texts: Internet not connected after sleep wake even though wifi is connected after awake

texts:
OS X EI Captain (version 10.11.5).
This issues is consistent, whenever Mac awakes from sleep, My internet is disconnected. I tried the following options,

Turn off wifi and turn back on.
Restart network service by sudo ifconfig em0 down and up.Basically restarting network services.
Network settings to renew DHCP address, Prioritizing the wifi in service order.


texts: Apple in-store configuration options (for a MacBook Air)

texts: Does someone know if the top 13" MB Air model (the one with 256GB SSD and a 1.8 i5 if I remember correctly) is physically sold (in Apple Stores) also with the RAM upgraded to 8 gigs? Or is only it an on-order option?


texts: Freeze on boot after installing Yosemite

texts:
Sorry for the writing style but I am typing from my smartphone now.

My MacBook pro on Mavericks worked like a charm but crazy as I am I decided to install Yosemite without any backup as I am lacking space on all my drives now.

It took some time to install Yosemite (I was said it was even unresponsive for a while). I started this morning and tonight after work I could use it, it seemed to work fine but after activating Trim Enabler, I have been trying to reboot unsuccessfully. The apple logo displays with a progress bar that stops halfway then the logo is replaced by a barred circle.

In verbose mode it says various messages then "Still waiting for root device" but as I said I could play with Yosemite so it must exist somewhere right? May there be something wrong with the boot table?

I resetted the PRAM, tried the recovery mode and check & repair the disk, and to reinstall the OS (but it cannot retrieve info about my computer => please contact Apple Care WHAT?)

Is there anything I can do from the terminal? I am really stuck cos I do not have a clue what I could do more.

Thanks for helping! :-)


texts: kernel_task on Macbook hogging CPU even after OS upgrades/downgrades; possible Flash malware?

texts:
On a Macbook Air (13-inch, Early 2015) my girlfriend got one of those "upgrade Flash" pop-ups and hit (Continue/Okay/etc?). This may or may not have anything to do with the current problem but ever since, the kernel_task has been hogging the CPU to the point at which the computer is so slow as to be unusable. In Activity Monitor, the % CPU of kernel_task is is a constant 220-450. The CPU load is a constant 75%-90%, although the computer is not getting hot.

Here is what I have done so far. I've reset the SMC and NVRAM/PRAM multiple times. I upgraded to the newest OS, Catalina. I downgraded to the original OS for this laptop, El Capitan. I upgraded and downgraded more than once and each time, the issue remains. The installation of the OSes took forever, as well; been working on this problem for 4 or 5 days now. Oh, and booting in safe mode doesn't help, either. Anyway, two questions:

1) Is it possible for a Flash malware thing to install/configure something in the kernel that remains after re-installing the OS?

2) Any ideas on how to fix this?


texts: Group texting with Android users and iPhone not staying as group

texts:
I have an iPhone 8+ and one of my friend is sending group texts to me and some buddies.
I can see the group discussion, but when I reply, they all receive my text individually, not in the actual group conversation.

2 of my friends are also using an iPhone, and it's working on their end.
What's weird is that I see in the group discussion that my messages are there, but my friends are all saying they are receiving it individually.

I have checked in my Settings > Messages, and "MMS messaging" is checked, and "SMS" too.
I have no idea why it's happening. Any ideas?

Thank you


texts: Apple Store Connect: Access to Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles grayed out

texts:
I want to add one of my friends to our development team in App Store Connect, so he can see/add Certificates and Provisioning Profiles. There is a Access to Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles checkbox under Developer Resources, but it is greyed out.

How do I add my teammate with this permission?


texts:
I have a folder that has several hundreds of thousands of files named like "ABC 123456". I need to add a dash after between the two blocks of text like this "ABC - 123456". Leaving the trailing space.

Automator does not offer a method for counting 4 characters in and inserting an new dash and space.

I have this terminal command and have been tinkering with it.

for file in *.txt
do
  echo mv "$file" **"$file" count 3 "- "**
done

Anyone know of an Applescript or can help with the terminal command that will help me rename the files?


texts: Should I reset my MacBook Pro after a major macOS update?

texts: I've already installed two major updates (Catalina and Big Sur) on my MacBook Pro 2019. Is it advisable to reset (format) my machine for it to work at its best, or would it not make much of a difference?


texts: Can I use Earpods' clicker and volume control in Bootcamp?

texts: Earpods are fully functional in OS X so hardware is compatible. Is there a way to make Bootcamp drivers recognise Earpods?


texts:
Two weeks ago I had my iPhone battery replaced. Before bringing the iPhone to the Apple store I backed up everything on iCloud and reset the phone. After the repair I restored the device and everything works without problems.

The only strange thing is that my iPhone is syncing/restoring since the restore: when attached to Wi-Fi the sync icon is turning and when I leave a known Wi-Fi the phone asks to reactivate Wi-Fi to continue the restore.

Now

everything seems to be restored (all the apps are there, all photos are there and so on)
during two weeks it would have been possible to restore terabytes of data (my phone was on and on on Wi-Fi most of the time)

What is my phone doing? How can I stop the continuous sync?

Update

Looking at the comments and some research online I tried to

disable (and reset) iCloud sync of 1Password
disable Voice Memo syncronization

without effect.

When connected to the Mac iTunes shows:

  Syncing Apps to "Teo's iPhone" (Step 5 of 5)

  Waiting for items to copy


texts: Is is possible that a software issue could be causing spotty USB-C connections on 2017 MacBook Pro?

texts:
I have a 2017 MacBook Pro. It has 2 USB-C ports on the left side and I use an Aukey hub to provide more ports (4 USB, 1 HDMI, 1 USB-C) and always to connect two monitors.

I connect one monitor through the hub with the HDMI port and another directly to the MBP with a USB-C adapter. Sometimes when I connect the hub to the Mac and the 2nd monitor to the Mac, it works as it should with no problem...but more than half the time I have to connect, disconnect, jiggle, jangle, switch ports, reconnect HDMI, etc. and hopefully they will both work. OFTEN, I can only get one monitor to fire up.

Is there any kind of software fix or reset that might solve this issue? Any other thoughts welcome. Thanks.


texts:
I just updated my iPad to the latest verision of the operating system (iPad OS).

It seems that the Pages app is gone... and I can't install it.

AppStore displays a message on the Pages app:

  Pages is only available on macOS.

How to install Pages back on my iPad? I loved the sync with the other devices and everything and now this is a bit frustrating...


texts: iPad Pro iPadOS 14.5, last highlights and notes on Books is lost every time I close Books or shut down

texts: When I close Books app on my iPad Pro iPadOS 14.5, or when I turn off my iPad, the next time I open Books some of my last highlights and notes on the book I was reading the last time are gone. Any ideas on to fix that?


texts: What is the purpose of the process RelayUploader in macOS?

texts: There is a running process called "RelayUploader" on a Mac machine. The user associated with that process is "nobody". What is the purpose of this process? Is it something legit or should this process be a security concern?


texts: Can I connect two external monitors to my Macbook Pro's (non-retina, mid-2012) mini displayport ? I got one mini displayport to dvi converter and dvi-male to 2*dvi female splitter but this setup didn't work. My question is, can I use one display port to connect to two different monitors (both the monitors should be independent and not mirror)


texts: Connecting a 2009 Macbook to a TV with video and sound output

texts:
I would like to connect my late 2009 white Macbook to my TV, with support for video and sound.

I thought I could use the Mini DisplayPort for that purpose, but unfortunately, Apple's website says that:

  These Apple computers supply only video signals over Mini DisplayPort:

  (...)
  MacBook (Late 2009)

I found this product from another question on Stack, but considering the price and the negative comments of that product, I'm wondering if there are cheaper/better solutions?

My TV is a recent Samsung TV with classic ports (USB, HDMI...).


texts: Computer not booting up again after booting up with option key

texts:
So I was attempting to install OSX snow leopard on my Mac mini from OSX sierra by shutting down and then booting up but holding the option key. If this is totally wrong I'm sorry, but I found it as a tutorial on I-can't-remember-where. Upon doing this it came up with what I believe to be the recovery screen. Anyway, I connected successfully to the proper wifi network, and clicked the little arrow under the "Macintosh HD" drive picture. My computer has been displaying the apple logo on a black screen for 2 days and 2 nights constantly running now. Is my computer ruined? What do I need to do to fix it? Can I fix it?

Side note: I did not change my software version. I am still running Sierra (if you can call it running)

Extra side note: I have a currently not corrupted backup of my computer, that I unplugged properly before this happened and I know it is still fully functioning. So even if everything gets deleted that is ok. I just need the thing to function.


texts:
I'm using MacBook Pro 2012 model with macOS Catalina. A few keys (I don't know which ones exactly) key on my built-in keyboard seems to be pressed continuously. I have disabled the internal keyboard using kextunload in Terminal and currently using an external USB Windows keyboard.

Here's the issue:
Every time I restart my system, the built-in keyboard gets enabled automatically (So I have to use kextunload again and again). Also, during startup, I'm unable to start in safe mode or Recovery mode or change startup disk using an external keyboard (I guess this happens as a result of built-in keyboard getting enabled at startup and hence the pressing of some keys on it).

Is there a way to permanently disable the built-in keyboard and make the external keyboard as an only input source?


texts: Update to Apple TV 6.0 has stopped certain movies from being shown from my itunes

texts:
After updating to the latest Apple TV software 6.0 certain seemingly random movies are now no longer available. These are all movies from my iTunes library that I ripped myself.

I can't see why its discriminating one over the other. Are there new rules for what it now shows?

They were all ripped using Handbrake (Apple TV 3 preset, mp4) and always worked before.

Also these missing movies are available to stream to my iPhone 4s and iPad 2.

Really weird, any help is appreciated.


texts: What's the upgrade path of OS X Server? If I bought Lion Server from Mac App Store, am I eligible to upgrade to Mountain Lion Server for free? Or if I'm based on Mountain Lion Server, can I upgrade to Mavericks Server?


texts:
I have installed mysql via brew. First start works, but after reboot, I got the following error:

The server quit without updating PID file (/usr/local/var/mysql/NAME.pid)

I start mysql with

sudo mysql.server restart

If I try to create a pid file on my own via terminal it will created, but after a few seconds it disappear.

sudo touch /usr/local/var/mysql/NAME.pid

Have anyone a idea?


texts: Is there a third-party Finder app that remembers custom column widths in List View?

texts:
My understanding is that it is impossible to change the default width of the List View "Name" column in Finder on a Mac. To be specific, I need to increase this width.

Is there a third-party program that can accomplish this?

If so, please specify if the "Name" column width can be set on a

per-folder basis
system-wide (all folders basis)
or both.

OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.6.


texts: Mount network drive to Mac server on boot

texts:
Is it possible to mount a network drive to my Mac server on boot, without requiring a login?  I have one setup to mount on login via an automator script that I have added to the login items for the user account, which works fine.

The reason is I don't want to have to login to the Mac server, just to mount the network drive.


texts: How to tell if iPhone's SIM port is working even though it's locked?

texts: Is there any way to know if my phone's SIM port is working, even though it's locked to Sprint and I don't have access to a Sprint SIM? I tried using another one but it says "no sim" instead of "no service". Should I go on with the unlocking or there is something else causing it to say "no sim"?


texts: Trouble with Memtest86 4.0a on 15" MacBook Pro

texts:
I have a 15" MacBook Pro late 2011 (MacBookPro8,2) It has a 2.4Ghz Core i7 CPU and 4GB of stock RAM. I'm trying to run Memtest86 4.0a from boot (Memtest86+ does not work.)

After about 5 seconds into the Memtest86 run the system starts OS X. I can't tell if it reboots because I can't see any POST messages but it does that chime thing (I'm a Mac noob.) So I'm assuming it is. That smells like Memtest86 4.0a is borking because it doesn't support the hardware in my MacBook Pro.

Has anyone got Memtest86 4.0a working from boot on this hardware? If not what do you guys use to test RAM without loading OS X?


texts: Why do fields turn black when using Preview to duplicate or print some pdfs?

texts:
I've come across a PDF form, whose editable fields turn black when, after completing the form, I try to:

duplicate
move
print, or
email

the form.

Here's what the form looks like when I download it.

And here's what it looks like when I try to take any of those actions listed above.

Note: I didn't create the PDF, and I don't have (or want) Adobe Acrobat professional on my machine.

Has anyone else seen this before?
(I have a workaround, which I'll share below.)


texts: Using a script to notify when a Personal Storage device was inserted into Mac

texts: I'm new to Macintosh. Is it possible in macOS to create a certain "script" that will notify both the user and the admin whenever a flash drive/personal storage device is connected to the Mac


texts: Is there a way to number list items in reverse order in Pages '09?

texts:
I want to create an ordered list in Pages '09 with decreasing numbers, like:

4. Most Recent Item, 2010.
3. Another Item, 2009.
2. An Old Item, 2008.
1. Oldest Item, 2007.

But it looks like there is no option to do this, but prefix items with numbers manually myself.

Does anyone know how to do this automatically with Pages '09?


texts: Does a usb-c to hdmi cable actually exist?

texts:
So my macbook pro has a usb-c  cable. I want to connect it to my tv using hdmi.
I've come across this product
However, I'm not sure if it's a punk. It's my understanding that I need an intermediate adaptor to connect to it to my tv. Whereas this product claims to directly connect my macbook pro to the TV. Am I missing something?


texts: How can I effectively analyse my macbook's performance issues?

texts:
In recent months my macbook has been steadily running slower.

It's about 2 years old and gets heavy use so my initial suspicions are that maybe the hard drive is starting to get old. I used the disk utility and it said the disk was fine though.

I dont have an especially large amount of applications running at a time, about 4-6 (plus whatever background stuff is going on).

As you can see I am more or less speculating, is there a tried and tested way of diagnosing this stuff before I put in an SSD (can the Apple retail stores do this for me?).

Cheers


texts: Creating a shortcut for Zooming (maximizing) windows that actually works on every app?

texts:
As of MacOS 10.6.6, there's no keyboard shortcut that I know of for zooming (maximizing) the window.
There's ⌘M to minimize, though.
I made a custom shortcut, defined it on the keyboard preferences pane, but as it identifies the menu command by name ("zoom"), it clashes with other commands in some applications, for example this one I'm using right now, Firefox. It briefly highlights the view menu, giving me a hint that the command matched by "zoom" is inside that menu, but in this case, zoom is just a submenu that has the options zoom in and zoom out, but it's obviously not related to zooming the window.
Is there any other way of setting this shortcut to work in such cases?


texts: How can I tag movies for use in iTunes/AppleTV?

texts:
I'm rolling over my AVI's to MP4 for my new AppleTV.
Is there a good program out there for tagging the movies with their appropriate details?

Also, I noticed iTunes will get "Album Artwork" for some movies and not others.
I don't know if that's related though.
I am doing this conversion on a Windows 7 box.


texts: Merge two time machine backups into one folder

texts:
I have two time machine disks from two macs, first disk has Backups.backupdb/mac1 and the second Backups.backupdb/mac2. How can I merge these backups into one? Or in other words, copy Backups.backupdb/mac2 to first disk?

There is a similar question about archaving old backups Consolidate and Archive Old Time Machine Back-ups But I'd like to continue backing up both macs on one disk.

UPD: Another similar question
Migrate a Time Machine backup in terminal But again, the goal is different, I need both backup folders fully suitable for backing up.

UPD2: There is one more similar question Merge Time Machine Backup although it solution with SuperDuper is not really suitable for me because SuperDuper seems to work on disk level, not on file/directory level.


texts:
I have had this problem for about one month with my itunes store. I get a blank white screen. Tried upgrading to latest version (11.0.4 now) but nothing seems to be working.

Here's the screenshot


texts: Lost ability to boot into recovery and bootcamp after resizing partition

texts:
My computer is running High Sierra. I was planning to reclaim the free space in Macintosh HD and allocate it to Bootcamp. As I did this in Disk Utility, computer partition scheme was changed to AFPS and now I can only boot into apple, the multiboot option is gone. I ran the diskutil list command and this is my output.

bash-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         148.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data FreeSpace               42.5 GB    disk0s3
   4:                 Apple_Boot                         134.2 MB   disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                60.1 GB    disk0s5

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +148.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            88.5 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 20.0 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                517.7 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      3.2 GB     disk1s4

bash-3.2#

Additional output from commands:

Macintosh-3:~ xxx$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Password:
fdisk: /dev/disk0: Operation not permitted
Macintosh-3:~ xxx$ sudo -s
bash-3.2# fdisk /dev/disk0
fdisk: /dev/disk0: Operation not permitted
bash-3.2# ls -d /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/Boot /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/Boot
bash-3.2# exit
exit
Macintosh-3:~ xxx$ ls -d /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/Boot /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/Boot
Macintosh-3:~ xxx$

I need help to getting back my multi boot and fix the partition. Thanks a bunch.


texts:
I have MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) and also a third generation Apple TV. Lately, especially after 10.10.3 update for OS X Yosemite, I am having mirroring issues.

I have checked all the links, forums etc on google and still no luck.

The problem is basically, my ipad 2/iphone 5 can successfully mirror to Apple TV, but when I try to mirror my MBP, it only shows black screen with audio..

I cannot control the apple tv settings from my menu bar on MBP either. It does not let me choose whether to extend my desktop or mirror built-in display.

On web, I read forums with similar questions but they are generally left unanswered or did not work for me.

Thanks in advance xxx


texts: iMessages - can one disable 'join/leave' messages in group chats?

texts:
Does anyone know where you can disable the join/leave messages in group chats in iMessages? In low-traffic chats it's utterly annoying to have scrollbacks full of 'xxx joined the chat.'/'yyy left the chat.'

Thanks.


texts: Mac Hard Drive Testing Tools and SMART Analysis

texts:
How good is SMART (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) for really finding and predicting drive problems for regular hard drives and now, for SSDs.

From what I understand, different testing tools on the market report different levels of SMART levels. For example, Disk Utility, Scannerz, and SMARTReporter all seem to report what I would call a catastrophic failure level, meaning they don't report details, just, for lack of better words, "good", "maybe", and "failing" (please forgive my super high-tech terminology. :-) )

Others like smartmontools, TechTool Pro, and I think Drive Genius (not sure on that) can report a lot more detail with a lot of different parameters.

The reason I ask is this. I had a drive in my system and I was preparing to do a clean install on it of Mountain Lion. I have TechTools Pro and thought just for kicks I'd check out the SMART status on it to make sure everything was OK before reformatting the drive and doing the install. It came back and reported nothing wrong. In fact, it looked great.

I went ahead and started doing the install, and about 20 minutes into it the thing starts tapping. If you've ever seen a drummer do one of those rhythms where they're tapping on the drum rim instead the actual drum head, that's about what it sounded like. After maybe about 30 seconds of this the thing starts screeching like crazy. The install terminated. I put an old Snow Leopard install disc into the system and boot off the DVD, and now its saying the drive is unusable and that SMART status has failed.

If I checked this drive with extensive SMART capabilities just about 45 minutes before and it reported no problems, what good is SMART testing? Since I'm considering replacing the drive with an SSD, is SMART any better on that?

Thanks.


texts: Can I upgrade the memory in a MacBook Pro 2019?

texts:
my Mac is a MacBook Pro 2019

I do not have any information about Mac or cp.

I am using R and I am running a heavy model, but I can not get a result because of lack of memory. Is there any way to fix it, like swap memory?

Please help me step by step if it is possible
If it isn't possible let me know


texts:
How to fix this?
I am on High Sierra.
I can't purchase, Help!


texts: Prevent Outlook iPhone app from automatically deleting meeting emails

texts: I'm using Outlook on my iPhone to read my email. When I receive a meeting notice and acknowledge it, Outlook adds it to my calendar then deletes the email. Is there a way to disable Outlook automatically deleting the meeting email?


texts:
I have this problem whenever a group chat is created in Messages with me included. Any time somebody sends a text to the group, it sends it to me directly, but to everybody else it is shown in the group chat.

Because of this I get a bunch of random texts with no context from the people in the group chat. I can text to the group chat just fine, but whenever I receive texts they're not within the group.

How do I troubleshoot/resolve this?


texts: Show all x-axis markers for Numbers' bar graphs

texts:
With Numbers' bar graph, I'd like to show all x-axis markers of my table, or at least selected few with all the columns present.

but only a few is displayed when there are many. The only way to show more is to drag to enlarge the chart, but this makes the chart unreadable if I attach it in a post.

How to I achieve what I want without resizing the graph or cut down my data columns?


texts: Rename when copying from case-sensitive to case-insensitive

texts:
I have a netatalk AFP share on a case-sensitive Linux system, which contains two files whose names differ only in case, test/a.txt and test/A.txt. Copying the folder containing these files in Finder to my case-insensitive drive only gives an error

  The operation can’t be completed because an item with the name “A.txt”
  already exists.

Is there a way to have Finder automatically rename the conflicting files?
Or is there maybe a built-in command line tool with such an option?

I could do it manually in a shell script like below, but I'm sure there must be an easier way on a system that supports both case styles.

find $1 -type f -print | while read s ; do
    t="$2/$s"
    while [ -e $t ] ; do t="$t.dup" ; done
    cp -v "$s" "$t"
done


texts: How do I create a minimal chroot jail in macOS?

texts: I am trying to figure out the minimal things I need to do to create a chroot jail in macOS. I have seen a few scripts online (https://github.com/skissane/mkjail, https://github.com/jsarenik/Mac-Hroot), but I am not sure what parts are necessary vs. what parts are required for it to work.


texts: How can I reset the camera roll to photo IMG_0001.jpg on iOS?

texts:
I just restored an iPhone 5 backup to an iPod touch both on iOS 6.1.3 (10B329) to rapidly load every app and setting, yet I'd really like the camera roll to start over with 0001.

I've gone in and deleted all the photos that restored onto the iPad using Image Capture, but the counter is stored on the device in a manner I can't figure out how to access

Is there a way to clear this counter and get the next photo I take to be IMG_0001.jpg without needing to erase all content and settings and start without restoring the backup?


texts:
This summer, I will be having meetings with my Ph.D. advisor, and since he's traveling, we'll be meeting via Skype or FaceTime. Since we are working on mathematics, we need a way to see each other's writing, so we can quickly suggest ideas to each other and talk about them.

He will be using a MacBook Pro 2017 and I'll be using my iMac 2018 or MacBook Pro 2017.
I have an iPad pro with Apple Pencil; I'm not sure if he does. I mention this because it may be a solution that we have separate writing apps open on our iPads even as we FaceTime. In case he doesn't have an iPad already, he will of course need to get some device that has the ability to receive handwriting.

What is the best solution? Including what gear he'd need to have.

This would also be a great question for online tutoring.


texts: Mac Book Air mid-2012 completely disappeared disk

texts:
I've tried to wake up my Mac Book Air from sleep today, but I got a black screen.

After waiting 10 min, I decided to shut it off by holding the power button a few sec.

After restarting, I had a question mark folder flashing. So I searched and found topics like this one : Can't boot Mac, only shows a Folder with a Question Mark?

It appears that my hard drive won't show up at all.

That is to say, if I chose the most brutal solution, i.e. reinstalling Mac OS, I can't find any disk where to install it!

It's as if my hard drive had completely disappeard!!

I've tried to boot on a linux live USB drive, but I got the same problem, it doesn't find any hard drive on my Mac Book Air.

Is there anything else I can do?

I understand my hard drive could crash badly but c'mon, I can't even find it anymore!


texts:
With the release of iOS7 and new OSX people will use iTunes Radio more and more. I've been using it for a while now and would love to be able to scrobble my songs in Last.fm.

I've done some research and found this software:
http://www.easyclasspage.de/lastfm/seite-19.html

However, it crashes and doesn't seem to work for me.

Are any alternative options to scrobble iTunes Radio available out there?


texts: Running 10.8.2 on MacBook Pro, sometime after upgrading to Mountain Lion 10.8.1 I started getting the message box that passwords, etc. could not be saved to keychain.  I did the usual (repair permissions, repair keychain).  It would make a new login keychain which is usually fine until I reboot my system (but not always) and then the login keychain disappears again.  Any suggestions?


texts: Can I bind a Launchpad shortcut on my [PC] mouse?

texts: I have created a shortcut for Launchpad using the keyboard, but cannot figure out how to make one for the 4th button on my mouse. This would eliminate the need for even using the dock...for the most part.


texts: MacBook screen does not work when using OS X but works with Boot Camp

texts:
A while ago I had some liquid spilled on my 2009 MacBook. After that accident the internal screen is not working under OS X but works perfectly fine when using Windows under Boot Camp on the same MacBook. When an external monitor is connected it also works, even under OS X.

Obviously this is a very puzzling issue since the screen works fine only under Boot Camp.
I recently upgraded to Mavericks hoping that that might help with fixing the problem but unfortunately nothing has changed under the new OS X.

Has anyone come across an issue like that before and can offer any advice?


texts: How can I determine the maximum supported resolution on a given Macbook?

texts:
I recall that Macbooks produced in 2009-2011 supported a maximum external resolution (through Thunderbolt or DVI) of 2560x1600.

An aspect ratio of 16:10 is much more useful for those who use their Macbooks mostly for work, rather than entertainment. The aspect ratio of 16:9 is more suitable for entertainment.

Yet Macbooks produced starting in 2012, and before supporting 4K external resolution, appear to provide only 2560x1440 (which is 16:9).

It's really a pity, because this may be one factor why it's impossible to find 2560x1600 monitors in the 24" and 27" variety. To get 16:10 one must move all the way to the cumbersome 30", and then the DPI is hardly impressive.

But before buying any monitor for a "legacy" Macbook, it's nice to know for sure.

How do I determine the maximum external resolution supported on a given Macbook? Is this available in System Information...? I see the type of graphics card there, but not the resolution. Under Thunderbolt I see the speed (10GB/s x2), but not the resolution.


texts: I lost my iphone5 a few minutes ago. I have activated my FindmyIphone. But since the phone is off it is not being traced. Also I have a 4 digit passcode installed to unlock the phone. Is it possible that the phone can be misused in this case. Also what is the likelihood of finding it through FindmyIphone and IMEI registration, I have registered on both.


texts: How do I change the speed in my timelapse intervals?

texts:
I've looked everywhere online for this answer, but I could only find a 503k words blog on what a time-lapse is on Google.

I want to be able to slow certain parts of a time lapse down to regular recording speed, post or during the filming.

I've tried with Splice, but since a timelapse itself is just a load of photos, it just shows me the photos one by one.

Does anybody have a soloution?


texts:
There is a command to erase a file without send it to the trash?

I am pretty sure that i don't need some files anymore.
I want to clean my storage. Do I need to send those files to the trash?


texts: Does using pangu to jailbreak an iOS device delete your currently-installed apps?

texts: If I jailbreak my iOS device with pangu will it delete all my installed apps? How much available space should I have on my iOS device before attempting to jailbreak it with pangu?


texts: How to choose which FaceTime number to call

texts: I have a friend with two iPhones, two different numbers.  When I call her with FaceTime audio, only phone A rings.  How can I call phone B?  The phones have two separate Apple ID addresses, but they are both set to receive Facetime calls on their 10 digit phone numbers.  I have both numbers listed in my contacts as 'Home' and 'Work' for the same person.


texts:
Can -onlyin contain wildcards?

mdfind pattern -onlyin '*bin'

I know this works:

mdfind pattern | grep bin


texts: My headphone jack and speakers sopped working

texts: My headphone jack and my speakers are not working at all. They just randomly stopped when my macbook air was closed. Is there any system preferences that i need to change?


texts: Autoupdate the desktop background from an online photo webcam

texts: I would like to set my desktop background to a webcam picture that updates several times an hour, for instance to this view of Tegernsee. I am looking for a way to automatically get that picture every couple of minutes from the internet and update the desktop background. How can I do that (I would prefer a bash or applescript solution)?


texts:
I need to connect two displays to my MacBook Pro, and I read a recommendation to use external video cards to accomplish this. How can I do this? Do I just buy a video card and some kind of case which can connect to Thunderbolt? I'd really like to use Thunderbolt as it's so much faster than USB2.0.

Since I'm getting a 17" MacBook Pro, I'm also getting an expresscard port. Will I be able to do something with this? Cheap is the price I'm looking for. :)


texts: Make Activity Monitor show more than 4 cores worth of CPU usage in the Dock

texts:
Is it possible to force more than 4 cores in the Dock, this looks like a feature apple does not want after checking out Mac OS X: Activity Monitor shows one CPU Usage graph on systems with more than four cores

On Macs with more than four cores, a single graph showing aggregate usage of all the CPU cores is shown in the main Activity Monitor window, in the CPU History window, and on the Dock icon when configured to show CPU Usage or CPU History.

If I want to use Activity Monitor is my only option:

To see the CPU usage for each core individually on systems with more than four cores, use the CPU Usage window or Floating CPU Window. These windows can be viewed by selecting them from Activity Monitor's Window menu.
Note: The CPU Usage window cannot be displayed if CPU Usage is being shown on the Dock. To stop showing CPU Usage on the Dock, choose View > Dock Icon, then select any choice besides "CPU Usage", such as "Application Icon".

Is there any way around this? With aggregated CPU view it could be harder to detect when a process is hanging or hogging a CPU thread.
Here is how my CPU history is displayed in the Dock:

Here is how My CPU usage is displayed in the Dock:

Here are my other windowed / Floating options that I have available in Activity Monitor:


texts: Is it possible to decrease the size of the “activation area” for a hidden Dock in Big Sur?

texts:
Before Big Sur, a hidden Dock (at the bottom of the screen) would be unhidden only if the mouse pointer was moved to the very bottom of the screen — you literally had to slam the mouse into that last row of pixels.
In Big Sur, there’s a wide “activation area”. The Dock unhides when the mouse pointer’s tail has only just disappeared off the bottom of the screen.
I spend a lot of time in JetBrains IDEs, which have a number of important controls in the status bar at the bottom. Working on Big Sur, the constant unwanted activation of the Dock has become a major irritation. My options are to work in a smaller window, giving up some screen real estate (but then why hide the Dock in the first place?) or to work in full screen mode (but I often need other applications open).
There are many lists of hidden Dock preferences available online, so I’m hoping that the width of this activation script might be configurable and not entirely hard-coded.
Edit: Using Apple's "Pixie" app from the "Additional Tools for Xcode" package, I've established that the Dock activates as soon as the point of the mouse cursor is in the bottom 20 rows of pixels.


texts: Where to find the build number INSIDE an install DVD of Mac OS X

texts: It's not written on the DVD itself and I don't have the DVD sleeve anymore.


texts: Microsoft Excel not working on macOS Catalina

texts:
I have Microsoft Excel 2011 installed on my MacBook Air. It worked on Mojave’s but no longer works on Catalina.

When attempting to open an Excel file on my desktop it usually opens but now archives it instead.

Why is this?


texts: applescript- script works when used in Script Editor but does nothing when saved as standalone app

texts:
Don't judge, my first code lol. How do I fix the stated issue and suggestions for improvement would be great. I just tried making something to pause music when I started a video and start playing again when I pause or close it.

set str to ""
set playing to "playing"
set paused to "paused"
delay 1.1
tell application "iTunes"
    set playerstate to (get player state) as text
end tell
tell application "Google Chrome"
    get (count every tab of every window) as number
    set ntabs to result
end tell
repeat until (ntabs = 0)
    tell application "iTunes"
        set playerstate to (get player state) as text
    end tell
    if playerstate is playing then
        tell application "Google Chrome"
            if title of front window contains str then set noisy to true
            if not (title of front window contains str) then set noisy to false
        end tell
        if noisy = true then
            tell application "iTunes" to pause
            repeat until (noisy = false)
                tell application "Google Chrome"
                    if not (title of front window contains str) then set noisy to false
                end tell
            end repeat
            tell application "iTunes" to play
        end if
    end if
    tell application "Google Chrome"
        get (count every tab of every window) as number
        set ntabs to result
    end tell
end repeat
quit application "MusicPause"


texts:
I've had my MacBook Air for about six months. Now all the browsers are extremely sluggish — sometimes taking minutes to load a web page that would have used to take under one second to load back when everything was new.

Questions

What's causing the sluggish browser response? (Most likely.)
What is a stepwise procedure to troubleshoot and/or fix it?

Configuration Details

O/S: OS X Yosemite 10.10.5
Memory: 4 GB @ 1600MHz DDR
Browsers: Safari, Chrome


texts: How do I click a button using AppleScript?

texts:
I'm trying to press a button in TeamSpeak using applescript, here is my code:

tell application "TeamSpeak 3 Client" to activate
tell application "System Events"
    tell process "TeamSpeak 3"
        click menu item "Connect" of menu "Connections" of menu bar 1
        delay 2
        click button "Connect"
    end tell
end tell

and here is an image of me hovering over the button in accessibility inspector

All I want to be able to do is figure out how to push my button using the information given to me in Accessibility Inspector, but with my code I get the error "System Events got an error: Can’t get button "Connect" of process "TeamSpeak 3"." Here is a screenshot of the window the button is directly inside:


texts: Operation not permitted "sudo ditto -v to folder /usr/bin"

texts:
I'm trying to copy an exec file from my downloads folder to /usr/bin/ using sudo ditto -v sweep /usr/bin/sweep, but the command always fails in Terminal. I even tried to manually drag and drop it but the folder only has permissions for the system account. Is there a way I can change my command to allow permissions to this folder so that I can copy the file?.

I'm using OS X 10.11.1


texts: Getting a file from my non-syncing Mac to my iPad?

texts:
My professor posted a reading assignment via PDF, and my iPad isn't rendering the website he set up so I can't download the PDF to iBooks.

I have my MacBook with me, but it's not the main computer to which I sync all my devices (which is my mini at home). I can email the file to myself, but that would only work for files below 20mb, which if I need to read a whole book, would be too much to email.

Is there another way to get the file to my iPad for reading without having to go all the way home to sync my iPad to my mini?


texts: Quick and reliable solution for accessing Outlook 2011 .olm files on Windows Outlook

texts:
As I am currently using Outlook 2013 for Windows 8 and I have some crucial mails to access, which are in the form of Outlook für Mac-Archiv.olm and Harrison.olm in My Pen drive, I just carried out these mails from office PC and currently I am on holidays for 2 weeks, so please, its request for a reliable solution as soon as possible.

I will be extremely appreciated your assistance.


texts: I would like to decode shared secret of OS X native Cisco IPSec profile. Then try to decode it. I tried to look in /private/etc with hope that there is CiscoSystemsVPNClient folder, but no luck... Where is it located?


texts: Keyboard shows on iPhone 4 on lock screen and home screen

texts: I just upgraded to iOS 7.1. Now there is a permanent keyboard on the lower half of my screen in locked mode and on home screen. How do you get rid of it?


texts:
I have a desktop (Mac Pro 5,1) and a laptop computer (MBA 4,2). Both are running 10.10.1. I have an iPad3 and an iPhone 6.

Maybe there is a new method in iTunes, but I cannot see either device on either computer.

Anyone know what's going on? Let me know if I should provide more info. All my software is up to date.

Thanks


texts: How to disagree to iTunes privacy policy?

texts: I accidentally pressed that I agree to iTunes tos when I opened the app on Mac os Sierra. The fact is I don't agree to the tos. How can I get the dialog option back? I don't plan to use iTunes.


texts: What could happen if I upgrade an iPod to iOS 5 and what is the likelihood it will happen?

texts:
I've been nagged to update an iPod to iOS 5 for weeks now. Since it's not mine, I want to be as careful as I can. I'll follow the procedure exactly as Apple recommends, and the device has never been jailbroken. For all intents and purposes, a normal iPod.

However, I'd like to inform this person of all the possible risks that this could have. Since I've never done this upgrade before, I have no idea how it'll go.

So, my question to you: What could happen and what is the likelihood that it will?

(I don't need impossible-to-find statistics, though they might be helpful; I'd just like something like 'Oh yeah, I updated 150 devices and 3 were xyz')

BTW, this is the second-latest iPod and it currently has iOS 4.latest.


texts: FFMpeg access AVFoundation usb subdevice camera on OSX Mojave

texts:
I Have a dual USB camera for VR: two cameras, one usb connection. On linux, this appears in /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 and I can capture using ffmpeg -i /dev/video0

On Mojave, I can see both devices in the USB hub:

USB 2.0 Hub:

Product ID: 0x0101
Vendor ID:  0x1a40  (TERMINUS TECHNOLOGY INC.)
Version:    1.11
Speed:  Up to 480Mb/sec
Location ID:    0x14200000 / 8
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA):  100
Extra Operating Current (mA):   0

    Stereo Vision 2:

    Product ID: 0x9901
    Vendor ID:  0x0ac8  (Z-Star Microelectronics Corporation)
    Version:    27.02
    Serial Number:  SN0099
    Speed:  Up to 480Mb/sec
    Manufacturer:   SHENZHEN RERVISION TECHNOLOGY
    Location ID:    0x14220000 / 10
    Current Available (mA): 500
    Current Required (mA):  500
    Extra Operating Current (mA):   0

    Stereo Vision 2:

    Product ID: 0x9902
    Vendor ID:  0x0ac8  (Z-Star Microelectronics Corporation)
    Version:    27.02
    Serial Number:  SN0100
    Speed:  Up to 480Mb/sec
    Manufacturer:   SHENZHEN RERVISION TECHNOLOGY
    Location ID:    0x14210000 / 9
    Current Available (mA): 500
    Current Required (mA):  500
    Extra Operating Current (mA):   0

But when I list devices, I can see only one [0]:

ffmpeg -f avfoundation -list_devices true -i ""
    [AVFoundation input device @ 0x7fae5b501a80] AVFoundation video devices:
    [AVFoundation input device @ 0x7fae5b501a80] [0] Stereo Vision 2
    [AVFoundation input device @ 0x7fae5b501a80] [1] FaceTime HD Camera
    [AVFoundation input device @ 0x7fae5b501a80] [2] Capture screen 0

capturing from this device captures from one of the cameras.

How can I get ffmpeg to detect the second usb device as well?


texts: Are there any hand held devices, PDA , phones or pads that have a screen refresh rate of 120Hz.


texts: What can cause the volume keys to not work but show the prohibitory sign instead of changing volume?

texts:
When i try to reduce my mac book volume it suddenly shows that this isn't possible, even the icon in the menu bar is (grey inactive)

This happens sometimes since i installed lion os


texts: How to get 4 external monitors to work a macbook pro (late 2013)?

texts:
I'm wondering whether or not having 4 external monitors on a Macbook Pro is possible? I know that Apple states that the limit is 2. But as seen on The Verge and Cnet it's possible to go further. On both links I see that the Macbook Pro is also displaying it's own screen.

So my question is, if that were to be turned off (lid shut), would I be able to drive another monitor? (In total, four 27" 1920x1080 monitors)


texts: iPhone 5 unable to connect to operating server/system

texts:
Translation: "couldn't operate the iPhone, because cannot connect to the operating server/system.
try to connect the iPhone to iTunes to turn it on again, or try again in a few minutes."
I tried everything. Even Apple support didn't know what to do. I don't understand what the problem is.
I've put it on DFU mod and then did update and restore again, but I got the same thing.


texts: iPhone 4s Wi-Fi hotspot app through Wi-Fi, not 3G

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Can I use my iPhone as a hotspot on Wifi (instead of 3G)?

I have an iPhone 4s that I want to turn into a Wi-Fi hotspot. I don't want to use the 3G connection to do this. I want to use the Wi-Fi coming into the phone as the source. How can I do this without jailbreaking? Anyone know of an app. It can be free or paid.


texts:
I installed Windows 10 with Boot Camp Assistant, but when I press the option key on boot, it shows only the Macintosh HD partition. Why is that happening? Is the BOOTCAMP partition not bootable?

Note: I also had a big problem on the past that I solved. I partitioned the SSD 6 times and I lost my OS X partition and Windows partition. Someone helped me and I made the disk single-partition again and found all my files.

BOOTCAMP partition looks like this:


texts: Mac wakes on scheduled power event that recreates itself every day

texts:
At 2:14 every morning, my Mac wakes. Looking at the logs, I see it's a scheduled event, but nothing shows up in System Preferences > Power. When I go to terminal, and run pmset -g sched, I see

Scheduled power events:
[0]  wake at 03/31/13 02:14:00

Only one, for the next event. I can delete it through pmset, and it won't wake that night (morning). The next day, there's a new event. So for instance, after that one went, now I see

Scheduled power events:
 [0]  wake at 04/01/13 02:14:00

I've locked the Power Management preferences, I've even set the com.apple.AutoWake.plist file to remove all write access through chmod, and the next day... a new entry appears.

Taking Lauri's suggestion, I ran opensnoop on the Autowake.plist, and at 2:15, this happened, inserting that power event:

2013 Apr  4 02:15:00     0     20 powerd         4 /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.AutoWake.plist
2013 Apr  4 02:15:00     0     20 powerd         5 /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.AutoWake.plist
2013 Apr  4 02:15:00    89  15241 mdworker       4 /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.AutoWake.plist

I didn't see anything in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ or /Library/LaunchAgents/ that seemed relevant. Execsnoop returned

2013 Apr  4 02:15:00    89  15241  14058 mdworker
2013 Apr  5 02:15:00    89  24165  19851 mdworker

What the heck is going on, and how do I stop this from happening? Or what's the next step to troubleshoot this? Thanks.

Vitals: it's a Mac Mini, 10.8.3, but it's done this for ages (including when migrated from a previous Mac Mini via Time Machine).


texts: Is Security Update 2020-002 still available?

texts:
I downloaded Security Update 2020-002 a couple of days ago using softwareupdate -d -a from a terminal window.  Today I tried to install it but nothing happened.

$ softwareupdate -i -a --verbose
Software Update Tool

Finding available software
$

It does not show up in the softwareupdate history

$ softwareupdate --history | head
Display Name                                       Version    Date
------------                                       -------    ----
Safari                                             13.1       2020-04-05, 10:26:52
Security Update 2020-001                           10.13.6    2020-03-08, 22:14:32
Safari                                             13.0.5     2020-03-08, 22:14:32

Similarly, no pending updates are shown in the App Store:

The Safari update that I downloaded along with this security update did successfully install in the App Store, without appearing to require any download time.

I'm running 10.13.6.

Has Security Update 2020-002 been disabled or cancelled?  I searched but didn't find anything indicating that it has been.  It still appears in the list of available updates, for example.


texts:
Office 2019 for Mac - Smiley feedback icon overlapped by Search field!!!

Affecting all Office applications with such smile face icon in the top-right corner of the Quick Access Toolbar: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoin and Word.

Screen captures showing the issue:

Word 2019 Mac - Smile (Smiley) feedback icon SHOWING-OK on top-right corner:

Word 2019 Mac - Smile (Smiley) feedback icon MISSING-OVERLAPPED by SEARCH BOX on top-right corner:

How to fix it? Where does the Quick Access Toolbar of Office 2019 for Mac live in the disk? I mean, in which file? I ask because this issue has arisen on one Mac but not in others, so I could replace such contents or use a backup copy before the issue arose.

Office 16.28.0 (19081202) on macOS 10.12.6 (16G2128) Sierra, albeit the issue arose with the previous Office version 16.27.0 (19071500) or before.


texts: How can I repair a hard drive that Disk Utility and Disk Warrior can't fix?

texts:
I have a Mac Pro running Mac OS X Lion, and one of my hard drives has acted weird since attempting to repair permissions. I used Disk Warrior, but it says the HD can't be rebuilt. When I try to format it with Disk Utility, it takes forever to unmount.
I'm wondering if there is a surefire way to format the HD with another program or through the command line.

The HD is 2TB, and the SMART status is verified, so I doubt it is a physical issue.


texts: Setting and using a "language" property of an audio file in iTunes?

texts:
I'm a linguaphile, and I have lots of audio files in different languages in iTunes.  I would like the ability to tag a file with the language code, and to see and/or sort by that tag.

I have no use for Grouping or BPM, so I could use one of those.  But it would be nice to be able to set it in the Get Info window, and to actually see the word "language" in the column headings.

Is there a way to add a column to the list of available columns?

Is there a way to add a column not shown, or an ID3 tag not shown, to the Get Info window?

Any search method I can think of is just going to give me a zillion pages about the user-interface language.  If I change the user interface to Canadian English, and add a localization for grouping → language, will that break anything?


texts: iPhone 3G - Uninstall the jailbreak from within the phone

texts:
When I used to connect my iPhone 3G with the computer (via a non-original USB cable), it used to work and iTunes could read the phone. I decided to revamp the phone and jailbreak it since it was on stock OS (iOS 4.2.1), so I send it to someone to do the work.

The phone came with Cydia installed (with a couple of games), however, since then, my computer cannot read the iPhone at all, even as a hardwared connected to the USB port.

My guess is that the jailbroken iOS caused the problem. So, by uninstalling the jailbreak, I may get it to connect. Currently, the phone is completely paralyzed even with a Wi-Fi network and Cydia. I have tried (after some research) operating on the phone on both Recovery and DFU mode with no luck.

Any suggestions to help uninstall the jailbreak or repair the phone are welcomed.


texts:
I recently bought a used ipad air 2 from ebay. But when i tried to do the initial setup i an taken to a configuration page that is essentially a mobile device management setup which essentially says the ipad is remotely configured by someone else. Then when i try to proceed with the configuration its asks for a username and password. which has not been given to me. do u guys know how i can remove this?

I am perfectly fine with jailbreaking the etc.


texts: Is there any way to auto-close Safari's download window upon download completion?

texts: This is the only thing that bothers me with Safari, but it's a big deal. I've looked everywhere but can't seem to find any good suggestions. Is there any way to enable the Safari downloads window to automatically close when a download completes?


texts: All iPhone 4s pics not showing on Windows 7 PC

texts:
I have an Iphone 4s and a Windows 7 PC.
When I plug in my phone it is recognized, but when I open the pictures folder (DCIM) there are only 2 folders showing.
One shows about 30 pictures, 1 video, the other shows about 70 pictures, 3videos. I have just over 1500 pictures on my actual phone, I'm looking to back them up onto the PC but why are they not all showing?
I've tried unlocking the phone first.
Please help!
Thank you.


texts: Option + Command + Spacebar opens Searching this mac window instead of Finder

texts: A normal Finder window used to open when I pressed Option + Command + Spacebar but not its a Search window. I know this happened once and I found how to fix it but I can't find it anymore.


texts: iMac Pro microphone doesn't work and camera is not detected

texts:
I have an iMac Pro. No camera shows in the system report under Camera, just under USB. My microphone is also not working. I tried resetting the NVRAM but it didn't solve the problem.

What should I do to fix it?


texts:
I recently purchased this 2k monitor on Amazon. I'm connecting my 2015 Macbook Pro 15 inch w/ retina display using a DisplayPort Mini to DisplayPort cable. I'm currently running Mac OS Mojave. These are the resolutions I can use apaprently:

1440p looks really nice, but everything is so tiny. I can zoom in on some apps, but not all of them; system fonts can't be changed at all.
1080p is a more comfortable scale but then things start to look blurry.
Is there no way to reach a happy medium? Do I just need to pick whether to sacrifice readability or aesthetic? I feel like Windows and linux have a way of setting the scale of things independent of the resolution, does such a thing exist for Mac?
UPDATE: I tried out TinkerTool and it only scales some things, not all of them. For example, the menu bar at the top of the screen remains the same size. Also graphical things like the traffic light buttons are unaffected. So overall it didn't really help
UPDATE 2: When I use my laptop by itself I see something like this:

All the options look great on the Mac screen, but the options for the monitor aren't as nice looking...


texts:
Is there a way to view a list of all events on a particular calendar, in Calendar.app?

For some reason, I was sure there was a way to do this, but for the life of me I can't seem to find it today.


texts: How can I still use keyboard buttons for sound while in iPhoto?

texts:
When I'm using iPhoto, the hard audio buttons on the keyboard (previous, pause, next) no longer apply to iTunes. Suddenly, they do things in iPhoto instead. Things like play and pause slideshows, start slideshows, work like arrow buttons, etc.

I dislike this.

Is there any way to keep the hard audio buttons being used for iTunes while I'm in iPhoto?

I'm using iPhoto 9.6.1 on Yosemite 10.10.1.

For various compatibility reasons, I'm unable to upgrade to El Capitan or the new Photos app. (I don't know if that would help me, but anyway.)


texts:
I had this iPhone for one year but this is the first time I noticed this issue.
These are my specs: iPhone 5S 32GB - iOS 8.4 - ME435CS/A.

This is a photo made w/out flash:

This is a screenshot from a video:

Is this even a bug or I'm missing something?


texts: Why do different resolutions with same aspect ratio distort the image on external display?

texts: I attach my MBP (OS X 10.10.4) via VGA to my tv and the aspect ratio is correct when setting an 1360x786 resolution, which is a 1.77 aspect ratio. But when trying to increase the resolution to 1690x944, also 1.77 aspect ratio, the image is distorted. Now I wonder how that can be the case given the ratio between height and width is identical.


texts: Why can't I hear my alert sounds or ringer?

texts:
For some reason, the sounds for ringers, and alerts/notifications on my mother's iPhone appear to not be playing anymore.  Even though the ringer volume in settings is turned up almost to the max, the phone still only vibrates when receiving a call.  And when the phone is placed onto it's charging dock, instead of BEEP ing like it normally does, it simply vibrates.

Interestingly, when I fiddle with the ringer volume slider in settings, the test ringtone plays just fine, and music audio can also be played through the built in speaker.

What's going on?


texts: Why do I see “Music Videos” and “TV & Movies” as library options in the Apple Music app in macOS Catalina?

texts:
I find this to be weird: I understand that Apple obsoleted and discontinued iTunes in macOS Catalina and the logic being having one app manage everything — music, apps, videos, podcasts, books and such — was getting to be a confusing thing.

Which is why I found it odd to discover that in the Apple Music app — which is supposed to be just about music — there are library menu options for “Music Videos” as well as “TV & Movies.” Screenshot below:

Checking in the Apple TV equivalent, there are some other hidden items — such as “Rentals” and “Home Videos” — but those don’t seem out of place:

So what the heck are those “Music Videos” and “TV & Movies” library options?

Are they simply coding mistakes/remnants from Apple developers dealing with the headache of splitting up the iTunes library? Or do they serve some real purpose? Because I assure you that after upgrading to macOS Catalina, all of my videos — movies, TV shows, etc… — are accessible without any issue in my Apple TV setup.


texts: is an iPhone bought in the US compatible with Germany?

texts:
I'm travelling to the US soon and I would like to buy iPhone 7 (unlocked) from an Apple Store.  However, I live in Germany.

Without AppleCare, can I go to to an Apple store here in Germany in case something happened to the iPhone?
Are iPhones in the US are compatible with Germany's? Power/Energywise.
Do I need extra/different adaptors?


texts:
I'm going to spend my holidays in New York and I would like to buy an iPad Mini 32GB Wi-Fi. (I'm from Italy)

However I talked with two guys at the Apple Store and they told me

The iPad is not going to work in Italy because of different processors. I don't believe it.
The iPad is going to work but the wireless device is different, hence you will have trouble in case of damage because the iPad bought in US is technically different from the one we sell in Italy.

Are 1 and/or 2 true?
Will I found problem with the warranty in case of need?


texts: How to open files from Safari without having to save them to Mac

texts: I recently changed from using a Surface to a Mac and I am having a hard time figuring out how to open files, let say from my gmail, without having to save the file on my Mac. With Microsoft, when I click download it prompted if I wanted to just open the file, Save or Save as... I can not figure out how to get those options on my Mac. Everytime it just prompts to save the file, but no to just open it without saving it first.


texts: My favorite edit button of safari is missing

texts:
Click on the Side bar icon in the upper left corner of Safari.
Select the bookmarks icon.
Open the Favorites section by clicking on the arrow.
Click Edit.

Where is the "EDIT" button?

Help me please!


texts: Mountain Lion on Unibody late-2008 Macbook?

texts:
I'm currently having a late-2008 Unibody Macbook with Snow Leopard installed. It runs really great!

However, I'm thinking of installing Mountain Lion. Mainly to use Filevault 2.

Will my Macbook run with ML?

It has the following specs:

2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 1066 MHz DDR3
40GB Intel 320 SSD


texts: How can I know the end of production date for my MacBook Pro?

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Apple allows to buy original parts for the products 5 years after
the end of production.

What is the end of production date for Early 2015 13" MacBook Pro?

If it is, for example, 10 July 2017. Does it mean that I can buy battery etc. in Apple Store till 10 July 2022 or till 31 December of 2022?


texts: I'm looking for a device that will wirelessly stream my computer (13" Macbook Pro) audio to my 5.1 speakers. I've seen that AirPort supports 2.0 streaming of iTunes music, but I'd like support for all audio and surround sound (for games and movies). Does anyone know of a product or software for this?


texts: Play The Sims 3 on Mac with Intel HD 3000

texts: Can I play The Sims 3 on my MacBook? It has only an Intel HD 3000 integrated graphics chip.


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how can I enable in Preview.app the three fingers gesture that shows the selected word in the dictionary?

This gesture works great in Mail.app but doesn't in Preview.app


texts: USB-Stick (Format: FAT) retaining incomplete files

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I'm having a problem deleting files from a USB-Stick, which is formatted with FAT.
I tried transferring files from my Mac to the USB-Stick, and if I remember correctly, removed it from the USB-port before it finished transferring the files. Therefore some files weren't transferred entirely, resulting in this:

The three bottom folders haven't been transferred completely, hindering me from accessing them. The top two folders contain files, which weren't transferred entirely.

If I try to delete the folders, by simply selecting them and pressing ⌘⌫ it deletes them for about a second, but then they return.
I have tried formatting the USB-Stick:

...but I get the following error:

  Deletion of the following medium has failed
  Following error has occurred, while trying to delete the following medium:
  The medium couldn't be deactivated.

Is there any way I can delete the entire content, so I have a completely clear USB-Stick?


texts: iOS shortcuts: Is there any way to input key presses into a call after it is connected?

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What I'm looking to do is create a shortcut to call into a work conference line that has a fairly complex set of key presses and voice input needed to connect. Here are the steps for manually connecting:

Call main number
7
Wait (comma pause)
1234#
Wait (comma pause)
Speak name
#

In the contact phone number itself, I have everything through number 5 working with a series of well timed “pauses” (i.e. NNN-NNN-NNNN,,7,,,1234#,,,).  Technically I can make the whole series work this way if I'm content to speak my own name but this is an exercise in curiosity more than necessity.

I can get Siri to speak my name from text (not sure if it will be heard by the phone mic yet).  But I can’t seem to pause that step until the previous steps are complete.  Since I can’t anticipate how long it will take for the call to initially connect, I can’t simply pause that step for a fixed number of seconds.

The other thing I can’t figure out is how to automate the final # keypress (in the shortcuts command chain) after the voice input where the call is already connected.

Any help is appreciated... Thanks.


texts: Lion seems to have made both Safari and Chrome pause when opening more tabs

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I recently upgraded to Lion and am mostly very pleased. However I'm having some errant behaviour when CMD clicking on links in Safari and Chrome. Instead of opening the page in a new tab, often nothing happens until I do the same again, at which point two tabs open to the target page.
This doesn't happen every time, but now it's happening more often than not.

I'm using a late 2008 Unibody MacBook with the glass trackpad.

Since both Safari and Chrome pause when opening more tabs, I'm a bit at a loss where to look next for a cause or solution.


texts: Are there any low-level settings in local Directory Service that can increase the blocking time after typing wrong password?

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I find there's a global policy that can temporarily block/disable a user (only 1 minute) after authenticating with wrong passwords a few times.

But what I want to do is to increase that 1 minute to a longer time, or permanently disable that user. Is it possible?


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I have collected about 50GB of music on my PC across a few folders with plenty of duplicates.

I just installed iTunes and synced an iPhone and its associated iTunes/Apple ID account, which created a library and copied a few hundred songs into it.

Is there a way to import all music from designated folders on the PC into iTunes, including de-duping?


texts: how to download OS X El Capitan for MacBook Pro A1278

texts: I have a Macbook Pro A1278 with a dead hard drive.  I have put a new hard drive in it and now need to figure out how to get my hands on the os.  Does anyone know if it is possible to still download OS X El Capitan?  If so, how?


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On macOS, it is possible to select items such as checkboxes or even dropdown lists by pressing the spacebar when the item in question is highlighted (usually with a colored box around the item). The ability to highlight them (usually by default or by using the tab key) can be enabled with the Full Keyboard Access setting in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts (this feature can also be enabled by pressing ControlF7).

I went to this website and tried to check out all of the fonts, which is done by selecting the font from the dropdown list. I wanted to quickly cycle through all of the fonts. I tried using the down arrow key to select the next list item when the list was highlighted.

However, when you press the down arrow, the list "pops up"; you then need to press down and then press enter (or space) in order to select the next item. This effectively means that, to select the next item in the currently highlighted list, you need to perform three keyboard actions, which makes it extremely cumbersome to cycle through all of the items.

I tried pressing the down arrow key while holding shift, alt, command, control, etc. hoping one of those would be a secret shortcut to select the next list item without, but using these modifies did not change anything.

Is there a good shortcut to select the next list item?


texts: Mac OSX: Finder stops displaying shared section

texts: The finder in Mac OSX (Mountain Lion) suddenly stops showing the shared section. It might show up again in a couple of days or in might not. All completely spontaneous with no apparent cause. Any clues?


texts: How do I make my cursor return to its normal size?

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Apparently because of either some BetterTouchTool shortcut or bug1 I have a gigantic mouse cursor, and I can't reverse it.  BetterTouchTool has the option to toggle the cursor size, but instead of going back and forth between normal and larger, it just gets larger and larger and larger.  This is driving me crazy and can only be fixed by rebooting, as far as I know.
I need some way of restoring the mouse cursor to its original dimensions.  How can I do this?

1 In the past I used BTT's ability to toggle mouse cursor size to visually signal that my shortcuts were working.  But now something is doing that without my knowledge or consent.
I've searched through all of my BetterTouchTool shortcuts and I can't find one causing the problem, so it may be a bug in the software itself, or it may be a result of a combination of lacking a good enough search engine and me somehow overlooking it.


texts: What is the source of the Earth and Moon wallpaper?

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What is the original source of this wallpaper, introduced in Mountain Lion? I'm guessing was taken on a Gemini or Apollo spaceflight, but I can't find it in any of NASA's albums, and the image has been re-uploaded so many times that Google Image Search isn't bearing any fruit either.

Photo from here.


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I'm new to iTunes and everything doesn't make sense for me.
I need to do backup of contacts, photos and music on my iPhone.

I've tried to follow several manuals how to do backup on my Windows PC but can't pass few steps.

My iPhone is connected by USB cable and is detected by iTunes
I can't select anything from iTunes -> File -> Devices as all functions are grayed out
In many manuals peoples refer that I have to turn off iCloud. I dont't see iCloud anywhere on iTunes or iPhone


texts: Finder search of string erroneously returns no results yet substring correctly returns results

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Encountering a really bizarre error on a new iMac (5K, Late 2015) that is running Sierra.

There is a folder called "Job applications" in my Documents folder that shows up in a Finder search of This Mac with a search string of "Job".

A search string of "Job applications", however, returns no results at all.

Oddly, "Job ", "Job a", "Job ap", "Job app", etc. through "Job applicatio" returns results that include the folder.

But as soon as the string is "Job application" all search results disappear.

Other folders have the same issue while others do not.  If I make a brand new folder called "Job applications", the problem persists.  My old iMac (27", Late 2009) running El Capitan (from which I transferred the files to my new iMac) has the same issue.  My Macbook Pro (Retina, 13", Early 2015) running Sierra does not have the problem.

I believe Finder uses the same index as Spotlight, which is confusing since Spotlight correctly returns the results.  I rebuilt the index for the Desktop folder, which contains some of the problematic folders, to no avail.  Any ideas?  I'll try rebuilding the entire index in the meantime.

Thank you


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro connected to a Thunderbolt Display.
In the display I have attached a mouse and an Apple keyboard. The keyboard works ok after it has been working but when I get to work and and plug in my laptop the keyboard is not responding. The funny thing is that the mouse always works and it is made from Microsoft. I have tested with 3 keyboards all having this problem. It's also funny that the keyboard works on the left usb on the MBP but not the right when this happens. This is the keyboard.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB110LL/B/apple-keyboard-with-numeric-keypad-english-usa?fnode=56

Anyone have an idea what can be causing this? Im using Mavericks on the MBP.


texts: How to control iPad/iPhone from external touch screen monitor?

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I have a PC running Windows 10 and which is connected to a touch screen monitor.

My idea is to connect my iPad to the PC (or to the screen) so that I am able to control it directly from the touch screen monitor. Something very similar to what I mean can be seen in this youtube video:

Would you be able to give me some hints on how to achieve my goal (assuming it is even possible)?


texts: How to fix when Mac fails to reboot, instead hangs at a black screen, while unplugging USB devices continues boot?

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I almost never reboot this Mac. Lately I noticed after a system freeze that the Mac would not boot, instead the Mac boot process hangs at a black screen.

Regression:

Unplugging the USB devices immediately continues the boot process to the gray screen with the Apple logo.
Because 2 USB hubs are attached I tried to isolate, by moving all USB devices to one USB hub and then to the other, no improvement.
Tried to isolate the individual USB devices, boot still fails.

How to fix the boot process of my Mac?


texts: Pages 5.5.2: How do I remove the light gray line between two columns in a table?

texts: I've inserted a 2 column Table into my Pages document. How would I remove the very faint light gray line that appears between the columns? This line is not just a formatting feature but shows up when I export the document to PDF.


texts:
I recently upgraded to a iPhone XR from a 7+ and transferred my Apple Watch and Health Data to the new phone. As far as I could tell when I setup the new phone everything transferred over perfectly.

I could see that all my health data transferred and when I quickly scrolled through my Activity data everything looked fine.

However, after using my new setup for a few weeks it occurred to me that my Activity Awards were behaving strangely so I took a deeper look at my Activity data and realized that a few months of Activity data did not transfer.

In summary:

June 2018 - September 17, 2018 : Transferred
Sep 18, 2018 - May 1, 2019 : Skipped
May 2, 2019 - June 6, 2019 : Transferred
June 7, 2019 - present : new Data created on new XR.

In the Sep 18 - May 1 range all my health data did transfer so all my Workouts show up during that time but all my Activity rings are empty and data like heart rate is missing from the workouts.

This has caused some weird results in my Awards. For example I have earned my 365 Award but only have 283 days on my 500 and 1000 Move Awards.

Does anyone have any idea how I may be able to get this data to transfer over?


texts: What are some good open source text editors on Mac OS X?

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I just recently switched from Windows and I must say that as much as I'm satisfied with the whole OS, I'm disappointed by the text editors so far (I've tried TextMate and BBEdit). So I figured I would check specifically into open source editors.

I'm currently checking out MacVim, but are there any other good, maintained text editors for OS X?


texts: MBP hanging on unlock after sleep in Yosemite

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My mid-2012 MacBook Pro is worse at waking up from sleep than I am. I mash some keys to wake it up, enter my password, and it just hangs on the login attempt. There's no crash and no error, like I've seen in many other questions here - it just sits there. I can still hit "cancel" and go back to the Enter Password screen, and the "go back to sleep" function works fine. But attempting another login just results in another hang

This usually happens only after an extended period of sleeping - almost every time it goes overnight, but not when I step away for an hour or so.

It seems to have begun recently when I upgraded to Yosemite.


texts: Brew says Wine is installed but it fails to run with "command not found" error

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I've recently just had a horrendous Mac hard drive issue which required an erase of the hard drive and a restore from an old back up.

Since it's been back, it's not quite been the same. I had Wine installed however wine my.exe no longer works. I get a -bash: wine: command not found error. I thought it might somehow have become de-installed, but upon trying to reinstall I get: wine-1.7.19 already installed To install this version, first 'brew unlink wine'. I've been having lots of permission errors which can't be corrected by disk utility, all of which are "ACL found but not expected" and brew doctor found a whole load of broken symlinks which have since been pruned. All very odd behaviour.

How do I get Wine to run without having to unlink it and reinstall it? I'd much prefer if I could just continue where I left off.

I'm not using MacPorts as far as I'm aware.


texts: Refreshing Finder window view after sorting files

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I have a simple script:

tell application "Finder"
    activate
    set sort column of list view options of Finder window 1 to size column
end tell

It works, but the problem is that the window is stale and does not immediately reflect the new order of the files. I have to change the target of the window to a different directory and then navigate back to see the files sorted by size.


texts: How to find out whether NVRAM was reset?

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I was having some issues with my mac so I reset NVRAM by holding ⌘+⌥+P+R.

The problem is that this laptop does not chime when NVRAM is reset, so I'm not sure if NVRAM was indeed reset.

How can I find out whether NVRAM was reset?

Is there some terminal command that shows when NVRAM was last reset?

Laptop: 2017 MacBook Pro
OS:MacOS High Sierra


texts: Batch read file name and change content creation date

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I have a lot of photos/videos named: 2012-04-05 19.21.34.jpg

Somehow, the creation date has been completely changed however.

Is there a way to replace the creation date with the info from the filename?


texts: Purchase song on iTunes using iTunes credit

texts: How to purchase a song/album using iTunes store credit? I tried to purchase a song but iTunes Store is asking my credit card while in fact I just redeemed a $15 gift card. Please help.


texts: I cannot find any defragmenting application on the Mac, so is defragmenting disks for Mac necessary?


texts: How can I prevent external hard disk from sleeping when connected to Airport Extreme?

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I have a 1TB external hard disk from Seagate connected to the USB port of my Airport Extreme and everytime I need to access it I have to wait some time until it leaves the sleep mode.

Is there a way to prevent it from happening?


texts: Is there a way to upgrade my MacBook Pro late 2011 MacBook Pro 13" Bluetooth to Bluetooth 4.0 without using a usb extension? As I only have one working USB port.


texts: Telephoto and wide lens options missing from Camera app (iPhone 11 Pro Max)

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A couple of days ago I had the Camera app freeze + crash on my while taking a photo. After that, the options to select between the 3 different lenses (.5, 1x, 2) don't come up while in Photo or Video mode.

Also, while the options do appear in Time-Lapse or Slo-Mo modes, if I tap 2, it goes back to 1x.

When this started happening, I was on iOS 13.3.1. I tried rebooting the phone a few times, but I can't get the options back.

I now joined the 13.4 beta to see if maybe this was a software bug that was fixed, but sadly it wasn't. It still happens in 13.4 beta.

Is this a hardware problem? I have AppleCare+, but now with the whole lockdown thing it's hard or impossible to get a replacement..


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I spend an awful lot of time in Safari conducting research. As you can imagine this often results in me having lots of tabs open. So I find myself settling on one tab and wanting to close all the others except for the one I’m currently on.

Is there an easy way to do this?


texts: Time Machine Backup is creating full size backups and filling my harddrives faster than usual

texts: I have had many 1TB hard drives and have used TMB since its inception.  but recently i bought a brand new HD and set it up.. after only a few back ups, i got an error message saying there was no space on my harddrive.. i used omnidsic sweeper to check out my disc to find that it was saying it had over 4TB of stuff on it!? I know thats not remotely possible,. but im curious why it would say that and more over, why is TMB taking full size back ups? i checked and there is only 3 on the drive.  i have backed my puters up for years on just 1TB.. any help? thanks in advance


texts: Accessing file shares on other Mac on Macs with shared connections

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It is probably best to first describe the ridiculous network setup I have:

I have a time capsule connected via Ethernet to my university's network. It is sharing this internet connection with a group of Macs over AirPort. Some of the macs are old Mac Pros and do not have AirPort, so they are attached via Ethernet to some of the Macs that have AirPort. The daisy-chained Macs get internet, but they cannot see other computers with file sharing on the LAN. A diagram:

TimeCapsule | )))))) | MacPro | -------> | MacPro
            |  wifi  | on LAN | Ethernet | only internet

I have noticed that the Macs directly connected (Wi-Fi and Ethernet) to the time capsule have IP addresses that begin with 10, but the daisy-chained machines have IPs beginning with 192.

How can I get the Daisy-chained machines to appear on the LAN?


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I run Mountain Lion on my macbook pro, and experience an unusual effect: sometimes system sounds happen, without any visible reason.
Does anybody know, why it could be?
Or, if it is possible, how to monitor the audiu subsystem to find out what application and when plays sounds.


texts: How to create a Mac OS X Yosemite dmg bootable Installer Version?

texts:
I have a Mac OS X Yosemite downloaded file like this:

Like I see, it must have a Yosemite.app file in it, so why doesn't this have the file? This is truly from an Official Apple Website. It just has a .pkg file. Can anybody explain this to me? And, How to create a complete bootable Yosemite 10.10.5 DMG disk image for clean OS install?


texts: Is it possible to unlock a CDMA iPhone 4S (from Virgin Mobile) to use another SIM in it?

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My friend has an iPhone 4s, it was bought from in the USA from Virgin Mobile. I want to do a factory unlock (unlock the SIM). I already know how to jailbreak, would jailbreaking work? Any help would be appreciated.

I read this answer, but was told the following:

  Virgin Mobile USA iPhones are CDMA. If you need a refresher - CDMA
  means the phone is locked to the network forever.

  You will never be able to unlock your iPhone from Virgin Mobile USA.
  They do not use sim cards - so there is no way to unlock it.

Is that correct? My question is, is it possible to unlock CDMA iPhone 4S from Virgin Mobile?


texts: What is wrong with my iMac? (video corruption, unstable)

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I have a 24" Early 2009 iMac.

During "intensive" use (such as Photoshop, WebGL, etc.), the system starts to become very unstable, resulting in bizarre graphics corruption and other weird behaviour. Ultimately, the machine freezes or crashes.

Somehow I managed to take a screenshot just before it went down, and I was surprised that it captured the carnage. I've censored (blurred out) some names to protect the innocent, but all the other glitches are part of the corruption.

I ran a temperature monitor in the background during use, and although it increased (as expected), it didn't seem to show unusually high readings for any components.

Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? Should I try reinstalling OS X from scratch, or is this definitely a hardware issue?

Setup:

2.93 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB RAM
GeForce GT 120 256 MB
OS X 10.8 (upgraded from Leopard, then Snow Leopard)

EDIT:

Having said that the components' temperatures seemed well behaved, I have started to notice that the problem occurs more readily when my room is warmer. Wondering if it is a heat-related problem...

EDIT 2:

Reinstalled OS X from scratch, but problem persists. I think this indicates a hardware problem. Sadface. Will open it carefully, hoping I'll find a busted fan or something silly like that. Otherwise, will take it to the shop - not keen to mess about with hardware even though it's out of warranty as the machine is still worth a fair bit I'd say.


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I own both an iPhone (4S) and an iPad (mini), running iOS 5 and 6 respectively. The two of them are quite filled with large apps (roughly 40GB in total) and thus my Macbook is getting crowded. This is because iTunes stores all downloaded apps, PLUS all apps from all devices, so there are three copies of many apps saved (downloaded app + 2 iOS backups).

I would like to exclude stuff which can be reinstalled from the iTunes store from my iOS backups, just like iCloud does - only without using iCloud (I prefer my backups being physically at home).

Is there a way to do this? If so, how?

Thank you!


texts: Use different interfaces for DNS and Network

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I would like all DNS to use my en6 USB ethernet interface.

And all other network traffic to use en0 wifi.

How can I do so?

I have been exploring dnsmasq and bind, but don't see how to use them for this. Hopefully it's possible without any third party apps.

(macOS Catalina 10.15.2)


texts: How do you attach a picture to an email you've already started composing? Instead of going to the picture first and sending it that way. I want to be able to attach it while I'm writing an email.


texts: How to tell macOS to move things to the cloud and free space on my laptop?

texts:
I use iCloud Drive and I see sometimes macOS keep files on the cloud and locally on the laptop there is only a link to the file. Whenever I need the file just click the link and it downloads. So far so good.

I have a lot of files, so no possible to keep everything locally. And I would like to keep adding files and take advantage of macOS functionality. I added many files (cd/dvd iso images) and disk is almost full. I guess at some point macOS will decide to keep files only on the cloud and free some space locally. Can I force this? How?

I have a lot of free space on iCloud Drive, like 5 times size of laptop ssd.


texts: Apple keyboard on Windows PC: will CMD buttons work as CTRL?

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I use mac at home, but at work I have to use Win7 PC. It makes me crazy to switch between mac/win keybard everyday, so I want to buy mac usb keyboard, but, will CMD buttons work as CTRL in windows 'out of the box'?
I can use some mapping software, but it would be much better just to plug it in and use.


texts: How to enable horizontal scroll in browsers on a mouse with separate horizontal scroll (logitech mx)?

texts:
It's really frustrating that in Safari, Chrome when i use the horizontal scroll it switches between tabs instead of scrolling the page.
I've tried to go through the settings but found nothing on it. I would be grateful for advice.


texts: Looking for a voice recording software with visualizer

texts:
I am looking for a software that will let me record my voice and create a video with visualizer (correct me if my choice of words is wrong) that is sensitive to my voice like TV professionals show on screen when they do not have a video footage to go with it. A wave that moves up and down when the person is speaking and comes to rest when there's no audio activity.

Here's an example of what I want as the end product (see how it's jumps only when the music is playing):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBYjZV74iYE

but a lot more formal and preferably in a wave format ().


texts: Eclipse 'luna' installing issues on MacOs Sierra 10.12

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im getting issues while installing eclipse luna for MacOS Sierra 10.12

I have followed the procedure for the installing the eclipse.

1.Download the eclipse luna.
2.move the zipped folder to desktop.
3.extract the zipped file.
4.move eclipse icon from desktop to the applications folder.
5.when I double click the eclipse icon, it gives the following error.

below is the screenshots attached, can anybody help me with the solution.

Error - " Eclipse quit unexpectedly- Click Reopen to open the application again. Click Report to see more detailed information and send a report to Apple."


texts: When scrolling a page up or down using fn ↑ and fn ↓ in a text editor, the editor jumps immediately to the next page. This is confusing when reading structured documents such as source code (programming). Is there a way to get OS X to smoothly scroll down one page, as if I would have used the trackpad?


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I want to access a website and an API both running in Docker containers behind another nginx Docker container (reverse proxy managing SSL) from an iOS device.

So I have:
1 iOS device having IP 192.168.178.57
1 MacBook Pro having IP 192.168.178.64
1 Docker container running nginx having two server_name settings:  app.dev and api.dev, both using self-signed SSL certificates
/etc/hosts points has these entries:

192.168.178.64 app.dev
192.168.178.64 api.dev

~/proxy.pac contains these entries:

function FindProxyForURL(url, host){
  if (shExpMatch(host, "app.dev")) {
    return "PROXY app.dev:443; DIRECT";
  }
  if (shExpMatch(host, "api.dev")) {
    return "PROXY api.dev:443; DIRECT";
  }
  return "DIRECT";
}

Squidman is configured on port 9090 and allowed clients are 192.168.178.0/24.

Squidman template allows access to localhost

# protect web apps running on the proxy host from external users
# http_access deny to_localhost

# rules for client access go here
http_access allow localhost
%HTTPACCESSALLOWED%

The iOS device proxy is configured as 192.168.178.64, port 9090.

The MacBooks Networks Automatic Proxy Configuration points to the ~/proxy.pac file.

I can browse web sites from the iOS website like http://apple.com.

I can browse https://app.dev and call https://api.dev from the MacBook.

I cannot browse https://app.dev nor call https://api.dev from the iOS device.

What am I doing wrong?


texts:
I need to factory reset my Macbook Air.
So restarted it and hold option key.
Then it requires to select wifi.
But the list does not show the wifi I'm using.
The wifi access point is very close and the signal is strong,
so another Windows laptop and my cell phone are using that wifi.
But this Macbook air shows only other wifi networks and not mine.
What would be the reason?
I tried entering my wifi network's name and password but it doesn't work either.


texts: I want to be able to know how full my voicemail box is before it starts rejecting caller's messages. Is there a command that does this?


texts:
This is a question that keeps coming up as I try to merge my older Rolls and the current Camera Roll on iOS11.

What I've done:

-Prepared old Camera Rolls for import (EXIF fixes for dates, setting Date Created/Modified to the same dates).

-Merged new CR with names adjusted to avoid conflicts

-Copied to DCIM

-Nuked Photos.sqlite db

As expected, Moments picks up the correct date (as it should), but Camera Roll is weird.

It appears that files are sorted by date, but ONLY per each folder. E.g. photos in 100-111APPLE show up sorted by dates taken by each folder, but overall in the camera roll they are not. Is there a reason sorting is applied per folder?

Also, for some reason 109APPLE appeared at the very end of the camera roll - why could that be?

I was going through the Photos db (wow it got much messier since iOS 6), and couldn't deduce the sort order in the Camera Roll. Previously, the general belief was it is sorted by Date Created or Date Added, but when I sort the db by these parameters, photo order is different from what I see in the roll.

To make matters worse, not all (per-folder) sorting appears to be correct, as I have at least 2 photos from Jan12 that follow Apr12, and these 2 photos go from 17Jan12 to 16Jan12. I've tried sorting the folder in Explorer by pretty much all the attributes Windows gives me, and could not replicate this order. So my question is, what is going on? What is the primary key used for sorting the db in iOS 11?

P.S. I am aware I can manually run an sql query to copy ZDATECREATED to ZDATEADDED, but I want to understand, what is going on in the first place. Also not sure how manual sql edits would impact future exports to iCloud Photo Library.
TLDR: iOS Camera Roll sorting is weird - by what attribute is it sorted? When I sort the sql table by ZDATEADDED it is not the same order as on device, however if I run a manual query to set ZDATEADDED to ZDATECREATED, it seems to sort by the updated Date Added/Date Created timestamp, making it look like ZDATEADDED is indeed the primary sort key.    Where does iOS even get Date Added (not from file/EXIF?), and how do I import photos into the camera roll preserving/setting the correct Date Added?

Thanks for any help.


texts: if i delete photos on my camera roll on my iphone will it delete the photos on photo stream on my macbook pro?

texts: If I delete photos on my camera roll on my iphone 4s will it delete the photos on photo stream on my macbook pro?


texts: How can I hide an Application from the Updates Tab in the Mac App Store?

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I had an app on my MacBook that I never used. I recently did a clean install of Mountain Lion on the same MacBook (not using the Migration Assistant or anything to copy my old data). I reinstalled the apps that I wanted from the App Store (and obviously didn't install the ones I used to have that I no longer wanted).

Now the App Store shows one of my old apps in the updates tab, even though I have never touched that app since my reinstall. There is only one app doing this, there are other apps that I didn't end up installing that I used to have, but they don't appear as updates like this one.

I have tried everything to get rid of the app from the updates. I have even succumbed to the frustration and clicked update, which installed the app, then I deleted it from my computer, and then the app reappeared in the updates immediately.

Any help on how I can get this app to leave me alone forever would be appreciated. Is there a way I can hide an app from the updates tab?


texts: Macbook Pro main volume not accessible - filesystem type FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF

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Preface: I know there are lots of other questions about this on here, but they do not exactly match my situation and/or I do not have the technical knowledge to apply the answers to my situation. Thank you in advance for any help!
I have a Macbook Pro (Late 2011), running High Sierra. I partitioned the harddrive to install Linux. I later uninstalled Linux, and I seemingly did it in a bad way! My main volume now is unbootable, and it does not show up in the startup manager. I'm also not able to boot from Recovery, so to get to the terminal I've booted from a UBS flash drive with a MacOS installer on it.
I followed the steps from answers to similar questions on here, and I got to the step where I remove the volume with the gpt command, but then couldn't get any further. So the main partition doesn't show up on the diskutil list anymore (shown below).
Here is some relevant information from the terminal. For convenience of viewing, I've also included photos of these outputs (below).
[-bash-3.2# diskutil list disk0
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS                         650.0 MB   disk0s3
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data                         74.3 GB    disk0s4

[-bash-3.2# gpt -r show disk0
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640  1318255112      2  MBR part 218 *[no contents because I removed this one]*
  1318664752     1269536      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1319934288        1712
  1319936000   145210938      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-B7C0-6886B72699C7
  1465146938        2197
  1465149135          32         Sec GPT table
  1465149167           1         Sec GPT header

The answer at this question has been the most helpful to me so far. However, I do not have an additional mac to do the hex dump that the answer calls for. If needed, I can borrow one from a friend, but I don't own one.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Output of the commands export LC_CTYPE="ASCII" and dd if=/dev/disk0s2 bs=1 count=64 | vis -c;echo:
64+0 records in
64+0 records out
64 bytes transferred in 0.377151secs (170 bytes/sec)
\M-6\0\^S\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\^B\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0


texts: What's the best new feature/change of iOS7.0.1, iOS7.0.2, and iOS7.0.3?

texts: One feature/change per post.  Please search the current answers before listing yours.  If it's difficult to explain with words, please use pictures.  Changes that can increase productivity of the user, consumption of media are likely to attract more votes.  The change could have been made in any current revision of iOS7, but has to still be available in iOS7.0.3.


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The usual behaviour when opening a Document on SharePoint ist that the document is opened in the corresponding Web App. In my case it is simply downloaded (with Safari).

It was like that with OS X 10.8, than it was OK with some of the 10.9 versions and now is back to download only with 10.10.

It should not be version related as I know of machines with El Capitan where the behaviour is normal (open in browser).

Any idea what would make my browser act differently?


texts: Why are text files not supported by Quicklook?

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So I know some questions have already been asked about this like Is there a QuickLook preview for plain-text files with unknown extensions? and QuickLook for files with no extension or an unknown extension, but those questions are regarding fixes as oppose to Apple's reasoning behind not supporting QuickLook for some file types.

I have many text files that I use with TextEdit, some in .rtf format and some in .txt format. I also have many .docx files for school. I'm pretty sure Microsoft created the plugin for QuickLook to work with .docx files. .rtf files are also supported by QuickLook.

Text files seem like the simplest file type, because unlike .rtf files, they lack elaborate text ornamentation and (sometimes) complex formatting.

Why aren't .txt files supported by QuickLook? Are they more elaborate than they seem, or is there something I'm missing?

UPDATE:
Here's an illustration of what I'm talking about: