texts: Trying to use an iMac as a second screen, but it keeps dimming

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I'm hooking up my new MacBook Pro (13-inch 2016) to my old iMac (27-inch late 2012) using a lightning-to-USBC converter, in order to use the latter as a screen when working from home.

Pressing CMD-F2 on the iMac keyboard successfully connects the monitor. Hurrah!

But - boo! - 9 times out of 10, the brightness on the second screen drops to a minimal level, and can't be changed.

Sometimes (about 1 in 10) it retains the level that it's set to to start with. But most of the time it doesn't. And perhaps more annoyingly, as far as I can tell there is no way to change the brightness on the iMac screen once the MacBook Pro is using it as a screen.

Any way to either a) ensure it doesn't drop brightness when connecting or b) allow me to change the brightness on the iMac screen once it's being driven by the MacBook Pro would be much appreciated.


texts: Can't connect my iPad to the localhost of my Mac

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I want to access the localhost of my Mac from my iPad. From my Mac, the address is http://localhost:8888.
Through IP address
The Mac and the iPad are connected to the same Wifi network. The IP address of the Mac is 10.0.0.58
On the iPad, I try to access localhost with the address
http://10.0.0.58:8888

but the website never loads (with the error "No response from the server").
With .local address
I also tried to access localhost via the name of the Mac. It is colas.local.
On the iPad, I try to access localhost with the address
http://colas.local:8888

but the website never loads (with the error "No response from the server").
My question
What can I do to access localhost from the iPad? Note that they are connected with a USB cable so it might also be possible like that.
Why don't my attempts work?


texts: How can I configure my iPhone to show my contacts photos full screen when they call or I call them

texts: I used to see my contacts' photos full screen when they called or when I called them now I only see a thumbnail when they calling and when I call them.


texts: Color profile switches with random application launch

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My color profile seems to be switching when I launch random application. It seems to be doing it every time I open Illustrator or VirtualBox. If I go into the color Profile setting it's on the same setting all the time.

The switch is between the normal "white" profile to a much cooler "blueish" profile. I'm on an early 2011 15" MBP with 16 gig ram and 10.8.1.

Any idea what's going on?


texts: iOS Untrusted Developer error when testing app

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I am trying to make my own iOS applications by using Xcode 7 and iOS 9.0. I have successfully been able to install the app on my own iPod by following Xcode 7 develop for iOS without developer account however when I run the application I get this error:

I had a quick look in the Settings app but cannot find a way to allow this application that I made. How would I 'trust' this application running iOS 9?


texts: How to go to tab 5 in Safari? (AppleScript)

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Is there any way to go to tab number 5 in Safari?

tell application "Safari" to set current tab of document 1 to 5


texts: How do I remove the "from iPhone" dock icon popping up, MacOS High Sierra

texts: I updated my OS to High Sierra, 10.13.5, and started seeing a weird dock icon pop up whenever I open a mail app on my iPhone. I want to get rid of this feature. Dock Preferences do not seem to have option to remove it. Thanks


texts:
After maintenance, my Macbook Pro Retina can't find any bluetooth device (Magic Mouse / Keyboard / Soundbar / Phone)

I read many instructions, reseted SMC and NVRAM, but nothing changes


texts: Create a script to turn wifi off on shutdown

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Is there anyway to create a script that will automatically shut down the WiFi when I power down my machine?
Maybe in Automator?


texts: Automater/Applescript page viewer/downloader loop

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I have some 9500 individual audio files I am trying to download which:

a) require a login to a website
b) are located at subdirectories which ?redirects? to a download link

(eg. www.whatever.com/product/download/id/1234
==>
prompt to download the whatever-file-name.mp3)

Can someone help me write a applescript/automator app that will visit
"http://www.blah.com/product/download/id/1"
wait until download finishes,
+1
then visit:
http://www.blah.com/product/download/id/2
loop until 9600


texts: How to ignore Spotlight index for a volume contain another macOS

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Volume A: macOS A
Volume B: macOS B

How can I ignore Spotlight index of Volume B when using macOS A, while keeping index data and use index when switching to macOS B.


texts: Applescript Access Variables Through Run Script

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Let's say I have a script:

set hi to 7
run script "display dialog hi"

When I run it, it says that hi is undefined.

Is there a way to make hi accessible from the run script command? If not, what else can I do? The real application for this is to change a variable name. What I do now is:

    repeat (random number from 0 to 5) times
    set rand2 to (random number from 0 to 7) + 97
    set rand to (random number from 0 to 7) + 97
    set switch to rand2
    run script ("set " & (ASCII character rand) & "1 to " & (ASCII character rand2) & "1")
    run script ("set " & (ASCII character rand2) & "1 to " & (ASCII character switch) & "1")
    run script ("set " & (ASCII character rand) & "2 to " & (ASCII character rand2) & "2")
    run script ("set " & (ASCII character rand2) & "2 to " & (ASCII character switch) & "2")
end repeat

But that doesn't work. Is these I workaround for this?

Thanks


texts: Is the first boot after a full system restore from TimeMachine supposed to take a long time?

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I have had the hard drive in my iMac replaced and now I'm trying to restore it from my TimeMachine back up. I thought the TimeMachine back up was corrupt but maybe I'm just not patient enough, or I'm misunderstanding the restore process.

I'm able to restore successfully, but on reboot the machine shows me the white screen with the Apple logo and the spinner. I can hear some occasional sounds from the hard drive in the machine.  The occasional hard drive sounds make me wonder if it's doing and fsck or similar operation on the drive before the system boots.

It's been at this screen for a good hour now.

I have not heard a chime (and have been in front of the machine working the entire time).

Is this just what happens after a TimeMachine restore or should it have booted at a near-normal speed?


texts: Is there a way to turn Wi-Fi on/off using Spotlight?

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Is there a way to turn Wi-Fi on/off using Spotlight, or do I always have to use the mouse and click on the Wi-Fi icon in the taskbar?

Spotlight is pretty powerful, and I would love to have an easy way of enabling/disabling the Wi-Fi connection. Is there a built-in way of doing this, or do I need to create a script for this, and then call the script from Spotlight?


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In Safari if I type a place name or place name + weather and press enter, I get taken to the weather at weather.com

How can I make it do a google search instead?


texts: Will my Canon CanoScan 500F scanner work with Lion?

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I'm getting a lot of TWAINBridge errors in the console and Image Capture won't scan documents like it did last week (on 10.6.8 Snow Leopard).

7/23/11 1:46:18.822 PM [0x0-0x84084].com.apple.TWAINBridge: /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/TWAINBridge.app/Contents/MacOS/TWAINBridge: illegal option -- p
7/23/11 1:46:18.822 PM [0x0-0x84084].com.apple.TWAINBridge: /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/TWAINBridge.app/Contents/MacOS/TWAINBridge: illegal option -- s
7/23/11 1:46:18.822 PM [0x0-0x84084].com.apple.TWAINBridge: /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/TWAINBridge.app/Contents/MacOS/TWAINBridge: illegal option -- n
7/23/11 1:46:18.822 PM [0x0-0x84084].com.apple.TWAINBridge: /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/TWAINBridge.app/Contents/MacOS/TWAINBridge: illegal option -- _
7/23/11 1:46:18.822 PM [0x0-0x84084].com.apple.TWAINBridge: /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/TWAINBridge.app/Contents/MacOS/TWAINBridge: illegal option -- 0
7/23/11 1:46:18.822 PM [0x0-0x84084].com.apple.TWAINBridge: /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/TWAINBridge.app/Contents/MacOS/TWAINBridge: illegal option -- _
7/23/11 1:46:18.822 PM [0x0-0x84084].com.apple.TWAINBridge: /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/TWAINBridge.app/Contents/MacOS/TWAINBridge: illegal option -- 5
7/23/11 1:46:18.822 PM [0x0-0x84084].com.apple.TWAINBridge: /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/TWAINBridge.app/Contents/MacOS/TWAINBridge: illegal option -- 4
7/23/11 1:46:18.822 PM [0x0-0x84084].com.apple.TWAINBridge: /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/TWAINBridge.app/Contents/MacOS/TWAINBridge: illegal option -- 0
7/23/11 1:46:18.822 PM [0x0-0x84084].com.apple.TWAINBridge: /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/TWAINBridge.app/Contents/MacOS/TWAINBridge: illegal option -- 8
7/23/11 1:46:18.822 PM [0x0-0x84084].com.apple.TWAINBridge: /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/TWAINBridge.app/Contents/MacOS/TWAINBridge: illegal option -- 0
7/23/11 1:46:18.822 PM [0x0-0x84084].com.apple.TWAINBridge: /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/TWAINBridge.app/Contents/MacOS/TWAINBridge: illegal option -- 4
7/23/11 2:20:05.051 PM [0x0-0x84084].com.apple.TWAINBridge: ImageIO: <ERROR>  JPEG Application transferred too few scanlines

I checked the canon site - and the latest drivers are only for 10.6 - no mention is made of this scanner on the Canon list of devices that work with Lion.

I have rebooted twice, checked the cables. I'm hoping someone can point out something I may have missed that might get things going for me.

If not, it's off to the used market with some Core Duo macs and all my rosetta software!


texts:
I just looked in the OS X Console, and noticed that there's a huge number of errors looking like this:

6/12/12 8:33:16.000 PM kernel: SMC::smcReadKeyAction ERROR F1Mn kSMCBadArgumentError(0x89) fKeyHashTable=0x0xffffff800a715000

There's one almost exactly every 5 seconds. Any ideas?


texts: I installed Quick Notes with Widget on my iPhone SE (1st gen, iOS 14.1) and after a while my phone kept restarting every 5 minutes. Removing the app solved this issue. So I was wondering if, even when not running an app could cause you phone to crash. Note that I put a widget from the app on my Home Screen.


texts: Group displays/spaces in mission control

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Mission control has the binary options of either "Displays have separate spaces" or, if unchecked, all displays belong to the same virtual space (allowing you to have a window across 2+ montors).
Is there any third party method to allow e.g. displays 1 and 2 to have the same spaces, and monitor 3 belong to a different space?


texts: Is it true that all cameras of all generations of iPhone can have photo + video geotagging?

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I am a little bit confused about the geotagging feature in iPhone, so I will list all these lines & tell me if any of them is wrong.

iPhone 2G has a Rear Camera that can take photo only with photo geotagging.
iPhone 3G has a Rear Camera that can take photo only with photo geotagging.
iPhone 3Gs has a Rear Camera that can take photo with photo geotagging + record video with video geotagging
iPhone 4 has an iSight rear camera that can take photo with photo geotagging + record video with video geotagging, and has FaceTime front camera can take photo with photo geotagging + record video with video geotagging
iPhone 4s is the same as iPhone 4 (i.e. it has 2 cameras & each camera can take photo with photo geotagging & record video with video geotagging.
iPhone 5 is the same as iPhone 4
iPhone 5c is the same as iPhone 4
iPhone 5s is the same as iPhone 4

Are any statements from 1 to 8 wrong?


texts: Is there a hotkey/shortcut for Print to Web Receipts folder?

texts: I love the "Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder" in Safari and use it all the time. The only minor annoyance is that it takes a few steps (cmd+P -> click "PDF" -> select "Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder") to use it. Is there a way to setup a hotkey/shortcut for it so that it just takes one quick key combo?


texts: Fresh install of iOS 6.0.1 apps constantly crash

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I just finished a fresh install, started installing apps and signing in again. Every time I login to an app it crashes within a few seconds. Going back in stays there, sometimes crashing again.

I'm new to troubleshooting iOS - what's my next step?


texts: Why will iPad not find my home Wi-Fi network but works with others?

texts: My iPad 2 has a hard time locating our Wi-Fi network at home. About once a day it will find it and connect but only for an hour or so. It's not like I'm getting a "can't connect error", it just doesn't see the network. It seems to have no problem connecting to networks outside the house (coffee shops etc). Also, all of our other devices have no problem connecting to our home Wi-Fi.


texts: Can Lua config files be downloaded and executed in an iOS app?

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I have an cross-platform app that runs Lua scripts, and I am interested in publishing it on the iOS App Store. I know that Apple does not allow apps to download and run code from the internet on iOS, but what about a simple Lua configuration file, like this:

obj.title = "Hello world"
obj.author = "Somebody"
obj.version = "1.0.1"

Or if assignments count as code, what about a simple JSON-like table, like:

{
    title = "Hello world",
    author = "Somebody",
    version = "1.0.1"
}

Would either of these violate the guidelines?


texts: Enable standby mode / deep sleep on SSD macs with mounted SD-card

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This question arose from the comments page of The Nifty Minidrive's Kickstarter page

The Nifty Minidrive is essentially a microSD card adapter that fits perfectly into the SD-slot of the MacBook Pro / Pro Retina / Air so that a microSD card can be used as additional storage.

However a backer came across this apple support document which explains that for a Mac to be able to enter Standby mode one criterium is that it must "Have no SD card inserted".

This is a potential deal breaker for many backers.

Is there a way to enable deep sleep mode even though an SD card is inserted?

(I have no way of actually testing this, but does an inserted SD card which isn't mounted prevent deep sleep as well? If it doesn't it should be possible to make a script that unmounts the SD card before the Mac goes to sleep and mounts it when it awakens?)


texts:
After OSX Update -> Yosemite:
No option to login and run the system.

Via Firewire (T) and Diskutils && Diskwarrior:
"Unvalid Disk-Label @ 499239710720: cksum mismatch"

Diskwarrior: no option to rebuild
Diskutills: Unvalid Disk-Label @ 499239710720: cksum mismatch

What could I do to reboot and rerun the machine? How to fix this problem?


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If I go to System Preferences > Network > Advanced it is shown that I have 2 different IPv6 addresses (both with a 64-bit prefix). Why is so?

If I type ifconfig | grep inet on the terminal, it also shows me those 2 IPv6 addresses (among the other addresses). At the end of one of those 2 IPv6 addresses there's the word dynamic and at the end of the other there's autoconf temporary. Why wonder why should we need two IPv6 addresses and what is the different between dynamic and autoconf temporary.


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Just installed mavericks, erasing the hard drive and installing it as brand new; then I wanted to restore my backup from Time machine (as I always did) but an error screen appears, saying "impossible to open every backup".
I'm kinda scared, I don't have other backups and I always considered time machine on Time capsule as reliable.
What can I do? I tried both from the startup of the new os and inside Mavericks, from migration assistan..
please help!! I have my whole iphoto library on it..


texts: How to have sshd re-read its config file (without killing ssh connections)?

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How can I get the ssh server to re-read its configuration file (/etc/sshd_config), without killing existing ssh connections?

EDIT: If I run kill -HUP <SSHD_PID> I kill the connection.


texts: Automating sorting process for files in a folder based on same prefixes in their filenames

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Okay, I have a directory that is the output directory for generated screenshots for a media player I use on a macbook (OS X High Sierra). I take a multitude of screenshots to review video files and I have a string system in the media player that names those screenshots in a certain format.

So my directory often fills up with hundreds or thousands of files, as the media player is unable to dynamically create an appropriate directory for output per video filename.

The filenames are formatted like so:

"[originalvideofilename.ext] [(######)]_[#####].jpg"

Obviously the square brackets are just to illustrate the way the media player generates the string. First, the original video's filename in full including the original extension. Second, after a space, is a timecode in (00_00_00) format. Finally, an underscore separates the previous from a 5-digit sequential index number with leading zeroes.

And depending on the source file, that filename might have spaces, periods or underscores in the filename, all rendered as is in the screenshot output filename, with a mix of uppercase or lowercase letters and the formats could be mp4, mkv, etc.

So the screenshot output directory might look like this:

JPG Screenshots

Alternate Cut Sound Take 3.MP4 (00_00_15)_00001.jpg
Alternate Cut Sound Take 3.MP4 (00_00_17)_00002.jpg
Angle breakdown 1080p.mkv (00_03_58)_00064.jpg
Review Draft Footage Edit v3.MOV (00_01_30)_00001.jpg
Review Draft Footage Edit v3.MOV (00_01_36)_00002.jpg

My problem is that at the end of a day of reviewing footage, I'd like to be able to run an Automator workflow or application that does the following:

Looks at the .jpg files in the selected directory (output folder for the screenshots)
Determines the [videofilename.ext] part of the filenames of however many files are in there
Creates subfolders in an different output directory per unique "[videofilename.ext]"
Moves the .jpg files into their appropriate subfolders.
Leaving the source directory empty.

If the above tasks were automated with the click of a button, coded in such a way as to not get caught up on the differing cases, original filename extensions (end of the prefix part of the resultant .jpg files' filenames), or varying uses of periods, underscores, spaces or a mix thereof in the original filenames.

I suppose if it were necessary going forward I could alter the screenshot output to have a specific separator in between the three different components of the filename.

But the real problem is coding something flexible that can take the input of the folder full of jpg files and sort them for me automatically cause I'm sick of doing it manually.

So a resulting output folder structure would look like this:

Sorted JPGs

Alternate Cut Sound Take 3.MP4

Alternate Cut Sound Take 3.MP4 (00_00_15)_00001.jpg
Alternate Cut Sound Take 3.MP4 (00_00_17)_00002.jpg

Angle breakdown 1080p.mkv

Angle breakdown 1080p.mkv (00_03_58)_00064.jpg

Review Draft Footage Edit v3.MOV

Review Draft Footage Edit v3.MOV (00_01_30)_00001.jpg
Review Draft Footage Edit v3.MOV (00_01_36)_00002.jpg

I had a look around online and nobody seems to have quite the same situation as my setup, and no examples I found were easily modifiable for this use.

I'm a complete coding newbie, obviously I come from the video side of things and have technical knowledge in that arena. Sorry if I've not given enough information or explained my needs clearly. Let me know and I can ammend this post or provide more info.

Is there anyone that has an idea about how I should address this particular problem?


texts: Can I direct the audio signal from Apple TV?

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I have the following equipment:

I have all my music files stored in iTunes on the pictured iMac.  When I play music it follows a path from the iMac through the Time Capsule to the Airport Express.  The Airport Express connects by hard wires to a stereo power amplifier (that has no volume controls, selector switch, or additional connections available) and from the amp to the stereo speakers.  I control all of this directly from the iMac using the iMac's volume control.  This all works great and sounds great.

As the diagram also shows, I have an Apple TV that connects to the TV.

In our house we predominantly watch Netflix or other content via the Apple TV.

I'd like to direct the audio signal from the Apple TV to the Airport Express and thus to the amp and speakers.

I know I could put in an additional device and hardwire the TV's audio outputs, stereo amplifier, Airport Express into it (essentially use it as a  switching device), but it just seems that I should already have everything one really needs already.

Any way to do this?

Follow up...

Looking at the suggestions offered and doing a bit more research on my own it seems like the easiest solution would look something like this:

This idea adds an analogue switch, which both the TV's analogue audio output and the Airport Express's analogue audio output (the Airport Express has a built in digital to analogue converter, DAC) run into.  The switch's output goes to the amplifier.

This solution depends on a few of things:

The TV's audio output has sufficient level to drive the amplifier.
The TV's volume control (from its remote) can adjust the level of its audio output enough that the speakers reach desirable listening levels -- both low enough and loud enough.
Nothing nasty happens switching between audio sources.

A remote control for the switch would be nice.

Any suggestions for such a device?


texts: Is the message "You must change your passcode within 60 minutes" valid / non-malware?

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A few minutes ago, after unlocking my phone (iPhone 4, iOS 7.0.1) I got a dialog over the home screen:

  Passcode Requirement

  You must change your passcode within 60 minutes

and it offered to let me do so.  I canceled.  I've never seen this dialog before and I am worried it may be a sign of malware fishing for my passcode. Even on iOS 9.1, this dialog still happens:

There is very little on Google about this message, but what there is is:

Someone else worried it may be malware, with no definitive answer (just "it can't be malware if it is not jailbroken", which is not true)
Someone suggesting the passcode may be "too common" (IMO, unlikely for mine.)
In both the above, a suggestion it may be related to a network profile, which I do not and never have had.

I changed my passcode manually, but am still worried about the source of the dialog and why it appeared.  Is there a definitive answer?


texts: How to change company iOS Developer account name?

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Is there anyway I can change company name from my iOS Developer account?

Like this for example where it says "By TARDIS59" is there a way to change it to "By Ashley Richards"?


texts: How can I move /Library/Developer to an external disk?

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Until Xcode 10 I was able to move the Xcode Library/Developer folder to an external drive using a symlink, in order to free up space on my main disk, like

ln -s /Volumes/*/Library/Developer /Users/*/Library/Developer

In Xcode 11, moving the Developer folder produces errors related to my .xib files, like

/Users/*project_directory*/objects/View.xib:1:1: Failed to find or create execution context for description '<IBCocoaTouchPlatformToolDescription: 0x7fbc697f2a20> System content for IBCocoaTouchFramework-ElevenAndLater <IBSimulatorDeviceTypeDescription: 0x7fbc68ecd0c0> deviceType=com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-8'. These intermediate objects were non-nil: ( …

Restarting the CoreSimulatorService, which is often proposed as the solution for this kind of errors, doesn't work in this case.


texts: Can I view Shared Albums in the iCloud Photos web interface?

texts:
I just switched to using the iCloud Photo Library and I enjoy the possibility to view my photos on any computer via the icloud.com web interface.

However, my Shared Albums do not appear in the iCloud Photos web interface.

Is that a limitation of icloud.com, or are there any steps to enable shared albums on icloud.com?


texts: Lost sender's name in my received emails.

texts: I recently uploaded IOS7 onto my iPhone 4S and now I can't see the name of the sender of any newly received emails in my inbox. Can anyone help?  Nothing too techy please - plain English needed. Thanks


texts: Is it possible to copy Firefox bookmarks with iOS Safari?

texts:
Quite simply I use Firefox sync on both my Macs and want to migrate these bookmarks to my iOS devices, not necessarly sync all the time, just migrate them as they currently are.

Is it possible, and how should I try doing it?


texts: How to fix iPhone 3 showing iTunes-icon after charging?

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I plugged in my iPhone 3 to charge it. When I came back later, the screen showed a connector device with an arrow and an iTunes app circle above that. Can't get the phone to open up. Tried calling my phone, it goes straight to voicemail. I also tried turning off and on several times.

What can I do to fix this issue?


texts:
An Application I have (IntelliJ Idea to be more specific) has Prevent App Nap checked but the checkbox is disabled and I can not disable Prevent App Nap.

How can I disable "Prevent App Nap" for this application?


texts: Install macOS Sierra using a newer Mac to be deployed on an older Mac?

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Any problem with using a newer Mac laptop to install macOS Sierra onto an external hard drive, then install into an older Mac laptop? (assuming both Macs are Sierra-capable, obviously)

Are there any issues with booting and running an older Mac from a macOS created with a newer Mac? For example, does the Sierra installer install drivers specific to the Mac on which the Sierra installer app ran?


texts: Can I type in inverse case, lIKE tHIS, with caps lock on?

texts:
Every so often, I have to type some text consisting mostly of uppercase letters, but with an occasional lowercase letter—essentially, sentence case, but inverted. On Windows, I would simply have caps lock on the entire time, and pressing Shift would give me a lowercase letter. On OS X, however, if caps lock is on, I only get uppercase letters, whether Shift is pressed or not.

So, I can either hold down Shift the entire time I'm typing, letting go of it briefly to type a lowercase letter, or press Caps Lock twice for each lowercase letter I type. Neither works as well as what Windows does.

Is there a way to get Caps Lock to behave as it does on Windows, where pressing Shift while caps lock is on produces lowercase letters?

I am running 10.6.


texts: Downloading a previously purchased app to iTunes on another computer

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I've purchased and downloaded an app to a computer that I do not sync with my iPhone on a daily basis. I would like to download the same app to a computer that I do sync usually and then sync it.

Is it possible, if no - is there any workaround?

I've purchased the app on a Mac and I wan't to do the sync it from Windows (both computers have the newest version of iTunes).


texts: Big Sur 11.2 sound autoswitch to external headphones

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After I updated my Macbook Pro 2020 13" to Big Sur I am getting very annoying autoswitch on my sound output to some "External Headphones" and then randomly get switched back to "MacBook Pro Speakers"
I don't have any external headphones connected to my Mac via audio cable or bluetooth.
Is it possible to remove this "External Headphones" somehow or to stop this annoying autoswitch?

Sometimes I don't even see this "External Headphones" in my audio devices and then it appears somehow and switch automatically.


texts: Where are the files installed when you execute a mpkg file?

texts:
I am running Mac Os X 10.9.1.

I downloaded and open an .mpkg file and when through the installation flow but at the end of it I still don't know where the files were installed.

Is there a way to find out what the mpkg executable did in terms of which directories were modified or what files were added and where?

I checked the Applications folder and can't see anything relevant there...


texts: password built in an app for restricted download?

texts: I have built an app. It's a magazine and a few brochures with rich content. I will upload it as a multi issue app. Once it's approved and available in the iTunes app store, I would like it to be available only to those who have a password to download it. But I'm not sure that it's possible to do this. I hope my question is now clearer. Thank you.


texts:
Is it possible to download and install multiple versions of Safari on macOS?
I need to test something out on my MacBook with the latest version of Safari (13), but I don't want to update my current Safari browser to the latest version. I want to be able to keep my current older version of Safari UNTOUCHED and the newest version of Safari both installed and usable on my Mac computer. Is this possible?


texts: Change to a second language dictionary while readinjg

texts: I need a French dictionary as a second choice when I read French text on my iPhone. I am not able to invoke a French dictionary when I select a French word as I do when I am reading English. Is this another case of American exceptionalism? Also there appears to be no way to get to the keyboards when I am reading text. Most awkward indeed!


texts: "Unknown error" when unlocking AppleID account

texts:
I had to change my Apple ID password because my account was locked. When I try to do this on Apple's website I get an "unknown error":

which doesn't allow me to proceed.

How can I resolve this?


texts: MacBook won't boot on Yosemite after force power off

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Macbook suddenly froze while I was using Google Chrome so I waited for 15 minutes hoping it would un-freeze. After 15 minutes, I decided to force the power off by pressing and holding the Power button. When I tried to turn it on again, I heard the chime, but the screen remained white, and the hard drive started making clicking noises.

Model identifier: MacBook6,1
OS X 10.10 Yosemite


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I have an external hdd that doesn't mount anymore. I think I screw up with all the research I done and things I try. I have vital info on this hdd and I'm really afraid to lose it.

I tried this: Rebuild partition table on external HDD - not writable but run into a problem:

sudo pdisk /dev/rdisk1
pdisk: No valid block 1 on '/dev/rdisk2' Edit /dev/rdisk2 - Command (? for help):

I tried a scan with Disk Drill and it seems that the data is there but after I tried to recover a few files, I can't open them. They have the size but I can't open them.

I tried repairdisk:

diskutil repairdisk /dev/disk2
Repairing the partition map might erase disk2s1, proceed? (y/N) y
Started partition map repair on disk2
Checking prerequisites
Checking the partition list
Problems were encountered during repair of the partition map
Error: -69770: Partition map check failed because no slices were found

I've tried test disk and before the quick search I get his:

Bad MAC partition, invalid block0 signature read_part_mac: bad DPME signature

after the quick search this is my result

Also tried:

pdisk: No valid block 1 on '/dev/rdisk2' Edit /dev/rdisk2 - Command (? for help):

Update:

Instead of using pdisk I tried gpt. The result of sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk3 is:

       start       size  index  contents
           0          1         PMBR
           1          1         Pri GPT header
           2          4         Pri GPT table
           6         34
          40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640  243781000
   244190640          4         Sec GPT table
   244190644          1         Sec GPT header

I've changed the hdd to a firewire 800 enclosure

The result of sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk2 is:

       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1  1953525167

Update 2

Trying to find the EFI start block:


texts: Duplicate the volume where macOS is installed and make it bootable

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I use my computer for work in software development. I have a new client that wants to install some special security software on my mac but I don't want to get that installed on my main operating system. To solve this problem I was thinking to install a second macOS system on a different volume.
The problem with that is that I need to spend a lot of time setting up all the software and configurations I use for development in the new volume. So I thought it would be great to just duplicate my main volume and be able to pick to which of the volumes to boot when I start.
I couldn't find how to "duplicate" the volumes to have an exact copy of my main fully configured operating system but completely isolated from the other operating system...
Any clue? Is this even possible?


texts: Does the iphone podcasts app sync my subscriptions with my itunes subscriptions?

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I just downloaded ios6 and the latest version of podcasts app.  when i look at all of my podcasts, subscriptions is turned off.

Is there anyway to keep my subscriptions in sync between itunes on my computer and iphone podcasts app?


texts: Missing Macintosh drive after running recovery mode

texts: I’m hoping someone can help me. I’ve had to run a recovery mode on my Mac air and when I tried to reinstall the OSX it cannot find the Macintosh HD. I’ve tried to repair the disk0s2 with no success. Can anyone help please?? Thx


texts: Icon for Visual Studio Code in Spotlight not working

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For some reason the icon for visual studio code in spotlight doesn't work. And it's only for visual studio code.
See attached picture.

Is there a way to fix this?


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I have MacPorts installed on my Mac and a lot of ports that were put on my machine years ago by my sysadmin for various purposes. There is quite a lot of garbage out there, but worst of all, the MacPorts system itself is fried.

My immediate desire is to upgrade subversion via MacPorts. When I try to use MacPorts to update itself (sudo port -d selfupdate), I get an inscrutable error message referring to "the log" but it does not indicate which log, as it often does.

After some hacking with -d and poking around at likely logs, it appears that the cc compiler is missing or failing. I have XCode 4.5.2 installed so I am wondering why this issue is occurring.

Bottom line: I am looking for a way to fix MacPorts; then eventually update everything, clean up the inactive ports, and finally make sure subversion is updated.

I am wondering about these possible steps:

Uninstall/reinstall Xcode.
Uninstall/reinstall MacPorts. The instructions for this seem to indicate that all installed ports will be removed, which is scary as I am not sure what that would break, but it would probably break something.

Are these possible corrective paths? Or is there something less drastic?


texts: How can I transfer pictures from a USB flash drive with the Camera Connection Kit?

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I would like to transfer a bunch of photos onto my iPad without syncing through iTunes.

I had the idea of using a USB flash drive and the Camera Connection Kit, but simply dumping the pictures into the root directory of the drive doesn't work; the iPad says that there are no photos.

Is there any way to do this?


texts: Advanced Finder Search - shown data different from file data?

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I have an advanced finder search based on last modified date. It shows a directory as being last modified on Nov 5th, but if I go to that folder itself and do "Get Info" it shows last modified as Nov 11th.
In Terminal, I checked via "stat" and "GetFileInfo" and both show Nov 11; so where is this Nov 5th data being stored? The Nov 5th date from the advanced search is actually useful and I would like to understand it better for other use cases.


texts: How to get list of users connected to file sharing?

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My desktop Mac mini (2018) shares files to other computers on the network. I've set it up in System Preferences > Sharing so that only known users can connect, with their username and password.

If I go to restart my Mini, I sometimes get a message to say that 1 or more users are connected.

Is there an easy way to find out which users are connected?

I used to use Server.app, and it would be easy to use that (or serveradmin on the CLI) to determine who was logged in. But since Server has been 'withdrawn', it doesn't seem so easy. I'm on Mojave.

last |grep "logged in" gives:

Ben       ttys000                   Sun Jun  7 15:24   still logged in
Ben       console                   Sun Jun  7 15:22   still logged in

which doesn't seem to include current AFP connected users, as suggested by the recommended article. Nor does it give those connected to TM sharing or other connections; however, those can be gleaned from Activity Monitor.

netstat -na |grep 139

just gives me a bunch of IP6 addresses.

tcp6       0      0  fe80::18cf:f908:.51390 fe80::cab:3d08:d.61984 ESTABLISHED
tcp6       0      0  fe80::18cf:f908:.61391 fe80::cab:3d08:d.61898 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp6       0      0  fe80::18cf:f908:.54029 fe80::cab:3d08:d.61394 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp6       0      0  fe80::18cf:f908:.64954 fe80::cab:3d08:d.56139 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp6       0      0  fe80::18cf:f908:.50799 fe80::cab:3d08:d.51394 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp6       0      0  fe80::18cf:f908:.52279 fe80::cab:3d08:d.61394 CLOSE_WAIT
6f249e60a5b12c27 stream      0      0                0 6f249e60a5b1396f                0                0
6f249e60a5b1396f stream      0      0                0 6f249e60a5b12c27                0                0

The best I've found is:

netstat -f inet -n | grep '.548 ' | awk '{ print $5 }' | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//'

which gives me IP4 addresses for all connections except SMB.

Ideally, something that lists the connection type and username would be ideal, but it does seem that this is going to require a script rather than a one-liner.


texts: Download App Store app on one Mac to install on another?

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I am working with a client who lives in the country, and has absolutely poor Internet speeds. Even though the connection is "high-speed wireless" (I believe it's WiMAX based), he routinely receives about 20 KB/sec on a good day, and almost always less. In other words, think a dial-up modem with even higher latency. Normally, all this guy does is some basic Email and web browsing, and he's just the sort who's patient enough to deal with it. Not to mention, monopolies and ISP business dealings mean he's unable to get any better speed to begin with unless he went with a capped LTE link.

Anyway, this guy recently got a Mac, and is now beginning to enjoy the advantages. He just now discovered the App Store, and has been downloading some small apps. Apps that are say 3MB or so will download in 5-10 minutes for him, but as I said, he's pretty much fine with that.

Now, however, he made the "mistake" of buying a game that weighed in at 3.8GB. He's now looking down the barrel of a 8-day solid download, during which (due to latencies and such) he won't really be able to do anything else with his connection.

He asked me if there was any way I could possibly download the app (on my nice 100Mbit connection!) and give it to him on a burned DVD or USB drive. Of course, Windows vets will be used to this method for dial-up dwellers - the traditional "sneakernet". I explained the issues with the App store being intimately connected to the Apple ID, and he said he'd be glad to share his Apple ID password with me and then just change it afterwards.

I do have a spare Mac that could volunteer itself to be temporarily registered to his Apple ID to download the app. The only thing I am not sure of is if downloading the app on my machine, transferring the .app package to a flash drive and copying it to his machine will work.

I would just try it but since we're dealing with "live" data here (i.e. his account) I don't want to do too many "experiments", and also I would like to be reasonably sure before I schedule another trip out there, only to find out it won't work.

I do know Apple's crypto technologies are pretty deep and intense, and it's conceivable to me that each app download is somehow uniquely encrypted, to prevent obvious piracy.

Has anyone else tried something like this, and if so, can it be done?

Thanks!


texts: Alternatives for using USB stick when USB/Thunderbolt ports not working

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I have an Early 2011 MacBook Pro.

My USB and Thunderbolt ports are not working anymore. I've tried getting the hardware repaired but it wasn't possible.

I have a USB stick that I need to connect to my MacBook in order to be able to work remotely.

Can you think of a way(s) to do that without using the USB/Thunderbolt ports on my MacBook?

Is there such a thing as a wireless USB Hub, that connects to my local Network and I can therefore access the contents of the USB sticks I connect to it via Wi-Fi on my Mac (I don't have a 2nd PC/Mac)? Much like the iTunes libraries that are shared between 2 Macs wirelessly via the local Wi-Fi network.


texts: How to find the current temperature of an iPhone's CPU?

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There are extremely useful utilities like iStats for viewing the CPU temperature on a device running macOS.
Is there a way to view the current CPU temperature of an iPhone?
Note: the reason I want this info is because an app I regularly use runs some very heavy processes which heat up the phone to very hot temperatures in around 15 minutes. I would like to be able to take the phone's temperature before and after 15 minutes of using that app.


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I'm new to Mac, when I use terminal, I found some commands like git log behaviours different from Linux.

On Linux, they will print result on screen and exit, leave all result on screen and I can see it when I input another command. Screen after running command like this:

$ git log
commit **********
Author: ******
....

$

But on Mac, they will print result to a "new screen", after exit, all result will be cleaned so I can't see the previous result. Screen after running command looks like this:

$ git log
$

Result has been cleared form screen.

Can I change some settings to make it behaviours like linux? Thanks.


texts: My iphone hasn't backed up to icloud in over 19 weeks. I have deleted hundreds of pictures, turned off Mail, Reminders, Safari, Notes, and Passbook and still it says there is no room.  The only thing that is on to backup is calendar and contacts.  Can this be right?


texts: I have about 300 songs that were purchased with my ex-wifes account.  I can't play them because they have a different Apple ID and were purchased by her account.  Does anyone know how to "sort" for those songs so I can deleter them?


texts: Force to install a software on older macos version

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is there a way for force the installation of a package to non supported version of macOS? Theorically there aren't problem of performances in this case.
I've read that in some case is possibile to modify the file Info.plist a (How to open applications regardless of required version?) but doesen't work.

Any suggestion? :)


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How are Application folders treated or considered on multiple volumes of OS X? Are they treated and indexed with equal priority as the root /Applications?

I my case I am considering putting the bulk of applications onto another hybrid drive with HFS+ so as to minimize the space used on my root SSD drive, but I want to make sure that things are resolved properly.  Otherwise I'll just be symlinking the folder onto the primary volume.

NOTE: One thing I have noticed here is that a number of apps ranging from Synergy to Screenflow are wanting to be in a on-filesystem (hardlinked) /Applications folder rather than allowing the folder to be softlinked.  It is not a frequent occurrence, but I've found 3 or 4 apps so far that are having these kinds of issues.


texts: Does Bootcamp support software 5.0 support a new installation of windows 7 on a disk partitioned by bootcamp assistant on a MacBook Air 11" early 2014 running OS X El Capitan 10.11.8?


texts: Why doesn't Google Drive show up in the list of apps when sharing a photo?

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Open the Photos app
Select an image
Pull up the menu (bottom left icon)
Available apps are Message, Mail, Twitter, etc.

Google Drive does not show up in that list (which seems to be called "Activities").

I have signed in to the Google Drive app and even restarted my phone.


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I'm new to AppleScript and wanted to export my citations using AppleScript. I found the following but am not sure the structure to change the following to my path folders, can you please provide an example and is this executed in the Script editor?:

tell application "Papers"
set outFolder to ((path to desktop from user domain) as string) & "PDF Files"
export ((publication item of every primary file item) as list) as PDF Files to outFolder
end tell

Thanks


texts: Question about defining custom paragraph styles in Pages

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I have been using Pages to wrote TV Show scripts, as I've found it to be less restrictive than celtx, and cheaper than final draft.

It's been working really well, I just defined a bunch of custom paragraph styles, and I select the relevant one as needed.

This doesn't take much overhead, but there are a few things I would like to be able to do.

Basically, there are certain things that should be enforced between the styles. I've attached a screenshot of a script I've written to better illustrate what I'm referring to:

In most cases, when there is the name of a character, i.e. PHIL, or CLAIRE, it should be followed by the paragraph style that you see in the screenshot. Is there someway to have it set up so that when I press enter to go to a new line while I'm entering a characters name, the paragraph style of the new line is that of the dialog?

Also, when there is a name heading at the bottom of the page, the dialog is the first thing at the top of the next page, but the name heading should be grouped with the dialog on the next page. Is there some way to enforce this? The problem is illustrated in the below image.

Thanks!


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I tried installing the python27 and python32 packages via MacPorts in Mac OS X 10.6.8. It includes the standard IDLE, Python Launcher, and Build Applet applications. However, when I start them, their icons would bounce briefly in the dock then disappear.

Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this problem so the IDLE (and other applications) installed via MacPorts can start and function correctly?

Thank you!

BTW, having only one Python version installed by MacPorts didn't help.


texts: Email addresses contain @HOSTNAME.domain.com when mail is configured using Profile Manager

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I'm setting up a Lion server environment for an entire office full of MacBook Pros, all running Lion. Lion server is 10.7.2, running Open Directory, DNS, and Mail.  I have successfully set up the mail server to relay mail for two domains.  Let's call them domainA and domainB.  Everything works if I set it up manually from the Mail client, but I'm trying to use Profile Manager.  Now, this requires quite a bit of explanation, so apologies in advance for the long post:

The "Settings for Everyone" profile, when auto-populated via the "Include configuration for services" setting in Server.app > Profile Manager seems to use the setting from Server Admin > Mail > General > "Host Name:".  If I set the hostname to one of the two domain names, the "Settings for Everyone" profile works fine, populates the user's Mail configuration with an address username@domain.com.  However, if I use the actual host name for this setting, it populates the email address as username@hostname.domain.com.  This is regardless of what is set in the "Domain Name:" setting on the same page.  This leaves me with an issue.  I can't choose the address / domain the user will use, as it would be defaulted to domainA or domainB via the "Hostname:" setting, not to mention that it just does not seem right to have to use "domain.com" as the hostname, and have DNS records pointed at a mail server.  (I would usually point the .domain.com DNS record to a web server, like many domains are set up)

So, I have set up a Group and Group Profile called MailTest, where I have specified the settings for the mail server.  I cannot use the "Settings for Everyone" because of the issue I mentioned above, which is why I thought I could just have two profiles, one for each domain.  I found this doc on Profile Manager variables, and used a few of these to set MailTest up so that it would dynamically configure Mail the way I wanted it.  Everything seems to work, EXCEPT for the Email Address setting.

I have tried using %email% for the Email Address setting, and verifying that the user's OD account has the correct address.  When I used %email%, it seems that the Incoming Mail > Mail Server and Port setting from the profile is actually used.  I also tried using %short_name%@domain.com, and experienced the same behavior.  The only time this setting seems to be recognized is when it is left blank.  Then, you are prompted for the email address when installing the profile.

For those of you that are still with me, has anyone experienced this issue?  Are there others that found that they could not use a hostname in the Mail server's settings or else their mail users would have a user@hostname.domain.com address?  Does anyone know why the "Email Address" profile setting seems to be overridden by the "Incoming Mail Server" setting?

I can certainly work around this by having multiple Profiles, and by using A records for domain.com that point to my mail server, but this is not desired.  I would like to use the %email% variable in my Profile so that I can use a single profile, in hopes of controlling users' email address from their OD account settings.


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Every time I attempt to create an App Store account, I get the following error:

  Your session has timed out. Please try again.

  Code: 5107

This error has persisted for weeks; I'm effectively locked out of the App Store, and everything that comes from it. (Which, as a developer, means a lot of things, since tons of stuff annoyingly depends on Xcode.)


texts: Okay my iphone needs to connect to itunes, but my device doesnt support itunes and my iphone lock button is broke, what can I do?


texts: Viber messenger not working on my ad-hoc wireless network

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I have an iPhone 5 (iOS 6.1.1) and I installed Viber messenger (version 2.2.2.86) which enables you to make phone calls over the internet. The messenger works perfectly when I use a wireless router to connect to the internet (which I don't have at home) but when I connect to my Windows XP ad-hoc network, I can't make phone calls. the call is dropped after 3 to 4 seconds and I can't receive calls either. This only happens on my ad-hoc network.

The computer connects to the internet through 3G modem
I tried updating to the latest version of Viber (2.3.1) from apple but no good
My friend has an older iPhone (probably 3G or 4) and he has the same exact version of Viber. When he tries to use my ad-hoc network, it works and he can call and receive calls.
I can't use my 3G sim card directly on my iPhone, I have to go through the ad-hoc network.

What could be the problem and solution to this dilemma?


texts: Where has my Podcast playlist on my iPhone Gone?

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Where have my podcasts gone from my playlists on my iPhone??? I used to be able to put my podcasts into a playlist in iTunes, but now they don't seem to go onto a playlist and can only be played via the Podcast app. This is terrible as you can't organize or loop  podcasts, and is dangerous whilst driving as you have to look at the phone after every episode is finished.

Is there a way to organize my podcasts?


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I moved my full photo library from a hard disk "MonsterHD" to an SSD "SieraBoot: to get more performance. I copied the whole directory with all the bits and pieces over (preserving the original one as a fallback.) Then I launched Photos (latest versions of everything) with OPT key down and set up the new location as the photo library. I also clicked "use as system library".

I now want to unmount the old hard disk and it is not allowed because "some apps are using" the drive. When I ask the OS who is doing that, it is revealed that some Photos related processes are still hanging on to the old copy.

~ lsof | grep MonsterHD
CleanMyMa 333 pitosalas   11r      DIR                1,6         68 77730300 /Volumes/MonsterHD/.Trashes/501
photoanal 425 pitosalas  txt       REG                1,6      32768 77294131 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/private/com.apple.photoanalysisd/GraphService/PhotosGraph/photosgraph.graphdb-shm
photoanal 425 pitosalas    3u      REG                1,6   12193792 77294128 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/private/com.apple.photoanalysisd/GraphService/PhotosGraph/photosgraph.graphdb
photoanal 425 pitosalas    4u      REG                1,6          0 77294130 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/private/com.apple.photoanalysisd/GraphService/PhotosGraph/photosgraph.graphdb-wal
photoanal 425 pitosalas    5u      REG                1,6      32768 77294131 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/private/com.apple.photoanalysisd/GraphService/PhotosGraph/photosgraph.graphdb-shm
photolibr 458 pitosalas   17w      REG                1,6        453 77730301 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/database/photos.db.lock
photolibr 458 pitosalas   18u      REG                1,6  492240896 77257923 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/database/photos.db
photolibr 458 pitosalas   19u      REG                1,6     147704 77257925 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/database/photos.db-wal
photolibr 458 pitosalas   20u      REG                1,6      20480 77257926 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/database/RKAlbum_name.skindex
photolibr 458 pitosalas   21u      REG                1,6   31117312 77257927 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/database/RKVersion_searchIndexText.skindex
photolibr 458 pitosalas   22u      REG                1,6      20480 77257928 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/database/RKMemory_title.skindex
photolibr 458 pitosalas   23r      DIR                1,6        612 72274925 /Volumes/MonsterHD/Users/pitosalas/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary

Any tips on what may be going on? I want to decommission that hard disk totally and I don't want to break my photo library!


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I have an online calendar in an RSS-format. Is is possible to import it into iCal and will it be kept synced automatically?
An example of such a calendar is: RSS-Calendar


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I just upgraded my iPod (4gen) from iOS 4.3 to 4.3.1.  Pressing the button twice now no longer brings up the app switcher.

Is there some setting I need to change to bring this back?  I didn't see anything in the release notes about removing or disabling this feature.


texts: Can you download custom iPhone vibrations?

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I know how to create vibrations on the phone itself, but I'm wondering if there is a way to upload to a computer, download from a computer, or even create on a computer.

I ask because I'd like a way to save and share vibrations (like you can with ring and text tones). And if there is a way to create them, that would be great. Because, let's be honest, you have a great deal more control over timing if you can use a computer.


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I work on a lot of tabs in terminal at a given time. Sometimes, I get tabs mixed up and accidently run commands on tabs I am not supposed to.

To simplify this, I wish to write some script, that on each new tab creation, comes with a random background color (not the text background, the window background), so that I can easily identify the tabs I was working with.

Any suggestions ?


texts: Can I text from iPad with only an email address?

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My wife has a wifi-only iPad. She'd like to be able to send and receive texts from it, but it has no phone number, and she has no other Apple device to send/receive texts through. She's configured iMessage to know her email address and she's logged in to Apple using her Apple ID, but texting from my iPhone to her email address (using iMessage) results in the message showing up in her email, not in iMessage.

Is there a way to configure things so that she can send and receive texts on the iPad, even though there's no phone number for it? I already have iMessage on the iPad set up to send and receive messages at her email address, but that doesn't seem to be enough.


texts: Remove folders in ~/Library/Mobile Documents

texts: There are some folders in ~/Library/Mobile Documents/ (like XXXXXX~com~companyname~appname) which seems to be left by apps I already removed from all my devices. However, if I delete those folders, they restored back almost immediately. They are not visible in Finder or in iCloud management in System Preferences. How to get rid of them?


texts: Is this noise my trackpad making normal?

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I just purchased the Pixen app because it seems to be a popular one for making pixel art. However a wierd noise is coming from the computer now, one that I haven't heard before, and I've had this Macbook pro (the new model) for about a month.

I'm not sure whether it's a bug or not, since it's only coming from one specific action.

Specifically, it's when I use the "pattern paintbrush". I think a video will be more illustrative. Here's a link to watch the video on Google drive. It's about 20 seconds:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M6cUk8zj2xODtSVXCDD79lulibKwcFBE/view

I'm just wondering if I should stop running this program because something funky is happening, or if I shouldn't worry about it. My computer works fine other than except for the "b" key often enters doubles but I doubbt that's related. I've never heard a sound like this bbefore and I didn't know the computer could make it.


texts: iWorks Keynote: Is there a way to draw a connection line from a shape back to itself?


texts: Can you turn GPS off on a Apple Watch Series 2?

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Is there any way to turn off GPS when doing a workout to save battery?
Cheers


texts: Extension for Safari to enable Google Translation WITHOUT adding a button?

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In the safari extensions there is a cool extension to use google translate on the current web page: "Translate".

However I don't like the fact it is adding a button to the bar. I would like to make it work as in Chrome, where the bar automatically appears when a website is in a foreign language.

thanks


texts: How to programatically add folder to Spotlight "do not index"?

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Is there any way to programmatically add a folder to Spotlight's "Privacy" tab?
Either through Terminal or Applescript?

Often I want to click on an item in Spotlight results in Finder, and have that item's folder no longer be indexed.

I found that if you

sudo defaults read /Volumes/foo/.Spotlight-V100/VolumeConfiguration.plist Exclusions

you can see an array with all the items excluded.

But if you try to

sudo defaults write  /Volumes/foo/.Spotlight-V100/VolumeConfiguration.plist Exclusions -array-add '/path/to/folder'

it does NOT get added to the Privacy tab in the Spotlight Preference Panel, nor does it get de-indexed.


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I'm trying to install Mavericks from a bootable USB.
I'm using this guide; http://macpaw.com/how-to/clean-install-os-x-mavericks-on-my-mac

I delete El Capitan in disk utility, but there is no 'Install OS X', merely 'Reinstall OS X', which asks me to reinstall El Capitan.

Where is the option to roll back to previous operating systems?

EDIT: This is on an early 2015 model Apple Air.


texts: iphone 7 - messages on lock screen showing separately from the same sender

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In the past, messages from the same sender would group as one notification on my lock screen e.g. Ann 7 messages

Since turning my phone on and off, suddenly multiple messages from the same sender are showing up separately. So if Ann sends me 7 messages, I'm getting 7 separate notifications on my lock screen.

How do i get them to group together again?


texts: Automator workflow to print 4 copies of 1 image on 1 page

texts: How do I get Automator to print 4 copies of the same image on 1 sheet? I have zilch knowledge about scripts so would appreciate any help!


texts: How to do a clean OS X 10.11 reinstall when shift key stuck

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My left shift key is stuck down (wiring-wise, not just mechanically stuck) - fine, I changed my password to be all caps and once I'm logged in I use Karabiner and Seil to disable the key, and because my left pinky muscle memory still thinks there's a shift key over there, I've got a plastic lever that depresses my left control key when I go for the shift key and have that remapped to shift.

Yesterday I had to upgrade from OS X 10.9 to install Xcode without a developer account. But I wasn't paying attention - now there's an even new operating system, OS X 10.11, which I accidentally installed instead!

I'd ideally like to do a clean install of OS X 10.10, or at least a clean installation of OSX 10.11 instead of the migrated one I have now. How install either of these with a stuck shift key?

I can't use any startup key combinations besides safe mode, and normal mode by holding another key during startup
The system preferences "Startup Disk" panel doesn't show a recovery partition, netboot, or a bootable USB stick that I made with createinstallmedia (though I believe the recovery partition exists)

Similar question from 2011: Ideas for reinstalling Mac OS X on a 2009 Macbook Pro whose shift key is constantly stuck down?


texts: iMac freezing with graphical artifacts, what to do?

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My iMac 27" from 2011 has recently been experiencing random freezes. It either restarts or I am forced to reboot (holding power button several seconds). When frozen the iMac does not respond to pings and nothing at all is written to the system logs.

Symptoms are graphics issues which happens just before it freezes. Tearing, flickering and random graphical artifacts. When it freezes, it usually shows a screen with striped patterns, a grey or black screen. I have checked CPU and GPU temperature and there are no problems with overheating.

Once it hangs and I reboot, the computer usually fails to boot and hangs during boot with a gray screen. At this point I cannot get it to boot at all, except into single (console) mode. Checking disks reveals nothing and running apples hardware tests tells me everything is ok.

If I leave the computer turned off for a while (say over the night) and then try to boot it, everything works.

Someone suggested it may be power-related somehow, but I have no idea how to check that.

Any ideas how to diagnose this?


texts: Software for sorting images based on the image data (not file type)

texts: I have a bunch of photos that I have recovered from a corrupted hard drive and I need some way to sort them because all of my personal photos are mixed in with the operating system and application photos. I can't sort by file type because they are all of the same file type (png's or jpeg's) the only distinction between the images is just the image itself. Is there any software out there that can look at the image data alone.


texts: A1185 Macbook battery not charging because of low voltage (capacity is still good). Is it dead forever?

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I have an old early-2008 Macbook which I'm using only occasionally (my main machine is now a mid-2012 Macbook Pro).

The old Macbook's battery, since it was a 3rd replacement, still has about 90% capacity. However, I've left it in the Macbook and haven't recharged it for several months now.

Now, when I plug it in, it doesn't charge ("Replace Now"), the light on the charger connector turns green after 2 seconds of orange; and the laptop is powered from the grid. The Battery Health Monitor app (which tells me that the capacity is still ample) tells me that the voltage of the battery is approximately 7.01 V.

Is the battery dead forever? Or is there a way to revive it?

(It's Li-Ion.)


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I moved my Photos library to an external drive due to it's size.  I removed ~/Pictures/Photos Library.  When I launch Photos it asks to choose library.  I select "Other Library" and traverse to external drive where I select the photo library I moved.  Everything works as expected.  I then choose Photos preferences and and select "Use as System Photo Library".

The next time I launch Photos it cannot find the library and I have to go through the above sequence again.  I removed ~/Library/Prefernces/com.apple.Photos.plist and redid the procedure above.  When I check com.apple.Photos.plist it has the path to the external library.  Yet when I launch Photos it again says it can't find ~/Pictures/Photos Library.

Any recommendations what to try next?


texts: How to Remote into my Mac Mini Server from Outside my Network?

texts: I'm doing mobile development and program on a Windows development machine.  However, I need to reach the Xamarin Build Host on my Mac Mini OS X Yosemite server.  Is it possible to remote into this Mac from outside my network?  I have a fixed IP for the network, but need to know how to assign ports to the various machines on the network.


texts: MacBook Air has suddenly become very slow at booting and shutdown

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I have a Late 2010 MacBook Air, and it has a 256 GB SSD, 2.13 GHz processor, and 4 GB RAM. It has been lightning fast ever since I bought it and I upgraded to OS X Lion and it was super fast. Boot time was 10-12 seconds (time to get to login screen), shut down time was 3 seconds.

During the last couple of months, my MacBook Air seems to be have slowed down regarding boot time and shut down time. Current boot time is 50-60 seconds, and shutdown time is 10-15 seconds.

I do not know the reason for this. Applications don't seem to have much lag though. It is my boot time that is a MAJOR problem!

I recently cleared a lot of useless memory on my computer and emptied the trash, and cleared the cache memory (with an app), and computer has a LOT of free space and no applications are loaded on start-up either.

Can anyone tell me how to get back the original boot time performance?


texts: Mac desktop says "Unable to download App" but the App is downloaded on the iOS device?

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My desktop is now running MacOS 11.1 (Big Sur). I also have several iOS machines.
On my iPhone I successfully downloaded the iOS Axos app. On my desktop, I am now seeing this error:

This is confusing, because I did not attempt to download the app on the desktop, there is no Axos app for the desktop, the App Store says nothing about Axos, and I see no error on my iOS device (which successfully downloaded the Axos app.)
Any thoughts on how to clear this?


texts: Choppy scrolling on new retina mac book pro

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My new mac has:

  2.2GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.4GHz 16GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM 256GB PCIe-based Flash Storage Intel Iris Pro Graphics
  Force Touch trackpad Backlit Keyboard (English) & User's Guide
  Accessory Kit

But when I scroll this (or other pdf) in safari link

it looks not smooth when you scroll it. But my mac book MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) has smooth scrolling.

Actually on my new retina mac if I open gmail via safari and try to scroll over 20 emails in list it also stuck when scrolling. Like it's from 1995 years computer.

So I tried it on 10 computer in apple store and all of them have the same problem when scroll link above or gmail content in safari.

Why? (


texts: What does this icon in available wifi mean?

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I just stumbled across something I never saw before.
When clicking on the the Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar at the top right of my screen, every available network has this "Wi-Fi icon" except one which has another icon and a "[?]" displayed as name, can someone explain what this is ?
I'm running macOS Sierra on a MacBook (8,1).


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Has anybody found a good ergo keyboard for a Mac? I've been using an MS Natural KB 4000 for quite a while but I need to retire it and thought I'd look around for something that would work a little better in OSX (mute, volume keys, keys actually labeled for all things Mac-y).

I've been using an Apple keyboard for the last week and while it looks cool, it's just awful to type on for any amount of time. Since I'm a programmer that is an issue.

I checked out Logitech's site and they don't seem to have any Mac specific keyboards any more. Google's not helping out. Any coders out there have a favorite keyboard?


texts: Why is networking slow to start up after exiting the screensaver?

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For the past month, networking on my iMac has had strange behavior after waking up from the screensaver. For example, the first website that I visit in Google Chrome (after exiting the screensaver) displays an error page at first:

There is no internet connection
...
ERR_INTERNET_DISCONNECTED

Then, if I don't touch anything, a few seconds later, the error page refreshes and the browser connects to the website normally. This didn't used to happen. Safari does it too.

Afterward, all web browsing and networking are normal, until the next time the Mac sits idle and the screensaver activates. Then the behavior repeats.

I've also noticed that incoming network connections have a similar symptom. The first time I "ssh" or use a VNC client to connect to this iMac (after the screensaver has kicked in and some hours have passed), it takes many seconds to connect, but a second connection attempt is instant.

Anybody know why this happens and how I can fix it?

This is MacOS 10.12.6 with the latest Google Chrome.


texts: For years I had used spotlight to search inside of plain text files and other documents. As of late, Spotlight no longer searches inside documents it appears to only search their titles. Is there any easy fix to this? I'm running mojave (10.14)


texts: Applescript to add sender of message to specific group in Contacts

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I'm trying to set up an Applescript to add the sender of a selected message in Apple Mail to a specific group in the Contacts app. By reconfiguring the code provided in this answer, I worked up the following but it isn't working. Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong?

    tell application "Mail"
    set theMessage to selection
    tell application "Contacts"
        set theGroup to "_TEST"
    end tell
    set theSender to sender of theMessage
    tell application "Contacts"
        set theName to name of theSender
        set thePerson to make new person with properties {first name:name of theSender}
        add thePerson to theGroup
    end tell
    tell application "Contacts" to save
    end tell


texts: Where does Alfred store default and custom web searches that you create on your Mac?


texts:
Over the past decade I've come to acquire a random selection of large hard disks from my older computers. While most of the stuff on it isn't vital, there are fair bits of music I made over the years just sitting on them.

I'd like to have all these files stored in some kind of library kinda like the way iTunes does it... HOWEVER.

A lot of it is either crap, or the disk may even contain large groupings of game audio files etc.

I don't want to bog my actual iTunes library down with this nonsense. So can anyone recommend me an alternative that will essentially scan these old disks and add any content to its library.


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So recently I started listening to Apple Music, but I didn’t realise that I had to pay 10 dollars every month. Now I want to quit it.

Anyways, I tried going to my account, but there wasn’t a button to stop using Apple Music.

Should I delete the app?


texts: OS X 10.11.5 hangs occasionally for 30 seconds for multitasking, gestures and the Dock

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Since a few weeks (maybe since updating from 11.3) my system (MacBook Pro Retina 13" 16 GB RAM) hangs for about 30 seconds every now and then. I am able to use the app where the focus is on, e.g. browser but I can not use the Dock or multitask or use any gestures.

I have already tried to reinstall OS X from Recovery HD. Surprisingly the system downloaded OS X and installed it, but it is not a "clean" install. All my apps and settings are still here ... and the problem as well.

What could be the reason for it and how could I track it down to fix it?


texts: Cannot connect to Google Account on Internet Account - OSX 10.12.3

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From this morning I cannot use anymore any account based on Gmail (neither work account). It asked me for password and every time I insert the correct one, it gives me a "grey" screen (check the screenshot below). I tried already to delete all the google/gmail entries on login/all from Keychain Access, to reboot my Macbook but the problem doesn't get solved. Anyone knows how to solve this? Thank you!
I created another thread because I cannot comment there (50 points needed and because the solution applied there is not working). As I said in the comment probably it was working only for an older version of OSX.


texts: Outlook for Mac - only sync calendar not emails

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Our company has migrated our Gmail accounts to Office 365. In my local Outlook for Mac client, I've deleted my old account and added the new one. But there is still a single calendar out of my control that didn't get migrated AFAIK that I would like to have on my Outlook Calendar. But if I re-add my old account, I get double of all my old emails.
Is there a way to tell Outlook for Mac to sync just the calendar from a certain account and not the emails for that account? I know you can do this in the native Apple Mail/Calendar clients thru the Internet Accounts settings.


texts: How can I edit pure text file stored in iCloud Drive from iPhone?

texts: I tried to edit textfile via Pages, but it does not handle pure text file?! I can not believe it. Any idea how to edit / read it?


texts: Use TestFlight without Developer Certificate

texts: I have developed an Xcode iOS app, but can I use it on my TestFlight without a Paid Dev Cert?


texts: Is macOS known to completely crash due to a bad boot drive?

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I've got a mid-2013 11" MacBook Air that I fixed up.

It had no SSD when I got it but I've been running it off an external USB 3 hard drive fine for about a year and a half including backpacking around the world for a year.

But in the last few weeks the whole OS has been prone to crashing. Sometimes after a couple of days uptime, sometimes after only a short time.

I'm trying to narrow it down to a bad motherboard or bad hard drive.

Normally I wouldn't expect a bad hard drive to crash the whole system but just report various errors and warnings from the OS. Or if it were to cause a crash I would expect the OS to detect it most of the time and display some kind of dialog on the screen before restarting.

Often though it seems to crash when I'm moving the computer or the external drive or touch the cable. Most of the time moving it does not cause a crash though.

I have tried both USB ports so I can rule out damaged ports. It could be something to do with the cable or the drive though.

But if anyone can tell me for 100% sure that a bad hard drive or cable is ever known to crash the whole OS I can try to find another drive to test.

Likewise if anyone can tell me for 100% that a bad hard drive can never crash the whole OS I can focus my attention elsewhere.

Extra info:

Once or twice after a crash it restarted with the flashing folder icon but started up fine next time. I never got any errors about the hard drive from the OS or any app. Checking the drive with the OS tools finds no errors. The drive has both Mac and Windows partitions and I've tested on both OSes. I haven't yet seen any problem using the drive on my Windows laptop but I mostly use the Mac now.

The only causal factor I can think of is that one day I put the Mac in my backpack with the external drive still attached. The Mac will sleep but not hibernate due to the OS design. I was jogging for an hour or two and when I opened my backpack the drive cable was no longer plugged in. Plugging or unplugging a USB device wakes a sleeping Mac and waking the Mac will cause the hard drive to start. Bumping or shaking a running hard drive can damage it. None of this should've had any effect on the rest of the Mac hardware I can think of.


texts:
I miss Safari’s Reader mode’s ability to cut down on website cruft, for example Medium’s banners.

But I really don’t like Safari otherwise.

Can I get Reader mode in Chrome?  How? I tried chrome://flags/ but no luck.

getting Open in Safari option in Chrome’s Share menu would be OK as a workaround.  Right now it’s copy url, open Safari, paste url.

Firefox is my main desktop browser but not interested in it on iOS. I’d prefer Chrome be extended to perform this function, but I’m open to any and all third party browsers that can emulate the Safari reader mode function.


texts: Cannot create Apple ID either from iOS of website - An unknown error has occurred

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I'm trying to create an Apple ID from a used iPhone 5 that I have purchased but it's failing.

After failing on the iPhone I tried to create one from the website but I'm always getting an "An unknown error has occurred"

No clue on how to solve it.


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I have iTunes 12.3.3.17 on Windows 7 and I want to update an app through iTunes.

All the tutorials I have found are for iTunes 11, where there is a clear button at the bottom. This is not the case with iTunes 12. How can I update an app via iTunes?


texts:
An industrial application needs a barcode scanning kiosk and upload scans 18 hours a day,7 days a week.  Users are not expected to touch the display, however, the display will be on broadcasting instructions and providing feedback that scans are successful.

Has the iPad been tested or used in 18X7 duty cycles or similar high duty cycles?


texts: Can I delete a file from being shown in the 'recents' area of the Files iOS app?

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I am trying to remove some files out of the 'recents' view of the files iOS app without actually deleting the file.

My 'recents' list is currently too long, for this view to be of any help for me at this point. Ideally, I can curate individual items that aren't relevant and keep the rest of the list, but if needed - can I just purge all recents and start cleanly?


texts: How to Invert Color on Mac running Catalina?

texts: I just downloaded the new version of OS, and I found out the shortcut key Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-8 doesn't trigger invert colors anymore. I thought maybe they changed the shortcut, so I tried to search in System Preference but ended with no luck. Did Apple remove invert colors? If not, where can I find it? Is there any shortcut key for it? Thanks!


texts: My iPhone 4s has gotten stuck in 'Reset and Erase All' mode for hours

texts: I purchased an iPhone 4s, added it to my service plan, but discovered that it still had the old owners info on it.   The associate that I spoke with suggested restoring it via  Settings > General > Reset and Erase All. I did that but the phone has been stuck in restore mode for some three hours now. The associate indicated it would take only about 15 minutes to do the reset. Is this normal? How can I restore the phone?


texts: Sharing folder or adding user to folder permissions using Finder's Get Info not possible

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I used to be able to add (or remove) users to this folder via Finder's Get Info. Today I noticed I was not able to do that anymore:

When I select the Lock icon in the lower right hand corner and enter an administrator's credentials, the [+] icon in Get Info stayed disabled.

What is going on?


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I'm running the latest version of mavericks and was just wondering if there is a way to set a grid sizes globally so that spaces between folder and files is the same throughout finder?

At the moment if I navigate through folders, the grid sizes are different in each folder .


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I Erased my hard drive from mac utilities from the recovery mode, but now i am not able to install Mac OS Mojave as it doesn't shows my mac hard drive to install and when i checked it in utilities, it shows the drive as UN-formatted. So now i cannot install mac os and my ssd has been erased. What can i do for it ?
I am attaching a image that it is showing in the disk utilities.


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Is there any way of Filtering out messages from OS X system log?

I am looking through the log on an old MacBook running Lion.

This has an error message every 10 seconds from an obsolete service:

com.apple.launchd.peruser.503[154] (de.novamedia.VodafoneDeviceObserver[1386]): posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/Vodafone/NML2NDeviceObserver.app/Contents/MacOS/NML2NDeviceObserver", ...): No such file or directory

The actual app is long gone, it was only the launch service that is generating error messages (for the last 5 years!)


texts:
I have an iPad v1 and need to plug in its IP to a program on my computer to test files.

The problem is every time I connect, the IP is reset and I have to enter a new IP.

Is there a way to have it permanently on one IP?


texts: Bring back the OS X 10.9, Maverick, theme on 10.10, Yosemite, (UI Elements and Icons)

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I really hate the new OS X 10.10, Yosemite, icons and I just can't like the user interface. Is there a way to bring back the Maverick ones by patching some files.

P.S. I already did the reduce the transparency thing but still it sucks I just want the same old one.


texts:
So I recently took a 500GB HDD which already had error with catalog-B tree from a dead MacBook to recover from files, So after recovering the data I formatted the disk and started it using it for backup purposes and I wanted to repair the disk and check for any problems and I did get a problem when I ran first-aid on the parent Disk:

And I ran a terminal command to fix it the problem but it failed:

bash-$ diskutil repairDisk disk
Repairing the partition map might erase disks, proceed? (yN) y
Started partition map repair on disk
Checking prerequisites
Checking the partition list
Adjusting partition map to fit whole disk as required
Checking for an EFI system partition
Checking the EFI system partition's size
Checking the EFI system partition's file system
Checking the EFI system partition's folder content
Problems were encountered during repair of the partition map
456789
Error: -69854: A disk with a mount point is required
bash-$ exit
exit

But if I format the parent disk as Apple Partiton Map or master boot record it does not show any error while repairing the parent Disk. So should I worry or should I do something about it?
Any ideas?

EDIT: Thanks for all your answers but I don't know how but the problem has fixed itself:


texts:
In Mountain Lion, my full name is displayed at the bottom of the log in menu. As I want to sell my computer, I was wondering if there is a way to hide this? (it's the only place that you can see it as it is not the user name, and I can't change it in Sharing preferences).

I called Apple support, they told me there's a way to do it via Terminal, but they wanted to charge me for that. I looked up online, but I can't find a way to remove it.


texts: Two finger left and right swipe on trackpad does not work under Lion

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On one user account on one of my family macbook air machines (all with the latest version of Lion) the two finger trackpad swipe left and right to switch back and forth (e.g. between pages in safari) does not work . The three finger swipe and all other gestures work like a charm. Any tips how to make the two finger swipe work again?

Others seem to have this problem, too: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3313418?start=0&tstart=0


texts: Can set iTerm2 tab colors from the command line?

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I'd like to automatically set a terminal tab's color when certain things happen, like when I run teamocil, ssh or other programs.

I know how to watch the .bash_history file.  But I don't know how to programmatically change the tab color.  Is there a way?

(not related: 1, 2)


texts: How can I tell Mobile Safari to stop remembering to never remember my password?

texts:
I've changed my mind about having Safari/iCloud Keychain never remember my password for a given website. I'd like to remove that setting and store the password, but I can't find any ability to delete/change it anywhere. I've already gone into Settings->Safari->Passwords & Autofill -> Saved Passwords, and the website in question does not show up in the list with a 'never' entry to delete.

How can I make Safari forget to keep forgetting this login info?


texts: Is Etrecheck safe to use and is this safe place to download?

texts:
I wanted to check my system and heard about EtreCheck.

1) Is it safe app to use?

2) Is this safe place to download it from?


texts: Where is my .bash_profile located? (Mac OS 10.10.5)

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Disclamer: I am a newbie to UNIX programming.

I downloaded Anaconda but then realized that I did not need it. I deleted and uninstalled it as fully as I could find out how. It seems that everything to do with Anaconda is gone except that the $PATH variable retains paths to folders which no longer exist.

In the terminal when I type

echo $PATH

It returns

/Users/Name/anaconda/bin://anaconda/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/texbin

How do I remove the Anaconda path? I know that I have to change the .bash_profile, but where exactly is the file located in Mac OS?

Two additional side questions:

1) is the 'Python.framework' path part of the built in Mac python distribution, or is that related to Anaconda as well?

2) what is the /opt/X11/bin related to in the path?


texts: Adding a second iCloud email account to Mail.app in macOS Sierra

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How to add a second additional email iCloud account in Mail.app?

I am helping someone who ended up with two separate iCloud accounts. One is hooked up to his new MacBook Pro, no problem. Email, Messages, Reminders, Notes, and such all syncing.

Now this person wants to access the email for the second iCloud/Mac.com/Me.com account. Need just email, no other iCloud features such as Messages, Reminders, Notes, and so on.

How to add an additional iCloud account for email only?

I am afraid to use System Preferences > Accounts > iCloud item in list as that might totally confuse and ruin the already-assigned account for all the syncing. We want to add a second email, not replace the already-assigned iCloud account.


texts:
I've lost my iPod touch and I really need it. I used iCloud but it said that it has no Wi-Fi.

How can I find it now?


texts: Is there a way to disable the Google Play Music icon in the menu bar, while keeping Google Play Music running?


texts: Parental control software for iPhone11 and Apple devices in general

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Apple is known for the hard restriction of privacy which makes it hard to get lots of deep monitoring (or spying) features such as reading social messages to work on non jail-broken devices.
iOS14 is equipped with built-in ScreenTime app, but this only lets you schedule the on and off times, with no ability for manual on-demand blocking or allowing.
I have tried OurPact, but it didn't work. Dashboard said the device is blocked - I'm holding it in my hand and it is wide open.

Are there any applications that give the parent sufficient control & monitoring, that is trusted and not a malware, that simply work with no issues? I'll take the best thing out there that brings maximum value on non-jail broken iphone device.
Problem is that all searches both in Google & Duckduckgo all lead to all kinds of listings made by affiliated marketers, but no references or reviews from real people. All these products require subscription with no trial to see that it actually works.
Are there somewhere real testimonies of real people which deployed and enjoyed high quality parental control systems on their children iphone's and are live to tell about it?


texts: MacBook Pro does not sleep/require password at all

texts:
I just bought a brand new MacBook Pro: a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports).

And here is the issue: It will not sleep/require password automatically pretty much at all. This is both a battery saving issue and a security issue for me.

My settings are as follows:

Require password immediately after sleep or screen saver.
Disable automatic login
Turn display off after 1 minute when using battery
Turn display off after 1 minute when using power adapter

I've had mixed results, and noticed this behavior is not deterministic. I'm really frustrated that my brand new MacBook Pro is behaving this way, and I'm considering returning it.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can fix this?


texts: Mac Mini late 2012 second monitor resolution

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I have a dual monitor setup for mac mini 2012, 2 x lg flatron w2243 one is connected through dvi to hdmi adapter and works fine at a 1920x1080 resolution, the other has a vga to mini display (thunderbolt) connection, but the highest resolution it works at is the 1280x720 and I want them both at 1920x1080.

As soon as I increase the resolution on the second monitor, the monitor goes black and occasionally flickers.

As for vga to thunderbolt adapter, it works fine as i've tested the same monitor with my MacBook Pro 13" Retina and it's working great at a 1920x1080 res.

Let me know if you have any ideas or if you need any more info.

Thanks


texts: Distribute iOS app to customers without enterprise account

texts:
At our company we are developing apps (Android and iOS) for use by other companies. The app (or the right to use the app) is sold together with the server solution (app works with a custom server at that companies' headquarters, that would only work on their network - or VPN) and also a desktop solution that uses the same server. Basically a complete software and hardware solution for use by that company. Payment is made for the whole package, together with maintenance, so selling the app in the store is not a solution.

Is there any way to distribute the app to the customer without them having an enterprise account? (we think it would be difficult to convince clients to pay 300$/year extra just for an app). The simplest solution would be to publish the app on the App Store for free, as it would be useless without the custom server and credentials, could it pass the approval process? Or is there any other solution?


texts: A white input bar appear when typing on keyboard while play game

texts:
I have a problem everytime I play a game on my Mac, and try to use keyboard's alphabet characters, a white input bar appear on the bottom of the screen (and the character go there instead of to the game). What is it and how can I turn it off? Thank you very much

It like this


texts: How to play music from iPad on Yamaha amplifier without AirPlay, but wirelessly?

texts: I have a Yamaha amplifier 473 series and an iPad 1 with 5.1 iOS. There is no internet connection nearby, so have to use aux but want it wirelessly through the iPad. There are av, aux and usb inputs in the front of the amplifier. How do I connect the 2 devices to play music wirelessly without AirPlay?


texts: Catalina: prevent auto sync iOS devices (globally)?

texts:
Previously, in iTunes - Preferences - Devices, we can check 'Prevent iPods ... from syncing automatically'.

In Catalina, iOS device management has been Finder's job. I only found the switch per device. Is there a switch for all devices?


texts: How to synchronize threads in Messages on Mac and iPhone?

texts:
I actually receive iMessages on a Mac and an iPhone, and I could say that they are correctly synchronized on reception.

Now from time to time, as everybody I have a huge volume of old iMessages
to delete. Since I don't want to make masive destruction I usually perform
this task on my Mac where it is much more easy and faster. The risk of
selection errors is also much lower.

For example I recently deleted a few hundreds iMassages on one thread
Alice on my Mac.

And I wasen't able to find any easy way to get the same thread Alice cleaned accordingly on my iPhone.

I imagined a few seconds to make these threads scroll in parallel on my
Mac and my iPhone and delete manually the one already deleted on my Mac.
But after 2 minutes of this boring task I understood this can't be
the intelligent way.

I searched on my preffered search engine for half an hour to find many
discussions on the synchronization on reception, but none about synchronization on deletion.

What is the best method to achieve this synchronization of deletion
between Messages on a Mac and an iPhone?
My purpose is to obtain a real thread synchronization between devices.

The Mac versions I am running and interested in are:

Yosemite
El Capitan

the iPhone ones are:

9.3
10.2


texts: Acer H277H monitor is not charging 2016 MacBook when plugged in via USB-C. Is this possible?

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My MacBook is connected to monitor via computer's USB-C to monitor's Display Port with one cable. Given that MacBook only has one USB-C port, my computer cannot charge while using the monitor. If the computer is not charging the display will shut off when the MacBook's lid is closed thus requiring me to leave the lid open, which is, in turn, draining power quickly.

Is there a way to power the computer via the monitor while plugged in?


texts: I have an iPod Touch 4th Gen that has iOS 5 by default. Now that iOS 7 has been released and this device does not support iOS 7, can I still update my iPod Touch to iOS 6 (i.e., is iOS 6 still available)?


texts: Disconnect LAN cable using command line?

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TL;DR:

I need to run ifconfig <iface> ether <mac>, but this cannot run if the network cable is connected. The interface has no IP before the ether command, even with connected cable.
So, either I need to be able to dected a connected LAN cable and block the operation until the cable is unplugged, or I need to be able to "virtually unplug" the cable and then run the command.

Long edition:
I'm wondering if there's a command to make Mac think that the LAN cable is disconnected without bringing the interface down and without physically unplugging the cable?
I want to run the ether command, but this doesn't work with the interface down. The problem is that our switch is configured to automatically block ports where more than one MAC address is active on a port (to block the chance that someone plugs in a hub/switch, over which I have no control).
But to be able to run the ether command, the device cannot be down so it needs to be disconnected.
I know I can physically disconnect the cable, but I want to be sure that I don't accidentally run the script. The procedure to get the port unlocked takes pretty long.
(Alternative could be to detect the cable connection status, if that is possible from the CLI, and refuse to continue)


texts: Outlook in VM not responding - want to bring window to front

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All,

Every once in awhile, when I click on a window in MS' Outlook 2010 to bring it to the front, it doesn't respond. Sometimes, I see the outline of the window I want to bring to the front, but it doesn't jump to the front to make it active/functioning. My set up is Windows 7 32 bit, running in Parallels 8 with 2.5 gigs of memory and 2 CPU's.

Any thoughts?


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Is it possible to have the music app of iOS 12 on iOS 13, because the interface where the queue can be accessed only by pressing a button rather than scrolling/swiping down is very annoying.

Open to Jailbreaking the device for the same.


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When I am signing in to my user account, there is a user interface with a black or white (about the dark mode or light mode is selected) background, there are two text boxes for username and password. When you type the username and press enter if the user is found you hear two beep sounds and get to the password part; if the user is not found you hear one beep sound and you type your username again. In the password part, you get a beep sound for every character you enter, if your password is correct you get three beep sounds.
How can I fix this, I want the normal (select user, enter password) user interface
MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012), macOS Catalina 10.15.7


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I am trying to connect an Apple TV remote to my iPhone so I can test my application with the remote.

But I can not find anything that shows how to connnect the devices together.  Does the remote only connect to the Apple TV?


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My set up is macbook air mid 13 with i7 processor and 8GB of ram running OS X Yosemite. Which is plenty for my use, at least it has been. I usually have no more than 3 apps running as notes, reminders and safari. I also use statsbar to watch the performance and the usual is 1/3gb of ram free. The problem I started noticing is in the past week the machine has started overheating as I can feel it by touching the laptop and hearing the fan, which only used to happen when I tried to turn on all I could to see if the machine would handle it.

I supposed some would say that it also may depend on the amount of stuff I have open in safari as neither notes nor reminders use up the cpu that makes it overheat. I usually have up to 5 tabs open: youtube, couple of news websites and a couple of wiki tabs. Which the machine used to handle with no problems at all.

So my main question is how come the machine is going crazy and what can I do to prevent it?


texts: After update, background turned black, the dock is missing

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As you can see it, after updating the commandline tools for xcode, the background turned black and the dock is missing

the OS is macOS Sierra 10.12.4(16E195)

How can I fix it?


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I'd like to to start a second instance of Mail.app in macOS 10.14 for another email account.

I found this post about opening a new instance of Chrome: How to open new windows as separate application instances for Chrome, Terminal?

and tried the Terminal commands but the catch is that they do open a second instance of Mail.app but also with the same account credentials that are already there. I want to start "from scratch" with the second instance and input whole different credentials.

There used to be a program "SwitchUp" a couple of years ago but it's not being developed anymore.

Anybody an idea if this is possible (without switching to another user account)?


texts: Automator to remove all text before hyphen ( - )?

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I'm trying to create an Apple Automator application that will rename a group of files by removing all text before and including a hyphen ( - ) that will post an error if trying to rename a file with no hyphen.

ex:

input is 001-10312233_033

output is 10312233_033

Then if it ran again on the same file (10312233_033) would produce an error or warning as there is no hyphen.

Any ideas what script in Automator will make this happen?