texts: Make launchd jobs depend on other launchd jobs

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I need to write a launchd job that depends on another launchd job to start.
The KeepAlive/OtherJobActive directive has been removed since macOS 10.10.
What can I use on macOS 10.10+?


texts: Does iTunes Match work with iOS8 Family Sharing?

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Since I currently don't use iTunes Match, but have started to use the new iOS8 Family Sharing feature to share app and music purchases with the rest of my family, I'm curious to see whether Family Sharing also shares the iTunes Match content with the rest of the family.

Does data from one family member's iTunes Match account show up for other family members that are part of the same Family Sharing group?


texts: Transfer media files from an Android device to an iOS device

texts: Is there any software or app that can directly transfer media files (videos, images, audio) from an Android device to an iOS device (similar to AirDrop)?


texts: Is the 2011 Macbook Pro body equivalent to the 2012 model?

texts: My mid-2012 Macbook Pro's body is damaged beyond repair but the internal parts are still functional. Is it possible that I could assemble the parts into a 2011 body of the same size and have a functional laptop?


texts: iPhone4 has no picture. However, responds to touch and has sound. How can i test logic board failure?

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iPhone4 has no picture/black. However, responds to touch and has sound. Just replaced the LCD screen/digitizer, and it's still black screen.

Is there anything else that I could be missing? What else can I check/test?


texts:
I've got a ton of purchased and non-purchased music on my iphone. Same with movies. I've also got a pretty big collection of audio books. I'd like to dump a copy onto my android tablet. Is there any way to pull all the media off my iphone and strip freeplay so i can copy it into my android?

Bonus points if I can also transfer text history, apps, etc. Ideally I'd like to just run 'something' that will make my android have everything my iphone has.


texts:
Three bugs:

I have added all of my cards to Apple Wallet on iOS 14, but this notice still shows really big when I open the app:

The cards have been lumped together with my flight tickets in the same stack. Unlike before where they were front an center.

Some old flight ticket is showing before all of my cards and the UI doesn’t let me reorder them and just keeps them there.

How do I fix these odd bugs? I’ve tried restarting my phone and the app.


texts: Silence calls from everyone but a defined set of numbers?

texts:
If I'm on-call, I only want to be woken by important calls or text messages.  How can I set up an iPhone to ring during certain hours only for calls or texts from a certain set of numbers?

If it can't be done using vanilla iPhone apps, is there a 3rd party app that could do it?


texts: Is it possible to have the iPhone automatically open iTunes/sync on one computer and not on others?

texts:
I want to be able to plug my iPhone in to my main computer and have a fire-and-forget sync happen with iTunes automatically. But leaving the box(es) ticked about doing this appears to be a device option, not a computer option. Thus, when connecting to another PC (e.g. just to charge, or grab a photo), I have to wait whilst iTunes starts up and the device does some strange mini-sync (that doesn't seem to actually do anything other than lose track marks, scrobbles etc.). Have I got something set wrong?

Both the main machine used for syncing and the second machine this is most often a problem on are Windows machines. However, I have also seen it happen on a Macbook Air.

The situation which I envisage is:

Computer A is synced to iPhone A
Computer B is synced to iPhone B
User A wants to be able to plug in to computer A, triggering an automatic backup and sync
User B wants to be able to plug in to computer B, triggering an automatic backup and sync
However, User A wants to be able to plug in to Computer B (e.g. to charge, to look at photos) without starting iTunes starting or performing any kind of sync whatsoever.
Likewise for User B on Computer B (or Computer C,D...)


texts: Mac App Store: Downloads just don't start (Mojave)

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I want to download apps in the Mac App Store and the apps won't start to download. As you can see in the pictures below, the spinner starts spinning but nothing gets downloaded, the download simply doesn't start. I am logged in with my account. I tried logging out of the App Store and logging in again, restarting the Mac etc, nothing helped.

This is a relatively fresh installation of Mojave 10.14. Before with High Sierra 10.13 everything worked fine. It's a Late 2013 MacBook Pro 13". Installations are allowed from App Store and identified developers.

Some screenshots from Console output below.


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I've seen a number of references to a folder at ~/Applications, including in a comment on this question. This prompted me to open my home folder on my Lion installation to have a look, and sure enough, there it is, complete with its own folder icon. Checking another machine which is running Snow Leopard showed no such folder.

So, am I right to assume that this is new with Lion, and is the recommended location for self-installed apps? I never have liked cluttering up the system Applications folder with extraneous software, and for that reason store most non-bundled apps in a self-created ~/My Apps folder. That has the advantage of being assignable to the Finder window sidebar without ambiguity, which is more than can be said for ~/Applications.

Finally, as I write this I wonder if the thinking behind ~/Applications is that apps stored there will appear in Launchpad?


texts: Why doesn't crontab run if screensaver is on?

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I want to run a Crontab on OS X 10.11.1 (El Capitan).

I'm running the command:

env EDITOR=nano crontab -e

to enter the crontab with nano as the editor.

Then I create my cronjob that looks like this:

50 */15 * * * touch /home/test.txt

If I go to /home/ there is nothing:

User 15:50:home $ ls -la
total 2
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     1 25 Nov 14:53 .
drwxr-xr-x  31 root  wheel  1122 29 Okt 10:02 ..

Why doesn't the cronjob run if the screensavers is on and screen is locked?


texts:
I am starting to learn XCode, and having a MacBook Pro 2011 with 4Gb of DDR3 ram (Quad Core 2.0 Ghz), it is slow. Am considering of upgrading either my RAM or swapping the HDD for an SSD.

Which would you recommend first and why?


texts: How to migrate iPhone (particularly Calendar) to a new Lion Mac from Snow Leopard

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My main computer is running Snow Leopard, so I am not using any iCloud syncing. It needs to stay on Snow Leopard because of several apps I'm still using that do not work under Lion.

My iPhone and iPad sync to this main computer.

I also have a laptop running Lion, and it does not have my iCal, Notes, Mail, or Address Book entries on it.

I'm not going to have access to my main Mac for about a month.  I don't care a lot about the music in my iTunes library as I plan to leave it on the SL Mac because it has much more disk space, and I can live without it for a month.

However, I need my calendar, notes, and contacts.  In particular, my calendar on my main computer has reminders and to-dos years into the future for legal and regulatory deadlines as well as historical records of when I made such filings, so I have to preserve that. Plus I want day-to-day usage of the calendar to still work.

The change is now I want calendar, contacts, notes, and iTunes all to be hosted on my Lion laptop.  So what's the best way to move the data from my SL Mac to my Lion laptop and get the iPhone and iPad to sync to the laptop?  Particularly since I'm going to want to move them back to the Snow Leopard Mac later.

I've read a lot of articles on how to move the iTunes library over, but because it is so big, I'd prefer not to move over the music.  In any case, just moving the iTunes library is not sufficient.  How do I move the other data over without wiping my laptop or my iPhone?


texts: How to see notifications when running full screen?

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I currently run XBMC/Kodi which runs in fullscreen so OS X notifications do not display on top. When the application is in windowed mode, notifications display as normal. I have looked through the settings and their seems to be no way to change this behavior.

Is anyone aware of a script/plugin/hack that will achieve my goal?


texts:
I've been using vim for as long as I can remember.  Never had a problem, until lately.  For no reason that I can see, colour has stopped working.  First noticed it when editing a Tex file, and I note that indentation is no longer coloured.

I can open my .zshrc file, and indeed any other file, and the same.  No colour.
It's vim 8.2.1900 running on a Mac Mini (10.15.7 (19H15)).  I do not recall any destructive edits of my .vimrc file.
darren@mac ➜  ~  %{egrep "color|colour" .vimrc
ab cgfred
ab cgfgreen
ab cgfblue

Any ideas?
EDIT: no changes or updates.  This is my .vimrc file (with personal stuff removed):
" vimrc settings

" vundle

set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
call vundle#begin()
Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim'

" system settings

let g:auto_save = 1  " enable AutoSave on Vim startup

set mouse=a
set nocompatible
set showmode
autocmd BufEnter *.c,*.cpp,*.h,*.pl,*.pm,*.yml,*.sh,*.php,*.jar,*.sql set cindent
autocmd BufReadPre *.html* set
" autocmd BufReadPre /tmp/pico.*,mutt-* set filetype=mail
autocmd FileType css set smartindent crontab
set fileformats=unix,dos
set autoindent
set tabstop=4
set splitbelow
set history=5000
set undolevels=10000
source ~/.vim/plugin/vimfootnotes.vim
source $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/man.vim
filetype plugin on
filetype indent on
set grepprg=grep\ -nH\ $*
" au BufWinLeave * mkview
" au BufWinEnter * silent loadview
set hidden
set ruler
set showmatch
set background=dark
syntax enable
set wrap
set textwidth=75
set sidescroll=1
" language fr_FR.ISO_8859-15
syntax on

" abbreviations

" for LaTeX
"
" define the plugin
"
" set grepprg=grep\ -nH\ $*
" let g:tex_flavor='latex'
" set sw=2

" for shell
ab sse /bin/echo

" international accent bindings
"
ab lAgrave &Agrave;
ab lagrave &agrave;
ab lCcedil &Ccedil;
ab lccedil &ccedil;
ab lEgrave &Egrave;
ab legrave &egrave;
ab lEacute &Eacute;
ab leacute &eacute;
ab lEtrema &Etrema;
ab letrema &etrema
ab lEcirc &Ecirc;
ab lecirc &ecirc;
ab litrema &itrema;
ab lOtrema &Otrema;
ab lotrema &otrema;
ab locirc &ocirc;
ab lUgrave &Ugrave;
ab lugrave &ugrave;
ab lucirc &ucirc;
ab ˚ &ucirc;
" ab leuro

" C and Objective C Mappings
ab ccbc /**************************************************************************
ab ccec **************************************************************************/
ab ccmain int main(int argc, char** argv) {
ab ccpf printf(" ") ;

" mappings
imap !f <Plug>AddVimFootnote
imap !c <Plug>ReturnFromFootnote
map <F2> :!open .
map <F3> Vzf
imap <F3> <Esc> Vzf
map <F4> zo
imap <F4> <Esc> zo
map <F5> zf
imap <F5> <Esc> zf
map <F6> gqap <CR>
imap <F6> <Esc> gqap <CR>
map <F7> :next <CR>
imap <F7> <Esc> :next <CR>
map <F8> :previous <CR>
imap <F8> <Esc> :previous <CR>

" fold mappings
inoremap <F9> <C-O>za
nnoremap <F9> za
onoremap <F9> <C-C>za
vnoremap <F9> zf

call vundle#end()            " required
filetype plugin indent on    " required

" set  rtp+=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/powerline/bindings/vim/
" set laststatus=2
" set t_Co=256


texts: Video plays in QuickTime but not in Itunes

texts: This video plays just fine in Quicktime but in Itunes the video plays but the screen stays black. The audio however, does play just fine. I think my video has the right codec?


texts: Bootcamp says Disk Could Not Be Partitioned on Catalina Version 10.15.2

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I have macbook air 2015 on Catalina Version 10.15.2 .
So previously I had ran into this issue MacBook filesystem FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF after deleting linux partition
 and thank god I fixed it but I was not able after that to boot into windows 10 it was entering in recovery screen with error code 0xc00000e. So I deleted bootcamp and tried to reinstall it. I download latest windows 10 64 bit iso file and when I tried to install it via bootcamp it says Disk Could Not Be Partitioned!  I tried running first aid from disk utility but it says that there are no problems. I just don't know what to do any help would be appreciated!

macbooks-MacBook-Air:~ macbook$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         250.8 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.8 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     145.4 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 82.4 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.5 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.0 GB    disk1s5

macbooks-MacBook-Air:~ macbook$


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I am trying to install php55 using brew, but when you start installing the dependency 'unixODBC' stops at the last line

this is the message that shows

➜  ~  brew install -vu php55

==> Installing dependencies for php55: unixodbc, homebrew/dupes/zlib
==> Installing php55 dependency: unixodbc
==> Downloading http://www.unixodbc.org/unixODBC-2.3.2.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/unixodbc-2.3.2.tar.gz
==> Verifying unixodbc-2.3.2.tar.gz checksum
tar xf /Library/Caches/Homebrew/unixodbc-2.3.2.tar.gz
==> ./configure --disable-debug --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/unixodbc/2.3.2 --enable-gui=no
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no

 .......MORE......
 .......MORE......
 .......MORE......
 .......MORE......

 -g -O2 -pthread -c -o _iniScanUntilObject.lo _iniScanUntilObject.c
libtool: compile:  clang -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../include -g -O2 -pthread -c _iniPropertyRead.c  -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/_iniPropertyRead.o
libtool: compile:  clang -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../include -g -O2 -pthread -c _iniDump.c  -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/_iniDump.o
libtool: compile:  clang -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../include -g -O2 -pthread -c _iniScanUntilObject.c  -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/_iniScanUntilObject.o
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link clang  -g -O2 -pthread -no-undefined   -o libinilc.la  iniAllTrim.lo iniAppend.lo iniDelete.lo iniClose.lo iniCommit.lo iniObject.lo iniObjectFirst.lo iniObjectLast.lo iniObjectNext.lo iniObjectSeek.lo iniObjectSeekSure.lo iniObjectUpdate.lo iniObjectInsert.lo iniObjectDelete.lo iniObjectEOL.lo iniOpen.lo iniProperty.lo iniPropertyFirst.lo iniPropertyLast.lo iniPropertyNext.lo iniPropertySeek.lo iniPropertySeekSure.lo iniPropertyUpdate.lo iniPropertyInsert.lo iniPropertyDelete.lo iniPropertyEOL.lo iniPropertyValue.lo iniValue.lo iniToUpper.lo iniElement.lo iniElementCount.lo iniGetBookmark.lo iniGotoBookmark.lo iniCursor.lo _iniObjectRead.lo _iniPropertyRead.lo _iniDump.lo _iniScanUntilObject.lo ../extras/libodbcextraslc.la

[stops here]


texts: iPhone and iPad recovery stops with error 14

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yesterday I wanted to update both my iPad and iPhone to iOS 8.0. I usually do this wireless via the phone settings, but yesterday I chose to update from iTunes. So I connected my iPhone 5 to my PC, made a backup and started downloading the newest iOS.

After 30 minutes of downloading it told me something like "The firmware is damaged" and asked me to disconnect the phone from the PC and plug it in again. I've done that, and tried it again. Another 30 minutes later (the downloaded ISPW wasn't saved anywhere, iTunes just disregarded it) the same error popped up.

So I went ahead and downloaded the correct ISPW (iPhone5,2_8.0_12A365) via my browser, which worked. Next I shift-clicked the "Update"-button in iTunes, chose this .ispw and started the update. After fixing a error 3194 (by manipulating my PC's hosts-file) I got my iPhone to start updating for a couple of seconds. Then iTunes terminated the update with an error 14. Now my iPhone is stuck in restore mode and every time I try to update it, it either gets stuck while "restoring iPhone-software" at ~10% (I've been waiting for 20 minutes, the progress bar didn't even move a bit) or stops with the error 14 again.

With my luck I've tried the same thing with my iPad mini (Retina)... Same result, device is now stuck in restore mode and won't update due to error 14.

I've tried another PC, another cable, another USB port, switching it into DFU-mode (it jumps right back into restore), nothing worked.

I've been trying to fix it for the last 5 hours, but hadn't had any luck so far. I hope someone can assist me.


texts: After resetting default keychain, I cannot connect to Wi-Fi I used at that time

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I was going to install vim on Xcode; and I saw I've gotta reset default keychains (or something like this; system language is not set to English) and I did so.

The wireless access point I connected when I reset keychain stopped working; but other aps work as usual. The system says it cannot connect to Wi-Fi network and suggests to start diagnosis.

The diagnosis didn't give me any solution and I have no idea to solve this. Other computers successfully work with that Wi-Fi though. How can I get my computer connected to Wi-Fi?


texts: stderr error log from launchd scripts filled with non-errors

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I've added versions of the following to each of the launchd plist files for all of the scripts I run on my server:

<key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/script_logs/server.domain_expiration.error.log</string>

These are all PHP shell scripts, so I capture standard output with an output buffer and store that in an SQL database, not in a log file. But for the errors, I use this to create error logs.

The problem is that what I'm getting in my error logs is often not errors. For example, the error log for my launchd VPN script writes every incoming VPN connection to the error log.

2019-05-04 06:33:43 EDT Server 'com.apple.ppp.l2tp' starting...
2019-05-04 06:33:43 EDT Loading plugin /System/Library/Extensions/L2TP.ppp
2019-05-04 06:33:43 EDT Listening for connections...
2019-05-04 06:34:23 EDT Incoming call... Address given to client = [redacted]
2019-05-04 06:35:21 EDT    --> Client with address = [redacted] has hungup
2019-05-04 06:35:35 EDT Incoming call... Address given to client = [redacted]

That doesn't look like error output. That looks like regular old normal, no problem output. The two "calls" were me connecting and disconnecting from the VPN normally.

What is going on here? It's possible I'm not fully understanding what stderr and stdout actually are. Does this make sense to anyone?

I'll have more examples in a few hours once more scripts run, as I have intentionally flushed all these logs.


texts: How do I copy multiple files to macOS's clipboard programmatically?

texts:
I ultimately want to have a bash function to-clipboard which gets file paths and copies the files to the clipboard. Using other scripting languages as helpers is okay. I currently have this for copying a single file:

file-to-clipboard() {
    osascript \
        -e 'on run args' \
        -e 'set the clipboard to POSIX file (first item of args)' \
        -e end \
        "$@"
}

There is this Applescript that supposedly can copy multiple files, but I don't like it at all:

set f to {(POSIX file "/path/to/a/folder/a.png"), (POSIX file "/path/to/another/folder/b.png")}
tell application "Finder"
    try -- to delete any old temp folder
        delete folder "AS_mailCopy" of (path to temporary items)
    end try
    set tmp to make new folder at (path to temporary items) with properties {name:"AS_mailCopy"}
    duplicate f to tmp
    select files of tmp
    activate
    tell application "System Events" to keystroke "c" using command down
    delete tmp
end tell

Related question:

Copying files to the clipboard using applescript


texts: Macbook and Bluedio T7+ volume synchronizing problem

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro 2020 (Big Sur) and a Bluedio T7+ headset.
The T7+ has own volume management and Big Sur has its own volume management. When I connect the headset over the bluetooth, then Big Sur is setting the headset's volume. It must not synchronize headset's volume, Big Sur must use operation system's volume management. How can I stop this feature? Big Sur must not set my headset's volume.


texts:
I have been searching and I didn't find an optimal solution for my problem. I have some apps purchased from the Mac App Store (Pixelmator, GarageBand), and other ones installed (Xcode).

I want to know is there an efficient way to backup this apps, and reinstall them after I do a fresh install of my system.

P.S. I want to do this because Xcode's download size is too big, and my internet connection isn't the better around... Same with other apps.


texts: Im trying to use xcrun altool to get my app notarised, what is --asc-provider parameter?

texts:
I'm trying to notarise my app from apple using xcrun altool, the documentation shows the following :
xcrun altool --notarize-app
--primary-bundle-id "com.example.ote.zip"
--username "AC_USERNAME"
--password "@keychain:AC_PASSWORD"
--asc-provider <ProviderShortname>
--file OvernightTextEditor_11.6.8.zip
but I couldn't find the parameter to provide to the --asc-provider can any one let me know what it is and where to search for that parameter. All other parameters I have found and fine. Help me out I'm new to mac.


texts:
Can I place a scrolling text box on a slide in Keynote?

By default, the "Text" items do not scroll. Any added text that flows beyond the edge of the slide is hidden (truncated).


texts: Synchronizing iPhone and Mail.app inboxes

texts:
I have IMAP configured on both my iPhone 3G and MacBook and I have push enabled on my iPhone.

When I receive an email and read it on my MacBook, shouldn't it mark it as unread on the iPhone too?

I didn't really notice it before, but recently, it has been annoying me that once I have viewed them on my MacBook I have to view them on my iPhone to mark then as read.
Just checking for new mail in the iPhone doesn't suffice.

Is there a way to make sure the changes on the Mail.app inbox are applied immediately to the iPhone?

I have my own email servers on my own domain(maquib.com hosted on dreamhost). My brother who also has an account and configured the same way has also noticed this.

Here are some screenshots of how my iPhone and Mac are configured:


texts: I tried to install a macOS High Sierra update, but I got the error "An error occurred installing macOS" and thus I decided to erase the Installer.app and dmg on my drive. Now every time I close my Mac it shuts down and tries to boot from the macOS Installer boot, but because I erased the update I get the "No Symbol sign". I restart my mac and use the power key + Option to boot into my actual boot, but I don't seem to find someone who knows how to erase that boot, is there a way you can help me out?


texts: How to wirelessly mirror a MacBook onto a smart tv without Apple TV?

texts:
It seems like Apple wants me to spend 200 USD on an Apple TV just to wirelessly mirror my MacBook's display onto my smart tv.

Is there really no way to get around this? I'm not afraid of technical solutions.


texts:
My Mac Pro (El Capitan) has an issue that happens quite often.  Every morning I expect to have to force quit applications and restart, in order to get the day rolling.  It's a routine that I've become accustomed to performing, to get the computer into working order.  I need to fix this.  If you have any ideas how I can chase this down, please let me know.
In the morning there is usually a dialog box indicating my startup SSD, which usually has ~50GB free space, is close to zero free space, and has had to shut down applications for this reason.  Some process(es) is running and writing over the space.  The restart flushes this space as if nothing happened.  Through my trials and observations, I've seen no visible file(s) that are increasing in size, or any files that are obviously out of control.
So this is what I have done.  I have a script that takes a screenshot of my desktop (main display) which has a finder window open of the screenshots (list view) with the available space on the startup drive.  I also have the Activity Monitor window above it, with the Disk tab open, with the launchd process selected.  This shows Bytes Written, Bytes Read and other statistics which are not relevant.  This is what I have come up with so far, in order to find the culprit.
I have seen that launchd writes more and more overnight.  I have a handful of crons that I'm checking, but I don't see why they would have a progressing decay as I've witnessed.  My scripts are quick and done with in a short amount of time.  None of them are kept alive.
At this point I don't know what to watch, and how to integrate the terminal to write/log any observations that might point out what's going on.  I have a recent Etrecheck report HERE.
I guess I'm looking for any insight into how to resolve this issue ideally.  If anybody has any ideas how I can monitor what's going on, that's a step in the right direction.  Cheers


texts:
I'm about to buy an iPad, but I don't want to, if in 6 months, the new version has cooler features like retina display.

Is there a chance for it to happen? Or should I buy it now, and just, enjoy it for the next months.


texts:
So, I am have been on a quest lately to secure laptops used by children & help with a small school computer lab.

They are split between Macs & Ubuntu (Linux).

One of my first rules was to leverage a restricted DNS provider to prevent (well, minimize) the chance of the kids visiting porn. It worked great on Ubuntu as I just ran this command on all computers:

echo "nameserver 185.228.168.168" > /etc/resolv.conf ; chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

This forces the 185.228.168.168 nameserver (used by cleanbrowsing ) and sets the file as immutable, so nobody can change it.

Easy to automate and applies across all wifi networks. However, on the Mac, it does not work. It seems that they stopped using the resolv.conf file and you have to go through the UI to set it. However, the problem is that anyone can change it and you have to configure it PER WIFI network.

Q: Does anyone know a way to force a name server across all Wi-Fi networks on the Mac? Preferably through the terminal, so I can SSH into all of them and configure? If we can set it as immutable, so kids can't change, it would be ideal.

Appreciate the help!

*I know that I can do do that via the router DHCP/DNS and force to all computers, but due to some other technical challenges, I can't do it from there.


texts: How to change or delete Personal Hotspot password on Mac side?

texts:
My Mac and my old iPhone 6 used to work with personal hotspot just fine.

I replaced my old iPhone 6 with an iPhone 7 and transferred all my apps and data from the 6 to the 7.  Most things worked fine, but not Hotspot.

My Mac remembers my old iPhone 6 and remembers the Hotspot password for that old connection. I think that my Mac thinks the new iPhone 7 is the old iPhone 6 because they have the same name. The Mac shows the Personal Hotspot item in the Wifi menu, where it used to work. When I select the item, the Mac tries to connect using the old password. Now, if I remembered the old password, I could change it on the new iPhone 7 side, but I don't remember the old password.

I can see the password on the iPhone 7, and I want to input that password on the Mac. But I can't find the place on the Mac where I can delete the old password, or change it, or delete the Hotspot item and have it try again from scratch. It just keeps pounding away and telling me "failed to enable Personal Hotspot..."

I tried Personal Hotspot through WiFi. I tried Personal Hotspot through Bluetooth. I tried rebooting.

I just want to find the data on the Mac side and change or delete it (I think if I delete it then the Mac will try again from scratch and prompt me for my password).

EDIT: I found the iPhone entry under the Network -> Advanced -> Wifi gadget and deleted it.  Still "failed to enable."


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On OS X Mavericks, I want to install few files without prompting user for sudo password. (Folder where i am trying to install require root access because it is present at / location). I can do this by modifying "sudoer" file and disable sudo password but this is unsafe and open up security risk.

Is there any way I can provide sudo access only a particular folder? So when I try to write to this folder, sudo password prompt is not visible to user.

(All above task are done through command line)


texts: Why is steps count different in Health and Activity App in my iPhone?

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As apparent, the steps count appear out of sync in Health and Activity app when viewed at the same time. Both are first party apps.

What is the reason for discrepancy?


texts: When will Endnote X4 for Mac be compatible with Word for Mac 2011?


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When trying to access a couple of high-profile websites (*.apple.com, twitter.com) via HTTPS, they've since recently been getting their certificates rejected by some client apps (Chrome, App Store, curl) but not by others (Safari, Firefox, wget, lynx).

This is a bit paralyzing, because with App Store unable to talk to identity.apple.com I can't get OS updates anymore.

I'm running OSX 10.9.5 on a 2013 rMBP. I'm not aware of having made any major changes in the system recently. Not using any network-sniffing or otherwise unusual software. I haven't been messing with stored certificate-authority data - I wouldn't even quite know how to do that. I do have Homebrew-installed OpenSSL, if that changes anything.

Could anyone help me fix this?


texts: How can I tell when Finder is done searching?

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I don't see any progress indicator, and the title of the window says:

Searching "[Directory]"

Is there supposed to be something that happens to let me know when the search is complete?  On some large directories (tens of thousands of files in hundreds of sub-directories) I know the search isn't complete, because it hasn't found files that I know are there, and I usually give up before it finds them.  So on a directory with less files it is rather concerning to see no indication if the search is done yet or not, especially when nothing has been found that I hope will be found, but am not sure if will.


texts: Share iCloud Family Calendar with Outlook

texts: My wife and I use the iCloud shared Family calendar for scheduling family events. I would like to be able to view this calendar from my work Outlook account. Is there some way to share the calendar with non-Apple calendar applications?


texts: How to paste today's date *and initials* with keyboard shortcut?

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This question will be asked and answered, thanks to the contributors to this previous question.

I am on High Sierra OS X.

I want to be able to hit some keyboard shortcut and then have today's date and my initials inserted into text. This will be a date stamp used when making entries into a CRM database.


texts: Why is OS X Maverics upgrade size the same as a fresh install?

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I have OSX 10.7 that came installed on my MacBook by default, and decided to upgrade to 10.9 Mavericks.

The download is ~5GB in size, if I have a network disconnect I am worried it will begin form the start. Is there a way I cam download the upgrade of smaller size or do I have to get new installation in any case, and then how should I have a resumable download?


texts: Why do i need a new email account to sync my notes in iCloud?

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I'm trying to sync Notes from mac to iPhone. But when I turn on Notes in iCoud, it says that I require an iCloud email address. This is unexpected since my Gmail account is alreadyh linked with my iCloud account.

Why is an iCloud email address required to sync Notes?

(I'm able to sync Reminders with no problems.)


texts:
Can I remove one song from my iTunes account so that it doesn't appear on my iPhone without disabling Show All?

Muse made their upcoming album Drones available for preorder at the same time that they made one of its tracks, Psycho, available for purchase so, instantly, I bought Psycho from iTunes and, later on, preordered the Deluxe Edition of Drones from muse.mu. I then found out that the Deluxe Edition of Drones comes with digital downloads of any singles that have been or will be released which I initially ignored as I already owned Psycho but I later realised that the MP3 file had a much higher bitrate than the iTunes file. So, I deleted the iTunes file but, when I play Drones on repeat. Psycho plays twice because iTunes is streaming the track attached to my account and then playing the local, as you can see here:


texts: may I demand product replacement? Macbook Pro Retina will have screen replacement for the 3rd time

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may I demand product replacement - completely new Macbook Pro Retina?
My 15" Macbook Pro Retina will have screen replacement for the 3rd time.
For the first time it was ghost effect - replaced with new screen,
for the second time bad pixel - replaced with new screen,
and now there is once more bad pixel - maybe it is the time for WHOLE COMPUTER replacment?
Do you know some of the Apple's polices in this area?
May I even demand the warranty coverage prolongation? One such replacement is about one week without computer...
Additionaly to bad pixels something like presented on the picture started happening...
UPDATE regarding ghost effect issue:
http://youtu.be/KdhIA8-UIRQ
The video shows that only the LG-Panels are affected. Unfortunately it seems that the chance of getting a Samsung panel is only about 1/3.
You want to know what kind of Panel/Display your Retina Macbook has?
Simply start your Mac OS X Terminal and type in the following command:
ioreg -lw0 | grep \"EDID\" | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6

Model numbers beginning with "LP" indicate an LG display.
A number beginning with "LSN" corresponds to a Samsung display

VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE (2015-02-19):
MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15 inch, Early 2013)
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/
Symptoms

An affected MacBook Pro may display one or more of the following
symptoms:
Distorted or scrambled video on the computer screen
No video on the computer screen (or external display) even though the computer is on
Computer restarts unexpectedly


texts: How do I delete data for one game in the iPad Game Center?

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I have one particular game that saves data through the game center. Somehow the saved game data got messed up which causes the game not to work properly when I a connected to the internet (I.e. When the game center is accessible).

Is there some way to delete all the data belonging to that game only?


texts: The sudo dmesg command works fine, but shows no timestamp. Is there any way to get it to show the timestamps as well?


texts:
The iPhone 6S plus has no dictionary. No matter which app I'm in. If I highlight a word and ask to define it it shows no results. I click manage to try add dictionary and nothing shows up. There is no list just an empty page. This happens in EVERY app. How can this be rectified?

I have tried resetting keyboard dictionary, reset all settings, restoring the phone. All to no avail.


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I have trouble printing documents. I'm not sure whether the problem comes from macOS or whether it comes from the printer, but I'd like to be able to be assisted to figure out what's not working.
I'm using Big Sur. I have added a (wireless) network printer. When I print a new document, a "processing" window appears, and then disappears when it's finished. The job queue is empty. Printing a document triggers a green light (as in, 'ready', meaning the printer was woken up from its sleep state), which means that the communication is working.
The printer is a M2020 Series.
If I go to general settings - Printers & Scanners - Option & Supplies - show printer page, it opens a web page containing correct printer information. From there, if I print the network configuration, it works.
Why is it that I can't print documents ?
Thx


texts: Does a USB-C dock connected to an external display leverage display link or a native graphics driver?

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I'm looking at this Belkin USB-C dock to use with a MacBook Pro 2017.

I'm aware there are some docks that use a display link driver that relies on the CPU to connect an external display via a USB connection. This works, but takes up part of the CPU capacity in doing it.

Does the dock above use a display link driver, or does it rely on the native graphics driver ?


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I'm using Dropbox and replacing some of the standard user folders like Documents and Pictures with symlinks to locations in my Dropbox. I can easily set the icons of these symlinks to match the icons of the standard Documents and Pictures folders, but I can't find a way to also change the symlinks' appearance on the Finder sidebar to look like the native Documents and Pictures folders.

In short, I've placed custom folders in the Finder sidebar; is there a way to change the icons they're given?

I've looked into Candybar, but it seems like that's mostly for changing the appearance of all appearances of the standard icons, whereas I just want to make a plain and ordinary folder look like a standard user folder.


texts: My find/replace text magically changes in Xcode

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I had a project wide find/replace search all set up yesterday in my Xcode project. Today when I get back to Xcode (without restarting or touching it in any way) the search text has changed. The weirdest thing is that the search text is now the same as a text search I made today in Google Chrome(!). I know for a fact that I haven't searched for "shipping costs" in my Xcode project.

Could someone explain what's going on? I don't particularly like it when applications throw away my data and I would like to prevent this from happening again.


texts: Sorting through windows that are grouped together

texts:
I have a number of open windows that belong to the same program (preview). I would like to easily and quickly flick between these open windows, but I have found this frustratingly difficult to do using Mission Control. It's fine for windows that are grouped separately, but when they are grouped together it becomes much more difficult to select a window. I know there's a keyboard shortcut to cycle between windows, but It would be nice to have them more clearly displayed in Mission Control. There's the five finger open hand swipe gesture that can be used to spread out the windows a bit, however, I find that it doesn't separate the windows sufficiently, and the gesture is temperamental in itself.

Are there any modifications, work arounds, selection commands or anything that could make window selection easier?

Examples of grouping:

This is mission control with separately grouped windows. Selecting an individual window or window group is easy.

A single pdf is difficult to select with grouped preview windows.

The five finger swipe doesn't separate the windows clearly. It is still difficult to select an individual pdf when many instances are open.


texts: Why does Launchpad not remember my icon settings?

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I'm trying to use the Launchpad feature in Mac OS X, but my icons keep on getting rearranged.

I'll manually move icons around to my liking, but then after a restart, many of them are automatically rearranged to a different order than what I specified.

Note: It doesn't add an icon to a folder nor does it remove an icon from a folder. I've only seen it rearrange folders or icons which aren't in folders.

Why is this happening, and is there any way to fix it?


texts: I'd like to know if it is possible to restrict playback of certain content in iTunes. I know it can be done when using Apple TV 2/3 but can't seem to find a way to do it in iTunes itself. I can tag the media files using MetaX or MetaZ, these tags show up in iTunes but I can't seem to limit playback of films to only 'U' for example. Anyone got any ideas?


texts: Notifications for Messages keep turning back on in Yosemite

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I want to disable banners/notifications in OSX Yosemite.

The problem is the notifications keep getting reset to the default.  This has happened twice since installing Yosemite on release day.

This is annoying as my work computer is showing private messages when clients are being showed something on my laptop!.


texts: Can the Time Capsule back up multiple drives (internal and external) at the same time?

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I have a 500 GB internal HDD on my MacBook Pro and a second 500 GB external USB drive as well.

Is it possible to tell Time Machine to back both the internal and external drives up to one Time Capsule?


texts: Prevent the slide-out from appearing in fullscreen safari

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In full-screen Safari 13.0.5, when I move my mouse cursor to the left of the window, a sidebar slides out showing my reading list and bookmarks.

Often I was intending to click something at the left of the window, or just accidentally moved my cursor there. Then the slideout ends up interrupting my action or blocking my view of the web page.

How do I stop this sidebar from appearing when my mouse is at the left of the display?

This upvoted answer for macOS El Capitan (apparently) doesn't work for me.


texts: How do I create a home screen button with a tel:// URI?

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I can create a home screen button with a tel:// uri using Apple Configurator, but this requires installing a profile on the phone and is not that straight forward.

What I would like to do is create a home screen button with and icon that is my picture and that when tapped invokes a tel URI instead of an HTTP URI without mucking about with custom profiles and the Apple Configurator.

It would be best, of course, if this was something I could walk someone (an older someone) through over the phone or with a Clarify document.

(I have elderly parents and inlaws that are now finding making calls on their iPhones confusing, and they can never seem to find the favorites tab in the phone application. A simple button would solve this, for now).


texts: What app/feature/software is this microphone image from?

texts: What is this microphone image from? It appeared on my friend's MacBook and she can't figure it out.


texts: Do Custom EULAs also need to include everything from Apple's standard EULA?

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My app recently got rejected from the App Store because of the following reasons.

Require that users agree to terms (EULA) and these terms must make it clear that there is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users
A method for filtering objectionable content
A mechanism for users to flag objectionable content
A mechanism for users to block abusive users

I am trying to set up my custom EULA but I am wondering if I need to include everything from Apple's standard EULA or is everything from Apple's standard EULA included when I make a custom EULA? Do I need to have a popup when a user signs up inside the app, or is having it in App Store Connect all I need?


texts: Cant install OS X Sierra: requires OS X Server update?

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I have a late 2012 Mac Mini, whose compatibility with Sierra I have verified. The Mac Mini is currently on OS X El Capitan. I am trying to update it to Sierra and when I get to the step of selecting the destination disk, I get a popup that says:

"macOS Sierra supports macOS Server version 5.2. To upgrade your server data you will first need to install OS X 10.10 or 10.11 and OS X Server version 4 or 5."

There is no Server app installed in the machine. Maybe it was installed before my time under another account and then uninstalled.

What can I do to upgrade to Sierra without having to install the Server app? I have to upgrade to install the latest Xcode etc.


texts: Charging a USB type-c equipped MacBook Pro with a non-Mac charger - would it harm the battery?

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I've realised that I'm able to charge my new USB type-c ported MacBook Pro using an iPad charger (with a 3rd party cable) and also I can use my old Google Nexus 5X fast charger which has USB type-c port too.

Using these charges keep my laptops battery on level - no charge, no discharge.

My question is, if I keep using them, would they harm the battery?

Update:
+ 1 question: What's the case when my power supply is just below the amount required by the system? I mean, the slowly gets depleted. Could this extend battery life by reducing cycle count?


texts:
I converted many media files in iTunes to be suited to iPod.
Now I have all the selected files along with the converted files (unselected).

I now want to invert selection so I can easily delete all the old files. How do I do this?


texts: iOS 10.3.1 - Apple iPhone - Photos app shows 295 images; none found on device internal storage

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I am using iOS 10.3.1 on iPhone 5S.

When I connect to my Windows 10 PC using USB and view the device in Windows Explorer, I can navigate to the iPhone\Internal Storage\DCIM\ folder - which is empty (I recently moved all my other photos onto hard disk).

When I open Photos app on the iPhone, I see 295 images.

They all appear in "My Albums" in the album "iPhone".

I do not have the option to delete the image. When I tap tools I see "This photo is not editable. Do you want to duplicate it and edit a copy?" with the option to 'Duplicate and Edit'.

Is there any way to retrieve these images via Windows Explorer interface? Must I manually 'Duplicate and Edit' all 295 images in order to have a copy to backup via Windows Explorer file system?

I am trying to backup all images from the device before I reset to factory original settings and list for sale.


texts: I am getting an error 'pack with invalid duration' using ffmpeg with concat on Yosemite

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I am executing:

ffmpeg -i concat:"intro.mp4|movie.mp4" -codec copy output.mp4

and am getting error:

[mp4 @ 0x7fc5f984ae00] Packet with invalid duration -1975 in stream 1

I can't seem to figure out what the problem is. The files are both H.264 AAC.

Can someone explain what causes this error?


texts: How to add a variable in Automator in "To:" field from Mail?

texts: I need to pass a variable in Automator in "To:" field from Mail, but I see that it is only supported in the Subject line or Message.


texts: Keyboard shortcut to sleep a Mac's touchbar

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I am looking for a quick way to make the touchbar go to sleep, without having to wait.

When I use my computer in a dark environment I don’t know how to disable the bright touchbar. I just want to see what’s on the screen, no extraneous information is needed.


texts: Does a Boot Camped Windows alongside a Mac OS X partition profit from a Fusion drive like Mac OS X does?

texts:
While writing an answer to this question Should I defrag my SSD before creating a partition for Boot Camp? i wondered if a Boot Camped Windows profits from a Fusion drive like OS X on the same drive in the sense of faster read/write access does.

The condition are clear for a pure SSD as well as for a common spinning HD.
In the first case a Windows installation profits like Mac OS X, in the second case the performance is slightly degraded because the Windows partition is almost always situated at the innermost "slower" parts of the disk.

But what's the case with a Fusion drive?


texts: I am getting Out of variable memory error alert in iPhone 4S. I have tried resetting all settings. But this alert keeps on popping up with accept or cancel buttons. I was also not able to find anything from usage logs. There is also a badge in Setting icon but i am not able to find out from where this badge comes. Th version is 5.0.1. This alert comes frequently. Please Help.


texts: I am working on a script that puts in strings of text into a document, and I was wondering how you would have apple script input the keystroke "Option-Return"


texts: Why does backslash work for file or folder names, but question mark less so?

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I created a HTML file as this name on Sierra 10.12.6: test\55.html and it showed up in the address bar of Firefox as:
Users/MYNAME/Desktop/test\55.html

I then made a duplicate as test?\55.html and it rendered in the browser as:
Users/MYNAME/Desktop/test%3F\55.html

If naming files, why does backslash seem to work?  I know forward slash (/) doesn't and renders as :: in Finder, but for backslash and question mark, why do these work in Finder and should they be avoided in filenames?
I'm on HFS, not APFS, so does this relate to it, and in Mojave, would the problems around these not exist?
If anyone can answer I'd be grateful for this; done some basic research but am not fully sure.


texts: Mojave upgrade complete, but warning that Server is out of date?

texts: I received a OS X "Server" update from the store a few days ago.  Something about prepping for Mojave.  I've now done the Mojave update too.  Every boot I get a big warning box about my version of Server not being supported anymore.  Nothing new in the store so far.  What can I do to fix this?


texts: Is there a way to make the iPadOS scrollbar permanently visible across apps?

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See the title. I’m using a mouse1 with my iPad (as of iOS 13.4). The lack of persistently visible scroll bars2 across apps (e.g. in Notes) is reducing my productivity, as I have to do a pointless scroll wheel manoeuver to make it appear (exacerbated by the fact that the hidden scrollbars do not become visible when touching the right hand margin).

So e.g. is there a setting like on the Mac to make the scrollbar always visible?

1:  Not an Apple Magic mouse, but various mice with scroll wheels
2:  Including the standard, dedicated margin above & below the scrollbar acting as a page up & down hit target


texts: El Capitan incompatible with Mad Catz Editor

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I upgraded my Macbook Pro to OSX 10.11 El Capitan but sadly the mapping software for my Mad Catz Mouse (M.M.O.7) does not start anymore.

Crash Report

Process:               editor [33209]
Path:                  /Applications/Mad Catz Editor.app/Contents/MacOS/editor
Identifier:            com.madcatz.MadCatz.editor
Version:               1.0 (1.1.69)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           editor [33209]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2015-10-07 13:41:42.846 +0200
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.11 (15A284)
Report Version:        11
Anonymous UUID:        8B5B6605-7448-4DDA-627C-11145BEF80FE

Sleep/Wake UUID:       4D337680-5145-4CF7-B785-93E78B39BE4D

Time Awake Since Boot: 100000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       17000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[MCProfile profile]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x10042c350'
abort() called
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException

Application Specific Backtrace 1:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8b3a7bd2 __exceptionPreprocess + 178
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff866ac4fa objc_exception_throw + 48
2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8b4110ed -[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 205
3   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8b3183d1 ___forwarding___ + 1009
4   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8b317f58 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 120
5   MCDeviceLib.dylib                   0x0000000100041587 -[MCProfile checkName] + 119

The result is that I have a lot of hovering problem (hover event does not fire anymore) and shortcuts macros do not work at all.

Does anyone have a workaround ?

I contacted the Mad Catz team via Facebook and Twitter 2 days ago and I still have no answer.


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I installed a new keyboard then deleted it now I've lost all my emoji off my standered keyboard just got a-z 0-9 #+=

Someone help please?


texts:
I am following instructions for creating a Bootable drive (generously provided in this answer by a gentleman named David Anderson). I am using a 16GB SD card to try to create a Bootable drive from my MacBook running Catalina.

The instructions could be simplified by doing a Restore using the Disk Utility to the external drive (SD card or flash drive), with BaseSystem.dmg being the restore source.

The problem is that when I try this, I get the following error (also see screenshot)

  Could not validate sizes – Operation not permitted. The operation
  couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error 1.)

What does this mean? Is there a better way to fix this than the one given in David Anderson's answer. Or, can the asr command be made to work reliably, so the Disk Utility would not have to be used?


texts: T2 Mac with empty internal storage won't boot from install USB

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Every year or so I like to do a fresh install of Mac OS on my machines. The method I've always used is to download the OS from the App Store, create an installable USB with Terminal, boot into the USB, format the internal storage and then install.
This has not worked on my most recent Mac, which is a 2018 Intel Mac mini (the only one I have with a T2 chip). It first wouldn't let me boot into the USB due to a security restriction, so I rebooted into recovery mode and formatted the internal storage there. Before restarting I attempted to restart to the USB with Target Disk Mode, but it wouldn't pick up my USB within about a minute of waiting (maybe I should've waited longer) so I just restarted it normally and tried once again to boot to the USB on startup.
Every time I select the USB device on startup, it falls back to internet recovery mode. The yellow USB drive icon just instantly turns into the globe and prompts me to connect to WiFi. I've tried this method a few times but it sounds like any blip in the connection causes it to give up, and this has happened to me 4 times now. Is there any reason why a T2 Mac with no OS would not boot to a USB device? Is there anything else I can do besides retry internet recovery until it finally downloads everything in one go?
Thanks!
UPDATE: I did eventually get Internet Recovery working. See my answer below


texts: Brand new external hard drive formatted exFAT is mounted read only

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I bought a new HDD, formatted as exFAT with mac.
I moved files from my laptop to the HDD (moved, I mean, I also deleted them).
It happened with a directory it got stucked. I quit the process of copying that directory.
I tried to trash and erase trash. I could not erase it.
I tried eject from Finder. It could not.
I unplugged - when there were no process active.

I tried to plug, and could not mount.
I discover apple run fsck automatically. I kill the process, used diskutil to mount the volume, unmount and eject.

I tried to plug and mount and again.
Now the volume is mounted, but Read only.
S.M.A.R.T. not verified.

So I launch fsck - I don't know when it will finish, there are (estimated) about million files, HDD is 4T.

I m confident disk is ok, since brand new.

Please advice on how get rid of read-only and steps to mount exFAT external HDD properly in mac, want to prevent automatic fsck - also because fsck is taking forever, and not sure it could repare anything if in read-only mode.
FSCK is stuck at checking system hierarchy:

    diskutil list

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            499.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:       Microsoft Basic Data myHDD                 4.0 TB     disk1s2

sudo fsck_exfat /dev/disk1s2
fsck_exfat: Opened /dev/rdisk1s2 read-only
** Checking volume.
** Checking main boot region.
** Checking system files.
** Volume name is luigi4T.
** Checking upper case translation table.
** Checking file system hierarchy.

Mac OS 1.9.5


texts: I can't add/resize a partition with more than 36 GB - there is plenty of free space

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I wish to install Linux and shrink my existing volumes + add a new partition with 600 GB for Linux.
diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         2.0 TB     disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +2.0 TB     disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            15.3 GB    disk1s1
   2:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 15.3 GB    disk1s1s1
   3:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     1.1 TB     disk1s2
   4:                APFS Volume Preboot                 520.9 MB   disk1s3
   5:                APFS Volume Recovery                622.1 MB   disk1s4
   6:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s5

The UI (Disk Utility) does not allow me to create more than 36 GB partition. I can't fill out the number.
free disk space not the issue:

current setup in UI:

add partition for Linux

not allowed to enter custom number bigger than 36 GB.


texts: Mac Chess app crashes each time i open it

texts:
Some days ago I played a few Chess games on the built-in chess app. But now each time i open up chess it does these steps:

It makes the mouse a spinning color wheel
The app crashes
It says that 'Chess quit unexpectedly'

What can i do to fix this?


texts: Trackpad Gestures - Three-finger swipe unresponsive until I use two-finger scroll (OS X Lion)

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Sometime within the last week or so, I noticed this really weird glitch with my trackpad. I have always used the three-finger swipe to navigate forwards and backwards on web browsers, between tabs in my terminal, from the album view to the main iTunes display, etc. However, for some reason my trackpad is not responding to this gesture when I first select a given window, but as soon as I use the two-finger scroll in any direction, it suddenly starts working as normal.

I've tested it in every application I use the gesture for, and it's the same in all of them. It was definitely not doing this a few weeks ago, and I haven't changed any system preferences since then. It's also incredibly annoying and slowing down my workflow, so I'm trying to troubleshoot the issue.

I've tried changing the swipe from three finger to two finger, but the problem persisted. Google has turned up nothing, so I'm just hoping someone might have an idea what could be causing it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: Comma in 1000 separate in Excel app does not work

texts: Even i check the box "use 1000 separate (,)" but nothing is shown in the number. Please Help


texts: What's this "keep" function appearing next to each message in the new iOS 10 iMessages app? Where does it "save" messages (if it does) and how to get rid of the "saved" ones?


texts:
I'm trying to install Jekyll, a simple, blog-aware, static site generator.  When I attempted to run the terminal command gem install jekyll, I got this error:

I then tried to update my RubyGems, using the command sudo gem update --system.  That didn't work.  Hopefully, I don't have to re-install Ruby.  What a headache that would be!


texts: Can I browse all the words in single list view in the Mavericks dictionary?

texts:
So I'm riding the Mavericks to a rodeo - OS X 10.9.2 :)

The built-in dictionary is way cool, but is there a way to browse all the words in the dictionary? Like, there will be a list of all words on the left of the screen, from "A" to the very last word, say "zygote (or not^^)". So can I browse all words, rather than look up a certain word?


texts: Any Problem in Letting iPhone 4 Battery Drop to 0?

texts:
Is there any problem if I let my iphone 4 battery drops to 0%? I remember for older smartphones, once your battery flattens out all your data is lost, because they are stored in memory.

While I understand that iphone shouldn't have this problem, but I wonder whether is there any problem if the battery goes flat?


texts: How to avoid iTerm2 switching screens before opening hotkey window

texts:
I've configured a fullscreen hotkey window as follows

If I hit the hotkey when the current desktop is a native full screen app, before opening the hotkey window, the desktop is changed to the first, free (not fullscreen) desktop.
Is there a way to prevent that? I want terminal to just open as an overlay without the annoying desktop change animation.
Using iTerm2 Build 3.4.4


texts: Delete list of sign-in names from dropdown menu on log-in page

texts:
I'm using Google Chrome and whenever I want to login to a forum site, a dropdown with a list of misspelled and wrong names gets displayed as soon as I click on the username field.

How do I delete the list of the different usernames, leaving only the corect one there?


texts: How to differentiate between applications with the same name in applescripts

texts:
I'm trying to use tell application "Google Chrome" in order to script the OS X Chrome app, but this keeps being interpreted as referring to a virtual application with the same name which refers to the windows "Google Chrome" inside a parallels desktop virtual machine. (Parallels Desktop automatically creates dummy OS X applications corresponding to all of the windows programs, so that they can appear running in the OS X dock etc.)

How could I differentiate between applications of the same name in such tell statements, based on the application path or some other attribute?


texts: Why does text appear blurry when zooming in Safari until you release your fingers from the trackpad?

texts: This has been bothering me for a while. When you zoom in Safari (Mac) using the pinch gesture, the text is only anti-aliased after finishing the gesture, not in realtime. Why not?


texts: 4K monitor on a non-retina mid-2012 Macbook Pro

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I am planning on buying a 4K monitor. I currently have a mid-2012 Non-retina Macbook Pro. I know I won't be able to run on the 4K monitor full-res. I don't mind. I was thinking of using SwitchRes (a software that allows you to scale up and down your mac resolution), to run in 2K resolution on that 4K monitor.

Would it work? Will I be able to run at around 60hz in 2K resolution on a 4K monitor?

The reason I'm not buying a 2k monitor, is that I'm planning on upgrading my computer in 1 or 2 year. And that computer will have a better graphic card and compatibility with 4K displays, so I'm thinking long term here.

But I need to know if I can do what I'm planning with my current macbook pro and that 4K monitor, or if it won't work.

Thanks a lot!


texts: IPad mail app does not show old emails – I can't mark them all as read

texts: I have started using my iPad again after long inactivity. The mail app shows 7,288 unread email. I would like to get rid of that red number, the problem is that the mail app does not load old email – and so I can't mark them as read. By the way, is there a way to mark ALL that 7,288 as read in one go?


texts: After Security Update 2019-003, OpenLDAP is corrupted. How can I recover?

texts:
I installed the Security Update 2019-003 this morning. The update went awry, and produced on (postgres) induced panic on the host, a second attempt succeeded. After the update, slapd will not launch anymore.

I've tried restoring /private/var/db/{krb5kdc,openldap,auth} from a Time Machine backup (through Cmd-R reboot, including temporarily turning SIP off) but whatever I do, I can't get it running again. db_recover won't help either. slapd testing produces:

bash-3.2# /usr/libexec/slapd -T test
5cdfeed8 bdb_monitor_db_open: monitoring disabled; configure monitor database to enable
5cdfeed8 bdb_db_open: database "cn=authdata": unclean shutdown detected; attempting recovery.
5cdfeed8 bdb_db_open: database "cn=authdata": recovery skipped in read-only mode. Run manual recovery if errors are encountered.
config file testing succeeded
bash-3.2# slaptest -v
5cdfef28 bdb_monitor_db_open: monitoring disabled; configure monitor database to enable
5cdfef28 bdb_db_open: database "cn=authdata": unclean shutdown detected; attempting recovery.
5cdfef28 bdb_db_open: database "cn=authdata": recovery skipped in read-only mode. Run manual recovery if errors are encountered.
config file testing succeeded

How can I recover this from my Time Machine backup without completely restoring the server and overwriting everything else?

Apparently the restore I tried (copy openldap over from a Time Machine backup) did not work as Postgres DB-recovery balks at what is in authdata:

bash-3.2# db_recover -cv -h authdata/
Finding last valid log LSN: file: 31 offset 174121
Recovery starting from [30][28]
db_recover: Log sequence error: page LSN 23 1709981; previous LSN 30 28
db_recover: Recovery function for LSN 30 8130 failed on forward pass
db_recover: PANIC: Invalid argument
db_recover: process-private: unable to find environment
db_recover: DB_ENV->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
bash-3.2# db_recover -cv -h openldap-data/
Finding last valid log LSN: file: 1 offset 1754044
Recovery starting from [1][28]
Recovery complete at Sat May 18 13:45:46 2019
Maximum transaction ID 80000cad Recovery checkpoint [1][1754044]


texts: Command to collect windows of one or all apps in one monitor?

texts:
My setup allows my laptop and desk machine to share a large-screen monitor in addition to their own displays. Both machines are connected to the large monitor with their own HDMI cables, and that monitor has a switch for choosing which one to display. All good.

Sometimes I have the large monitor showing one machine's stuff and I need to check something on the other machine -- and as it happens the app on that machine has its windows open on the large screen, so I don't see them. Rather than switching the large monitor to the other machine, is there some command to make the second machine collect that app's (or all apps') windows into its own display?

The only way I've found that works is to pull the HDMI cable out of the second machine, which forces all of its open windows back into its own display. I'd prefer a way that doesn't involve connecting and disconnecting the cable. System Settings -> Displays is no help.

Machines are late-2008 MBP and mid-2010 Mac Mini Server. Running Lion on both.

Thanks.


texts: Can I have different virtual desktops with different resolutions/scaling?

texts:
I'm really frustrated by the way some applications are not HiDPI aware and resort to pixel doubling - video games, GIMP, etc.

Is it possible to have one of my virtual desktops (I think apple uses a different term? "Workspaces"?) be at the native resolution (ie "scaled" to "more space") while the other remain at "best for this display"?

I've done a tonne of searching and I can't find anything, but maybe it's just hurt by the fact I don't know the apple jargon.

I'd be happy with something like windows has that allows me to turn off DPI scaling for specific applications.

I have a 2014 Macbook Pro 15" retina with a 2880x1800 resolution.

Thank you for any help :)


texts: Can I connect mini DisplayPort to DVI-D to VGA?

texts: I have a mid-2010 15" MacBook Pro. I have purchased a mini DisplayPort to DVI-D adapter onto which I have connected a DVI-D to VGA (D-Sub) adapter which then connects into my new monitor. The Displays screen seems to recognised the monitor, but the monitor says "No Signal Detected". Is it valid to connect mini DisplayPort -> DVI-D -> VGA?


texts: Where is the clipboard stored in an iOS backup?

texts:
I have a recent backup of my iPad.

Where can I find the clipboard in the backup ?

I know that the clipboard is kept between restarts. So I think — and hope — that it is stored somewhere in backups.


texts: Any way to update OSX 10.4's Bash version?

texts:
I'm running Bash version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0) on a PowerMac (non-Intel) G5. I often connect to the internet, but not as a server and I believe my version of Bash is vulnerable to the Shellshock exploit.

Upgrading the OS past 10.4.11 Tiger is not an option as this computer can't be upgraded for reasons.

Can I recompile bash for my system or are there any users who may have devised a patch?


texts: How to receive Apple ID TFA code if I logout of iPhone?

texts:
I need to logout of my Apple ID on my iPhone.  I have Two-Factor Authentication (TFA) enabled, and according to Apple Support TFA can no-longer be disabled.

  Can I turn off two-factor authentication after I’ve turned it on?

  If you already use two-factor authentication, you can no longer turn
  it off. Certain features in the latest versions of iOS and macOS
  require this extra level of security, which is designed to protect
  your information. If you recently updated your account, however, you
  can unenroll for a period of two weeks. Just open your enrollment
  confirmation email and click the link to return to your previous
  security settings. Keep in mind, this makes your account less secure
  and means that you can't use features that require a higher level of
  security.

So if I logout on my iPhone, and want to log back in, how can I receive the TFA code to authorise the login?


texts:
Ok. So I recently got a Mac Pro (older version) from a very generous person.
It rocks.
All this time, I've had to use a crappy computer that I've run macOS on, that wasn't meant to run macOS.

It was an unnatural and sinful act.

Anyway, ripped the hard drive out and stuck it into my real Mac.

Deleted the Clover boot loader, which acted like an immunosuppressant to keep macOS from rejecting the computer, but Wi-Fi still won't work, and I don't know what to do to rectify this.

Can you please help? Is there any other Hackintosh related thing I should remove?

Also used MultiBeast.


texts: Is it easy to boot a from external drive with Snow Leopard on it?

texts:
I have a macbook pro and planning to (finally) upgrade to Lion and currently have snow leopard. I am also planning to swap the hdd to something bigger. I wish to still be have the option of booting it from the current drive still.

Is there anything in particular I need to consider and whats the best of software to help me with this?


texts: What can I do to check the integrity of the hard drive and all its files, to see if they are corrupt or not?

texts:
Recently there has been some files disappearing (in iTunes), and I'm not so sure of the extent of this problem yet. Perhaps it may have been an iTunes upgrade bug, but I'm not so sure.

What can I do to check the integrity of the hard drive and of all the files on my Mac computer, to see if they are corrupt or not?

Is there a hard drive integrity checker that I can use on my Mac?


texts: Would adding RAM to 2009 imac improve performance

texts:
Since I upgraded to Mavericks from Snow Leopard, my 24 inch 2009 2.93 Ghz imac has been quite slow. It's slow to open up programs and slow in general.

Currently the imac only has the 4Gb of RAM that came as standard. Would upgrading to 8Gb be worth it? I can't afford a new machine at the moment.

Thanks for any advice - it's much appreciated.

PS. I regret (in some ways) not remaining on SL but I needed 10.9 to use an application.


texts: After stuck "Partitioning disk" by Boot Camp

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I use a MacBook Pro Late 2011 with OS X El Capitan (10.11.4).

I wanted to install Windows using Boot Camp Assistant. However, I got stuck at Partitioning disk.... It seems that it is a very common problem, and there are many threads on the web concerning this. Here is the screenshot I took while stuck:

So I had to Force Quit Boot Camp Assistant, and restarted my machine. I checked Disk Utility, it seems that I have not lost the 100GB I reserved for Windows, it is still in the available 133.05GB. Besides, I am not observing any abnormal behaviour of my system so far.

Does anyone know what I should do to make sure everything regarding the disk is fine (I don't see Repair in Disk Utility)?

The partitioning thing freaks me out. Is there any expert who knows what to do with Boot Camp Assistant if I still want to install Windows?

Edit 1:
Following the suggestion of the comment,

1) diskutil verifyvolume disk0 on a terminal returns

Error starting file system verification for disk0: Invalid request (-69886)

2) diskutil verifyvolume disk1 on a terminal returns the follows:

Started file system verification on disk1 Macintosh HD
Verifying storage system
Checking volume
disk0s2: Scan for Volume Headers
disk0s2: Scan for Disk Labels
Logical Volume Group 6CF2AE08-886C-4B33-8EC1-3395CC80B6C7 on 1 device
disk0s2: Scan for Metadata Volume
Logical Volume Group has a 24 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancy
Start scanning metadata for a valid checkpoint
Load and verify Segment Headers
Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
Load and verify Transaction Segment
Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions
Load and verify Virtual Address Table
Load and verify Segment Usage Table
Load and verify Metadata Superblock
Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
Load and verify 7F2AFA2C-C0DE-4D0C-A855-7B1FA17B62D9
Load and verify 25A6AAE1-11B9-4661-AD24-DA9D08EF454D
Load and verify Freespace Summary
Load and verify Block Accounting
Load and verify Live Virtual Addresses
Newest transaction commit checkpoint is valid
Load and verify Segment Cleaning
The volume 6CF2AE08-886C-4B33-8EC1-3395CC80B6C7 appears to be OK
Storage system check exit code is 0
Verifying file system
Using live mode
Performing live verification
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume
Checking extents overflow file
Checking catalog file
Checking multi-linked files
Checking catalog hierarchy
Checking extended attributes file
Checking volume bitmap
Checking volume information
File system check exit code is 0
Finished file system verification on disk1 Macintosh HD


texts: Free Space Differs Between DiskUtility, Finder, TimeMachine, and Storage Tab

texts:
The actual question:
Time machine calculates the size of my backup as 925GB, while diskUtility shows only 858GB is used, while OmniDiskSweeper and GrandPerspective apps show that I am only using ~650GB. How can these amounts be different, which is correct, and why is the time machine backup significantly (~100GB) larger?

Background:
I have a 2017 MacbookPro with a 1TB SSD. Recently Time Machine backups started failing because there "isn't enough space", which is odd because there is, and if there isn't it should just delete older backups to make room. This happens periodically and the only fix seems to be to completely wipe my backup drive, and start all over with a new complete backup.

Note:

I have seen in other answers posted that if it is the very first backup (or the second) the disk must have enough space to record the delta between the two, which in my case, it does, but is also irrelevant because there are at least 5 backups on the disk.
I have also made it a habit to run sudo tmutil thinLocalSnapshots / 10000000000 4 because this has been such a consistent problem

Other things I've tried:

I have emptied the trash
I have emptied the .trashes in multiple directories (sudo rm -rf /Volumes/*/.Trashes/*) per this answer:


texts: I can't access the Mac App Store, iTunes, or Software Update on Lion

texts:
I updated from Snow Leopard 10.6.8 to Lion. The OS update process was all right.

I can access the Internet by Firefox, but Safari.
I think my network is all right.

So, I can access the internet from Lion, but I can’t use the Mac App Store, the iTunes Store or update my system.

How can I fix these problems?


texts:
My iPhone is jailbroken and it keeps crashing to safe mode randomly.

I have two pastebins of crashlogs. Here's crash 1 and here's crash 2.

And here is a list of my jailbreak tweaks.

Packages

3x4 Centered (No Icon Labels) Iconoclasm Layout - 1.0

4x3 (iPhone 5) Iconoclasm Layouts - 1.0

4x5 Dense Layout for Iconoclasm - 1.0

7-zip (POSIX) - 4.57-3p

Activator - 1.8.4~beta6

adv-cmds - 119-5

animate - 1.0.1-1

Animate fix for iOS 7.x.x - 1.0

Animer7 - 1.0

AppInfo - 1.6

AppList - 1.5.7

Applocker - 2.2.5

APR (/usr/lib) - 1.3.3-2

APT 0.6 Transitional - 1:0-23

APT 0.7 (apt-key) - 0.7.25.3-3

APT 0.7 HTTPS Method - 0.7.25.3-3

APT 0.7 Strict - 0.7.25.3-6

APT 0.7 Strict (lib) - 0.7.25.3-11

AutoPause - 1.0

Base Structure - 1-4

BaSic-AdBlocker7 - 1.0.2

BatteryLife - 1.3.1

Berkeley DB - 4.6.21-4p

BigBoss Icon Set - 1.0

BioCentered HD - 1

biteSMS - 8.1.3

Bolt - 0.7.0

Bourne-Again SHell - 4.0.17-13

BytaFont 2 - 2.1.3

bzip2 - 1.0.5-7

CameraTweak 2 (iOS 7) - 1.0.1

CleverPin - 1.8-3

ColorBadges - 1.0.3-2

ColorFlow - 1.0.5-1

Coono - 1.1-4P

Core Utilities - 8.12-12p

Core Utilities (/bin) - 8.12-7p

Crash Reporter - 0.2g-1

cURL - 7.33.0-8

customLS - 1.2-1

Cycript - 0.9.501

Cydget - 0.9.4011

Cydia Installer - 1.1.9

Cydia Substrate - 0.9.5001

Cydia Translations - 1.1.8.1

Cylinder - 0.13.2.15

Darwin Tools - 1-4

Debian Packager - 1.14.25-9

Debian Utilities - 3.3.3ubuntu1-1p

Diff Utilities - 2.8.1-6

Disable Parallax Effect - 1.3-1

diskdev-cmds - 421.7-4

DockShift - 1.4-2

Eclipse - 1.1.3-3

evasi0n 7.x Untether - 0.3

Exigency - 1.1.1

f.lux - 0.986

f.lux Flipswitch - 0.2-1

file-cmds - 220.7-3

Find Utilities - 4.2.33-6

FlagPaint7 - 1.0

Flex 2 - 1.928

FlipControlCenter - 1.0

Flipswitch - 1.0.3

GIFViewer - 1.0-1

GNU Privacy Guard - 1.4.16-1

grep - 2.5.4-3

GridSwitcher - 1.0-2

gzip - 1.6-7

HASHBANG Productions Common - 1.0

Hattori Hanzo Font - 1.0

HomeLock - 1.2

iCleaner Pro - 7.1.3-1

IconBundles - 0.1-3

Iconoclasm - 1.9.1

IconSupport - 1.9.2-1

iFile - 2.0.1-1

iOS 7 Blank Keypad - 0.0.2

iOS Firmware - 7.0.6

iPhone Firmware (/sbin) - 0-1

iTunes Radio Unlimited - 1.1.0

Lato Light Font - 1.2

libhide - 2.4.1-1

libstatusbar - 0.9.7.0

LockSafety - 1.0-1

lscameragrabber - 1.1

LZMA Utils - 4.32.7-4

MessagesCustomiser - 2.3.4-2

NCAllOnly - 2.2-1

NCSingleTapClear - 1.0-2

New Curses - 5.7-13

Nitrous - 2.4-5

No Yahoo! - 1.0-1

NoAnnoyance - 0.2.0~beta4-1

NoDelay64 - 1.1-2

NoSlowAnimations - 3.0.1-3

NoStoreButton7 - 1.0-2

OpenSSH - 6.5p1-2

OpenSSL - 0.9.8y-10

PAM (Apple) - 32.1-3

PAM Modules - 36.1-4

pcre - 8.30-5p

Phantom - 2.6.3-1

Photo Blackground - 1.0-8

PhotoTorch - 1.3-7

pincrush - 0.9.2-1

PowerSoundDisabler - 1.1.1-6

PreferenceLoader - 2.2.2

PreferenceOrganizer 2 - 1.0-2

Profile Directory - 0-2

Pulse - 1.0-1

readline - 6.0-7

RocketBootstrap - 1.0.1

SameStatus - 1.0-1

SandCastle 2 - 2.2-1

sed - 4.1.5-7

shell-cmds - 118-6

Show Notification Dates - 1.0-2

ShowCase - 1.3.4.1-1

Shrink - 1.0.7.0

SlideForUsage - 0.0.4

Springtomize 3 - iOS 7 - 1.1.0-2

SSH Switch - 1.2

StatusBarFix2 - 0.1.2-1

StatusHUD 2 - 2.0.0

StatusModifier - 2.0.1

StoreAlert - 1.0-2

Substrate Safe Mode - 0.9.4000

Subtle7 - 0.1

SwipeSelection - 1.4.1-1

SwitchSpring - 1.0.1

syslogd to /var/log/syslog - 1.0.2586-2

system-cmds - 433.4-12

Tape Archive - 1.19-8

TinyBar - 0.0.4-1

UIKit Tools - 1.1.8

Ultimate M'Flat Icon Collection - 1.7

Uniformity - 0.0.1~beta4-1

unrar - 3.6.8-2p

unzip - 5.52-5p

WiFi Booster - 2.0

WinterBoard - 0.9.3915

YouTubed - 1.2-2

Zanilla - 2.1.1

zip - 2.32-5p

Sorry I can only post 2 links since I'm a new member. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much for looking!


texts: How Do You Label The 3D Axis in Grapher?

texts:
I want to label each axis with an x, y, and z. I know it's possible to label x and y axes in 2D view, but for some reason, I can't do it in 3D view.

Any suggestions?


texts:
I'm trying to reset my keychain (Yosemite 10.10.4).

When I enter my wifi password I get "A keychain cannot be found to store my_wifi_sid"
I click "Reset to Defaults"
I get "Are you sure you want to reset your keychain? This will delete all your saved passwords, keys, and certificates. You cannot undo this operation" and click "Reset"
I get "Please enter your login password. This password will be used to create your new keychain." with a password field.  Attempts to type in this field interact with whatever app is in the background (browser, desktop).  I can click the "Show password" checkbox.

This issue has also been reported at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6788761.  Upgrades did not help.

Deleting keychain folders via the command line ends up with the same result (not saving passwords and the above dialog).  This started about a month ago and does not appear to be associated with any system update.

Any tips on troubleshooting, logs to look at would be appreciated.

Update

tl;dr: disabling the Guest User and upgrading to El Capitan seems to have done the trick.

Not what I'd call an answer since I can't tell you which action is the fix, but here are two things,  one or both of which may have solved my problem.

I tried to log into the Guest User on this machine and learned that somehow I got a not-managed Guest User account.  This Guest User was asking for a password (which I did not know).  So I disabled the Guest User account.

Disabling the Guest User account seemed to solve this issue for some (but not all) of the users.  Next I downloaded the El Capitan installer to a thumb drive and installed it on my MacbookPro.  Now all of my keychain issues appear to be fixed.


texts: Gesture to access Control Center not functioning

texts:
The iOS 14.4.2 has affected my ability to access the Control Center; swiping down from the top-right corner of the screen displays this:

rather than the Control Center.
Settings for Control Center:

I reviewed the Gestures in Settings, but didn't find anything relevant.
I was hoping to find a way to fix this without having to perform a reset.


texts: Finding the folder a note is stored in in Notes

texts:
This seems so basic, but just can't figure it:

I can easily find a note with an unique bit of text, but finding WHERE in my list of folders the note is stored seems impossible. One would think that when you tap a found note, the note's folder would become highlighted, or at least a tooltip would help identify the location, but no such luck.

Tips, thoughts? thx.. drew..


texts: How to dual boot (Catalina - High Sierra) from a iMac 2020, 27", T2?

texts:
For good reasons I need to boot into Catalina or into High Sierra on a new iMac 2020, 27", T2. So far all attempts have failed. "Secure Boot" is set to "No Security" and "External Boot" is set to "Allowed".
I have tried a couple of bootable High Sierra Installers, but Catalina just shows a "No Entry" sign after selecting the Installer drive and then turns off the iMac.
I have downloaded the High Sierra Installer some time ago using my old MacBook Pro 2012. The Original High Sierra Installer is not anymore available in the App Store.
I have also tried to install High Sierra using TM. It is a backup of my MacBook Pro 2012 with High Sierra (NO APFS). A message comes when I choose the Backup in Recovery mode, saying: this mac does not support starting from HFS. I do not think by converting my old MacBook Pro 2012 from HFS+ to APFS and then backing up with TM will solve the problem.
Is it that the original High Sierra Installer must be downloaded from the same iMac where i want to use it and not from another machine?
I am desperate. I have tried CCC, Superduper. NO Way.
Unthinkable there is no solution to be able to boot into Catalina or into High Sierra on a new iMac 2020.


texts: Is it necessary to eject an external drive before sleeping?

texts:
I have a question similar to a previous one about ejecting before shutting down.

Is it necessary or recommended practice to eject external drives before putting a Mac to sleep, whether it be via an explicit sleep command (e.g., from the Apple menu or other equivalent means), if Energy Saver puts the Mac to sleep, or the closing of a lid on a laptop Mac?

Edit: To add a clarifying point, I do not plan to physically disconnect the drive before waking the Mac from sleep?


texts: Code viewer with color syntax integrated to the finder preview panel

texts:
On Windows there is a great extension for the preview panel.
It shows the content of the selected file as if it was opened in a code editor.
This is integrated into the preview panel (no popup window), without the need to to press a key combination and closing the preview afterward.
This allows to browse the content very fast (pressing the up/down keys).

I'm aware of the existence of Quick Look plugins, but as far as I know we still need to press command + Y to access the preview and close it after.
Not very handy to quickly go from file to file...

Does anyone know of an equivalent?


texts: number of pg_ctl processes keep increasing on macos High Sierra

texts:
After approximately one day of system uptime, my MacBook Pro runs extremely slow. I am running macOS 10.13.5 and Activity Monitor shows ~70% idle cpu usage and the memory pressure is on green but there are what seems like thousands of pg_ctl processes running by the user _teamsserver. With a restart, the number of processes slowly increase back to a large number and slows the computer again. Activity monitor shows the number of processes to be ~2100.

How can I determine what the _teamsserver and pg_ctl are so I disable them or what's launching these?


texts: Why I'm led to an another email account in my IPhone 6 Plus(IOS 8.4)?

texts:
There are three email accounts on my phone. A standard account(gmail) and two additional accounts.

When clicking on the email icon on the bottom bar my phone opens sometimes my standard account and sometimes another account. It seems that it does not matter what account is the standard account because my phone opens any account randomly. Is there a way I can make my phone open my standard account or make my phone open the list view of all accounts but not a non-standard account.

Thanks in advance.


texts: name of my secondary iCloud email account

texts: I have set up an email account on iCloud on our shared macbook but when I send a message it comes up with my wife's name (primary account) and then my email address(secondary).   This is for work and I need my own separate account without her name being attached to it.  Does anyone know how I do this?


texts: Certain text in Menlo becomes single character

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I recently noticed that when using Menlo regular font on my Mac OSX (Big Sur), certain text appears to be garbled. This happens mainly in the case of code comments and jsx identifiers in applications such as Firefox and VS Code. If I change the font in website css or in the Code editor, it works just fine.

Any help or pointers on how too fix this or even to identify this issue would be appreciated.


texts: How to detect and maybe eliminate Malware from 'Flash Player'?

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I read about that some websites do claim you have old Adobe Flash Player installed.

I am not sure whether or not I got such notifications legitimately or not.
I know I have downloaded some Flash updates and now want to
a) detect whether my Flash updates were malware
b) if so, how I can delete the malware.

I think that simply deleting Flash from Applications is not doing it or is it?

Using the newest MacOS on iMac.


texts: El Capitan, how to choose a specific Java version to run

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I'm running El Capitan and java -version produces the following:

java version "1.8.0_101"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_101-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.101-b13, mixed mode)

I'm having severe slowdown problems with the h2 database console, so I want to see if going back to Java 1.6 has any effect.

I run the Java Preferences application and move 1.6 so it's at the top, but the next time I launch Java Preferences 1.8 is back up there!  Even unchecking 1.8 doesn't persist -- it's rechecked on the next launch.

How does one go about selecting a particular Java version these days?


texts: How do I save offline a PDF from the browser?

texts: Given a PDF available online, how in the world do I save it locally on the iPad? Why is this so counter-intuitive, if not downright impossible, when the iPad is a very nice e-reader?


texts: Why is Spotlight trying to index my iPod?

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Since I upgraded to Mavericks, whenever I plug in my iPod, Spotlight tries to index my iPod. I don't want this to happen, since it puts a lot of stress on the iPod's drive (iPod 4th Generation, 40GB), and I don't really need it to be indexed. This has not happened with previous versions of OS X.

I've tried excluding the iPod from the Spotlight settings, but it still is preparing to index the iPod when I open Spotlight.

Is there a way to exclude the iPod from the Spotlight indexing?

Update

It looks like there was an error when I first tried to add my iPod to the list of excluded items in Spotlight's Privacy settings. When I opened the settings again, it wasn't listed there anymore. I added it again, and this time it worked - the indexing stopped.

For some reason it ignored it on my first try.


texts: Can I turn off IPv4 and just use IPv6 on my iOS device?

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I am connected with my iPhone 6 / iOS 9.0 to an IPv6 network created following this article. When I take a look at the console of my device, I see

Aug 11 12:15:07 titos-iPhone kernel[0] <Notice>: 076991.368570 wlan0.N[15305] checkIPv4AddressValidity@6178: Local IPv4  address 169.254.199.45
Aug 11 12:15:07 titos-iPhone kernel[0] <Notice>: 076991.369991 wlan0.A[15306] receivedIPv4Address@1524: Received address 169.254.199.45, entering powersave mode 2
Aug 11 12:15:07 titos-iPhone kernel[0] <Notice>: 076991.370023 wlan0.A[15307] receivedIPv6Address@1547: Received IPv6 addresses 20:1:0:0:0:0:0:0c:4:1:d6:67:90:6f:98
Aug 11 12:15:07 titos-iPhone kernel[0] <Notice>: 076991.370032 wlan0.A[15308] receivedIPv6Address@1547: Received IPv6 addresses 20:1:0:0:0:0:0:011:71:3f:2:43:17:32:dd
Aug 11 12:15:07 titos-iPhone kernel[0] <Notice>: 076991.370042 wlan0.N[15309] startRoamScan@5689:5689 starting RoamScan; MultiAPEnv:0 isdualBand:1 isOn5G:0

Why do I see Received address 169.254.199.45 when I'm actually trying to connect to an IPv6 network?

How can I disable this behaviour and only receive an IPv6 address?


texts: My niece has got a used iPod nano (not the newest model); in the App Store are about 50 games for iPods with Click Wheel. What game can you recommend?


texts: "Developer" option is not available under Settings menu. Why?

texts: I am missing a Developer option under Settings menu. What do I need to do to make it appear?


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I have a problem on a external drive which permissions are looking for an unknown user. In the permission list it says "loading..."(or similar word, not on an english machine) in the user field.

How can I find out what user it's looking for? Is there anything I can do in the terminal?


texts: Is it possible to choose a window and force it to be sticky (stay in front) if I switch to another application?


texts: Processes performed during MacOS installation

texts: I wonder on what so much time is spent during installation or upgrade to new MacOS. In other words: having strongest machine (MacbookPro) with fastest hard drive (1GB/s read/write abilities) and having fast internet connection (30Mbps) - why update between two consequent minor version (i.e. from 10.12.2 to 10.12.3) takes 30 minutes - even if update declared to be 800 MB in size. I expect in answers mentioning specific functional actions, if someone knows or can guess ones.


texts: Why My Apple iPhone 5s Rebooted automatically?

texts: I was just using my iPhone 5s and it was in charging mode, but suddenly it re-boot without any specific reason, I am lil worried about it, I am still in warranty period and will you expect me to go to help center, or its just normal, Help center is really far from my home.


texts: How can I explain to my friend that running a "hackintosh" is a violation of the law?

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I have a friend who has never owned a Mac. He has just built a "hackintosh" by installing VMWare on his PC running Windows, and downloading a pirated, hacked copy of Mac OS X Yosemite in a portable VMWare virtual machine volume from somewhere online.

He claims to be astonished and unbelieving when I tell him that what he's doing is illegal. He's stealing. He's committing piracy.

He tells me that he installed some hacked "distro" of Mac OS X called "Niresh". He tells me that he assumed that it was legitimate because it appeared to be supported by a large community of computer enthusiasts. He actually said to me "It wouldn't be on the Internet if it was illegal".

Now he's hitting me up for help doing further hacks to make his "hackintosh" behave exactly like a real Mac. He's asked me to run a Terminal script on my Macintosh to output my UUID, MLB (Main Logic Board serial number) and ROM values from my real Macintosh so he can clone these identifying numbers to his "hackintosh" volume.

He says, "No way. I've payed plenty of money to Apple. I bought four iPhones for my family, and an iPad too. So what's wrong with running a Hackintosh?"

He's a research scientist, and I believe he might pay attention to an authoritative published source that explains why what he is doing is illegal.

Can anybody help me find information that I can use to prove to him that what he's doing is illegal?

Update

I sent my friend @cmason's information about the Apple OS X License Agreement, and I believe I have convinced my friend that what he is doing is not legal or ethical.

I also warned him that because he'd installed a version of Mac OS X that had been completely and thoroughly hacked, cracked, and had all its Apple-built-in security disabled, this means that it would be likely that what he downloaded and installed is pre-infected with any manner of root kits, rats, malware and viruses, and that he might now be part of some criminal enterprise's botnet. That helped to get his attention as well.


texts: Is there a way to flash the screen from the command line? I am looking for the same effect that Accessibility does for "Flash the screen when an alert sound occurs", but I don't want it for every alert.


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is there any way to simulate a "Page Left/Right" functionality?
With ⌃ Ctrl+↑ or ⌃ Ctrl+↓ (or fn+↑ or fn+↓ or any of the other various ways) I can scroll most Mac windows up or down "a page". However the behavior for left and right is very inconsistent or not present. I really would like to do the same for left and right directions.


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I have an AirPort Extreme at home and a MacBook Pro Retina. I've been trying to set up a VPN at home, without any luck. But I'm afraid I broke my network settings along the way... I've tried so many things and tutorials that I honestly have no idea what I did exactly. So there is no way to retrace my steps.

So, for some reason I cannot connect to my AirPort network anymore... Other laptops and iPhones connect just fine, only my MBP doesn't.

What I've tried:

Reset the AirPort Extreme, no result
Deleted my Airport and Networdinterfaces .plist in Macintosh HD/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/
Deleted the entire Macintosh HD/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ folder
Boot in Mavericks Recovery HD (with 'cmd + R') and reinstalled Mavericks.

Nothing seem to work...
Funny thing though, when I tried to reinstall Mavericks (in safe mode), I could connect to my network (otherwise I couldn't have downloaded a fresh copy of Mavericks).

So I'm wondering, what else can I reset/do in order to get my network settings up and running?
Or is a clean install the only way to go?


texts: How to get permanent dark menu bar & dock, but still use light & dark mode?

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I know how to get a dark menu bar and dock in light mode, but that option disables the use of the full dark mode on macOS completely. I'm wondering if it's possible at all to still use light and dark mode, while having the menu bar and dock permanently dark.

(Years of using the dark menu bar and dock have really made me dislike the look and distraction of the light versions.)


texts: scp (secure copy) in lieu of vmware disk-sharing

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Booting down the linux VM, removing the share, disabling sharing,

followed by enabling sharing, adding the share, and booting up the linux Vm

finally followed by reinstalling vmware tools

do not make the shared drive appear under /mnt/hgfs.

My question is: I'd like to use old-fashioned scp to copy a tar archive.

On the linux VM: scp FROM/dir/file.tar ~/.

What should FROM be?


texts: permanently turn off discrete graphics chip on macbook pro

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My trusty 2011 mbp discrete graphics chip has died.
It wouldn't boot- just gets to a point in the boot and shows bad lines on the screen and hangs.  It even hangs on a USB recovery disk so it isn't the internal drive/settings.

I put the mbp into target disk mode and moved /System/Library/Extensions/AMD6000Controller.kext folder, cleared the kernel caches and restarted - and the computer works!
Yay, but now the screen is really laggy - and is not usable.
Wondered if there are tweaks I can do to the the AMD6000Controller.kext info.plist that will cause the integrated graphics chip to always be used?