texts: How can I make the OS X privilege escalation popup less annoying?

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I am looking for a way to make the root privilege escalation procedure less annoying - I have to type the password too many times.

Is it possible to remember the password once per login session or to remember it for a specific period of time? Or to have the dialog but not require you to type the password?

Remark: I'm looking for GUI solution, for console sudo I do have a solution.


texts: Export album as set of sequentially-named images to a folder

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I took thousands of time-lapse photos and imported them into a few albums in  Apple Photos app on MacOS. It wasn't until later I realised Photos doesn't store albums literally in an album:folder mapping.

I don't even know if Photos retains the original file-name or not?

I have software that expects photos to be in a single folder, with sequential naming (like how they normally are on a camera), to create a time-lapse video.

How can I get this out of Photos from an album?


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am losing my hair over this. when using the"pbcopy" in c++ using the system call it doesn't work with foreign languages unless its run in admin using sudo ???

system("echo привиет как дела") - works output : привиет как дела
system("echo test123 | pbcopy") - works, output to clipboard: test123
system("echo привиет как дела | pbcopy") - does not work, output to clipboard: –ø—Ä–∏–≤–∏–µ—Ç –∫–∞–∫ –¥–µ–ª–∞
system("echo привиет как дела | pbcopy") - using sudo to run the c++ app works, output to clipboard: привиет как дела

please help me out i don't want to use objective C NSPasteboard


texts: Searching through a whole lot of PDFs on an external disk

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I do have one Tera of Texts (mostly PDF) which is really really much (something like 100'000 documents). They are on an external USB3 and, of course, spotlight-indexed.  When I look by text search (not name search) for files with a particular content it takes quiet a lot of time, first accelerating the disk, then running it with a lot of noise and obviously spinning the disk like crazy. I wonder if another disk might make a difference and want to ask you about Thunderbolt or even Thunderbolt-on-SSD.

How can I benchmark my Mac so I can make an informed purchase decision on buying a faster drive?


texts: In terminal, modify the text that comes before $

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In terminal I can always see which path I'm in:

macbook-romeo:School romeovs$ echo "example command"

which I find quite useful. Yet there is a lot of unnecessary stuff here too: macbook-romeo is not useful since I'm always on my macbook (duh). Then again romeovs is quite useful (this is my user name).

Is there a wan to edit what is shown here? e.g.

22:50 - School - Romeo$ echo "example"

where 22:50 is the current time? (This is just an example of course, I won't be needing the time, I'd use like the text to be a bit more minimalistic).


texts: How do I set up IPv6 on my Airport Extreme?

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I am trying to set up IPv6 on my Airport Extreme. According to AT&T / BellSouth, my network is IPv6 ready.

Network Setup

I currently have two parts to my network setup.

Westell Model 6200 modem (IPv6 ready)
AirPort Extreme (fifth generation)
AirPort Express (the last model that plugs directly into the wall)

My modem is plugged directly into the wall via a DSL cable, and then my router is connected to the modem via an Ethernet cord.

Setting Up IPv6

I tried setting this up on my own in 2012, but the interface of AirPort Utility has changed drastically since then, and I also recall losing all Internet capabilities when I "set it up" last time, so I want to make sure I do it correctly this time.

Upon choose a manual configuration, I'm greeted with different options about whether I want to choose a Native or Tunnel Mode, whether I want to enable IPv6 Connection Sharing, and more.

I'm not sure which of these options is the "preferred" method, or what is required of me to properly configure AirPort Extreme to use IPv6.

I am willing to plug and play different configuration options to see what works best.


texts: .DS_Store Removal permanent way of stopping it's creation on Mojave

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As a developer, I'm routinely making folders on my Mac running Mojave for testing purposes, my localhost server or for transfer to VPS or other hosting. In principal I'd rather not have .DS_Store altogether, but if the computer wants to have them, I don't mind.

However, is there a way to permanently stop them from being created in a particular dir and subdirs?

I'm aware you can configure no .DS_Store files across the board on network shares, but I need to be more selective than an all or none solution. Ideally I can suppress these both on local filesystems as well as remote, but if anyone can help with preventing some of these and allowing others, I would be grateful.

This question is to address Mojave and newer OS only and to address a more fine grained control or to confirm that this is impossible.


texts: Link to a note in Apple Notes, from another note

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In Apple Notes on the Mac, is it possible to reference a note from within another note (by way of hyperlink)?
So, for example, if I had two notes:

Thoughts about pastries
Pastries are great. Truly wonderful treats. But you know what my favorite types of pastries are? Donuts. I've even made a list of the types of [donuts I've eaten].

and

Donuts I've Eaten
Chocolate, Glazed, Frosted, Encrusted…

How could I link the text [donuts I've eaten] from the first note to the second note?


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Anyone ever had a loud noise coming from the speakers when inserting the usb charger? When I say a loud noice, I mean a screeching, metal-scraping-like sound at full volume. My volume was turned off though. I keep getting the issue until I reboot my device.

System information:

MacBook Pro (13-inch 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports)
Processor: 3,1 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 8GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB
running macOS High Sierra (version 10.13.1)`


texts: Deleting the ._* files from a mounted volume kinda screwed some things up

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I have a thumb drive that I use frequently, which results in a lot of the ._* files being created, which I periodically delete by executing something like find /Volumes/Secure -name '._*' -exec rm -vf {} \;, and I've never had that ruin anything before. However, it looks like something may have gotten broken during this last execution.

Heres the console output of the find/rm command:

[Tue Aug 14 09:39:12]{1:126}jdoe@MacBook-Pro:/Volumes/Secure(✓)$ find -d . -name '._*'
./tor/TorBrowser-Data/Browser/Caches/1blvjd07.default/startupCache/._startupCache.8.little
./tor/TorBrowser-Data/Browser/Caches/1blvjd07.default/safebrowsing/._test-malware-simple.pset
./tor/TorBrowser-Data/Browser/Caches/1blvjd07.default/safebrowsing/._test-phish-simple.pset
./tor/TorBrowser-Data/Browser/Caches/1blvjd07.default/safebrowsing/._test-unwanted-simple.pset
# TRUNCATED
./tor/TorBrowser-Data/Browser/Caches/1blvjd07.default/safebrowsing-to_delete/._test-flashsubdoc-simple.pset
./tor/TorBrowser-Data/Browser/Caches/1blvjd07.default/safebrowsing-to_delete/._testexcept-flashsubdoc-simple.pset
[Tue Aug 14 09:39:18]{1:127}jdoe@MacBook-Pro:/Volumes/Secure(✓)$ find -d . -name '._*' -exec rm -vf {} \;
find: .: Invalid argument

(Not sure, but maybe it has something to do with the {} not being in quotes? I can't remember if I used quotes in the past)

When I mount the volume, I can see the contents just fine as long as I'm not referencing the content using a relative path while I'm in the mounted volume (PWD).

Here's an example of what I mean. You can see that I can list the contents of /Volumes/Secure just fine. But if I cd to it, then try to list the content of the current directory, it doesn't work:

[Tue Aug 14 09:46:02]{1:193}jdoe@MacBook-Pro:/Volumes(✓)$ df /Volumes/Secure
Filesystem   512-blocks    Used Available Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk4s1   35372096 1566528  33805568     5%       0     0  100%   /Volumes/Secure
[Tue Aug 14 09:46:06]{1:194}jdoe@MacBook-Pro:/Volumes(✓)$ ls /Volumes/Secure
chemdocs             credentials          data.tar.gz.enc      scripts              test                 test-data            test-data.tar.gz.enc tor
[Tue Aug 14 09:46:09]{1:195}jdoe@MacBook-Pro:/Volumes(✓)$ cd /Volumes/Secure
[Tue Aug 14 09:46:11]{1:196}jdoe@MacBook-Pro:/Volumes/Secure(✓)$ ls
.

Then, just to make this a little more confusing and frustrating, it seems to be intermittent...

[Tue Aug 14 09:46:09]{1:195}jdoe@MacBook-Pro:/Volumes(✓)$ cd /Volumes/Secure
[Tue Aug 14 09:46:11]{1:196}jdoe@MacBook-Pro:/Volumes/Secure(✓)$ ls
.
[Tue Aug 14 09:52:28]{1:27}jdoe@MacBook-Pro:/Volumes/Secure(✓)$ ls .
.
[Tue Aug 14 09:52:30]{1:28}jdoe@MacBook-Pro:/Volumes/Secure(✓)$ ls -alrth .
total 30240
drwxrwxrwx  1 jdoe  staff    16K Jun 18 18:20 .Spotlight-V100
drwxrwxrwx  1 jdoe  staff    16K Jul  3 12:10 test-data
drwxrwxrwx  1 jdoe  staff    16K Jul  3 12:10 .info
# TRUNCATED SOME LINES
drwxrwxrwx  1 jdoe  staff    16K Aug 11 03:41 .Trashes
drwxrwxrwx  1 jdoe  staff    16K Aug 11 03:41 .TemporaryItems
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 jdoe  staff    16K Aug 13 19:22 .
drwxrwxrwx  1 jdoe  staff    16K Aug 14 09:43 .fseventsd
drwxrwxrwt@ 7 root     admin   238B Aug 14 09:43 ..
[Tue Aug 14 09:52:32]{1:29}jdoe@MacBook-Pro:/Volumes/Secure(✓)$ ls -alrth ./
ls: ./: Invalid argument
[Tue Aug 14 09:52:34]{1:30}jdoe@MacBook-Pro:/Volumes/Secure(0)$ ls -alrth .
ls: .: Invalid argument
[Tue Aug 14 09:52:36]{1:31}jdoe@MacBook-Pro:/Volumes/Secure(0)$ ls -alrth .
ls: .: Invalid argument
[Tue Aug 14 09:52:37]{1:32}jdoe@MacBook-Pro:/Volumes/Secure(0)$ ls
.

(Here's a gist with some extra console output)

I've tried unmounting and remounting with no success.

Any input would be appreciated, thank you!

-J

Update
I just noticed something else thats rather interesting... These problems I showed above are all exclusive to the CLI. I can open the mounted drive in Finder and explore it just fine.. Odd.


texts: How to reinstall php70-xdebug with the debug symbols?

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I'd like to reinstall php70-xdebug package with debug symbols like:

$ brew reinstall php70-xdebug --with-debug
==> Reinstalling homebrew/php/php70-xdebug
Warning: homebrew/php/php70-xdebug: this formula has no --with-debug option so it will be ignored!

however there is no --with-debug or other similar option to use (which does exist for php70).

How can I recompile this package with debug symbols via brew?


texts: How to reinstall from an USB stick on a MacBook or iMac?

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I made an OS X 10.6 USB stick and I used it to succesfully install OS X on several Mac, including a very old Mac Mini and a MacBook Pro.

However I've got a problem: on my girlfriend's Mac it simply doesn't work.

When I hold ALT when the system boots up, I can see the harddrive icon (so I take it that pressing ALT does indeed work) and hence decide to boot from the harddrive, but I don't see the "Recovery HD" nor the USB stick / "EFI boot" icons.  The only choice is get is "harddrive".

I tried again on my Mac Mini and surely enough: I can hold ALT and I see all the icons.

I also tried again on my MacBookPro (very old 17" MBP, the first 17" one if I remember correctly) and once again, I can hold ALT and I see the "EFI boot" icon.

Why doesn't my girlfriend's MacBook recognize the USB stick (and hence prevents my from reinstalling the system)?

The strange thing is that as far as I can tell my girlfriend's MacBook is more recent than both my MacMini and my MacBook Pro.


texts: Cannot connect to public Wi-Fi: "a problem occurred"

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Every time I try to connect to a public Wi-Fi with a login (train station, hotel), my Mac (macOS 10.14.4) connects but generates an error when asking for the credentials:

Rebooting does not solve the problem. Any idea what I could try?


texts: Preview an archive contents without extracting it

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less command on Ubuntu allows to peek inside different kinds of archives from terminal. For example, all of these commands would show me the list of files in each of the four archives:

less archive.zip
less archive.tar.gz
less archive.tar.bz2
less archive.7z

On MacOS, I can use vim for this. However, this is less convenient, because Vim requires four buttons to be pressed to exit it (:q + return) instead of one (q).

Is there an equivalently fast way to see list of files in archives for MacOS?


texts: Wrong working directory, if bash script is opened via double-click

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I wrote a bash script in order to directly start eclipse from different workplace locations. Each workplace contains the script, after running it, eclipse is started with the respective workspace set.

#!/bin/bash

# relative path
#ECLIPSE_DIR='../../'
ECLIPSE_DIR='/Users/mike/Development/java/'
ECLIPSE="${ECLIPSE_DIR}eclipse/eclipse.app"

AUTHOR='mike'

# current directory is workspace
WORKSPACE=`pwd`
echo "WORKSPACE = $WORKSPACE"

# start eclipse from current directory
#open -n $ECLIPSE --args -data $WORKSPACE -vmargs -Duser.name='$AUTHOR'

The script is working, when I run it from the terminal. But when I double-click it, it uses the home directory as working directory and thus starts eclipse not from the directory that contains the script.

Apparently scripts are executed from ~/., which is the cause for my trouble. What can I do to fix this? Or how can I change my script to get the desired behavior?


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Buckle up kids, it's story time.. and this is a good one.

So about a week ago I sold my iPhone 6s Plus on eBay to an older couple in Ohio. I erased my phone, made sure it was unlocked from my iCloud account and off it went in the mail. Well sure enough the couple contacted me claiming that the iPhone was "iCloud locked." Seeing as the eBay account had a very high positive feedback rate, I was kind enough to talk to them on the phone to walk through the unlocking process.

Well, that didn't work. They kept claiming it was STILL locked despite me letting them have a modified simple password for my iCloud account for one-time use. So a few days later they got a refund and I got my iPhone back.

After receiving the phone I made sure it was mine. I checked the IMEI number on the box and compared it with the phone. They are the same. I also cross-checked the serial number and is the same serial number. This is in fact the very phone I shipped to them a week ago and it is now back in my possession.

PHEW! So here is where the issue comes in. I booted the phone and connected to my WiFi network to find out that the phone is IN FACT iCloud locked... but not on my account. Instead it is locked to a COMPLETELY FOREIGN iCloud account (email starting with the letter q).

So good god wouldn't you know it, this phone, which is mine, and is verified to by my ORIGINAL PHONE, has been locked by SOMEBODY ELSE (presumably the couple that had the iPhone for a few days).

So here is the deal, I have an iCloud backup of this phone, but I am not sure if it will even let me restore to that (can anyone verify?). I will try this on my own soon and report back as well. I also have this phone under Apple Care+ and have proof of purchase. In a worst case scenario, would Apple allow me to exchange it?

Finally, does anyone have any advice to get me out of this hell?

UPDATE

Ok everyone... the problem just got weirder.

I got the phone back and took it to Apple. I was able to verify the phone was mine and the Apple Genius at the Apple Store unlocked my phone from iCloud and I was on my way. We verified it was completely untied to an Apple account and I re-sold the phone.

Well... the new individual got the phone. And after a day of use, she called me directly and said it was iCloud locked to an account that started with a q. Just like the original buyers. She was more investigative and called Apple, and that is where things got weird.

The Apple representative on the phone looked up the serial number of the phone, and it turns out that during transit from my house to her house, an iPhone with my exact same serial number was checked into an Apple Store in NYC (via mail) and replaced for a cracked screen. The screen replacement came out of my Apple Care+ as well. It appears my SN was somehow duplicated on a different iPhone and this is being abused somehow. If anyone else has experienced this please let me know.


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I just purchased a bunch of new songs through the iTunes store on my computer and one by one I saw them being iClouded onto my iPhone.

I was very happy about this until I noticed that none of the songs that i bought marked "Explicit" were showing up.

Is there a way to fix this because I like these songs and honestly it's like one word so I don't see the big deal.

Can someone please tell me if it is possible to get these explicit songs onto music on my phone?


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My iPhone 8 (iOS 11.1.2) has been stable for a month and it was working without any problem so far. But today (December 2) as I was doing my usual stuff it started behaving very strange.

Every 10 seconds or so a black screen with loading spinner appears, after spinning a few seconds it asks me for my passcode. As I type it everything seems to be ok, but then again loading spinner appears.

I tried restarting but it doesn't help.
I reset the settings but still the problem persists.

Did anyone encountered this?


texts: How can I get repeat 1 and still skip to next song when clicking next

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In previous IOS (7), I could have a playlist, shuffle to play the first song, then hit repeat one track and listen to the same music as long as I wanted. When I want another song, I could just hit next and the next song will play in a loop (as it's repeat one) until I ask to play the next song. This was perfect.

Now in IOS 9, if I repeat one, then playing next will play the same song from start again. This is useless. I want to switch to the next song in the list and then loop that song.

I command my music from my headphones when I'm motorbiking, double tap used to play next song, that was perfect, no need to fiddle with the iphone, it stays in the pocket.

How to get this behavior back???


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Last night my computer said that it needed an update, so I ran it. This AM the spotlight icon is gone! How do I get it back? Thank you!

EDIT: I'm told that the question was unclear. I mean that the little icon in the upper-right that looks like a magnifying glass was gone today. I ran an update last night, so I thought maybe that had something to do with it. However, this issue is now resolved, because after asking this question I tried to restart my computer and couldn't, and force quit wasn't even opening, so I realized there were bigger problems. I forced my computer to restart, and now spotlight is back! Thanks I guess! (:


texts: What's the best OSX for my 2007 3.1 MacBook 2.2Ghz Intel Core 2 Dual, 1GB RAM, currently using OS X 10.5.8?

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My ol' clunker is doing very well considering its age, but I would like to upgrade its OSX to see if it runs a bit faster, and also because I can't run the latest versions of some applications on OS X 10.5.8..

I'm just hesitant because I'm afraid to make the computer even slower with a newer version of OSX, even if Apple says that I can run newer OSX... Does anyone have any advice? Much appreciated!


texts: Macbook air 100 GB hidden space + error when verifying volume

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I used DailyDisk to analyse my Macbook Air (Late 2014, 256GB SSD).
Result: 100GB of hidden space => No idea where this is coming from

What I tried:
- tmutil listlocalsnapshots / => I have no local snapshots
- diskutil verifyVolume / => error: invalid value 18604, 20 (see screenshot)

Do you have any idea on how to repair my disk and get my disk space back?


texts: Pages exact same font, looks sharper when using template

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I have been using the default fonts in the 'Business Resume' template and I wanted to use them in my handcrafted version due to this bug. The fonts are pretty simple and nothing extraordinary, for example,  Helvetica Neue, Light, 10pt, black.

What I have noticed is that the fonts in the template are much cleaner, they are slightly "thinner" and just look sharper. I have pasted the text across using the Paste and Match Style and I have also just pasted the text and manually adjusted the fonts. Every setting I can find for the font matches but the fonts clearly do not. Is there some hidden setting for the fonts? There is no difference in the font's Advanced Styles nor in the Character Styles.

Here are a couple of images both zoomed in at 400% (leftmost being the template font):

Hopefully you can see the clear difference.

Appreciate the help.


texts: Apple Music streaming subscription - add own CDs?

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I have one question concerning the Apple Music subscription. I have a largish collection of ripped CDs which I would like to add to my Album section in Music. Is there a tool which can help me with this, i.e. I don't feel like manually searching for hundreds of Albums - is there a batch tool which I can use to add these local albums? I only want them as streaming and not as the music matching service from apple (if it still exists).

Any suggestions?


texts: Toggle Mail Classic View in Mountain Lion with

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I found a script on this site which I edited to make work with Mountain Lion, I thought. It works fine from Automator, but when I save as a service and assign a keystroke to it, it does not. Any help would be appreciated!

tell application "Mail" to activate

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Mail"
        tell application "System Events" to keystroke "," using command down
        delay 0.1
        activate (first window whose name is "Viewing")
        click checkbox "Use classic layout" of group 1 of group 1 of window "Viewing"
    end tell
end tell


texts: Blocking incoming hostile traffic dynamically with PF and fail2ban on OS X

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The bigger picture is that I am trying to dynamically block/unblock IPs using fail2ban 0.8.14.  I have been following an old guide for OS 10.5 with doesn’t include PF.

I think I’ve configured everything correctly, but OS X’s PF is causing me some issues.

Talaninc has the IP 192.168.1.68 and is the “local”

Celebgul has the IP 192.168.1.50 and is the “remote”

From what I understand, I should be able to issue the following command:

user@celebgul:~$ sudo /sbin/pfctl -t fail2ban -T add 192.168.1.68/32

This will add the IP address 192.168.1.68 to the table fail2ban, and will block incoming traffic from Talantinc, thus the following should fail:

forquare@talantinc:~$ ssh user@192.168.1.50
Password:
Last login: Mon Aug  3 12:09:05 2015 from talantinc.local
user@celebgul:~$

But as you can see, it succeeds.

From what I can see, my understanding is wrong.  I’ve added 192.168.1.68, and yet can still SSH from it to Celebgul.

I can query the table and see 192.168.1.68 in it:

user@celebgul:~$ sudo pfctl -t fail2ban -T show
No ALTQ support in kernel
ALTQ related functions disabled
   192.168.1.68

I haven’t changed any of Apple’s default configuration files for PF, my understanding was that I’d only need to edit/create my own if I wanted rules that were longstanding/persisted across reboots.

How can I use PF to block incoming connections on OS X Client (not Server)?

I’m specifically looking at El Capitan, however I cannot get this to work on Mavericks either.


texts: How can you email an address book group to another Mac user?

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If I have an OS X Address Book group of people I want to email periodic updates to, and I want to send that list to a second person who wants to email updates to this group as well, how can I do that?

If I drag the group to a Mail.app message and send that to my friend, they can open it and import all those contacts into Mail.app... however, it does not import the group, just the people. Since we know some of the same people, my friend will have some of the people from this group already in her address book. If she does and she chooses to not update her cards with my cards, then they won't even show up under "Last Import".

How can you email an address book group to another Mac user so that it shows as a group in their address book?


texts: I read about how to add custom ring tones, but those don't show up in the SMS tone tab, just the phone ring tab, is there some way to add custom text tones without jailbreaking my iPhone? :(


texts: Frequent Locations didn't record a location

texts: I have Frequent Locations turned on and it does a great job recording everywhere I go and for how long. A few nights ago I was at a residential address for about an hour, however Frequent Locations did not record it. Is there a reason why?


texts: How to set No Access (restrict) permission to a user on a folder?

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I'm trying to deny my user access to a certain folder. I can't.

I set an admin account to be the owner of that folder, but i can't set "No Access" for any user on that folder. But i can do it for "everyone".

What i really want to do is cut myself off from a certain folder (the old xcode apps) without having to delete them and empty trash, i want to keep them, but make sure my user can't access any files in that location anyway, unless i override it again.

So these are two questions, but i expect my first question to be answered. Maybe there is a way i can do that through command line, which i'm still not sure, but is there a way using the OSx interfaces?

Thank you


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Whenever I connect my iPad to my mac itunes backs up it's current state. This is great and I want to keep it this way. Though it overrides the previous backup, which is ok most of the time, but now I want to keep my current state, permanently.
So is there a way to select the current backup and keep it saved permanently, without it being overridden next backup?

By extension, is it also possible to keep iOS 6.1.2 saved somewhere (even after 6.1.3 is released), so I can try out 6.1.3 but can then always go back to 6.1.2 for jailbreaking? I was thinking of just restoring my iPad to 6.1.2, then back it up, and then save that backup, but perhaps there's a better way?


texts: Can I use slower or fastest Memory in my MacBook Pro mid 2012? Different speeds? Different sizes?

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I’d like to know if there’re any side effects to these memory configurations for MacBook Pro mid 2012 (I guess this can be extended to any Macs with removable memory).

Doubt 1:  any side effects if I use slower or faster memory?

Doubt 2: should I use different sized modules, such as a 4GB in one slot and a 2GB module in the other?.

Doubt 3: can I mix the speeds (such as 1 memory slower than the other).

Doubt 4: is dual channel used in the 2012 Macs?  (I can’t see this stated in support.apple.com/specs)


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I have this problem that I can't understand. I have osx 10.5.4. The time in the computer is 06 october 2012 at 23:59 hs. When the time runs to 00:00 hs on 07 oct 2012, then the hour change to 1:00. I tried to put the hour in 12.00, but the day change to 6 oct, then I tried to change the day to 07 oct, but the our change to 23.00 (11.00 pm). I have the zone at Buenos Aires, and I don't understand why I can't set the time at 07 oct 2012 at 12.00 hour. I see that the same situation is on 06 oct 2013, or 02 oct 2012.

Can anybody helpme?

Thanks. Eduardo


texts: How do I rename files sequentially in automator based on a variable?

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I'd like to rename some image files. Is there a way to have the service ask what number to start at?

Everything here is set up as I'd like it to be. Though, when I run the script, I would like the service to ask me for a variable and then input it into the "start numbers at" box.

Is there a way to do this? Thanks.


texts: PowerMac G5 stuck with full fan in OF, no boot devices

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I'm working on a PowerMac9,1 (Late 2004 PowerMac G5 with single core) that refuses to recognize any external boot devices on the option/alt boot manager screen, including Debian and the Mac OS X Leopard install disc. It only recognizes the internal Leopard install on the HDD. When booted to the Leopard install itself, it's able to mount external devices. For example, when using the Leopard install disc, the installer will open but upon rebooting will just go back to the HDD install.

Whenever it's booted into OpenFirmware, the fans run at full speed. Any attempt at using any boot commands off of USB or CD will hang or
Using the reset-nvram and reset-all commands had no effect on either. Additionally PRAM has been reset.

When commands such as

dev /chosen
.properties

are run, the device chosen shows as non-existent (which it appears should reference the automatically selected boot device).

This device also has firmware version 5.2.2f5, which has very few references when searched. It's not referenced on any official Apple sites leading me to think it was an unannounced update at a point.

Is there a way I could downgrade the openfirmware version, or have some further troubleshooting steps to have this current work?


texts:
I'm having a weird issue on my Macbook Pro (OSX 10.7 Lion) where ANY site on ANY browser doesn't function if it is using HTTPS. For example, http://google.com will appear, but https://google.com will say 'Not Available'. It doesn't matter what browser I'm using (I've used Safari, Chrome and Firefox). I've encountered the issue on many different wifi networks.

I've tried adding a new 'Location' in my Network settings which didn't work. I've disabled the Mac Firewall, reset Wifi, disabled all Proxy checkboxes in the Wifi Settings. It's very strange and freaking me out a bit. Any help?


texts: Running terminal commands on startup/login

texts: How can I run terminal commands on startup or login? On FreeBSD I believe you can do this using rc.d - is there an equivalent for the Mac? I know how to set up Login Items, but these only work for GUI applications, and there must be an elegant way to make terminal commands run without wrapping them in a GUI executable? As clarified below, I sometimes need to sudo these commands.


texts: After waking-up, how do you know if your mac was hibernating (fully powered off like Windows PC) and not sleeping?

texts:
Not sure if my Macbookpro Retina 2015 is waking up from sleep, safesleep or hibernation.

I have enabled hibernatemode 25 (via terminal command: sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25). pmset -g shows hibernatemode is indeed 25.

Is this mode the equivalent of the Windows 7 hibernate and or, the hibernate button on the 'Deepsleep' widget/mac app http://www.axoniclabs.com/DeepSleep/ or the other 'Deep Sleep' app's sleep button http://deepsleep.free.fr ?


texts: Bash Return 'Command not found' for all command

texts:
I am learning Linux command from terminal,

It feedbacks 'command not found' for every command even though executed successfully.

$ > foo.txt
bash: prompt_git: command not found
$ umask
0022
bash: prompt_git: command not found

How to solve such a problem?


texts: Unknown Error Occurred (-54) Enabling iTunes Match

texts:
I just added my Apple ID to a new MacBook Pro and tried to turn on iTunes Match.  This is the error I get:

The only info I can find indicates this is a connection error, but I can connect to other areas of the iTunes Store.  Any ideas how I can resolve this?


texts: How do I type piecewise functions in pages?

texts:
Is it possible to use equation editor to write piecewise functions?

e.g.


texts: I can't 2 finger scroll using trackpad in Word since I upgraded to Yosemite

texts: I can't scroll using trackpad in Word since I upgraded to Yosemite.  I'm on a MacBook Pro.  It seems fine in all other areas, just in Word.  I have to go to the sidebar and drag it up and down to scroll.  Ideas?


texts: How can I repeat a video at slow playback speed?

texts:
Is there any way to repeat a video while it's playing in slow motion?

I tried using both QuickTime and VLC. I don't see a way to control the playback speed in QuickTime, and the problem with VLC is that when the video replays, it loses the playback speed setting.


texts: Does the app vendor obtain your name upon In-App subscription?

texts:
Does the app vendor gain access to your name upon doing an In-App subscription?

I’m not sure how to read Apple’s privacy pages to understand what information (if any) is transmitted to third party developers from Apple Account details when you enter into a monthly subscription through the iOS App Store?


texts: Howto Setup External Drive as a Networked Drive

texts:
I've got an external 1.5TB drive I'd like to connect to my iMac and use as a networked drive so other computers can connect to it's IP and read/write to the Drive.  What would be the best way to do this?

Specifics I'm looking for:

What format? (I'm thinking NTSF)
What software?  (FUSE or something
else?)
How would you set it up using
that software for a quick and easy
install?


texts: iCloud removes my third-party ePubs and PDFs from my iPad without permission — how do I stop this?

texts:
I had to pawn my iPad for a bit, so I uploaded all of my third-party books to iCloud and of course, when I turned iCloud off, the material was removed from the device. Now that I have it back I naturally want to download my entire library to my device again. At first it let me download about half of my library, but when I tried to download any more, suddenly all of my books were pulled back onto the Cloud. I assumed it was a storage issue, and gave myself another gigabyte of space... NOW, not only did the problem continue but it’s actually gotten worse: iCloud periodically pulls back any book I try to download. It doesn’t even notify me, let alone asks permission — it just does it and the cloud symbol suddenly appears.

Is there some setting I got jacked up or what?


texts: is there a way to store video on an external device yet be able to edit it in iMovie on my ipad air?

texts: I have an ipad air and recently i was trying to edit a quick 10 min movie of some 1080p 60fps video in iMovie. I only have a 32 gig ipad air so i wasn't able to upload all the video on to the ipad. i had to purchased icloud storage upgrade for a month so i could download the video i needed to work with in imovie. This wasnt a great solution as i would download the video i wanted to edit then delete the video so i can download more. I was wondering if there was a way to hold the videos on an external drive, laptop or any other method so that i can work on my ipad and then export to that drive or laptop? Any better solution would be much appreciated.


texts:
I had a bit of acetone on my finger when I pressed on my phone, and now the left corner is kind of darker (like a blue-ish color) than the rest of the screen like there's a layer of water behind the screen!!!!
I have no idea what to do! I can still use my phone, but it bothers me a lot! Please help!


texts: How do apps recognize you after you delete them?

texts: For example, there's this server based game. You delete the app, log out of gamecenter (since they claim to save your progress on the cloud) but once you redownload the app again, you return to where you left off. How is this possible?


texts: How to change Input Source shortcut to work with Shift key?

texts:
I am trying to change the input source shortcut from command space to ctrl + shift, so it will work like windows language change is. The thing is that when trying to edit it does not recognize the shift key at all, but other buttons it does.

I have tried clicking on the command space text and it does actually let me edit it, but when trying to put instead of what's configured right now my own keys (command shift) it just does nothing.
How can I make it work?


texts: Macbook Pro 17" Thunderbolt won't output to LCD

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro 17-inch Early-2011 model. It is running 10.7.5 and no matter what I do, it does not want to output to an extra display using Thunderbolt (and a Mini Display port to VGA adapter).

Is there anything I can do for my Macbook to detect the extra display? I have tested with a fairly old Fujitsu LCD and a brand new LG one. None of them are detected in Displays.

I have tried:

activating display in Clamshell mode by sleeping (closing lid) and waking MBP up with external keyboard -> NOTHING
download GFXStatus and switching to discrete mode -> NOTHING
tried booting into Clamshell mode -> NOTHING
downloaded all available firmware updates and software updates for Thunderbolt, every time being reminded that I either need 10.8 installed or an earlier version of Lion (10.7.4).

Your help is appreciated.


texts: Why do ios need restart for bold settings?

texts: Why there is a restart required for changing the text boldness in iOS? For text size there is no such requirement, why only for test boldness?


texts: Hotkey to switch to Google Chrome and go to the omnibox (location bar)

texts:
I would like to setup a keyboard shortcut/hotkey that would switch to Google Chrome and go to the omnibox (address bar).  I intend to use it invoke various custom search engines.
I found a couple of related questions but not quite there:

hotkey to switch application -- TotalSpaces -- requires a trackpad, which I don't use -- my daily driver is the keyboard.
Script to raise a single window to the front -- I don't know how bind an AppleScript script to a hotkey (I'm new to the Mac).

I had done something like this with AutoHotKey on Windows.  What's the right tool on the Mac?
I am already using Karabiner-Elements and Alfred.


texts: How can one sort files without knowing their extension?

texts: I have recently been having an issue moving a backup of an iPhone to a new iPhone. After many hours spent with Apple Support I've determined it's a lost cause, but I have the backup and am able to view the files in the backup, including my pictures. I was wondering if anyone knew how to sort these files using Automator so I can have all the pictures in one folder. I I have tried using the "Kind is image" filter, but that will only work if the extension is an image extension, and since none of the files have any extension this will not work.


texts: What does an iOS profile have access to?

texts:
I went to the website referred here and by mistake I installed the profile they offered to me.

In one of the comments, someone mentioned:

  Do NOT use this site as it makes you install a Profile service which
  can make your data accessible to the owner of the site

I don't know what an iOS profile can potentially steal from me. I did a factory reset. However, so far, what did they have access to?

My passcode?
My keyboard?
My applications (I did not enter their password after installing the profile)?

In general, what maximum activities and information do they have access to?


texts:
For a school assignment I need to add a folder to my classpath. It says that I should do this by adding a line to the file .bashrc. However, this file doesn't appear to exist in my computer. I also read something about a file called .profile which doesn't appear either. I found /etc/profile, but it says I have no permission to open it.

Could you please help me? I simply need to add a folder to the classpath.


texts:
I have a text file and looking for the single line bird. Using OS X Lion and grep 2.5.1.

this works:

grep '^bird' file.txt

but this doesn't

grep '^bird$' file.txt

There is not a blank space at the end of the line. What am I doing wrong?

thx


texts: Keep audio playing when an audio device disconnects

texts:
I have a MacBook that's kinda broken but not worth selling or throwing away, so I have it play MSNBC on mute all the time. I recently got an Alexa, and have been playing around with things, like I can tell it to connect to that computer and although it's muted on the computer, it plays on the Alexa. Perfect, I can tune in whenever I want without using the trackpad or keyboard of that mac, which don't work.
However, when I tell my Alexa to disconnect from my MacBook, it pauses the playback of the active media. Is there a way to make the playback continue instead of stopping?


texts: iTerm2 does not take the focus with the hotkey window

texts:
I have setup a new Mac with iTerm and the hotkey window shortcut (MacOS Catalina).

It all works well, except that the hotkey window does not take the focus when it opens. I mean that I can type commands rightaway, but the active application does not change.

E.g. if I am in Firefox and hit the shortcut, then the Firefox menus are still active.

The problem with that is that my IDE (Intellij) does not register that the focus changed to another app, and does not save file changes or refresh files from disk, which makes programming very difficult.

I know it used to work on my former machine. I suspect I need to configure iTerm correctly.

Here is how the hotkey shortcut is configured:


texts: Is there a way/plugin to draw on a video, like a sports broadcast?

texts:
I have Final Cut Pro X, a video of a game and I would like to draw on it. This would be similar to a sports broadcast where circles are drawn around key players and arrows are shown for their movements.

This isn't a live broadcast, so I can cut the video as needed (replays, going back and forth etc.), I just don't want to have to create those lines picture by picture but instead hit record and capture my drawings on it.

I have Motion if it helps.


texts: Is there a way to sync iTunes podcast subscriptions across two iTunes installations; one on a Mac and the other on a W7 ?


texts:
For what ever reason the Solver add-in for Mac Office's Excel 2011 produces the following dialog box when attempting to add a constraint to Solver:

Does anyone have a similar problem? Or know how to rectify this?

Many thanks.


texts: “Sign in to download from the App Store” dialog does not allow paste

texts:
OSX 10.8.5

I am using lastPass and have the appleID in there so I can copy and paste whenever needed.

Sometimes when I am told I have an upgrade I am asked to sign in to the app store.
Annoying but ok. So I have generated a quite safe password - why am I not able to paste that into the password field? Any setting I can change?
(I obscured the appleID in the picture below)


texts: How can I create an iOS Shortcut to email a photo?

texts: I want to be able to quickly send a photo to myself using a shortcut. I can create the shortcut and make it available via the share icon, but the Siri-suggested building block of sending it to myself doesn't include the photo in the email that gets sent. If I try to use the "Send Email" building block, I'm told I have to sign in to an email account to use it with Shortcuts. My login credentials, however, get rejected with "No valid server found", even though I can email manually from my phone without any trouble using the same credentials. Help?


texts:
I'm running Big Sur and I noticed three things about Time Machine:

if I format a drive as HFS+ and then I choose it for Time Machine, it gets automatically converted to APFS without asking;
once a backup is completed, if I open it in Finder I can only see the data volume, as it skipped the system one;
local snapshots seem to be available (I can see them via tmutil) but I cannot access them in Time Machine UI.

I would need to know if these things are "normal", please.


texts: Prevent OS X 10.11 to display "can't read disk" message

texts:
I always have connected to my MBPr a Transcend JetDrive Lite 330.

JetDrive Web

I have installed Ubuntu on that SD Card, so it has EXT4 file system. I installed  some packages on the Mac for being able to mount that SD Card in case I need it. The packages are:

FUSE for OS X
fuse-ext2

I'm completely able to mount the SD Card volume to a mountpoint which I created for this purpose:

sudo mount -t fuse-ext2 /dev/disk2s1 ~/.linux/

Now you know the antecedents.

Every time I turn on the Mac, the system shows this message.

Is there any way to avoid this message? I don't want to auto mount the SD Card, I have created an alias for that. I need to avoid this message. It's very annoying.

diskutil list shows the following:

/dev/disk2s1 is ubuntu

/dev/disk2s2 is, obviously, the swap

/dev/disk2s3 has no format. I didn't use it. I plan to install there some other things or use as more space. I didn't decided yet.


texts: Can I remove all missing songs without having to do it one at a time?

texts:
When I have iTunes on shuffle, I invariably end up hitting a song iTunes can't find, and then I have to tell it to start shuffle over again (until I hit another song it can't find).

Is there an easy way to go through and remove songs that it can't find from the list of all my songs? Or do I just have to go through manually and remove them as I encounter them?


texts:
I have an iPhone 4S. Software 5.0.1

I have configured the Mail to GMail. Now, I want to delete the mailbox. Here is what I do.

Click on the Mail icon
Click on Edit
Click on [Gmail]
Click on Big Red button called Delete Mailbox
Click on Delete Mailbox prompt
I get an error message as below -
Unable to Delete Mailbox. The mailbox could not be deleted on the server.

I have tried it multiple times but to no avail.

Any suggestions / thoughts?


texts: Listing all files installed by some MacPorts package

texts:
How to list all files that was installed   by some MacPorts package?

For example in Funtoo (or in Gentoo) I can achieve the same with a command:

equery b [package name]


texts: Missing a lot of options from Finder's right click context menu

texts:
No idea what caused this or why it's happening, but when I right click something in Finder  I'm missing a lot of the standard options that should be there (dropbox options, labels, etc). I've restarted several times, relaunched Finder, repaired disk permissions, and nothing's worked.

When I right click on my Desktop:

When I right click a file in Finder:


texts: How do I find out if my MacBook Pro supports virtual extensions?

texts: I am curious to know if it's possible to use my MacBook Pro as virtual host to test application in different OS environments. I guess it would improve performance of applications running on virtual OS .


texts:
I am very new to using Macbook Pro, and was recommmend finding on the new Yosemite system that there are far too many prompts and synched uppdates etc.
Does anyone know how I can do a general disabling of them?
For example, I would like to remove the prompt like auto refill, when I am filling in forms for payments or I get email and facebook uppdates when I am in other apps.


texts: OS X 10.9: 'ImportError: No module named glibc'

texts:
I needed to do a clean reinstall with Maverick and am now trying to get everything python related set up and running again. Now I have trouble using pip and I keep getting ImportError: No module named glibcwhenever I try to do anything with pip. I don't really know what to do now. I found glibc versions to download, but do I need those? How would I install glibc?
Cheers, guys!


texts: Prevent encrypted APFS volume on partition to automount / ask for password on login - Catalina

texts:
I know similar questions have been asked before but I just can't believe this can't be solved, so I am going to ask again with specific details.
I have two partitions that are bootable on the internal drive of my Mac running macOS Catalina 10.15.7. Both are encrypted APFS volumes.
Whenever I log in to one of them, I am getting a promt, asking me for the password of the other. I do not want to store the password in the keychain to work around the prompt (for security reasons), in fact I do not want the other volume to be automatically mounted at all.
All I want is to be able to choose the boot volume on startup (via the [Opt] key).

I tried

adding this line to my /etc/fstab using vifs:

UUID=<UUID of the volume> none apfs rw,noauto

but this does not prevent the prompt from appearing.

changing the volume role via

diskutil ap changeVolumeRole <diskId> D

but this returns the error: Error setting APFS Volume role: Unable to set the APFS Volume Role (-69599)

Is there seriously no way of preventing disks from being automounted?
Can the Finder be at leat taught to not ask for the password?


texts: In OS X Textedit, I was able to remove unwanted material from images scanned to JPEGs by using the select tool to define the area to be removed and then pressing "delete", resulting in a white area on a white background. How do I do that using Textedit Yosemite?


texts: Will installation of macports automatically install or update OpenSSL?

texts:
I am a mac user and want to stay with the system-provided version of OpenSSL, which is OpenSSL 0.9.8y. I am wondering if installation of macports will automatically update my OpenSSL or install another version?

Also, how can I check the version of the OpenSSL library on my mac instead of the version of the OpenSSL command? Do they always have the same version? Thanks!


texts: Remap "Home" and "End" to beginning and end of line

texts:
Most of my computing time is spent in Linux (with occasional time in Windows). On these platforms the Home and End keys universally jump to the beginning or end of the current line.

I am gradually getting used to using the one Apple computer in my life, but it is still frustrating than these keys seem to be bound to the beginning and end of the document and there doesn't seem to be any key at all for the line based actions.

My question:

Are there existing keybindings I'm missing for beginning and end of line? (I mostly use a Terminal, Chrome and LibreOffice)
Is there a way to rebind the functions of these keys to the functions I am familiar with? I am willing to give up the document based versions which seem of little use to me.

Also two caveats:

I am not the only user on the system. It would be nice if my user settings didn't break other peoples experience. If this isn't possible, I think I probably have the strongest preference!
I do use multiple languages and switch between keyboard layouts, so any solutions would be expected to work even when toggling between multiple keyboard layouts.


texts: How to delete all voice memos stored in iCloud in one go (if in iTunes Music library, you cannot delete any voice memos)?

texts:
This is a spin-off from How to delete all voice memos stored on iphone in one go?.
After following that link, uninstalling the Voice Memo app, I still see some files in the data storage

The reason is that they must be coming from iCloud.
I discovered over a GB of voice memos in iCloud and I cannot delete them. Whenever I install the Voice Memo app again, it will load all of the voice memos back, since they have been uploaded to iCloud. And this is the question that has already been asked by Voice memos not being deleted from iTunes. But that question, with its answers, does not help me in my case:
The delete option that is shown in How to Delete Music from iTunes Library:

is not available in my case. Probably because I have loaded an outdated *.itl library file which was then somehow wrongly synchronized. Now I cannot delete anything in the iTunes Music library:

And if I delete all files from the phone and uninstall the Voice Memo app, I just get them synced back.
If you cannot delete the voice memos in iTunes Music library, how to delete all iCloud voice memos in one go so that no voice memo needs to get synchronised anymore?


texts: I once bought a macbook for my friend. I logged into it using my own apple account to make sure it worked properly before delivering it to him. However, he now gets a copy of my iMessages. How can this link be removed so he will no longer be able to see my messages?


texts: 2012 iMac stuck at grey screen after reinstall, plus the inability to restore from backup prior to this. Please help!

texts:
Okay I'm just going to list out what has happened over the past 24 hours:

Lost a bunch of files.
Tried to restore from backup. After waiting for about an hour, it just randomly stopped at around 40/50% and went back to OS X Utilities.
Tried again, did the same thing.
Reluctantly tried again, and obviously it did the same thing.
I then tried to reinstall OS X Mavericks. After waiting about 6 hours (British countryside internet) to download, then another half an hour to install, it rebooted and then got stuck at grey Apple screen with loading icon. Left it overnight, woke up 7 hours later and it's still on the same screen.
Since then I have tried resetting PRAM, SMC, safe boot, unplugging all peripherals etc. a lot of things I have seen online, however none of them have worked.

Obviously I've backed up with Time Machine to an external hard drive, so wiping Macintosh HD shouldn't be a problem as a last resort.

Here are my Mac's specs:

Late 2012 27" iMac
Intel Core i7 3.4GHz
8GB RAM
1TB Fusion Drive
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX
Whatever the latest version of Mavericks is. (10.9.4 maybe?)

Thanks in advance for any help!


texts: My Retina MacBook Pro is missing some icons suddenly! What happened?

texts:
This happened after a wake from sleep. And rebooting doesn't solve the problem! Has anyone encountered this problem before?

Every item in the bar, for example Safari, has no previous and next arrows for the button, and Finder is missing sidebar icon.


texts: Dual monitor: losing focus on terminal app when using cmd+tab

texts:
Webdeveloper here. This is the situation:

I have two sceens,

on screen one there is a terminal window running my webserver
on screen two there is a terminal window where I type my commands and there is a text editor (atom).

I want to cmd+tab between the terminal and editor on screen two. But when I do, and I cmd+tab from the editor to the terminal, the focus is suddenly on the terminal on screen one (and thereby accidentally typing all kind of stuff in the server output)

So, is there a way to make a window of an app the 'main' window? (the terminal on screen two in this case) So that when you cmd+tab to the application the focus will be on this 'main' window?

In System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement, I already moved the white taskbar to screen two. This does not solve the problem

I cant recall I had this problem before. Is this new functionality in Catalina?


texts: Screen Sharing stopped working after Lion upgrade

texts:
Screen Sharing stopped working after I upgraded to Lion. Trying to connect back home to my still yet not upgraded Snow Leopard machine.

Logs says

  PM Screen Sharing: MVS Codec - bad rectangle size - clossing connection 0

Has anyone else notice this?


texts: Is it possible to determine the model of an iOS device by its MAC address?

texts:
I'm starting to work on iOS apps at work, and I'm trying to determine the minimum version of iOS I'll need to support. We have a network registration system that gathers some basic information about devices on the network, but unfortunately, it doesn't report the version of the operating system or hardware.

I do, however, have MAC addresses for every iOS device used on our network in the past 12 months.

Is there a way to determine, based on a MAC address, what generation an iOS device is? If Apple used sequential addresses (or reserved specific blocks for specific devices), this should be possible.

I'll leave the above question (because I'm still curious if there's a way to do this), but I found another way to determine the hardware we have in use. Exchange server keeps track of devices each user syncs their email to. Assuming most iOS users sync their email accounts, I was able to use that information to determine what devices are in use. It turns out that about 20% of them are using devices that won't run iOS 5.


texts: Problem with bootcamp on SSD: error 0xc00000e9

texts:
I've recently changed my hard drive for an SSD in my late-2011 mac-book Pro.

I'm trying to partition it and re-install Windows 7 (64 bits) (juste like I had successfully done with my former HDD), using BootCamp Assistant. Everything seems to work fine at first, the partitioning happens, but then when it reboots to install Windows, it always fails:

I never get the screen where I choose on which partition I wish to install windows
I get directly to "loading windows files" screen
After that, I get a black screen saying that I have an error 0xc00000e9, and that I should make sure that all the external devices are properly plugged. It does that regardless of wether I leave the USB key with the Bootcamp drivers plugged in, or not.

Anybody has any idea about how to do that ?

I've read that it could be an AHCI problem with my SSD, but it looks like I need to already be on Windows to fix this, I don't see other options...

My setup:

Windows 7 Pro 64 bits (iso file burnt on a dvd)
Macbook Pro late 2011, 15 inch, core i7
OS X El Capitan (version 10.11.6)
SSD: Samsung 850EVO 1TB


texts: I'm trying to setup my iMac running 10.6 to be a wireless bridge. I have it working, but I need to disable DHCP and let my network's DHCP server provide an IP for the connected device(s). I can't seem to find a way to disable DHCP in Internet Connection Sharing. Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm guessing there's a key one could set in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.nat.plist, but I can't find it. I checked the man page for InternetSharing and it doesn't mention anything useful, except changing the subnet that the DHCP server uses.


texts: Disk Utility says disk is corrupt after running fsck -fy

texts:
Disk utility reports that the disk needs to be repaired.

I can't find the original boot disk, so I booted to single user mode and ran:

fsck -fy

This reported that it fixed a problem, and that the disk had been modified.  Re-running it a 2nd time said that it was OK.

So I restarted, and tried running the Disk Utility app again - and it still reports that the disk needs to be repaired.

Repeat, with the same results - fsck says it has repaired the volume, but the Disk Utility says there are problems.

I also tried running diskutil repairVolume but it would not run because I was in single user mode.

Is there anything else I can try to repair the volume?  Is there a way to create a bootable DVD/USB from a running system so I can try running the Disk Utility app?


texts:
So someone stole my mac and I just got a new used one and am setting it up and I can't figure out how to get it back to the way I used to have it.

The way it was before, I was a user with no password-- I didn't have to login when the mac started. But whenever I wanted to make significant changes, like installations or settings adjustments, I would have to give credentials.

How do I get back to that? Is it simply a matter of having a normal account and an admin account, and only using the normal account for day-to-day things? I never deliberately made two separate accounts on the previous computer.


texts: Using windows right-click keyboard button on macOS

texts: Is there any possible way to assign the windows right-click button on macOS in order to use it as a shortcut or something?


texts: Is a 2014 Mac mini fully compatible with Sierra?

texts:
I bought a 2014 late Mac mini today from a shop where it was a test device. It has been registered but I got it cheaper. My problem is: it has macOS Sierra installed on it, which runs very slow, and the finder seems to be messed up. It does not show any file content.

Mac mini specifications:

CPU: Dual-core i5 1.4 GHz
RAM: 4 GB
HDD: 500 GB

Are current Mac mini devices shipped with Sierra, or it has been upgraded from El Capitan? It has been registered in 15 May 2017. Is this model fully and sufficiently compatible with macOS Sierra?


texts:
I am coming from ubuntu. In Mac i notice that multiple browser windows or finder windows don't show up independently in task bar or task switcher. This is causing problems in many operations.
Is there any switch to activate ungrouped windows?


texts: how to log the search history in mac dictionary

texts:
I am trying to improve my vocabularies so am hoping to log all the search I made on mac dictionary. I have found a link which probably a bit outdated so it doesn't work, thought I do get the file on my desktop but no history is logged.
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20121106085330476
Just seeing if there are others who can help me on this.

thanks


texts: Is it possible to read iBooks without an iOS device?

texts:
I no longer have an iPhone or iPad, but still have books in my iTunes account that I would like to read. Is there a program for OS X that will allow me to read iBooks without an iOS device?

I am familiar with calibre, but the main issue here is the DRM.


texts: Activate app by pressing thumb on timeout / locked screen for few seconds

texts: This might seem like a strange question. Is there some sort of way for an app to launched by pressing the screen for a few seconds on touch screen phones? the reason why I ask is because this would be a great feature for like a panic button. of course the app will have to calibrate to the owner's thumb to prevent accidental pressing from objects in purse or pockets.


texts: Typing over selected text replaces some text to the right

texts: In OS X (both Lion and Mountain Lion), I notice that when I select text and type over it, not only does it yield the expected result of replacing that text with the typed text, it often also replaces a few characters to the right. When that happens, I notice that after the first few keystrokes, some text remains selected.


texts: I'm handling a migration from an on old Mac server to a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine running a 12 TB (10 usable) RAID 5 server. It's using an SMB share and now the OS X 10.5/10.6 users can search -  sometimes it works, but takes up to 10 minutes. The OS X 10.7 machine seems to be fine. I've looked in the root of the shared drive for a .Spotlight-V100 file (ls -a) but it doesn't seem to be there. mdutil says indexing is on for that volume and I have cleared the index using mdutil -E /Volumes/MeSharedVolume numerous times. Any ideas?


texts: Two Factor Authentication for GUI Privilege Elevation prompt on Catalina

texts:
How can I set up two factor authentication for the privilege elevation prompts in macos, e.g System Preferences -> Security & Privacy ->  in bottom left corner.

If smart card is not possible (why? and) what can I use instead? Google-Authenticator OTP? Yubico OTP? Anything else?

I am attempting to set up Two FA for macos Catalina. I need twofa for the following:

Login, Screensaver, sudo, and su. Already working. (via smart card)
Privilege elevation ( icon). Not working.
I do not need 2fa for FileVault FDE, which I believe is impossible anyways.

I followed these Smart Card instructions, and did not realize until the end that it says:

  When attempting to make changes under System Preferences by clicking the padlock, you will need to use your username and password for authentication; smart cards are not supported for authentication in this case (this is a limitation of macOS).

However, this article from Feb 2015 (Yosemite?) says:

  In addition to the login screen and screen-saver, elevation prompts for sensitive operations will also work with smart-cards

So did this used to be possible, but isn't anymore? Or is it only the yubico method that can't do smart card for privilege elevation? Or was this never possible, and the second article is just wrong/unclear?

I'm looking for any form of two fa, not just smart card specifically.


texts:
My iPod(4g iOS 6.1.6) is stuck in soft DFU mode because I quit out of redsn0w to early. Then I also used an app to exit recovery mode and now it's in soft DFU mode. I had to use the DFU IPSW in order to put my device in DFU mode in the first place.

When I attempt to restore it in iTunes, after the "extracting software" step, it says "preparing ipod for restore". After the 1-2 minutes pass the boot logo does not show up it says "The iPod (iPod) could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1601).

I'm just going to try and let my iPod die and then reboot it. Any alternate suggestions to regain control of the device?


texts: Connect an iPad Pro to an older Macbook Pro using a generic USB-C to USB-A cable

texts:
The older Macbook Pro I'm using doesn't have USB-C ports. The cable that came with the iPad Pro I'm using came with a USB-C to USB-C cable. I tried to use a USB-C to USB-A cable from a Huawei phone to connect the iPad and the Macbook, but there was no connection whatsoever.

Does it mean I'll have to get hold of a very specific USB-C to USB-A cable, such as a “Belkin USB-A to USB-C Cable (USB 3.1)” (cf. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209186#computer)?


texts: TeamViewer Dock Shortcut Opens Separate Dock Icon

texts:
Using TeamViewer 11, when clicking the app icon in the dock, it opens a separate app icon at the end of the dock instead of the one that stays there via the "keep in dock" option.

Is there any way to fix this on my end or is this an issue with the app's development?


texts: How to force a diff format for TextMate?

texts:
I have this alias:

alias hgd='hg diff|mate'

The problem is that for some reason the temporary file thus created will be a .txt, while I'd need it to have the diff syntax highlight.

If I manually change the highlight to diff, then every .txt I'll open in future will use the diff highlight too.

What can I do to fix that?


texts: How to recover an accidentally deleted new pages document

texts:
I accidentally clicked "delete" (clicked too fast thinking it was cancel) on the save new document prompt when exiting Pages. After one bad click, the file is completely gone, with no clear way to undo the mistake.

How can I recover (some version) of this lost document?


texts:
I've a powerbook g4, it should be the "PowerBook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet)" named here. It was on the table where I work to gather dust.

The screen is dead, but I clearly listen the boot up sound follower by a noise and 3 beeps. I've tried to connect the computer though the DVI port without success, the screen doesn't show anything. Is there any hope to get it working?

thanks


texts: SSD in enclosure does not mount on older MacBook Pro

texts:
I bought a Crucial SSD compatible with my MacBook Pro (late 2007) and an enclosure. To my frustration, it would not mount and I think the hardware may be defective.

Sometimes, I get it to mount and the drive will stay visible on the desktop. At other times, the LED on the drive will briefly flash but nothing would appear.

How can I get my Mac to recognize this new hard drive?


texts: How do I revert Gmail back to normal after I switched to HTML by mistake?

texts: I accidentally switched my Gmail to HTML. I want to go back but don't know how on my iPhone 6s.


texts: Does it make sense to turn a closed Mac upside down when it's hot?

texts:
After some period of work with my MacBook Pro its bottom part can be hot.

If I want to take a break and close the Mac - does it make sense to turn it around - the bottom part will be on top. Is it better for the working of the fan?

I have seen some users turn their notebooks around the way that the bottom part doesn't have contact with the surface anymore.


texts:
Specific apps have an option under Window->Float on Top which allows this kind of behavior:

The problem is that I'd like to achieve this on all windows. Specifically I'd like to choose specific windows say of Chrome and do this. I'd like a video-player floating on top (and always staying on top even as I switch to other apps). But I'd like other windows in Chrome (say my email) to also be on top. I cannot seem to achieve this anywhere and it's a bit frustrating to not have this simple customization.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

EDIT to be more specific I'm looking to be able to pick and choose any window from any app and make it float. This is already achievable by the Notes and Stickies native apps so this functionality exists within the OS. You can just open both apps and select Window->Float on Top. They will keep floating above other apps. I'd just like for this functionality to be available across all apps.


texts: Can I manually/programmatically put the battery charging on hold?

texts:
I have a 2016 MBP and due to my work-from-home setup I need to use an external monitor for working, which force the Mac to use the discrete graphic card and thus a faster battery drainage (together with other software).
Given the advertised feature that should put the battery charging on hold at 80%, the last weekend I have updated the OS from 10.14 to 11.1, but that feature doesn't seems to work as expected: even if enabled (by default), it always charge up to 100%; sometime it happend to actually stop charging, but after a few seconds it ramped again up to 100% automatically.
My question is, is there a way to force that behavior ? I've looked at pmset's man-page, but I haven't seen anything related.
Thanks in advance!


texts: Bind SSL certificate to local port for Mono/OWIN

texts:
I have a local http service application running on OSX (hosted through Mono/OWIN) that I want to access on https instead.  The service itself is easily configured to require https, but the local bit is causing trouble.

On Windows I solved this by binding an SSLCert to the local port with the command

  netsh http add sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:8000 appid={xyzw} certhash=XYZW

which then means any access to https://127.0.0.1:8000 is verified against the given certificate and allowed.

I have no idea where to look for the OSX equivalent though.  Most references to SSL certificates are in the context of Apache, which is not involved in my use case, and tools like iwconfig or others I've looked at don't seem to have the required functionality.


texts:
I have a clean and formatted SSD where I want to install Snow Leopard from a USB flash drive containing a OS X image from a (not the one it came with) original install-DVD. But for some reason it wont boot from the USB. I though this was the way to do it? When I created the image I chose "compressed" format. Maybe that's the reason?

What to do?


texts:
There is generally a dictionary.app on the Mac-OS.
But there isn't any dictionary development kit on the X-Code.
Now i use the X-Code (Mavericks and Yosemite).
So I downloaded the the auxiliary tools package from developer.apple.com/downloads and applied it to the /Applications/Utilites/.
And run the command "make" and "make install".
But when I reopen Dictionary.app, it couldn't do any action about of my Dictionary file.
What's the problem?

I want to make my own dictionary now.


texts: Is it possible in Yosemite to limit my downloading bandwidth use to for example 300kbps using the terminal? I dont want to install software to do this.


texts: macos arcade game switched to ios display mode after airplay

texts:
I started playing the Sneaky Sasquatch game from Apple Arcade on my Apple TV HD (4th Gen).  It was great.  I continued playing on my macOS MBP 13" (2020) and it worked great on the LG Ultrawide (model 34WL850)...until I used airplay to mirror my mac on the TV.  After that, the game switched to an iOS display mode as if it were scaled to the size of a phone on the screen.  It won't change back after trying everything including changing resolution, re-connecting/disconnecting to airplay on the Apple TV and iPad, deleting the game from the applications folder (emptying trash) and re-installing from App Store.  I believe deleting my 50 days game play and with all iCloud data would not solve the problem and that it is a setting somewhere on the mac.
How do macOS applications work for graphics?  Are Apple Arcade games different?  Which file (with absolute path) are these settings stored in and how do I modify it to return back to the intended macOS screen resolution to play it?


texts: How do I set my computer to restart in the last operating system

texts: I swear when I first installed windows on a partition of my Mac HD my computer would restart in the last operating system used. By that I mean that if I hit restart whilst in Windows, my computer would restart and boot up Windows and likewise for OS X. Ever since I was messing around with my system preferences and selected a startup disc, I now have to pick weather I want it to always restart in OS X or always in Windows. How do I get it back to the way it was (or was it never that way)? Thanks.


texts:
How can I open application URLs in Terminal or Alfred?

My Problem:
I use Airmail2 as default mail client as well as OmniFocus 2 to organize my work. Airmail2 allows to copy application URLs via EDIT→Copy Message Link, which yields a link like airmail://message?mail=myAccount&messageid=etPan.55ba060a....

When I paste this link in the notes section of a task in OmniFocus, it gets automatically converted into a clickable link that works as expected. Other programs, such as Evernote, will not recognize it as URL. It would be really handy to access these links even outside of OmniFocus.

How can I open these application URLs besides pasting it into an OmniFocus task note section and click it? I would prefer a Terminal command or a script, which I can include in Alfred. The open command of the Terminal does not work unfortunately.


texts: How to ignore specific MacOS software updates?

texts:
There are some software updates I'm not interested in, either because I don't use the applications involved or because I don't care.
I uncheck them and click Not now
The annoying part is that they keep popping up every time there's a new update.
Can't you uncheck them forever so the updates-to-ignore list doesn't keep growing?

For example, I couldn't care less about stability when sending slideshows from iPhoto'11 to iDVD, something I don't do anyway.


texts: How can I check what permissions an app store app will request before installing it?

texts:
I would like to find out, prior to installation, what permissions an iOS app will ask for.

I understand that granting these permissions is up to me and that no permissions are granted automatically.  However, my decision to install an app at all is very much influenced by how over-reaching the permission requests are going to be.

So, without actually installing the iOS app, how can I look up the app and see what permissions it will ask to use ?

I believe the google play store allows you to check this on the play store itself, prior to downloading - how can I do this in the app store ?


texts:
iPhone 7 Plus with iOS 10.3.1

I had three apps that were experiencing issues with updating.

Symptoms:

• I went into the App Store to see if any apps needed updating. Several were listed. I touched "Update All" and all of the listed apps appeared to update.

• Upon returning to my Home Screen, I noted blue dots next to the apps that had updated. I opened each app and the blue dots went away.

• I returned to the App Store later and found that three of the previously updated apps required updating. I was not sure if this was an additional, more recent update. I touched "Update All" again, and all three apps appeared to update again.

• Once again, I returned to the Home Screen and found blue dots next to the applications noting their updated status.

• Curious as to what was occurring, I immediately returned to the App Store. The same three apps needed updating. By checking the updated dates, I determined these were not new updates. They were the same update I had already installed.

Troubleshooting:

• I uninstalled all three apps. Restarted my iPhone. Then reinstalled the apps. The problem described above persisted despite the apps being reinstalled.

• I went to the App Store and cleared the cache by tapping the bottom navigation bar 10 times. The screen flashed white to indicate the cache clearing. I returned to the Updates tab and determined the problem above persisted.

• I did a two-button hard restart on the phone. On the iPhone 7 Plus, this is done by holding down the power button and the volume-down button until the Apple Logo appears, then release. Upon returning to the App Store, I determined the problem persisted. All three apps were still listed as requiring updates.

• I restored the phone from a backup on my computer. I went through many of the steps listed above, including clearing the App Store cache, after the restore. The problem persisted.


texts: Can I configure my Mac to store documents and pictures on iCloud only

texts:
I am using the latest macOS Mojave, and I have a Mac which only has 250 GB of storage space. Due to the nature of my work, I need as much of this space available at all times.

I will sporadically need 100+ GB for a short duration of time for example. The problem with iCloud is that it optimises so to store as much as possible on the Mac at anytime and this causes me problems. Yes it will delete some local content when I am short on space but it takes too long.

I want iCloud switched on and accessible from my Mac, I just want it to keep everything on iCloud. Why does this not seem to be a feature or am I missing something?

It seems to leave me with 25 GB, which is 10% available so maybe this is a setting?


texts: How to safely charge your apple device at a charging station?

texts:
Recently there has been alot of news about how free charging stations could be reading data from devices that are plugged into them. The obvious solution to this issue is to place an adaptor between the charging station and the device that is only wired to transmit power.

I would sugest that the ideal design of would be a USB micro female to Apple dock male connector. This could be small enough to be carried around in a wallet and as USB micro is the current device charging standard compatability would be good.

This would also have an impact for non Apple devices where a USB micro passthrough addaptor could be used.

Does anyone know of any such device on the market?

This article is the inspiration behind my question.


texts:
I have a VNC server (a QEMU VM to be exact) that I want to connect to, but I am experiencing a really strange problem. My server is on [ip]:5905 (or [ip]:5). When I try to connect to this server via VNC Viewer by RealVNC, it connects with absolutely no problems, except the Unencrypted connection warning. When I try to connect to exact same server using the built-in Screen Sharing app, it either tells me that it failed to connect, or it stays in an infinite “Connecting...” loop. What should I do?

By the way, I am trying to make a script that opens a connection to this VNC server, so I need arguments for the open command too. Thanks.


texts: How do I turn off auto capitalization in macOS El Capitan? For certain things I do not want it and it's very annoying. For instance, dictating in a spreadsheet.  In numbers, I cannot select a bunch of fields and lowercase the letters.


texts: LaunchAgent ceased to work after upgrading to Big Sur (Error: Unable to access file on desktop)

texts:
I had a home made LaunchAgent that worked fine in Catalina but after upgrading to Big Sur it refuses to launch. The agent is very simple, it just launches a java program (jar) I have on my desktop, ´/usr/bin/java /Users/x/Desktop/MyProgram.jar`.
The result is an error message:
Error: Unable to access jarfile ~/Desktop/MyProgram.jar and an Error 1.
(I am a little suprised that the error message specifically mentions jarfile - I interpret that as it is an error message from java rather than launchd)
Launching it manually from the terminal works fine.
I have a vague memory that I needed to grant permission to java and/or launchd to read access files on my desktop the first time I launched it when I created it. I have looked in System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Full Disk Access/Files and Folders but couldn't see anything odd there. As a next step, I removed a couple of permissions that looked relevant from here thinking that it would trigger a new request for this specific permission, but it didn't.
E.g., I completely removed /usr/bin/java and Terminal.app, exiting the Terminal and opening it again - but I still can access files and folder with java/Terminal. Isn't that weird? Shouldn't that trigger a request from the system to give these programs permissions to access whatever?
What do I need to do to make my Launch Agent work again?


texts: Seagate Hard Drive Not showing in Disk Utility

texts: I have a Mac OS X EI Capitan Version 10.11.6. Also got a 1.5Tb Seagate External hard drive. The hard drive is about a year old and my mac is only a few months old. The hard drive always work fine, but when I plug it in now, it doesn't mount at all and doesn't even show in Disk Utility? I thought of just re-formatting the hard drive. But I can't format it if it doesn't show in Disk Utility, it also doesn't show when I go to the Terminal. Type in diskutil list, it only shows my Mac hardrive. The hard drive is running, I even replaced the usb cord but still nothing. It doesn't even show up in my Time Michine. I added screenshots. Please can someone help me.


texts: Is it technically possible to install Android on an iPhone X?

texts: I was wondering if it was possible to install Android on an iPhone X ? I saw that it was possible on an iPhone 3GS.


texts: What memory to buy for macbook pro 17" early 2011?

texts:
What brand/model of memory do I need to buy for a macbook pro 17" early 2011 model?  On Apple's memory page, they just say DDR3 1333mhz SODIMM.  So I went to purchase some from Newegg and happened to notice in the comments people complaining the mushkin RAM was not working on their macbook pro...

I just want to find the lowest priced working 8gbytes RAM.

Also, I assume Apple put 2x2gbytes in and I need to purchase 2x4gbytes to replace it.  Is it possible they put 1x4gbytes and so I only need to buy 1x4gbytes to add to it?


texts: Can I add app folders to dock from launchpad?

texts: I want to add folder from launchpad, is it possible? I tried but coulndt put anyway. Is there an app or anything for this?


texts: Transfer Lion with my MacBook Pro sold to 3rd party

texts:
I had a old MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), then I bought the update to Lion (OS X 10.7).

Then I bought a new MacBook Pro that already comes with Lion and sold the old MacBook Pro. So, technically, I have two Lion licenses.

From the license contract on the App Store, I read that it (or Mountain Lion at least) is not transferable. I guess that means I can't transfer my license away from my Apple ID.

But I think it makes no sense I have two licenses and the person who bought my old MacBook Pro would have to buy a new (3rd) one to install it and maintain it. Is there any fairer solution? Would that be illegal?

Of course I could just install it using my account or whatever, but I already did that and now he wants to re-install it for whatever reason, and that's basically where all problems started.


texts: Why does pidof from homebrew returns always zero?

texts:
I've installed pidof via homebrew

brew install pidof

And think about two cases:

$ pidof bash > /dev/null; echo $?
$ pidof asdf > /dev/null; echo $?

The results are:

0
0

Why does it happen? Other linux throw 1 when pidof couldn't find process.


texts: iOS file chooser for iCloud drive can't find tags

texts:
Any iOS app can let its users pick a file on iCloud Drive with the proper chooser dialogue. This dialogue allows to search files based on tags. Here is a screenshot to make crystal clear what I am discussing here:

So some files on my iCloud drive have tags, which I added using the Finder on my mac running Yosemite. Typing the tag in the search box above results in an empty list: no file is found.

This is in direct contrast with the Finder on MacOS where search tags does work as exemplified by the following two screenshots:

and then

I would appreciate if somebody else could either confirm the problem, or on the contrary find that searching by tags works fine. I tested on an iPad Air running iOS 8.3 which is the most recent version at the time of writing.

Note that Keynote and Pages use this file chooser, to pick images e.g.


texts: How to change macOS Mojave’s menu bar transparency

texts: How do you change the menu bar transparency in MacOS Mojave?


texts: How to prevent Safari Technology Preview opening default Safari on launch?

texts: After selecting Safari Technology Preview as default browser it now also launches macOS's default version of Safari at the same time on launch. Is there a way to prevent this?


texts:
Per earlier articles (especially Python IDLE from MacPorts can't start), I've attempted to get my Python version 3.4 to work from the Macports IDLE.app but to no avail. I've already tried the usual double clicking as well as running through the terminal, and I have the appropriate py34-tkinter port installed.

Whenever I try to run it (either by double-clicking or by running $ idle3.4 from the terminal) the icon bounces in the dock for a split second and then disappears. Running from the terminal gets me:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/local/bin/idle3.4", line 5, in <module>
main()
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1532, in main
root = Tk(className="Idle")
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1856, in __init__
self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className, interactive, wantobjects, useTk, sync, use)
_tkinter.TclError: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable`

I'm trying to set up my system to run NLTK if that helps, and I have OS X El Capitan. I'm new to posting so I apologize if this is out of place or I've left out relevant details.

Thanks, in advance, for the help!


texts:
I inherited a Mac OS X 10.8 server that is now only used as a file server.
Within the Server Apps settings it has File Sharing, Contacts, DNS, Mail, and Software Update services on.  We have enterprise DNS servers which I configured in the general network adapter settings.

Why would I continue to have DNS service "on" if I can rely on enterprise DNS servers to supply DNS routing for this server?  Also, do I need to keep running the Mail service for any reason (e.g. maybe so it can send server notifications, etc)?  And would this be the only reason to run the Contacts service?


texts: iPhone Videos app only offer a single subtitle track

texts:
I rip my Blu-Rays and DVDs, convert to M4V with Handbrake, and create SRT subtitles through OCR, which I then mux into the M4V with Subler (which translates them to "Text 3GPP").

If I ever place more than one subtitle track (foreign-language-only tracks vs. full SDH tracks, or even commentary subtitles, for example), I can access all subtitle tracks on my Mac with iTunes, and also on my Apple TV.

On my iPhone, though, I can only access the first subtitle track.  If there are multiple audio tracks, those are available to me, but on a video that I can confirm has multiple subtitle tracks, the Videos app only shows me the first one.  The others aren't even options.

Is there some trick to encoding or muxing? Or does the Videos app on iOS only support a single subtitle track?


texts: In Chrome, one can press cmd+1 to open the first tab, cmd+3 to open the third tab, etc...  Safari has replicated this behavior now but has not replicated cmd+9 which takes the user to the far right tab even if there are dozens of tabs in the window.  Is there a way to map cmd+9 or another key mapping to that action?


texts: Can't remotely play music to iPhone since update to WatchOS 4

texts:
I have an Apple Watch Series 2, and I recently updated the OS to the 4th version. Previously, I could remotely listen music. Since I don't have bluetooth headphones, I was using the Apple Watch just to give the command to play music on the iPhone, which is fine for me. But since the update, now it doesn't play my music on the iPhone, and it asks me to connect any bluetooth headphones.

What if I want to listen music without bluetooth headphones?


texts:
Is there a plug-in for the Finder which lets me see and do all my git-related stuff?

There are many different apps or the terminal which change the prompt to show that files are “dirty” in terms of not being checked in or showing which branch of the code you are browsing.

I’m wondering if there are any Finder integration or visual indicators that will show if:

the current directory is under code control
the current directory has un-committed changes
is under code control at all

Are there graphical tools that are paid or free that integrate git status with Finder windows?


texts: Why does my Magic Mouse 2 not work on OS X login screen?

texts:
I own a Macbook Pro 15" mid 2015 model and have OS X El Capitan installed. Also, I use the Macbook in clam shell mode and have two 27" Apple Displays attached to it.

When I restart the computer, the login screen shows up but moving the mouse has no effect. Every time this happens I have to open up the Macbook lid and use the integrated trackpad instead to click on my login pic. Then I can use the (external) Bluetooth Magic Keyboard to enter my password.

When OS X has logged me in, the mouse suddenly starts working normally.

This is very annoying. Why does my bluetooth Magic Mouse not work on the login screen (although the Bluetooth Magic Keyboard works) but after logging in, the mouse suddenly starts working?


texts:
Normally when I click on my iCloud drive, I see this:

iCloud

|--Pages

|--Numbers

|--Keynote

However, now, when I click on iCloud drive, I am presented with a new folder called com~apple~CloudDocs.

All the Pages, Numbers and Keynotes sub folders have disappeared (and the documents within them).

How can I get my folders (and documents!!!) back?


texts: Sometimes Mail.app doesn't automatically apply rules, although all rules are active

texts:
I have a pack of rules, which are intended for automatically marking as read & deleting messages when some criteria is met. They work fine when applied manually, but sometimes they are not applied automatically when new messages are received and I have to run them manually. And as I wrote, all rules are active. Is it possible to fix this behavior?

Probably related: Rules in Mail randomly don't apply

upd.: All rules that I have are simple and not using AppleScript or anything similar.


texts: Can I prevent OS X from resizing and moving windows when sleeping while attached to an external monitor?

texts:
I have my Retina Macbook Pro connected to a ASUS 2560x1440 display via the HDMI port. I keep the laptop lid closed so the monitor is the only display in use.

When I sleep my computer (via hot corners if it matters) and wake it back up, all the windows are resized and in the upper left hand corner. My assumption is that it is resizing and repositioning them for the built in display. Is there a way to prevent this from happening so I don't have to resize and move all my windows when I use the computer again?


texts:
Iphoto was acting strangely, and was unable to open a valid iPhoto library that worked just fine with another copy of iPhoto on an external drive created with Superduper from my original disk.

I'm running a mid-2010 MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard.

So, I deleted iPhoto and reinstalled from the disks that came with my computer, and ran Software Update. Software Update didn't notice that iPhoto was out of date. iPhoto won't run or open the iPhoto library, and Snow Leopard says it's out of date. Yep.

I deleted the receipts for iPhoto in /Library/Receipts. Software Update still didn't work.

I copied iPhoto from my Superduper volume.  It's version 9.2.2, which is pretty current, but not completely up to date.  It can't open my iPhoto library, even though it works fine when I boot from my external drive and use that same copy of iPhoto. OS X says it's not up to date, but Software Update doesn't know this and passes it over.

I'd buy iPhoto from the App Store, but the version there only works with Lion, which I can't install on this machine yet.

I'm sure this is confusing, but net-net:

Snow Leopard says my copy of iPhoto 9.2.2 is not up to date and won't open it.
Software Update doesn't recognize that iPhoto needs an update.
I'm out of ideas.


texts: “Your system has run out of application memory”, but memory pressure is not even at 50%?

texts:
The system has 16GB of memory, and the memory pressure looks well below even 50%. This doesn't make any sense. Usually the message starts popping after about 10 days without restarting.

Any light to shed here? I used to have a 12GB hackintosh with Yosemite and this NEVER happened, it lasted stable without restarting for months at a time, this is really ridiculous, I was really expecting for Apple hardware to be more reliable, not less.


texts: Is it possible to partition the harddrive with a second installation of MacOS, and then delete the original partition?

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I'm currently on 10.10.5 and I want to partition my internal SSD into two, installing a fresh copy of 10.12 on the second partition (while keeping 10.10.5 on the original partition). I want to eventually delete the original partition on the SSD that the mac shipped with (10.10.5), leaving only the second partition of 10.12.

Doing a search, it seems it may not be possible to make a second partition the only partition.

Will Disk Utility allow me to delete the original partition? and will it allocate the full amount of regained space to the new partition?


texts: All contacts have disappeared from iPhone

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All contacts have vanished from my iPhone4. Group contacts are all that are visible, and they are Facebook contacts.

I have tried uploading SIM contacts to phone. I have turned off the phone and back on. I have synced to my PC and no contacts visible. I have tried to connect to iCloud and error message reads cannot connect to server. Phone reflects iCloud backup not on. I do not know what else to do.


texts: How can I make iPod 30-Pin cables last longer?

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I am still using an iPod that has a 30-pin connector.
I find the cables only last for 2-3 years before they start to fray and stop working.

I am buying a new cable and would like to know if there any tips to make it last longer.

I've never had any problems with any other type of cable. Some of my micro USB cables get used way more and are nearly 10 years old. It only seems to be the iPod cables that fray.


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I am not able to get my MacBook Air to resolve any hosts.

I've tried reinstalling Yosemite from recovery, unloading and reloading the mDNSResponder to no avail. An nslookup of www.google.com using 8.8.8.8 resolves correctly. I've tried different WiFi networks and disabling and re-enabling the WiFi. I don't know what else to try. I did an ifconfig and it did not show any name severs


texts: How do I tell other users/contacts my iMessage is turned off?

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How do I tell other users/contacts that my iMessage is turned off? I frequently turn my son's data plan off mid-month because he eats up most of our shared data.

When I do this, however, he no longer can receive iMessages until he is connected to WiFi.  The sender doesn't usually receive a message of "not delivered" for some reason or if they do it's hours later.  Non iPhone messages are not a problem which I understand why. It is just iPhone to iPhone  messages.  It appears both parties have to turn off I-message for it to be seamless.

Is there a feature that alerts a text sender that the recipients iMessage  is off; "please send as SMS"; besides the delayed "not delivered" notice?


texts: Why my "Copy picture of selected area to the clipboard" does not work as usual?

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macOSX 10.13.6

I am frustrated with screenshot capture shortcut on my MacOS X.  It becomes a camera icon and it only captures the window rather than area selection, like the following picture.

I did not change anything, and I have no idea why it suddenly works like this.  The original function should look like this:

Appreciate any help.


texts: Splice a 45W MagSafe 2 connector onto an 85W PSU?

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I have an unused 45W MacBook Air MagSafe 2 PSU, and an 85W MagSafe 1 PSU that my dog chewed the connector off.

I'm wondering if splicing the MagSafe 2 connector onto the 85W PSU would allow a MacBook Pro to draw the full capacity from the 85W PSU, or would it limit itself to the nominal capacity identified by the MagSafe connector's ID chip (i.e. that of the 45W PSU)?

Also, assuming it worked, would it be likely to cause any heat issues etc. - I'm assuming all MagSafe connectors would be electrically capable of handling the higher current, but is that a safe assumption?


texts: How to use a portable display with an older Macbook 2011 (USB 2.0)

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I've been looking at the Asus Zenscreen portable displays to add a second screen to my Macbook Air. (Model 1, Model 2)

The problem that I'm running into is that it's a USB-C connection, or alternatively you can convert that to USB 3.0.

My Macbook Air only has USB 2.0.

Is there any way to go from USB-C to either my Thunderbolt, or USB 2.0?

Some reviews that I read say that USB 2.0 will work, but the brightness and color might be affected. Others said that there might be latency issues (like noticeable lag).

Is there was some type of adapter or converter that I could use to make this work?


texts: About the abnormal problem of iPhone's 'Trust this computer'?

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My iPhone trusted a Mac mini that named 'haha' before with USB cable. but today, this iPhone alert 'Trust this computer' again without USB connecte,same content: "Your settings and data will be accessible from 'haha's Mac mini' when connected wirelessly or using a cable."!!!
Although this Mac mini and my iPhone use the same WiFi,but why this happend? alert a 'Trust this computer' window by connected wirelessly? I can't reproduce this situation. Hope knows why and how reproduce this.


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I airdropped a big folder approx 33GB from Mac containing images and videos. But I can't locate them. My existing storage definitely increased by 33 gb - but can't locate that airdropped folder anywhere.
I checked and found if you don't have a supporting app the airdropped content won't open. But is it possible to maybe locate and delete this 33gb folder?


texts: iPhone 6 - Exchange calendar not showing up in list of calendars

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I have a client that has upgraded from iPhone 5 to the iPhone 6.  On the iPhone 5, exchange calendar worked just fine.  We use the same setting for Exchange and it appears to connect.  Unfortunately, the Exchange calendar does not show up in the list of calendars.

Yes, I have checked to make sure the calendars setting is on:
Settings> Mail> Exchange> Calendars

We have deleted the account ans set it back up numerous times with the same result.

The problem isn't that the calendar DOES NOT sync.  The problem is that the calendar simply DOES NOT even show up.

Any assistance is much appreciated.