texts: High Sierra Insisting on iCloud for File Sharing

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I have two computers (iMac, MacBook Pro). I am the sole user of both, and I am logged into the same iCloud account on both. Both run High Sierra.

I used to be able to connect from MacBook to iMac via AFP either by clicking the iMac in Finder's sidebar or doing Command+K, afp://username@imac.local/ — and then either way authenticating with my local-to-iMac credentials.

On High Sierra, the MacBook connects automatically using my iCloud ID instead, and then I have no access to anything. If I click "Disconnect", it immediately logs in again with my iCloud ID.

How can I either...

Disable connecting with this iCloud account (without logging out of iCloud on either machine)

or

Grant access for my iCloud account to the directories I want?

This looks like the same question, but the answer doesn't seem to work at all (I've always done username@imac.local and it no longer works).


texts: How do I get my folder list from the dock to start at the TOP of the folder rather the bottom, when organized by date?

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I have a frequently used folder set up in my dock to display as a list, organized by date modified.

The problem here is that I have several hundred items in that folder, and most frequently I need to access the ones that are most recently modified, but I always have to scroll to the top of my long list, since Apple defaults to showing the oldest modified (i.e. the bottom of the list) by default. How does this make any sense for the user?

Any way to change this display, so I can avoid having to move upward through 800 files and folders every time I click on the list? I changed it to display as a stack and the same thing is happening. I also tried to change the sorting to date added, and date created, only to have the same result.


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I accidentally told my Mac laptop to forget my bluetooth speaker. Now I can't undo the 'forget device'? Can i reset it so i can reconnect my wireless speaker?
I have tried to find a reset button in settings but I can't find one?


texts: How to update packages installed via Homebrew?

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I've installed packages in my macOS using Homebrew, and installed GUI apps using Homebrew Cask.

How could I update my extensions and packages?


texts: What actions can be taken with lost and locked phone?

texts: I lost my phone and I tracked it, but then suddenly I lost the location. Can the person make use of it if it is not screen locked? What other actions can he take with it.


texts: Edit TCC.db to bypass "'Foo.app' wants access to control 'Bar.app'" on own machine

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I make extensive use of Apple Events to control a wide variety of applications on my machine. The new security prompts introduced in Mojave are crippling.

In previous versions of macOS, once an app was granted permission to "control your computer", it was able to send Apple events to any other app on your machine. In Mojave, this permission must be manually granted once for each app being controlled.

Once a user grants access, their selection is stored in one of two sqlite databases:

~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db
/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db

Note that #2 is only visible to the root user.
Note that System Integrity Protection is disabled.

Would it be possible to edit these sqlite databases directly to automatically grant permissions and bypass these security prompts?


texts: Is it possible to control Spotify on Apple TV 4K using Siri?

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I have an Apple TV 4K, and have installed the Spotify app. This works well to browse and play music on Spotify when using the remote.

Is it possible to find and play music on the Spotify app using Siri? The goal is to leave the TV off when playing music through my connected amplifier.

I'm finding that Siri doesn't seem to search the Spotify catalog. If I say "play X", Siri finds movies and TV shows matching "X".

Is there a keyword to use with Siri for Spotify, or is Spotify search not supported?


texts: How do I open a file with an extension of .accdb?

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I got a file contain extension of .accdb
I don't know how to open or which software to use to read this file


texts: I deleted every mail on my iPhone - but why does Mail still eat up my memory?

texts: I deleted every single mail from Mail.app on iOS 8.3 (inbox, sent, trash). However, Mail still occupies 798 MB for "mails and attachments" according to the memory overview. How can I clear this memory?


texts: How can I have TV shows I'm not currently watching not appear on the iPad?

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I recently upgraded from iOS 6 to 8. Previously, the show's icon did not appear in the video viewer if there were no shows uploaded to the iPad. Now, they all show, presumably so that you can download cloud versions at any time.

I would like to only have shows I'm currently watching show up on the iPad. The screen is cluttered with more and more shows, but I don't want to delete the downloaded tv files completely from my iTunes drive.

Is there a way to mark shows visible/not visible?


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Seems like an idiot question, but I completely failed to copy a movie from one iPhone to another.

We tried coupling with bluetooth, failed to send files.
Enabling internet sharing (which worked) but failed to send files through Airdrop.

I understand that if we were connected to a WIFI network Airdrop would probably have worked. But we were on a trip travelling in a car, so there was no WIFI availability.

Remembering sharing photos over BT with friends ages ago using old push-button cell phones is seems crazy that we could not find out how to do it.

Can this be done? (iOS 9.3, iPhone 6 + SE)


texts: How do I prevent my iPhone from wrongly auto-correcting a specific word?

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When I'm writing text in Danish, the iPhone always auto-corrects foto into FOTO which is immensely annoying. How can I prevent that specific suggestion from ever showing up again?
This is iOS version 4.2.1.

First I thought that it was matching it with an entry in my address book, but there is no contact with "FOTO" in any of the name fields. I'm using several languages, and the bad replacement only shows in Danish and not in German and not in English. I haven't tested other languages.

Because my PC with iTunes is not working well, I'd appreciate suggestions different from "try upgrading iOS it might help" unless that is a proven fix. I don't want to have to upgrade the phone unless really, really necessary.

Update:

As noted in an answer's comment, I don't want to turn off the autocorrect -- I just want it to work right. Thanks.
Resetting the keyboard dictionary didn't help.


texts: getting an error -25299 attempting to create account and password for proxy

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I changed the proxy settings with the following code:

sudo networksetup -setwebproxy Wi-Fi IP_ADDRESS PORT on USERNAME PASSWORD

It does indeed changes settings, but throws an error saying:

error -25299 attempting to create account and password for proxy

What could be the reason for this? I think it has something to do with Keychain app, since after changing proxy in Network tab, I also need to press Allow/Always allow when this popup is triggered(right after changing proxy settings). Using sudo command above doesn't manage this popup.

Any idea how to solve this problem?


texts: Updating to El Capitan wiped out Soundflower presets

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I just finished updating my OS X to El Capitan, and when I went to open AU Lab, it said the Soundflower input and output could not be found. I checked system preferences and both Soundflower 2ch and 64ch are no longer listed in the Sound tab. I uninstalled and reinstalled both Soundflower and AU Lab twice but this hasn't fixed the problem.
If I try to open AU Lab and run my equalizer preset anyway I get a high pitched screeching noise that doesn't go away.

I've used this same preset for a couple of years now and never had a problem, so I am pretty annoyed by this. I can understand some compatibility issue that could probably be worked around, but the fact that it just blatantly deleted the channels from system preferences doesn't really make sense to me. Reinstalling didn't put them back. Anyone have any insight/suggestions? I refuse to go back to listening to things through the default of MacBook speakers.

edit: upon further inspection, it seems as though it actually just completely wiped out Soundflower and refuses to accept it back...  even after installing and restarting, it doesn't show up in the Applications folder. Soundflowerbed is still there, but says "Soundflower is Not Installed!!" What is this about?


texts: Future of iTunes and audio files in its library

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I still have most of my music on CDs. This has been fine, since I mostly listened in the car. Since I retired recently, I am driving less and would like to put the CDs into iTunes (mostly for my iPads and iPhones). I have already put a small percentage of the CDs into iTunes. Now, I am considering putting the remainder (~200) into iTunes.

But, now that there are rumors that iTunes will be discontinued, is this a dead-end?  Most of the existing files are ".m4a" files. Any recommendations?


texts: What is the vibration when I picked up an iPhone 7 Plus that feels like a gyroscope?

texts: Recently when I pick up my iPhone 7 Plus (especially when it is charging), there was some kind of vibration that felt like a turning gyroscope which I played when I was a kid. And then after picking up the phone for 10, 20 seconds, the vibration would stop. What was it about? If it was a gyroscope, what was it turning for?


texts: Do I need to delete an app's related data in ~/Library myself when I delete it?

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When I delete an app (move it to Trash) do I also need to delete its related data in ~/Library myself?

According to this:

Does deleting Mac App Store apps in Launchpad delete related files in the Library folders too?

some apps keep their data in ~/Library even after it's deleted. I find it kind of annoying that the app keeps its data even after it is deleted. The only reason I can think of that usage is maybe if I reinstall the app later, I can get my old data back. But I still prefer to deleting all its related data if I delete the app.

My second question is is this the main function of other uninstaller tools?


texts: How to display the current space number in the menu-bar with Mavericks? Like it had been possible in previous versions of Mac OSX?


texts: Does the Mac mini with M1 support the LG 5k display?

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I have the 1st gen LG ultrafine display. Will it work with the 2020 Mac mini M1-based machine?
Update: The LG 5k 1st gen is quite prickly. It doesn't work with an AMD eGPU which does work with the 2nd gen LG. It seems to have some non-standard DisplayPort over thunderbolt implementation. This egpu.io article has details: https://egpu.io/forums/gpu-monitor-peripherals/lg-ultrafine-5k-now-usb-c-powered/


texts: Is there a PDF annotation app for the iPad with minimal (or no!) annoying page transitions?

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I'm looking for an iPad app that I can use for my PDF presentations.  The absolute must-have features are:

Good annotation support.

I'm giving 2hr lectures so I have to be able to write on the presentation in response to the students' questions, or to highlight something that I want the students to take particular note of.
No annoying page transitions.

Since the presentation is a PDF, incrementing information on a slide is actually handled by having a whole new page which is almost a copy of the previous one.  So when changing pages, the students' attention has to be on what just changed on the slide, not on some fancy page turning or sliding feature.

GoodReader has the second feature, but it's annotation support is somewhat limited.  In particular, freehand writing is difficult.

There are many PDF annotation apps that have the first, but I've yet to find one that has (almost) no page transitions.  I had found eNote Taker which was acceptable (there's a slight blurring of the image on changing, but that's alright), but today it got upgraded to GoodNotes and now page turning is done by sliding (I have emailed GoodNotes to ask them to fix this, but my next lecture is tomorrow morning so even if they agree it's unlikely that it'll be fixed in time).

So my question: is there an iPad annotation tool without annoying page transitions?

Unfortunately, none of the reviews that I've found mention page transitions so I've been reduced to watching interminable youtube videos to try to see the transitions (that's how I found eNote Taker).

(I hope that this is an acceptable question; I've tried to make it non-subjective and with a clear potential answer.  However, I'm not a frequent user of this site, so if it is not acceptable, I apologise in advance.)


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Recently I've obtained a trackball, and I'm trying to use it with my Mac Mini running 10.9.5. The trackball is plugged in via USB port. The ball is rather sensitive, so it picks up very small movement, like from vibration of the desk.

So when I put my computer to sleep, quite often it wakes up from that movement. Sometimes I'm not even sure there is any movement. The computer just enters the sleep mode, I barely even breathe, and several seconds after the power indicator starts blinking it powers up again.

When I unplug the trackball, everything works fine.

So, is there a way to disable waking Mac from a particular USB device? If not, from USB entirely? Or maybe only pointing device movement (clicks would be alright)?


texts: Internal keyboard + touchpad stopped working, on Macbook air 'early 2014', Yosemite 10.10.2

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my internal keyboard and touchpad - stopped working a few days ago.
When it first happened - I made the macbook sleep-wake-up several times - and it came back to normal. External keyboard+touchpad - work normally - but internal keyboard keeps randomly 'typing' in characters for me, especially 'fn-f' keys (such as randomly muting/adjusting volume, etc).
If I reboot into 'Rescue mode' - they work flawlessly, but in 'safe boot' - they keep misbehaving.
I've tried already NVRAM+SMC reset chords on startup.
The rate of the problem is becoming worse, that it, it's less and less likely the internal input devices will work (immediately after sleep).
I've checked preferences and touchpad is enabled, no-keyboard-keys etc.
Any advice? OS-reinstall? anything to post here?
thank you!

as suggested somewhere, I list here the non-apple kernel ext, it's only Virtual-Box, which was install about two-month before the problem appeared:

$ kextstat | awk ' !/apple/ { print $6 } '
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp

Can I try to reinstall the internal macbook keyboard drivers w/o entire os reinstall? thanks.

Edit:
One week later update::
Situation is still not solved, but I'm more convinced it's a "sleep wake" related thing:
I was using the computer 'normally' now for a week (without shut-down, 'sleep' - only using Lid-Close).
When once- I press the Menu-Sleep - on wake-up - I had no keyboard and pad. I had to close the Lid and open it several times- after 3 times - It woke up working.
Another time - after full shut-down (from menu) - the computer woke up (after 30 minutes when I turned it on) - with no keyboard-pad again. (last night).
I left it on 'Lid-Sleep' - and in the morning now - it's working again.
Yesterday - also the Volume and keyboard light buttons - stopped working till reboot (sleep didn't help) - they were in a weird-state - where they would display their 'squares' showing their meters on the screen - but they would not affect the actual volume and keyboard light level. Neither did the volume control from the top-bar. (Though the volume control inside the "System-Pref/Sound" - still worked properly), I don't know whether it can be related, but I'm providing this hint. I rebooted because of this, and on the reboot - (the mentioned 'shut-down' from menu) and the computer woke up with no keyboard.
When I find a solution I will post it as an "answer".


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As a former Windows and Linux user, I've been challenged several times to have hardware devices not share some particular IRQ line.

If I understand correctly, IRQ lines are part of the hardware architecture (x86 for example), and Operating Systems (such as OS X) provide some means to configure peripherals and inspect current usage of interrupt lines.

This can be found at /proc/interrupts on Linux systems and on Device Manager on Windows systems.

Where can I see that information on an OS X? Is it never needed?


texts: Can't download (update) files in iCloud Drive over Cellular

texts: I can't download (update) files in iCloud Drive on my iPhone 6 over 4G connection. It only works with WiFi. Can someone help me? Thanks.


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I had to install Google Chrome on my Mac for some reason, but do not intend to use it as my default browser. After logging in with my Google account, the following happened:

All my saved passwords on Chrome now appear in Safari saved passwords. I have no idea how this has been done.
Each time I visit a website in Safari, there's a popup saying "Safari wants to use your confidential information stored in "website" in your keychain".

For the 1st problem, ok it's fine, although it should have asked for my approval before importing the passwords. The 2nd is really annoying. Please suggest me a way to get rid of those popups (without disabling Keychain of course).

Thank you in advance for your help.


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I run a MacBook Pro 15", Wireless Bluetooth Apple Keyboard and Magic Mouse.

Everything for the last year has been working great. Just recently I FINALLY had to change my batteries in my keyboard. Upon doing so, a bunch of my key combinations from the wireless keyboard no longer work. For example:

In IntelliJ I can press ALT + F7 to perform a certain function. This no longer works.
In PhotoShop I used to be able to press CMD + ALT + SHIFT + S to get "save for web", this no longer works.

The basic keyboard functionality (typing/etc) works fine, its just certain key combos that do not work. If I type these EXACT same combos into the built in keyboard on my MacBook Pro, everything works fine.

How do I get my key mappings/settings to match that of my MacBook Pro keyboard? What changed and why?


texts: Using a dropdown menu with arrow keys in Photoshop

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This may be a tad specific but it's one thing that irks me with OS X.

In Photoshop, if I want to change a layer style from 'Normal' to say 'Overlay', I need to click the dropdown list and select 'Overlay'. If I then wanted to change this again, I can't just use the keyboard buttons to scroll up or down the list - I need to go in using the mouse again and it's a bit of a pain.

Scrolling with the arrow keys works fine on other drop down lists like fonts etc.

Any ideas?


texts: How to specify network interface for different protocols?

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At work, I have 2 interfaces active: WiFi and Ethernet.

Eth connects to company network for shared volumes over SMB. But then no Internet.

WiFi connects to Internet, but not to company network.

I cannot mount shared volumes if "Set Service Order" has WiFi in first position; and I cannot access my FTP if it's set to Ethernet.

Is there some way I can specify which protocol will use which interface?

Or at least direct certain IPs/servers to Eth?


texts: Java uninstalled but still cannot install java 6 macOS

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I'm trying to install Java SE 6 because I need it to use Scilab, I follow this and this tutorials for uninstall java, but still cannot install Java SE 6.

When I'm trying to install appears this message You cannot install Java for macOS 2017-001 on this disk. A newer version of this package is already installed.

The command java -version in terminal shows No Java runtime present, requesting install.


texts: Problems installing Audio Unit components on High Sierra

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Apple Mac Pro (early 2009) Firmware 4.1 -> 5.1
macOS 10.13.0 High Sierra
Logic Pro X 10.3.2

Hello, I upgraded my Apple Mac Pro to High Sierra last week. This may have been a slightly rash move for I find that whenever I have attempted to install an AU based plugin intended for use with Logic Pro X, I am having difficulties in getting Logic Pro to recognise the new plug-in.

I know that deleting /Users/carlca/Library/Caches/AudioUnitCache/com.apple.audiounits.cache will force Logic Pro X to run AuScan, and I have also discovered that rebooting the machine just prior to installing a new plug-in sometimes helps, but it's nowhere near 100% reliable and it's a pain in the derriere.

Does anyone know how I can fix this issue? Or has someone found a reliable way to install AU based plugins for Logic Pro X under macOS High Sierra?

I'm hoping I don't need to wait for macOS High Sierra and/or Logic Pro X to be updated.


texts: Performance of Numbers 3.0 for large calculation sheet

texts: When I used previous versions of Numbers to work with files containing a lot of large formulas, the performance of many actions were slow, including scrolling.  Can you comment how about the latest software update from Apple?


texts: How to get read receipt with Outlook for Mac 2011 with more than one mail account?

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Regarding How do I request a read receipt when sending e-mail with Outlook for Mac 2011?:

There is a solution which I havent applied yet because it seemed for a single account. Is it possible to go for these steps twice to get read receipt for two accounts, depending on which has sent the email?


texts: Window opens but immediately disappears. This happens with multiple apps

texts: Recently, I've run into problems with Notes, Mail, Messages, and iTerm. All of these are in my dock along with several other apps. Normally if I click on one of these it opens and works fine. Sometimes, however, one of these will open but the window will immediately disappear. I'll have to fiddle around with menu items like "Open New Viewer Window", "New Note", "New Message" or in case of iTerm I may be able to right click and see a window name I can select. Bottom line is these apps open but the window disappears. Does anyone have a clue why this happens?


texts: How can I disable XQuartz entirely and use Xorg with my own Desktop Environment?

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I want to use i3, which is available in Mac Ports. I've installed it and xorg (with ports install xorg). Now I want to boot into that. I've tried created an ~/.xinitrc and an ~/.xinitrc.d/99_i3 script (both had +x). But in neither occasion did X start up with the script. Is it possible to use Xorg on boot and jump into i3 instead of the normal OSX Window Manager?

You can find a very similar question on SuperUser here.

Just to be clear, I don't want any OSX functionality. I'm only not reformatting and installing GNU Linux because my company prohibits it. I want to bootstrap a parallel configuration with ports and boot into an i3 environment (ideally with no dock, Aqua, Finder).


texts: Photos app - when I share a video to iCloud Photo Sharing - why does it get reduced from 1080 to 720?

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I have a video in the Photos library of the Photos app on my Mac.

If I right-click it and select "Get Info" - it shows that the video is 1920x1080.

Next, I share it to iCloud Photo Sharing.

Then - if I right-click the resulting video in the Shared album - it shows that the video is now 1280x720.

So - how can I share videos without reducing the quality?

As a random aside... does anyone have any tips for how to search Google for help for an app as generically named as "Photos"?


texts: Download interrupted an app from the apple store on a Mac

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I'm using my phone as a hotspot to download a 20gb app on my MacBook from the AppStore because don't have internet and am in isolation due to Coronavirus.  1/2 way through the connection was interrupted having used nearly 10GB of my limited allowance and after reconnecting has restarted the download losing several hours of download time!

Is there a way to resume the download where I was?


texts: Cannot locate 173 GB backups on hard drive

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About my Mac Storage states that I have used 173 GB of my hard drive in backups.

Where are these?  My iPhoto library disappeared, and I have been unable to restore through Time Machine because it says I don't have enough space. How can I free the storage or find the backups to restore the iPhoto library.

OS X 10.9.5


texts: Allowing HTTP connections to connect with iCal (SSL error)

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While attempting to connect to my iCal via another laptop I get an SSL error that looks like this:

Now I read somewhere that you can fix this by adding an NSAppTransportSecurity key to a plist, I've also read that allowing 8.8.8.8 in your DNS will do the trick as well. Neither of these have worked (could be because I didn't edit the right plist). Does anybody have any idea how to allow non-HTTPS connections into an iCal, or how to fix this SSL error?


texts: How to open applications regardless of required version?

texts: So I downloaded this application that I am relatively sure is able to run fine on 10.7.5 (My version of OSX), but when I try to open it, a message pops up saying that it requires at least version 10.8.5. The reason I think it should work with my OS is because an older version of the app does, and as far as I can tell, there is no real content added between that update and this one, so I don't feel they could have refactored it so much in a somewhat insignificant update that it no longer works on my OS. (And this application really doesn't let you downgrade, so done say I should do that) It doesn't open and then crash. When I try to open it, just a window with the Finder icon pops up saying that it doesn't work on the current version of my OS, and I need 10.8.5. The application doesn't even try to open. So I feel that there must be a flag somewhere in the code or something dictating minimum version required. So my question is: Is there a way to ignore this flag and open this application regardless of minimum required version?


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My mid 2011 Mac Mini will not connect to the internet properly. I believe it is running Mountain Lion OS.

Occasionally it works very slowly, but is more consistent with not connecting at all, even though the wifi signal appears to be connected.

There is another computer (mid 2010 MacBookPro) that is able to use the wifi just fine. The router/modem is plugged into a Roku box directly.

Things I've tried:

To Renew the DHCP lease in the network settings via online tutorials.
Engaging Time Machine to take me back to when the settings were working.

Any other suggestions?


texts: Transfer google contact photos to iCloud

texts: I recently switched from an Android to an iPhone. In the Messages app, it only displays the contact's initials, rather than their picture. Is there a way to  transfer these pictures from google into my iCloud?


texts: What's the easiest way to automate logging into a website?

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There's this website I need to access about every ten minutes. And apparently it was designed in 1993, by sadists. There is no "remember me on this computer" checkbox. And if you don't interact with it for a minute or two it logs you out.

I would like to somehow implement a keystroke that will bring my browser to the foreground, open a new tab, enter my username and password, and click "Login".

It isn't that I don't want to learn AppleScript. I'd love to. I enjoy learning programming languages. I already know several.

It's just that I have many other more pressing matters and time is short and it is seems like not the greatest idea to dig into AppleScript just to deal with this one problem.

What would be the fastest, simplest way to resolve this?

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!


texts: Can Recovery Mode install OS X onto a blank SSD?

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I want to install a new Solid State Drive (SSD) into the Mac. Can I just build in the SSD, start the MacBook in Recovery Mode and install OS X from there on?

After reading a lot on the internet I still have some doubts…

My HDD crashed, I can't repair it using disk utility or the fsck methods as mentioned on the internet.

According to New Macbook Pro 2012 Operating System onto new SSD? it should be possible.

I know how to replace the HDD with the SSD. I would go for the Samsung 850 EVO SSD - 500GB. My Mac is a MacBook Pro Mid 2012, model A1278.


texts: Why "Safe Finder" pops up in Safari, how to block, get rid of it?

texts:
Is it a virus or why in my Mac? How can I get rid of it?

I want to use google search engine, not this..


texts: Can I replace the home button on the  iPhone 3G without removing the glass digitizer?

texts: My iPhone 3G home button broke so I bought a new one online and all the repair guides require me to remove the glass digitizer, which seems very tough (hair drying glue etc.) and harder than I expected. Does anyone know a way or a guide of replacing it without removing the glass?


texts: ARD lets move mouse, but not click on external displays powered by USB3 display link hub. Internal display still works

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I've got a mid 2012 Macbook Pro (host computer, running 10.12.6, ARD 3.9.4) im connecting to via Apple Remote Desktop (ARD). My client computer is a late 2012 Macbook pro (client computer, running 10.10.5, ARD 3.9)

I used to have 1x external display attached to this host computer, and ARD was able to move between both screens and i could control (move and click mouse, type etc) on both screens.

The user of the host computer needed a second external display so i ordered a Startech USB3 dock (this model) which as i understand uses Display Link's technology to have 3x additional displays, of which im using 2x (one 1 hdmi, the other display port).

See setup diagram below.

Now when i connect to the host computer the 3 displays (1x internal, 2x external) show up. The internal display works fine i can control and see everything. On the 2x external displays i can see everything and move the mouse, but can't click or type anywhere.

When the sit at the host computer physically i can use the mouse to move and click as expected and the keyboard works fine.

Any ideas why im having issues with ARD on these 2 external displays that are connected through the dock ? I would have thought that if it wasn't going to work it would either a) not show the external screens in ARD at all. or b) not allow me to move the mouse.


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How can I rename Macbook Pro in the screen below (taken from appleid website).

I know that on iOS I can do that by going to Settings -> General -> About -> Name but not sure how I can do the same on Mac (I am on El Capitan)

I believe it is doable as I saw something like that done on Apple's website
(as you can see all devices have John's part in them and I am trying to do the same). Source


texts: Is there really a Mid 2014 13-inch Macbook Air?

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According to Apple's How to identify your MacBook Air guide and a search for Macbook Air, they list only up to Macbook Air 13-inch, Early 2014. Similarly, so does EveryMac.com.

On the other hand, Engadget, Maclife, PCPro UK, Macworld, and Apple Insider all list the Mid 2014 version of the 13-inch Macbook Air in their reviews.

So before I buy a Macbook Air, I'd like to be 100% sure: Is there really a Mid 2014, 13-inch version of the Macbook Air?


texts: How Many Hours of Game Playing can Iphone 4 Support?

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iPhone 4 supports:

up to 6 hours of 3G
up to 10 hours of wifi

But how many hours of game play can iphone 4 support?

I've been playing Angry Birds recently and it seems to me that the iPhone can only support 5 hours of Angry Birds. Is this normal?


texts: Download 4 apps at a time during restore from iCloud backup?

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I noticed that usually when you download multiple apps on iOS 6, it will download 4 at a time. I had to restore my phone from an iCloud backup twice in the past week. The first time it was only downloading one app at a time. The second time it began downloading 4 apps at a time but then switched to downloading one at a time again. I'm not sure if I did anything to change its behavior.

Is there any way to have it download multiple apps again during this restore process?

If I try clicking on an app which says "Waiting...", it will say loading on both apps, but only the one I clicked on last will actually be downloading. The other apps progress does not change until the 2nd one is finished.


texts: Is there a way to disable/hide the new Photos App in Yosemite?

texts:
I prefer iPhoto over the new Photos app in Yosemite. It also annoys me, because every time I connect a new device to my Mac, I have to disable "Open Photos App when connected to this device" for that device. It also uses a spot from in my Launchpad.

Is there any way to disable/hide the new Photos App in Yosemite from the launchpad and disable it from starting up if any new device connects?
I don't want to delete it.


texts: Does NVRAM, PRAM or SMC have anything to do with the red light on a Riser lighting up but then not lighting up after a reseat and riser switch?

texts:
One of the red leds for dimm 3 raiser b lit up red on my MacPro early 2008 lit up, so I reseated the ram in question on it by switching it with it's counter part (swapped dimm 3 for dimm 4) and switched it from the top to the bottom riser.   Then I had the full amount of RAM again and no red light.

I also run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on it.

I have never reset the nvram, pram, or SMC on it, and so I was wondering if that is somehow related to such strange events in the hardware as the led lights coming on and going away after reseating the ram as I did.


texts: Add overlay text to App Store screenshot?

texts: I am looking for a way to add text to my App Store screenshots for iOS.  An example of what I'm looking for would be the Google app screenshots on iOS.  There are many ways to add a device border, such as mockuphone.com, but is there a simple and easy way to add text to those images, preferably not involving Photoshop?


texts: My iPhone turns airplane mode on or off randomly. I put AM on at bedtime and get awakened by alerts in the night.Do I have to start my iPhone 11 off to get some sleep?


texts:
Apple stopped supported for VPN networks that still use the not so secure PPTP protocol when they released macOS Sierra and iOS 10 (more info here)

In a nutshell this meant that the embedded system clients to connect to VPN in both the iPhone and the Mac don't have an option to connect to these networks anymore. The good news for the Mac is that you can still use clients like Shimo to connect to PPTP VPN.

As for iPhone and iOS 10 I think Apple hasn't officially said this, but some people in Forums (see 1, and 2) have confirmed that not only support was disabled for the system client, but Apple also blocked passthrough. What this means is that if you download a client to iOS or use Tethering (which is my main use), your PPTP will be blocked anyway regardless or what setup you have at your client source (e.g. A PC Laptop with Windows, a Mac with Parallels + Windows or with Shimo).

Does anyone know of a way to override this in iOS?

The only workaround I've found to be feasible is to create a server somewhere with L2TP/IPSec and from that server connect to the other VPN server using PPT, although this seems a bit complicated.


texts: Preview.app on macOS 11 Big Sur doesn't open files stored on iCloud

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Preview works fine on files that are stored locally, that is, not in an iCloud folder
I can open files in an iCloud folder with any other app (e.g. images with GIMP or by pressing spacebar in Finder)

However, I cannot open a file stored on iCloud in Preview (from Finder). I am using Big Sur, has anybody the same problem?


texts: App disables and overrides all the keyboard shortcuts

texts:
My OS: MacOS Sierra 10.12.6
Name of the app: Ink2Go
As the title says, an app that I need to use is disabling and overriding all the keyboard shortcuts. In particular:

it sets its own keyboard shortcuts;
it disables any other key combination which is not an app keyboard shortcuts, therefore it steals all the key combinations.
(making an annoying sound that tells me that the key combination I am using is "incorrect").

This also prevents me from pressing some keys which would launch some nice Automator macros that I made for this very app.
Do you have any suggestion or just workaround to prevent or circumvent this issue?


texts: How to assign F9 key to play/pause iTunes?

texts:
I change my front panel on my MacBook late 2007. I'm on mountain Lion.

I already attached Next and Previous (song) button to F10 and F8. But can't F9 button force to work. I think I don't know the action word for play/pause command. I tried 'Play', 'Pause', 'Play/Pause', 'Play or Pause', etc.

How can I attach Play/Pause iTunes button to any F8-F10 button?


texts:
I've been missing Notepad++ since changing from Windows to macOS and there's an article that says if I use WineBottler (that's the only thing I miss), it should run.

  WineBottler packages Windows-based programs like browsers, media-players, games or business applications snugly into Mac app-bundles.

The notepad aspect is inconsequential (in fact I nearly didn't add it in). I'm aware of other editors, I'm expressly asking about WineBottler. I don't want to know about running Parallels, etc.

I simply want to know if WineBottler is malicious or not.

Is this known to be safe?


texts: How to remove applications in virtual machine (via VMWare Fusion 5) from Open With options on Mac OS X

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I'm running Windows 8 on a Mac using VMware Fusion 5. I don't want to see the Windows apps in the Finder's "Open With..." options.
I have seen other answers that do not work with this version of VMware.

Things that I've tried.

Delete the applications folder from each VM package
Uncheck the applications option in the Virtual Machine -> Settings.


texts: Re-colorize iTunes/iPhoto sidebar icons?

texts: I simply can't abide Lion's/Apple's dedication to monochrome sidebars everywhere in Lion. The SIMBL technique still works in the Finder, but the new 10.6 version of iTunes breaks all the previous hacks I've tried. What I'd love is to be able to edit the iTunes.rsrc file (and similar) myself but I don't know of any way to do that in OS X. Is there a way to edit (copies of) .rsrc files? Failing that, is there a way to change the depressing gray sidebar icons in iTunes 10.6?


texts: Is it possible to add an SSD module to an iMac 27" Late 2012 model to create a fusion drive on that?

texts:
I have this old iMac 27", model iMac 13,2 (Late 2012).

This computer has a regular hard disk.

I wonder if it is possible to add a SSD disk module to it, to convert the main disk into a fusion drive?

Is that possible? Is that internal space and connector that can be used?
What SSD disk, adapters or so, I should buy to do that?


texts: How do you extend the time required to trigger hot corner actions?

texts:
I like the concept of hot corner actions but the trigger time for hot corner actions is too quick for me to make good use of them. I keep tripping my corner actions accidentally while reaching for objects in that general vicinity of the corner.

Is it possible to extend the trigger time for hot corner actions? So I have to hover in the corner for at least a second or two before the hot corner action triggers?


texts:
I have an early 2006 iMac, the first with Intel CPU and now I am looking for speeding it up a little. I maxed out the RAM (2G) and my only other option is to install an SSD drive there.

First of all, I would like to know if this is a good idea to speed up my iMac?
Shall I take my iMac to the service for this installation or I can try this on my own at home?
Would it be possible to keep the current primary hdd as a secondary hdd in the machine or there is no space inside?


texts: Setting up CrashPlan with NAS drive attached to Airport Extreme?

texts: I have one of the new (well it's not so new anymore) Airport Extremes with ac wireless. I am using Crashplan to back up my data online, but I also want a more local backup -- so I would like to hook up a big external hard drive to the Airport Extreme as an NAS, and back up my computer using Crashplan's software to the Airport Extreme NAS. What's the best way to set this up? I know that Drobo's NAS can install Crashplan on the NAS, but since you can't install any software on a hard drive using the Airport Extreme as an NAS, what's the ideal way to set this up?


texts: How can I turn on opening a link in another app again?

texts:
I'm using iOS 9.2 and I once accidentally tapped “don't allow” or something similar when WhatsApp was opening a link for Citymapper. It used to launch the Citymapper app, but now it goes to the less useful web interface.

I've looked through all the settings but I can't find any record of this preference to reset the permission.

Metadata on page:

<meta property="al:ios:url" content="citymapper://directions?endcoord=51.56819%2C-0.086512&region_id=uk-london" />
<meta property="al:ios:app_store_id" content="469463298" />
<meta property="al:ios:app_name" content="Citymapper" />
<meta property="al:android:package" content="com.citymapper.app.release" />
<meta property="al:android:app_name" content="Citymapper" />
<meta property="al:android:url" content="citymapper://directions?endcoord=51.56819%2C-0.086512&region_id=uk-london" />


texts: iMac (early 2008) loses/switches USB 2.0 "high speed" ports

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This has been bothering me for a while – finally I tried to find out about the reasons but couldn't find anything about this strange 'bug' yet – so I hope to get some advise from here.

I have an old iMac (Intel Core 2 Duo, 2,66 MHz early 2008, 4 GB Ram, OS X 10.6.8) that basically serves as a server – and as a digital VCR. And it has been a reliable work horse for years.

Since recently however whenever I try to get a signal on Delgato Stick (TV antenna via USB) the eyeTV app complains that the stick would not be connected through a USB 2.0 port. So it actually recognises the stick, but claims the port would not be fast enough.

For a while a combination of re-plugging and re-starting helped. Now I started digging deeper and found out, that the system profiler ("About this Mac") only finds two USB ports to be "USB high speed ports" while the other three are simply labeled "USB port".

The strange part is that I don't seem to have an influence on which two ports are "high speed ports". Today the port the keyboard is connected to and the port the iSight camera is connected to were labeled "USB high speed" –– which I find very strange. And after all – according to specs there should be five "high speed ports" available.

So – I hope somebody can maybe help me to understand what is going on? Is this a hardware issue – or maybe a 10.6.x bug? Any pointers would be appreciated.

PS: so far other devices (printer, scanner) have not been complaining – seem to be content with whatever USB port they're connected to.


texts:
I've noticed that after I put music into iTunes that is downloaded from an outside source, the songs sometimes have the artist names written slightly differently

e.g:

"James Blunt"
"james Blunt"
"jamesblunt"
"james blunt " (space after word)
etc.

This did not bother me until I realized that when looking at my music sorted by artist on my iPhone, it shows 5 different artists! Because of this, I can't just choose an artist and put their songs on shuffle.

Now, I could go through and manually change the names of every artist to match but that may take hours.

Is there a simple way to fix this problem?


texts: Cannot see contact in "Add Invitee" on Calendar

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I have two CalDAV accounts configured in Calendar. Both are configured in System Preferences > Internet Accounts to synchronize both Contacts and Calendars:

When I go to add a meeting, there's the Add Invitee space as shown:

I have a contact in my second account, let's call it CalDAV2, that doesn't show up when I start typing his name in the "Add Invitees" area.

How can I remedy my Contacts-to-Calendar interaction here?

Running 10.9.1 on MBA with native apps for each.


texts:
On Linux mount -l nicely lists all my mount points:

mount [-l] [-t type]
    lists all mounted filesystems (of type type). The option -l
    adds the labels in this listing. See below

The same command does not seem to exist on OS X... Can someone point me to the right command?


texts: If I archive the "DATA" on my AirPort Time Capsule to an external drive will it affect that drive's data?

texts:
I'm new to using the AirPort Utility. I just want to backup the data on an old AirPort Time Capsule of a freind's to their external LaCie drive:

I click on "Archive Disk", and I'm prompted with this:

The data that are currently on LaCie need to be kept. Will the process of clicking "Archive Disk" and then "Archive" on the destination drive "LaCie" affect the files currently on "LaCie"? I want both what is currently on "LaCie" and the "Data" that is on the AirPort Time Capsule.

Update: Actually, the "related" post I linked to below links to this page, which states the following:

Note: The file system types might be different. I believe the LaCie drive was made APFS.


texts: How do I run virtual machines in Parallels Lite on Mojave?

texts:
I downloaded Parallels Lite from the App Store. Even though Parallels Lite claims to be free if you want to run Linux virtual machines, the only thing I see is this:

This is what the help says:

  Choose How to Use Parallels Desktop Lite

  When you launch Parallels Desktop Lite for the first time, you need to
  choose how you're going to use it. Choose one of the following:

  Windows & Support. If you choose this option, you will be able to create and run virtual machines with Windows, Linux and any other
  supported operating system. You will also be able to contact the
  support team for assistance.

  Note: This option is free during a trial period. If you want to continue using Windows or other virtual machines after the trial
  period expires, you need to purchase a subscription.
  Linux only. If you choose this option, you will be able to create and run only Linux virtual machines. This option is completely
  free of charge. However, telephone support is not available.

  Important! Please note that Windows and its license are not included.

Transcribed from this screenshot provided by OP.

but I never saw the window described in the help page. Instead, it took me straight to subscription.

What am I doing wrong? Why am I unable to add a virtual machine?


texts: My trackpad is collapsing in the front. Is it possible to reseat it?

texts:
I have a mid-2011 MacBook Pro that I've used exclusively as a desktop. My righthand uses a wireless trackpad while my lefthand uses the built-in trackpad (in between are two large monitors).

About 2 weeks ago, clicking on the built in trackpad felt weird. And, I had to press harder. I am pretty sure, it went from "fine" to "not so fine" somewhat quickly. I ignored this issue until now.

I just looked closely at the trackpad and am so surprised. The front/right corner is very collapsed, but still works (indeed, that is where I always click). The front / left is not collapsed, but it is not very responsive and feels weird. I have to press hard.

Is trackpad collapse a common point of failure in old macbooks?
Is it possible to reseat the trackpad?
Is reseating the trackpad something Apple would for me (I'd be willing to pay for it)?


texts: trackpad stops working on 2009 Macbook Pro

texts:
The trackpad on my wife's 17" Macbook Pro seems to be failing. She'll be in the middle of working when suddenly it will stop responding to input. Both the tracking (i.e. mouse movement) and button clicking just stop responding. She usually has an external mouse plugged in, and this continues to work fine; just the trackpad dies.

She reports that it usually happens within a minute or two of beginning work. If she puts the machine to sleep and then wakes it, the trackpad will start working again for another couple of minutes.

Her machine is a 17" Macbook Pro from fall 2009.  She's still running 10.5.8 on it. We'd consider upgrading to Snow Leopard if there's a good chance it'll help, but this really sounds like a hardware issue to me.

Is there anything we can try to fix this, or must it really be sent to Apple for repair? We do have AppleCare on it, but we're not too thrilled about having to be without the machine for weeks.

Thanks


texts:
I'm running OSX 10.12.6.  For some random reason, my internet accounts pane has cleared & I cannot add any new accounts:

I'm an IT tech & can confirm that I have not manually removed the account.
 I did have an update the other day, but not sure what it was as I didn't investigate.

iCloud is still registered.

Any thoughts as to what might be causing this?


texts: Changing page background colour of a Pages document

texts:
I am creating a simple document in Pages.app consisting mostly of text. I wish to visualize it with different colour for text and page background.

While I am easily able to change the colour of the text, I am unable to do so for the page itself. Searching the Web lead me to the Apple Support document, Pages for Mac: Change the page background in Pages which wasn't useful, as I was not able to find the relevant option in Pages.app.

I am using the current latest Pages version 7.3 (5989) running on macOS Mojave 10.14.3.


texts:
When I view calendars on iOS, all can see is an "i" with a circle around it.  If I click the i, it just brings up the calendar color.

I can not view any of the calendar items.

The same calendar on my mac is working.


texts: Why does my Mac keeping connecting to Apple?

texts:
netstat -na | grep tcp

shows two connections to

17.249.28.29.5223

The IP address 17.249.28.29 happens to be to Apple.

The modem blinks rapidly every time I go online. Other than it being annoying, it also takes up bandwidth.

Is there a way to disable this?


texts: Transfer of Songs/Playlists from PC to iPod

texts: How can I simply transfer songs/playlists (including non-iTunes songs) from my pc laptop to my iPod (purchased in June 2014)?


texts: An "Untitled" app icon is created on iPhone home screen after restart even after deletion

texts:
I have a white app icon titled "Untitled". When I click on it, it opens a Safari window with Untitled title window. After deleting it, if I restart the iPhone, it gets created again.

Is there a way to delete it permanently?


texts: Safari: Shortcut to switch between developer window and safari

texts:
In every other application (including Chrome I'm coming from - before the Catalina update) I was able to switch between windows with Cmd + ` (on a German keyboard that is Cmd + >).

Is there a shortcut to switch between an undocked developer window and the safari browser window?

I'm not talking about switching Tabs (I fixed that already :D).

Update
I just saw, that I can change FROM browser TO dev window with Cmd.+ ` but not back. (!!? :D)


texts: Mac mini 2012 graphic upgrade for UE4 Unity3D Blender

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I have a Mac Mini (late 2012) i7, 16gb ram graphic card intel HD4000.

I recently bought a thunderbolt expansion PCIE which supports a PCIE 2.0 16x graphic card  with space for Full length card.

I have doubts about what graphic card gonna give me the best results for using the Unreal Engine 4 UE4 or Unity3D, and Blender.

My budget covers a Nvidia Quadro K4000 3gb or ATI Firepro W7000 4gb. Any recommendation? What professional graphic card would be better for design games in 3D?


texts: Do lots of fonts affect the (overall) performance of my system?

texts:
I got lots of fonts installed and active. Sometimes I feel like a large amount of fonts is slowing down my applications, especially when they offer font choices (e.g. Photoshop, Pages, …). The drop down is appearing with delay or a beachball of death is popping up for some seconds.

But that's just about specific applications… What about OS X in general? How much do many active/installed fonts slow down the system?


texts: How do I show a partition created gParted while booting my Mac?

texts:
I have a Mac Mini mid 2011, 500GB HDD with dual boot Windows 7.

I tried prepping this drive so that i can clone it to a smaller 240GB SSD using gParted from this tutorial.

Now when I boot holding the option key, I don't see the Windows drive. Is there a way to fix this?


texts: Why does my Network preference pane freeze every time I open it?

texts:
For some time (about a month give or take) the Network Preferences pane in System Preferences has been freezing every time I open it.

Wi-Fi works fine and I can connect using the menubar icon, but I can't change anything in the Network preference pane. System Preferences also works fine, except for the Network preference pane.

When I open the Network preferences pane, the app freezes and starts eating up system resources.

I've used the Tracking-blocker Disconnects Mac App since August, but even with the service turned off and the program not running, the Network preference pane still freezes.

System info:
MacOS Sierra - 10.12.6 (16G29)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
2,5 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

Updates:
1 | I've tried booting into Safe Mode which hasn't solved the problem.
2 | I've done a hardware test, which produced no errors and didn't solve the problem.
3 | I've done a SMC reset which hasn't solved the problem.


texts: How can I get back the old split screen behavior from Mojave in Catalina?

texts:
Back in macOS 10.14 Mojave, clicking down and then dragging on the zoom button would allow you to drag the window to one half of the display, and the window would become full-screen on that half, allowing you to then choose another window for the other side (similar to Windows 10).

Unfortunately, that's been replaced with a rather clunky and unintuitive drop down menu which you have to stop on top of the button, wait for it, and then choose an option. I know this is for sidecar to work, but I don't have a Mac or iPad with sidecar capabilities and I value my gesture-based UI more than capabilities for an option I can't use. (Even if one does have it, why not just "drag up" instead of to a side or something, to send to SideCar?)

I'm wondering if there is a Terminal command or something which I can do to revert this to its old behavior. It would be one thing if you could still drag, but get this menu by pausing over it... but they just seemingly disabled (or ripped out entirely) this functionality in favor of a far worse one. I don't usually get bothered by little waits for animations or something, but this does feel like I'm stopping for a sizable amount of time, even for someone who values animations (probably because there is a literal pause in this process).


texts: Secondary click and primary click at the same time?

texts:
Is it possible to do this without owning an external mouse or having the latest multi-touch trackpads?

I need to do this for games originally made for windows, but either run through wine or ported to mac. For the most they doesn't just require this, but also to hold both down for a specific time.

I'm using a MacBook Core 2 Duo, which doesn't have a highly customisable trackpad settings.


texts: Can I make Finder NOT ignore leading zeros sorting by name?

texts:
I understand Apple's intention to sort things like this:

dir_1
dir_002
dir_03
...

But it becomes ridiculous in the following example:

dir_0.1_1
dir_0.01_1
dir_0.001_1
dir_0.1_2
dir_0.01_2
dir_0.001_2
...

How can I make Finder not ignore leading zeros when it's sorting by name?

Thank you.


texts:
I want to set up my MacBook to do the following:

-Acquire input from a Scarlett 2i2 audio interface;

-Process the signal using Bias Amp or Amplitube (or some other softwares for Guitar);

-Send it to a mixer which is connected to power speakers;

I simply don't know which way I should connect the Scarlett 2i2 interface to send the processed signal to the mixer.


texts:
The computer is a MacBook Air. I have OSX Yosemite and Linux Ubuntu 14.04 dual boot. I messed up and damaged my Mac EFI and hence OSX ceased to work. Recovery disk was destoyed too. FileVault is on and I just changed my login password (which I remember but can not use) before the problems appear.

Please help..


texts: Why do I have a "HD" in my bootcamp screen and not macOS or similar

texts:
I have a MacBook 12 with Big Sur. I have also a Bootcamp installation with Microsoft Windows 10. When I open the bootmenu I have the following screen:
I don’t know why this label HD shows instead of macOS or similar. Selecting that icon starts MacOS with a differently named disk on the desktop and OS.

How can I change this label?


texts: How to become Apple iOS certified technician? is ACMT enough?

texts: I cant find if ACMT (Apple Certified Mac Technician) cover also iOS devices, I work in big company full of iPhones and we send to repair at least 10 iPhones every month so it will be better to repair them at the company. What certification I need to be able to repair phone without loose warranty?


texts: Photos app (iPhoto) hangs when trying to open

texts:
Ive got a mac mini running OSX 10.10.5. I use the built in "Photos" app (formally iPhoto) to manage photos i take on my iPhone, which are synced back to the Photos app via iCloud.

Recently when i open the Photos app it just hangs on this screen (see attached screenshot). Ive force quit the app and re opened it a few times and the same thing happens.

What can be done to get it to work ?


texts: where does windows store icloud drive files created from an iPad?

texts:
The MacOS stores icloud drive files locally in ~/Library/Mobile Documents.

Where does windows7 store icloud drive files by default? I had not customized the location while installing it in my windows machine.

I accidentally deleted icloud files in ipad. The files were synched between my windows7 laptop and ipad with icloud. When deleted from ipad, it was removed in windows too. When I used recovery tool (Dr fone) for ipad, it only recovered photos, contacts and bookmarks, but not the word documents. When I used recovery tool (R-studio and Recuva) in windows machine with magnetic disk, I could get all other old deleted files but icloud file.

Recovery software in windows find too many other files, but not icloud drive file when scanned c:\. May be I am searching in in wrong location.

Can anyone suggest where do I need to look and how to look?


texts: How can I view the artwork in the sidebar in the latest version of iTunes 11 ?


texts: Disable pinned tabs being in every window in Safari 9

texts: Is there any way to disable pinned tabs showing up in every Safari window? I typically have several Spaces going and the pinned tabs are only relevant to those spaces or even just to the specific Safari window.


texts:
just got my first mac os computer.

installed quick silver. (I rely heavily on launchy in windows)

so, the cool feature i was able to achieve on windows using launchy, is that after saving "quick search" i can search any site before even opening the browser.

i.e.

alt+space "g (tab) mac forum"

this will open my browser with search results for "mac forum"

this is because i saved google quick search under "g" but it will also work with any other search i.e. "a" for amazon "wp" for wikipedia etc..

how can i recreate this in mac os?


texts: iPod Touch G4 disconnects from Belkin N+ Router at random intervals

texts:
I have an iPod Touch G4 and a Belkin N+ Router F5D8235-4 v2, and for some reason the iPod Touch disconnects from the router at random intervals.

Checking the settings in the iPod, it will read that it is still connected to the router, but before I can access the internet again, I have to turn on Airplane mode and then turn it off again to get any program to work with the Internet again.

I've tried upgrading the firmware in the router, but that also doesn't seem to help.  I'm using the wiresless mode 802.11b&802.11g&802.11n in the 20/40MHz frequency.

Is there any way of fixing this issue?  It doesn't happen with any of the other devices that are connected to the router.

This post has been cross posted here


texts: While my MacBook sleeps, the network drops off?

texts:
I have just moved over to a Macbook Pro from my old Macbook. Thanks to the Migration Assistant, it was an easy task, but I am now having an annoying issue: I have both computers on with all the same settings and everything identical. The wifi settings, the Energy Saving settings - everything.

Now, when the computer goes to 'Sleep', the behavior is different is between the two computers. I have Skype on. If I'm away for about an 1 hour, Skype will go offline. As a result if someone were to Skype me, the old Macbook will react - my Skype will ring when they call me and obviously they see me as online (despite the screen being off and the computer in sleep mode).

However, my new Macbook Pro will not ring. The party that wants to reach me will think I'm offline because the network connection gets disabled somehow. On my old Macbook, I just need to touch the trackpad and the screen comes on, but on my new Macbook pro I need to press a key (some websites state that this is the new thing on new version such as Lion and Mountain Lion), and the computer will quickly come on, pick up the wifi and only then all e-mails and Skype lines/calls will filter through and I will reappear as online.

How can I stay online even when my computer goes to sleep?


texts: How can I disable Bluetooth A2DP profiles on the iPhone 4?

texts:
Simple question: I'd like to disable the A2DP profile for either (a) specific devices paired with the iPhone or (b) the profile entirely from the phone. How can I disabled the A2DP profiles? There used to be a program called Bluetooth Profile Selector for jailbroken iPhones. However, it stopped working after 4.3.1.

Here's the detailed scenario on why:
I have a stereo in my car that accepts a USB connector. This is how my iPhone is connected and plays music through. This way the audio quality is pristine, I can see the track information and control my iPhone from the headunit, and it charges my iPhone.

The headunit also pairs via Bluetooth for hands-free calling. However, because the iPhone supports A2DP, this is how it pairs to the headunit. I can do hands-free calling just fine, however it screws up the audio coming from the dock connector. Basically, the iPhone will begin playing music via the dock connector until it auto-pairs with the headunit. At this point, the iPhone automatically changes the output method to the Bluetooth connection. Manually changing this back over to the dock connector every single time is not something I wish to deal with.


texts:
If I do not have a SIM Card installed in my iPhone 4, will it still connect to the internet?

I have tried to connect via WiFi, it says that it is loading, yet doesn't connect.
I don't know if it has anything to do with the SIM Card because every time I try, it does not work and the message 'NO SIM CARD' shows up.


texts: When I press the o key on macbook pro i get multiple o's . They also pop up in the middle of writing other words as well.How can i fix this. The o's run across the screen.


texts: Getting serial port name from USB device's serial number

texts:
Is there a way to get the '/dev/cu.*' port name from a USB device's serial number?

I'm using the following command to get the serial number:

system_profiler SPUSBDataType | grep "Serial Number"

I'm having a problem where the port name in '/dev/cu.*' keeps changing whenever I plug/unplug a USB and I'm trying to map via the serial number.


texts: Why does this error message appear in iTunes?

texts:
iTunes won't load.
Error: iTunes can’t verify the identity of the server “init.itunes.apple.com”.


texts: Macbook trackbar gives me electric shocks

texts:
I have perused the entire web to see if anyone has had a similar problem with his/her MB but it seems this is an extremely isolated case that myself alone is experiencing. I bought a refurbished 2015 MacBook pro (straight from an online Apple store) in July 2016. On the day it was delivered, it got a kernel panic. I immediately thought it would be a good idea to return the computer but I was too busy and needed a computer so bad and most importantly, I bought the computer in Japan and the language barriers helped a little in making the regrettable decision of not returning the computer. Over the past two years of using the computer, I have noticed a few minor glitches that I mostly decided to ignore. This include for example:

Occasional kernel panic when I am compiling large projects
Kernel attacks when I open many chrome tabs
Sound distortion when I listen to music on my Windows 10 Bootcamp partition. If this happens, and if I do not turn off the computer, I eventually get a blue screen of death on windows
Many other glitches (Persistent beachball, slowness, unresponsive app, etc..) that I, unfortunately, ignored until my AppleCare plan expires.

The above glitches are nothing compared to what I have been experiencing recently, however. My MacBook's trackbar is giving me electric shocks! Yeah! At first, I thought that maybe my fingers were tired and that I needed to take a break. But this has continued ever since. The electric shocks themselves are not too serious (and sporadic). However, after some time of usage, I feel the burn it gives me and it quickly accumulates over time. It's so strange and hard to explain. I tried to explain this to an apple shop employee but they, unfortunately, could not help because I either could not explain the problem well enough (language barrier) or, as I suspect, because they have never heard of the problem and that the electric shock burns are only felt after a period of use (something like 30 minutes to an hour), thus, did not have enough time to actually test it themselves. Facing this challenge, I turn to the community to ask what are my options to have this problem solved:

Has anyone ever experienced a similar problem?
Is my MB turning slowly into an explosive Galaxy Note 7?
Is there any way I can contact Apple (English support and without requiring AppleCare plan) to help me solve this problem? Or, should I conclude that I am just screwed and, as my friends often joke, switch to a Dell XPS 13?
And most importantly, what is the likelihood that this thing will one day decide to go ballistic and blast like a Galaxy Note 7?


texts: Is there a difference between a 'mini-DisplayPort to HDMI cable' and a 'mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort' cable for a MacBook Pro?

texts:
I just bought a 4k monitor (AOC u2777pqu) for my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13 inch, Early 2015). The shop advised a mini-DisplayPort to HDMI cable, which gives me 4k resolution but when I tried it only provided a refresh rate of 30Hz.

The Apple support guide ( https://support.apple.com/en-sg/HT206587 ) suggests that the Thunderbolt cable will allow this model to run 4k at 60Hz.

My question whether getting a 'pure DisplayPort' ( mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable - 4k certified) provide the 60Hz at 4k?


texts: How to prevent accidental deletion or move of folders/files in Mac?

texts: I have recently got a new Mac and keep accidentally moving folders around when using the trackpad and have managed to delete a couple folders as I am not used to this whole trackpad business. Is there a way to get a confirmation whenever a file/folder is moved or deleted in Mac to prevent this till i get more used to the trackpad?


texts: How do I completely get rid of a potentially compromising picture?

texts:
I received a potentially compromising picture in a WhatsApp chat on my iPhone, I want to get rid of it entirely in everything Apple.

I've deleted it from the chat (within minutes), but where else could it end up being stored? Photostream? Camera Roll? Somewhere in my Macbook? Would it be backed up to the iCloud automatically? Please tell me all the places I need to check to be sure. Sorry for the newbie questions.


texts: Any fixes for Dock not following the mouse to move to different monitors in Mavericks?

texts:
Just installed 10.9.2 and none of the bugs listed here are fixed for me. Especially the responsive scrolling bug (that for me occurs in the Mac App Store app) and the Dock not following the mouse to move to the active monitor.

I still haven't found a solution that fixes the responsive scrolling issue.

The workaround for fixing the Dock issue is not that elegant either:

  Mavericks introduced the ability to have the Dock and Menu Bar appear
  not just on the primary display, but on your secondary displays, as
  well. Unfortunately, after having lived with this functionality since
  release, I’ve found its implementation more frustrating than useful.
  With the dock set to auto-hide, it’s sometimes impossible to actually
  cause the dock to appear when and where you want it.

  The way this most often manifests is that the Dock will decide—in what
  feels like a very arbitrary fashion—that it will only appear on one of
  the two secondary displays. When I mouse to the bottom of the primary
  display to summon the auto-hidden dock, nothing happens. If I mouse
  over to the bottom of one of the secondary displays, the dock pops up
  just as it’s supposed to, but returning the cursor to the bottom of
  the primary display does nothing. The workaround appears to be to move
  the mouse all the way up to the top of the primary display and then
  slowly and deliberately move it to the bottom—as if you’re saying
  "Okay, OS X, here comes the airplane! Open up the Dock now! Here it
  comes!" This usually is enough to snap the dock to where you want it
  to be.

  I very much like the menu bars at the top of each monitor, but as with
  most of the other things about multi-monitor support in Mavericks,
  there’s no way to throw out the bad bathwater without also pitching
  the baby with it. The only way to get the Dock to stay sensibly where
  you want it to is to disable the new fullscreen behavior, which also
  kills the per-monitor menu bar settings.

Is there a way to fix the Dock issue without being forced to move the mouse to the top or bottom edges of the screen to force it to move?


texts: 2015 MacBook Air stuck in reboot loop during Mojave > Catalina upgrade – any way to view logs/errors?

texts:
I'm trying to update my 2015 11" MBA from Mojave (latest patches) to Catalina (newest version of installer). I have >20GB free disk space and I'm running the installer from a USB stick created using the official utility in the Catalina installer package. I have also reset the PRAM/NVRAM recently and run a disk check.
The installer gets to the black-screen, Apple-logo stage and after a while says "Estimating time remaining" but the progress bar never advances beyond about 30% (near the "n" in "Estimating). After a few hours (not sure of an exact time) the machine will reboot and the same progress bar will appear and start to fill again. But it never advances beyond that position or completes.
Most recently, I've left the installation for 8 days to no avail. Before that I was able to abandon the installation and use Recovery Mode to restore Mojave, exactly as I'd left it, and retry the installation from there.
Is there anything I should try in this situation, and perhaps more importantly, is it possible to view logs from the installation process to try to figure out where it's getting stuck? I've seen Cmd+L mentioned in a few places but hitting this at the black-screen stage does nothing.
If needs be I can just restore Mojave again and continue using that, but my other machine is running Catalina and I'd like them to be running matching versions if possible.
Thanks in advance!


texts: Reduced data usage when using YouTube in background?

texts: As I understand it, it's possible to listen to YouTube audio in the background, by playing it from the safari app, on iOS devices. What I wonder: does doing this reduce the bandwidth, the amount of data because solely audio (and no video) is being output?


texts: Clarify costs on my credit card printout when buying apps.

texts:
I have a iPad 2. In my credit card printout, I have a cost from an app I bought in the AppStore. But I've only installed free apps.

If I lookup what apps I've installed, I cannot see their costs, because I can only see "Installed" information. How can I see the App price when I install it?

Or there is a way to check what I bought and what is charged me?


texts: How do you disable cellular data use for all apps except for one?

texts:
Is there any way to disable all the background applications except WhatsApp for cellular connections? I have WhatsApp plan only from my carrier, I want to only use WhatsApp when I turn on the cellular connection.
I dont see WhatsApp / Facebook or main apps in cellular section "Use cellular data for" but only default apple apps.

How to disable for cellular only?


texts: Can an xbox360 be connected to a thunderbolt iMac to be used in target display mode

texts:
I've attempted to do some research, but I've unable to determine if the imac can be used as a monitor (in target display mode) for my xbox 360.

It seems like the only option is some kind of weird converter like the ones that matrox produce for £150! Are there any alternative solutions for input to Thunderbolt ?


texts: Can't boot to macOS anymore after resizizing macOS partition

texts:
After installing Ubuntu as a second system on my Macbook following this tutorial https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-dual-boot-ubuntu-mac/ everything was just working fine and I was able to boot into either macOS or Ubuntu via rEFInd.
Then I resized macOS's partition again to create a partition to share data between macOS and Ubuntu. Unfortunately rEFInd does not find the macOS Partition anymore and I am therefore not able to boot into macOS.
My partitions look like this at the moment:
sda             489,1G
├─sda1 vfat       200M /boot/efi                    EFI
├─sda2 apfs       351G
├─sda3 swap       3,7G [SWAP]
├─sda4 ext4     115,5G /
└─sda5 vfat      18,6G                              SHARE

Any help would be highly appreciated.
Edits:

I used the builtin Mac Program to resize the partition

Output of sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda:
 GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.5

 Partition table scan:
   MBR: hybrid
   BSD: not present
   APM: not present
   GPT: present

 Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
 Disk /dev/sda: 1025610768 sectors, 489.0 GiB
 Model: Crucial_CT525MX3
 Sector size (logical/physical): 512/512 bytes
 Disk identifier (GUID): 2AA86904-096B-4D1C-9DD0-3C8B1FD84B37
 Partition table holds up to 128 entries
 Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
 First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1025610734
 Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
 Total free space is 1653 sectors (826.5 KiB)

 Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
    1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System Partition
    2          409640       736548223   351.0 GiB   FFFF  tichan
    3       775612416       783423487   3.7 GiB     8200
    4       783423488      1025609727   115.5 GiB   8300
    5       736548864       775612415   18.6 GiB    0700


texts: iPhone 4s text messages still appear in iPhone search results after being deleted

texts:
I have deleted a number of text messages on my iPhone. But, when I scroll to the right and to do an iPhone search, the deleted texts still appear in the search results.

How can I get rid of them?


texts:
I am using the Apple Podcasts app and I have setup iTunes to sync the last 10 unplayed episodes of each podcast feed to my iPhone 5.

Now I found an old episode that I want to listen to but that one is not among those last 10. How can I keep my iTunes sync settings and still get that one particular episode onto my iPhone (preferably but not necessarily into the Podcasts app) for offline listening?


texts: HyperKit - Docker Desktop for Mac - Is it possible to launch traditional Debian VMs?

texts:
Docker for Mac currently uses HyperKit (reference: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/docker-toolbox/)

Docker Desktop uses HyperKit instead of Virtual Box. Hyperkit is a
lightweight macOS virtualization solution built on top of
Hypervisor.framework in macOS 10.10 Yosemite and higher.

Is it possible to run a traditional Debian/Ubuntu VM using HyperKit on a macOS 10.15.5 or newer?


texts: Yosemite Photos can't delete photos from iPhone

texts:
I just updated my mac to the new Photos and I imported some images from my iPhone 6. My question is rather simple. Why I can't delete the imported images in my iPhone from Photos??? I was able to do that in the old iPhotos.

Running on version: 1.0.1 (215.65.0)


texts:
I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro 15" that refuses to boot. I have file vault enabled; so I enter my password and then the loading bar completes but never goes anywhere else; occasionally reboots.

I have tried:

Resetting PRAM
Resetting SMC
Internet recovery -- downloads and then reboots same issue.

Any ideas?


texts: Clean install of macOS Sierra not working

texts:
I'm trying to perform a clean install of macOS Sierra on a late 2009 iMac, but I can't get it to work. The installation comes up with errors every time when it's almost finished. As I've tried a lot of things, I'll list them up first as they come with different errors.

Something also notable is that the iMac first failed an upgrade from El Capitan to Sierra via the Mac App Store. It gave the error that the installation had not been successful and should be run again. This, of course, did not work.

As there were only old files on the iMac, I decided to perform a clean install. First of all I erased the HDD via macOS Recovery. This all went well without any errors. I rebooted the iMac and went to Recovery and had selected the option to install macOS Sierra. After a long time waiting the installer finally ended up with the error: The installation was unsuccesfull, please try again. So I thought that maybe the installer was at fault so I created a bootable USB.

First I created a bootable USB via my MBP 2016 using the Terminal. It all went well and the USB was located in the Finder as Install macOS Sierra.

I plugged in the USB to my iMac, held the option key and than the USB didn't show up. After long Googling I found that unplugging and plugging the USB back in while the screen of 'select bootable' was shown, did work. So I selected the USB and went through the process again. But again with the same result. After some more Googling I tried to reset the PRAM with the commandoptionpr keys and booting it up twice. Same result again.

I than erased the USB and created a new one via the MacDaddy install disk creator. It showed fine in the Finder on my MBP, but the same as the first time for my iMac. And the installation gave the same error.

After some more Googling, I tried to reset the date via the recovery Terminal, via the format: date mmddHHMMYYYY. It than gave a new error upon installation: "The installer payload failed signature check".

After more Googling I tried to reset the date via the internet command in Terminal. This reset the date to American Timezone (time.apple.com). Again, with the same results.

Resetting it back to my own timezone via the date command, to be really sure I inserted the correct date, the installation came back with the first error: "The installation failed, please try it again".

I can't find any other solutions on Google and I really hope you guys can help me out.

NOTE: The error messages were in the Dutch language, so I've tried to translate them as best I can.


texts: Application bounces and never launches and it is Catalina fault. How to make it launch?

texts:
Forgive me for this little rant.

Catalina is Apple's Windows Vista.

Said that, I have 10 to 20 little glitches, hangs and crashes with Catalina per day.

Beyond crashing every time I shutdown, one of the most annoying is an application that hangs and cannot be started after that, unless you do a full macOS restart.

After decades of experience, my guess is that the problem is the half-assed APFS, specially running on a spinning disk, like in my computer.

Imagine I am running, for example Filezilla. I try to download a file from my FTP server and suddenly, here we go... spinning ball of death.

After "hours" of that, I kill Filezilla (cmd-alt-esc).

Trying to launch Filezilla again will not work. The app will bounce 100 times and not launch.

All other apps work fine, except for the one hanged that was killed.

Finder, for example, has a similar problem. Hangs copying files. The solution: you restart Finder and the problem is gone.

My question is: what I have to kill from memory to make the problematic app run again? It must be something hanged in memory that is preventing that app from running.

Restarting the computer is rubbish. What can I do from terminal to solve questions like that?

This is what shows on terminal when I type ps -ax, after killing Filezilla. Note, killing PID 3106 from that listing makes no difference.


texts:
I had been using gnuplot and nedit on my iMac running High Sierra. About 2 months ago they both stopped working. When I try to plot with Gnuplot i get the following error message:

gnuplot: unable to open display :0
gnuplot: X11 aborted.

When I try to run nedit I get:

NEdit: Can't open display

They both worked fine 2 months ago and I can think of nothing I've done to cause this. Does anyone have a clue how to fix this.


texts: How to increase iCloud document upload of many small files

texts:
Background
So I got a new mac and decided to use iCloud to backup most of my "important" stuff, especially since I use two macs right now until I get all of the converters needed etc.
I'm a web developer and have a lot of code and VCS files that I have placed in icloud. The main reason for this was to be able to use both computers, since I'm missing cables and converters for an ideal setup and it will take some time before they become available.
Anyways - In total I have 1.2 million files with the size of ~ 25GB. I've had the computer uploading most of the day (12 h). It had a short burst where it managed to upload 10GB (was uploading ~ 10 MB / sec), but the rest of time the upload seems to be almost stale/dormant (upload speed of 0 - 20 KB / s). Around the time where I had the burst I also manually uploaded a folder with some big media files on icloud.com. This triggered the files to be downloaded on the mac, but I'm not sure if this actually effected the upload speed or the burst just happened randomly.
The problem
Anyways - in 12 hours I've managed to upload 25k files. It seems awfully slow. I would expect that you would only need maybe 0.5-1h to upload that many files.
I have tested the internet connection a few times which works just fine. The burst upload assured me that the connection is not the problem and that iCloud is able to receive data.
My best guess is that either the icloud sync is just super slow for a lot of files, that there is some limitation to the amount of files it's possible to upload or something else.
Is there anything I can do to speed up the process?
Specs
The issue is happening on a macbook pro 15-inch late 2016 with macOS Sierra. I have ~ 1 Gbit/s Ethernet internet connection.


texts: Why would a username appear twice with Sharing and Permissions in a folder?

texts:
I've done some light Google-ing, and this is a about an explanation and a request for help.
This is a folder which looks normal enough,

but sometimes the black icon representing a single user (the one with the circle) appears twice from what I've heard.
I renamed my user account johndoe to johndoe-old and moved files across to the new johndoe account, changed permissions as needed, but sometimes the user appeared twice (johndoe).
I had to do a lot of sudo chmod -R -N to fix ACL's.
Why would the black icon with the user head symbol appear twice if only one user exists on the machine?


texts:
I recently booted up my iMac, but then the Apple logo disappeared and a replaced it. I tried going into Recovery mode but recovery mode just takes LITERALLY hours. No matter how long I let it load, recovery mode doesn't help: I let it load overnight and it still didn't work.

How can I fix this issue and boot into my iMac again?


texts: Why do calendar events created by Siri not appear in the calendar?

texts:
I've asked Siri to add an event to my calendar. When I ask Siri "show me my calendar for Monday", the event appears:

but the event doesn't actually appear in the calendar application:

I use my Google calendar as my default calendar, but I don't think that should make a difference. The event doesn't appear on any other device.

I have all the calendars enabled. It looks like it has added the event to the 'iCloud - Work' calendar:

UPDATE: I received an alert reminding me of the event that morning, and since then the event appears in the calendar:


texts: Automator: How can I monitor a folder, make items process in a specific app?

texts:
I will be feeding images into a folder from my camera as they are taken. When those items enter the folder, I need for them to be opened and processed by an app.

How would I go about monitoring the folder and then making new items open in a specific app? (In this case, the app will be a Photoshop "droplet" app).

I have never used Automator, and I do not know Javascript or anything like that.

Thanks


texts: How can I manually delete old backups to free space for Time Machine?

texts:
I use a Time Capsule for backup and now I want the drive to back up data from an extra Mac. But the drive is filled up with old backups from Mac 1. There simply is not enough space available for the backup for Mac 2.

I get this error message when running Time Machine backup:

  Time Machine could not complete the backup.
  This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires
  28.68 GB but only 626.2 MB are available.

  Time Machine needs work space on the backup disk, in addition to the
  space required to store backups. Open Time Machine preferences to
  select a larger backup disk or make the backup smaller by excluding
  files.

I know Time Machine itself is able to remove old backups when it needs more space. But in this case it does not remove any Mac 1 backups to make space for Mac 2.

Question is, how do I do it manually?


texts: Mavericks Finder spins when opening folders

texts:
Since upgrading to Mavericks, Finder sometimes hangs when I select a folder and am waiting for its contents to populate the window. This happens primarily in Open dialog boxes:

It'll spin for about 15-30 seconds before showing the items in that folder. I can "Go to folder" and it'll usually show the contents immediately in that case. Why does it spin, and is there a way to make it faster? (It should be instant. I don't go to folders with thousands or even hundreds of items.)

Clarifications: These are just regular, local folders, usually in my home directory... not Remote Disc or network shares or anything fancy. It's an early 2013 Retina MBP, so it has a solid-state drive.


texts: Is there any limit to the number of users connected via Personal Hotspot?

texts: How many users can be connected to an iPhone's personal hotspot? Does the limit differ from device to device? I want to know the limit of maximum users.


texts: Use 3rd party storage as primary OS X server storage or hire OS X server?

texts:
I'm trying setting up a server for mostly Macs, using OS X Server.

My main questions are:

Is it possible to use 3rd party storage for a file sharing service?
Is it possible to hire a server package so that you only need to administrate it, while the host provides servers, storage, broadband, etc.?


texts:
I am learning French and I have a folder with 5000 words in it (ie 5000 mp3 files).

Out of the 5000 words there are 1243 that I still don't know. I want to extract those 1243 words and put them into a separate folder.

I have the 1243 file names listed in Excel, eg "autrement.mp3"

How do I search for them all at once, or in batches?

Thanks!


texts: Mid 2013 MacBook Pro displaying multi color

texts:
My MacBook Pro was displaying normally until recently. Now when I boot it up it  displays different colors, sometimes white on the screen, but when I hook it up to a TV screen it displays normally.

I need help as to what could be causing this problem and how to fix it?

So far I've tried resetting NVRAM and reseating the RAM, but this didn't help. I also haven't upgraded any software nor added any new items of hardware, so this change in behaviour cannot be attributed to any known actions on my behalf.


texts:
It recently started happening that the icons in Google Chrome started freaking out, and randomly look weird:

And they don't always look the same, either:

The appearance of them tends to change if I hover over them, do any tab-related actions, disconnect or connect my external monitor, etc.

The download circle progress bar and icon also exhibit this behavior.


texts:
I want to use Siri to record my weight in Apple’s Health app. However, when I tell Siri “Record my weight as X pounds”, she responds “I can’t answer that on your iPhone, but you can find it in the Health app”.

Is it possible to record my weight in Apple’s Health app using Siri?


texts: Is there a way to not require a password for login when I am at home but still require one everywhere else

texts:
I am looking for a way to automatically login to my computer when waking from sleep/startup when I am at my home/connected to my home wifi; but when for example I am at school or not connected to my home wifi require a password.

I am running El Capitan 10.11 Beta (15A278b) on a MacBook Pro (Retina 15 inch mid-2015)


texts: Security for selling MacBook Pro for parts

texts:
I'm looking at selling my MacBook for parts.

It's completely broken: it won't turn on or charge.

Is it possible to obtain files from it? If so, what security measures should I be taking?  Should I be removing the hard drive or do I not have to worry about it?


texts: Broken fusion drive - SSD size is 0B and 'No CoreStorage logical volume groups found'

texts:
Some context first: I have late 2012 iMac 27" with 1TB fusion drive. Some time ago, for whatever reason, the SSD drive became visible in Disk Utility. I happily used the drive for Yosemite and bootcamp. After some time, for whatever reason, booting became sluggish, so I've reset PRAM. Booting sped up, but SSD went into hiding again, leaving me with no OS. I'd like to go back to the setup with the visible SSD, but I don't know how.

Here are diskutil and gpt outputs:

~ ❯❯❯ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

~ ❯❯❯ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                                                   *0 B        disk0
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS mac                     32.0 GB    disk1s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS home                    20.0 GB    disk1s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS data                    697.9 GB   disk1s4
   5:                  Apple_HFS WIN_DATA                249.6 GB   disk1s5

I think disk0 is the SSD, but why does it have 0B size?

~ ❯❯❯ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/disk0': Operation not supported by device

~ ❯❯❯ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: /dev/disk1: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640    62500000      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
    62909640      262144
    63171784    39062496      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   102234280      262144
   102496424  1363009592      4  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1465506016      262144
  1465768160   487494824      5  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1953262984      262151
  1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
  1953525167           1         Sec GPT header

Here are captures from Disk Utility - the SSD (I guess) is seen as ROM MODE MEDIA, whatever that is:

I tried reinstalling the OS (now I'm using MAC OS 10.8) and formatting the whole disk1, but to no avail.
Can someone please help me?

EDIT:

Following @agentroadkill advice I tried the method from 'How to fix deep formatting problems with OS X drives' article. I remember that I tried this method earlier, before posting the question here, and the results were different than described in the article - the /dev/random output was directed to the console then. I don't remember in which boot mode I was in back then. Anyway, I tried it again:

In normal boot mode and in recovery mode:

sh-3.2# cat /dev/random > /dev/disk0
cat: stdout: Device not configured

In single-user mode:

:/ root# cat /dev/random > /dev/disk0
disk0: media is not formatted.
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [ErrNo 6] [IOType Read] [PBlkNum 0] [LBlkNum 0] [FSLogMsgID 701182122] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode devfs] [MountPt /dev] [Path /dev/disk0] [FSLogMsgID 701182122] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
cat: stdout: Device not configured


texts: Apple iOS Shortcuts App - how to include spoken variable in the initial command?

texts:
Despite having a BSc in Software Engineering I am struggling with iOS shortcuts...
What I would like to do is include the text for a shortcut (I am trying to create a new shortcut to add a task to Microsoft ToDo App) in the initial command.
So, instead of saying "Hey Siri, let's add a work Task" and then Siri asking what it is, I would like to say "Hey Siri, add a work Task to pay the monthly telecom invoice."
Is this possible? I know it is with native commands such as the iOS...


texts: How can I disable CPU throttling and CPU disabling?

texts:
On a 2011 17" MacBook Pro (i7, 10.6, 16GB ram) I do not have any options in the energy saver preference panel to control CPU throttling.  I need to be able to disable CPU throttling for short periods of time - or at least force OS X to a certain state and stay there so that I can get consistent results from test to test in a performance comparison situation.

Are there methods or apps that allow me to control the energy saver features and particularly CPU throttling and CPU disabling for recent (sandy bridge) Macs?

CHUD does not appear to support this machine (it doesn't correctly report the CPU type) and while I can manually disable hyperthreading and processor cores using /Library/Application Support/HWPrefs/CPUPalette.app it doesn't give me the option to tell OS X not to throttle anything.


texts: Does iPhone 2020 SE support Google Calendar at all?

texts:
I have added shared Google Calendar's calendar to my iPhone 2020 SE's native calendar. And here is the story:

At 9 am my boss added a meeting for 4 pm
At 10 am I reviewed my daily tasks and I saw that meeting set for 4 pm
At 11 am my boss has changed it to 3 pm
At 3 pm I did not get any calendar notification and missed the meeting
At 4 pm I have opened my calendar and only then I saw meeting "magically" moving from 4 pm to 3 pm

What am I missing? How can I reliable work with a calendar / system / hardware for which 4 hours is not enough to update meetings, schedules and invitations?


texts: Can the Magic Keyboard be used with the USB-C to Lightning cable?

texts:
Can the Magic Keyboard be used with the USB-C to Lightning cable and have the keyboard actually work as a keyboard (not just charge the internal battery)?

The "Here's what you can do..." mentions said keyboard, but only for charging.


texts: How to check if EarPods are fake or not?

texts:
With iPhone, MacBook we have serial numbers etc. So it is possible to call support and to ask.

How can we check EarPods?


texts: What is causing this 'network is down' error?

texts:
I just upgraded my MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015) from Sierra to High Sierra 10.13.2. I habitually use Cisco AnyConnect to access my corporate network. I use the macOs built-in ssh client to access servers inside my corporate network.

Since the upgrade I get 'network is down' whenever I try to use ssh over the vpn.

With the Cisco vpn client disconnected I can still ssh to my raspberry pi on my home network.

But with the VPN connected if I try to connect to a work machine I get:

ssh -vvv wspasm03
OpenSSH_7.6p1, LibreSSL 2.6.2
debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/XXX/.ssh/config
debug1: /Users/XXX/.ssh/config line 1: Applying options for *
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 48: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect_direct: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to wspasm03 port 22.
ssh: connect to host wspasm03 port 22: Network is down

I tried netcat and it can make a tcp connection to the servers with:

nc wspasm03 22
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu2.2

So this is a very odd problem. It feels like ssh is using a different routing table from everything else.

If I run Wireshark capturing the VPN interface I can see netcat making the connection. If I try with ssh I get the 'network is down' error and no packets are captured.

I noticed that the VPN client creates two IP interfaces, utun0 has only an ipv6 address whereas utun1 has both ipv4 and ipv6 addresses. So I tried ssh -4 but that didn't help.

This is my ~/.ssh/config:

Host *
   AddressFamily inet
   CheckHostIP no

This is /etc/ssh/ssh_config (comment and blank lines omitted):

Host *
    SendEnv LANG LC_*

Any ideas?


texts: How to recover Mail, Calendar and Contact after Mavericks to Mountain Lion downgrade?

texts: I want to downgrade from Mavericks to ML. If I do this, how can I recover my emails, calendar and contacts after the downgrade?