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My question it simple: How can I go back to Mountain Lion from Mavericks?

My iMac (late 2010, Processor 3.4 GHz Core i7, Memory 8GB 1333 MHz DDR3) became EXTREMELY slow with Mavericks - It was great with Mountain Lion.

In the beginning I thought I had to do with Google Chrome, but now it get slow with pretty much every program.

Help!


texts: .app appended to all apps in Applications folder

texts: When I open my applications folder, all the apps inside have their name below the icons appended with the text .app. I don't think it used to be this way, is there a way to remove the .app text? I'm on OS X snow leopard.


texts: How can I edit and run Apple Script with an editor other than Script Editor?

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I've recently been writing more AppleScript, now that Apple has added Javascript support.
But how can I edit and run Javascript Automation code in an editor other than the built-in Script Editor? My ideal editor would be TextMate, but anything that has good syntax highlighting and automatic indenting would be good enough for me.


texts: How can I run an executable as sudo by double clicking in Finder?

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I just wanted to see if anyone more experienced with MacOS (primarily develop on Windows) can help me with a small issue I'm currently trying to resolve. Based on the comments I just want to add some quick clarity that this question is in regards to running an executable as admin/sudo in macos NOT without having to run it via command line.

So I have an application that I wrote in golang for some users, and whenever I perform a:

chmod +x ./myGolangApp
sudo ./myGolangApp

The application functions as intended. With this myGolangApp it pretty much acts as it's own installer plus does a few more things, in which it needs to be ran as sudo/elevated permissions in order to install some services. Again, this all works great simply running the commands I listed above and our users are happy with it.

The problem I'm having is that I would like to be able to distribute this application by creating a .app package and signing it with my Developer ID and then having the user be able to simply double click the .app package and having them enter in the credentials so that the install can proceed.

I've tried to create a .app package structure and then creating a Info.plist file to invoke it like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
    <string>English</string>
    <key>CFBundleName</key>
    <string>myApp</string>
    <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
    <string>myApp</string>
    <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
    <string>com.company.myApp</string>
    <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
    <string>8.6.7.9</string>
    <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
    <string>8.6.7.9</string>
    <key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
    <string>SetupIcon</string>
    <key>LSUIElement</key>
    <true/>
    <key>NSHumanReadableCopyright</key>
    <string>Copyright 2020 XXXXX</string>
</dict>
</plist>

But when I double click on the app, it does absolutely nothing at all. If I try to run the .app from the command like:sudo ./myApp.app I immediately get: sudo: ./AgentSetup.app: command not found but if I run sudo ./myApp.app/Contents/MacOS/myGolangApp, it executes as normal. I'm trying to get around using the command line for this.

I saw some suggestions on apple.stackexchange, one of which got me the closest I suppose in which someone attempted to write a small AppleScript, export it as an application and run something like:

set currentPath to POSIX path of ((path to me as text) & "::")
set installerPath to currentPath & "testscript.app/Content/Resources/Scripts/myGolangApp"
do shell script installerPath with admin privileges

And this.. Kind of works, but this keeps causing my application to throw an exception an exception for some reason, but I can't tell why and to be honest, I don't really like this hacky way of clicking a .app bundle > having it call an applet executable > which then invokes this script > which then calls the executable to be ran with administrator privileges. This seems like such an unnecessary workaround, and maybe this is partially my ignorance to how OSX - Catalina works.

Is there a way I can simply invoke the .app to call my executable with sudo?


texts: iPhone English (US) keyboard doesn't appear anymore after pasting a bitmoji

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I have 3 keyboards in my keyboard list:

English (US)
Emoji
Bitmoji

I was sending a message on the twitter app last night and I switched keyboards to bitmoji, selected one, and pasted it into the message box, and sent it. After that, I was unable to get back to the English keyboard.

From the bitmoji keyboard I see a "globe" icon and click it. This takes me to the emoji keyboard where I can then see the "ABC" icon and click it. This takes me to the bitmoji keyboard. I can't see a way to get back to the English (US) keyboard.

I've tried rebooting. I've tried closing all apps. How do I fix this?


texts: Services on homescreen jailbroken iphone

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On my jailbroken iPhone 5 with ios 6.1.2 I sometimes see all kinds of services from applications filling up my homescreen. Most of the times this happens after installing an application. After a respring they will dissapear.

Example:

Tweaks I have installed are:

- %hooks law
- activator
- activedock
- auxo
- barrel
- blurriedncbackground
- ncsettings
- springtomize

Has anyone had this problem before and does someone know why this is happening?


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I have installed rEFInd 0.8.7 on my 2015 13" MBP onto another partition however it does not detect OS X.

Here are my disk partitions:

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            234.6 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s6
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data Linux                   15.1 GB    disk0s4
   5:                  Apple_HFS rEFInd                  423.7 MB   disk0s5

disk0s4 is where I would like to install Linux when I get rEFInd to work, while disk0s5 is where I have rEFInd installed to by using the command sudo ./install.sh --alldrivers --ownhfs /dev/disk0s5.

The issue I am getting is when I boot up it does not show Yosemite 10.3 (I only have accsess to the buttons at the bottom). To boot to OS X I have to reboot and hold the option key and select Macintosh HD.

How would I get rEFInd to detect OS X?


texts: How to disable the rubber banding/elastic scroll effect in OS X Mavericks?

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OS X uses the rubber band effect to show users that they’ve scrolled to the end of a window’s content.

In the past (Lion) the terminal command that follows would disable this effect:

defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -int 0

I've tried using Onyx and Tinker Tools to disable this and they do not work. The  above terminal command doesn't work either.

Can this scrolling behavior be suppressed or eliminated on 10.9 Mavericks?


texts: How do I activate Mouse Keys with an apple script or the command line?

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I have set up mouse keys to activate when clicking option five times.
Unfortunately, it appears that I cannot activate mouse keys with this script
repeat 5 times
    tell application "System Events" to key code 58
end repeat

I also tried defaults write com.apple.universalaccess mouseDriver 1
I have system preferences blocked, so I can't turn on mouse keys by going into system preferences.
How can I activate mouse keys using a terminal command or script?


texts: Macbook pro crashed, only displays file with a question mark

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I have a late 2008, 15" macbook pro, which used to run os X 10.11. I have been having minor issues for a couple months, so I figured I would backup and  reinstall the OS to see if that would help.

After backing up, I booted into recovery mode to erase and reformat the hard drive. After which, I attempted to reinstall os X through the internet. After two attempts (each of which didn't succeed, it seemed to download just fine, but never installed. I saw no errors, the computer was off wen I came back to it) The computer started to show the file with a question mark on bootup.

From this point on, nothing has worked on the computer. Recovery mode wont start. Internet recovery mode wont start. Both simply show the aforementioned file and question mark. If I try to select a boot drive, it doesn't show the file, but it only displays the mouse on the whitish/grayish startup background.  The mouse moves, but I cant't actually do anything; there is nothing to click on.

I have reset the SMC, and the NVRAM. I have also tried reformatting the hard drive, again (Using a windows desktop, formatted to exFAT, but it changed nothing) While I had it in the windows desktop, I also used Seatools (the hard drive is a 1TB seagate SSD/HDD combo) to run diagnostics on the drive, but it showed no problems, from a 'Long Generic' or a 'Short Drive Self Test'.

What else can I try to fix this? I have an osx 10.11.5 disk image on a thumb drive, but I haven't even been able to see that hardware has been connected, much less choose a boot drive.

I have access to ethernet, another macbook (about 2013-ish), a usb connector for my hard drive, a windows desktop running windows 7 ultimate, and whatever other resources a university might offer to their students in terms of tech support (However, being an electrical engineering student, I can't say I've ever been impressed by their ability to help)


texts: Using a USB 3 port as a power delivery port for quicker charging of connected devices

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My Android phone charges via a USB 2 micro-usb connector and is capable of charging at greater than the 500mA provided by USB 2 data mode.

Is it possible to configure my Mac so that its USB 3 port functions in USB-2 power delivery mode and can thus deliver power at greater than 500mA?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#PD-R2.0V1.0


texts:
I use the locate command in Terminal regularly. When does its database get updated? On other systems, I could run updatedb as root to force it to update.

Note: I know using mdfind to search with spotlight is another option


texts:
From time to time the (Apple USB) keyboard of my imac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010, mac os 10.12.5) gets stuck on caps lock (namely all letters are printed capital, and I can't turn capital off), and I have to unplug the USB cable to fix this; when I plug it back, the light is on, and I can turn caps lock off. This happens more frequently after installing mac os updates, then it gradually becomes less frequent.

Are there an explanation and a solution for this issue?


texts: Do iPad apps work on iPad PRO and vice-versa?

texts:
I would like to know if an app made for iPad only will work on the iPad Pro?
Also, will the app be properly scaled?

Is it possible for an app made for iPad pro to work on an regular iPad?

If yes will it be properly scaled?


texts: Why do I sometimes see a downloading 'pie' icon when viewing photostream photos?

texts:
it normally shows in the bottom corner as a sort of 'pie' that fills up as the picture is downloaded, similar to the 'app downloading' pie when viewing a downloading app on the home page/s

prior to this the picture resolution is terrible


texts: Access Exchange's public folders in Mail app on Lion?

texts:
Lion's Mail app smoothly setup my connection to our company's Exchange server. However I cannot see the pubic folders anywhere.
Any hints how I can integrate them into Mail?


texts: Stolen MacBook Pro - Locating via Serial Number

texts: Someone has broken into my apartment and stolen my MacBook Pro and my roommate's Mac. Neither of the two devices was logged in to iCloud. Is there a way to track my device through its serial number?


texts: Could the Java Updater (com.oracle.java.Java-Updater) be the source of all my kernel panics?

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In the past few months I've been getting more kernel panics than usual. This is on my late 2012 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 Mac Mini, running OS X Yosemite (OS X 10.2.2) with 16 GB of RAM.

Looking at the console logs following the last panic, I can see that immediately before the crash, com.oracle.java.Java-Updater had been spamming my log. Here's a sample:

3/20/15 11:58:45.317 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.oracle.java.Java-Updater[77795]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 2: No such file or directory: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Resources/Java Updater.app/Contents/MacOS/Java Updater
3/20/15 11:58:45.317 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.oracle.java.Java-Updater[77795]) Service setup event to handle failure and will not launch until it fires.
3/20/15 11:58:45.321 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.oracle.java.Java-Updater[77796]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 2: No such file or directory: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Resources/Java Updater.app/Contents/MacOS/Java Updater
3/20/15 11:58:45.321 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.oracle.java.Java-Updater[77796]) Service setup event to handle failure and will not launch until it fires.
# CRASH HAPPENS HERE!!!
3/20/15 11:58:46.037 PM sample[77799]: assertion failed: 14C109: libxpc.dylib + 75491 [876216DC-D5D3-381E-8AF9-49AE464E5107]: 0x8d
3/20/15 11:58:46.037 PM sample[77799]: assertion failed: 14C109: libxpc.dylib + 34510 [876216DC-D5D3-381E-8AF9-49AE464E5107]: 0x8d
3/20/15 11:58:46.065 PM sample[77799]: assertion failed: 14C109: libxpc.dylib + 34510 [876216DC-D5D3-381E-8AF9-49AE464E5107]: 0x8d
3/20/15 11:58:47.076 PM sample[77799]: assertion failed: 14C109: libxpc.dylib + 34510 [876216DC-D5D3-381E-8AF9-49AE464E5107]: 0x8d
3/20/15 11:59:17.000 PM bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1426910357 0
3/21/15 12:00:33.000 AM syslogd[17]: Configuration Notice: ASL Module "com.apple.AccountPolicyHelper" claims selected messages. Those messages may not appear in standard system log files or in the ASL database.

From what it looks like, com.oracle.java.Java-Updater had sent around 77,000 message like this before crapping out.

I'm out of ideas — both regarding whether Java is actually responsible, and if so what to do. I need Java for a few programs I run, so deleting it isn't an option, unfortunately.


texts: Is there more efficient way to use the usb c ports for external display on macbookpro?

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Currently I am using two usb-c ports to connect to two Dell U2713HM monitors, as seen in the picture

Is it possible to reduce to one port? Is there a smarter way to connect to external monitor (by using some hub for example)? I don't need extremely high resolution, just good enough for programming work.


texts:
I want to have Safari restore form data when restoring my session. This should be native, but Safari does not have this — yet.

The extension Lazarus looks great. But it does not work.

I have also looked at an extension named Form Autosave. But it is crappy.

I have Safari 7 on Mac OS X Mavericks.


texts: Require Admin level to mount removable media or network attached storage device

texts: Is there a way to require Admin level privileges on a MacBook in order to mount any type of removable media or network attached storage device?


texts: Folders created through "Save As..." dialog not immediately visible in Finder

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One my favorite OS X features is creating folders through the "Save As..." dialog. But recently I've run into an issue. When I try to browse to folders recently created using the "Save As..." dialog, they are not visible in the Finder. Mysteriously, they do appear in applications' "Open" and "Save As..." dialogs. I have to relaunch the Finder (I used killall Finder in the Terminal) to get the folders to show up. When they appear, they don't disappear again, and the contents I saved are there and are intact.

How can I restore the Finder's ability to see all newly created folders as soon as they appear in the file system?

One note: I've installed Hazel and Dropbox, which may have disturbed some Finder .plist file somewhere. Hazel is no longer installed, but Dropbox is.


texts: I have an iPod nano 6th generation that I don't use at all. This is because although being a music player, I usually just use my iPhone for that same purpose. So I was wondering whether it is possible to modify the software so that I could use it for another purpose such as a dedicated watch, a memory stick with a display, a miniature game system, a leveler or something else along the lines.


texts: Mac Finder: Getting the path of a directory or file as as string

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In Windows it is possible to right-click on a file. Then select "properties". In "properties" the file-system path is shown. Can then be copied by marking and storing (into the clipboard).

I couldn't figure out a way to do that in Mac.

Therefore my question:

Can I retrieve the file-system path of a directory or file via the GUI of the Mac Finder?


texts: Verify DNSSEC being used by Safari when visiting a web site

texts:
Is there some way to verify that DNSSEC was used by Safari when visiting a web site?

I'm most interested in Safari for Mac OS X. But if there is a way in iOS, that would be important as well.


texts: Where does File Sharing store SMB passwords

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Because of High Sierra 10.13.1, I had to switch from AFP protocols to SMB.

I only got this working by storing passwords in System Preferences > File Sharing > Options > Windows File Sharing

(strange: for iMac to iMac file sharing??)

Now I wonder: where are those passwords stored on my disk?

The dialog already says that this is less secure .......


texts:
I have a strange problem with my iMac (mid. 2011 21,5) -  I can't connect to the network using Ethernet because OS X tells me that it's disconnected when it's plugged in. Sometimes it can see the connection, but  the Internet won't work.

Now, I also have this problem with Wi-Fi, it connects to a network but after random time Internet connection stops working. All other computers and phones are working with Ethernet and Wi-Fi; only the iMac isn't.

I tried to do all tests and resets but nothing, today I formatted it returning from Yosemite to Snow Leopard but the problem is still there. Any solution?


texts: Saved passwords in Safari keep coming back

texts:
So I had saved some some passwords in my Safari on my Mac (Mavericks). I went to Safari > Preferences > Passwords > Remove All to remove all the stored passwords. But no matter how many times I do it, all of them keep coming back. All autofill options are disabled. I also disabled the cloud keychain on my iPhone.

I don't want to have any Passwords stored in cloud or anywhere. What am I missing?


texts: make textedit the default app for new file types

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Often I download files with funny extensions, like .wnd, .npy, .dat, etc. Is there some way I can make the default app for all files like these, as in files that the system does not already recognize, to be TextEdit?

Edit  Is there some way to at least let the "open with" prompt include TextEdit?


texts:
Errors with 'echo [A-Z]*'

I am working on the root directory and intending to print those starting with upper letter.

$ echo [A-Z]*
Applications Library Network System Users Volumes bin cores dev etc home installer.failurerequests net private sbin tmp usr var vm

The result confuses me because
cores dev etc home installer.failurerequests net private sbin tmp usr var vm doesn't match my pattern.

How to resolve it?


texts:
In Safari --> Preferences --> Privacy --> Manage Website Data, I'm unable to remove the data that shows up as Databases. I'm able to remove Cookies and Cache data but not able to remove Databases. Please see the screenshot.

Could you please let me know how can I remove for e.g 123greetings.com entry showing up as Databases?

I'm on Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6


texts:
I've got the following icon in my menu bar:

And I'm unsure of its origin. It looks like it should be the CAPS icon, but I don't have CAPS Lock on. Even if I switch between it on and off, the icon doesn't change.

It doesn't do anything when I click on it, or CMD+Click it.

Nothing untoward appears in my Activity Monitor.

Is there any way of identifying what it is, or what's caused it?

(12" Macbook running macOS 10.14.1)


texts: Trying to backup my iPhone 6s with an unresponsive screen

texts:
A month or so ago I dropped my iPhone 6s and the screen stopped working. When I turn the screen on, I can interact with the screen for maybe half a second. Then I have to turn the screen back off and on again to interact for another half second. After the half second is up, the screen starts to get these pink links and spots that cover the screen and the screen becomes unresponsive. I decided since it was already an old phone it was better to just get a new iPhone rather than having to send this one into Apple and wait weeks for it to be fixed (on top of the fact that the fix itself would probably cost more than the phone is worth).
I just bought the iPhone 12 Pro and will be picking it up on October 24. However, the last time my iPhone backed up was October 12 (which it did automatically). While I haven't been using the phone recently (obviously), I've still received texts and other notifications that I would like to keep. I tried to make it backup automatically by plugging it in and waiting overnight, but when I check iCloud it still says the last backup was Oct 12. I think it has stopped backing up automatically every 24 hours because when I turn my phone on and sign in using my fingerprint, it asks me to enter my Apple ID password. Obviously I can't type it in, because I can't work with the screen for longer than half a second. If I rapidly click cancel, the next time I turn the screen on it pops back up. I tried using a voiceover and my laptop keyboard to enter the password manually and navigate around to make the phone backup, but no dice (unless I'm doing it wrong?). I saw a YouTube video where the guy seemed to be doing this method successfully but it does not seem to be working for me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dciP0geH624).
Am I going wrong somewhere? Or any ideas as to how to backup my iPhone?
Thank you for your time pals :)


texts:
Currently, Terminal is set to handle SSH urls. For example, if I do:

$ open ssh://machine.example.com

Then it will spawn a new SSH session in terminal. I'd like these to be opened in iTerm2 instead. How do I tell macOS to use iTerm2 to handle ssh:// URLs instead of Terminal?


texts: The Mac App Store won't let me update iMovie and iPhoto because it says i bought them under a different account

texts:
I just bought this computer in August -- i have been the only one to use it, have only used it under my itunes/apple account. But ever since the first week or so that i've had it, i've had update available for iMovie and iPhoto that it won't let me use because it says i'm not signed into the account i bought them with.

Any fix to this problem?


texts: Changes to image are permanent without hitting save

texts: I was trying to make some avatars out of some of my images and needed to resize them.  I did so in Preview in Yosemite 10.10.3, and had before as well in Snow Leopard.  There was no 'save as' option, so I did not save my changes because I didn't want to permanently alter my image. There was no 'undo' feature or 'cancel without saving changes' option either.  What gives with this?  I can't go back and take that picture again and now it is a low-res grainy mess when I try to resize it to original manually.


texts: Can I use 2010 iMac as second screen with 2020 MacBook Pro as source?

texts:
Recently upgraded to 2020 MacBook Pro running Catalina.
I no longer seem to be able to use 2010 iMac as second screen. (I was connecting with a Thunderbolt to thunderbolt cable. then pressing Command + F2).
Is there any way that I can continue to use my 2010 iMac as second screen? It is not good for anything else!
Thanks,
Miles


texts:
I'm using the 'Diablo' app to mine bitcoins on my work computer.

But since I need to use that computer, I don't want it to consume all my resources as it is wont to do.

Anyway to limit it to use only 3/4 cores or half of the GPU or whatever?

Thanks.


texts: Serious system issue - kernel extensions installed improperly

texts:
I have just gotten an error message for every single kext file there is.
the error message goes something along the lines of:

The system extension "*file path*" was installed improperly and cannot be used. Please try reinstalling it, or contact the products vendor for an update.

If there is something I could do to fix it, let me know.


texts:
In previous version of iOS in Reminders app it was possible to view the list or reminders that were marked done grouped by day they were marked on in Scheduled "tab", so it was possible to view list of reminders that were marked today, yesterday and so on.

In iOS 13 if I show completed reminders in Scheduled, they are grouped by date for which they were scheduled, so it is not possible to view what was marked today.

Is there any way to get at least the list of reminders marked during today?


texts: Login screen stuck after entering password after BigSur update

texts:
I updated to macOS BigSur, but after entering my password login is stuck. I tried couple approaches:

starting in safe mode;

reseting PRAM/NVRAM;

reinstalling BigSur;

also tried removing Csstore files described here Macbook Pro stuck after I enter my password

I even did full disk erase and installed BigSur, then imported my data via migration assistant but still cannot log in to my account;

but it did not help. I have other accounts and I am able to login there. I also tried from those accounts to login with su my_username with terminal. I also changed the password that way, but all that did not help. I found the crash description in the logs of my user under ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ and it seems that accountsd is crashing, bug type 309.
Is there a process to fix this error?


texts:
Recently my MacBook Pro early 2011 has a video card change (the video card issues, by the extended repair program). But now the PC has a very very odd problem: some parts of the GUI are yellow (almost always the white parts). But, if I put a window over the "yellow part" of other window then the shade is white, not yellow...

And its not only OSX (or the installer). It happens also on GRUB and Ubuntu.

Also, the problem dissapears after the laptop is on for an hour or something like that... but, if I restart the problem shows again.


texts: Install Windows on MacBook Pro without Optical or USB Boot

texts:
I have a Mid-2010 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro6,1) and my optical drive has died. I need to install Windows on it, and was hoping to do so via Boot Camp.

I have a Windows 7x32 .iso and have also created a (nominally, untested) bootable USB stick via the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. Using the tip on this page I can mount the disk image locally and get Boot Camp to create the Boot Camp partition, but when I reboot I see "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key". Presumably this is because I cannot boot from USB on this older model MacBook Pro.

I've purchased Paragon NTFS in the naïve hope that creating a NTFS partition and copying the ISO or bootable USB to that would work, and tried using rEFIt to boot from such devices. In both cases the end result is a black screen with flashing underline, but no further message.

I also have an external drive (USB and FW800) that I can format and partition in any way that might be helpful.

Is there any way I can get Boot Camp/Windows 7 working on this machine…other than replacing my optical drive with one that works?


texts: Unable to boot up my Mac. Getting a flashing folder with a question mark

texts:
I currently own a 15 inch MacBook Pro with retina display model ( early 2013) . My Mac was working fine and all of a sudden my Mac won't boot up. I see a flashing folder with a question mark symbol on my screen.

I took my Mac to a technician who diagnosed the issue and said flash disk has to be replaced. He said  "Reseted SMC and PRAM. Still same issue. Tried to erase the SSD by booting with known good OS. still same issue. tried to erase the SSD using terminal mode same issue. tried to repair the SSD found not getting repaired. Reseated the SSD and tried to erase the SSD still not able to erase the SSD".

Is there any other way to fix this issue without replacing the SSD?

Or could you suggest any other SSD for this model of Mac?


texts: My daughter's phone was stolen. We reported it stolen to the police and the carrier. We told the carrier to discontinue the service to the phone. Then we received an email informing us that our iCloud had been accessed. What info can a hacker get from  her iCloud?


texts: How to completely reset iMessage on MacOS X Catalina 10.15.4?

texts:
I have an iMac with two user accounts.  After updating to MacOS Catalina 10.15.4 one of the two users cannot use iMessage anymore.  iMessage just wont start.  Starting it results in

iMessage immediately becoming "unresponsive" without ever displaying any window.
It can be "quit immediately"
The user cannot log out until iMessage is "quit immediately"
Works just fine for the other user on this iMac
Works just fine on all other devices (iOS and other MacOS devices of the affected user)
iMessage on iCloud was disabled for this user when the 10.15.4 update was done
When iMessage is not started (and crashed) the badge on the icon does correctly update with the number of unread message!

My idea was to completely reset iMessage to factory state, but I don't know how to do it.  Things I have tried

Logging out of iCloud and back in
Restoring this user from a time machine backup
Deleting preferences and IdentityServices as in this question and this thread (there is no McAffee used here).

The behaviour is all the same.  The only thing I've not gone through is to let the user start from scratch with a new user account.  This would be quite painful.


texts: What is AEServer and why is it requesting macOS Accessibility permissions?

texts:
What is AEServer in the macOS Accessibility permissions panel?
System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility > AEServer

Why is AEServer requesting to control my computer via accessibility APIs?
Should Accessibility permission be granted for AEServer?


texts: How to delete beta "update is available" after unenrolling from beta?

texts: I unenrolled from macOS Big Sur beta program, however I am still getting the 11.0.1 "update is available" notification. I would like to remove this so that I upgrade directly to 11.0 when GM is released. I don't want to install 11.0.1. Is there a way to delete cached update data so I only get 11.0 when it's eventually released?


texts: Is there a flowchart app for MacOS that supports videos or animated gifs?

texts: I downloaded draw.io on my Macbook (MacOS 10.15.6), but the videos and animated gifs I insert are converted to static images. I realize this is oddly specific, but is there any flowchart app that supports videos or at least animated gifs?


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I have a 290gb of data on my old mac. It won't boot up. I have a firewire cable and am going to transfer the data to my MacBook pro which has 590gb of free space. I want to use migration assistant, but want all the files from my old mac to be put in one specific folder. Is there a way I could do this with migration assistant, because this is only a temporary solution.

Thanks, any help is greatly appreciated


texts: Macbook Air 2008 won't boot after error message asking to shut down due to low battery

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Yesterday my Macbook Air (original), model: a1237 flashed an error message
asking the user to shutdown due to low battery. Since it was not me, but my brother who was operating the macbook at that time, that I am not able to exactly put here what the error message was.

But, as I was told later, it prompted him to shutdown.

After that event, the Macbook when completely dead! It won't boot.

Here are the things that happen now, when I power it on:

sleep light turns on
keyboard lights are off
the Apple logo on the lid doesn't turn on
no chime, no sound, no display
the fan works

It's like as if only the sleep led and the fan are the two working components in the macbook.

Things I tried:

SMC reset
Removing the battery and trying to switch it on AC (Is this a bad practice?)

None of these tricks worked!

I would be very grateful to you if you could help me on this one.
Thank you in advance!


texts: Is a Lightning lead without rubber shielding dangerous?

texts:
Unsurprisingly, the Lightning cable that came with my iPhone 5s ~18 months ago is really worn - to the point where all of the rubber cable has had to come off because it had been left around for a while and had gone all sticky (sooooo gross). The outer metal sheathing is still entirely intact.

The resulting cable looks like so.

It still charges (and syncs) my iPhone perfectly. Is this at all dangerous to use (I'm charging my phone from my MacBook)?

Cheers,
Dan


texts: Why I cannot extend value column for plist files?

texts: This is what I see and cannot extend the value column at all. Why is it so? Is it a bug or am I missing something?


texts: My mac came with Mountain Lion. I upgraded to mavericks - and now I can't find mountain lion download

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According to I've bought Mountain Lion, but where can I download it now? it should be in my purchase tab, but it isn't. ("option" does not help, it just lets you redownload if it is already in the list - which it isn't)

I would like an installable version of Mountain Lion to run inside parallels for testing software I develop against 10.8 (and potentially also 10.7, but let's stick to 10.8 for now).

How can I get an installer for older versions?

edit: found a way (for some reason site won't let me post this as an answer)

Use "Internet Recovery" (option-R during boot), and install Mountain Lion into an external USB drive. Then get parallels to import that. Awkward, but it works.


texts: Using iPad 1st gen to read PDF files offline

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I'd like to download and read PDFs files offline on a 1st generation iPad that's been reset to factory settings.

I'm unable to install any apps - they always say that I need to update to the latest version of iOS, even if the app is compatible with iOS 5.1.1. I went to the App Store and they say it's because the apps from the AppStore are all 64-bit and my iPad is a 32-bit device. As a result, the seemingly simple task of downloading PDFs, saving them on my device and reading them later seems impossible.

How do I get PDF files onto my iPad for offline viewing?

Here are the screenshots of what apps I already have, and what happens if I try to install iBooks.


texts: iMessage entries appearing in wrong order

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When using iMessage my entries are not being shown in the order in which they are sent and received.  For example, instead of getting the following:

Sent 1
    Received 1
Sent 2
    Received 2
Sent 3
    Received 3

I get the following:

Sent 1
Sent 2
Sent 3
    Received 1
    Received 2
    Received 3

How can I make the messages appear in proper "chat" order?


texts: Best practices for syncing two Macs using Sierra

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I have three children who share two desktop Macs.  Each kid has her own account on each computer, but up to now none of them has had an Apple ID (they do not have phones or mobile devices, although they do have old-school digital cameras).  Until recently the computers were both running Mountain Lion, and keeping each kid's personal files and photos in sync between the two machines was an ongoing headache involving USB thumb drives and lots of manual copying.

So I've decided to take the plunge and upgrade both machines to Sierra, create Apple IDs for each kid, and use iCloud to sync their Desktops, Documents, and Photos.  This seemed like the simplest way to make sure that each kid's account on each computer would automatically stay in sync with the corresponding account on the other computer.

I'm wondering if people with experience with this setup (or a similar one) can share any best practices with me before I go all-in on this.  For example:

Am I correct that this setup will work as intended?
Will syncing of one user continue to run in the background if a second user logs in to the same machine?  (Presumably not if the 1st user logs out, but what if they stay logged in while the second account becomes active?)
If I link all the accounts on both computers to iCloud, will I end up with duplicate copies of files that currently reside on both machines?  Or will the syncing process recognize when two files are copies of one another?
Would it be better to upgrade one machine, link all of the accounts on that machine to iCloud, then do a clean install on the second machine and create & sync new accounts on that machine to iCloud?
If I notice that files don't seem to be syncing automatically is there a way to force a sync?


texts: How do I record my microphone in either mono or in both channels

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Right now I am using the MacOS's default screen recorder to record gameplay, soundflower for laptop audio output, and a Samson C01U as a microphone. I've setup an aggregate device with my mic, soundflower 2ch and my external headphones shown below:

My output is a multi-output device with my headphones and soundflower 2ch, show below:

However, when I finish recording, everything is fine however my microphone playback is only on the RIGHT side, and not the left. What could I do to achive the microphone audio playing back on both speakers?


texts: How to open a URL with Terminal through applescript by using mpg123?

texts: I need to use mac terminal to open an audio stream from a URL through an applescript. I know that mac terminal is already equipped with afplay, but that only plays a file which is available on your computer. An alternative is mpg123 which can be installed in mac by means of brew. My question is how I can use this command in an apple script.


texts: Microsoft Number Pad behaves oddly in Big Sur

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I bought the new bluetooth Microsoft Number Pad and it exhibits a strange behavior. Every keypress sends two codes. For example, below is a screenshot of my pressing the "1" key once:

The first code is 0x53, which is the expected numpad #1. The second code is 0x47. I believe this is the "Keypad Clear" code but I couldn't find out for sure. What's strange is that macOS seems to be intelligent enough to reject the 0x47 clear code most of the time. But it fails in Terminal.app and iTerm2.app, in both bash and zsh. Every keypress in the terminal registered as ^H1 or ^H2 etc. which means that it erases the previous character before typing the one you want.
So if your terminal looks like jsmith$ 5 and then you press "4" on the keypad it turns into jsmith$ 4. Is there a way to fix this by remapping the keys or should I just return the thing?


texts: Netbios adresses sometimes require .local sometimes .home - keeps changing, how to pick one?

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I have an annoying issue with several devices (mostly a mycloud NAS and a Raspberry Pi). I address them by their netbios name (like mycloud.local) and for days(?) it works fine - but every so often I encounter errors. For example Time Machine regularly complains it can't find the drive (although the notebook sits right next to the NAS and the WD app connects happily). Then for some time I need to correct into the other format (e.g. mycloud.home) and it will work for some time.
As you can imagine it gets tedious to adjust all the links.
Do you happen to know what might cause this switches and if there is a resolution? In case it matters I don't really care which extension the NetBIOS addresses finally use, as long as things stay consistent. I'm on a MacBook Pro with the latest Catalina (10.15.6).
Addendum
As pointed out NetBIOS may be the wrong protocol to blame. In the context of the question I intended to describe the self-assigned computer names in the local network (I got to the term reading up on how a Raspberry Pi sets its domain name.).
I'm having a suspicion it is my Mac producing the inconsistent names.  With the Pi I use the "USB gadget mode" (the Pi and the Mac are connected only through a USB cable which acts as network cable, no connection of the Pi with the rest of the network. It's off most of the time, only running an hour or so every other day when I play around). The router is very simplistic and doesn't appear to have any capabilities relating to netbios or bonjour. The NAS runs the unmodified version from WD, it has an option to act as 'Local Masterbrowser' for Windows services, I turn that on for now and see if anything changes. Besides that I only have "simpler" devices (phones, Apple TV, a printer) - can't be sure about them, but browsed their settings and so far didn't find anything that could be related.
Update 2020-10-26
Unfortunately the problem still persists. I have a new suspect - in my Access point configuration there is an option Block LAN to WLAN Multicast and Broadcast Data (with a longer help text explaining this should NEVER be disabled). Disabling it allowed me to again find my devices under the .local name. Though as my problem occurs only once every few weeks, I can not be sure if this is a fix.


texts: just got new imac with fresh Mavericks install, old data still remaining, how to find and delete?

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I just bought a 24' used iMac.

The previous owner reinstalled Mavericks and sent it to me.

I looked at the disk usage info and it appears as if all the old data, movies, music, and everything else, is still there. Only 100gigs are free on a 500gig drive.

Is there a way to find this old data and reclaim my hard drive space?

I don't have a disk.


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I am using 10.9.2 late 2013 computer to analyze my data, specifically with MATLAB, and generally I have many MATLABs open in parallel, doing some analyses for me. MATLAB, X or Y is completely irrelevant here, so just imagine your best program and replace it with MATLAB here.

I observed that from one day to another my MATLAB processes became extremely slow, without any other apparent performance issues. This started with the following observation, when I started an analysis on the night and checked the progress on the morning, I have observed that MATLAB's speed was extremely slow, compared to the point when I started the analysis, and of course tasks were not completed.

Following, this behavior started to occur as soon as I started any analysis, making me completely unable to finish any analysis within reasonable times.

And I made the observation that, the slowing down of MATLAB was associated with the following message on the Console:

3/31/14 03:16:06.318 ReportCrash[554]: Invoking spindump for pid=431 thread=4802 percent_cpu=98 duration=92 because of excessive cpu utilization

Now I made a recovery from Time Machine, to a previous state, and all my MATLAB processes are working at full speed again. I am not sure how long this will last, and I have no idea why MATLAB is treated by 10.9.2 this way.

The issue is not related to App Nap, as it is completely disabled.

Below is a screenshot of the Activity Monitor the way how it should always be i.e. all MATLABs at full speed! I am afraid soon MATLAB processes will demoted to a lower priority again by 10.9.2.


texts: I was wondering if the X Ray machines at the airport can damage laptops (specifically a rMBP..) or their components (SSD, Battery and so on....)?


texts: Cannot launch executable with source file using drag-and-drop in Finder

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I always thought I could drag-drop a target file onto a src executable in Finder, and make macOS perform src target.

But I don't seem to be able to do it and I’m not even able to recall if this was something that used to work or there’s a change where a program needs to have some attributes to allow this.

At the command line, the dec program would take core.enc as standard in or an argument.

dec core.enc

Is this something Finder can do with any programs or just ones that have some documented metadata / associated files?

EDIT: Linked Question (referenced in comments): How to associate file extension with executable using bash?


texts: Can I downgrade to Mavericks after installing Yosemite (beta/developer preview)?

texts:
I have installed the developer preview for Yosemite.

Huge mistake. Everything in my workspace is broken.

I don't have any sort of backup image. I was wondering if I could re-download Mavericks and run the installer - would that effectively downgrade me back to Mavericks?


texts: Is there any way to suppress the "incompatible accessory" warning on the iPhone?

texts:
Every time I connect my iPhone to the dock in my vehicle, the following warning message is displayed:

After dismissing the warning dialog, everything appears to works fine. Is there any way to suppress this dialog from being displayed every time I connect my iPhone to the dock?

(Enabling Airplane Mode does seem to do the trick, but that's not a realistic solution as I don't want to lose voice/data functionality when docking the iPhone.)


texts: Application eating ~840,000,000% of my CPU

texts:
I noticed that sometime some application are using some impossibly high amount of my CPU according to the Activity Monitor, as the screenshots below illustrate. How comes Activity Monitor displays such high percentages?

Icons:


texts: How to download OS X El Capitan without Apple hardware

texts:
I recently purchased a MacBook (Mid-2009), but the hard drive is empty, no OS X and etc. I want to download the Install OS X El Capitan.app and install it, but I don't have any other Mac hardware to do that with. What should I do?

Go to Apple Store and purchase the install disc?
My friend has iMac and ask him if he could download the installer and make the USB Installer?


texts: iPhone: Block One Website & Only One Website

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I need a way to block one website on my iPhone while leaving "adult content" available.

I'm very familiar with the block adult content restriction on the iPhone, but the amount of sites this feature blocks is ridiculous. It blocks anything that mentions men's/women's health and even websites crucial to my university's student life. (And no, I can't just white-list them because they all have different domain trees & it blocks the brief login page that occurs before I complete said login).

I've also looked at apps such as Zero Willpower, but these seem to only work with safari. (I use chrome).

Is there any way to allow access to all websites and only block one? (Perhaps a way to white-list all websites under the "adult content" banner and then blacklist the target site).


texts: Click to Chat URL for WhatsApp not opening the WhatsApp app on iPhone

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When SMS with shortened Click to Chat URL for WhatsApp is received on the iPhone, clicking it leads me to the App Store instead of opening chat in WhatsApp, despite WhatsApp being installed on the device.

In another post it was recommended to use Whatsapp:// but I don't believe that resolves my issue, since services like BITLY won't accept that URL to shorten it.
Have tested using Whatsapp:// within BITLY but it is not accepted as valid URL.

The question is... how can I shorten the normal Click to Chat URL from Whatsapp (with pre-filled in message). This was working fine for years, and is still working for Android.

At the moment, the bitly link redirect to Safari to be resolved and then should pass the focus back to Whatsapp APP. Now it redirects to the Whatsapp APP in the App Store.

I suspect a recent iOS Security update could be causing this change in bevahiour.

Here is the link to the Whatsapp FAQ on how to use Click to Chat: https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/android/26000030/

Just to confirm... the link works fine if unshortened.


texts: MacBook Air battery not charging - very strange issues

texts:
I have been repairing a water-damaged MacBook Air 2015. Initially the machine would only boot with the battery disconnected and power connected, but then die after around 20 minutes. The MagSafe light did not light up at all but still provided power to the computer.

I replaced the battery, which made no difference. I replaced the logic board which then allowed me to boot with the battery & power connected. The MagSafe still did not light up and the the computer would die after around 20 minutes.

I have just now replaced the I/O board. The MagSafe still does not light up and the battery does not charge, but the computer runs as normal with all apps open and full backlight etc.

I have reset the SMC and PRAM to no effect but I can't think what I could possibly replace at this point. The only remaining original part is the ribbon connector that links the I/O and Logic board but that looks in good condition. Does anyone have any suggestions at this point?

System report says that there is 0 mAh charge remaining in the battery

Battery: Yes

Charging: No

It also says that cycle count is 729 which it definitely isn't as it's a new battery.

Any help appreciated.


texts: MAMP nginx.conf - invalid number of arguments in "user"

texts:
I am having issues starting up Nginx with the MAMP Pro application.

When I press start Nginx I get the following error message

invalid number of arguments in "user" directive in /Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/conf/nginx.conf:7

looking at the configuration file

  /Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/conf/nginx.conf

I notice the following line has multiple users

user rob COMPANYWORKDOMAIN\Domain Users;

However changing it to just one user (rob) does not work because it gets overwritten and reverted back next time I start up Nginx via the MAMP application.

I'm a  bit stuck as what to do here?


texts: Shut down Mac Server when APC 1400 battery is nearly empty

texts:
I'm running OS X Server on a Mac Mini. I'm powering the server via an APC 1400 (one of the older, beige ones). It has a serial connector, so I assume it could possibly interface with the Mac Mini via a serial to USB adapter.

Is it possible to power down the OS X Server when the UPS batter is nearly depleted with my setup? Do I need to install APC software to get this to work? Will a serial to USB adapter do the job?

Or is my APC backup unit too ancient to work with my Mac Mini in this scenario?


texts: How to fix bootcamp boot after removing hybrid MBR

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I've updated bootcamp to Windows 10 which should support GPT with protective MBR without any hybrid tricks. I have 6 partitions on disk0 so hybrid MBR is also inconsistent with GPT and it's somewhat dangerous.

I've used gdisk to remove hybrid MBR but now Windows can't boot with "No bootable device ..." error on black screen. I've tried to use windows rescue disc and run bcdboot C:\Windows /s C: /f UEFI and bootrec /fixmbr (this one returns an error) but it doesn't help.

What am I missing? Should I put windows BCD to Windows or EFI partition? I use rEFInd as boot manager.

Romans-MacBook-Pro:Microsoft root# diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            120.8 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             1.3 GB     disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data System                  215.4 GB   disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data Data                    608.0 GB   disk0s5
   6:       Microsoft Basic Data Var                     54.7 GB    disk0s6

Romans-MacBook-Pro:Microsoft root# gdisk -l /dev/disk0
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/disk0: 1954210120 sectors, 931.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 059ED97F-5648-C842-89C2-7E8F3FC9388F
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1954210086
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 262445 sectors (128.1 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00
   2          409640       236427711   112.5 GiB   AF00
   3       236427712       238966783   1.2 GiB     AB00  Apple
   4       239228928       659873791   200.6 GiB   0700  Windows
   5       659873792      1847439359   566.3 GiB   0700  Data
   6      1847439360      1954209791   50.9 GiB    0700  Var


texts: How to get UTF-8 locale when connecting via SSH to MacOSX from PuTTY (Windows)

texts:
I have the following problem. When I connect to the server via ssh (client is PuTTY under Windows), I don't get UTF-8 locale. Here is what I see on MacOSX (Yosemite) after ssh connection:

$ locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

The thing is that I use the same settings for my Linux connections and on Linux I don't have these problems with locale. So, this might be a problem on the MacOSX side, not on the PuTTY's side.

Any ideas how to have UTF-8?


texts: Typing umlauts and accented characters without the one second delay

texts:
One of the things I dislike most with the iPhone is its sized-down keyboard with only 10 keys in a row.
This may fine for English, but leaves not enough room for umlauts or accented letters.

The official way to input umlauts is to hold down the key and wait
until the umlauts and accented letters pop up, but this is way too slow.
For numbers and symbols there is the tap-slide-release trick,
but for umlauts this doesn't work.

Is there a way to type these letters faster?


texts: Can not open Mail app since I updated the last version of Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

texts:
I just updated my version of Mountain Lion and then when I try to open my Mail app I receive this message :

I tried to reinstall Mail but I don't know how to do it.

Anyone know what the problem is?


texts: How stealthy is the stealth mode of the firewall? Does it increase security?

texts:
In the System Preferences there is the option:

`Security & Privacy -> Firewall -> Advanced... -> Enable Stealth Mode

Does this options significantly increase the security when networking or surfing the internet?

The hint only says:
Don't respond to or acknowledge attempts to access this computer from the network by test applications using ICMP, such as Ping.

The hint does not explain how my work with the Mac is affected.


texts: How do I resolve the MADCATZ R.A.T 9 cursor bug in El Capitan?

texts:
As usual I wake up going to my computer playing some games. My mouse - a MADCATZ R.A.T 9 - is starting to be jerky and not working as I'd expect. Here is an example ---> youtube video.

How do I salvage my morning pleasure?


texts: Creating mountable snapshot view in macOS

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I'm used to backup my user's home using rsync. However, I now have data (eg, running database) that shouldn't be backed up while being changed, and I'd like to keep the applications changing them running during the backup.

I know file system snapshot views exist to deal with this problem: Linux has the LVM approach and Apple has Time Machine. However, apparently only the former allows one to mount a snapshot as a virtual file system, so that it's possible to use tools like rsync, tar, or, for what matters, cp, against a view of the files frozen at a given time.

I cannot find any such feature for macOS, tmutil/Time Machine don't look to be the same thing, they must be leveraging the snapshot functionality of their APFS file system, but I can't find any way to see a snapshot as a set of files. Is that possible for APFS?

Note that I'm not interested at all in using Time Machine for my backups: I'm an advanced user and TM is too stupid to suit me fine (it doesn't work over SSH, it doesn't allow me to select a folder on a destination device, it doesn't seem to support multiple backup profiles, each with a different set of sources/destinations and different schedules), nor I'm so interested in spending money on things like SuperDuper!, just to do what that my scripts have done very well for years.


texts:
The pages of my pdf presentation add incremental changes to the first page. The second page, for instance, consists of the diagram on the first page in addition to a few more lines. This way a complex figure can be introduced gradually.

But Preview now "slides" each page, which defeats the effect I am after (a few changes just appear). Instead the audience is treated to a distracting effect.

Is there a way to disable the fancy sliding and go back to replacing pages?


texts: Continually getting "you do not have enough application memory" despite plenty free

texts:
A few times recently my MacMini running 10.14.6 gets into a loop of giving this error every few minutes to seconds. This is despite having 1.5-3GB application memory free, according to the Memory Clean 3 app. Even using it to clean the memory doesn't help. Eventually it just grinds to a halt and rebooting is the only answer.

Anyone else seen this, or can suggest a remedy short of rebooting?


texts: Can Exchange emails be downloaded in Apple Mail to then be uploaded to Gmail account?

texts:
I use Apple Mail and I have a work account on Exchange/Office 365 that I use through Apple Mail. I do NOT have the Exchange password, I am not the administrator. Is there a way for me to archive or download all the emails (to a .OLM or .PST file?) and then import them to a Gmail account?

Bottom Line: I want my Exchange emails exported to a Gmail account.
Thanks for any suggestions!


texts: Apple Pages - store changes with document?

texts: Is it possible to track changes (version control) in Apple Pages?


texts: Why am I unable to direct the audio of a video to my internal speakers?

texts:
I have an iMac connected to a Cinema Display. I recorded a video on the secondary monitor (the Cinema Display) with OBS. To get the audio into OBS I used the plugin iShowU AudioCapture and I set up a multi channel audio device in the Audio-MIDI-Setup of the settings of macOS to be able to listen to the audio while recording it at the same time.

(The source is a 3rd party application that delivers a stream with video and audio.)

Now, something funny happens when I want to play the video with VLC: I can only hear the audio when I use the secondary monitor as audio device in VLC.

I can hear a youtube video playing on my iMac (primary monitor). But I can not hear the audio channel from the recording there, regardless of the output I chose. It feels like VLC remembered where it recorded the audio and only plays it back on the original source. Which is (in my opinion) totally crazy.

Can anybody explain this behaviour?

My audio output options are:

internal speakers (this is the iMac, I can listen to youtube here, but not to the VLC video)
display audio (this is the secondary monitor, the Cinema Display)
G533 Gaming Headset (this also works, I can hear the video over the headset)
device with multiple outputs (this I set up for the recording to be able to listen to the audio AND route it into OBS)
iShowU Audio Capture (some plugin necessary for OBS beeing able to listen to internal audio)


texts:
I would like to edit the following plist file using XCode, so that I can change some screensaver effects.

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Slideshows.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Content/EffectDescriptions.plist

However I get a message from XCode that I don't have permission to change this file.

So I try to change the permissions

sudo chmod 664 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Slideshows.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Content/EffectDescriptions.plist

and I get this error

chmod: Unable to change file mode on /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Slideshows.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Content/EffectDescriptions.plist: Operation not permitted

I have given my Terminal "Full Disk Access" in system prefs. Now what should I try?


texts: How safe is it to only back up on iCloud

texts: Want to know if iCloud backup you can do on your phone will keep stuff safe. Would do on iTunes but laptop unfortunately broke down. Is it safe to backup your stuff onto iCloud and can you successfully get it back after phone is reset?


texts: How do I use non-"legacy" launchctl commands to load and unload plists?

texts:
I have some plist files in ~/Library/LaunchAgents.

I have been happily using launchctl load -w and launchctl unload -w to turn these on and off for years.  However, I notice that now load and unload are relegated to the "legacy" section of the man page.  Let's call one of them com.example.service.plist.

However, when I try to interact with these plists via launchctl enable "gui/$(id -u)/com.example.service" and launchctl disable "gui/$(id -u)/com.example.service", other launchd commands seem to report success - for example, launchctl print "gui/$(id -u)" totally shows me disabled flags that correspond to the state that I've set - the services don't actually start and stop or listen and unlisten on their ports.

Is there some step I'm missing?  For the moment I am sticking with load and unload but I'd like to learn the non-deprecated way of interacting with this stuff before Apple eventually slams the door on the old/bad way...


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My mid-2010 MacBook Pro was diagnosed with the infamous nVidia graphics card defect (I went to an AppleStore two weeks ago, they ran the video system test, and it failed), and since it manifested later than 3 years after purchase, I do not qualify for the free logic board replacement. Still, I'd like this computer to last one more year, and since I get a crash every two weeks or so, it's viable. However, I'd like to make sure that the problem doesn't get worse, and for that I'd like to use the panic logs to monitor the frequency.

Which brings me to my problem: my crash logs seem to be disappearing (all my crash logs, though I really only care about panic logs). I noticed first when I went to the AppleStore for the first time that even though the computer crashed twice in the month and a few times before, only the most recent panic log remained. It just crashed again today and the two panic logs I had have vanished in favor of the last one.

Where are my crash logs going? Is there a setting I can use to keep them longer? Do I have to copy them over to a "safe" location to keep track of them? They are not backed up with Time Machine.


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I am on OS X 10.10.3 on a macbook Pro. I am using the macbook's keyboard. I have enabled the "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys".

I expect that hitting F1/F2 will not reduce or increase the brightness. But still, the brightness gets changed when I hit F1 or fn+F1.

Is there a way to fix this so I get the following behavior?

Pressing F1  sends just F1 key.

Pressing fn+F1 reduces brightness.


texts: How do you activate an iPhone with broken home button iOS 10

texts: My iPhone 5s had recently been cleaned of all files and data, including iCloud so I need to activate it. It prompts me to press the home button to activate but the home button on my iPhone doesn't work. Is there a way I can activate this phone without pressing the home button?


texts: Iphone 5 keeps shutting down when I have 40% battery left. Question about reset and restore

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I have an iPhone 5 (old I know, but I'm rather fond of the compact screen. It's a secondary phone) that was working perfectly until I updated ios. Since the last update available was installed, it keeps shutting down with the battery left.  At first, it was 16% but recently it is 40%.
The battery was changed with an original one 18 months ago.

I tried calibrating the battery but it's impossible to get it to 1% remaining.  At best, I can keep my phone running until it gets to 16% but no lower.

If I reset everything to see if it's a software thing, will I be able to install all the apps again? My worry is that many apps now require recent versions of ios and I'm unsure the app store will let me install old versions again.


texts: 2009 MacBook Air: I can, and want to, purchase an SSD upgrade, but what about Mavericks > Sierra?

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I have a 2009 MacBook Air with Mavericks. (It’s old, but low miles.) I was about to pull the trigger on buying a SSD to improve performance, but I just now learned that I won’t be able to upgrade to Sierra (?). Only 2010 and later models for MacBook Air are supported according to apple.com.

https://www.apple.com/macos/how-to-upgrade/

I’m floored. Am I really stuck with Mavericks forever? Should I just forget about upgrading the hard drive, since I cannot install Sierra anyway? Is the pitiful 2 GB of RAM (which cannot be upgraded ☹) unable to handle any more OS’s?

What can I do, then, with this perfectly ok, if painfully slow, machine? Has anybody done this against recommendation and had it turn out ok?

FWIW, my primary use for this machine is going to be development work, i.e., self-study, writing & testing scripts in the terminal, etc. I don’t do much gaming, video, or heavy graphics, etc.


texts: Applescript : Only run the script if specific input is entered

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Is it possible to run an applescript ONLY if a specific input is inserted If I put in my attempts at the code i might be clearer at what Im getting at

set x to display dialog "What is your password?" default answer "" with hidden answer
set y to (text returned of x)

display dialog (text returned of x)
display dialog y

if (text returned of y) is 3232 then
  display dialog "Hi" buttons ["OK"]
end if

All the in-between stuff is just testing and making sure everything is working properly


texts: In Full-screen prevent Dock to unhide when mouse hits bottom

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(using Mavericks 10.9.2 (latest))

Using an application in Full-screen (eg VirtualBox), is there a way not to have the Dock show when the mouse hits the bottom of the screen?

Tried

defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 3

to increase the delay (3 seconds) the mouse has to stay at the bottom to get the Dock unhide. But it's been confirmed to have no effect in Mavericks (10.9.1, 10.9.2) when in full-screen.

(No option in VirtualBox either, this is a problem in any (most?) full-screen app anyway).


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I am trying to burn selected photos to a DVD and it keeps telling me that the burn failed:

I've tried rebooting and that helped the first time, but the second disk I tried to burn failed. What's up with this? How can I fix it? I am using iPhoto '11 (9.2.1).


texts: How to set up Mac for multiple user remote access log in and a shared network drive?

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I have users who want to share a highpowered mac in a lab. It has a decent processor and a ton of RAM. They want to be able to remotely access this mac from both PC/Mac just like a user would be able to do for Windows using remote desktop. It is possible that two or more users (but no more than 4) would want to access this machine at the same time. It should have enough ram to handle this. They also want a drive on this mac that they can all share on their lab network.

Obviously, they want this to be as secure as possible. I am primarily a windows user, so any help would be much appreciated.


texts: How to see how much storage is used per app on OS X?

texts: I was wondering if there is a way to check how much space is used for each app that's installed on your mac. When you click on the Apple logo left on top, then "About this mac" you can see at the tab "Storage" the total amount of pictures, programs, other, movies and music. But it would be nice if I can check per app how much space the take on my mac. Is this possible?


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I need to exclude Time Machine path /Volumes/somedrive/Backups.backupdb from the results of find.

I currently use the following code, but it generates massive logs as it finds and includes all files in the Time Machine folder:

do shell script "find -x " & from_path & " -print0 | xargs -0 ls -d -F -P -l -T -a -e -i -o -p -q " & from_path & " > " & to_path user name "name" password "pass" with administrator privileges

I tried some examples from this site but I can't figure it out.

How I can use find and exclude certain paths?


texts: Can I roll back to a previous OS version on the iphone 5?

texts: I updated my phone from OS 8.4 to 9.2. I don't like how my phone lags now and the battery lasts way less then it used. Can you guys please help if there is a way I can go back to OS 8.4?


texts: Chrome: When menubar displays, webpage shifts down

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All of a sudden, a couple weeks ago, I've noticed that whenever I hover my mouse at the top of my chrome browser while in fullscreen, when the top menu bar appears it shifts the whole webpage a couple inches down. It's a really clumsy interface experience - when reading ebooks on google play books, to accidentally hover my mouse to the top of the webpage causes the page to shift and subsequently reformat me to a new page in the book.

The menu bar used to just come down over the webpage, covering whatever inch or two it took up. Now the whole thing reformats. Any solutions to this?

I understand this is is similar to other threads, but what I'm looking for is not for the menu bar to be there permanently, just that when I hover my mouse, it doesn't reformat the page as it is now doing.

I have added a GIF, hopefully you can see the effect I'm talking about. The recording isn't perfect but, basically, no overlay. Just slides the whole webpage down.


texts: Deleting symbolic link - operation not permitted

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I stupidly used my terminal to create a symbolic link typing this:

sudo ln -s /bin/tcsh tcsh

And now I need to delete it. I tried

sudo rm tcsh

but when I authenticate it tells me:

override rwxr-xr-x root/wheel restricted,compressed for tcsh?

and even if I type y and press enter it tells me:

rm: tcsh: Operation not permitted.

Is there anything I can do to fix this?


texts: After I upgraded my iPhone to iOS7 my Exchange account disappeared from the phone and I haven't found a way to add it back. Can somebody please explain how to do this?


texts: How to view any folder as if it was desktop

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There's a folder called "Desktop" in the home directory. By default, when there are no windows on the screen, the contents of "Desktop" are shown over the background. I'm wondering if there's a way to make another folder show up over the background instead, so that I could (for example) have the contents of "Documents" or something like that appear behind my windows.

Right now I can do it by moving the contents of another folder into the "Desktop" folder and moving them back when I'm done, but I feel like there much be an easier way to do this, especially since copying takes a long time with some larger files.

Thanks


texts: Stop tilde and grave acting as deadkeys on French Macbook Pro keyboard (AZERTY)

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I have a 2015 Macbook Pro running Mojave where internal keyboard is French AZERTY (ISO) type as shown here:

Pressing grave (the key next to return) or tilde (Alt-Gr n) act as a dead keys.

Input stops until the next key is pressed in case I want to type ã,ñorõ after ~ or à,è,ì,ò,ù after `

Is it possible to map these so they do not act as dead keys - so pressing ` results in output as in line 1 not line 2.

I have tried installing Karabiner and making a script based on their examples but I can't find something to map the key  to.

In my test script below (which doesn't work) the "from:{key_code" "backslash" is what Karabiner-EventViewer shows when I press ` (which is where \ is on US keyboard).

The "to:{key_code" "51" (or  grave_accent_and_tilde) is what Karabiner-EventViewer reports for the < key on my keyboard and was just picked as a test.

{
  "title": "Convert deadkey ` to a grave (`) (AZERTY)",
  "rules": [
    {
      "description": "Convert deadkey ` to a grave (`) while leaving £ accessible.",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "from": {
            "key_code": "backslash"
          },
          "to": [
            {
              "key_code": "51",
              "modifiers": [
                "right_option"
              ]
            }
          ],
          "type": "basic"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

I've seen various questions asking about where the keys are or how to swap them but not how to stop dead key acting as such.

Is this possible in any way using Karabiner or otherwise?

I considered changing keyboard layout to UK and then mapping back every single different key to French location but would rather not if there is a better way.


texts: Apple Watch: Ring Close Notifications even on Silent and Do Not Disturb

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When I do my workout in the morning I don't want to get any notifications. I put the watch on Do Not Disturb, Silent, and Theater Mode.

This silences all notifications from my phone ...

Except, at some point during my workout it vibrates me letting me know I've closed my daily activity goal and then again that I've closed my daily workout goal.

This seems like a bug.

I don't want to to turn off those notifications completely. I simply don't want them when I've told the watch not to disturb me.


texts: How to do fresh install of Mountain Lion?

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My Mac is very slow.

My Mac is running OS X Mountain Lion after an upgrade from Lion.

How can I do a fresh install the OSX Mountain Lion, with a clean HDD (all of my documents deleted), so it feels like a new MacBook?


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Sudo command does not work:

Peters-MacBook-Pro.local:~ peter$ sudo vi
Password:
Sorry, user peter is not allowed to execute 'usr/bin/vi' as root on Peters-MacBook-Pro.local.

root account is also not working.
I made "Enable Root User" and changed the password, but the su command does not work.
Rights to the /private/etc folder checked:

drwxr-xr-x  87 root  wheel  2784 Apr 20 14:42 etc

There is a suspicion that the problem appeared after disabling SIP (I tried to enable it - it didn't help).

How can I solve this problem? I don't want to reinstall the OS - a lot of things are installed


texts: I was trying to log on icloud.com using my Mac but a 403 forbidden page showed up after I typed my account and password. I was using Google Chrome. Currently there is no solution from what I searched. Any ideas?


texts: Keyboard shortcut for powering down MacBook Pro with Touch Bar?

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I received my new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar today and quickly realized that the shortcut ctrl+alt+cmd+power (documented here under 'Sleep, log out, and shut down shortcuts') no longer works for quitting all apps followed by shutting down.

Can this shortcut be reinstated or is it replaced by something similar?


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I installed the  GlobalProtect VPN on MacOS Darwin 18.7

I cannot remove it. It is attempting to start but does not succeed.
It appears in the output of

ps aux

518   5.6  0.3  6093596 112332   ??  S     5:00PM   1:40.86 /Applications/GlobalProtect.app/Contents/MacOS/GlobalProtect

I wonder why it is not showing up in:

launchctl list

eventhough it restart automatically at reboot.

Thank you


texts: Mac Preview-- Cannot drag note icon while highlighting pdf

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I am trying to annotate pdf on Preview and when I add note a highlighted text, I cannot drag or reposition the note icon (box). I have attached a screen shot to explain my question.
Is it a bug or feature ? because I can move the Note icon if I add a note separately (not combined with the highlighted text)
.


texts: Track files transferred from unauthorized user on private WiFi

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I was hacked yesterday and from what I see, it looks like it was someone who lives with me and shares WiFi.
Is there a way to find on Mac where my files were sent to and the device id, type, or something that helps to narrow down the exploiter?
Edit 1.
The user and I were added to the same Family Group in Apple.
I used some of his apps memberships on my computer, Setapp, Spotify and Adobe.
I used this so far:
% history | grep "defaults write" >> ~/Documents/defaultsLog.txt
Found this on the reports:
Mon Jan 18 15:16:20.424 Usb Host Notification Error Apple80211Set: Device power is off seqNum 2527 en0
Mon Jan 18 15:16:20.588 <airport[399]> systemWokenByWiFi: System Wake Reason not found
Mon Jan 18 15:16:20.642 <kernel>  IOCTL (from pid 399) not recognized: 5 out of 379
Mon Jan 18 15:16:20.899 Usb Host Notification en0 driver available, seqNum 2528, Total 0
Mon Jan 18 15:16:20.902 Usb Host Notification Error Apple80211Set: Operation not supported seqNum 2528 en0
Mon Jan 18 15:16:20.927 <airport[399]> ERROR: rapportd (549) is not entitled for com.apple.wifi.join_history, will not allow request
<airport[399]> ERROR: sharingd (97542) is not entitled for com.apple.wifi.join_history, will not allow request
Mon Jan 18 15:16:51.114 Mon Jan 18 15:16:51.170 Usb Host Notification en0 driver available, seqNum 2529, Total 0```


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There's a process running on my machine which Activity Monitor reports is using 142% of CPU, 22 hours of CPU time and has thousands of idle interrupts. It's running under my user, and doesn't appear to be using very much memory.

Does anyone have any notion what this process might be? I've been unable to find anything online, but I can't think what it might be running on my machine. I've got a few Chrome and Safari tabs open, Spotify, and iTerm2 with tmux+vim.


texts: There's add-ons for Firefox to do this, switching twitter accounts without having to sign-in 3-5 times a day is really time saving if you have more than 2 accounts, CookieSwap do the job, is there any possible extension can do the job for safari?


texts: Backing up files from corrupt disk from Windows Bootcamp

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So, mysteriously with no previous bad behavior my computer stopped booting, stuck in the gray loading bar cycle and then shutting down, the problem I believe wasn't obvious at first. I booted to recovery-mode (cmd+R) to access the disk utility and for my bad luck (terrible luck!) my hard drive was indeed failing and was not able to be fixed by disk-repair application. So, I'm willing to wipe the entire thing BUT as a software developer I've been working on a huge project on my own that never wanted to be anywhere outside my domain (hohoho!) , now I know it was a pretty dumb idea, because s**t happens. The thing is that I'm only looking forward to back up about a folder and that's it! And I was wondering if I could access my Mac partition from the Bootcamp Windows partition that is working completely fine, by the moment there's no disk unit identified on Windows. So.. Could I access the Mac-HD from my bootcamp partition so I could finally start wiping the thing out and re-installing OS while hitting my head against a wall for being so dumb?

I'd appreciate any kind of help.
Thanks!


texts: How do you get the Apple Watch out of Power Reserve mode?

texts: I got it into power reserve but can't figure how to resume normal mode. I have tried tapping and pressing the screen and holding both side buttons.


texts: Why can no iOS app other than Safari play audio web content in background?

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Firefox, Google Chrome, Telegram... Whenever I start playing web audio in an app that is not Safari and then lock the screen, playback invariably terminates after 20 seconds. This happens with various audio sources, including web radio and video. The same sources work fine in Safari with a locked screen.
I find it very hard to accept that this would be intended behavior. It makes every other browser eventually unusable since they're not fit for basic tasks, like streaming music.
What's going on? Why does it behave like this?
iPhone 8, iOS 13


texts: Is it safe to close the lid while an app (Xcode) is updating - during "installing" phase?

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I have an early 2014 MacBook Air running Catalina (10.15 - 19A602). Updating Xcode always takes an inordinate amount of time, and it's usually the "installing" phase (looking at Launchpad) that takes most of it.

Currently, I see "Installing, 7.78 GB of 7.78 GB" displaying in Launchpad.

Given that Xcode is the worst offender of all apps that update from the store in terms of update time, is there a better approach for updating it to make it more predictable/interactive? Is a delete-and-clean-install a better alternative?


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My Dock icons are always switching to the "generic" icons, like a document with a ruler and pencils crossed. I've run the bash scripts to reset the icons and it works for most icons, however after some time they go back to the "generic" ones.

How can I make my icons constant?


texts: Sync iPhone's contact with Facebook, Twitter, etc

texts: I am looking for an app capable of merging duplicated contacts and updating my iPhone contacts with Facebook and Twitter friends information. What's the best app out there for this?


texts: macbook pro 2019: text garbled on Google Chrome preferences and others

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I got this annoying garbled text after I had updated to MacOS Big Sur (Version 11.0.1).
I came across this problem immediately I got updated and opened my chrome.
it looks like this:
I also found something interesting. all the Latin letters changed into its next letter in order. and the space " "is changed into "!". For example, the text over my avatar is "Zpv!boe!Hpphmf", but the orginal is "you and google". like "you" goes "zpv", "and" becomes "boe" . I think that's wired!
I also got another thing that I wanted to mention. when I highlight the garbled text, it will get normal.

I tried to solve this tricky problem. First, I rebooted my Mac, but it didn't work. Then I changed UTF-8 which is a default encoding to ASCII, however, it was not helpful. Finally I called the Applecare, apple's technique support. She is very kind and she tell that I should wait for next Chrome's update. I think it will be OK although the garbled text makes me inconvenient.
Now I got crazy because I browsed a webpage and it's also garbled! I'm sure I can't ignore it any more.

My question is what can cause this and how can I solve it. Thank you advanced.


texts: macOS Big Sur Cannot delete a certificate from the System keychain

texts: I copied by mistake a certificate in the System Keychain and would like to remove it. I was able to do it on macOS Catalina but the delete option is disabled in Big Sur. How can I remove it? Any clue? Thanks


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I'm looking to restore my old messages to my new iPhone however when restoring from backup the messenger app stops working. Apple support say its the database that is corrupt. From looking at the .db files of 4.1 and 11 the schema is different.

Are there any scripts/tools to move the old data into the newer format. I've tired 9 tools so far and they either cant read the old db or cant transfer them into the new one.

Only tool that comes close is icopybot, but I get an error constraint 2067 about 2 fields.


texts: How do I remove akamai and speed up my iMac?

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I have an iMac (running Leopard) going deadly slow, I discarded any hardware problems (Hardware tests, disk utility, etc..)  and the only strange thing I've found is a folder called 'akamai'

After searching on the web, apparently it's not a bug aor virus, it's just a download manager but for some reason, in some cases it seems it doesn't install properly and creates an error that provokes this problems (I'm not sure but I think it's because it is copying some log on an infinite loop or something similar)

See the following post on Apple support pages:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17622495#17622495
So aparently there is many people having problems with this, I'm not sure if this is causing mine as well but the question is that there is no way to remove that folder. How can I know if this folder is slowing my Mac?


texts: iPhone 6s - Calendars and contacts - birthday information

texts: I have an iPhone 6s.  I want to put birthdays in my contacts however I don't want them to show up in my calendar.  I've tried everything to stop it but nothing short of taking the birthdays out of my contacts works!


texts: Deployment of free enterprise apps in VPP

texts:
I've read a lot about the B2B iOS apps distribution, VPP program, however I'd like to be able to verify my knowledge and hope you could help.

Let's suppose a company A develops an iOS application, publishes it to the Appstore as a B2B app (hidden for all normal users in Appstore), and adds a company B already enrolled in the VPP program to the list of entities eligible to buy the app. Furthermore, let's assume the app is free.

What's the easiest way for company B to install this free app on their devices?

The document states there are two ways (MDM and redeemable codes), however this page mentions that B2B apps can be distributed with MDM only, and yet another source I've found stated that only paid apps can be distributed with both MDM and redeemable codes (the free ones are MDM only).

So what is and what is not possible here? Can free apps be distributed by redeemable codes? I have several concerns:

Let's say a user within company B wants to install the app, using a redeemable code. How does he do that? Is it done by opening the App store, entering the code and the app will automatically become visible for that user (based on Apple ID)?
If yes, can users update the app through Appstore?
MDM can be problematic to set up, and I'm not sure why it's a better solution than redeemable codes (Apple deprecated codes for some reason). Also, I'm not aware of a free MDM (heard about Cisco's Meraki), not sure how free that thing really is.

I'd be grateful if you could answer any of the questions above.


texts: Can I turn off swap and/or memory compression on macOS 10.12, Sierra?

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Is there a way with macOS 10.12, Sierra, to safely turn off compressed memory? And is there a way to turn off safely swap?

This was possible on macOS 10.9 and macOS 10.10. Although it sometimes crashed on macOS 10.10.

On macOS 10.11, disabling compressed memory and swap caused a reproducable issue,  click shutdown and OS X freezes.

Since then I didn't dare to experiment with it in macOS 10.12. But I'm still annoyed that the system wants to use compressed memory for no valid reason (at these fast SSDs I may not mind the swap that much though).

Regarding, vm_compressor_mode (vm.compressor_mode) values for enabled compressed memory in OS X. Value 1 for vm.compressor_mode will this work on macOS 10.12 or crash like on macOS 10.11?


texts: Sync ~/.gnupg dir between multiple Macs? (GnuPG / MacGPG)

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I have GPG Suite 2020.1 installed on 2 computers, both running macOS 11.0.1.
I would like to sync my GPG keychain and config files between them, so that adding/trusting a key on one machine is reflected on the other. I imagine this should be possible by syncing one or more files from ~/.gnupg
For the sync mechanism, I will be using Resilio Sync (not a public cloud). However, that should be mostly irrelevant; I imagine one could use git, Syncthing, or even Dropbox (risks of storing private keys on a public cloud notwithstanding!)
Can anyone tell me if this is possible, and how to do it?


texts: I am running Windows via Virtualbox on my Macbook. It works fine. When I switch to fullscreen to screen the screen is actually full, but the windows windows does not spread out to the full extent. How can I fix that?


texts: Preventing uBar from opening folders when clicking on a non-leaf element of the start menu

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Is it possible to configure uBar so that clicking on a non-leaf element of the start menu does not open the corresponding folder?

E.g. if I click on "Applications" (a non-leaf element), it will open the application folder:

I've been using a bunch of start menus and it is the first time I see this behavior as the default setting. As a dwell clicking user it's very annoying.


texts: LTE iPad needs to be connected to WiFi to choose data plan

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I have an iPad with Apples eSIM. However, every time I want to choose a data plan, it:

constantly tries to connect to the previous plan and fails. Every 5 seconds I am getting a message with "no network available
if I click "choose a plan" it also says "no network available/not connected to a network"

It seems like I have to be connected to the Internet to choose a carrier? How absurd is this?

So I hotspotted my iPhone, connected my iPad and chose a new plan.

But that can't be right, can it? Am I doing something wrong here?


texts: Early 2009 iMac upgrading to Bluetooth 4.0

texts: I have been searching on Amazon and most of the USB dongle type Bluetooth 4.0 adapters specifically say not compatible with OSX. My question is; has anyone seen a Bluetooth 4.0 option to upgrade my early 2009 iMac without actually upgrading to the newest iMac?


texts: Which exact CPU models are used or can be used in the iMac Pro?

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The iMac Pro's CPU is upgradable, but documentation on this seems scarce. I found out that the top end 18-core CPU is a Xeon W-2195. Which other CPUs are supported? I could try to find which Xeon-W CPUs fit the Specs given by Apple, but I'd rather be certain. Is there a list, or can someone who has an iMac Pro at least tell me the model number of their CPU?
Update: A slightly modified Xeon W-2145 known as "2140B" seems to be the 8-core base model which has recently been canceled.


texts:
one week ago my macbook pro from 2011 crashed while doing stuff on a virtual machine (VMWare Fusion).
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I don't think it has something to do with it. Since that incident I could restart the macbook but it would crash while loading or I could get it on but then it would always crash afterwards (2-30 mins).

Before it crashes it can look like this image above. The screen seems to be displaced.. I already pressed options+cmd+p+r while starting and checked if I'd found something stressing the CPU or memory. So it's sadly unusable right now. I don't remember that I have had any issues before! Thank you.


texts: QuickTime .mov file requires quicktime 7?

texts:
I have these old .mov files in my computer. When I try to open them, quicktime message pops up and says I need QuickTime version 7 top open them. (I currently have the latest version 10.something). Funny enough, the popup gives the option to install version 7, and then fails because version 7 is not available for download.

Why do I need version 7?
Any way to convert these files to newer version?

Ps: These .mov files are not standard movies, where you just press play. It's actually a 360 files, used to create "3d" environments. I am not sure how these files were made, and if it's something created with quicktime. But I would like to be able to use these files again. Any ideas?

Quicktime is a pain to work with on websites, I would be probably resorting to some other JS player, or some other 360 web viewer.


texts: Entering superscript text (exponents) in TextEdit?

texts: I am writing math problems on my iMac and I am using TextEdit. I need to add exponents to one of my problems. How can I do that?


texts: How to mitigate Bash risk while waiting for a patch (sans a recompile)?

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This is related to How do I recompile Bash to avoid the remote exploit CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169?, Are Macs vulnerable to the Bash shellshock bug? and Are Bash, Bourne, and Korn shells compiled into one binary in OSX?.

Apple has not released a patch for 10.8.5, and there's no telling if/when they will patch the defective software.

I don't want to download and compile a version of Bash because version headaches. For example, I might place a new copy in /usr/local/bin, but other software may be hardwired for Bash in /usr. Or I might replace /bin/bash and some unintended consequence might arise, like Apple refusing to update my version of Bash.

How does one mitigate the vulnerable without compiling and patching?


texts: Is there any way to programatically remap the keys in a Macbook running OSX Mavericks?

texts:
I want to remap the keys on my keyboard. I want to do it programatically, because I will use some logic to decide what to input. For example, when a user press "A" followed by "S", I will output "λ". In other words, everytime I type a key on my keyboard, I want to intercept it, apply some logic to it and give it back changed before it goes to the focused app.

How?


texts: MATLAB runs slowly and CPU exceeds 100% when running simulations

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I run MATLAB 2013a on Mavericks (10.9.4) but I encounter a problem while running a simulation using Simulink.

Firstly, MATLAB runs slowly on my Mavericks compared to other Mavericks users. Secondly, CPU usage exceeds 100% while running my simulations.


texts: Backing up External drive to Time Machine - what if it's not connected?

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I have 2 x 1 TB drive that I use interchangeably. 1 holds Video and the other Photos. I only have 1 connected when I'm working (using Premiere or Lightroom). I have a 2 TB NAS for making redundant copy of the other 2 drives.So far I've been doing the copying manually.

I'm considering of using Time Machine to make proper backup sets (though I'm always only interested in the latest set). I know that I can set Time Machine to backup to NAS over the network and include any external drives connected to the mac at the time.

QUestion now is:

Will Time Machine "craps out" if it can't find the external drive?
Does Time Machine handle backing up the external drives - one at a time - only when it's connected - without thinking the files/volume had been deleted?


texts: iPhone 4s Can't turn on WiFi button because no response

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I haven't backed up my phone in almost a year. Now today I had a strange issue appear that the phone froze for hours and I couldn't do anything at all. Now it mysteriously unfroze and i'm afraid that if I don't back it up i'll eventually have to restore it and I'll lose everything.

To back up the iPhone 4s, wi-fi needs to be on however, the wi-fi button is off and it won't let me click wi-fi on. The button doesn't respond. The button hasn't responded in months. What can I do to turn on wi-fi and how do I get the button to respond? Did I accidentally click something somewhere that makes the Wi-fi button never respond?


texts: How To Upgrade Snow Leopard to Lion (not Mountain Lion)

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I couldn't find Mac OS X Lion in the App Store. Can I go from Snow Leopard to Lion without migrating to Mountain Lion?

Many programs are now dropping support for Snow Leopard (newer XCode, newer fortran compilers, etc.), but I don't want Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion still lacks support for some software that I like (ex. Little Snitch).

What are my (legal) options?


texts: I wanted to buy this iMac. Does anyone know if I could upgrade the RAM to 16?


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I got an iPhone from a telco carrier two years ago, as at that time, I didn't really know whether I bought the phone unlocked or was it locked to that specific carrier.

All I knew was, I change my telco afterwards, and I could use the new telco's data plan and voice and SMS service without trouble.

As I want to travel to overseas soon, I am looking forward to buy local 3G SimCards to satisfy my appetite for Internet surfing. I wonder whether I can do so without performing extra steps on my iPhone?

I think when I managed to change from one carrier to another previously, it indicated the phone was unlocked, at least among local carrier, but I am unsure whether this phone will remain unlocked when I travel overseas? Or is there a possibility that although you can change local carrier, but for you to change to an oversea carrier you would need to do some other steps?


texts: Does Inkscape work properly with large files on Mac OS?

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I am not a Mac user yet, but I am used to working with Inkscape on Linux platforms. I use Inkscape to create website mockups and sometimes the files are big and require a lot of RAM.

I would like to know if someone has some experience working with Inkscape in Mac OS?

I am planning to buy a MacBook but I can't live without Inkscape.


texts: How to create shortcut to insert specific special character

texts: I'm using some special characters like mathematical symbols in different programs like Mail or Adobe Illustrator. Of course I can open the Symbols Table, search for the needed symbol and copy&paste it. Is there a way to define a shortcut to insert a specific special character?


texts: Configure MacBook Air at Apple Premium Resellers in Singapore

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I am Abhimanyu, located in Singapore. I have a question for you all: Can I configure MacBook Air at one of the Apple Premium Resellers?

I want to buy 13" MacBook Air, but I need 8 GB Memory, instead of default 4 GB memory. Can I get my system configure at one of Apple Premium Resellers? Is it safe to do it? Does that void warrenty?

BTW, what is difference between Apple Premium Resellers and Apple Authorised Reseller?

If I cannot get MacBook Air configure at Apple Premium Resellers, can I get it configure at Apple Authorised Resellers?


texts: emond keeps me locked out of my server via SSH

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I've been grappling with emond (and maybe afctl) all afternoon, and I'm trying to figure out how to fix this. Basically, I'm trying to SSH into my Mac Mini server (10.9.5 with Server 3.2.2) but I keep getting blocked by emond after 2 failed password attempts for 300 minutes. All I'm trying to do is clone a repository of mine.

My questions are:

1) Where can I change the time of this setting? I've looked at the files that the Apple man pages for emond refer to for their default settings and I don't see anything in there for the 300 minute block. The only other time I find is in DHABlockList.plist and it's only set for 60 (minutes, I presume).

2) Where can I change the number of failed log in attempts before the user gets blocked by emond?

3) Even after removing my local IP address from the adaptive firewall's block list, and then explicitly adding it to the white list, I'm still unable to connect over SSH without the server rejecting the login attempt because I'm blocked. Is there another setting for emond that I can change to allow my local IP address in?

Edit:
Here's an example of the log I see. I should note that this message is emond blocking the IP address of the server (Which is confusing since this is the IP its running on). The machine I'm using is at 192.168.1.154. This message was created after I logged in over SSH, logged out, then tried to log back in from my machine.


texts: What are the consequences of sharing my iCloud storage with a family member?

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I would like to share my 2TB storage with a family member. I have two questions and concerns:

If she chooses to share my storage, will all of the data currently in her storage be wiped out? That is, will she lose data and/or have upload all her data back up to iCloud?
She's currently paying $2.99 per month for 200GB of storage. If she shares my storage, will she no longer be paying that fee?

Thank you.