot via USB from the command line?

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About a mont ago, my Mac's wifi stopped working for unknown reasons. I was recommended to do a clean install, but I need internet connection to run the installer from the recovery menu, so I want to get to the internet by using the iPhone mobile data.
Is there a way to connect to the internet by sharing the iPhone data over USB?
I know I can reinstall from an USB drive, but I've already erased the main HD and I'm stuck here.


texts: What is invalid internal_flags (0x28000) warning?

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I have an external hard drive with 1 HFS+ partition and 3 APFS partitions. When I run Disk First Aid (in High Sierra), it finds no problems with the HFS+ partition. It also reports "drive appears to be OK" for the APFS partitions, HOWEVER I get several warnings like this on each of the APFS partitions:
warning: inode_val: object (oid 0xHHHHHH): invalid internal_flags (0x28000)
where 'HHHHHH' is a hex number.
I've searched online and can't find any mention of a flag value of 0x28000. What does this mean? Is it anything to worry about? Please explain.


texts: Mac Pro 4.1 (flashed) High Sierra Firmware Update

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I just created a USB Installer for High Sierra and tried to install my Mac Pro 4.1 (flashed to 5.1).

But the installer wants to do a Firmware Update too and says I have to shutdown and press the power button until the EFI beeps.
But this Shutdown button in the installer is greyed out so I can't proceed.

Any help?


texts: Folder/File Name "Truncation" or "Wrapping"

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I have been trying to find a solution for a very very long time on how to have the longer names of my folders and files to drop down to a 2nd line when viewing in the "Grid" Icon view in the My Finder window.

In Leopard 10.5 by default you are able to see long folder/file names drop down to a 2nd line, but I can't find a setting to replicate this action in any other OSX after that one. It makes it harder to see a folder/file name when it is truncated or non-wrapped.

So as an example; Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited looks like Williams...ted as a folder title and I would much rather prefer to have it look like the old style;

Williams Grand Prix

Engineering Limited

Is there a setting somewhere or a terminal command in Snow Leopard where I can make this change? I have tried to explain to Apple Care multiple times, but they were stupid enough to not even know what the word truncate meant after I explained it and "wrapping" thoroughly.

Also, please do not suggest the use of just the other List views in My Finder, my inquiry is for the Icon view only as this is the only view which I use. It is such an important feature for me that it is pushing me to go back to Leopard 10.5 just to have that.


texts: I need to hide `Show all bookmarks` button in Safari 6

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I use Safari 6 (on OS X 10.8.3) and I want to hide all button on Bookmarks Bar in Safari 6.

For Show Reading list and Show Top Sites there are an options to hide it in Preference → Bookmark but there is no option for hide Show all bookmarks button.

Is there anyway to hide Show all bookmarks button on Bookmark Bar in Safari 6 ? I don't want to see it on my browser anymore.


texts:
When I bought an iPad 3 They have given me few pdf files. Actually They are eBook which I prefer. PDF files are shown in the Books section of the ITunes program.

How to Transfer those PDFs from my Pad to PC/Mac ?


texts: Can I install Linux and Windows on a Mac to triple boot the hardware?

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I'm quite the newbie at operating systems etc., so forgive me if my question is dumb. Is it possible to install Linux and Windows on a Mac, to run side by side with OS X? I'm about to start a new study, and I would like the new retina MacBook Pro for it, but for my study I'm definetely going to be programming C# and for that I'll prefer Windows. And I've recently started exploring C++, and I really love Linux and would like to make some apps for it, so that's why I'd like to have Linux on there as well.

Question summary: On a new retina MacBook Pro, is it possible to install Windows and Linux next to Mac OS X so I can choose which OS I want on boot?


texts: CalDigit TS3+ dock station causes Kernel Panic (macOS 10.15.6)

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I've a CalDigit TS3+ dock station with a DisplayPort external 1080p monitor, 100 baseT Ethernet, Apple USB extended keyboard (yes, wired USB keyboard) and Logitech UniFi receiver (for MX Master 2S) connected on it. It runs fine after upgrading to firmware ver 44.1, until system update 10.15.6.
This work station is set in my office and I'd take my MacBook Pro (personal property) home every day. So every morning I wake up my laptop and plug one single cable to it, then I can bring everything to work.
After updated to 10.15.6, USB 3.0 bus on CalDigits TS3+ are slow in response whenever plugging in. It would take about 5~10 seconds before the external keyboard/mouse set be responsive, and the situation is getting worse.
Since two weeks ago, the USB 3.0 bus on TS3+ stopped working completely when plug in TS3+ thunderbolt 3 cable. The hardware report from "About this Mac" shows that both USB 3.0 bus on TS3+ are not detected at all. But other peripherals, including DisplayPort display and Ethernet, they all work normally. And if I plug all my USB peripherals (keyboard, UniFi, iPhone, flash drive) directly onto MacBook Pro type-C ports, they will work normally, too. This situation can only be fixed by system reboot.
Furthermore: if I disconnect TS3+ from MacBook Pro when TS3+ USB bus going down, I'd get Kernel Panic after 10 seconds. And, this is very weird: there is no system crash log after rebooting from Kernel Panic. The system crash log in "Report to Apple" dialog is plain blank, and I could find nothing related to these KP events in Console.app. It's almost like "pull the power plug abruptly" on a desktop computer.
This situation does not happen every time but the rate is quite high, about 40% or so. And it needs not to have the laptop sleep overnight; sometimes I unplug my MacBook Pro for a meeting and reconnect after returning to my desk, and it will also trigger the problem.
I've tried to do NVRAM/SMC reset and, as expected, not working at all.
Can anyone give me advice ? I'd also considering replace the dock to a different model, but I'm not sure whether it's the problem of macOS or dock.


texts: Mail.app extension to avoid sending email from the wrong account?

texts: I have recently starting using Mail.app with two email accounts (work and home).  Every now and then I send email while having the wrong folder selected, and the default "from" account will be not what I expect.  Are there any extensions or tips to make the currently selected "from" jump out at me in the compose window if it's not the 'default' from address?  In other words, 99% of the time, I use my main account, but if I accidentally open a compose window with the alternate account, I'd like a different background color in the compose window, or some big flashing icon or something.  The problem case happens because I was reviewing a folder in the non-default account.  Any ideas?


texts: How to get a one-key shortcut for full screening an Application (not just maximize)

texts: In Windows there is the ubiquitous F11 functionality which on the Mac is done by ctrl-cmd-F. As far as I found there is no universal way to get a one-key shortcut. It should be possible to do with Applescript and Alfred 3. Anybody well-versed in this to set it up? Or did I forget a simpler method?


texts: Undo move files from the "all my files" to the trash folder

texts: I transferred by mistake  some files from the "all my files" folder to the trash folder (but haven't emptied it). Do I risk to delete these files? How can I undo this?


texts: Safe key combinations for global shortcuts

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Is there any combination of modifier keys that could be considered 'safe' for setting global shortcuts with a third-party app? For example, I do window snapping with cmdoptJ|L, but cmdoptI would conflict with Chrome's dev tools shortcut.

I'd like a set of modifiers I can use for virtually any global shortcut I want without conflict.


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I have a 4 GB Micro SDHC card and I use a Micro SD adapter sleeve to read it with the built-in SD card slot of my 15" mid-2010 MacBook Pro. It's been a while since I tried to use it, but I just realized that my Mac will always treat it as read-only, no matter the position of the physical lock on the adapter sleeve.

I can't even format the partition because all the options in the "Erase" and "Partition" tabs of Disk Utility are grayed out for the SD card.

Why is the card read-only, and more importantly, how can I write to it?


texts: How can I run iPhone app in Simulator without opening Xcode using command-line utility

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I know that there are some utilities which allows us to install iPhone apps to Simulator. But I found problems installing in this way when I have two Xcode versions installed on the system.

I want to set the environment variable for that utility. How can I set the private framework path for that utility?

https://github.com/Fingertips/ios-sim  : Link for the utility.

For more details please go through my stackoverflow link


texts: Can I adjust iPad display size to make it fit the screen better?

texts:
I have an iPad mini (original model) running iOS 8.4
Recently I have noticed many apps seem to be too large for the screen; usually the top or bottom is partly off screen.

When I press the button, the home screen displays normally for a few seconds, then seems to "grow" e.g. the iPad in the top left now shows "Pad" wth the "i" off the screen.

This may have been since a software upgrade, but I can't be sure.


texts: "Xcode helper" would like to control this computer. Is this request legit?

texts: I haven't seen this request in earlier version of xcode. Why does XCode Helper require this permission?


texts: How can I have Finder mount an SMB share from ssh without confirmation?

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In a bigger piece of AppleScript, I need to mount an SMB share. This works:

tell application "Finder" to mount volume "smb://server/share"

That is, it works without asking questions, from the Script Editor or from a shell running in Terminal (ie. osascript <my script>).

But when I try to run the same script while connected to the Mac through ssh from another computer, Finder (I suppose) first asks for confirmation with a dialog on the GUI:

  You are attempting to connect to the server xxx. Click connect to
  contine.

How can I avoid this confirmation?


texts: Tried to reset iPhone 4s but stuck on black screen with loading spinner

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My phone fell down the stairs and went completely black. A friend of mine who fixes iPhones took it apart and found that the LCD plug had popped out in the fall so he put it back together and it was working fine, except for some reason I lost all my photos. No photos in camera roll, Photo Stream, etc. I have backed up daily. In fact, my phone is set to back up every time its plugged in to the charger.

A representative for Apple told me to reset my content and data and restore from iCloud and my photos should be there. Well, I attempted to reset my phone last night at 10:30pm. It is now the next day at 1:38pm and my phone is still with a black screen with the circular icon spinning around like its "thinking".

I can't reboot by pressing the home and lock buttons because my home button is broken. Any suggestions?


texts: 'alt vs option': Is the 'option' key still used somewhere? Where exactly (geographically)?

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My first Apple computer that I bought in 2011 had a "Ctrl" key, an "Alt" key, a "Cmd" key and a Shift key. My second Apple computer too.

I haven't seen a single Apple computer or a single Apple keyboard with an "Option" key though. I know "Alt" and "Option" is the same from any practical point of view. I've been working as an iOS developer for years. I learned about the "Option" key only a few years ago. I heard it in a Youtube video, I think. It is often used in contexts like this:

  If you are a Windows user, press Alt P, if you are a Mac user press Option P

Obviously, I'm a Windows user then..

This is probably a history question..

When was the last time Apple did produce keyboards with a key that is labelled "Option"? Do they still produce these keyboards? (Notebooks count as well.)

Were they sold everywhere, or just in particular countries? For example, I'm from Europe, so maybe the "Option" key is a US thing and it was never sold in Europe, which would explain why I never saw it, and which would also explain why we still hear about "Option" keys from time to time.

Interestingly, the "Alt"-key is sometimes called "Wahl-Taste" in German. It sounds really strange, and I didn't ever hear a Mac user call that key "Wahl-Taste" in real life. It seems like if Windows users are trying to be nice to Mac users without realizing that they just messed up.


texts:
I currently have a 16 GB iPhone 5, with about 1.2 GB available storage. It's still on iOS 6 (I know, right?!) and I figured it's about time to update. Under software update, it says iOS 8.4 is 1.2 GB.

Does that mean the entire update will need just that much space, or will I need more than that considering I don't have iOS 7 and that it's a big jump from the iOS 6 interface to the iOS 8?


texts: Some applications open in low resolution

texts:
Some applications, like Unity3D (but not limited to it) open in too low resolution:

The flag "open in low resolution" is not set:

Also, from time to time, menu bar apps are also displayed in a low resolution:

Here's my Mac system information:

Is there any way to make them displayed in a good resolution?


texts: How to clear out this Photos/ Camera Roll related data taking space on the iPhone even after Deleting all Pictures?

texts:
iPhone 6 iOS 10.2:

Used iMazing: Selected iPhone Between left sidebar options: Pick “Camera” instead of “Photos” - kinda counterintuitive. Select All / CTRL A Delete from right Menu / or Trash icon buttton.

Deleting 7000+ photos took a while. To test if it’s working I closed iMazing and when I got back in as before, was left with 2000 or so.
Repeated and mostly gone. For some reason 2/300 were left and would not delete no matter what I tried via iMazing.

So deleted it using the Photos App - Selecting from Bottom right to Top left (auto scrolls) and selects all.

Delete & then Remove recently deleted.

Now I thought this was done; no pics or videos or anything showing inside photos/ camera roll.

—————

But when I look via

General > iPhone Storage and select the app:

Photos & Camera - 318 MB >

Synced from iTunes Library 70 MB

Shared Photo Stream 248.1 MB

I don’t remember using any of these above.

How can this be cleared out?


texts: IOAccelSurface2 error floods console macOS 10.12 Sierra

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I have a MB Pro that is locking up afer about 30 minutes.
When I open console I find this message but cant figure out what is causing the problem.

  fault 12:14:37.463057 -0700 kernel IOReturn
  IOAccelSurface2::surface_unlock_options(enum eLockType, uint32_t):
  surface is not locked.


texts: Without using the mouse, how do I trigger 'Print' in Gmail (using Google Chrome on the Mac)?

texts:
Gmail has keyboard shortcuts for seemingly everything (including features I’ve never even used or heard of), but there appears to be no keyboard shortcut to print.

It also does not seem possible to make a custom keyboard shortcut to select “Print” either.

So far the closest that I’ve come is discovering that when a new message is loaded, I can press ⇧Tab twice to select the “Print” icon, and then press Enter to trigger it. But this completely fails if you have done almost anything after opening the message such as selecting some text, etc. So it is not reliable enough to be useful.

I’m hoping that someone either knows some JavaScript magic or perhaps there is a Google Chrome extension out there which might make this possible.

(After this many years of Gmail being around, I have to assume the lack of a keyboard shortcut for printing is intentional. Perhaps someone at Google thinks we ought to be living paperless lifestyles, or they figure if you keep all of your email in Gmail rather than printing them to PDF then you’ll use Gmail more. However, I suppose the ‘why’ really isn’t all that important, but it does seem like a strange oversight. At least to me.)

Update:

I guess I should have been explicitly stated that neither ⌘P nor File » Print will work.

That's why Gmail has its own print icon which opens the message in its own window. Otherwise Chrome tries to print out the sidebar and everything else around the message and you won't even see the main message as part of the printed page or PDF.


texts: Why can't I share my screen with Microsoft Teams on Catalina, but I can on BigSur?

texts:
I am unable to share my screen using Teams on my MacBookPro running Catalina with an external monitor. I have successfully shared a Powerpoint presentation through Teams, and on my other computer running Big Sur Beta I have been able to successfully share my screen.
I have tried to follow the advice that I have found on web pages here and at Microsoft, e.g. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_o365admin-mso_teams-mso_o365b/macos-catalina-and-teams-screen-sharing/28a38edc-d149-4c32-95cd-95c4d87dbf13?messageId=000ad0d2-2025-400b-8fe1-f8285dc0f488&page=21&rtAction=1579206173825 where people describe similar issues. I have tried running Teams in full screen and windowed mode, on the built-in screen and external monitor. I have not tried disconnecting the external monitor.
I think that the problem is Teams not getting permission to share - every time I press the Security & Privacy settings button in Teams, it does launch the Settings window, Security and Privacy, but does not put a Teams row in the Screen Recording permissions frame for me to approve.
I have followed the advice to run tccutil to clear the Teams permissions on these pages, Mac Catalina And Microsoft Teams Screen Sharing Permissions https://silviustroe.com/cant-share-screen-microsoft-teams-fix/ and reinstalled the Teams app, and I have cleared all of the apps using "tccutil reset ScreenCapture" but still Teams does not appear in the Screen Recording permissions list when I try to share.


texts: Connect older Mac Pro (DVI) to newer Apple Display (Mini DisplayPort)

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I have an older Mac Pro with two DVI outputs. I have access to an Apple Display that has a Mini DisplayPort connector, which I'd like to use as a second monitor. Is there an adapter out there that will let me plug in this Apple Display to my Mac Pro?

Basically, I'm looking for an adapter with a female Mini DisplayPort connector and a male DVI connector, which is the reverse of this adapter that Apple sells.


texts: com.apple.WebKit.Networking.xpc wants to sign using key "privateKey" in your keychain

texts:
I've seen this error in a few other areas of the forums; however, I'm trying to understand what does "key 'privateKey'" means. I'm trying to authenticate to a VPN portal and this is the error that pops up when I browse to the site. I was provided a .pfx file, imported it into my "login" keychain, and now I'm trying to use it when browsing to this site.

Perhaps my understanding of all of this is horrible, but I thought I'd at least post about it and see if anyone could provide any valuable feedback.

Also, that "using your key 'privateKey'" is not very specific, so I have no idea whether it's trying to use the right private key or not.


texts:
I am looking for a specific setting within whatsapp. Namely, i wish to set the notifications in a way that the only visible thing is "notification" rather than the current Name+Surname+Notification/content of message (if unlocked). is there a way to set it that way? i went through all the setting and i can't seem to make it work?

thanks guys!


texts: Want iTunes to stop synching podcasts FROM my iPhone

texts: Basically, I don't know how to delete podcasts that I downloaded from my iPhone.  I can delete them in iTunes obviously, but then when I sync, iTunes just takes them from my iPhone.  Is there anyway that I can delete podcasts (audio) DIRECTLY from my iPhone?  Or some way I can prevent iTunes from downloading them FROM my iPhone?


texts: where is the Documents folder shown in iFile (iPad-Air)?

texts:
There is a folder called Documents (and other folders beside that) in iFile

I tried but can't find the physical location with iFunbox or iTools.

How can I find the physical location of that folder?


texts: How to open files at last position in Textwrangler?

texts:
I am using Textwrangler (Version 4.5.3) to edit a set of files and I switch between them very often.
Instead of opening all files separately I selected the whole folder containing them and opened this.

My problem now is:

Every time I switch from i.e. line 600  of file A  in folder XY to file B in folder XY/Z, and then back to file A I have to scroll back to line 600, as Textwrangler opens this file again at the first line.

What I want now is an option that makes it possible to let Textwrangler "remember" where I left off last time I had it open.

I looked through all preferences in TextWrangler but couldn't find an option that does what I want.


texts: IPhone 6 Cell antenna works intermittently

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I have an iPhone 6, and the cell antenna does not work at all, except right after it's re-assembled.

I replaced the battery and it worked for about 15 minutes (I activated it and made a call).

Batteries Plus changed the antenna and it did not work, then when they put the old antenna back in and put it back together it worked for a few minutes, similar to my experience.

Is there any hope for this?  I have done at least 6 factory firmware resets with itunes, and am looking for any suggestions for other things to try.


texts:
I have MacBook Pro Late 2008 version. Recently I updated my OS to Yosemite 10.10.1. Ever since I've installed it I've been experiencing problems. The screen would freeze and nothing except the trackpad works. Actually the mouse pointer turns into the circle with rainbow colors and you can just move it, but you can't click on anything. After a minute or so everything turns back to normal and everything works fine. This was happening once per week or so and I was OK with it.

But yesterday I tried to update Java to the newest version 8.25 and Flash Player to version 16. After I updated them both the freezing have been occuring every 3-5 minutes. Everything else is working OK, except during the freeze time when I can only move the mouse. I tried to uninstall both Java and Flash, but the problem continue. Also I tried to install the previous versions, for example Java 8.20 and Flash Player 13 but it doesn't stop the freezing. What could I do?

P.S. I took me 15-20 to write this question since the freezing occured 5 times.

EDIT: You can download the console log from http://www.filedropper.com/consolelog. I have noticed that I receive certain message in the console log every 3-5 minutes and somehow it coinciedes with the timing of the freezes.

13.1.15 20:34:01,001    systemstatsd[358]   assertion failed: 14B25: systemstatsd + 4255 [8BF02DBC-09E8-3994-8C2D-1C0A869EF157]: 0xa
13.1.15 20:34:01,452    com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]    (com.apple.systemstatsd[358]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1

I can't provide an screenshot from my Activity Monitor since it constantly changing. And I don't know any other way to extract data from it. I was able to monitor the Activity Monitor during the freezes and there are no proccesses in the CPU menu and the CPU load is 0. But when things come back to normal the CPU Load jumps up to the max and it takes a while for it to return back to normal.


texts: Taking the front fans out of an Mac Pro Early 2008 to clear out the dust?

texts:
So I unscrewed the screw in the upper right hand corner of the fans encasing that's attached to the motherboard.

But I still can't pull them out.  It seems like it attached somehow in the lower left hand corner.

All I want to do is clean the dust off the fans.  What am I missing?


texts: My Bootcamp Windows system can't see my Mac files?

texts:
I recently got a new MacBook Pro.  On my old computer I had a Bootcamp partition that runs Windows.  Everything installed on the new one fine, but I have a problem.  Why can't I see my Mac files from my Windows system?  On my old computer, I could see and move them while running the Windows system.  The Mac side has no problems accessing my Windows files.

Does anybody have a clue what I should change and on which system?


texts:
How do I make Firefox use Chrome's built-in Flash plugin?

I assume I can simply symlink Chrome's Flash plugin in Firefox' plugin directory—which directories do Chrome and Firefox use to store their plugins?


texts: I have iPhone 4s with firmware IOS 6.1.3, i like upgrade to IOS 7. Actually signed firmware for iPhone 4s is IOS 9.1. Is Possible?


texts: What does an exclamation point mean next to an e-mail address in an iCal invitation?

texts:
I'm getting strange behavior with invitations I send from iCal to another .mac address. The invitations never show up (not in the invitee's inbox, nor in his iOS Calendar or iCal) and my iCal shows an exclamation point next to his address in the invitation:

What does this mean and how do I (or does he) fix it?

I'm using iCloud and he is using MobileMe, but I find it hard to be believe that should prevent me from inviting him (or even notifying him).


texts: I am going on a road trip through the national parks in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada. I need to take my laptop with me for work. How do I keep it safe in the heat of the car as we drive?


texts: I am wondering how to make a window that can’t usually be opened in full-screen (i.e. TextEdit or Dictionary) able to be opened in full-screen by using the full-screen button. Is this possible?


texts:
This is probably a long shot but it would be really handy if there is a solution. I am logged in on a work computer I currently cannot access. I know the output of a long running job I previously started is on an iTerm2 window.

I have SSH access to the machine and I would like to read the contents of that window. Is there, e.g., a file where iTerm2 backs up session output? Or any other way to read the content of an open window? Obviously it's too late to select any specific session logging options. Usually after a forced restart, the iTerm2 window will restore the previous output so I presume it is saved somewhere.


texts: iPhone 5 charging sound keep repeating, why?

texts:
I am using my iPhone 5 for iOS development so it is attached to computer via cable and often when I hold it and rotate it to see screen in a different orientation and I accidentally touch the cable at the neck, Xcode warns me about lost connection, and the lightning sign disappear from iPhone screen on the top right corner and I can hear this irritation charging sound.

What can be the problem? The screen is a little bit scratched.

If I would replace screen would it solve the problem?

I have bought and tested with a brand new Apple cable.


texts: My name shows up for every call to my gf's iPhone?

texts:
android guy here.  Recently my gf's iPhone has been showing my name for any contact that calls here, even if they're in her contact book.  She's not very tech savvy and I'm not close to her phone to check it out.
I don't even know where to begin googling this.  It's gotten annoying at this point.  Has anybody experienced this issue?


texts: Is there a way to automate the movement of application windows to assigned monitors?

texts:
So I have a new set up: 2 large screens (top left and top right), my macbook pro (centre), and my ipad (left).
I'm a coder, I like to have my coding environment in the centre, with research on the top left, results (e.g. created webpages) top right. Certain apps like Postman are on the left on the ipad.
Sometimes, as we all do, I reset my computer. When I do this, upon login, all my apps will open on the same screen.
Is there a way (maybe an Alfred script), to move all my applications to the desired monitor (and the desired desktop on that monitor)? It would save SO much time I can't even begin to say.
Thanks.


texts: How to restore pre-update OS from Time Machine?

texts:
I've never actually restored with Time Machine, not sure how it works.

My machine is messed up since updating to a Yosemite Beta and installing nvidia drivers.

How do I go back a few days?

I ONLY want to restore the system/drivers, NOT my User folder, etc.
Can I just restore /System, /Library, and /Applications ?


texts: Keyboard stuck at bottom of iPad, regardless of orientation

texts:
When I am in the home screen, in landscape mode, and swipe down to bring up spotlight search the keyboard shows up as if I was in portrait mode. See the screenshot below:

It's not a problem with the orientation lock, because the screen does rotate. The keyboard always shows up on at the bottom of the iPad, regardless of what orientation I hold the iPad. If I hold the iPad upside down, the keyboard will drop down from the top. (Not only making it very hard to use, but completely obscuring the search dialog box.)

This does not happen in any apps. In apps the keyboard always appears where it should.

Any ideas on how to fix this? I am currently on iOS 8.1, but this was happening on iOS 8.0 as well. I'm not sure if it had that problem before then.


texts: Using automator, sort objects by type into type folders, inside subfolders

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long time no ask! Anyway, I've been tasked with a project that involves sorting folders into new folders based on type. I've been working on an Automator action, but I haven't had much success. What I'd like to have the folder structure look like is:

  Main Folder

           -Movie

               -Project name
          -Photo
               -Project name
          -Document
                -Project name
          -Audio
               -Project name

I can sort my folder into the audio/photo/movie/document folders, but I cannot make new subfolders and move my items into them, I simply lack the knowledge. Any suggestions would be really helpful. Thanks!

EDIT: here is what I have so far: https://mega.co.nz/#!HQN1GK6C!WvBvDOAt_5116hAoIAIhXTWIfg9fNKjxZxIgG-AHWRk


texts: Can I make a cell separated diagonally in a table

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I'm using Pages for a document where I need to have a table that has both rows and column headings. (I have no idea how such tables are called.)

This is what I have now:

The following screenshot pictures what I'm after:


texts: What commands can I run in the Terminal, and how do I use them?

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I just found the Terminal and I want to know which commands I can run, and what they do.

Is there a command that would list me the available commands?

Is there a command that tells me how to use the commands (like "help" in the Windows command prompt)


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I have always used bash for work, and never had problems with it. Now, it does not save any command in history again.
If I open a window terminal, try some commands, it acts like everything has worked fine and show me history using the arrow keys. But If I close the window (and that it is the time that it supposed to be save on the .bash_history file) and open another one, there are no signs of the last commands.

How can I find out what is going wrong? Or re-set everything from blank.


texts: Email setup on iPhone 4S deleted contacts, reminders, and calendar dates

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When I synced my phone to microsoft exchange account, all of my contacts, reminders, and calendar dates were erased.

This is what I did:

Settings
mail, contacts, calendars
add account
microsoft exchange
put in my school email

The settings were found and my email synced. I went to place a call and all of my contacts were deleted. I do not have a mac and nor did i do anything using my iTunes account.

How can I get all of my contacts, calendar dates, and reminders back and keep my email set up on my phone?


texts: What can I do to fix my Macbook Air 2011—it is no longer letting me highlight, or click on things

texts: All of a sudden, my Macbook Air is no longer letting me highlight or click on things. The keyboard itself is working great, and my computer hasn't slowed down. Any suggestions?


texts: How to merge two or more Safari Bookmarks.plist files together?

texts:
I do not use iCloud to sync my Mac and I have several Safari Bookmarks.plist files that were manually backed up at different times. Thus each contain some of the same items while some contain items the others do not.

How can the contents of these Bookmarks.plist files be merged together?


texts: How do I succeed setting sublime text 3 as a default text editor on Yosemite?

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It's a matter of principle for me as I'm struggling with it for a long time. I had this issue back on Mavericks and now on Yosemite 10.10.5.
What I'm trying to do is to set Sublime text 3 as a default text editor for all plain text files (my target were files with . and without extension, e.g .bashrc).

Here is an extract of ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist after I used this Replace Text Edit as the default text editor advice:

{
    LSHandlers =     (
                {
            LSHandlerContentType = "public.plain-text";
            LSHandlerRoleAll = "com.sublimetext.3";
        }
    );
}

In Finder when I press CommandO on e.g .gitconfig file it still opens with TextEdit.
 Any help would be appreciated.


texts: How to get old Dock Exposé on Mountain Lion?

texts: Dock Exposé was a Snow Leopard feature which allowed users to click on an app on the Dock and, holding that click, windows of that app would be exposed. On Mountain Lion, Dock Exposé doesn't seem to be available anymore. Is there a way to get it back?


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Is there an alternative to distcc on Mac OS X Lion?

Apple recently removed distcc from Xcode. It's a feature I use a lot. If I want to update to the latest version of Xcode I will have to give it up.

Do you know of any alternative software that would allow me to distribute compilation over LAN (preferably directly from Xcode)?