texts: iMessages showing up as seperate user when coming from Mac vs iPhone

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I have a Mac running Mountain Lion and an iPhone5 running iOS7

I have confirmed that the Apple account setup in messages in my Mac and iPhone are the same account.

However when I send a message to my wife's iPhone from my Mac it shows up as a separate thread (same name) than when I send a message from my iPhone. She will have 2 threads on her phone, when she responds to the thread started from the Mac, only my Mac will receive the message. When she responds to threads sent from my iPhone, only my iPhone receives the messages.

It like iMessage on my Mac vs iPhone are acting like 2 separate accounts even though they are both using the same Apple ID.

Is there anyway I can resolve this?

I tried followed the instructions here but there was no setting titled Use your Apple ID for iMessage. The settings may have changed since the last version of iOS I am guessing.


texts: How to have podcasts autoplay after the iOS 11 upgrade?

texts: So once a podcast ends, it doesn’t just automatically to the next episode anymore. Is there a way to get around this?


texts: How to automate find and replace in numbers with a predefined list?

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How can I automated find and replace in a Numbers file based on a predefined master list?
For example, I want to find and replace all:

"ABC" to "XYZ"
"123" with "789"

A few thoughts / workflow expectations:

My find and replace routine has become burdensome as I manually run through 20+ find / replace actions
Find and replace will be for the whole document, not limited to a certain column, row, cell
I want to have running master list that I can add to
I would like to open a file, run this script and have the find/replace done
It would be great if I can incorporate a wildcard in the find


texts: Keychain does not sync all Keychain items across devices

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The Keychain application on my Macbook only syncs the "iCloud Keychain" items with my other Apple devices, which I guess is somewhat the point of "iCloud Keychain", specifically the passwords that are saved from Safari.

I am unable to sync all the other keychain items and store them in my iCloud, like "encrypted volume passwords" and the keychain items that I have manually added to the Keychain application. I would like to sync all my Keychain items available with iCloud. Is this possible? Or, is this not a feature by design?

Pardon me if this is a duplicate question but I have not been able to find any questions on this site regarding this problem.


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When I restart my computer I usually type my password to log me in. However, when I try to do this now it shows me the following message:

  "Your computer restarted because of a problem"

So I restart my laptop and enter my password again but I still get the same error message. This happens repeatedly if I reboot, so I can't login anymore.

After researching this problem I found out that my computer is suffering a kernel panic. I tried the following 3 possible solutions I found to fix this problem:

I used the cmd + option + P + R shortcut during startup to reset the NVRAM.
I booted into Safe Mode by holding the shift key down while rebooting.
I booted into Recovery with the cmd + R keys to get me into OS X Utilities to run First Aid on the Startup Disk.

None of the above resolved the issue.

Can anyone help me fix this problem?


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In System Preferences | Keyboard | Input Sources, you can add any languages you like by tapping + button. The list contains Simplified and Traditional language, but it doesn't have Cantonese.

I wonder why it does not contain Cantonese, even though it has some too minor languages like Telugu, Oriya, or even Ainu.

Is it still possible to type in Cantonese in OS X, with possibly pinyin?


texts: A few months ago my iPhone was stolen... a few days ago I recieved a facetime call from a weird email at 4am so I didnt pick up then a message that says add +57(318)xxx-yyyy for iMessage and Facetime then it says This phone number was associated with the Apple ID (my email address) on Iphone (my Name)... What this means? Is the person who stole my iPhone?


texts: External Hard Drive Won't Mount on my 2018 MacBook Pro

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I have a "G-Technology G-Drive USB External Hard Drive" (8 TB) that I'm using as a backup target for Time Machine. It uses an external brick power supply. I bought it a few years ago and it has never been knocked and sits on my desk in the same place. Periodically I plug it in to do a backup. Last time I used it, the backup completed without any problems or ugly noises.
However, this time the MacBook isn't seeing the external hard drive. I can see the light on the drive, so it's getting power from the external brick. This drive wasn't cheap so I don't want to spend yet more money on replacing it!


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I use a VPN from my Mac (OS X El Capitan).  It works fine everywhere... except for one particular guest Wifi network, where I simply cannot connect to the VPN: it shows "Connecting..." in the menubar for a few seconds, then fails. Verify the server address and try reconnecting.".  The VPN configuration seems fine, as it works fine from every other network.

How do I debug the cause of this?  Is this network blocking access to this VPN?  How would I tell?

Here are the log messages in /var/log/system.log:

racoon[40908]: accepted connection on vpn control socket.
racoon[40908]: IPSec connecting to server X.X.X.X
racoon[40908]: Connecting.
racoon[40908]: IPSec Phase 1 started (Initiated by me).
racoon[40908]: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Initiator, Aggressive-Mode message 1).
racoon[40908]: >>>>> phase change status = Phase 1 started by us
racoon[40908]: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Phase 1 Retransmit).
--- last message repeated 2 times ---
racoon[40908]: IPSec connecting to server X.X.X.X
racoon[40908]: Connecting.
racoon[40908]: IPSec Phase 1 started (Initiated by me).
racoon[40908]: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Initiator, Aggressive-Mode message 1).
racoon[40908]: >>>>> phase change status = Phase 1 started by us
racoon[40908]: port 62465 expected, but 0
racoon[40908]: IKEv1 Phase 1 AUTH: success. (Initiator, Aggressive-Mode Message 2).
racoon[40908]: >>>>> phase change status = Phase 1 started by peer
racoon[40908]: IKE Packet: receive success. (Initiator, Aggressive-Mode message 2).
racoon[40908]: IKEv1 Phase 1 Initiator: success. (Initiator, Aggressive-Mode).
racoon[40908]: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Initiator, Aggressive-Mode message 3).
racoon[40908]: IPSec Phase 1 established (Initiated by me).
racoon[40908]: IPSec disconnecting from server X.X.X.X
racoon[40908]: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Information message).
racoon[40908]: IKEv1 Information-Notice: transmit success. (Delete ISAKMP-SA).
racoon[40908]: failed to send vpn_control message: Broken pipe
racoon[40908]: glob found no matches for path "/var/run/racoon/*.conf"
racoon[40908]: IPSec disconnecting from server X.X.X.X

There is a precisely 30-second gap between Phase 1 established and IPSec disconnecting.  I have full network connectivity from this guest Wifi network as long as I don't enable the VPN.  I am in the US, so it is unlikely this is government censorship, but it might be some kind of blocking by the maintainer of the guest network.  I can successfully ping the server IP address (anonymized to X.X.X.X in the logs above). Anything else to check?


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You know, in SE markup language in the editor, a row of hyphens is useful.  You can either make a headline by putting a row of hyphens under a short line, or you can create a horizontal rule with a line of hyphens separated by white space.

When I try that in iOS 12, I get this

———

Or this

Headline
———

Note that I have hit "hyphen" six times and gotten 3 dashes.   And it does not work.  No horizontal rule (all the way across). No headline.

The problem is, they're not real hyphen-minuses from 7-bit ASCII.  They are some sort of typographical oddity - em space dash, en space dash, whatever.  I see I can also hold the hyphen key and it will give me the options for em space dash  and en space dash.  None are a hyphen!

How do I tape a plain ASCII hyphen-minus in iOS 12?

I realize this is a bit of an XY, but I need plain hyphens for lots of other things too.

Edit: Forgot to mention, I need to do this on other people's iPads, so it is not my purview to arbitrarily and permanently reconfigure their iPad to my tastes.  Besides I am not opposed to typographical features, I just need to use StackExchange from time to time.


texts: How can I get rid of extra "Photo Stream" album on iPhone?

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On my iPhone (and iPad) I have "Photo Stream" enabled for my primary Apple ID (I have others setup for mail, etc).

On my iPad it works fine - I see the one "Photo Stream" button and everything shows up there.

On my iPhone (iPhone 4) there are two "Photo Stream" albums for some reason. One is the correct one with my pictures, and one is blank and when I go into it there is just the message that explains what the stream is and says "No Photos".

If I disable "Photo Stream" temporarily on the phone the album disappears with my pictures, but the blank album remains.

How can I get rid of this blank album?


texts: Airplay Yamaha CRX-N560d speakers working on iPad Air 2 but not on Macbook Pro 2017

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Good morning everyone.

I own a Yamaha Net HI-FI, a CRX-N560D that has airplay capabilities.
I couldn't get my new Macbook Pro 2017 - High Sierra 10.13.3 installed - to stream audio to airplay speakers.
The Hi-fi is connected correctly to the router and then to Internet, as it streams Spotify flawlessly.
I had the same problem with my old Macbook Air late 2010 with every OSX i had installed on it, from Snow Leopard till High Sierra.
The odd thing is that i could connect easily iPad Air 2 since iOS 10...

The firewall is deactivated; no LittleSnitch or similar. There are no strange software installed, as i bought the Macbook Pro just yesterday.

Any advice or suggestion?

Thanks in advance!


texts: Sharing an Apple ID on different iPads, but having different Contacts

texts: My daughter has my old iPad, and we share the same Apple ID, for convenience with purchasing. However at present we also have a shared Contacts list on the two iPads. It would be better to have separate Contact lists, to go with our separate email accounts.  Is this possible? And if so, how?


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My late 2009 unibody MBP won't boot. I have already booted in single user mode, ran fsck -fy until I get no errors. But when typing 'exit' or rebooting in verbose mode I see, after fsck runs:

Failed to issue COM RESET successfully after 3 attempts. Failing...
disk0s2: no such device
disk0s2: media is not present.

The HD appears to be working, because when booting in single user mode I can run fsck successfully and can browse the HD, listing directories, inspecting files.

I just don't know why the OS can read the disk but reports it as 'not present' when booting.


texts: Have any organizations moved their work Apple ID to two-step authentication?

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We are writing the policy of a small company to create 100 Apple ID for their employees. Half will work primarily on iPads and the other half on Macs. We have decided to try to use two-step authentication rather than the traditional, pick three security questions and answers for the work Apple ID.

Many of our workers do not have iOS devices to carry with them, so we will rely on SMS for the pin notification part of the process and have each employee list a corporate SMS number as one of their options so that IT can assist them with resetting an account should the password need to be reset.

Employees with personal SMS and personal and/or work iOS devices will of course list those as additional trusted devices as part of the setup process, but we need to cover all employees wither they have a cell phone, iPod or not. If we ensure that the first SMS number is a work controlled cell phone, we can prevent losing control of these Apple ID by maintaining that service and also escrowing the recovery keys for each work account.

Has anyone run into problems with using Apple ID in this manner or is there a deployment guide that Apple has published to help us decide how to implement Apple ID in the workplace?


texts: Is there a way to make the iPad stay in the App Store when you buy an app?

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This has infuriated me since I got my iPad. If I am buying multiple Apps the iPad takes me to my Desktop after I buy each app, meaning I have to go back to the app store.

Is there a way to tell it to stay in the appstore when I buy an app?


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I bought a Mini last year and I want to update the RAM.

I was shopping around to find some compatible memory and found (this)from a Spanish retailer. They are selling what you see on the picture and I'm trying to understand if this memory is compatible with my machine or not.  I wrote to the company and they said that there will be no problem but I want to be super-sure.

This info is about my mac:

2.3 GHz Intel Core i5
2 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
And running OS X Lion.

Can anyone let me know if this memory is definitely compatible? Or advise on what else I am able to use?


texts: Prevent Network Settings From Changing Automatically

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How can I stop Network Settings from being able to change without my permission? Couldn't find anything under "Security" in Settings.

OSX 10.9.5 (Mavericks)

Changes (broke Internet): Settings -> Network -> Advanced

TCP/IP -> Configure IPv6: "Link-local only" (vs. "Automatically")
Proxies -> Web Proxy (HTTP) Checked (vs. Unchecked)

Running TunnelBear VPN (which turns off IPv6 automatically to prevent leakage when using "Vigilant" mode) and UBlock Origin. I suspect they may have something to do with changes.


texts: Is there a way for me to open a .xdi file?

texts:
I have on my computer a file that as been compress with the .xdi extension.

Is there a way for me on my Mac OS X to open it?


texts:
In Snow Leopard when I used a screencapture program (⇧⌃⌘4) on the screen area that was zoomed in (by using ⌃ + mouse wheel) the resulting screen shot has the same zoom factor. Super useful when I wanted to take some small, detailed screen shot.

In 10.7 screencapture ignores the zoom factor and resulting screen shot is in 1:1 scale.

Is there some defaults setting, or anything else, that could bring back the SnowLeopard behavior?


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Whenever my rMBP wakes up from sleep, it shows a log in page with my user name. The page has a metallic gray background. After I enter my password, another page opens up with my wallpaper along with my user name again, and I have to enter the password one more time.

Output of diskutil list for /dev/disk0 is:

#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            499.4 GB   disk0s2
3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

How do I disable multiple login windows each asking for a password when my laptop starts or wakes up from sleep?


texts: Mac wakes up from sleep every night and then goes back to sleep immediately

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I've had my Mac Mini for about six months now. Every night, I put it to Sleep rather than shutting it down. Since about two weeks ago, the Mac Mini wakes up from sleep around 1 to 3 am, once a night, and then after about 10 seconds, it puts itself back to sleep. Why does it do this? Is it performing some sort of maintenance function? But that then begs the question, why is it only doing this recently, and not a few months ago?

I checked the Console for messages, and there's roughly the same thing every night. Here's part of what appears in the logs, particularly whatever pertains to waking from sleep (let me know if you need me to post a specific snippet):

Sep 14 02:00:30 gary-mac kernel[0]: AppleThunderboltNHIType2::waitForOk2Go2Sx - retries = 6
Sep 14 02:00:30 gary-mac kernel[0]: IOThunderboltSwitch<0xffffff8048e40000>(0x0)::listenerCallback - Thunderbolt HPD packet for route = 0x0 port = 12 unplug = 0
Sep 14 02:00:30 gary-mac kernel[0]: TBT W (2): 0x0100 [x]
Sep 14 02:00:30 gary-mac kernel[0]: Wake reason: EC.SleepTimer (SleepTimer)
Sep 14 02:00:30 gary-mac kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
Sep 14 02:00:30 gary-mac kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5
Sep 14 02:00:30 gary-mac kernel[0]: The USB device USB 3.0 HUB
Sep 14 02:00:30 gary-mac kernel[0]: (Port 1 of Hub at 0x15000000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (1)

I'm sure there's something useful in there (such as references to the USB ports) but I can't exactly figure them out. For your information, my Mac Mini has four USB ports, and all four are used. USB port 1 is an external drive, USB port 2 is an external drive, USB port 3 is connected to a KVM, which provides access to my mouse and keyboard, and USB port 4 is connected to a USB 3 hub that splits the port into four other ports.

When I go to the System Information app to determine what device is at USB location 0x15000000, I get the following:

USB 3.0 HUB:

Product ID: 0x0812
Vendor ID:  0x2109  (VIA Labs, Inc.)
Version:    85.71
Speed:  Up to 5 Gb/sec
Manufacturer:   VLI Labs, Inc.
Location ID:    0x15100000 / 3
Current Available (mA): 900
Current Required (mA):  0

It just looks like a generic device of some sort. Right above this device in the System Information app is the first USB device I have connected, which is my external drive for Time Machine. Could that be the problem somehow, even though its device location is 0x15400000 / 4?

Could this problem be due to the recently released Mac OS X 10.8.5? It seems like the problem started occurring a few days after the update was released. I have already performed the basic maintenance of resetting the SMC and PRAM, and Repairing Disk Permissions, but that didn't fix the problem. Also, in the System Preferences -> Energy Saver page, I've got all checkboxes UNchecked (including "Wake for network access"). I haven't had any other wake issues since this started happening. Plus, the fact that the Mac Mini goes back to sleep after a few seconds doesn't seem to indicate that it could possibly be a network access problem, or a mouse randomly moving, right?


texts: How do I save a document as .doc in Pages 5.2 not .docx?

texts: I have OSX10.9 and pages 5.2 and want to save the document in Pages as a *.doc. I can already export it as *.docx. I need help as to how to export or save it as *.doc?


texts: How can I change x11 window size programatically?

texts: How can I change the size of an x11 window with a script, be it AppleScript or otherwise. I have a process running using wine which is using XQuartz as the windowing system and I want to force the x11 window to a particular size.


texts: OS X El Capitan bash shell not working in Terminal

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I have a weird issue with my bash shell in OS X El Capitan. I was messing around with my .bashrc file today, and now when I open my terminal I see nothing out of the ordinary (no messages, just the basic bash prompt), but I cannot enter any commands. I can type, but once I press enter I just hear the bell ring and nothing happens. Some of the things I have already tried:

Deleting .bashrc (and restarting Terminal)
Deleting .bash_profile (and restarting Terminal)
Making very basic .bashrc and .bash_profile files with echo statements. These statements are run and are printed to the terminal, but I still cannot enter any commands.
Switching my shell to zsh instead, and found that it works just fine.

Any information you guys could give me would be very, very much appreciated. Thanks!

EDIT
This issue seems to have resolved itself. I didn't restart my computer, I just came back to it this morning and bash seems to be working just fine. Maybe a caching issue?


texts: How to compare files for an entire drive from a before and after (or changes during) state?

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I would actually very much like an option similar to fseventer, but it appears that not only will it support recent OS releases, but that it is altogether no longer available.

What can I do for 10.10 and later to reproduce the tool's function of listing near-live file system change events?

My first attempt to make a before and after comparison with every file on a drive from one state to the next.  So far all that I've come up with is something like the following:

find -s / -ls > ~/files-before.txt
find -s / -type f -exec shasum \{} \+ >> ~/files-before.txt

### Do Stuff ###

find -s / -ls > ~/files-after.txt
find -s / -type f -exec shasum \{} \+ >> ~/files-after.txt

diff files-before.txt files-after.txt

But I can't help but think that there must be a better way to really get these results or perhaps to get a realtime presentation of changes over a span of time.

Any thoughts?


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In macOS Sierra there’s a new Storage Management option. One way to get to it is via /Applications/Utilities/System Information.app (then with the app open) Window → Storage Management.

I’d like to accomplish all that programatically, including closing the System Information.app window.

If there’s a solution it’ll likely involve AppleScript or JXA, but I’m not picky on the method.


texts: Spotlight is disabled but "._file_name" still get created on external drives that I plug in

texts: I want to prevent my MAC from creating ._file_name files on external memory drives that I plug into it. I think I've turned off Spotlight completely. However, such files keep getting created. How to fix that?


texts: Say I have two apps that match a search in spotlight (e.g. utility), it seems that Spotlight chooses the first application (sorted alphabetically) as the Top Hit. Is there any way to change this so that a different application appears on top?


texts: How to interpret outcome of Apple Hardware Test on Malfunctioning Macbook-Pro/Snow Leopard

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Here are some tests I have when I ran Apple Hardware Test from original Tiger install disc.

My issue is recurrent worsening inconsistent kernel panics.

The Hardware Test hangs up at 35 seconds, while "testing memory."  The first time I ran it I didn't realize it had hung up till I looked over the display after 3 or 4 minutes. It showed "Detected Error" and a code, but shut down as I scrambled for a pencil to write it down.  I then ran it 3 more times, but each time the system shut down sometime between 35 seconds and the appearance of the error code.

Can I deduce anything useful from this?
Can I force the Hardware Test to tell me anything more?


texts: How to confirm if FileVault encryption has fully completed

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How to confirm FileVault encryption has fully completed? While it's in progress, diskutil apfs list | grep 'Encryption Progress' ; fdesetup status will shows percentage of conversion.

Later is there any way to know 100% encryption is completed?


texts: In a group text, how do you reply to the same numbers that were originally messaged?

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I am on the receiving end of this problem and am trying to resolve the issue for my brother, who has an iPhone.
I have two mobile numbers (we'll call them Phone A and Phone B). When my sister (who is on an Android) sends a group text to my brother and to me on Phone A, I receive it on Phone A as expected and can reply without issue. However, when my brother replies to the thread, it goes to my sister and to me on Phone B. How does my brother resolve this issue so that when he replies to the group thread, it goes to Phone A as intended?


texts: MacBook Pro doesn't sleep when lid closes

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I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2009)

I was changing the Thermal paste which involved removing the board and do some dust cleaning. After reassembly, the MacBook doesn't sleep when lid closes.

What the hardware part(s) that are responsible for this problem?

NOTE:
I tried the following:

Restored defaults in Energy Saver.
Reset SMC (multiple times)
Reset NVRAM

I still have the same problem. I am sure its a hardware problem from reassembly I want to know the hardware part to check it


texts: iOS 11 on iPhone 5s: Should I expect a decrease in performance?

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I see that Apple Supports iOS 11 on an iPhone 5s, but will I experience degraded performance if I upgrade?

The effort to get iOS 11 onto my semi-antiquated phone will require a few hours to transfer pictures/music/etc. off prior to the upgrade and then bring it all back after the process is completed.  This is not a big deal if I'm not going to see any performance hits, so I'm hoping some other, more adventurous sole has taken the dive and can let me know if it's worth the jump or not.


texts: How can I restore deleted contacts from iPhone 4s?

texts: My wife and I both have 4s models and we both downloaded iOS 7 and now we have all contacts (hers and mine) on both phones. I started to delete some of hers on my phone and it deleted the same contacts on her phone automatically. How can I restore her contacts?


texts: Has Apple finally included APFS support for traditional hard drives in the latest update for macOS 10.13.1?

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macOS High Sierra comes with a new file system APFS, now according to official notes APFS for now only supports modern SSDs.

My Mac runs on a traditional rotational hard drive and according to Apple macOS High Sierra 10.13.0. Apple recently released 10.13.1 and after updating to the latest version I booted into the recovery and after opening disk utility and going through the menu bar options I came across option know as convert to APFS, so my concern is that after the recent update has Apple finally included APFS support for traditional hard drives and should I convert my drive to the latest APFS filesystem


texts: Siri's voice on iPhone keeps reverting to robotic voice

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Siri's voice on iPhone keeps reverting to the robotic voice repeatedly after downloading the igh quality voice every time. iOS is updated to the latest.
Is there any way to fix the issue?
The thread of same issue on apple discussion.


texts: How do I begin to understand the output of Wireless Diagnostics (macOS Catalina 10.15)?

texts:
I ran Network Diagnostics on my MacBook Air (macOS 10.15.6) on my home network as a test. I ended up with 56 files, 13 of them .tar.gz or .tgz files. Among everything I find two text files, diagnostics-environment.txt and myNetworkName-diagnostics.txt, which both tell me I should move off 2.4GHz channel 6 because it's congested.
What other information might I find?
Specifically: If I'm in an environment where I'm getting terrible connectivity, where among all that output might I find clues to my problem?
(I have already read How to understand macOS wireless diagnostics?. That question asked for an interpretation of a specific portion of a specific unspecified log file.)


texts: Boot Camp: The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned

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I recently reinstalled my macOS from Catalina to High Sierra to try and install Windows 7/8, but I keep running into a problem: The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned. You must have at least 40 GB of free space available.
Here is the startup disk:

and diskutil list:
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         1000.0 GB  disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +1000.0 GB  disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh SSD - Data    715.8 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 119.9 MB   disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.0 GB     disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume macOS High Sierra       107.6 GB   disk1s5

I tried the time machine solution, it didn't work, so I assume it's got something to do with me downgrading to High Sierra. Any help?
EDIT: I tried manually to create a partition via Disk Utility but it wouldn't let me, only a maximum of 28.5GB.
Just in case, I'm ready to erase the Macintosh SSD - Data Volume which I haven't erased when reinstalling macOS High Sierra, I have all the data backed up on my hard drive via time machine.


texts:
Before you respond that this isn't possible, hear me out. I have a Mac Pro 4,1 (with 5,1 firmware), running MacOS Sierra. I want to disable System Integrity Protection (otherwise known as SIP), but have run into a snag. I don't have a flashed graphics card, so I can't see my boot screen (or recovery mode or safe mode) on my computer. Therefore I can't see how to disable SIP on my computer. I have tried:

Boot Mac Pro into target disk mode and connect MacBook Air (OS X 10.9 - pre-SIP) via FireWire To MP. Boot MBA from Mac Pro's recovery partition, (MacOS 10.12 recovery). Disable SIP, reboot. Doing this worked on the MBA. But when I turned on the Mac Pro again, SIP was enabled. I assumed that because of this, the SIP disable was linked to the hardware.

Question 1: Is this assumption correct?

Question 2: is it possible to disable the SIP without using the graphics card in the Mac Pro? I have an iMac running MacOS Sierra and a MBA running OS X 10.9 at my disposal. Possible solutions can include (but don't have to be limited to): ssh, screensharing, target disk mode).

I would appreciate any help. Please post questions as comments and feel free to suggest edits. Thank you!


texts:
My mum can't find her apple ID on her iPad. I'm not with her at the moment and do not have an iPad so I don't know where to look.

She already has an Apple ID set up on this iPad, so I don't want to set up another one.


texts: Gatekeeper dialog on El Capitan is missing... localized strings?

texts:
I really have no idea what to make of this, but on one of the machines I've upgraded to El Capitan, all of the gatekeeper dialogs display without localized strings:

This displays after launching Chromium from the dock just after having replaced it with a new version by copying an app bundle from a DMG to the Applications folder.

This is clearly not expected behavior, but I'm not sure what I could do to fix it besides reinstalling El Cap (which I'm not too keen on doing if I can avoid it).

Has anyone else seen anything like this, and/or have any ideas for troubleshooting?


texts: DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter doesn't play audio on Samsung TV

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I can't make my MacBook Pro mid 2009 play audio on my Samsung LCD TV. I am aware that only recents MacBook Pro have audio out through the Mini DisplayPort and mine doesn't have it. This is why I bought an adapter that includes digital audio.

I can see the video on the TV but can't hear anything, the sound is still going out of my laptop.

I tried to go in "System Preferences > Audio > Output" but I can only see "Internal Speakers" from here.

Do you have any idea what did I miss here?
Thanks.


texts: Problem changing desktop background in Mountain Lion (10.8.1)

texts: I have performed an upgrade to the latest Snow Leopard and now to Mountain Lion (10.8.1). Post upgrade my desktop background isn't no longer changing. The background will not change when I try and select a different background via system preferences. Even if I reset it to the default background the same behavior persists. My system has exhibited this problem for almost 7 months now, I have this ugly plain blue background I cannot look at any more. Can anyone offer a solution that might resolve this?


texts: For example, see the screenshot below. The menu items have keyboard shortcuts associated with them, but where can I find a list of what keys the icons are referring to?


texts: What can I do to keep AirPlay from buffering while playing movie from iPad 2?

texts: I downloaded a one hour HD TV show to my iPad 2 from the iTunes store and then set up the iPad 2 for AirPlay over the Apple TV. Many times it froze while buffering. What is causing this and how can I avoid this problem?


texts:
My MBP 15" (end 2016) on macOS Sierra 10.12.6 have a strange behaviour when I close the lid. It goes to sleep (I hear the fans becoming quiet) but after ~20 seconds it returns to work and then the cycle starts back.

In the future the behaviour I would like is to have the MBP to sleep for something like 10/20 mins (2/3h when on charger -c) and the go in hibernation mode (hibernatemode 25), but that's another story.

Those are the settings I currently have:

[ab:~]$ pmset -g assertions
2017-12-18 19:09:37 +0100
Assertion status system-wide:
   BackgroundTask                 0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   UserIsActive                   1
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
   PreventSystemSleep             0
   ExternalMedia                  0
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     0
   NetworkClientActive            0
Listed by owning process:
   pid 116(hidd): [0x0000003e0009812e] 00:01:40 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle.4294968220.3"
    Timeout will fire in 296 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
Kernel Assertions: 0x1=CPU
   id=501  level=255 0x1=CPU mod=12/18/17, 7:24 PM description=IOThunderboltController owner=IOThunderboltController
Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler
[ab:~]$ pmset -g live
System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
 standbydelay         0
 standby              1
 halfdim              1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 powernap             0
 gpuswitch            2
 disksleep            10
 sleep                5
 autopoweroffdelay    0
 hibernatemode        25
 autopoweroff         1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         5
 tcpkeepalive         1
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1


texts: Is there any software like 'Primo Cache'?

texts:
I've used PrimoCache on Windows.
Specifically Defer Write feature not only for performance,

I've used it for drive endurance.

As a switcher from Windows to Mac, I can handle RamDisk thing now, but I can't find alternatives to this software or feature on OS X.


texts: Downgrading an iPhone 4 from iOS 6 to iOS 5.1.1 using iTunes with a restore.ipsw file

texts: Can I downgrade an iPhone 4 from iOS 6 to iOS 5.1.1 using iTunes if I have a 5.1.1 restore.ipsw file? I have watched this video on YouTube and was wondering if that works for downgrade. I dont need to sync the phone with any of my files afterwards. I just need to have it as new with 5.1.1 software.


texts: showing multiple regions for holidays in Calendar Version 7.0 (1841.1)

texts: Can you choose more than one region to show holidays in calendar Version 7.0 (1841.1)


texts:
On my computer I'm developing some simple front-end web pages made of typical structure:

HTML source code for structuring the elements;
CSS classes linked to the HTML;
JavaScript files linked to the HTML as well.

I put everything on a Dropbox folder and I'm so able to view all these files from my Dropbox application on the iPhone.

If I open the HTML files from there, I'm only able to see its basic HTML structure: no CSS is called, nor Javascript functions. Clearly because I'm not opening on a browser, but on a simple file viewer.

MY QUESTION: Is anyhow possible to open HTML files with a browser (such as Safari) from the iPhone so to be able to see the whole result (CSS, links and JavaScripts included)? I've already tried the "Open this file on..." function on Dropbox, but it doesn't show me Safari as an app that accepts that kind of file.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Hello I have two routers in my net. One is from my ISP and secound is air port. I want to do port forwarding. If I forward port on air port it doesn't work I have to also forward ports on router from ISP. I have a static ip address on airport. I also tried to turn on DMZ on router from ISP and add an airport ip address. On http://www.canyouseeme.org/ I got success when I have turn on DMZ, but I cannot connect to disk on airport using external ip address. I don't know what should I do :/


texts: MacBook Pro with Touch Bar; switch between F keys, app controls and control strip?

texts:
My previous MacBook Pro 15" had physical function keys, which could be switched to media control keys by holding down the Fn key (or the other way around if you liked). I found this very handy, and would use both flavors of keys all the time.

I've just switched to the newest MacBook Pro 15", which lost the function/media keys, replacing them with this super-sexy Touch Bar. But, the Touch Bar is only an improvement if it can be used with the app-specific controls; otherwise it's just a screen pretending to be the missing keys. So, now I want access to all three Touch Bar modes:

Media control keys:

Function keys:

App-specific control panel, e.g. from Google Chrome:

These are mutually exclusive; you can't show two at once. Problem: there seems to be no way to easily switch between the three modes. I can pick any two (switching between them using the Fn key), but access to the third is always out of reach.

For the moment I've settled on switching between function keys and app controls, with no media key access. But, whenever I start playing a video full-screen and find it too loud or too soft, I have to mouse to the top, wait for the menubar to appear, click the tiny speaker icon and then finally adjust the volume. It's a pain in the rear, and a definite downgrade.

Is there any way to have quick and easy access to all three Touch Bar modes? (I'm using both Keyboard Maestro and BetterTouchTool, but neither seems to be able to switch Touch Bar modes.)


texts: Speed up GarageBand track and pitch the sound

texts:
I recorded some songs form an old tape. Because it was running a bit slower, everything sounds lower.

I want to speed up the things, but without keeping the same tonality. I want to change the speed, but same time I want to make the sounds to sound higher (transposing/pitching everything a bit higher).

How can I do that in GarageBand?

I did change the tempo, but it is smart enough to keep the same tonality. How can I tell it to ignore that?


texts: How does the iPhone know it's not using an Apple cable?

texts: Sometimes when I plug a cable in to charge, the iPhone says it may not work with this device. How does it know it's not an Apple cable?


texts: Zoom iglasses terminal settings (not signature removal)

texts:
I have a setting in my old mac that I applied to terminal using a sudo command (not remove signature)
This allowed skype and zoom to access my iglasses and epoc cam pro.
Can anyone help me find this as my new install I cant replicate it, and the terminal history on my old mac does not go back far enough to see the change I made.
This was not a -remove-signature edit i believe it was a system wide setting to allow virtual camera access or something???
Please help


texts: What happens if I interrupt a back-up from my laptop to my external hard disk?  Do I just lose the back-up and have to start over?


texts: Moving files (manually in Finder, via terminal MV, or via script) appears to leave a 'ghost' file in search results that cannot be deleted

texts:
Scenario:

I use plex with a DVR and torrents to download tv shows and the accompanying files.
The DVR files save to DRIVE_1, and the permanent storage for PLEX is DRIVE_2.

Issue:

When the files are moved, it appears that many (some, not all) files are 'ghosted'. Essentially, the files that have been moved still 'appear' in the search results of smart folders, but they aren't real files. They cannot be edited, deleted, etc. I cannot seem to remove them from the search, even though they do not physically exist on the drive being searched.

Layout:

They are both physical drives.
DRIVE_1 is OSX Journaled, and DRIVE_2 is EX_FAT.
My script is an applescript 'app' that uses "do shell script" to run a series of BASH commands to mv the files that are relevant. They are also being renamed using "A Better Finder Rename" call out before the MV command.
I use MV, and not CP, because DRIVE_1 needs to be free for other files.

Process:

Either manually using (Command down) Drag and Drop, OR via the MV command in terminal in the script, the system will find the *.mp4/mkv/etc file types, rename them, and then MV them to the TV_Shows directory.
Here is an example:
do shell script "find /Volumes/DVD_Scratch/Downloads -iname '*.mp4' -exec open -a /Users/MYName/Documents/xHelper_Apps/DVDNameFix.app {} +;"
do shell script "find /Volumes/DVD_Scratch/Downloads -iname '*.mp4' -size +90M    -exec mv -v '{}' /Volumes/DVD_Music/TV_Shows/_Unsorted_TV/ \;"

As you can see, this basically finds all mp4s, sends them to the Renamer App, then 'qualifies' if they are over 90mb, and MVs those to a folder.
I think this is where the issue comes in. Some of those files, after the MV, the filenames in the original location are still showing as 'ghosts' in the system.
I can't explain it any other way, because:

They DO show up in a Smart Folder/Search
They do NOT show up in Terminal
They do NOT show up with a file path.

See in the image below. in the smart search, I am simply looking at 2 things: Location=DRIVE_1, and KIND=Movie.
You will note that "The Munsters" and "Smallville" are selected. The Munsters is a 'ghost' file, in that:

It has no file location (no "where" in the info)
It has no Edit or Read Access
I cannot drag it to the trash
I cannot CMD-Delete it
I cannot drag it to the terminal (it does nothing)

What I've Tried:

Rebuild Spotlight
Reindex via terminal (sudo mdutil -i on /)
sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100 AND sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V200
Repairing Permissions from Disk Utility
Running Daily/Weekly/Monthly from Terminal
Running diskutil repairvolume /Volumes/MYVolume/
Recreated the search.folder
Deleted /Library/Caches for Finder
Deleted /FinderPreferences

What does work:
I know that if I reformat completely, this does go away; but that is not a regular solution; at least, it shouldn't be.
Looking for ideas on next steps, or at least the cause.


texts: Free SSH GUI client with ssh tunnel support for Yosemite?

texts:
Is there any free SSH GUI client for Mac OS X? Coming from Windows I would be happy with something as simple as Putty.

Features:

Free
Connection Manager
SSH tunnel support
Yosemite ready (and retina pretty)
Currently active (development not dead)
Support for private key authentication

I’m aware of similar questions posted here but I haven’t found a good alternative covering the requirements in items 2, 3, 4 and 5.


texts: I'm trying to rip some DVDs on my Mac, the boxset for a TV show, using Handbrake. I'd also like to automatically fetch metadata - show name, episode name, etc. But MetaX isn't getting any metadata for me for this particular TV program. Any other Mac apps I can use that do similar?


texts:
I am considering setting up a Citadel groupware server. It natively supports syncing via the GroupDAV protocol.

Is there an app for the iPhone that lets it sync its calendars, contacts, and tasks with a GroupDAV server?


texts:
I need to record me using an iPad while I am drawing on it (with Penultimate). I usually use ScreenFlow to record onscreen actions on my desktop Mac, so I need a way to display iPad on my Mac. Is there a way to do screen sharing? Or, I suppose I could do a screen capture right from my iPad. Any suggestions? Thanks,

UPDATE: One solution for 10.7.3 and iPad 3 is Reflection + ScreenFlow, no cords:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22358199/testRef2/index.html


texts: Where can I see all the learned/ignored spelling in Pages 5.5?

texts:
I've added some words that are not in the standard Apple dictionary in Pages 5.5 via the 'learn'/'ignore spelling' function.

Is there any way where I can see a comprehensive list of the words that I have added to the 'learn'/'ignore' list?

Thanks.


texts: Turn main screen off when watching full screen video on TV

texts:
I connect my Mac via an HDMI adapter to my TV to watch films.

Is there a way to turn off my Mac's screen while watching those?


texts: Can I see latest location of my stolen MacBook?

texts: My MacBook Air was stolen a couple of weeks ago. It had iCloud / Find my mac activated, so I activated stolen mode, and requested it to be deleted if it ever came online. This is exactly what happened today. Question is: Can I see where the MacBook was when it came back online? It does not show in the map in Find My iPhone, but obviously, it's not online anymore - it has been wiped. Is it possible to track the latest known location?


texts:
This has been mentioned in this question here:
What's the difference between alias and link?

But I am not even sure what I am looking for. I wish to create a hard link of the type where if a program 'uses' it in the specified directory, it will actually use it from the other central location.

Does something like that exist? For example, would I create ln /path/from/file /path/from/file?

The above command does something like it I believe.


texts: Is it possible to automate tags / tagging of new files dropped into a specific folder?

texts: Is it possible to automate tagging of new files dropped into a specific folder?


texts: Does Apple still fix screen coating issues on the mid-2014 MBPs?

texts: I read on MacRumors that if I take my mid-2014 (purchased in early 2015) 15" MBP to an Apple store, they may fix the well-known anti-reflective screen coating issue.  MacRumors is not an authoritative source, as far as I know, so I'd like to check here as well.  Anyone have info on this?


texts: I like iOS5 reminders app and use it on my iPod touch , however I am looking for an app for OSX lion which provide similar functionality for macOSX in an app which can sync with reminders app for iOS5.


texts:
I'm using Safari 5.1.3 on Lion.

Each time I click the RSS icon in the address bar (or directly visit the feed), Safari will report can't open page, saying operation not permitted with the NSPOSIXErrorDomain: 1 error. For other web sites, Safari works fine.

I have no 3rd party firewall installed on my system. I also tried to disable the firewall in system settings but still getting the same error.

As I use Google Reader, I've once installed the "Add To Google Reader" extension from Apple's site, but it didn't work for me.


texts: How to remove date from Calendar.app dock tile?

texts: I want to remove the current date from the Calendar.app dock tile. I have changed its icons (by replacing the icns-files inside the .app) however it still shows the current date over the icon. How can I remove this date?


texts: Adding shortcut for recording entire screen from screenshots app

texts:
Is there some way to add or create the shortcut to record the screen instantly?
The current way to do it is Cmd+Shift+5 > Click record entire screen > Click anywhere to start.
The expected way would be to do the above three with a single shortcut, maybe Cmd+Shift+6.


texts: Lenovo USB 3.0 Ethernet adapter (MacBook PRO)

texts:
I have a Deltaco USB 3.0 hub which I've connected a Thinkpad USB 3.0 Ethernet Adapter.

When I boot, or wake, my MacBook Pro (late 2013) won't detect the network interface to be connected at all. I have to re-plug it on the Deltaco USB hub, and 3-5 seconds later I'm up and running.

What I'm wondering is how do I fix this?

While I'm at it, since I use an Apple server for setting date & time, my clock is skewed by +2 hours (I assume it's displaying the wrong timezone or something) when booting. Is there any way to fix this (unless there's a solution to my first question)?


texts: MacBook Pro on company network loses Internet access after 10 minutes, but still has internal network access

texts: I have a Mac user that after 10 minutes loses Internet access.  The issue started yesterday.  I have recreated the location with the DNS addresses in my troubleshooting efforts.  When I restart after losing Internet access, everything is fine for about 10 minutes, then only the network drives are accessible, no Internet, and Office 365 Outlook doesn't connect to the Exchange server.  Wifi shows connected when I connect, but doesn't have Internet access either.  Any help resolving this is appreciated.


texts:
I replaced my MacBook Pro (mid-2015)'s left fan as I noticed it had stopped working (had to investigate what was causing the kernal_task to use all CPU and completely slow laptop down). The right fan still worked (and continues to work) just fine.
3 months later, a couple of days ago, and the left fan has stopped working again.
Has anyone got any thoughts about this? Happy to give more details of my usage and I know I could replace the fan again, but it's a bit annoying and would love to get to the bottom of what is causing this issue.
Thanks


texts: Anyone knows what this third party input method? And is it safe to use it since it's from an unidentified developer?

texts: It basically gives you a PinYin-like words prediction but for English


texts: Is El Capitan preventing me from getting the Perl module DBD::Oracle working?

texts:
Let me start by saying I'm not traditionally a Mac user.  I'm still trying to transition from Gentoo, where compiling everything from source was the default state, and the system wasn't actively trying to prevent me from doing "dangerous" things.

I have a new machine running 10.11.  I've gotten sqlplus 11.2.0.4 running, and am able to connect to a remote Oracle server with it.  I now want to use DBD::Oracle to connect in a Perl script.  I was able to get DBD::Oracle to compile/install by manually passing a version to Makefile.pl rather than using CPAN (or, more specifically, cpanm):

perl Makefile.pl -V 11.2
make
make install

However, when I run the script using the default Perl (5.18.2 located at /usr/bin/perl), I get an error:

ERROR OCIEnvNlsCreate. Check ORACLE_HOME (Linux) env var  or PATH (Windows) and or NLS settings, permissions, etc.

In case the issue lies with the system perl, I installed perlbrew and then installed 5.22.0 into ~/perl5.  Using the perlbrew Perl, I get a different error:

dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _OCIAttrSet
  Referenced from: /Users/jrittenh/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.22.0/lib/site_perl/5.22.0/darwin-2level/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.bundle
  Expected in: dynamic lookup

dyld: Symbol not found: _OCIAttrSet
  Referenced from: /Users/jrittenh/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.22.0/lib/site_perl/5.22.0/darwin-2level/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.bundle
  Expected in: dynamic lookup

Trace/BPT trap: 5

I've tried:

both 32-bit and 64-bit Oracle libraries
symlinking libraries from the specific version (libclntsh.dylib.11.1 => libclntsh.dylib)
fixing hard-coded paths to /ade
creating a 'mesg' folder and made it writeable in $ORACLE_HOME
setting ORACLE_HOME, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PATH to include /usr/local/oracle_client from /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc/, ~/.bashrc, and ~/.bash_profile

Is there something else I can try?  What am I missing?


texts:
I had a few apps originally purchased through the App Store that got corrupted. I removed them with the intent of re-installing them from the App Store, but it seems that the App Store thinks they're still/already installed. The action button is disabled. I found How can I reinstall an application that the Mac App Store thinks is installed already? but the solution reported there didn't work for me.

The app doesn't exist in either /Applications or /Downloads. Do you have any idea about what I might be able to do to re-download the app?


texts:
so I use this one app to save YouTube videos offline for later enjoyment and recently I've been getting popup messages that say "you've won" or something generic like that.

They used to appear on safari, but I erased the cache and they've since gone.

Currently they only appear on one app named Turbo DL.

Is this some kind of virus? Should I backup and reinstall?


texts: iOS Mail attachment download behaviour when connected to Microsoft Exchange?

texts:
When is an eMail attachement automatically downloaded in iOS? From my expierience iOS downloads an attachment up to the size of about 50 kB automatically when on a 3G network, on a WLAN larger files are downloaded automatically (up to around 150 kB).

However I cannot find this documented by Apple and I have users complaining with high roaming bills that tell me big attachments get downloaded automatically.

Our users are connected to Microsoft Exchange 2010 by ActiveSync.

The problem is difficult to reproduce and I'm looking for ways to nail or solve this?


texts: I have just recently experienced a problem with my finder, iTunes and others applications on my mac, but I used the safe boot solution and it worked , the apps are now responding, but I have movies and music on my iTunes and I tried watching the videos on vlc but it's saying that my mac lacks quartz extreme acceleration who's is required for video output and my iTunes is not playing any of the songs and the volume is not working as well. Thanks


texts: Macbook Air 13" 2015, won't return from sleep unless physically rotated

texts:
My girl bought a Macbook Air 13", newest generation a couple of weeks ago. It has been working flawlessly until now.

When she tried to wake it from sleep, the screen was black and didn't respond to pressing the power button, or anything. We held the power button for 10s, and nothing happened. Then I closed it, picked it up and turned it around (to check the availability to unplug the battery, to no avail). After setting it down and opening the screen, the lock screen appeared as if nothing had happened. The same thing happened after a few minutes, but then the screen returned when I just picked it up from the table.

Not having found anything on the internet (except on other person who had a similar issue, but there were no answers to his question) I suspect that maybe the screen cable has bad contact with the connector, which is improved when the computer is rotated or moved.

The Macbook hasn't sustained any impact or liquid damage.

Any ideas?


texts: Permanent fix to Prevent iPhone Voice memos being duplicated on every iTunes Sync

texts:
This is the only thread that came up:
Why is iTunes duplicating my Voice Memos?

It's out of date and does not provide a solution, hack or workaround if one exists
Neither does it say that this is a current bug that cannot be solved

I'd like a solution, hack or workaround if someone has figured some way out to "Prevent" this long term.


texts: Time machine backup locked after moving old folders to new external hard drive

texts:
I just found out that the files in my old Time Machine folders that have been moved to another external hard drive to save space have been locked. I cannot copy them back to the original backup folder to access the files. Changing file permissions doesn't help, either.

How can I unlock the files in my migrated folders and access them in the other external hard drive as they are?
How do I prevent this from happening the next time I do a migration?


texts: Select the save format in the Save As dialog by using AppleScript

texts: How do I select the output format in the Save As dialog of Mail.app? I know how to change the file name by using keystroke but I could not figure out how to change the file format in AppleScript.


texts: OneDrive files which appear in Finder but not in terminal?

texts:
It sounds crazy, I know. Usually its the other way round - you can see files in terminal which are not visible in Finder.

I have a problem which is the other way round. I have a folder - /Users/me/OneDrive/stuff/sa that has one PNG in it. OneDrive is saying there is a problem with the file and the folder. I can see both in the Finder, and if I do "info" there is nothing wrong with them (e.g. no spaces or dodgy characters).

However, If I open Terminal, and do cd /Users/me/OneDrive/stuff then ls -ld sa it shows nothing, and if I do ls it is missing form the list. pwd shows I am in /Users/me/OneDrive/stuff.

I am a Unix sys admin - I have tripple checked and what I am seeing should not be possible.

The file and folder are quite old, and have not changed recently.

Any ideas?


texts: Trying to understand inconsistent web access

texts:
In a library with an iPad and a MacBook Pro (MBP) on unsecured WiFi.  Websites in Safari on the iPad are showing no problems.

On the MBP, Safari says “server unexpectedly dropped connection” for every website tried.

On Firefox, it’s connection timed out.

Tor is able to connect to directory server but unable to establish connections to any of the entry nodes it offers. The log shows the connection failures are of three different types.  All are on port 443, and my browsing is always https when possible.  But https is working on the iPad.

Ping takes 40-100 milliseconds to echo the same domains that the web browser cannot reach.

Hard to imagine library staff having any reason for device detection, if even the ability to implement it.

Devices forty centimeters apart, so probably on the same router.

What would cause this inconsistency?

UPDATE: Both devices have behaved as expected everywhere else as long as I’ve owned them.  I risked reprimand :-) by transferring the Cat-5 cable from their Windows box to the MBP.  en0 became active, but would not connect even to their router.  Prefs said that I had a self-assigned IP address, but the menu said using DHCP, and renewing the lease got a 169.x.x.x address which I would never manually assign, and is weird because their WiFi router is 172.16.110.1 according to trace route.

DNS was resolving host names on both devices.
Safari has no extensions installed, yet when I change https to http, it gets changed back.  Firefox has “https everywhere” but turning it off does not fix the problem.  Tried to check port 80 in shell but there is no telnet executable!

sftp times out on the command line.  No ftp executable either (grr).  Finder connected to the ftp port and displayed contents, but then announced connection interrupted—and about 1.5 seconds later entire screen went gray; had to reboot.  Second try, Finder gets the spinning pizza, and won’t do anything else, not even shut down on the menu bar.  Relaunch from the dock killed the Finder and it did not come back.  That sounds like something wrong with the MBP but still, the WiFi access worked fine many other places.

In case the above is too confusing or doesn't say everything:

No problems noted on the iPad.
MBP could do ping, traceroute, DNS, and whois
MBP could not do http, https, smtp, imap, exchange, or sftp
tor could contact its directory servers via port 9001 but could not use the addresses found on port 443.
although the shell could not invoke ftp, Finder could, and displayed the known contents of the remote directory.  However, something about doing so caused Finder to crash the O.S. and to not work properly until the fourth reboot.


texts: iOS 4.2 has just been released, and I am wondering what exactly has changed? Can I assume that the changes are different for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad?


texts: Why are apps purchased on iPhone and iPad being deleted from device when synced?

texts: Apps that are purchased on my devices are deleted from the devices when I sync them with my desktop. iTunes states that the purchases are being transfered, but they are still deleted and do not show up under the iTunes app list. What is causing this?


texts: Does autocorrect take into account an alternate keyboard layout?

texts:
I notice that the autocorrect in Lion uses the character positions in order to suggest which correction to be made:

For example, if I type thst really fast, it will correct it to that but if I type thet, it corrects it to they.

This makes sense on a Qwerty keyboard, since the s is by the a, and the t is next to the y. However, it wouldn't make much sense on a different layout such as Dvorak.

Does Mac OS X Lion take into account which keyboard layout you are using and offer suggestions based on keys that are nearby the typo?

What if I created an entirely new keyboard layout, and use that instead of a keyboard layout which comes with Lion?


texts:
I can't shutdown my Late 2012 Mac mini, running El Capitan, in the normal way, by selecting the Shut Down... on the Apple menu. Every time I try, Finder vanishes and the shutdown progress freezes. I'm still able to work with the Dock, so I can shutdown using Terminal. In long term it's really annoying.

Hopefully someone has an idea whats wrong.

[EDIT] I just found out that im able to shut the system down by sign out and them use the displayed shutdown on the bottom.


texts: Why does my 4S keep splitting my text messages?

texts: I have an iPhone 4S, and an unlimited data plan, so I text. A lot. Apparently, it has been cutting one to two words off the ends of my text messages to my (non-iPhone-user) fiancé. I've always stayed under 160 characters - it splits those texts. Lately, I've taken to trying to stay under 100 characters, and still, the last 1-2 words get chopped off the end and sent as a new text. I can't find any answers online, and this is getting really aggravating for me and the recipients of my text messages. How do I fix this???


texts: Retrieving deleted text within a note on my iPhone

texts: In my iPhone notes, I had created a "note" and had lots of text typed in there. By mistake, I deleted most of the text I had typed inside of the "note". Is there a way I can retrieve that text? I did not delete the whole note, only text inside the note was deleted, so what I want to know is if I can recover that text or not.


texts: Is it possible to suppress hidden calendars in iOS 5's notification view?

texts: I like seeing my upcoming appointments in the notification view, but I have several subscribed calendars that I generally keep turned off, but keep around so I can reference them when necessary. They're showing up in the notifications and I don't want them to.


texts: How can I repair my music library after iTunes Cloud has made a Hash of it?

texts:
Since turning on iTunes Cloud and Apple Music, I have noticed creeping corruption in my iTunes library. There are songs which exist, but only as items which are NOT available offline, and NOT available ONLINE.  They are gray, and when I click on the cloud download icon they do not download from iCloud.

I suspect I must use Time Machine to retrieve a copy of my iTunes library that has not been munched up by the fine engineers at Apple and turned into a worthless pile of bits.  Before I despair, and go back into backups, is there any way to repair this?

Here is a screen-shot example:


texts: Deleted everything from MacBook but storage space is still half full

texts:
I recently ran out of space on my MacBook Air. I moved all my Mac data to an external hard drive, created a new user administrator and deleted the old one in order to erase everything without loosing my applications. It was effective, more than half of the space was freed and I have nothing on my MacBook drive, yet when I check my storage I keep seeing this:

I have 5GB of photos and 5GB of movies filling my space, while in reality I have 0 photos and videos. I don’t even know what the 21GB of “others" contains.
I tried finding the folders with the largest usage and this is what I got:

The contradiction is, as you can see, the disk takes 41GB of space, but if you sum up the sizes of its folders you’ll only get 29GB. The space gap is around 10GB, the same size as the photos and videos combined, which are nowhere to be found.

I’m confused, if you have any idea how to solve this issue please let me know.


texts: How can I tell programmatically whether a process is in app-nap?

texts:
I'm looking for a script, built-in shell command, or program (with sources) that can tell me whether a process is in App-nap mode or not.

I want to use it in automated testing, for profiling and to make sure my App uses all available energy conservation technology correctly.


texts: Export unmodified originals from Photos.app and NOT creating duplicates

texts:
I have all my photos in Photos.app. I also maintain them in Dropbox.

My workflow is:

Import from camera/iPhone into Photos
Organize photos into albums - some into new albums, some into existing albums.
Export unmodified originals from Photos to a folder structure that matches the album layout in Photos using File > Export > Export Unmodified Original

New albums are easy. Exporting the entire album is no problem since they are all new files. If I add images to an existing Photos album, I'd like to be able to simply export all of the photos in that album to the Dropbox folder. But if I do that, Photos makes a second copy of the image named "image000(1).jpg".  I don't get prompted to overwrite or not overwrite existing files.

Is there a way to have Photos.app prompt me to overwrite existing files instead of creating duplicates?  Perhaps a hidden plist setting somewhere I can modify...


texts: macOS crashes when watching fullscreen video in Chrome

texts:
I'm not sure this is a macOS bug, a Chrome bug or something else but my macOS crashes when I'm watching fullscreen video in Chrome. By crashing I mean that I'm suddenly logged out from the system and all apps are closed. This happens very quickly in about a second, like I'm watching a video and suddenly I'm on a screen where you choose an account to log in macOS.

This happened at least 5-6 times since I installed macOS. I've never noticed same behavior on previous OS X versions.

Has anyone experienced the same? Is there any solution?

P.S. I'm testing this in other browsers and will update the question with results.


texts: Change or disable Content Security Policy in Safari?

texts:
Trying to make my own userscripts, running them in the browser console and connect to ws://localhost:* servers, but the Content Security Policy always ruins my day.

How do I disable it in Safari?

Or change them to include ws://localhost:* ?


texts:
In OS X Yosemite, my "iCloud Drive" folder is always empty.

My Macbook is running Yosemite, and my iPhone and iPad are running iOS8. I have gone through the iCloud Drive migration process and it does work on my iOS devices - along with iCloud.com.

I tried turning iCloud Drive off and on, but that doesn't fix it. Nor does completely signing out of iCloud and signing back in. (With reboots in between every step)

Short of a re-install, is there anything else I might be able to try to get my iCloud Drive in working order?

Thanks.


texts: Local WiFi sync in Mavericks 10.9.3 iTunes

texts:
With iTunes contact and calendar sync over USB reinstated in 10.9.3, does this change also reinstate the ability to locally synchronize over WiFi (i.e. not cloud sync) as is available in Mountain Lion?

In ML there is the ability to use WiFi as an alternative to USB to synchronize contacts and calendar locally (not using iCloud).

Both USB and local WiFi sync were removed and replaced by iCloud sync in Mavericks.

The question is whether or not both functionalities are back with 10.9.3 or only the USB part.


texts: I have an new computer, and installed iTunes.  When I plugged in my iPhone, it asked if I wanted to restore my phone, or start as a new phone.  I said restore, but it restored my wife's phone data, and wiped out my email on 3 accounts.  How do I go back


texts: How to fix Permission Denied error when starting up MongoDB

texts:
So I'm newbie to learning react and node and thought of building something based on MERN stack - I installed mongodb using npm install -g mongodb then it says its installed - then to create data directory for Monogo to use I ran mkdir -p /data/db and the response is Permission Denied.

To solve this I tried to do Fixing /etc/sudoers file which hasn't led me anywhere either. Anyway when I run this command mongod it gives me shutting me down server message as below:

2019-03-29T13:30:02.772+1100 I CONTROL  [main] Automatically disabling TLS 1.0, to force-enable TLS 1.0 specify --sslDisabledProtocols 'none'
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] MongoDB starting : pid=2962 port=27017 dbpath=/data/db 64-bit host=Farwas-MBP
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] db version v4.0.3
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] git version: 7ea530946fa7880364d88c8d8b6026bbc9ffa48c
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] allocator: system
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] modules: none
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] build environment:
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] distarch: x86_64
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] target_arch: x86_64
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] options: {}
2019-03-29T13:30:02.792+1100 E STORAGE [initandlisten] Failed to set up listener: SocketException: Address already in use
2019-03-29T13:30:02.793+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] now exiting
2019-03-29T13:30:02.793+1100 I CONTROL [initandlisten] shutting down with code:48


texts: Is it possible to review an iPhone app from browser?

texts: I visited apps.apple.com while logged in and I see the ratings but I can't review. Is this possible to review an iPhone app from browser? It's very annoying (at the limit of mental breakdown) to write a proper review form a mobile device.


texts:
I'm developer from Belgium, so I'm using an AZERTY keyboard,  and for some reason Apple has a reduced AZERTY keyboard compared to the QWERTY keyboard, some special charters like {} & [] The {can be made with the ⌥ key and (, but for the `[]' isn't such a key available, so is there a way to make a keyboard shortcut to those? Could be helpful since I'm a PHP developer, otherwise I'll consider to buy an QWERTY keyboard.

Thanks


texts: Folder name change in Finder but not changed in Terminal

texts:
iMac running Mojave 10.14.6
I changed a folder name in Finder but I can't see the change in Terminal.
old folder name: A.B
new folder name: A
in Terminal ls still shows A.B
cd . or cd .. then cd back won't change the ls outcome.
in Finder using Go to Folder can go to the new folder name, however the Path bar at the bottom shows the new name but Copy as Pathname or New Terminal at Folder are using the old name.
Restarting the iMac won't fix.
What kind of bug is this? I can fix this by mv in Terminal but I'd prefer the syncing between Finder and Terminal automated.


texts: iPod Touch 3rd generation is not visible in iTunes after Mountain Lion update

texts:
I'd updated my Macbook to Mountain Lion, everything works fine. In fact, iPod Touch 4th generation is also visible in iTunes but iPod touch 3rd generation
is not appearing in iTunes. Please find below use case:

When I connect iPod touch (3rd gen)

a) It starts charging, and the Apple logo appears, but is not visible in iTunes in Mountain Lion.
b) It starts charging, and the Apple logo appears, but is visible in iTunes in Snow Leopard.


texts: I plugged my iPod 4.3.3 into my computer and went on iTunes and I pressed the update button and then it said that I don't have an internet connection even though I can go on Facebook and everything. I don't know if it's something with my computer or my iPod.


texts:
I am currently using Logitech M545 Mouse, which has two side buttons for convenient operations under Windows.

In windows, one button is for displaying the desktop, and the other is for Start button. I find it really convenient. Logitech claims that one may program the uses of the two buttons for personal use.

Now, I am using it together with my MBPR late 2013, and the two buttons do not work any more. Is it possible to program it so that one button is still for displaying the desktop, and the other open the Application Center?


texts: Google calendars not showing on iPad calendar

texts:
My Google calendars have stopped showing up on my iPad calendar, after many months of working properly. When you tap 'Calendars' at the bottom of the app, they're not listed.

I've tried deleting the Google account, and reinstalling. The setting for calendars in the account settings is definitely switched on.

I have been to calendar.google.com/calendar/syncselect and switched off all accounts, and switched them all back on.

But still nothing shows up in the calendar after several hours.

I'm at a loss to know what to do.

Running an iPad Air with iOS 9.3.2.


texts: How do I reset the snapshots of an APFS external drive?

texts:
In the past couple weeks, my time machine is complaining that it's not managed to complete a backup. It turns out it aren't able to create a snapshot in one of my external drives. Error message is below:

This error message is not very consistent, where sometimes it just gives a generic Time Machine error message. Upon some debugging I found that perhaps using Disk Utility to repair the disk is a solution. I ended up with another error.

My last resort was to try to just remove the snapshots manually. However, it seems like the command line tool does not allow me to specify the location of the snapshots I want to delete? i.e. This command: sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 2020-xx-xx only takes snapshot names which are in dates. I'm not so sure if this is the correct way to delete the snapshots, but even after deleteing all of them that are listed in tmutil listlocalsnapshots /dev/disk5, I still could not back up to time machine.
Furthermore, I also ended up erasing my whole time machine and then trying to back up again from scratch to no avail. Would anyone be able to tell me what's happening to my drive and what's the solution? I feel like the only thing I could do now is just to erase the drive completely and start again.


texts: Reinstalling OS X server on headless Mac mini

texts:
I have just started the Mac Server Essentials certification course and I'm stuck at chapter 1!

I have a MacBook Pro, a Mac mini server and a WiFi router as a switch between the two. I don't have it connected to my home network yet because I will be going through a lot of different exercises playing with services, installing/reinstalling etc.

So how do I do a clean reinstall over an existing install of the server OS if I don't have a separate display and keyboard. Every remote solution I can find first involves booting the mini from an external optical or USB drive which requires a keyboard and display attached to the mini.

In reality I could attach them, but I'm trying to learn how to do it in a real life situation where it might not be possible.

Am I missing something?


texts: Setting the default resolution/scaling of the login screen in FileVault enabled systems (macOS Sierra)

texts: The login screen has a default scaling that is set when you boot up. Once booted though, it will adopt the scaling of whatever user was last logged in. I've heard the default scaling can be set by setting the scaling of the root user, but this has not worked for me. My best guess is that this is due to FileVault being enabled. Is there any way to accomplish this?


texts:
I'm not sure this topic is appropriate for this forum but I'm looking for a Multi-highlight extension or AppleScript for Safari.

I using Multi-highlight for Google Chrome at the moment but I would rather do use Safari.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/multi-highlight/pfgfgjlejbbpfmcfjhdmikihihddeeji

any idea of a similar extension or a way to implement this in a script?


texts: 6GB of "other" on my iPhone 3GS, should I do a clean install of ios?

texts:
Since I installed iOS 6 there have been many issues with my iPhone 3GS. I now have 6GB of "unknown" stuff in the iTunes breakdown, and the phone became much slower, could there be a connection between the two?

Is it possible to do a clean install of iOS6?


texts: Import a bazillion photos from iCloud to mac

texts:
I am very, very desperate and annoyed at this moment, being the family IT-Guy over long distance, having nothing but remote access to a mac with an iPhone, that is not in any way connected over any account to this Mac.

I have imported all locally stored photos from this iPhone to the Mac, but now I have around 4.000 photos on the iCloud account of this smartphone, that need to be imported today to this Mac.

Problem:
I am accessing the iCloud photos over the browser, seeing all 4.000 photos, but can only import 1.000 at once. But I cannot, for the life of me pick more than 40-50 photos at once, because the browser won't scroll up, when moving the mouse to the upper edge while selecting. If someone please has a smart solution to this mess I would be extremely thankful!

Please

Thanks for reading.

In regard of the comment claiming this to be a duplicate of another question:
It's true, they are similar and the presented solution under the other question is awesome, but I need a solution that works today and not within the next 7 days, as it is mentioned by the service provided by apple.


texts: 2 Months old MacBook Pro (Mid 2020) battery only last for 4 hours

texts:
I'm new to the world of Apple, I bought a new Macbook Pro, mid-2020, Intel i7, 16GB RAM. I'm a developer, I run apps like VS Code, Sublime Text, Slack, Chrome (Multiple Windows), I play videos/songs in the background. I have been keeping a track of the energy consumption on my Mac, and it only runs for 4 hours. I have reset my SMC after I upgraded to Big Sur. Is 4 hours normal? or should I go to the service center?
Update on 3 Feb 2021:
I submitted my Mac to the Apple service center they said they conducted a few tests and the conclusion was that the battery is fine (I don't know what type of test they did). So I guess I'll be using it on AC
Update on 12 Feb 2021: Took it to the service center, they didn't find any issues so I started using Safari for work and my battery has improved by 1 hour on Average.


texts:
In fact I want to port my wxWidgets-based application over to Mac using OS X 10.8 and Xcode 5. My application at this point will consist of the main executable and couple of dylib's.

So, after opening the XCode and going to the "File->New", I see there are "Project" and "Workspace" submenus.

I'm at a loss to:

presume I need to create a workspace, and then in there create 1 project for the main executable and 1 project for each dylib library.
forget about the "Workspace" and just start with the project for my main binary and then continue with another project on the same level for the library

Could someone shed some experience please?


texts: Why does Apple Mail not provide default color font choice?

texts: After switching from PCs I was astonished to find I could only write emails in black, unless I wanted to take extra steps to change the black to another color, wasting time.  Is it so difficult to provide default color?  It's done for email "quote levels."


texts: \hat{} symbol "^" in a LaTeX equation in Pages disappears after being exported to a MS Word file

texts:
I use Pages 10.2 (7028.0.88) on macOS 10.15.7. As I finished editing my Pages file and exported it to a .docx file for my colleagues, all the equations in it were successfully passed to the new file and became editable in MS Word, except that all the \hat{}'s "^" were missing.
I also tried \widehat{} but encountered the same problem. \^{} or \textrm{\^{}}, on the other hand, does not work in Pages.
Is there any other LaTeX symbol that looks like \hat{} "^" and can stay in the equations after being exported to .docx?


texts: What is an quick way to create a new blank file in Lion?

texts:
In Windows, one can create a new file using Right Click -> Add New -> Type of File. Is there an analogous action in Lion?

I just want to create a new blank file on my Desktop.


texts: I just upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion. I have eight email accounts set up in Mail.app. Some of my SMTP servers support SSL and some don't. But now Mail.app turned SSL on for every server (except the one using a custom port) and it won't let me turn it off. When I uncheck "Use Secure Sockets Layer" in the Advanced settings, it just automatically rechecks itself. How can I get it to go off and stay off?


texts:
I am looking for a way to search the serial number (of Apple products such as iPhones, iPads, Macs, etc.), and get information about the original configuration of that specific device.

I am aware of this (or the JSON version) page of Apple's site that allows you to get the specs page of the product from the serial number you search, but I would like to get the specific configuration of that particular device.

For example, if I search my serial number for the MacBook Pro 2017 with 3.5 GHz Core i7, 16GB of Memory, and 1TB storage, I get a general page without any of the information above. The page lists all the possible configurations instead of the specific configuration of my MacBook Pro.

Is there some way to search a serial number and get information about the configuration of a specific device?


texts:
It seems that I can not find a solid answer on this. Currently, I've tried this...
Using my NetGear Genie, I went to security and blocked the keywords/domains of:

https://mesu.apple.com

https://appldnld.apple.com

Clicked apply, and nothing happen. Am I missing something here?


texts: Disable automatic menubar icon sorting in Mavericks?

texts:
In Mavericks the icons in the menubar changed behavior.

The sorting is not dependent anymore on the order at which the apps were launched, but rather … something else. The icons jump and I now have an app running that adds a menubar icon, when I click it, I see the location services icon for a moment to its right, before it disappears, leaving a gap.

The icon that flashes mostly is the location icon, which appears leftmost in the sequence (sometimes leftmost removed by one). I didn't think OS X menubar icons can even be drawn where I am seeing them.

Is there a hidden preference or something I can do to prevent OS X being smart
about the sorting?


texts: why is the touch screen on my iphone 4s not working correctly?

texts: when I am  typing a text message some of the letters wont work,if I am scrolling through or down something its very slow or goes on to something I never clicked on?


texts: Screenshot of a single window comes up blank

texts:
I followed the instructions here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361

  How to take a screenshot of a window Press Shift-Command-4. The
  pointer changes to a crosshair. Press the Space bar. The pointer
  changes to a camera. Move the camera over a window to highlight it.
  Click your mouse or trackpad. To cancel, press the Esc (Escape) key
  before you click. Find the screenshot as a .png file on your desktop.

But afterwards, I get a blank image (transparent everywhere).

Has anyone seen this issue, and if so, what am I doing wrong? I am on Sierra 10.12.6


texts: bash prompt acting weird when I click UP key and then down KEY

texts:
So my bash prompt looks like this [parth:~]$ and if I go cd to Desktop, it looks like this [parth:Desktop]$. I only want to see the current directory, next to my username so if I go to a folder, in Desktop, it would replace Desktop with the current directory name.

This is what I have in my ~/.bash_profile to make it look like this: export PS1='[\033[01;32m\]\u\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\W\[\033[00m\]]\$ '

This PS1 also follows the color highlighting of my terminal theme.

The problem is that when I click the up arrow key a few times (for the previous commands) and then click the down arrow key, the prompt gets messed up. It appends a part of the previous command to my prompt and I have to enter CTRL + C to reset it. Also when my command reaches the end of the line, instead of going to the new line, it wraps around the same line.

How do I fix this?


texts: Stop windows from resizing automatically?

texts:
OS X keeps hitting a pet peeve nerve that I have, and it is normally happening with internet browsers.

I'll describe two examples:

When using Safari, I am surfing normally on one web page. I open a
new tab and the new tab bar shows up. The browser resizes to be
larger by the amount of the height of the tab bar.
When using Google Chrome, I start a download and the download bar pops up on the
bottom. The browser window resizes to be larger by the amount of the height of
the download bar.

For some reason this annoys me greatly. I resize and position windows in a way that helps me focus, I guess. It's an organizational thing.

This happens for multiple reasons and in multiple applications. The above examples are just to illustrate a point.

Is there a way to disable applications in OS X from changing sizes with me dragging the window edge?


texts: macOS High Sierra Security Update 2020-002 stuck at "calculating time remaining"

texts:
On a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010), macOS 10.13.6, when attempting to install Security Update 2020-002, it gets stuck at the boot screen (white background, grey Apple) "calculating time remaining." Leaving the Mac for hours results in no change.

Two ways to get back to a working Mac:

Boot into recovery mode and reinstall macOS High Sierra
Boot into recovery mode, open Terminal, and move aside /Library/Updates

From install.log:

May 18 20:45:50 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[549]: PackageKit: Extracting file:///Volumes/Untitled/Library/Updates/AtomicUpdates/061-90748/SecUpd2020-002HighSierra.pkg (destination=/Volumes/Untitled/.PKInstallSandboxManager-SystemSoftware/FDD0851E-0C89-4857-A385-B697B0816850.activeSandbox/Root, uid=0)
May 18 20:45:51 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[549]: Initial SU Progress: True progress received. Ending timer.
May 18 20:45:51 MacBook-Pro Installer Progress[180]: Status is "Installing: About 34 minutes remaining"
May 18 20:46:21 MacBook-Pro Installer Progress[180]: Status is "Installing: About 33 minutes remaining"
May 18 20:47:31 MacBook-Pro Installer Progress[180]: Status is "Installation is in progress. Calculating time remaining…"
May 18 20:48:36 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[549]: Can not connect to /var/run/systemkeychaincheck.socket: No such file or directory


texts: Trimforce on third party SSD disables keyboard and touchpad

texts:
Specs: MBP 15" Mid 2010 i7 8gb ram
SSD: Sandisk PLUS 240GB SATA3
OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.1

Brand new SSD. Fresh install of macOS Sierra with the latest update 10.12.1.

When using sudo trimforce enable it enables successfully and reboots the machine. After the reboot during the first 20-30 seconds built-in keyboard and trackpad stop responding and they never recover back. The only fix is to disable trim: sudo trimforce disable.

When trim is disabled everything works absolutely fine - no issues with keyboard nor trackpad.

What could cause such behaviour?


texts: Where can I find the schematics/CAD model for MacBook Pro's components?

texts:
Device: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)

I'm looking for detailed schematics, preferably official Apple publications, describing and/or annotating the dimensions or other specifics of the components. I'm not looking for electrical layout diagrams.

My goal is to create an acrylic chassis inspired by the old iMacs to replace the aluminum. Any leads on the topic of this documentation is welcome, even if it's not everything.

The particular part I am interested in is pictured below:


texts: Does macOS Mojave support NightShift on external monitors?

texts:
After upgrading to Mojave, I could have sworn I saw Night Shift kick-in on my external 4K BenQ monitor. But no more.

Did I dream that? Or is Mojave supposed to be capable of supporting Night Shift on external displays? If so, might it stop working because of sleeping/waking and/or attaching/detaching the monitor?


texts: Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad on Windows-7

texts: I am using Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad on Windows 7 and its numeric pad is not working on windows 7, it was working OK on windows XP, what I can do to make it work on it too?


texts: Transfer student Apple Care to another user

texts:
I was wondering, if I purchased Apple Care as a student can I transfer it to someone else when I sell the device(s)? I've found a similar question on here but it didn't address specifically Apple Care purchased as a student.

Also if it is possible, how do you do this?


texts: Why might I get a "Service cannot initialize" error in my console when a plist file is run?

texts:
I have set up a plist file and loaded/started it with launchd. Whenever it is time for the script to run, I receive the following error in my console:

12/9/15 12:53:19.344 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (kjuvbot[742]) Service could not initialize: 14F27: xpcproxy + 13421 [1402][AD0301K4-D354-31AE-8BA7-B5KBECE64P0B]: 0x2

Does anyone have any idea why this error might occur? Here is my .plist file:

kjuvbot.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>kjuvbot</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>python3</string>
        <string>/Users/me/workspace/Learning/src/kjuvbot.py</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>3600</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

Does it by chance need com. in front of the filename?

Here are the permissions (I created the file as myself):

-rw-r--r--@ 1 me  staff  427 Dec  9 19:28 kjuvbot.plist


texts: Blued and syslogd Eating CPU and Flooding system.log

texts:
My machine occasionally goes into a state where almost 100% cpu is eaten by syslogd and blued. At that time, numerous copies of the following block appear in the console:

4/29/14 10:31:45.000 AM kernel[0]: Item[208]: mID: 216  [0xffffff802ed70000]  OpCode 0x0401 (HCI Inquiry) from: blued (40)  Asynchronous  status: 0x00 (kIOReturnSuccess) state: 1 (WAITING) timeout: 43210
4/29/14 10:31:45.000 AM kernel[0]: mHCIRequestDeleteWasCalled = FALSE
4/29/14 10:31:45.000 AM kernel[0]: expected events = kBluetoothHCIEventCommandStatus
4/29/14 10:31:45.000 AM kernel[0]: expected explicit complete events = kBluetoothHCIEventInquiryComplete
4/29/14 10:31:45.000 AM kernel[0]: possible intermediate events = kBluetoothHCIEventInquiryResult
4/29/14 10:31:45.000 AM kernel[0]: or
4/29/14 10:31:45.000 AM kernel[0]: possible intermediate events = kBluetoothHCIEventInquiryResultWithRSSI
4/29/14 10:31:45.000 AM kernel[0]: or
4/29/14 10:31:45.000 AM kernel[0]: possible intermediate events = kBluetoothHCIEventExtendedInquiryResult

Any ideas what may be causing this and how to resolve?


texts: Using earpods from iphone5 with iphone 3g

texts: I'm about to buy earpods, but since i have iphone 3g, and i didnt find any info on its compatibility, would like to know if they will work with old iphone? AFAIK every 3.5inch headphones will work


texts: My iPhone 5's Calendar shows the year as 2559 BE and I'm unable to change that to the current year.


texts: macOS Catalina - External Hard Drive not sleeping when lid closed and laptop sleeping

texts:
So I'm trying to figure out why my external hard drive remains on (light displaying) when the laptop is sleeping.

Details:

macos 10.15.3
macbook pro

energy saver

disabled > Enable Power Nap while on battery power disabled in battery and power adapter
enabled > Put hard disks to sleep when possible in battery and power adapter


texts: What's the order of USB Cables in the male connector of Apple Keyboard with n. Keypad?

texts:
The male connector end of my keyboard, Apple Keyboard with numerical keypad, got squeezed beyond repair.

I chopped off that bit and newly stripped the 4 leads: Red, Black, Green & White/Grey.

I'd like to solder these to a new connector.

I'm wondering:

Is there a "standard" for the order of USB cables globally or for Apple keyboards?
What's the right order in this product's case?


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I have a 2012 Mac mini running the latest Yosemite that I use as a server for file sharing, FileMaker, calibre, Time Machine and Plex. The Finder reports that the internal drive has a capacity of 499.25 GB with 48.03 GB available.

Listing the drive's contents with all folder sizes calculated looks like the following (having used defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE in the Terminal):

Adding all that up brings me to a total of less than 350 GB. Running sudo du -sh .DocumentRevisions-V100/ reveals that that folder is only 17 M, contributing very little to the total.

So I seem to be missing about 100 GB of space. This isn't an emergency, I'm just trying to figure this out. Why am I seeing a discrepancy between the amount of space reported as available from the Finder and the amount of space I expect there to be given the size of the files and folders I see?


texts: When does Messages message via iMessage vs. SMS?

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This is probably an embarrassingly noobish question.

I sent a standard SMS text message from my iPhone 6 to a colleague's iPhone, who mentioned that my message was green and not blue, and that meant I hadn't activated something or wasn't using the right app to take advantage of iMessaging.

Currently I don't use apps beyond what came with my phone. To send SMS text messages I use the green callout balloon button that's near the phone button.

My colleague said I could save money by using iMessage instead of paying for each SMS text message. I countered by saying that if it's not SMS then that means I'd have to keep my phone connected to the internet 24/7 to receive messages and I don't do that.

My colleague then said something like it does but doesn't use SMS, so I wouldn't have to maintain an internet connection 24/7 to receive prompt iMessages and yet would not have to pay for SMS messages when I did.

A quick search turns up plenty of tutorials about how to use iMessages but so far I have not found a clear and concise explanation.

Is it possible to explain in a few clear sentences how the messaging functionality works on my iPhone 6 and when internet is used and when traditional SMS messages are used? For example:

Does it check first for an active internet connection on the sender's phone?
Does it also check if the recipient is also connected to the internet?
Could a message go out as an iMessage and then not be delivered even though the recipient could have received an SMS text message?


texts: About 30% of the time when pressing Command + Space for a fraction of a second too long, it causes Siri to close and open again. This delays the process a significant amount that at times its required to be clicked just to even listen.Console: Errors & Warnings It seems that the highlighted error is whats causing this. Im not too familiar with AppleScript, I did try sudo killall for the associated processes but the issue is still persistent.


texts: "The application “%@” can’t be opened." However doing "open with" and selecting default app works

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Using macOS Sierra, when I double click a file that is supposed to open with Atom I get this message:

However if I right click and choose the default option it works fine:


texts: I'd love to be able to use iBooks on my laptop. Is that possible? Maybe if I install Lion?


texts: Not able to remote desktop from my mac to windows from iphone hotspot

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Okay, first off - here are the components:

iPhone 6 as my Personal Hotspot
MacBook Pro which's connected to the Personal Hotspot
Windows Machine which's also connected to the Personal Hotspot

Hence, both MacBook & Windows machine should be on the same network as they're both connected to the Personal Hotspot. However, when I try using Microsoft Remote Desktop on my MacBook to connect to the Windows Machine, it says Connection Refused.

Here's my configuration on MRD if any of you were wondering:

Below is the GW settings as my Wifi Router (Personal Hotspot) seemed to be using that address:

How Do I resolve this?


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My old, black (irony), pre-unibody (2009?) MacBook won't properly turn on. The screen just stays black. I can't hear the startup sound and the keyboard caps lock light won't shine, either. The power light, hard drive, and fans both start and work.

I tried connecting it to TV (via mini-DVI to HDMI adapter) and I can't see anything, although TV thinks that there is some signal coming.

It didn't happen suddenly - previously it sometimes started, sometimes not. Once working it would work for weeks until switched off manually. Then one day it wouldn't start at all.

I think that the motherboard could be near death, but the fact that some components work gives me hope.

Any suggestions are welcome. I have a new Mac now and all data has been backed up so I can try pretty much anything.


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I've installed and am trying to open pgAdmin 4 on my Macbook Pro. However, if I right-click it and select "Open", nothing happens.

Then again, if I try to re-download pgAdmin 4 and drag that into the Applications folder, I get an error message saying that pgAdmin 4 is already in use:

So how do I 'use' pgAdmin 4? The screenshots on https://www.pgadmin.org/screenshots/#1 suggest that I go to localhost:5050, but that just gives me a 'Connection refused' error. Then again, I seem to recall it working earlier and opening a web UI in a new tab in Chrome, so why am I not seeing that now?


texts: Set default shell to MacPorts bash in Mac OS X 10.6.8?

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As a follow up to my previous question, I reinstalled my MacPorts and want to try its newer version of bash again.

I installed the newest bash via MacPorts on my Mac OS X 10.6.8 system, but when I start a Terminal.app session, the "sh --version" command showed I was still using the old bash 3.2.48. This is even when "which bash" points to the newer 4.2.37 installed by MacPorts.

I tried to change Terminal.app preferences to use the new bash as default, changed /etc/shells, and used the chsh command to specify MacPorts bash as the default. However, none of these methods were successful. What am I missing? Thank you very much.