texts: My iPhone 5S cellular network has ceased working. The iPhone is 3.5 years old and has been consistently reliable.  The battery is also working well.  I have tried the usual troubleshooting methods to restart the network, but none have worked.  I can used my mobile on WiFi and the Apps such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Viber still.   How can I recover the carrier cellular network?


texts: Unable to ping any website through terminal and network utility

texts:
I have internet connection and I can access every website. But when I try to ping any website ( be it www.google.com or www.stackoverflow.com or any site ) I always get Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 (I tried to ping and traceroute from terminal as well as network utility but faced the same issue). Moreover if I try to ping any website which is on VPN then I get correct response ( All packet transmitted and all received no loss )

I am on VPN and behind proxy too.

What can be the issue and how to fix it?


texts: Why is healthissues.today using my screen 24/7 on my iPhone and how do I stop it?

texts: When I checked my screen time it was reporting 24/7 screen for the last 3 weeks.  The offending app is something called healthissues.today which I can't find.  Any ideas on what I can do to turn it off and stop it from using my iphone 24/7?


texts: How can I find what is making my Mac run hotter and causing the fans to run more often?

texts:
My Macbook Pro's fans are running louder. I've also noticed that the average internal temperature is significantly higher. (187°F as I write this.) This didn't used to happen unless I was running full-screen video or recording multitrack audio. I've made no other changes to the computer that I can remember.

Recently, I turned on Spaces, and I thought that perhaps leaving these open was running the processor more heavily, creating more heat. But turning Spaces back off didn't help.

How can I see what background processes are running? Is there a way to track this down?


texts: Can Karabiner (aka KeyRemap4Macbook) remap arbitrary simple keys?

texts:
Karabiner has a comprehensive set of predefined key remappings. But what about a simple

  remap '`' to '$'

(and vice versa)

Yes this can be done via Mac Input Sources. But they are cumbersome (and poorly documented). It would be nice to simply do those in Karabiner already.


texts: Where are the QuickTime video recordings saved

texts:
I recorded a video using QuickTime, but cannot find the file.

Where is the file saved and how do I find it?


texts: What does the "Charging is not supported with this device" error mean?

texts: Sometimes when I plug my iPod touch into a dock or cable I get the message Charging is not supported with this device.  What's that mean?  Did Apple change the pin configuration of the dock connector?


texts: How do I delete these movies from my iPhone 4?

texts: I tried swiping it, but my movies for some reason show up vertical. So swiping, doesn't work. I can't seem to find a way to get it off my phone and it's taking up more then half of my storage! I need help a soon as possible


texts: Booting in safe mode or Repair if no keyboard synchronized

texts:
We have a Yosemite iMac that won't boot, it reboots in the middle of the loading bar with the Apple logo.

Said iMac uses a Logitech bluetooth keyboard, and even if I press Shift or Cmd + R it won't boot in safe mode/recovery, which leads me to think the keyboard connect after the OS has booted.

Is there a way to enter recovery/safe mode if no keyboard is available? (we don't have an USB keyboard here)


texts: Downloaded apps does not start, failed with error -10810

texts:
I try to install SQLDeveloper.app that I downloaded from Oracle, but every time it gives me that error

  LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Users/peyo/Downloads/SQLDeveloper.app.

I have Java version 8 for Eclipse.

How can i fix this error?


texts: compress Long size file into multiple limited size xz file

texts:
I have files of 28GB size.

I want to compress using .xz LZMA, with .xz chuncks of 1G (1024MB) size files...

MyFile.vdi -> MyFile00.xz, MyFile01.xz, MyFile02.xz...

How do it in macOS?

EDIT

sh-3.2# xz -ek9vfc Centos\ 7\ 1511\ 64bits_20170629\(with_dukto\).vdi
xz: Compressed data cannot be written to a terminal
xz: Try `xz --help' for more information.
sh-3.2#

SECOND EDIT

USING

# xz -ek9vfc Centos\ 7\ 1511\ 64bits_20170629\(with_dukto\).vdi

# xz -e9vfc < Centos\ 7\ 1511\ 64bits_20170629\(with_dukto\).vdi | split -b 1024m - Centos\ 7\ 1511\ 64bits_20170629\(with_dukto\).vdi.xz

Here the output.

# ls -al Centos\ 7\ 1511\ 64bits_20170629\(with_dukto\).vdi*
-rw-------@ 1 _unknown  _unknown  17470324736 Jun 29 23:47 Centos 7 1511 64bits_20170629(with_dukto).vdi
-rw-r--r--  1 _unknown  _unknown   3898588580 Aug 22 22:19 Centos 7 1511 64bits_20170629(with_dukto).vdi.xz
-rw-r--r--  1 _unknown  _unknown   1073741824 Aug 23 12:15 Centos 7 1511 64bits_20170629(with_dukto).vdi.xzaa
-rw-r--r--  1 _unknown  _unknown   1073741824 Aug 23 13:44 Centos 7 1511 64bits_20170629(with_dukto).vdi.xzab
-rw-r--r--  1 _unknown  _unknown   1073741824 Aug 23 18:17 Centos 7 1511 64bits_20170629(with_dukto).vdi.xzac
-rw-r--r--  1 _unknown  _unknown    677363108 Aug 23 21:44 Centos 7 1511 64bits_20170629(with_dukto).vdi.xzad
sh-3.2#

Here the help

# xz -h
Usage: xz [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Compress or decompress FILEs in the .xz format.

  -z, --compress      force compression
  -d, --decompress    force decompression
  -t, --test          test compressed file integrity
  -l, --list          list information about .xz files
  -k, --keep          keep (don't delete) input files
  -f, --force         force overwrite of output file and (de)compress links
  -c, --stdout        write to standard output and don't delete input files
  -0 ... -9           compression preset; default is 6; take compressor *and*
                      decompressor memory usage into account before using 7-9!
  -e, --extreme       try to improve compression ratio by using more CPU time;
                      does not affect decompressor memory requirements
  -T, --threads=NUM   use at most NUM threads; the default is 1; set to 0
                      to use as many threads as there are processor cores
  -q, --quiet         suppress warnings; specify twice to suppress errors too
  -v, --verbose       be verbose; specify twice for even more verbose
  -h, --help          display this short help and exit
  -H, --long-help     display the long help (lists also the advanced options)
  -V, --version       display the version number and exit

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Report bugs to <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> (in English or Finnish).
XZ Utils home page: <http://tukaani.org/xz/>
sh-3.2#


texts: Prevent internal drive from mounting automatically

texts:
I don't use the internal hard drive on my iMac any more, but for obvious reasons, it's awkward to remove it. I'd like to stop OS X from automatically mounting it when the iMac boots. Is this possible? I didn't see anything in Disk Utility that looked appropriate. I know I can unmount it myself, but I'd prefer if it were never mounted in the first place.

I found a previous answer that describes editing /etc/fstab. However on OS X 10.11 "El Capitan", this file contains only the following information:

IGNORE THIS FILE.
This file does nothing, contains no useful data, and might go away in
future releases.  Do not depend on this file or its contents.

...so that appears to be no longer relevant.


texts: How to capture the H.264 stream of a Logitech c920 camera

texts:
I am using a Logitech c920 HD Pro Webcam with my Macbook Pro 17" (early 2011) and Mac OS Mavericks 10.9.5

I am able to record videos with Quicktime 10.3 where I have two options for "quality" with this camera: high or maximum.

The file size gets very large, especially in "maximum" where 80 seconds in an black and white (colour setting to 0) take up 2.6 GB already.

I think this camera is providing a H.264 stream which already should be compressed much more but Quicktime seems not to be able to load from that stream.

Also, the quality of the video seems to be rather blurry and not really Full HD.

I tried to install Final Cut Pro because there where some links on the net that provided this tip. With Final Cut Pro in its test version come several codecs that might provide a solution. But Final Cut Pro is not any more compatible with Mavericks.

Any hints how to capture the pre-compressed stream from the camera instead of the raw material?


texts: How are notifications removed on iOS devices?

texts: I had a couple of notifications on my lock screen on my iPhone, some Facebook, and some SMS.  I was logged into Facebook on my PC, and saw the notifications there also, so used my desktop to see what they were.  Then my phone screen lit up again, and on the lock screen were no new notifications, but the Facebook ones were gone, leaving just the previous SMS ones.  Is there now functionality to remove and/or sync notifications across devices?  I note that on my desktop I seem to see repeat notifications appear that I have already dismissed on my iPhone, so perhaps it's only iOS that supports is as yet?  Can someone describe the mechanisms used to remove such notifications from my phone?


texts:
Suddenly, a couple of days ago, I have started to have major problems accessing internet through my home network, with my MacBook Pro Mid 2012 (non-retina) running Mountain Lion.

I connect to the network just fine, but when can't open web pages or when I try to ping google.com I get:

ping: cannot resolve google.com: Unknown host

or something like:

PING google.com (173.194.32.33): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
64 bytes from 173.194.32.33: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=43.372 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
64 bytes from 173.194.32.33: icmp_seq=5 ttl=53 time=45.110 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 66.7% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 43.372/44.241/45.110/0.869 ms

I can't find any pattern to the results.

ALL other devices on the router has no problem access neither the network or internet. Of these are another MacBook Pro, an iPad, several iPhones, Apple TV, and misc.

The network is set up to configure IPv4 with DHCP and IPv6 automatically. (Under General > Network Wi-Fi > Advanced > TCP/IP)

I have tried flushing the DNS with both: (https://gist.github.com/mipmip/1844353)

sudo killall -INFO mDNSResponder
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist

I have tried removing and adding the Wi-Fi interface from General > Network.

And of course I have tried rebooting the modem, router and computer.

What else should I do to get internet working again?


texts:
I bought a new battery as my old one cut out the system. Since installing the new one its been acting really strange. It's been sitting around 2-5% charge for the past few hours and now I've got it upto 11%. I've reset the SMC and the PRAM reset too and when I plug everything back up the MacBook run fine in start up then died due to the low % of battery.

As I said its at 11% just now and here is my log:

Battery Information:

  Model Information:
  Serial Number:    W01107AW7D3BA
  Manufacturer: TOP
  Device Name:  A1331
  Pack Lot Code:    3230
  PCB Lot Code: 30db
  Firmware Version: ddae
  Hardware Revision:    dac2
  Cell Revision:    2b39
  Charge Information:
  Charge Remaining (mAh):   589
  Fully Charged:    No
  Charging: Yes
  Full Charge Capacity (mAh):   5500
  Health Information:
  Cycle Count:  2
  Condition:    Normal
  Battery Installed:    Yes
  Amperage (mA):    -1564
  Voltage (mV): 11225

System Power Settings:

  AC Power:
  System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 16
  Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes):   0
  Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):    16
  Wake on AC Change:    No
  Wake on Clamshell Open:   Yes
  Wake on LAN:  Yes
  Current Power Source: Yes
  Display Sleep Uses Dim:   Yes
  PrioritizeNetworkReachabilityOverSleep:   0
  Battery Power:
  System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 15
  Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes):   10
  Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):    15
  Wake on AC Change:    No
  Wake on Clamshell Open:   Yes
  Display Sleep Uses Dim:   Yes
  Reduce Brightness:    Yes

Hardware Configuration:

  UPS Installed:    No

AC Charger Information:

  Connected:    Yes
  ID:   0x0100
  Wattage (W):  45
  Revision: 0x0000
  Family:   0x00ba
  Serial Number:    0x005b514c
  Charging: Yes

I was hoping someone could tell me from that if this battery is fine and just needs a proper good 100% charge or if I have to do anything else to the MacBook?

Thanks


texts: Will an iPhone XR purchased in India work with US service providers?

texts: I am planning to buy an iPhone XR in India, and take it to the US. Will it work on most GSM providers in USA? I compared the specification on Apple's iPhone webpage, and it looks like only a couple of bands are different.


texts: "use F1, F2, etc. keys ..." in system preferences doesn't work, how should I do?

texts:
I'm using macOS 10.13.6 and 101 windows keyboard. Each time I press Fn + F5 together I can play/pause my vlc player.
I'm trying to make it easier by lock Fn key so that I need to press just F5 itself to play/pause.
per a post
"system preferences>keyboard and mouse>keyboard" can lock Fn key.

However, no matter I check that option or not, I have to press Fn key and F5 key together to play/pause my vlc player.
Am I missing something?


texts: Ordering a 21.5" iMac with a different graphics card

texts:
I've searched through the site but it seems nobody asked this.

Basically, my question is: When ordering a new 21.5" iMac, is it possible to choose a different graphics card other than the listed ones?

Now, online this is impossible (as far as I can see), but maybe I'm missing something? What about ordering it at some Apple Store and not online?

Please note that I'm aware that you cannot change your card after the purchasing. I'm asking whether it's possible when ordering the iMac.


texts: Is there an app to quickly download and install a list of non-App Store apps?

texts:
Now that the Mac App Store exists, if an app is available there I prefer to buy it there instead of on the developer's site. This has several advantages, but the one that I've been enjoying recently is the ability to sign into the store on a new or freshly wiped Mac, go through my list of purchases, and click "Install" next to each app I want to reinstall. Leave the computer for a bit, come back, and they're all installed and waiting for me in /Applications.

However, there are a number of non-App Store apps that I like to reinstall as well. Some, like Transmission, would not be allowed in the App Store for rule violations, and others, like VLC, are kept out because of license issues. Is there an app that I can use that acts similarly to the Mac App Store app, but allows me to quickly and easily download and install third-party apps?

There's a service for Windows and Linux called Ninite that seems to do this, but they don't appear to have a Mac version. Another possibility is AppBodega, but it doesn't seem to have the concept of an "account" so I'd have to still remember and hunt through the list of apps in the app.


texts: Why can I not create a directory on my external hard-drive?

texts:
When I try to make a new directory on my external hard-drive I get a message saying that it is a "Read-only file system"

LU06296APPLE:~ fortinok$ mkdir /Volumes/Seagate\ Backup\ Plus\ Drive/working_files
mkdir: /Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive/working_files: Read-only file system

However, it looks like from the permissions, that the owner of the drive should be able to "write"

drwxrwxrwt@  5 root      admin                    170 Feb 16 09:02 .
drwxr-xr-x  34 root      wheel                   1224 Feb 13 16:00 ..
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root      admin                      1 Feb  2 08:28 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxr-xr-x   1 fortinok  LONGWOOD\Domain Users   4096 Feb 15 22:34 Seagate Backup Plus Drive

Since I am the logged in user:

LU06296APPLE:~ fortinok$ who
fortinok console  Feb  2 08:58
fortinok ttys000  Feb 13 07:55

and I "own" the drive, why can I not make a new directory?

(Note: I am also unable to make a new directory using Finder.)


texts: Why does macOS not assign unique identifiers to files?

texts:
I want to preface this question by disclosing I know next to nothing about computer architecture, storage and operating systems.

For a personal project, I'm trying to make a roadmap for how to make a small helper program that will enable linking to annotations in PDFs.

I have hit a small roadblock, though. Say I have a PDF called Doc. I'm reading and I make an annotation called Annot. Because the Annot is contained in Doc, I would first have to link to Doc's path:

Path > Doc > Annot

This could work by linking to the doc's path. There is one problem with this, though. I often reorganize my PDFs as my collection grows, so a link like that would soon break. Which leads to my question:

Why do macOS by default not assign each file on your harddrive a UUID for easy recall? In such a way, I would be able to link like:

Link to Doc path with UUID as argument
If path doesn't contain a document with Doc's UUID, search for a document with that UUID and go to path
Return Doc

I think I might be able to make a similar solution by assigning a UUID to a documents metadata.

So to sum up: Is there any reason this wouldn't be included by default? Is there any reason this would be a bad idea?


texts: Can't see a specific external hard drive

texts:
I was trying to make an NTFS hard drive writable on my macbook. I tried the way mentioned in this link: https://www.maketecheasier.com/write-ntfs-partition-os-x-yosemite/

Now I can make changes on my hard drive. But there is another problem. After unmounting - mounting the hard drive, now I can see it only in Volumes folder. I can't bring it back to sidebar or desktop.

I tried other hard drives, they work normally.

Thanks in advance!

Note: I have 10.10.4 installed.


texts:
I seem to have lost the SMS/TXT messages on my iPhone 6 128GB (iOS 9.3). This iPhone is not jailbroken. I have the passcode. It's close to full with only about 3GB of storage left.

Suddenly, a few days ago, I realized that about 75-80% of my SMS/txt message conversations had disappeared.

This is a big problem for me as it may look real bad in an upcoming divorce.

Can anyone shed ideas on how I can recover these? What about my iTunes backup? (I can decrypt output). Anything else I can try?

I've also had on this iPhone a problem with lots of photos/videos disappearing, too (when the iOS update added the separate "Screenshots" photo album (I have many screenshots)


texts: define local keyword globally in a macports config

texts:
My main target is to globally enable all ports to compile with macports-clang-3.4 and use libc++ instead of libstdc++.

For example when working with one port I need to set configure.compiler=macports-clang-3.4 and configure.cxx_stdlib=c++11 to the command line. But how I can set this variables via macports configuration globally so that any invocation of port would automatically use my defaults? variants.conf accepts only variants and no keywords and macports.conf only includes global keywords.


texts: Why do documents in the iCloud window appear disabled?

texts:
Here’s how documents appear in the iCloud window of one of my apps:

I have created these documents before. They looked OK. When I quit the app and come back, they look like this, disabled, and apparently no way to open them. I can create a new document, but it will appear all the same. When I save a document with the same name as these to overwrite them, it will appear all the same.

Why are these documents disabled, and can I do anything myself to fix it?


texts: Is it possible to set Firefox as the default browser in iOS?

texts:
Is it possible to search something using Firefox in Spotlight search? When I choose the option "search in the internet" it always open Safari. My question is then, is it possible somehow to set Firefox as the "default" browser in iOS?

I am using iOS 9.1 in an iPad mini.


texts: How do Copy and Cut take selected text as input?

texts:
When I press Command-C or Command-X over the selected (highlighted) text how is that string getting "grabbed" and pasted onto the clipboard? Or similarly when I select a word and 3-finger tap, how is that string being passed to the Lookup functionality? Moreover, this works even if I have highlighted a text in one window, then I highlight another in a different window, but only the second one gets picked up (as opposed to stuff that was highlighted on different pages). How are these selected texts being distinguished?

(Not sure if the copy&cut and the lookup method work the same way but I just wanted to give examples)

I am trying to automate a process whereby I need to "grab" a highlighted word and save it to a variable. I found the application BetterTouchTools which lets me bind code (Shell script, Apple script, or Javascript) to hotkeys / gestures. But I can't figure out how I'm supposed to take a string as input by simply hihglighting it.


texts: Is a rented movie tied to the download PC?

texts:
Before I left work today I downloaded a rental movie in iTunes then copied the m4v to a USB key and took it home to watch. However I now can't play the file on my home PC: iTunes asks me to authorise my computer to play films purchased on my account, then when I enter my password it tells me my PC is already authorised but doesn't start the movie. Pressing play brings up the prompt again. Deauthorising and reauthorising the PC acted the same.

Does this mean the rental is tied to the machine that downloaded it, my work PC? I did not start the movie there - I simply downloaded it then copied the file. The FAQ, which I had't read beforehand, says:

  If you download a rented movie on your computer: You can transfer it to a device such as your Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, or iPod if it’s a standard-definition film (movies in HD can only be watched on your computer, iPad, iPhone 4, iPod touch (4th generation), or Apple TV). Once you move the movie from your computer to a device, the movie will disappear from your computer's iTunes library. You can move the movie between devices as many times as you wish during the rental period, but the movie can only exist on one device at a time.

It doesn't discuss moving films between computers. Is that possible? The disappear bit does make me think the ITMS remembers which device the movie is officially on. Is there any way for me to recover this, or will I have to watch the film at work? I rented HD and only have a 2G iPod touch so I can't copy it to that.

Thanks. Both machines are PCs running the latest iTunes, 10.1.1.


texts: Two Apple IDs, can I use both on same device?

texts: When I got my new iPhone six, I made a new Apple ID, not realizing that I wouldn't be able to get my music from my previous Apple ID. I redeemed a $15 iTunes card on my new Apple ID, and I am now unsure whether or not using it and downloading music onto my phone will erase the data from the other Apple ID. What should I do?


texts: What are the pros and cons to updating iOS with a full install via iTunes versus a delta update via the Settings app?

texts: I can think of a few reasons to do it each way, but I'd like a complete list of them.


texts: Can't open files after changing username

texts:
I use OS X Mavericks 10.9.4.

I changed my username and this may have caused that I am not able to open any files. I still can see my PDFs and photos in Preview! I get this:

  File XYZ couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it.

I have tried to run Repair Permissions in Disk Utility but that didn't help. I tried manually chmod files but didn't have a permission to do that.

The strangest thing is that I can see my photos in Preview but when I open them I get the error.

The files are not locked. The folder is not locked too and in permissions tab I can see my username "Lukas (Me)" as "Read Write" access.


texts: In Applescript, how do I get a line number or stack trace on error?

texts:
I'm writing some fairly complex Applescripts, but when something goes wrong - Apple event timed out - or similar, I can't tell precisely where it failed.

At the moment, I'm wrapping all handlers with try blocks, with an on error that re-raises the error, with a reference to the handler name and the value of a variable that I set at various points through the handler so I can isolate the error to somewhere between two points.

** Is there a way to get Applescript to say 'Apple event timed out at line 15 in await(), at line 60 in connectRemoteUser(), at line 90 in autostartTestUsers()' without having to code it all directly?

I can't rely on the script editor's location highlighting because the errors happen intermittently when the script is out in production.


texts: Copy/Paste from documents (PDF, docx) - weird behaviour of diacritics

texts:
When I copy text from PDF (Preview) or Docx (Pages) with Czech characters, some of the Czech characters get copied with their accent "stuck" to them.

To make this even weirder, this behaviour is pretty inconsistent: Sometimes "ř" is copied well, sometimes it isn't. Also, it doesn't seem to be connected to specific font. But I think this happens more often with fonts, that are not native for OSX (such as Cambria, which happens to be MS Office default).

Result of CMD+C for "í": "í́"

Why is this happening?

Edit

OSX: 10.13.6 (although it happened to me on older OS and even other machines)
apps, I've copied the text from: Preview (PDF), Pages (doc, docx)
apps, where I've pasted the text to: anything (from Sublime text to text editor in StackExchange, see above)

Also, I've noticed that this happens often at the ends of words (possibly ends of lines). I will confirm this once it happens again, as the behaviour is frustratingly hard to reproduce.


texts:
I have a Magic Mouse 2 which is approx 1 year old. Recently it has started lagging on my 2018 Macbook Pro 15 inch.

I can not see anything that is taking a lot of resources and I don't have external Bluetooth devices except my Apple Keyboard (Same age).

This has started in the last two weeks


texts:
All my docs are in:

/Users/Joe/Documents/Mydocs

I want to put them on dropbox through symbolic link so I created this empty folder:

/Users/Joe/Dropbox/Mydocs

Then used this command to create a symbolic link:

ls -s /Users/Joe/Documents/Mydocs /Users/Joe/Dropbox/Mydocs

The destination folder is still empty, what can I do to properly make the link?


texts: Pipe Terminal Output To Notification, If Output Contains Specific Phrase?

texts:
I have a long series of commands that I run on a semi-regular basis. Sometimes, completion of the commands requires user input via password prompt or other responses and sometimes information is output in the course of these commands that I need to copy to a log elsewhere. Mostly, though, the script can run unattended as it processes its lengthy series of tasks.

I've come across dozens of scripts and tools that will tell you when your command has finished running. But that's not what I need. And I've come across tools that should be able to convert varied output into a notification, but there's no accompanying documentation explaining how to do this.

So, if I wanted to be sent a banner notification through Notification Center every time the phrase "space cats" was output during the running of my command, how would I trigger that notification to be sent?


texts: How do I change user account used by the Update tab of AppStore?

texts: On the bottom of the Featured tab Apple ID is correct, but when I try to update an app App Store asks me a password for the old Apple ID that I no longer have.


texts: Would erase content and settings affect phone number?

texts: I just want to know, I just want to do it safely. My phone always said it's almost full storage but I did delete all my text messages, pictures, apps, etc. I tried everything but it always said the same thing. So I don't know if I erase the content and setting will help me erase some parts in my iPhone 4s. I'm trying to make sure.


texts:
Just bought a MacBook Pro from a friend but he told me the HD drive was corrupted and the battery is messed up so I replaced the HD drive with a Samsung 1 TB SSD, new 8 GB RAM and a new battery but I'm having problems installing OS X.

I made a bootable USB drive with OS X 10.11 but when I try to install the OS it says:

  there is not enough free space on os x base system to install

I've tried restoring from the internet with Opt+Cmd+r but it takes me nowhere and it shows me a grey folder with and ? mark. For some reason it won't let me access the disk utilities.

EDIT: it's basically this image pops up


texts: Restored my iPhone from backup, now cannot recover purchased ringtone

texts:
My iPhone 4 was playing a ringtone that I had purchased from iTunes.

I updated my phone to the latest operating system, and in the process it said that it had to restore my phone from backup.

Now:

I can still see the purchased ringtone on my local machine when I view it in iTunes on my PC
I can drag the ringtone onto my phone icon
When browsing my phone contents from my PC I can see the ringtone

But...

When I attempt to change the ringtone in the settings, my purchased ringtone does not appear!

I've gone to the iTunes store to attempt to download it directly onto my iPhone. A message box comes up "You have already purchased this ringtone. Do you wish to purchase it again?".  Err, why should I have to?!?

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to try?


texts: Connect an external SSD (USB Type-C) to Mac Mini (mid 2011)?

texts:
I have a Mac mini (Mid 2011) and I want to use an external SSD (Samsung Portable SSD T5) with it. Now the problem is that Mac mini (Mid 2011) only has:

Thunderbolt port (up to 10 Gbps) (not Thunderbolt 3, perhaps Thunderbolt 2) :-(
Four USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps)

I guess that the only way I can leverage the speed of the external SSD is by using it thru the Thunderbolt port. The external SSD is back compatible with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0. But AFAIK using it on one of the USB 2.0 ports will defeat the whole purpose of using a SSD. Please correct me if I'm wrong here.

So, I tried to find a Thunderbolt 2 to USB Type-C cable, but couldn't find it anywhere. Only items which I could find are USB C to Mini Display Port Cables but they specifically state that they:

Supports video only (not data transfer)
Check for a Mini DisplayPort port (not a Thunderbolt / Thunderbolt 2 port

I also found that using these:

Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter
with an Apple Thunderbolt Cable

can (possibly) resolve the issue, but these items are super expensive. I was hoping to spend a little less on the connectors.

So, essentially I want to use a high-speed external SSD with an ancient machine. Is there any way I can do that?


texts:
My Mac keeps crashing with the same error:

  a freed zone element has been modified in zone kalloc.64

Here are four crash reports I collected over a period of time.

It happens no matter what I'm doing, using the terminal, the browser, even when the screensaver is on.

I did try disabling avira real time scan (didn't exit) but that didn't stop the crashing.

This is driving me nuts, any ideas?


texts: Sublime Text like fuzzy filesystem search for Mac OS X

texts:
Currently I am using Alfred's filesystem navigation capabilities. It's pretty awesome, but sometimes I want fuzzy-search to match not only the filename but the full path.

E.g. I want to find a pdf file with some very common filename (say proposal.pdf). And I have a directory structure like this:

 - dropbox
   - partners
     - supercorp
       - proposal.pdf
     - megacorp
       - proposal.pdf

It would be nice if I can type dro/meg/propos to get to the megacorp's proposal file. The answer may be the Alfred plugin or some configuration, but I'll accept any solution that allows me to quickly navigate to this file and perform some action (e.g. reveal in Finder or something). "Search-as-you-type" functionality is very important.

UPD Just found a similar question. Seems that full path matching feature is missing because mdfind is only searching the file name and all the tools are using it internally.


texts: Twitter app for iPad to show new tweets in a badge without opening the app

texts:
I'm struggling with something simple so I'd appreciate your help.

I'm looking for a Twitter app for my iPad to do the following:

Let me tweet (obviously)
Show a badge with a number on the app icon if someone tweets to me (by using @mytwittername) or if someone direct-messages me, etc. In other words, the app should do it without me opening it. Pretty much what the Mail app does. This last condition is important as all the Twitter apps that I came across so far don't seen to do it (including Twitter's own app and Twitterific.)

Is there an app that can do this?


texts: cpu is 100% used, yet no application shows significant usage

texts:
Since a few days my IMac started showing weird behaviour.
In Activity Monitor it shows that my CPU is 100% used. Literally 0% idle, but there are no Applications using anywhere near this much resources.
The highest percentage would be from Activity Monitor itself, but this just uses 2.5% at max.
The amount of CPU used is shared over 'User' and 'System' they both use around 50% CPU at the same time.

Also, the amount of threads running is around 300 to 375, but the sum of all running applications their threads doesn't go over 100.

My question is:
Is there any explanation for this behaviour?
And can I do something against this?

Info about my Mac:

OS : Mac OS X 10.7.5

CPU : 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Memory : 4 GB 1067 MHz RAM

(iMac Late 2009)

EDIT:

After making sure that I was looking at 'All Processes' that are running on my iMac, I found that Norton Deepsight was causing a big part of my issue.
By changing a setting in my Norton-AntiVirus I managed to take atleast 50% of CPU usage away.
Yet my System is still using around 50% to 60% of CPU, which is caused by 'kernel_task' and 'SymDaemon'

Is there a clear reason to why these to processes are using this much CPU?


texts:
On a friends older MacBook, I'm holding the ⌥ Option key with a bootable DVD inserted but am not seeing a boot menu.  I've tried rEFIt as well as some Linux DVD's I have lying about.  I've checked the DVD's on another system and they are bootable on non-Mac hardware fine.

In excruciating detail, what's the process for booting from a DVD for the Mac?  I've tried holding the ⌥ Option key, tapping, holding until I see an Apple logo -- and everything in between.

I've previously gotten this particular machine to boot live Linux DVD's.  As I recall, that was with the option key -- and, I don't recall having to hold and release at specific junctures.  It has since had a Mac OS 10.x clean install.
I installed Bodhi Linux, and then Lubuntu.  I don't recall jumping through any particular hoops, beyond, as best I recall, holding the option key until getting boot options.  It's like a firmware update, or perhaps newer OS, somehow made it harder to boot Linux or Linux type discs...?

As Allan suggests, the Genius Bar likely restored back to factory.  Which doesn't explain why option worked to boot to DVD before but doesn't anymore.


texts: How to get access to an admin account without an admin account without losing data

texts: My wife just left me, but changed the password to the admin account on my iMac just to spite me, and I have no way of contacting her. I have a separate managed account for my brother when he was staying with us not too long ago, and she didn't change the password to that. She also signed in with her Apple ID so I can't reset the password, and I don't know her Apple ID password to reset it, nor do I have access to her email. Is there anything I can do to get access to the admin account?


texts: I am running OS X 10.4 on a G4 using Rumpus software for a FTP server. I keep reading I do not have to worry about Bash Bug if I am not running a web server or other services. does my FTP server qualify as other services. Am I vulnarable


texts: How do I increase the volume of a headset microphone (usage with MS Teams)?

texts:
Due to some technical issues with the sound quality which I'm not able to resolve I always use my iPhone (IOS 14.3) for calling into MS Teams meetings together with a Jabra Headset which is linked with bluetooth.
So far this worked very well. But recently I got informed that my voice is very low. I checked it and compared it with using the same headset on PC using bluetooth and can confirm. My voice using the PC is louder (correct volume) compared using the iphone.
But I'm not able to increase the volume of my headset microphone on the iphone. The only change I can make is changing the overall volume which has only an effect on my speakers.
Is there any workaround or setting which I was not able to find?


texts: Can I still use time machine if I encrypt my drive with file vault?

texts: I read somewhere that there are some problems with the time capsule if you encrypt your mac, so I would like to know those before I do that.


texts: Time Capsule suddenly won't Time Machine, get error about format

texts:
My several-year-old Time Capsule suddenly failed to back up, throwing up this message:

The backup disk is not in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, which is required.

It was last night when it successfully backed up at 8:36!

I am used to error messages not really meaning what they say, so before I reformat, any other suggestions?


texts: Right click on Dock icons in Mission Control

texts:
When I right click on an icon in the Dock, I get a menu as usual (New Window, Options, Quit, etc.). When I right click an an icon in the Dock in Mission Control nothing happens.

How can I enable the right-click menu for Dock app icons while in Mission control?


texts: Macbook Pro: One USB-C port only works for charging devices

texts:
Is this possible:
I have two USB-C ports on my MacBook Pro 2019. One port works perfectly well. The other is odd to say the least.
After some testing, it seems as if the port "can't handle strenuous tasks" and by strenuous tasks, I mean running a USB-C hub with external hard drives plugged in it or using the port to go to an external monitor.
It does work when charging my iPhone or using the port to charge the MacBook itself.
So my assumption overall is that it does work, but only small, less strenuous tasks, if that's even possbile?
Can any USB-C knowledgeable people confirm this is possible? Could it be a software issue?
I've tried resetting stuff like the SMC etc. just haven't reinstalled macOS yet, which is the last thing I'd wanna do, it's on the latest version of Catalina at the moment.


texts: Is there any stable Adobe Reader for OSX?

texts:
I have version 11.0.06 which is very unstable.
Its average crash-time is about 5 minutes in 10.9.2 OSX.
I cannot handle long documents at all.
Those which I type in LaTeX for instance.
Works well in Preview but not in Adobe Reader.
Adobe Reader goes very easily into overflow.

The same problem is happening in many new installations.
It is not in hardware, but in their software the problem.

Is there any stable version of Adobe Reader for OSX?


texts: Moving multiple subfolder files to parent folder on Mojave?

texts:
I'm trying to move the files of multiple (100+) subfolders to the parent folder, but I don't want to do it manually for each. Is there something I could do to automate that?
I've tried solutions for older OS's and they don't seem to work, and I don't fully understand https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8385501
Thank you!


texts: Force quit then restart, all apps still active iOS 9

texts: I am running iOS version 9.0.1. This problem has been happening since iOS 9 came out. If I double click the home button, then swipe up on my open apps, it used to close them out for good. When I would restart, there were no open apps. However, now when I force quit every app and restart, they are all open again. Even if I close out of everything and maybe have Twitter open and a game, when I restart, I have a ton of apps open when I only had two before restarting. Does anyone know what is going on?


texts: On one partition of an external drive encrypted with Filevault 2, I have accidentally deleted a folder and files. Does decryption also decrypt the deleted files?


texts: How do I regain access to Font Book? It opens, hangs, then requires Force Quit

texts:
I just purchased a new MacBook Pro and migrated everything over from the old one. I had imagined that it was the old one that was preventing me from being able use Font Book (Font Book.app); it’s not that.

When I attempt to open it on the new machine, looks like it is going to work for about five seconds, then becomes completely non–responsive, including the spinning wait cursor, until I use Force Quit.

So far I have tried deleting

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.FontBook.plist,
~/Library/Preferences/Saved Application State/com.apple.FontBook.savedState, and
~/Library/Fonts,

and then rebooting, but to no avail.


texts: How can I embed an image in an Apple Mail signature?

texts:
I use Apple Mail daily, and up until recently I could have images inside my mail by referencing an external source. However the external source has since become unavailable, so ideally I would like to embed the images into my mail signatures. I am pretty good with creating the signature in HTML and create the webarchive for it, however have no idea where to begin as far as embedding the images are concerned.

Has anyone actually done this, or know of a very good resource that I can use to figure it out?


texts: How do you turn off the Bedtime app alarm if you wake up before it?

texts:
I've updated my phone to IOS10, one of the features I quite like is the bedtime app (and no longer needing a 3rd party app). Whilst the features are pretty easy to figure out I can't seem to figure out... how to turn off the Bedtime app alarm if you wake up before it?

E.g I woke up before the app, left the room, came back and the alarm was going off. Ideally I wanted to stop it before it started.


texts: How i can log various information of files in directory?

texts:
I'm looking for a way to get the following information via AppleScript:

all the information ls provides including the creation date/time of a file or folder
MD5 hash, Finder labels and Finder/Spotlight comments

into an output like

46737077 drwxr-xr-x 2 Jonas 68 Oct 4 15:39:34 2012 /Users/Jonas/Desktop/test/test.txt 5 md5_here finder_comment_here

What I currently have is some old code which needs tweaking (creation date/time is missing):

do shell script "find -x " & my_path & " -print0 | xargs -0 ls -d -F -P -l -T -a -e -i -o -p -q " & my_path user name "user" password "pin" with administrator privileges

and some basic looping code for the comments/labels

set results_list to "/Users/Jonas/Desktop/test1.txt /Users/Jonas/Desktop/test2.txt"
set comm to {}
set labels to {}
repeat with counter from 1 to count paragraphs in results_list
    tell application "Finder" to set end of comm to comment of item ((POSIX file (paragraph counter in results_list)) as string)
    tell application "Finder" to set end of labels to label index of item ((POSIX file (paragraph counter in results_list)) as string)
end repeat

but now I'm kind of stuck in combining this all together.


texts: How do I focus a specific window with applescript without doing an activate and bringing other windows to the front?

texts:
I'm looking for a method w/ AppleScript to select/focus a specific window of an application without actually doing an "activate" which brings all windows to the front.

Here's what I have so far:

tell application "Google Chrome"
    set windowTitle to title of first window whose title contains "whatever"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Google Chrome"
    click menu item windowTitle of menu 1 of menu bar item "Window" of menu bar 1
end tell
tell application "Google Chrome" to activate

The problem is the "activate" in the last line. That brings everything to the front, but I just want the one window.


texts: Thumbnails for Image Files on Desktop won't load

texts:
I have a dozen or so image files on my iMac's desktop.  Most of the time, after booting up my computer, it displays a thumbnail of each image (as it should).  But sometimes, the thumbnails won't show up (see screenshot below).

It appears to happen randomly.  I estimate that it happens about 20% of the time.

Why is this, and how can I prevent it from happening?  I am running OS X 10.9.4.  Thanks.


texts: Ripped CD on mac - can I upload these onto iTune and while removing the music files from mac?

texts:
I have ripped 800 or so CDs onto my macbook via iTune.

Mac OS 10.6.8. iTune 11.4

I want to move these music files elsewhere (to increase mac's available memory capacity - I have moved all my heavy files to hard disc/storage elsewhere & was planning to do the same with music files). However, when I test this by removing a certain music files, iTune won't play those tunes I removed that does no longer exist on the macbook - it is clearly playing from the music file, and not from the iTunes. My iTunes does not seem to hold any of my ripped music. How do you actually COPY all my ripped CD music onto iTune so that I can move the music files elsewhere but will still play on my macbook? Apple support site provides no solution, only encourages me to sign up for things I don't need (i.e. regular music subscription) but there must be a way! Any help greatly appreciated!


texts: Disable automatic iTunes music stop when switching to Youtube on iPad

texts: I am listening to some music on my iPad, from iTunes. Sometimes I switch to the youtube app, because I want to just watch some scientific videos (mostly text and images, no sound or useless music), but then and automatically, music from iTunes stops! How can I disable this?


texts: Move Window by clicking on any part (as on Linux)?

texts:
On Linux (or X in general), it's possible to move a window while holding down a modifier key (Alt+drag or Super+drag) and clicking on ANY part of the window.

This makes moving windows super easy, as one doesn't have to aim so well ;)

On macOS (High Sierra), this doesn't seem to be enabled/possible by default.

How do I enable this or what add on do I need?


texts:
I just got a new keyboard.  How can I remap the FN key on only this external keyboard to option?

So far I've played around with karabiner but haven't had success.


texts: Can I delete Applications-folder from desktop?

texts: On my desktop on my Mac, there is a folder called "Applications". I think it is a shortcut to the actual applications-folder, but I am not entirely sure. If I delete the folder from my desktop, will it delete the actual applications-folder and all applications in it from my Mac?


texts: How to connect an iPad 3 to 27" Apple Cinema Display (Mini DisplayPort)

texts: How can I connect my iPad 3 (30-pin dock connector) to my 27" Cinema Display (MiniDisplayPort)?


texts: Does OSX Mavericks prevent third party software from having a "Save as" option?

texts: I'm considering upgrading some of my machines from Snow Leopard to OSX Mavericks (and possibly buying a new Mac Pro), but I'm extremely concerned about losing the "Save as" option in third party software such as Photoshop, After Effects, Avid etc. My question to anyone running Mavericks is this: Have you come across any piece of software that still has a "Save as" option? (If anyone has had experience with an Adobe product running on Mavericks that would be even better).


texts: iCloud Drive folders not showing on OS X

texts:
I am seeing some strange behaviour.
As you can see here:

I have lots of folders I don't see on my Mac (shown here):

Not sure why this is. When ever I make a new file or folder on either my Mac or on iCloud.com I see the file/folder. It's just I don't see those default Quicktime folders etc.


texts: .git-completion.bash producing error on macOS Sierra 10.12.6

texts:
I've followed the process for git-completion as per the description provided at https://medium.com/@farooqyousuf/autocomplete-git-commands-and-branch-names-in-terminal-on-mac-os-x-4e0beac0388a:

The first step is to execute this command in your terminal window, this is basically grabbing the ‘git-completion.bash’ script and putting it in your home directory.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash -o ~/.git-completion.bash

Now add this line to your ‘~/.bash_profile’. This will allow the execution of the git autocomplete script if it present

if [ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ]; then
  . ~/.git-completion.bash
fi

You can now restart all your terminal windows or just refresh the terminal window you wish to use this script in. To refresh do:

source ~/.bash_profile

Following is the error I'm getting while hitting tab key after typing git:

unknown option: --list-cmds=list-mainporcelain,others,nohelpers,alias,list-complete,config
usage: git [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c <name>=<value>]
  [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
  [-p | --paginate | --no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
  [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]
  <command> [<args>]


texts:
In terminal I ran:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

and

killall Finder

If I CMD + SHIFT + G  /usr/local/.git I can see the folder.

However, if I CMD + SHIFT + G and go to /usr/local I cannot see the folder.


texts: Why won't Facetime ring when somebody calls me?

texts: My volume is turned up, it's not on mute, alarms and other things that make noise work, it's not set to "do not disturb" or anything like that. If I happen to have the iPad open when a Facetime call arrives I can see it, but it's silent and not ringing.  Facetime works fine except if somebody calls me it won't ring.


texts: Process "accountsd" has over 500% CPU usage

texts:
I'm on Catalina 10.15.6 on a MacBook 2019 (16-inch) and one hour ago after startup my mac started  with an extremely loud fan and overheating. As Im writing this even the typing is lagging behind.
Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it? I closed all apps running already and restarted several times, but nothing seems to work.


texts:
The clock widget in iOS 14.2 on my iPhone 8 has stopped:

How do I wind it up again? The key hole on the side of the phone just stops incoming calls.


texts:
Although I do like and enjoy using iTunes, I'm not a fan of the new Ping service that Apple has embedded into it.

Is it possible to disable the Ping link under "Store", the Ping sidebar, and the Ping buttons next to each song? If so, how?


texts: Can I repurpose a 2TB Time Capsule as an external drive?

texts:
I have an old Time Capsule, 2TB, Model A1355.

Does any way exist to repurpose the device as just an external hard drive?

If possible, I'd like to:

store my music library on the Time Capsule then access the music via
iTunes from my MacPro &
disable the wireless and networking capabilities (excepting any required to use the device as an external drive).

I have upgraded my network/wireless to a Lynksys Velop so I don't need the networking & wireless capabilities of the Time Capsule anymore.

It would just seem like a waste to throw out the device if one can repurpose it.


texts: Apple Mail is mixing up table entry and mail view (header and body information)

texts:
I have an oldish computer that is running Aplle's Mail program with a large amount of mail coming in (the current number of emails on the computer is in the tens of thousands). Recently it has started to get emails mixed up. When you view all the emails in a table, you will see the summary information (ie, who it was sent from, what the subject is and the time etc) but when you click on the row to show the contents, it will be the wrong email. When I view the inbox from a web browser I do not experience these problems. I have tried rebuilding the mailbox, but although that fixes the problem, it is not long before the incoming mail gets mixed up again.

Has anyone had any experience with this? I guess it is due to the volume of emails and if I set up some sort of archive system it will avoid the problem. But I was just hoping it could work as it is.

Update

I have decided to try and format and reinstall everything again. I will update this with the result (it will take some time).

Version Details:


texts: Photos "People" Function Keeps Merging People

texts:
I was organizing photos on iOS 12.2 and it reported that one of the people in my library had "new photos" it wanted to confirm. One or more of those had that person cheek-to-cheek with another person in my album (let's call them Joe and Jane). I was horrified -- since I have thousands of photos of both Joe and Jane -- to find that as soon as I approved that ill-fated photo, the facial recognition system decided the two people were the same person and merged their entire set of photos.

I tried deleting both Joe and Jane on macOS 10.14.4 and recreating them by manually tagging them in photos where they were by themselves and not together, but no matter what I do, as soon as photoanalysisd kicks into gear when Photos is closed, it merges the two people back together into one entry. I can manually label photos with Joe's name and I'll still come back to find them relabeled as "Jane." I can select all of Joe's photos in Jane's people entry, right click the photos and click "Jane is not in this photo," have Jane's album only contain photos of Jane and within minutes those very same photos will again be labeled as Jane (not just other photos, the ones I've manually corrected Photos on!).

I'm guessing Photos' machine learning database is corrupted, but I'm not really sure how to completely delete data on Joe and Jane (beyond what I did in deleting their entries by selecting all the photos in them and using the "Name is not in this photo" option), but somehow I need to convince Photos to either start from scratch or believe me when I tell it that it is wrong on its labels so it doesn't keep overriding me.


texts: How do I report content errors in an iBook?

texts:
How do I report errors in the content of an iBook that I've purchased? The feedback and problems reporting that I've found seems focused on getting a refund, not on repairing errors in the content.

(Note that the same errors are present in the Kindle editions of the book.)


texts: Why does rotating a TIFF in Preview increase the file size?

texts:
When I use Preview.app to rotate a .TIFF image file 90 degrees, the resulting file is about 10% to 20% larger. All I do is open, rotate, save; there is no exporting or "save as" changes. I've tried this on multiple TIFF files and the behavior is constant.

It's the same file with the same data, so why the size increase?

(2013 rMBP) -- (OS X 10.11.4)


texts: Is it possible to dock a detached Web Inspector in Safari 8?

texts:
I'm running OS X Yosemite. I detached the web inspector and cannot find a way to dock it again. The usual dock/detach button isn't there, and I couldn't find any help elsewhere on the internet.

Does anyone know how to dock the web inspector, please?

Thanks in advance.

Solved: Safari will shows the dock/detach controls when the main browser window is wide enough to display the web inspector. If the controls are not displayed, make the Safari window wider.


texts: El Capitan Mail 9.1: Disable remote content loading for junk mail only

texts: Is there a way to disable the remote content loading only for messages marked as junk? I am aware that I can disable for all messages via Preferences, however I always want to show remote content on non-junk messages.


texts: Sierra trying to update uninstalled software

texts:
I'm using Mac OS Sierra 10.12.2 and recently installed Office 2016. Before that, I had Office 2011, which I uninstalled before installing Office 2016. However, the Managed Software Center is still trying to update Office 2011 and I can't get rid of the update notification that keeps popping up frequently.

Is there a way to eliminate the update notification for an already uninstalled software? I was simply ignoring the message for a while but it started to get very annoying.


texts: By what mechanism does finder insert a space in an app's name?

texts:
I was researching a problem with the Notification Center and noticed that Finder shows the program as Notification Center, yet on disk and in the package receipts and installation media, the file is actually NotificationCenter.app (And the full path to is is /System/Library/CoreServices/NotificationCenter.app)

I understand how Finder drops the .app extension by default, but where does the system know to add the space in this app's name?


texts: Extracting data from old Mac resource files

texts: What utility or tool that runs which under Mac OS X 10.6 can I use to extract data (icon images and strings, etc.) from old Mac OS 7 (and earlier) resource files/resource forks?  (...files created using ResEdit.)


texts: iPhone home screen not showing after erasing network and content settings

texts: I have erased my network and content setting from iPhone 5s. Now my home screen does not show anything. I want my home screen icons and apps back. How can I do that, or how can I reinstall them? I want this screen, kindly help me out.


texts: What is the default working directory of a script run via launchd?

texts:
I'd expected this to be easy to find on Google, but wasn't able to discover anything.

I know that the working directory of a launchd agent/demon can be changed via the workingdirectory key. However, this key is optional. If no working directory is specified, what does macOS use?


texts: Reducing the size of a black-and-white scanned pdf

texts:
I have a 352 page pdf that is a scan of a black-and-white text. The file size is 60.9 MB, which seems excessively large too me. (Is it indeed?)

Is there an easy way to convert this file to a more compressed one?

Edit. Here's a little sample:


texts: How to sync one or two labels only, from Gmail to Mail.app?

texts:
As many are facing the problem of IMAP syncing all the mails of Gmail, I want to know how can one sync specific Gmail labels to Mail.app?

For example, if I have Friends, Family, Company1, Company2, and Bank labels, how can I only synchronize Friends and Family?

Also, It should not apply that setting uniformly to all my syncs.
For example, I want to sync all my mails to my Nexus 5, but only few labels with Mail.app.


texts:
On terminal, I type

ssh root@ipadress

How do I ssh into something if it is not the default port 22, in my case it is 222


texts:
Flash memory and SSD controllers are reported to spend more time running wear-leveling and/or anti-fragmentation garbage collection algorithms when their storage is near full.

People have reported that clearing some free space on their near full SSD storage, and leaving their iMac or MacBook running overnight (to do something like wear-leveling or storage block garbage collection) increased storage speed/bandwidth performance significantly.  Similar things are reported to occur involving UI lag on iOS devices that have almost completely full flash storage.

So, is there a recommended percentage of free space to leave on the SSD on a Mac, or the flash storage on an iOS device, to avoid having these algorithms kick in and possibly affect storage speed or read/write performance.


texts: Can I take a screenshot on one Mac and instantly paste it into a document on another Mac or iPad?

texts:
I’ve recently started using Universal Clipboard across my Macs, iPads and iPhones. So far it works very well and I’m very happy with it.

My one complaint is that my work requires me to take a lot of screenshots for placing into documents. My current workflow involves me taking the screenshot on one Mac and then having to transfer it to another device. At present I use a mixture of file sharing, AirDrop and iMessage for doing this, but it would be so cool if I could just take the screenshot on the Mac and then paste it into a document on another Mac, iPad or iPhone.

Is it possible to take a screenshot on one Mac and paste it into another device using Universal Clipboard?


texts: How can I prevent applications from re-launching at startup?

texts:
Using Mountain Lion (10.8.2) on a MBP (13" mid-2009) I have times when applications launch during startup even though they have been exited before the last shutdown.  This seems to happen on the order of 10% of the time.  These are not applications that have been set to automatically run on login.

When it happens, the restoration includes all the application from some given time...perhaps 30 seconds before shutdown.

If I were guessing, I'd say that the system takes snapshots of what's running and sometimes restores from a stale snapshot but I haven't heard of anything like that.

Any explanations or fixes?


texts: How to disable swipe down for Notification Center in apps on iOS?

texts:
When I’m playing games on my iPhone and I try to do some action on the upper end of the screen I often accidentally open Notification Center, cancelling my action. In Settings I found a Setting to disable the Control Panel in Apps, but I couldn’t find a similar Setting for the Notification Center.

How can I disable Notification Center in Apps in iOS?

I have iPhone 6s with iOS 13.1.3.


texts: Skype notifications disappear while there are unread messages, on iPhone

texts:
I have an iPhone SE with iOS 13.2.2 and latest Skype.

Today I noticed, that notification about new messages in Skype are not shown on the lock screen.

What happened was that I has a chat with a contact, then I locked the phone and put it into my pocket. Then it vibrated once, and again later. I took the phone, turned on the screen and, there were no notifications shown.

I unlocked and there, there were new messages in Skype.

Then after a minute I locked the phone again, but now I held it in my hand, with screen on (but locked). Then after a while the phone vibrated again and a notification for Skype appeared but disappeared again immediately. This happened a few more times, for each incoming Skype message (all from same contact).

Is this some bug? Or setting? It worked fine before, even today.


texts: How do I find out more information about a pending software update?

texts:
On my MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017) with macOS 10.15.4 (19E287), I am shown a software update that I cannot seem to install and that I want to know more about.

How can I find out more information about such a pending software update and eventually install it?

Here is a GIF animation for further context: https://imgur.com/nm6YwY8


texts: How to know whether SSD is permanently implanted on Mac or not?

texts: I've heard that SSDs have a read and write limit.So,if my SSD is implanted on the logic board then I will need to get a new Mac.So how do I know if my SSD is removable via System Report or command line?


texts: Some User Accounts Won't Remember Screen Resolution

texts:
Okay, so I have a system with multiple user accounts setup, and I have two monitors. The first monitor is fine on its native resolution, but the second is too small, so I've been setting a lower resolution to make it more readable.

The problem is that this change is only being remembered by some of my user accounts; the others continue to switch it back to its native resolution.

I'm assuming the problem is with a preferences file somewhere, but I can't seem to find it; the only path I was able to lookup was ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.preference.displays.<UUID>.plist (where UUID is an identifier for your Mac) but that may have been for an older version of OS X, as I can't find such a file on these user accounts.

Is there a different location for this file under newer OS X versions? Or anything else I can try to make the resolution change stick? Currently I have to switch it again every time an affected user account logs in.


texts: How to make 'F' and 'J' left and right ctrl respectively, using Karabiner-Elements?

texts:
So, I appear to be getting RSI in my left hand due to the frequent pressing of the left-control key. I have already remapped caps-lock to left-control, which did help things for a while.

I would like to use the keys under the index fingers for control keys, however I cannot seem to get it working properly. It does work, but often when typing quickly, it often registers consecutive key presses as a ctrl+char. I don't think I understand the timing parameters properly, so they might be suboptimal.

Here is my config:

One of my rules:

{
  "description": "F is left-control if pressed with other keys",
  "manipulators": [
    {
      "from": {
        "key_code": "f",
        "modifiers": {
          "optional": [
            "any"
          ]
        }
      },
      "to": [
        {
          "key_code": "left_control"
        }
      ],
      "to_if_alone": [
        {
          "key_code": "f"
        }
      ],
      "type": "basic"
    }
  ]
},

And my timing configuration:

"parameters": {
  "basic.simultaneous_threshold_milliseconds": 50,
  "basic.to_delayed_action_delay_milliseconds": 500,
  "basic.to_if_alone_timeout_milliseconds": 1000,
  "basic.to_if_held_down_threshold_milliseconds": 300,
  "mouse_motion_to_scroll.speed": 100
},

NB: One additional thing to note is that I actually use a colemak layout so in truth the index fingers are above the T and N keys. I have left that out because I think it may not be relevant (my config above does kind of work), and the question above is probably more relevant to more people.


texts: Use the Airdrop network to access a computer?

texts:
I'm using airdrop to transfer files and stuff to another macbook. Looking at the output of ifconfig, I can see that airdrop creates a VNIC to communicate with the other computer.

Is there a way I can use that connection as a full fledged AdHoc network connection, i.e ping the other computer, use normal file sharing etc.?

Because even though I can use airdrop while being connected to another wifi network (i.e the network card can connect to an adhoc connection as well as an infrastructure connection simultaneously), if I use an adhoc network through the wifi icon in the top bar, I am disconnected from the other wifi connection.


texts: Prevent iOS device from sleeping if plugged to charger

texts:
This is available in Developer options in Android's system Settings. I'm trying to look for an equivalent in iOS. This is great if I want the screen to be always visible for screen updates/notifications. No problem with battery since it is plugged in anyway.

Is there a Jailbreak tweak for this?

This setting applies for both plugged and unplugged. I'm looking for something specific to a plugged device.


texts: Application bundle installation problem on Mavericks!

texts:
I own a Macbook Pro in May, 2011 and got two DVD with it. One for installing OS X and another for Application Install. I'm currently running OS X Mavericks and now I want to install applications that came with my MBP (iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, iWeb etc). The problem is ... I'm unable to install those from my DVD. It says ---

The installer could not install the software.

The installer could not install the software because there was no software found to install.

What can I do now? Suggestions or any help appreciated.


texts:
When I try to restore, I get message:

Could not validate source - Operation not supported

haven't seen anything like this on the web


texts:
I am on Mavericks (1.9.2) and I just noticed a folder called Applications in my home folder, i.e. I have a folder /Users/me/Applications.  This folder is empty:

cd Applications
pwd
/Users/me/Applications
ls -a
./          ../         .localized
cat .localized
[nothing]
cd
ls -lh
drwx------   3 me  staff   102B 19 Apr 21:08 Applications/

I was wondering how did this folder came into being... this is admittedly a purely academic curiosity before I get rid of it.


texts: 5th Gen Airport Extreme Randomly drops connection - but only on some devices

texts:
Here's the situation: I am using a brand new MacBook Pro, and thus far all seems well.
I have a 5th Gen Airport Extreme that has worked well for nearly a decade. (I hadn't realized it was so long, but there you are).
So lately what's been happening is my wife's devices seem to randomly lose connections. She has to have our internet connection function, so clearly this is a REAL problem. She is using a ThinkPad / Windows machine and connecting to a work VPN.
The other device she has is a late model iPad mini, which recently lost a zoom meeting.
I have had no problems with the Internet but she seems to run into a problem about once a month, where she gets randomly kicked off the network and it takes a minute for everything to find it again.
Anyhow, I had a few ideas as to what is wrong, but I need some help even figuring out how to diagnose this. Our ISP is Spectrum, and they said all is well with the modem (an Arris DG167OA I think, that is directly connected to the Airport Extreme)
My ideas:

Distance. The problem is just that she is in the kitchen about 20 feet from the router, through a couple of walls. The thing is, I have worked out there too (on the terrace) and never had a problem yet.

Some weird compatibility issue since the problems seem to come up most often with the Windows machine and recently I was able to get her on the Internet using a local hotspot from my phone (which was set to Wifi)

Something I haven't thought of, related to the age of the router.

What I have done: firmware is version 7.8.1, and I am not getting the "update" notice.
Haven't tried hard reset yet, since we need Internet to work (so I likely need to do it at night or something)
I have an airport express I bought also some years ago (it was originally hooked up to the stereo to play music) and maybe that could help extend the network if that's the problem, but do let me know.
Any ideas welcome . Thanks!
Also: if anyone has suggestions for an Apple Router to buy please tell me; the only ones I saw were $500 and that seems crazy compared to what I spent years back. I need a solution that "just works" -- I am not interested in playing Tech Support Guy as I have a job too, you know?


texts: Repeated verification code popup when I use the app "Music" with WiFi on

texts:
I have an iPhone 6 with iOS 10.3.3 and I am experiencing a strange situation. Whenever I listen to my own music, through the Music app, and the WiFi is on, I have a verification code popup from a remote server.
I am almost sure about the reason: the device is trying - through the Internet connection - to update the mp3 tags (artists, covers, etc...) of my collection. I suspect this because:

The request arrives from Milan (Italy), a city at almost 100 KM from my position and in which Apple servers could reside.
If I turn WiFi off, those requests stop appearing.
If I turn the traffic data on, with the option "Use traffic data to update music tags" (I hope to having translated it almost correctly because I don't have the English language activated), the requests appear again; otherwise, if I uncheck that option, they do not appear.

By the way, it should not happen. The device should update the collection in a silent way, with no two-factor authentication requests from an official server (whenever I close one of them, the next one appears after some seconds). This is quite annoying. Plus, it seems that there's no way to deactivate tags updating when the WiFi is on.

If someone could shed some light it would be great. Thanks.

For clarification:

Translation: Your Apple ID is being used for access to a device near Milan, Lombardy

EDIT: Thinking about that more after posting it, I have the feeling that the server in Milan (which should be an official Apple server that updates data on my device) is not "certified" in a certain way, so the iPhone asks for verifying it in a first place. Don't know if it makes sense, It's my first Apple device and I do not know certain logic very well.


texts: Inserting several pictures into MS Word at once without using Media Browser

texts: In Microsoft Word 2011, we can either "insert picture from file" or "insert from photo (media) browser". For users who do not have pictures stored in iPhoto or Photobooth, we are forced to use "insert picture from file" method, which only allows for one picture to be added at a time.  How can I add more than one picture at a time?


texts: Date/time in terminal correct but one hour off in apps

texts:
I live in Chile and the government has decided to go to winter time later than usual a few months ago. Apple has not provided an update for OS X to reflect this change.

I now fixed the timezones manually by downloading timezone files and using zic to update my mac based on instruction found here
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070128185822710

The good thing is now that if I set the timezone now to Chile/Santiago in the Date & Time preferences to Santiago/Chile that when I issue the date command in the terminal I get the right time.(still summer time). However all the Mac Clock on the panel and also all Mac Apps are one hour off. They show already winter time.

Any idea on how to get the mac apps show the right time?


texts: how to make Mac use latest openssl instead of /System/Library/OpenSSL

texts:
I just (in June 2016) ran the following instructions to update Openssl (in /usr/local/openssl) on my Mac, but when I check the version, it's showing that I'm using a version built in 2015 (the System/Library/OpenSSL version).

Question: what can I do to get my Mac (running El Capitain) to use the latest version I installed?

The commands I ran to use the latest version:

cd /usr/local/src
curl --remote-name https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.2h.tar.gz
Extract the archive and move into the folder.

tar -xzvf openssl-1.0.2h.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.0.2h
Compile and Install
Configure, compile and install into /usr/local/openssl-1.0.2h.

./configure darwin64-x86_64-cc --prefix=/usr/local/openssl-1.0.2h
make depend
make
make install
Create a symbolic link that points /usr/local/openssl to /usr/local/openssl-1.0.2h.

ln -s openssl-1.0.2h /usr/local/openssl

When I run openssl version in the terminal, it shows me this output (the important part is that it was built in July 2015 and is the System/Library/Openssl)

openssl version -a
OpenSSL 0.9.8zg 14 July 2015
built on: Jul 31 2015
platform: darwin64-x86_64-llvm
options:  bn(64,64) md2(int) rc4(ptr,char) des(idx,cisc,16,int) blowfish(idx)
compiler: -arch x86_64 -fmessage-length=0 -pipe -Wno-trigraphs -fpascal-strings -fasm-blocks -O3 -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DL_ENDIAN -DMD32_REG_T=int -DOPENSSL_NO_IDEA -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_THREADS -DZLIB -mmacosx-version-min=10.6
OPENSSLDIR: "/System/Library/OpenSSL"


texts: Find original sales information of MacBook by serial number

texts:
Is there any way to figure out where my MacBook was sold and what the price was, by serial number only?

I know how to get information from Apple based on a serial number, but they did not tell me where it was sold or how much it was sold for.


texts: Why do Chinese EarPods not work with German MacBook Pro?

texts:
I own this MacBook Pro, which was bought in Germany, and I am currently residing in China, where I accidentally switched headphones with a Chinese friend. Both are official Apple EarPods, mine came with my iPhone 5, which I also bought in Germany, and hers came with her iPhone 6, bought in China.

At first I did not notice our headphones had been switched, because they look the same. However, when plugged into my MacBook, the sound was just not right, as if the trebles had been removed from the music, resulting in songs without singers. When I tried with my iPhone and my other friend’s MacBook Air (bought in China), there was no problem whatsoever. I was worried that the headphone jack hardware itself had been damaged, but other headphones worked, so I concluded that both headphone jack as well as EarPods themselves were usable, just not together.

Later I asked the Chinese friend if I could see her EarPods and tested them with my MacBook—again, no problem whatsoever. I then inspected the headphones closely: They sure do look the same, but the insulating plastic rings between the conducting rings at the plug itself are white on my German EarBuds but black on the Chinese ones. This is the only difference I could spot, even though I felt like the Chinese ones just did not fit 100% into the socket, thus resulting in some wrongly connected conductors leading to the strange sound.

So why do the Chinese EarPods not work with my German MacBook even though it is supposed to be the same standard?


texts: Cydia apps gone after install and respring

texts:
I installed Overboard from Cydia and after respring all my Cydia apps are gone!

There is no Cydia section in Settings. I have reinstalled Cydia Substrate and PreferenceLoader, but nothing happened.


texts: How to get data from apps when upgrading to iOS 5 on an iPad 2

texts:
I updated my iPad 2 to iOS 5 using my Windows PC.

I backed up my apps, calendar, mail, photos, etc. using iTunes before the iOS 5 update. However, although I got my apps, I am missing all the data in them! For instance: for iAnnotate PDF I am missing all my annotated files, in Note Taker HD I am missing all my notes, and most importantly in bizXpensTrkr I am missing all my business receipts and data!

Can someone please advise in layman's terms? I am new to Apple and used a PC to update.


texts: Installing El-Capitan on Macbook Air 2008 running 10.5.8

texts:
I have a MacBook Air 2008 running 10.5.8, and I need to install 10.11 on it instead. Since there is no app-store, one of the ways is to find an install CD of 10.6, and then install El-Capitan. I however want to avoid this, as I don't have the install CD.

What I first wanted to do is delete /var/db/.applesetupdone from Single-User mode to redo the setup and make a new administrator's profile. I did this, but the setup got stuck with a spinning beach ball, so I had to force shutdown. Upon doing this, the mac no longer boots at all. I made an attempt on fixing this issue by going to single-user mode again, and executing touch /var/db/.applesetupdone. Then, I ran fsck -fy. This has not fixed the boot issue however.

Returning to the problem of installing El-Capitan, I made a USB removable media (both with recovery disk assistant, and with dd, copying only the recovery hd partition at disk0s3, and leaving the GUID partition map and EFI the same) with El-Capitan recovery to boot to on the old MBA, and "reinstall" El-Capitan. The disk is detectable by EFI, but after entering it, I see a forbidden icon (circle with diagonal line through) for a few moments, and then the mac shuts down.

Is there any possibility that I cannot boot to the Recovery I made because apple setup is marked as not done? How can I update from 10.5.8 to 10.11 with or without using the method with Recovery?

Note that the mac does not contain any data, and methods that cause data to be removed are possible.

I am currently trying to re-remove .applesetupdone, and booting into safe mode


texts: Broken icon in the applications folder in the dock

texts:
I downloaded an application and copied it to the Applications folder.  When I click on the Applications folder in the dock, the icon for this program is broken. It runs fine, and if I create a direct shortcut to the application on the dock, the icon here is fine.

Any ideas why the icon would be broken within the applications folder in the dock?


texts: Tool for using iPad as RealTime "Chalkboard" on MacOS?

texts:
Due to Covid-19 I'm holding my lectures as webinar from my iMac (WebEx, Zoom, ...). Meanwhile my setup works, but there is one thing I miss a lot: Drawing sketches in front of the class while I talk about it.
Now, that I own an iPad + Pencil I'm looking for any Mac app that would allow me to

sketch on the iPad (simple, symbolic stuff, just like scribbles on a white board)
while talking on the conference software
see my drawing in a window on the Mac in (kind of...) real time (I can put on the shared screen of my conference software)

Any ideas?
[Edit: iMac 27“ 2020, iPad Air 4 (2020), Pencil 2)]


texts: Cakebrew says "Error: Calling 'brew search' with no arguments to output formulae is disabled!"

texts:
I am a new macOS user. I just did a fresh install on an A1398 MacBook Pro and upgraded to Big Sur. As I am used to package managers, I decided to investigate Homebrew and Cakebrew to go along with it. I was able to install Homebrew, with no warnings or errors. Then, I installed Cakebrew with the brew command.
Upon launching Cakebrew, the "All Formulae" list reports the following error:

Error: Calling 'brew search' with no arguments to output formulae is disabled! Use 'brew formulae' instead.

The same error occurs if I execute brew search on the command-line.


texts: Change iTerm2 Default profile preset with "defaults write..."

texts:
I want to do this in my dotfiles script.

I managed to download the preset I want using curl and open it, but I don't know how to set it in the default profile:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chriskempson/base16-iterm2/master/base16-ocean.dark.itermcolors > /tmp/base16-ocean.dark.itermcolors
open /tmp/base16-ocean.dark.itermcolors

I tried AppleScript, but I never used it, and it seemed to be too much work for little... I believe it could be a simpler way, using defaults write, for example.

Any ideas?


texts: Open folder from terminal using Forklift

texts:
I'm often opening a folder from the terminal in Finder using open . or open ./thisfolder.

I just switched from Finder to Forklift, set it as default file viewer via defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string com.binarynights.ForkLift-3 but folders still open in Finder.

How can I change that?


texts: Beautiful, outlined font name in Mac OS X

texts:
What is the font called in Mac OS X, like the main navigation bar at the top of this site, or something like the font that shows the date at the top right of Mac OS (It has the sort of white outline)?

EDIT: Never mind.  Problem solved.  I edited the text-shadow: attribute in my CSS so that my text was outlined in white.


texts: iMac goes to sleep because the battery has 0% left

texts:
I've got an iMac 5k (Ultimo 2014) running Mojave. Every few days, it just goes to sleep while I'm using it. Looking at pmset -g log for the sleep reason, I find:
Entering Sleep state due to 'Low Power Sleep': Using AC (Charge:0%) 20 secs
Looks to me like it thinks it was a MacBook and needs to turn off to prevent losing data... What's going on here?
Output of pmset -g:
System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
 standby              1
 Sleep On Power Button 1
 womp                 1
 halfdim              1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 powernap             1
 gpuswitch            2
 autorestart          0
 networkoversleep     0
 disksleep            10
 standbydelayhigh     86400
 sleep                60
 autopoweroffdelay    28800
 hibernatemode        0
 autopoweroff         1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         60 (display sleep prevented by Spotify)
 highstandbythreshold 50
 standbydelaylow      86400


texts: New Tab with ⌘-click in Sierra with sticky keys

texts:
Prior to MacOS 10.12 Sierra, with Sticky Keys enabled, I could type ⌘, have it be "stuck", then click a link in a chrome browser tab and the link would open in a new tab. Now in Sierra, the same behavior opens the link in the same tab, even though the sticky key icon is visible. The only way to get ⌘-click to open in a new tab is to actually hold the key down while clicking (which defeats the purpose of sticky keys).

Is there a way to restore the old behavior?


texts: Preserving an iPhone in factory state for long term

texts:
I have an iPhone 5 that's still running factory installed iOS 6.
I want to preserve it long term for the future; possibly over the next 10 years, or more.
How can I best preserve the iPhone so it will still work in the future?


texts: Why is the Mac OS volume button grayed out while connected to an external device?

texts: At the moment I have my Mac mini connected to my amplifier through HDMI.  The volume button is grayed out so I can only adjust through my amplifier.  The problem is the mini is significantly louder than TV, BluRay etc so I need to constantly adjust the volume when switching between devices.  Is there any way to turn the volume of the mini down when connected to an external device?


texts:
I'm getting this 'grey bar' in my home icon row:

It is the same colour as the 'grey dot' underneath some of the applications in the home icon row that are active.

My question is: What is this grey bar underneath the home icon row?

I'm running Yosemite.


texts:
I have a Macbook pro 4,1 early 2008.

It's a great machine for surfing while the TV is on, but it's starting to act strange.

These screenshots are both of a google sheet -- same one a few minutes apart.

I can see two possibilities:

A:  My GPU is dying, and doesn't work in certain modes.

B:  I've got a bad memory stick.

How do I diagnose which?


texts: MacBook Pro Lion crashes after a progress bar boot

texts:
Basically my MBP started giving me messages (out of nowhere) about how my Memory was too low and that I needed to shut down a few programs before continuing. In the end I was left with only Finder running, so I decided to restart it. When I did, it simply gave me a Progress bar which loaded to about a tenth, before the computer shut down entirely. I have already tried to reset my PRAM/NVRAM, and booted through CMD + S, which in the end gave me the answer:'Invalid Leaf Record Count 12414 instead of 12416' ... I have also tried the /sbin/fsck -fy protocol which did not do anything. Any suggestions please?

Thanks!


texts: If OS X doesn't use the X Server, then what does it use?


texts: How do I switch between multiple channels on the YouTube app for the iPhone?

texts: I have two YT channels under the same g-mail ID and I can't for some reason choose between which channel I want to see open on the app. Everytime I sign in, I'm automatically directed to the channel which is not the default channel and I never use.


texts: Sharing Google Calendar with wife so she can see it on iPhone

texts:
So I have two calendars that I share with my wife. One is normal (which she can see all details for) and the other (my counseling calendar) is for my therapy client schedule. I want her to be able to see when I'm busy but no details, as I put the client's name so I know who I'm going to be counseling at the appointed time. I set the share settings to public but so it wouldn't show details (only free/busy time). And when she logs into her Google calendar on a computer, it shows up correctly, i.e. it only shows the appointments for me as being "busy."

So the main issue is this: I cannot get her iPhone to be able to show my counseling calendar. When she goes to the Google Sync page on her iPhone where you can choose which calendars you want your iPhone to sync with, my counseling calendar will not show up. It will only show up if I give her rights to see details... which is unacceptable because of patient confidentiality, etc.

Has anyone heard of this problem or have any ideas??


texts: Is there a way to force tethered data to go through an iOS VPN, instead of passing through raw to the mobile carrier?

texts:
When tethering a cellular-capable iOS 10 device, the traffic from the remote machine seems to bypass the connect-as-needed VPN and go directly to the cellular network. Local iOS device traffic starts and uses the VPN as usual, but web sites visited from the remote machine see the mobile IP address, not the VPN IP address (regardless of whether the VPN is on at the time of the visit or not).

One purpose of a VPN is to shield traffic from the prying eyes of the (mobile) ISP. Is there a way to force tethered traffic through the VPN (other than by putting the VPN on the remote machine)?


texts: How can I open MTS video files to iPhone's photostream so applications can use them?

texts:
My goal is to have the MTS files in PhotoStream so that all of my iPhone applications such as video collage creator apps can use them. MTS video files are files created by Sony Nex 3N camera that are downloaded to MacOS X and Dropbox.

I am using iMovie 10.0.6 in MacOS X.

How can I open MTS video files in iPhone in a way that video editing apps are able to use them?


texts: How to search for a hidden file in Mac OS?

texts:
I need to find a Wine .exe file (winefile.exe) I just installed, but I don`t know where it is, so, besides showing hidden files, I need to find the specific file.
Thanks for help.


texts: OSX bluetooth private network between 2 macs

texts:
Does anyone know how to create a private network over bluetooth that a couple of macs could use for screen sharing?  Our wifi router doesn't seem to like screen sharing (kicks us off after a few minutes and we need to get a new address - weird). We currently use firewire but would love a wireless solution.  Suggestions?  The docs on google are mostly about connecting to your phone.

Thanks


texts: mid-2009 macbook pro - erased. Now "Mac OS X cannot start up from this disk". (and cannot install to this disk!)

texts:
I have a mid-2009 macbook pro, and the original 10.6.8 installer DVD that it came with.  I booted up in recovery mode, and erased the HD (whether or not that was a good idea). My intention was to get rid of old private files, and then update the OS to something current (hopefully 10.10.4), (so the machine could be used in a public setting), using an internet connection while in recovery mode.  But I found that the install OS option, while in recovery mode, fails with, "Mac OS X cannot start up from this disk".
I am thinking, "Of course it cannot start up from that disk, because there is nothing on it yet!  And how can there be something on it if you will not let me install something!"  Argh.
So then I thought maybe I should have 10.6.8 already running (again) on the laptop before I try to update that OS.  But then I get the same result, "Mac OS X cannot start up from this disk", when I try to install even 10.6.8 from the original installer disk.

Can anyone better at this level of macs shed light on what I need to do?


texts: Connected to wifi successfully, but no internet connection

texts:
I'm a relatively new macOS user. Let me try to describe the problem I'm facing as succinctly as possible

Just this morning, when I'm unable to get any internet connection even though WiFi is connected (full strength). All my other devices has no issues when connected to the same network (it's my home network)

I've logged into the router, and checked, there are no blacklisted IP/MAC addresses.

Additional information

I'm using a tMBP 15" for over a year
I've had no issues with any WiFi connectivity to my home network before today.
ping from terminal doesn't work as well.
I'm able to connect to my phone's hotspot, and get internet from my MBP.
I have bootcamp set up. When I boot into Windows, I'm able to get internet access through my home WiFi

How can I troubleshoot this to get to the root cause of the problem?


texts: About 2 years ago I had a liquid spill on my MacBook Air 2015 model. It shut off back then and completely stopped working. I didn’t want to throw it away so I kept it and I guess it’s been air drying ever since. I randomly decided to plug it in last night and it actually charged and turned on. I was able to log in on it. I messed up when I tried to reset the guest account thinking it would do something different. And now I see this screen with I guess the side of a computer. I’m just trying to reset it to factory settings.


texts: Cant delete Time Machine .inProgress file

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After over a month of not running Time Machine, I tried to run it again, and it was stuck on "Preparing Backup" for ages (more than 10 hours).
A Google search has led me to try trashing the .inProgress file.

Now that file is in the trash, and I cannot empty the trash. It is stuck on "Preparing to empty the Trash..." for ages (again, we're talking hours).
The .inProgress file in question is 290GB, and is the only file in the trash.

Is there a way to force empty the trash in this situation?

I'm running MacOS Sierra (10.12.6) on a mid-2015 MBP. The hard disk I'm backing up is 1TB, of which 746GB are in use.


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For some reason my mac mini refuses to start the screensaver or go to sleep unless I put the mouse into a hot corner. Energy saver is set to 3 mins as is system sleep. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.  i have included a PMSET -G result but  don't really understand it. Many thanks. (Mac Mini, 2.5Ghz intel, 4GB RAM,  10.7.5)

AC Power        -1*
Currently in use:
hibernatemode   0
disksleep   10
womp        1
networkoversleep    0
sleep       5
powerbutton 1
ttyskeepawake   1
hibernatefile   /var/vm/sleepimage
autorestart 0
panicrestart    157680000
displaysleep    3 (imposed by 181)


texts: How to change [option + key] international shortcut in OS X

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If in OSX text input field pressing Option+[  will render “, Option+' will render æ andOption+; will render ….

Can I remap these to render å, ä and ö instead?


texts: Finder is reverting to root of network share for each folder deletion

texts: I have a very odd error happening in one of our Macs.  We have a network share setup (afp), and whenever a user on a certain Mac deletes a folder on this share, the finder window drops all the way back to the root of the network share.  This is very frustrating, as file deletion takes place frequently on this share.  The problem has been replicated, and I have only been able to replicate it with folders, not files.  Also, the issue seems to cause the connection to the share to break occasionally, with a reboot being the only users recourse to reconnect (disconnecting and reconnecting to the share apparently doesn't work, but I have not seen the connection totally break personally).  As a workaround, this user creates a "trash" folder in every folder- dropping all of the files in this folder and then deleting it when they are done.  Any ideas what could be causing this?  We have several other Macs that are also running Osx 10.12.6, and are not experiencing this issue.


texts: TextMate is only showing some bundles, and not highlighting my code anymore

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I use TextMate for all my Python programming, but recently it stopped highlighting my Python code. I have also tried YAML, which isn't highlighted either.

When I click Bundles, I only see the "Blogging", "HTML", "Hyperlink Helper" and "JavaScript" bundles.

I would like to just do a clean reinstall of TextMate, but I'm not sure what I should delete. Overwriting the app with a newly downloaded copy doesn't help. I've also tried deleting the application support directory, but that only contained the 3rd party bundles, so that doesn't change anything.


texts: Will upgranding my MBP to an internal SSD, improve also speed of reading external non SSD HDrives?

texts: So, I'm thinking of upgrading my MBP (13' late 2011) with an internal SSD drive. I'm wondering if the increase in speed of read and write on the SSD internal drive, will increase peroformance and stability while reading data from other external HDD drives. I have a lot of data stored on external drives (iTunes, Photos, Audio sound libraries, ...) and wondering if I can expect significant improve on dealing with that external data on a daily basis. Thank you.


texts: Can I force Mac OS to cache my most frequently used applications?

texts: If I buy a lot of ram for my new iMac (16GB), is there a way to make the system cache my most frequently used applications so the launch time is much faster?


texts: Should I jailbreak my phone or unlock it?

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My sister recently gave me her iPhone 7+ from T-mobile because she has switched phone companies. The only problem is she owes T-mobile for the phone but I doubt she is planning on paying off the phone anytime soon. It's still pretty new and in good condition, and I want to use it. Since she has not paid it off I know T-mobile has probably put some restrictions on it.

Would unlocking it and using a sim from a different company help or would I have to jailbreak it, which is something I don't really want to do?


texts: Can I use a Time Capsule as an all-purpose storage disk?

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I have a MacBook Pro and am thinking of buying a Time Capsule. If I do, will I be able to use it as a backup and storage disk, and as a wireless router? I read somewhere that they can be used only as backup disks (I don't need one that much) and routers. I would also like an external hard disk to keep my photos and old stuff, though.

Additionally, do Time Capsules support connecting over PPPoE?


texts: Can I run two DVI screens from one Thunderbolt 3 port?

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I'm planning on buying the MacBook pro 2016. I can get it with two or four Thunderbolt 3 ports. However, I want to run two DVI screens with it, and I need one port for charging, and some extra I/O ports would be nice.

I've seen the following online:

but these only have one DVI port per Thunderbolt 3 port. Is there any way to power two displays like this from one port?


texts: Connecting an external camera to iPhone XI, then using it for Skype and Zoom using a smart TV as a screen

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My boss asked me this question but I think that's entirely impossible.
He wants to replicate his iphone screen on a Samsung Smart TV, then, using his Skype / Zoom / Teams app in the Iphone, call people and put the iphone on the table and let people see him from an external webcam. connected to the iphone via bluetooth or wifi. What do you think about? Thank you