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My USB ports are not working on my Mini Mac 2.1 (2007). I can turn the computer on and it starts perfectly on the monitor. However, since the USB ports do not work I cannot use my mouse or keyboard (unable to connect wireless mouse with dongle and keyboard batteries died for bluetooth keyboard and need mouse to reconnect to bluetooth). Is there any other connection I can make to run the mini without the USB? The options are Kensington lock slot, audio in, audio out, DC in, gigabit Ethernet, FireWire 400, DVI, 4 USB 2.0 ports. I have a Macbook Pro and I would like to pull the files off the mini but I have no way of doing it without a mouse or keyboard unless I can make a direct connection to my laptop. Any ideas?
I think my only option is making a direct connection from mini to Macbook Pro utilizing Thunderbolt 3. Can I use the Firewire port to connect to my Macbook and transfer files?


texts: Moving from an old IPhone with faulty charge connection to android,

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I'm not a iPhone user so my knowledge is limited.

My mother-in-law has an old iPhone (5 i think) with iOS 10.3.4. It does not charge very well anymore and the pc does not recognize it when connected.

She got a new Android phone and when setting up the iPhone for her it says  you can transfer her photo etc by installing google drive on the old iPhone, but can't install google drive to iOS 10.3.4.  Considering I can't connect the iPhone to the pc and backup that way, what options do I have to get her photos off her phone?

Thanks


texts: Can't get past the login screen even with a correct password

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I recently upgraded a 2010 MacBook Pro to Mountain Lion, and it's worked fine for the most part. Today, however, upon waking up from sleep, the laptop won't go past the login screen. I enter the correct password, hit Enter... and the focus on the password box goes away, and nothing happens.

Note that the password box doesn't shake, as it does when the password is incorrect. I'm entering the right password, it just won't dismiss the login screen.

Anyone else have this problem, and find a solution other than a hard reset?

(Unlike this question, three-finger swiping accomplishes nothing.)


texts: What exactly is included when I backup my iPhone 4 using iTunes?

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I have read this question Does an iTunes iOS device backup include everything on the device? but it doesn't seem to be explicit/succinct enough and I can't find a clear list of what exactly is and isn't backed up anywhere that I would trust.

Specifically I am asking which of these things are backed up ( and if there are any others which I am leaving out )

Settings inc email settings and and wifi passwords
Applications and their settings
Photos
Videos
Songs
Notes
Reminders
Calendar
Voice Memos
Contacts
SMS's
Firmware ( which I gather is not backed up )

I have a feeling that various parts of the backup are stored in various locations so maybe that might be explained, and also I read somewhere that the backup only includes the media items if a sync has been performed so could this be explained ... ie do I have to also do a sync to ensure a full backup.

I have an iphone4 and I am backing up to my computer as opposed to iCloud.


texts: On OS X El Capitan, what is the difference between /Library/ and /System/Library/?

texts:
There are two 'Library' directories in my OS X 10.11 installation, one being /Library/, the other being /System/Library/.
What is the difference between different Library folders?


texts: Can I turn a bad video card iMac g5 into headless server?

texts: I have an iMac G5 that won't display anything because (I believe) the video card is malfunctioning. Could the machine still be functional as a headless server? I could modify the settings with a target disk mode boot to make it available over the network then manage it over ssh from then on. Is there anything I'm overlooking? Has anyone done this that can advise me of the pitfalls? Also, should I consider installing a server-grade hard drive?


texts: I scanned my disk to find stuff to delete with Disk Inventory X. I am mystified by this directory, ~/Library/SOM. It's really big and all the files are *.tmp. Any idea?


texts: Empty Directories in ~/Library/Mobile Documents

texts:
I'm browsing the directory in ~/Library/Mobile Documents running the latest version of Mountain Lion and I see may empty folders that correspond to applications that I have used in the past, but whose iCloud data I don't necessarily care about (some shouldn't even have iCloud data).

Additionally, looking at the Manage Storge section of iCloud settings on my iPhone, there are only 3 or 4 apps listed in iOS, so it seems these folders that are empty on my mac could be safely deleted. Is this the case? I don't want to delete these folders if someone can't confirm that its safe to do so, because I don't trust iCloud to do the logical thing in this situation, which would be happily accept the fact that I deleted these empty  folders.

Curiously, I have some applications that I know are syncing through iCloud, because I have the same data on my iPhone and my iPad, but don't have corresponding folders in ~/Library/Mobile Documents on my Mac. Do some iOS applications store their data in a different location?

None of this seems logical, so can anyone make sense of this and provide some insight into what iCloud is doing behind the scenes here?


texts:
In iTerm2, I can define "Global Shortcut Keys", which is great. I can also "Load Presets" within this view. But how can I save "Global Shortcut Keys"?

I don't see an option to do this anywhere:

.


texts: LG Display via USBC-HDMI indicating as active even after turning it off

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I have an LG 4K display connected via USBC-HDMI cable.
After turning it off physically with the button it remains active in MacBook Pro 16 settings and I can move the mouse there.
It happens also when connected via Apple adapter + HDMI-HDMI cable.
And it's working fine when connected via USBC-DP cable. When turning off the display, Mac switching to the internal display only mode.


texts: I can't find an app that I purchased (wasn't free) anywhere?

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There is an app called "Calum Von Moger Fitness" and I bought it and stupidly deleted and then when I tried to find it again I couldn't! Strangely I cannot find it in my app purchase history.

I am not happy because I paid for this app and it just disappeared!


texts: What is the specification of the extra screws needed to install a second drive to an upper-drive populated Mac Mini 2012?

texts: I ordered the wrong OWC Data Doubler kit. I didn't notice the note saying that some Mac Minis have an upper drive configuration and that it would require a variant of the kit with additional components. The additional items in the variant are the 5mm wrench and 2 set screws. I considered exchanging the item but the local shop that imported the item is charging me for the return. Does anybody know the specification of the additional screws that I need? There's a similar question I found here Can the 2011 Mac-Mini (not the Server Edition) Support an Additional Hardisk, SSD?. But it's unclear whether the ifixit kit mentioned here is for the lower drive config or upper drive config Mac Mini.


texts: Facebook Page notifications in OSX 10.8.2 Notification Center

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I currently have my Facebook account linked up to my Notification Center on my Macbook Pro - great!

However, I do have a Facebook page (relatively low traffic) and I'd like to receive notifications from it as well as my personal facebook page in Notification Center. I am the owner and sole admin for this Facebook page.

Any ideas?


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I'm having some problems connecting to a Time Capsule's shared drive from a Macbook Air running OS X 10.7.2 Lion.  I can connect to the share without problem from a Macbook Pro running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.  I do not have any other fileservers to attempt connecting against for comparison.

Disabling both the Macbook Air's inbound firewall and its outbound application firewall, Little Snitch, yields no improvement (no other firewall, such as ipfw, is in use).  However, it is possible that some other (perhaps overly paranoid) security configuration is interfering with AFP.

The Time Capsule appears in Finder's sidebar, but reads "Connection Failed" when selected.  Clicking "Connect As..." immediately brings up the following message:

  There was a problem connecting to the server "Time-Capsule".

  Check the server name or IP address, and then try again.  If you continue to have problems, contact your system administrator.

Neither Little Snitch's network monitor nor tcpdump show any network activity during the above interactions.

The same message appears (again, without network activity) after specifying "afp://1.2.3.4/share" (where 1.2.3.4 is the correct IP address of the Time Capsule and "share" is the correct name of the AFP share) in Finder's "Connect to Server..." dialog.

In syslog, the following entries appear:

  Dec  5 22:41:17 MacbookAir Finder[123]: SharePointBrowser::handleOpenCallBack returned 22

From the command line:

$ mount_afp afp://username:password@1.2.3.4/share /Volumes/mount_point
mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 22

I suspect that this is the error which resulted in the syslog entries from Finder, but I am unable to debug further.

I would welcome your thoughts and suggestions on how I might proceed!


texts: Voice Control is launching on its own,also since updating to ios10 there is no menu to turn off Siri between Sounds and Touch id and password

texts: Since updating to ios10, voice control intermittently launches itself,also between Sounds and Touch id/password under settings the menu for Siri has disappeared.


texts: Over 19GB RAM used by Catalina even with all GUI applications closed

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I have had a 2015 16GB MBPro for the past few years. It is currently on Mojave.  On it I have been running all sorts of heavy duty programs concurrently including Pycharm, Intellij, RStudio, Spark servers, productivity apps, and  multitudes of browser windows. It has been a balancing act to get them to coexist and I do need to shut down /restart chrome approximately daily to clear up its share. But the big picture is: lots of heavy apps are doing well running on the limited RAM available.

Recently I purchased a new MBPro with 64GB RAM with Catalina  I did not expect to have any issues given the 4X upgrade in RAM. To my surprise I am seeing high fifties of GB's of RAM running essentially the same programs. The only difference is that I let Chrome run maybe a couple of days between restarts. But that's only accounting for about 10GB of the total.

After killing everything - as shown below - there is still 19.5GB of RAM and 7.5GB of swap being used.  Where is that memory going?

Note we have only the minimum gui apps plus chrome that I restarted only to bring up this stackoverflow page.

Look at the memory usage by apps: nothing above even 500MB

I am not running backend stuff. No servers. No Docker: only DropBox but I'm a light user of it.

So I am at a loss where the memory is being used. This is in stark contrast to my _MBPro2015/Mojave_ which would be at around 5GB total under the same circumstances.  Any ideas?


texts: Can I use the T-mobile contract free iPhone 5S with my AT&T number?

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I am thinking of purchasing the contract-free 5S because my contract with AT&T just expired, and I will only need the phone in the US for a few more months.  Will I be able to use my AT&T sim card (I currently have a 4S) when I receive the T-mobile contract free 5S? Also, I assume I will be able to take it abroad with me and use an international carrier once I move abroad at the end of the year.

Thanks in advance.


texts: OSX Mountain Lion: Automatically restarts after showing screen saver a certain amount of time

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Since I upgraded to Mountain Lion it happens to me every day when I enter the screen saver while having lunch it tries to restart the computer.

I don't have any clue why this happens. If there is some process running and OSX can't automatically quit it, OSX will tell me that it couldn't restart.
But if there's no process like this running it will restart.

I don't really want this behaviour and searched in system settings as well in the Console in order to see why this might happen but I don't have a clue as of why.

OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.2 - MacBook Pro 15" Late 2011


texts: Is it possible to restore data deleted by Adobe Creative Cloud?

texts: I lost data from the Adobe Creative Cloud bug last week. I have been searching to see if anyone has posted any suggestions other than by a backup source. Can you use any kind of data recovery software on the hard drive that was affected by this bug?


texts: How to mount disk by UUID or LABEL in OS X El Capitan?

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I get the UUID and label of a disk from diskutil info disk0s4

diskutil info disk0s4
   Device Identifier:        disk0s4
   Device Node:              /dev/disk0s4
   Whole:                    No
   Part of Whole:            disk0
   Device / Media Name:      Untitled

   Volume Name:              Data

   Mounted:                  No

   File System Personality:  HFS+
   Type (Bundle):            hfs
   Name (User Visible):      Mac OS Extended
   Journal:                  Unknown (not mounted)
   Owners:                   Disabled

   Partition Type:           Apple_HFS
   OS Can Be Installed:      No
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 PCI
   SMART Status:             Verified
   Volume UUID:              F8C88B2D-5412-343B-8969-254F3AC559B8
   Disk / Partition UUID:    1738336E-68DD-46B1-997E-57469CF0472D

   Total Size:               338.0 GB (337984569344 Bytes) (exactly 660126112 512-Byte-Units)
   Volume Free Space:        0 B (0 Bytes) (exactly 0 512-Byte-Units)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         Not applicable (not mounted)

   Device Location:          Internal
   Removable Media:          No

   Solid State:              Yes

mount using the volume label does not work:

$ sudo mount -t hfs LABEL=Data /Users/user/test
GetMasterBlock: Error 2 opening LABEL=Data
GetMasterBlock: Error 2 opening LABEL=Data
mount_hfs: error on mount(): error = -1.
mount_hfs: No such file or directory

mount using the volume UUID does not work with or without quotes:

$ sudo mount -t hfs uuid=F8C88B2D-5412-343B-8969-254F3AC559B8 /Users/user/test
GetMasterBlock: Error 2 opening uuid=F8C88B2D-5412-343B-8969-254F3AC559B8
GetMasterBlock: Error 2 opening uuid=F8C88B2D-5412-343B-8969-254F3AC559B8
mount_hfs: error on mount(): error = -1.
mount_hfs: No such file or directory
$ sudo mount -t hfs UUID="F8C88B2D-5412-343B-8969-254F3AC559B8" /Users/user/test
GetMasterBlock: Error 2 opening UUID=F8C88B2D-5412-343B-8969-254F3AC559B8
GetMasterBlock: Error 2 opening UUID=F8C88B2D-5412-343B-8969-254F3AC559B8
mount_hfs: error on mount(): error = -1.
mount_hfs: No such file or directory

mount using the volume identifier works

mymac:~ user$ sudo mount -t hfs /dev/disk0s4 /Users/user/test

Update:

My goal is to put the mount line in /etc/fstab as I want to mount a volume to a custom mountpoint.


texts: Apple Script - send (insert screenshot from clipboard?) & theTime to imessagebuddy

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I have an automator workflow starting with "Take ScreenShot" to take screenshot and paste to clipboard.

Following that I have

set theTime to time string of (current date)

tell application "Messages"
    set iMessageService to 1st service whose service type = iMessage
    set imessagebuddy to buddy "imessagebuddy@domain.com" of iMessageService
    send theTime to imessagebuddy
end tell

I want to include the screenshot in the message with the time.


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A friend send me a photo through iMessage and I saved it. However, the photo was from the past, so when I look at my photo album (of which there are thousands of photos that are sorted by time) I cannot find it (it's hidden among the thousands of photos).
How can I find the photo I just saved?
(In case you're curious why I want to find it, I want to add a caption to it and add it to a particular (non-shared) album. If there are ways of doing this that don't require finding it, hearing those in the comments would be great, but they won't answer the main question.)


texts: What type of cable can give the highest data transfer rate for an iPhone 5s?

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I have an iPhone 5s and a 2020 Mac mini with

Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports with support for:

DisplayPort
Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40 Gb/s) USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10 Gb/s)
Thunderbolt 2, HDMI, DVI, and VGA supported using adapters (sold separately)

Two USB-A ports (up to 5 Gb/s)

I searched that the iPhone 5s has a lightning port. I don't know much about lightning ports working with thunderbolt ports or USB 3, so I don't want to buy something with fast data transfer rate but only to be limited by the data transfer rate of iPhone 5s's lightning port.
So what type or types of cable can give the highest data transfer rate for an iPhone 5s?


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Good day everyone, I could really use some help.
I’ve been using a J5 create for my external monitors to work and all was fine.
I decided I wanted to hook up 3 screens to my MacBook.  I bring my MacBook back and forth from my office.  At my office I have a different J5 create with all HDMI hook ports and it works fine there.
Well maybe I havent’ checked after I tried this:  I went to Best Buy and purchased a different J5 create a “USB-C docking station." I downloaded the driver and spent hours last night trying to get it to work.
I trashed that driver and decided to go back to my other J5 and just used 2 monitors.  I uploaded the driver for that and now I just have black screens, it seems that they have signal “maybe” I see some slight evidence of that but IDK.
I go to my display settings and it allows me to arrange the screens but doesn’t show anything on my external monitors except for a “black”.
I did hook up just to try a monitor with the thunderbolt port, I do get one external [monitor] to work but not the J5 create with multiple ports and I use the USB port to hook up and it worked before.
I can't figure out how to get to [Display Settings] in my MacBook.  I’ve tried the display in setting, went to system pref area and looked all over, About This Mac, etc. But no luck.
Please help.....thank you so much ahead of time.  Sorry for the long explanation and confusing at that...  Jeff


texts: Best lightweight browser for OS X 10.4.11 iBook G4

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I have an iBook G4 running OS X 10.4.11 and I really would like to watch youtube videos, but it is very choppy and generally impossible to watch!

I've read over this thread: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=768766 and it suggests changing the power to Best Performance, turning off hardware acceleration, and upping the Flash cache size to 10MB, all of which I have done. I'm also downloading the iBook optimized Firefox 4.0 to try that out (though that seems a little outdated, seeing as the newest version is about 20 versions newer.)

Strangely enough, my system can play DVDs at full-screen with no problem whatsoever.

Does anyone know of any good, lightweight, web browsers (or alternatively, a way that I can get Youtube working within TenFourFox 24?)

Thanks!

EDIT:
Just a heads up, I was able to get 240p playing fine in OmniWeb. Version 5 I believe. It had occasional lag, but generally it was good. My internet isn't good enough to play anything about 360p, so I don't go above that, but I really would like to be able to use 360p instead of 240p, if possible. I think it's the quality of the video that is causing the lag, even though DVDs play at very good quality.

I also tried using the optimized version for iBook G4, but it said that it couldn't run on my system...annoying.


texts: Choosing Restore Date in Carbon Copy Cloner

texts: Using CCC, how do I restore my El Capitan OS system to a date of several days ago.  I installed a flakey app. and I want to essentially backdate my system to before I installed it.  Everything I can find re restoring with CCC seems to restore to the last backup.  I don't want that; I want to restore to an earlier date.  Thanks.


texts: App Store: You have not yet purchased any apps

texts:
This morning I had the same Issue as in this thread. I had 7 Updates, but the "Updates" tab was empty. The "solution" seemed to be updating on the "Purchased" tab.

But my tab says, that I haven't purchased any apps yet.

I am logged in....

I moved from Germany to America. But I have downloaded several Updates for Xcode in Germany, as well as in America.

I have changed my "Country and Region" to the States. And I just have tried to change it back. The tab stays empty.

I want to update to Xcode 8.1

Now I'm downloading Xcode as if it would be a complete new app. It asked me to "get" instead of "update" Xcode...

Even tho I have it installed.

I have tried to switch back to the German Store by changing back my "Country and Region". And I have restarted my MacBook 100 times. Also, I only use this one AppID.

First Xcode download was in Germany a year ago. But update to macOS Sierra, what also brought me Xcode 8 was with this Account and with the US App Store... So it should not be a matter of Country/Region...

PS: The updates issue is gone since I have activated Auto Update.. I have no pending updates anymore.

But Xcode is still in Version 8.0 and I'm able to "download" (get) Xcode 8.1 from the store.


texts: My battery cycle count surpassed 1000 (MacBook Pro Retina Late 2012)

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It already passed 1000 cycle counts, and it doesn't say to replace yet. When I check the condition it states "Normal."

I already order a new battery, because I was under the impression after I reach the limit of cycles count I would need to replace the battery. I restarted my Mac to see if it changes the conditions, but it did not. It still shows "Normal".

Should I replace the battery anyways with the new or wait until it says "Condition: Replace"


texts: Is it possible to have iPhone messages with drafts visibly marked as such?

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I recently switched from Android to iOS and am still getting used to the changes in the operating systems.

In Android - or at least in Samsung's flavour of it - if I looked at a list of my text message conversations grouped by contact, any conversation that had a draft in it is clearly marked as such.

Here's an example:

I communicate via text a lot, and I found this a handy way of marking whether or not someone was awaiting a response I had yet to send.

I cannot seem to find an equivalent function in iOS. Is there a setting, app or widget that does this?


texts: Can I test MBA motherboard using only charger and external monitor?

texts: Can I test a Macbook Air (2011-2015) motherboard using only the charger and external monitor?


texts: Is there good software for recovering photos from an iphone data

texts: My iPhone is in recovery mode and I want to recover some photos. Does anyone know if dr.fone works? I don't want to pay for something that doesn't do the job.


texts: Cursor jumps around on Macbook Pro mid-2010, without trackpad installed

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to solve my erratic cursor on my mid-2010 MacBook Pro, I brought my computer to the local apple store and had the trackpad completely uninstalled. Does anybody know what it means for the trackpad to completely uninstalled? Ok, anyways I'm going to post a question I never got a reply to on the apple support page. Here it goes.

Macbook Pro mid 2010 15 inch
Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 8 GB
Software: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MB

Ok all the problems started two years ago, after I bought the computer. For the first four months everything was all dandy until I notices that my cursor behaving erratically, even though I was using a mouse. So I thought that the problem was a bulging battery, even though the trackpad still appeared normal. So using the universal access preferences, I completely turned off the trackpad completely, (using the option to switch off the trackpad when a mouse was in use).

BTW, the mouse was new and corded; used on other computers, it behaved normally.

Another year and a half goes by, and I start encountering another problem. This time the computer would occasionally power off. This occurred randomly, with no preference as to which program or application was more susceptible. In the console it read as a kernel panic, (I had no idea what that meant) and as usual I ignored the problem, blaming it on a faulty battery that would soon need to be replaced. Finally one day I mustered up the courage to go to my peach mac provider and understand the problem.

I was duly shocked to hear green checks all round. Everything was fine in fact (including the battery) expect the trackpad; a problem, which employees assured me, was common enough. Trackpads on my type of macbook pro would occasionally go haywire and just screw up. The estimate for replacement was $170, which was too deep for my pocket, so I politely declined and asked for any other solution. After some prodding, they said they could "unscrew" the trackpad, and I was all ears for this, because I gotten used to working without one. So the trackpad was uninstalled and I returned happy to my house. Also, they told me that a kernel panic was a software issue that could be the fault of the OS X or a third party application.

I forgot to mention, along with the panics, came the general erratic behavior of the cursor. Not as before, where the cursor would go around clicking and dragging mayhem everywhere, but just general skipping around and inaccuracy. So to solve this problem, I bought a new mouse. It was a G100s.

Set to discover the reason behind the kernel panics, I did everything I could to solve the problem. In fact I deleted my entire hard-drive and reinstalled the OS and backed-up the backup. After this, the kernel panics have not yet reoccured (will edit if one does) but the mouse foolishness did. I was afraid to reset the VRAM or whatever you call it, since it also deletes the error log, something that I may want to keep as proof for any techies that may have the solution to the problem.

Once, I started up in safe mode and the mouse worked fine, in fact gloriously accurate, however I was not and could not perform any cpu intensive programs to heat things up. I say this because the mouse problem only occurs after about 30 minutes on the computer. I notice that the general mouse performance is subpar compared to using it on another computer.

If anyone can provide any possible solutions or anything please feel free. And I forgot to include a vital piece of information or something is written in a confusing manner, tell me.


texts: Why does my iPhone alarm go off one hour late?

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I live in Italy and since the summer time change; I cannot set up the alarm to ring at the appropriate time.
I need the alarm to ring at 6:30 am, but if i set the alarm to 6:30 it rings at 7:30 instead.
It's very annoying. I tried to delete every alarm i had set before and create new ones, but i doesn't change anything. How can i fix it?


texts:
I'd like to set up an AirPort express connected to a HiFi as an airplay receiver, acting as a device on a wireless network.

At some point in the future, I'd like to extend my wired network to the location of the airport, place the airport on the wired network, continue to use the airport as an airplay device but also use it as an access point for the wireless network.

Will both of these situations work as described?


texts: Is it possible to connect an iPhone to a bluetooth headset and also to wired headphones?

texts: My wife and I often watch videos on the plane together, we used to use our iPad together with a headphone splitter so we could watch a movie together - but then we lost the splitter. Anyway, I'm thinking about getting bluetooth headphones for work and am wondering: Is it possible, for instance, to watch a video / movie on an iPhone (we each have an iPhone 6) or iPad with both a wired headphone plugged into the 1/8" headphone jack, and also have a second set connected via Bluetooth?


texts: MacBook Pro refuses to boot/recover, hangs at "white screen"

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I am somewhat new to caring for Macs, but one has been left in my care and I have not been able to restore it to working order yet. Here are the symptoms:

The MacBook Pro would hang with a "white screen" during the boot process. A bit of boot splash would show up, but the gray background would at some point just hang.
Booting recovery mode did not work, as far as I remember.
Boot from a Ubuntu 14.04.2 USB stick works, provided one attaches "nofb nomodeset" to the kernel commandline (though I put that one down to insufficient driver support). I have no idea whether or not these usually work out-of-the-box.
Using parted from the aforementioned stick, I was able to see three partitions, one EFI Boot, one large main partition and one labeled Recovery. It seemed strange that the recovery was recoognized as HFS+, as I expected, but the "main" partition was not mountable and did not show a filesystem type.
I also discovered that the drive in question was an OCZ Vertex3 256 GB, which I assume is not standard? The previous owner could have upgraded it.
At this point, I decided to wipe the drive and try with a fresh installation. I removed the SSD from the MacBook, pulled a full disk image from my desktop just in case (which went without any read errors) and used hdparm to do an SATA enhanced erase, leaving me with a "fresh" disk. Then I put it back in.
I started internet recovery, which loaded, showing me the global and everything. Afterwards, it rebooted, showing me the Apple Logo. But then I run into the original "white screen" again.
I've tried resetting the NVRAM on boot, which succeeded because it turned the boot chime back on, but even then, running internet recovery again just causes it to hang on the white screen.
There seems to be either very high CPU or GPU usage on the white screen, as the fans start wailing pretty intensely, also the body gets very hot in a very short time.
For funsies, I installed Ubuntu onto the MacBook, which works (after smoothing over a few hiccups, fortunately I have lot more experience doing that).
Recovery mode (Cmd+R) and Apple Hardware Test (D?) I have not been able to run. The former suffers the same white screen issue as described above.

Currently, my only vague guess is a GPU issue, that may be circumvented by Ubuntu by using the not completely feature complete open source radeon drivers. But that is a wild guess. Any input is appreciated.


texts: Snow Leopard Tiles Overflow Finder window

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I have somewhat recently noticed that when I have have the Finder mode set to Tiles, that the tiles are too wide for the window. For example, it shows 7 across (in a row), whereas that makes it to where I have to scroll sideways in order to see all the documents. It, in effect makes it very difficult to use the Finder tile display. Is there a way I can fix this?

I can increase the Finder window, and it works then, but most often I don't want a massive window. I can also shrink the size of the tiles, but that starts to defeat the purpose of using the tiles.

Any suggestions are much appreciated. This isn't something I can't live with, but it would be really nice to get fixed.


texts: Safari web inspector breaks media queries

texts:
Using Safari Version 11.1, whenever I open the web inspector on a web page, all media queries in the CSS stop working. If I close the inspector, the problem goes away. This happens on any site.

Are other people experiencing this? Is there a setting that I've toggled?

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks.


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On the command line, du seems to return twice the numeric value returned by du -h.

Apparently, du -h resembles the actual file size, so what's the plain du value representing?


texts: USB Sticks not getting properly recognized

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Two of my USB sticks (Lexar and PNY, both 32 GB) are not getting recognized correctly by macOS Sierra. Both worked before (one formatted with NTFS, the other with FAT32); they were then used as installation media for upgrading a couple of MacBooks to macOS Sierra.

They have since been tested, getting reformatted by Linux as well as Windows 7 between tests, but the following output is always the same using diskutil list:

/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *32.0 GB    disk3
       1:        Apple_partition_map                         4.1 KB     disk3s1
       2:                  Apple_HFS                         311.3 KB   disk3s2

After plugging them into the MacBook they are still working on Windows and Linux (they were tested by writing the whole stick and verifying the data).  I also deleted the partitions using fdisk in Linux.

Is there a way to repair this behavior? And if not, is there a way I can redefine how the partitions are getting assigned by macOS so that I can still manually mount them?


texts: Why is "Find My Mac" still complaining about "Wake for network access" being inactive, although I just activated it?

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Environment

MacBook Pro 15" (Mid 2014)
macOS 11.2.1 Big Sur
Find My Mac gets activated for the first time on this device. There was no other user before ever, I bought it refurbed from Apple.com, and I do not recall that I have ever used that function before, but now I wanted to activate it.

Problem
I did my initial setup of "Find My" on the Mac exactly as Set up Find My on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac (HT210400) describes, but in the process got a warning about "Wake for network access" being not active, although it was.
Reproduction
Exactly as HT210400 instructs. Numbers correspond to my screenshot series:
1 ) Preconditions: System Preferences > Security & Privacy:
"Enable Location Services" is ON, "Find My" is also ON. All fine.
2a) System Preferences > Apple ID > iCloud > Find My Mac is currently OFF. Toggle "Find My Mac" ON.
2b) In the dialog press "allow".
2c) "Find my Mac" not shows as ON but has a warning symbol and a "Details…" button. Press that button.
2d) Dialog informs that you need "Wake on network access" being active. Press button "Open Energy Saver". Btw an outdated label, the former prefpane "Energy Saver" in macOS Big Sur is meanwhile called "Battery".
2e) I get redirected to the prefPane "Battery". Activate "Wake for network access". In my screenshot session I already did so earlier.
2f) Go back to prefPane "Apple ID" and "Find My Mac" still shows an error due to missing "Wake for network access". Note: You can repeat cycle 2a-f as long as you want: The status icon is not refreshing properly as long as "System Preferences.app" is running!
3 ) In prefPane "Battery" I checked both sections "Battery" and "Power Adapter". Option "Wake for network access" is only shown in section "Power Adapter" and there it is on.
Why is "Find My Mac" still complaining about "Wake for network access" missing, although it is activated?
Solution
4 ) Quit "System Preferences.app". Restart it. Then go to: Apple ID > iCloud > "Find My Mac" now shows as ON and without any error symbol.
Screenshot series


texts: What does "com.apple.*" mean in plist titles

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I have a programmable Logitech mouse, which allows me to assign different configurations to different applications, but ONLY .app files, but I wish to assign a profile to Java, which is a binary not enclosed in a .app file.

When I nosed around into its preference file, it only refers to some sort of identifier associated for that app. For example, instead of saying /Applications/Safari.app, it would only reference it as com.apple.safari.

What does com.apple.* mean? Is it some sort of application identifier? And, if so, how can I find the one for Java?


texts: Help with iBooks not being able to send a PDF using the share icon?

texts: My iPad 2 and has iBooks and I'm trying to send a PDF "book" to a friend of mine. The sharing button is shaded so I can't do it!


texts: Will my photos still be saved on icloud if I turn off 'find my iphone' from the icloud?

texts: Will I still be able to access my photos, contacts, etc by logging into my icloud if I turn off 'find my iphone'?


texts: TextWrangler running Python 2.7 after I removed it from my Mac

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I have removed Python 2.7 from my machine, using instructions provided here: How to uninstall Python 2.7 on a Mac OS X 10.6.4? (Using the top voted/accepted answer's instructions)

However, when I run my scripts using TextWrangler and look at some of the errors generated, it is still indicating that the error originated from Python 2.7 directory, which I have already deleted, and can't see it using ls.

Any idea how to force TextWrangler to run Python 3 instead?

I am running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 on MacBook Pro mid 2012.


texts: 5K external screen with 2015 15 inch retina MBP with Intel Iris Pro graphics

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Has anyone tried whether Intel Iris Pro found in 2015 retina MBP is powerful enough to drive single 5K screen like Dell UltraSharp UP2715K or Iiyama ProLite XB2779QQS or Philips 275P4VYKEB or HP Z27q? (basically all the ones that aren't relying on usb c/thunderbolt 3 connector like LG 27MD5KB-B UltraFine)?

I'm trying to find an external screen for my MBP and unfortunately due to macOS/OSX's focus on retina screens, non retina screens (fonts mainly) look pathetically bad, whereas Windows (even launched within OSX via RDC) looks sweet. So the only option is to either go 4k but that means usable resolution would be 1080p or 5k with usable 1440p. Hence I'm wondering if it can drive 5k screens.


texts: Apps bought on iTunes not showing up on the iPhone 4

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An app that i buy on iTunes doesn't show up in the iPhone with iCloud unless i sync it with a cable.

Also the reverse applies. Anything bought on the iPhone doesn't show up in iTunes in the computer unless the cable is connected.

Any suggestions?
Thanks.


texts: Is there a way to stop DVD player and other apps from defaulting to full screen?

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Whenever DVD Player launches (iMac running Mojave), it goes full screen, with no way to stop it. This also happens when entering a meeting with either Zoom, or GoToMeeting, or both.
I have precisely zero interest in running anything full-screen on this Mac; if I want to run something full screen, I'll use one of my PC-DOS 2000 boxes.


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I have a Macbook Air 2014 that I updated from Yosemite to High Sierra 10.13.4 just recently, but now the laptop freezes multiple times per day :(

Here are the things that I've tried:

Upgrade softwares/browsers
Reset NVRAM
Reset SMC
Run in Safe Mode (In which Chrome completely glitches. I've tried to cut down my number of extensions, but even a simple Google search doesn't show. Safari is fine.)
Download Onyx and run the maintenance check.

Usually the culprits are Chrome, SimpleNote (a syncing note-taking app), and Microsoft Powerpoint, but the laptop can also freeze anywhere.

Any other tests/methods you would recommend? Thanks so much!


texts: Purchases and updates after changing AppleID & Primary Email Address

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I want to switch my AppleID from using my ISP email addrress to my gmail address.
If I change both my AppleID and Primary Email Address as directed, (I understand I'll need to log out and log back in to the app store on each device,) will my existing purchases (apps & music) still be available for use and updates?


texts: Transfer music from iPod touch to computer

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I know there are programs I can download to do this but I have done it before without them. After about an hour of searching I still can't find how I did it. I have Hidden files enabled. "Enable Disk Use" is not available as it is an iPod touch. And while I can transfer purchases most of my music is not purchased from iTunes.

I could have sworn there was a way to do this. I vaguely remember there being lots of folders I had to go through to pull all the music files. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!


texts: After updating the emoji font in an older macOS, is there a way to visually find and insert newer emoji that the system emoji picker doesn't support?

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I just updated the emoji font on my macOS 10.14.6 system using the method detailed in this answer.
This seems to have worked great in that I can now view newer emojis that people send me, or that appear on web pages. However, the emoji picker in Mojave doesn't support these emoji, leaving me with no good way to type them, other than finding them in an existing document somewhere and using copy/paste.
Is there a way to update the emoji picker to include these new emoji? Or perhaps use an alternative emoji picker?
(I'm aware I could use text replacements in System Preferences / Keyboard / Text to type the emoji, but I strongly prefer to be able to find emoji visually, hence the specific wording in my question.)


texts: Repeated MacBook Pro 2012 HDD Cable Failures

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Two weeks ago, a friend's mid-2012 MacBook Pro gave the dreaded question mark folder upon attempting to wake from sleep. I pulled the drive and checked it (backed up, SMART status passed, 70+ MBps read/write - pretty good for an old 2.5" spinner). I booted to AHT and ran full hardware diagnostics. It came back with no errors. I know that HDD cables in these machines fail regularly, so I replaced the cable with a used one I bought from PowerbookMedic.com. It worked!

About a week later, the exact same thing happened - a flashing question mark on waking from sleep. So my question is:

Could a different piece of hardware be failing/did I overlook something? If so, what? If not, what are the chances that this new cable failed so soon after install? More importantly, if I exchange it for another used cable, what are the odds it will fail quickly again?

Important notes:

HDD is known good
Once the flashing question mark folder shows up the first time, nothing will boot attached to that cable (attempted with Win10 SSD, macOS HDD, multiple attempts made - the first time this occurred, a cable replacement solved that issue).
Computer will still boot and operate effectively from HDD when attached via USB

Please don't hesitate to ask any clarifying questions!


texts: How daylight saving changes are handled in launchd to make sure it execute the the jobs as scheduled through plist?

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Since August 2013, I am using Mac Mini with OS X version 10.8.2 as my web server (MAMP stack). I have a few launchd scheduled jobs scheduled through plist.

Everything was working fine until Nov 3, 2013, Sunday. The Daylight Saving Time change on that day caused some issues. Initially we thought that the jobs schedule to run around 2 am run twice for example the job scheduled to run at 02:45 am run at 01:45 am and again run at 02:45.

Later from a detailed examination of the log files we found that it is not only the jobs between 1 am and 2 am but all jobs run on that day run twice, exactly one hour before the actual time and on the scheduled time. From next day onwards launchd started behaving normally. I thought the launchd has the ability to handle Daylight Saving Time changes properly, as how cron handles it, but to my surprise I am unable to find any information about that in the launchd manual or support forums.

According to the last comment in this thread from Apple's support forum I have to believe 'The problem lies deep into Launchd mechanism'. If that is true how launchd is going to behave on the upcoming DST change on 9th March where 2:00 am to 3:00 am will be skipped is unpredictable. Can any one suggest its behaviour on a DST start change? How can I make it handle a DST end change, so that it wont run the jobs twice? EST 2014 is the time zone of the server.

The plist format I am using is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>report.groups</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>php</string>
<string>/var/www/mysite/reports/generateReportGroups.php</string>
</array>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>2</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>45</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>


texts: I uninstalled xcode 4.6 and the App Store still wants to update it

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A few months ago the app store notified me to update xcode. When I attempted to do this, the download hung and wouldn't complete. I tried several more times after restarting each time. Always the same result of hanging.

Today I was annoyed with the app store still bugging me to update xcode along with the amount of disk space xcode consumes so I tried to uninstall it. I removed xcode it from /Applications and any other references I could find and emptied the trash. I cleared caches, repaired permissions, and more, restarting both the computer and the application several times. I even enabled the debug menu and reset the application. Despite all of this, xcode still wants to update even though it no longer exists on disk.

I'm running mountain lion. I'm not sure if I had xcode 4.5 or 4.6 because it's all gone now (except the app store doesn't know it yet).


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For some reason, my Applications folder is using the Address book icon in the Dock.  How do I change this back to the correct icon.

I am using Mac 10.7.2 (although the problem has been there since 10.6).


texts: How to deal with unzip error on a large file in OSX?

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I downloaded the latest Raspbian image from the raspberrypi.org website on my Mac running OS X 10.10.5
The SHA-1 checksum agrees with that listed on the website.

When I try to extract using unzip I get the following error

warning [2015-09-24-raspbian-jessie.zip]:  76 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
  (attempting to process anyway)
error [2015-09-24-raspbian-jessie.zip]:  reported length of central directory is
  -76 bytes too long (Atari STZip zipfile?  J.H.Holm ZIPSPLIT 1.1
  zipfile?).  Compensating...
   skipping: 2015-09-24-raspbian-jessie.img  need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1)

note:  didn't find end-of-central-dir signature at end of central dir.
  (please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the
  appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled UnZip properly)


texts: Make and create Live USB Linux for Mac? How?

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I'm wanting to create a live usb linux so I can easily access it everytime when I need it without taking up any space.
But with other sources, they say to rEFInd and I did so, however when restarting and accessing the boot menu, nothing happens.

I am running Yosemite 10.10 on a Macbook Pro - I still have rEFInd on my mac.

I already have .iso version of the linux and UnetBootin

Any way how to make a live usb linux on a Yosemite Macbook Pro?


texts: Reset the Launchpad to fix the ordering in macOS Catalina

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When I was using Yosemite in my old mac, I can simply use defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock to fix the ordering of apps but it is not working in macOS Catalina 10.15

Now I have only the pre-installed apps like App Store, Notes, Music etc. in my launchpad.

What should I do now?


texts: How do I move up one folder while browsing Time Machine?

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When I'm viewing a folder in Time Machine's "Star Wars" view, how do I move up one folder, to view the current folder's parent folder?

In Finder, I have several ways to do it: I could either hit CMD+Up Arrow, or CMD-click the title bar then click on the parent folder I want, or double-click the folder I want from the folder path in the bottom bar. But none of these methods work in Time Machine.


texts: Error occurred while restoring Time Machine backup

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I was trying configure my Mac to dual boot Ubuntu and macOS. In the process, I somehow managed to make Macintosh HD unbootable (is that a word?). I was able to boot Ubuntu just fine. I had just recently created a Time Machine backup so I tried to restore it.

I booted up while holding the Option key
Selected my backup disk (this is the only disk that was visible)
Erased APPLE SSD and created a new Macintosh HD partition using the APFS (case-sensitive) format and GUID partition map.
Started restoring the Time Machine backup

The format of Macintosh HD before the backup was APFS (case-insensitive). I didn’t think this change would matter and I would like a case-sensitive file system if possible.

My computer was restoring for about 15 minutes and managed to copy about 30GB when it suddenly failed.

Here’s all the info about the hard drives.

As a side note, there seems to be a bunch of tiny untitled disks being listed. It goes down to /dev/disk21 which has one untitled partition that is 2.1MB in size. I don’t think I created these and I didn’t see them under Disk Utility.

Could my backup be currupted? Could my hard drive not be partitioned correctly?

Remind be never to try and install Ubuntu! Linux and macOS are incredibly similar. It’s just not worth the effort.

UPDATE:

I found a Install macOS High Sierra.app in the root directory so I’m running that. I hope this lets me restore the Time Machine backup.


texts: How can I automount afp volumes at startup?

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I bought a NAS to store my media files and I'd like to automount the volumes on startup. Currently I'm opening those volumes as a Login Item under System Preferences > Accounts.

This works, but it unfortunately also pops up each volume in a new Finder window on boot up. Checking the hide on the items only hides the processes, not the resulting Finder window from those processes. A solution that avoids those Finder popups would be great.

I'd like to avoid any 3rd party apps to accomplish this too.


texts: How can I force pinch-to-zoom on some websites?

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As someone with vision issues I typically need to zoom on every single page I load on my iPhone.

The "three finger tap" to zoom kinda sucks, so pinch to zoom works great. However since upgrading to iPhone 4S I've noticed a lot of sites don't allow it.

I know there's a meta tag you can use to disable that feature, but is there an override that you can set to be able to zoom on every page?  I can't zoom in on google results, so I can't really see them. NFL.com doesn't allow pinch to zoom either.


texts: In Mavericks (OS X 10.9), the User's Application folder is a separate folder from the System Application folder. Is there a way to see these two folders as one, similar to how it works on Windows? Otherwise, having both in the Finder Sidebar looks confusing and clunky:


texts: Naming a folder xxyyzz.download creates safari file?

texts: I'm amazed that this is normal behaviour in OSX. But if you name your folder "xxxyyzz.download", it creates a temporary download file. This is not the only problem I encountered (there are other extensions that give problems), but I was wondering if this could be solved? I have a naming preference of using dots in the folders - seems this is not a good idea on OSX?


texts: Exporting or Viewing Apple Watch heart rate info

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I have found the corresponding Activity app on the iPhone, which shows exercise history, but is there a way you can see the history of each heart rate measurement in bpm? Maybe through a HealthKit application?

EDIT: Thanks to bmike's suggestion, I found the export function of the Health app on the iPhone. The button in the upper right lets you send the raw data as an XML file.


texts: Spotlight "Indexing and searching disabled." message in terminal on OSX. Why?

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My spotlight searching hasn't worked for quite some time and I've tried everything I could find on Google. I can't search for anything on my MacBook.. literally nothing shows up. I'll list the things I've tried and specs:

Early 2011 2.2Ghz MBP
4GB RAM
OSX 10.9.4

disble/enable spotlight via terminal
toggled hidden files and looked for ".metadataneverindex" couldn't find it
repeated the previous, using terminal commands.. file not found
put everything in the preferences/privacy "prevent indexing" then removed
sudo mdutil -i on /

sudo mdutil -E /
sudo mdutil -a -i on
zapping the PRAM

Based on what Trane Francks said in the comment below.. I built the DB and ran the line again. The second line is what it returned:
    locate .metadata_never_index
    /.metadata_never_index

I found .metadata_never_index as a hidden file in my root, so I deleted it and tried reindexing.. but its giving the "Indexing and searching are disabled" message still.

I've tried many of things and every time.. I get "indexing and searching disabled."

I just wanna be able to search my mac again!! Please help! Thanks.


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My wife and I both recently discovered there was a select few of our contacts missing on our iPhone4. I think 5 or 6 from mine and over 30 from hers. This happened a day or so apart. Neither of us have done iCloud or synced with contacts or any of that. The contacts just went away. Starting a text and typing in the first few letters does not work for this. The contacts are gone.

What may have caused losing 5-30 of our two iPhone4's contacts without using iCloud or any other sync?


texts: Can I share my Google Photos to Instagram using my iPhone?

texts: I have a bunch of photos in Google Photos that I would like to share to Instagram using my iPhone. Is there a way to do to that? Or a way to move photos from Google Photos to Photos on my iPhone? Thanks very much.


texts: Catalina - App Store issues - doesn't automatically find new updates and cannot update!

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Screen Recording

Since I've updated to Catalina, the App Store, for me, cannot:

Automatically find any new app updates
Update an app when I try to do it manually.

When I click on 'updates', I see "No updates - all your apps are up to date" but when I search for one of my apps, it says "update". When I click on update, the progress circle shows and it goes to 100%, but then the "update" button re-appears.

I have a video to show but cannot work out how to attach it.

I have reset my pram, logged out and back in on iCloud, have deleted the various .plist files and have emptied my cache, yet have achieved nothing.
Anybody having this same issue and have found a solution?


texts: How to disable autohide dock autohide when the app closes

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I'm not an AppleScript Ninja but so I followed this link to automatically hide dock when it opens Unreal Engine

tell application "System Events"
  set autohide of dock preferences to true
end tell
tell application "UE4Editor" to activate

But, how to disable autohide when Unreal Engine closes? I'm running this script as an App.

Is there any way I can integrate this script to Unreal Engine app? So, I don't have to click on this app manually & everything is done for me behind the scenes automatically?


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I know it might sound like a pretty dumb question, but it's the truth, I have no idea whats going on. You see, my brother used this iMac since the times it had Snow Leopard. I have no idea what he did, undid, redid, or disdid (yeah, I just invented a new word there).

The point is now I use this iMac, and I  was blissfully living without knowing some weird thing was going on... until today. I noticed 10.7.2 was released, cool, but it's not on Software Update, so I head to support.apple.com and download the client version manually.

It won't let me install.

Hmm... ok. I head to "About this Mac" and here is what I see.

Please notice the "Version 10.7.1". Should work, no? Well, I go to "More Info..." and, to my surprise, this is what I see.

Yup. Mac OS X Lion Server 10.7 (no 10.7.1) and not only that. Please note the build number. Turns out it apparently is the build version of Developer Preview 2. Nevertheless, I go to /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist and surprise! It says:

Yeah, thats another build version. It turns out it IS the build version of 10.7.1. So it is 11B26?

Mmmmm... no. System Overview says 11A418 too. Half of my mac believes its one version, half believes its the other, and ultimately I can't install 10.7.2: Neither the Server Combo nor the Client Combo. Any ideas why this is happening? Suggestions? Or will I have to make a long distance call to my brother and wait like 4 hours for Lion to download and install agian? Any comments/suggestions welcome!


texts: How to deal with "Your Apple ID currently has two-step verification turned on, but two-factor authentication is required." on developer.apple.com?

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https://developer.apple.com/apple-id/

  Your Apple ID currently has two-step verification turned on, but
  two-factor authentication is required. After you turn on two-factor
  authentication, signing in to your developer account will require both
  your password and access to your trusted devices or trusted phone
  number.

How to make this 2-step auth?..
I was trying to login, and it didn't ask me to put SMS code or something else.

It means, "signing in to your developer account will require both
your password and access to your trusted devices or trusted phone
 number" never happened.

In the same time it does ask 2-step auth on https://appleid.apple.com/.

What's wrong?


texts: Where is the dns server configuration file located in OS X Server App on OS X El Capitan?

texts:
What is the dns server bundled with OS X Server app on OS X El Capitan and where is the configuration file located?

For some reason Server App crashes and the only service I tried to configure is DNS.


texts: HD in caddy seems inactive and blocks application

texts:
this is the premise:

Recently I removed from my mbp 15 (2012) the internal Superdrive and replaced it with a caddy + 1 Tb hard disk.
I already replaced the original HD with an SSD. Since I'm a programmer and I work intensively with my mac, I thought installing the caddy+HD was a good idea: this allows me to have intense write/read session over the HD rather than the ssd. Furthermore I moved all the general purpose files on the HD (music, documents and so on) by just copying it.

This said here is the strange thing. When I import music into iTunes from the HD it takes so long that the most times it start the color wheel and it blocks iTunes. Or while I'm working on a text file or source file it gets blocked while saving.

To me it looks like the hard disk goes to sleep from time to time (randomly????) and it blocks all the applications that are using it. The most obvious and tangible problem is given by the music player (that's why I spotted this problem). Sometime for example it is playing the music and by skipping from one song another it blocks for a while (keep in mind that I don't import things in the iTunes library cause this means a raw copy of the same things.. ).

Any clue is appreciated in spotting any problem or misconfiguration or whatever..


texts: Can I buy an Apple SIM card if I’m not a resident of the country where it's sold?

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Can Apple SIM cards be freely purchased, or are they tied to having an address in one of the thirteen countries where they are sold? I noticed an article on Mac Rumors that headlines “Truphone's Apple SIM Data Plans for iPad Will Be Available to Buy in Over 30 Countries Later This Year”. As I understand, data plans for an Apple SIM card can be purchased in other countries besides the 13 where Apple sells the cards. It sounds like it might be useful to have a card around, can I buy one when visiting one of the 13 countries? How much does Apple charge for the card?

Apple Support lists the countries where an Apple SIM card can be bought:

  If your iPad didn't come with an Apple SIM card, you can buy an Apple SIM kit at an Apple Retail Store in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, or Turkey.


texts:
I can't empty the trash of my removable drive. At first it appears to empty it correctly (no error message, the sound is played), but the folder in question stays there.

I tried:

jan@MacBook-Pro /Volumes/JD 2 $ sudo rm -rf .Trashes/

which gives errors like the following:

rm: .Trashes//501: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/: Directory not empty

Anyways, I narrowed it down to a .svn file that can't be deleted:

root@MacBook-Pro /Volumes/JD 2/.Trashes/501/CD_10.2009/devel/funghos $ ls -altr .svn
-rwxrwxrwx  1 _unknown  _unknown  690 Oct 21  2009 .svn
root@MacBook-Pro /Volumes/JD 2/.Trashes/501/CD_10.2009/devel/funghos $ rm -f .svn
root@MacBook-Pro /Volumes/JD 2/.Trashes/501/CD_10.2009/devel/funghos $ ls -altr .svn
-rwxrwxrwx  1 _unknown  _unknown  690 Oct 21  2009 .svn

As you can see, no error appears, but the file doesn't get deleted. Huh?


texts: USB-Serial Controller doesn't appear in Network

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I'm running El Capitan (10.11.2) and have had all sorts of problems with my USB-Serial cable after upgrading to El Capitan.

I have the latest drivers for my TrendNet TU-S9 USB-Serial Cable dated 11-10-2015. I've also tried getting the PL2303 drivers (dated 10-22-2015) from Prolific.

I unplugged the cable, uninstalled the old drivers per the instructions, rebooted, installed the latest drivers, rebooted, and plugged in the cable.

Under System Information-USB, I do see USB-Serial Controller D in the list of USB Devices. In /dev, I do not see tty.usbserial. Also, I do not see USB-Serial Controller as a possible interface in Network within the System Preferences. I just see Bluetooth PAN, FireWire, Ethernet and WiFi as possibilities when I try to add a new interface.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled several times and just can't get it to work. It is as if something is not letting the drivers be installed. I'd be grateful for any possible suggestions.


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i have configured my Google APP email account on my new MACbook Pro (OS x 10.9.4).

it was working fine for couple of days but now any attachment that i try to save it get save with ZERO size.

Note: this problem is only with Encrypted Folders.
if i download the save attachment to unencrypted folder, there is no problem encrypted


texts: Will Time Machine back up new data and bypass OS back up?

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Since Time Machine will back up new data as a higher priority, what if the Mac's hard drive is 800MB full, and the back up drive is only 500GB?

Since the OS system files are the "old data", will Time Machine back up the newer and newer data and therefore "forget about" the older data including the OS X system files, and that a "restore", if it is ever needed, will not be able to restore the Mac into a bootable condition?


texts: How to open port 8080 on external interface?

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I am running a server on port 8080, which I can access fine as localhost:8080 or 127.0.0.1:8080.

However, assuming my IP address is 192.168.1.15, how can I access the port using 192.168.1.15:8080?

The Mac firewall is disabled in System Preferences.


texts: none of my photos are available anymore , they dont open properly (all blurry) and it says its because i dont have enough icloud storage, i went to check it through my iphone but it tells me "unable to load storage info" (i tried both on wifi and data) so i can do nothing about it. I checked with pc and i have 2GB free. I wanted to know how I can get my photos back or at least transfer them to my pc.


texts: Why won't my iPhone 4 play through my bose sound dock anymore?

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It used to work, but now it doesn't. It now has iOS 5 on it. (I can't say for sure once iOS 5 went on it stopped working)

When I plug it into the docking station I hear the audio click, the green power light goes on the bose for a second, then it goes off then the phone charges.

If I go into Music and play anything, it appears as though it's playing though there is no sound coming from the sound-dock.

I can connect wirelessly to my Apple TV and it works, though then when playing on the TV, I connected it to the sound-dock and was able to select the "docking station" option (instead of Apple TV)

I've tried the phone on a cheap branded docking station and it works fine.

I've tried an iPod Touch in the sound-dock and it plays music fine.

I've restored the iPhone in case it was some glitch.
But still the problem persists. It charges, and appears to play, but no sound...

Its a SoundDock Series II, and both it and the phone have been powered off/reset to no avail.

Any ideas?


texts: Can a ML USB stick created with Lion Diskmaker be shared with others (who have their own ML license)?

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I purchased and downloaded Mountain Lion from the App Store for my own personal use. I created a bootable USB stick using the Lion Diskmaker utility to make it easier to install and for any future reinstalls.

My boss has also purchased a copy of Mountain Lion from the App Store for her own Macs, but the download is taking forever.

Is there any difference between the USB stick created using my ML download, versus a USB stick created using someone else's ML download? Is it okay to use my USB stick in lieu of someone else's download to upgrade other Macs for people (assuming they already have a license for Mountain Lion)?

Update: I ran a diff --recursive on the two downloads, and the only difference between them was Install OS X Mountain Lion.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt. So technically they are slightly different, but functionally they're identical.


texts: I need help, even t in my account i can't buy individually because my family sharing keeps asking for Credit Card of the manager!

texts: I want to rent movie worth $4.99, and i have $7.39 but it still asks me for Credit Card security code from manager!


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For the past few weeks, I have been unable to use the Timer app on my Apple Watch Series 3. When I open it, it shows the buttons "cancel|resume" with the last-run time. If I force-quit and reopen, it's still stuck on "cancel|resume". If I reboot, it works once and then gets stuck again.

Here's a linked screenshot of a Tweet of someone else reporting this issue.

Anyone else have this problem, or know how to fix it?

watchOS version: 6.1 (17S84)


texts: Hidden files & folders after executing Killall Finder command

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As the picture depics some of my folders turned grey after I executed Killall Finder command. For your information, I run a macOS 10.14.6.
Do anyone know what this means, and how to get it back to normal again?

Thank your for your time

Yoenca


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I want to export ALL the audio tracks from garageband to audacity. I searched on the internet and it is apparently not possible ( here for instance), or better it is possible but one track at time.

It seems so weird that nobody found a workaround or wrote a software which performs this acrion...

So, my questions are:

is it possible to export the whole (ALL TRACKS) garageband project to audacity?
is it possible to export the whole garageband project to any other multi-track recording software?


texts: Watch Me Do or other method for exact pixel coordinate of mouse click (Automator)

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Is it possible to specify how a mouse click point is recorded or processed in Watch Me Do?

had thought it was exact pixel position recorded but it seems that in a safari browser it is relative to the page scroll...

Is there another way to simulate actions clicking in exact locations (irrespectivec of browser scrollbar)?

Specifically, I would prefer a non-third party tool solution - using Automator if possible.


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I am experiencing weird problem with my iTunes Match subscription. Ever since upgrading to iOS 6 my devices spontaneously turn off iTunes Match this happened twice so far:

First shortly after upgrading my iPhone 4S and the new iPad to iOS 6. I upgraded, downloaded some songs and about a week later all my devices (inc. PC and a MacBook Pro) got iTunes Match turned off. This wasn't a problem for PC and MacBook as iTunes doesn't erase the music from them, but I had to download all the songs on iOS devices again.
Second time happened today - my PC and iPad got iTunes Match turned off. Again - no problem for PC, but have to download my music onto iPad all over again. You can imagine how time consuming this may be especially considering you cannot upload the music from desktop iTunes once you have iTunes Match on.

Any ideas why this might happen? There is absolutely no involvement from my side when this happens. All ma devices run latest Apple software (iTunes, OS X and iOS).

Where should I report it if I wanted to complain about it to Apple?


texts: How to decrease size of macbook pro (early 2011) boot partition?

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My macbook pro early 2011 has an SSD with 2 partitions (disk0s1 = 50Gb for time machine backups and disk0s2 =206Gb boot and data).
I have somehow managed to totally fill up my boot partition to over 205GB and the macbook does not boot. Using the diskutility I cannot decrease the 50GB disk0s1 partition and increase the disk0s2 partition. The repair tool ends with an error also.

What can I do to either copy the data from the partition or decrease the partition so that the mac can boot again?


texts: What Thunderbolt to USB 3.0 cables/adapters exist for OS X and Mac hardware?

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I have the Late 2013 Macbook Pro, which has two USB 3.0 ports and two Thunderbolt 2 ports. I currently use both USB 3.0 ports and one TB2 port. I want to connect a third USB 3.0 device to the machine, but I don't want to use a USB splitter on one USB port as I'm concerned the devices would draw too much power from the bus. I have no current use for the second TB2 port and I would love to be able to use it for this purpose.

Browsing extensively online, I've found numerous docks, such as Belkin's Thunderbolt Express, that connect via a Thunderbolt cable. This would work, but it's an expensive, 'bulkier' solution (and not the one I'm looking for).

I'm aware that a USB 3.0 device wouldn't be able to take advantage of Thunderbolt's I/O speeds, but it's certainly compatible, which is all I'd need. After all, Apple even sells a Thunderbolt to Firewire Adapter. I also know that Thunderbolt is not only used for digital video purposes (along with the TB > Firewire option, there exists Thunderbolt External Hard Drives).

There are almost no Thunderbolt to USB 3.0 cables/adapters on the market. I'd think this hardware would be more prevalent given the prominence of USB devices out there. What adapters are available for OS X?


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I am trying to reinstall an app I purchased some time ago. It is not installing. In the console I get the following message:

LaunchServices: Failed to create bundleProxy for bundle com.trankyman.aText


texts: Mac OS X Yosemite using too much RAM... Why?

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I think its a problem probably because of this CleanMyMac 3 app that says i have got only 100mb from my 8gb and when I click on "Free Up" I get more than 3gb free RAM only to fill it again after a while. The only thing feels slow on my system is when I enable the Transparency effects the minimizing and dragging the apps windows seems utterly slow (lagging).

I tried to install fresh copy of Yosemite and it was smoother and the lag was gone but I have to use this system so restored it. That's why I think some apps are causing this issue?

As you can see only 100MB of RAM is free!

My Mac specs:

EtreCheck report as advised:
http://pastebin.com/rxuGqef6


texts:
Let's assume the following situation:

My device gets stolen and my keychain keys (including iMessage encryption and signing keys)
I reactivate my iMessage account and new iMessage keys are generated.

As far I know, iMessage client sends the every public key to apple, so when someone send me message my message will be encrypted with each public key ever associated with my account.

If someone sniff on my messages and because they have my old keys, can they read my messages?

Is there way to manage my iMessage keys associated with my iMessage account?


texts: App Store constantly tries to charge me for nothing

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I have a virtual-credit card provided by my Bank, it is only chargable when i allow it (for a limited time.).

Right now, i am not purchasing anything, and i don't have any subscriptions to any app. I am just trying to download and install Flickr mobile app, but app store keeps asking for my credit card details (which are current but not-chargable because i didn't allow it) and saying the card has insufficient funds.

The card is clearly being tried to pay for something but thanks to virtual-card I'm not paying, this is something apple should fix.

But the problem is, since i am not paying for whatever it is, i can't download any app from the store, every app is trying to charge me, right now. how do i fix this? And how do i fix being constantly charged?

PS:
This has happened to me before, that time i transferred a little amount of fund and the card is actually charged for like 2$ (afaik).


texts: In Numbers, how can I get a cell value from another sheet with a formula?

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My need is to compare content cells from two different sheets in the same file and get the cell value from another column of the first one.

This is the tested formula to find the right position:

ADDRESS(MATCH(B;Sheet1::Table 1::$I);7;4;1;)

it gives, for example, G12 in a relative cell in the second sheet, but I need the value of "G12" cell from the first sheet.

How can I do this?


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Recently bought a new Macbook Pro to replace an older Air. Everything is working great except for the Amazon Music app. It downloads and installs just fine, but when I try to launch it using Spotlight, double-clicking in Finder or right-click + "Open" in Finder...nothing happens. The system log reports that:

com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.amazon.music.87788[14329]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1

Not very helpful. I've tinkered with the Security & Privacy settings (i.e. "Allow apps downloaded from"), but that changed nothing. I've tried uninstalling the app and reinstalling it via Homebrew Cask. Nothing. I've tried un/re-installing the app various ways multiple times. Nothing.

The interesting part, and perhaps a glimmer of hope, is that if I flip over to the Guest user, I can open the app just fine.

Anyone have any idea what might be going on with my user account that would be impacting my ability to launch a particular application?


texts: Full screen videos in Chrome suffer a lag

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I have an issue concerning full screen videos within the Google Chrome browser. The video lags for a second.
Since it is too hard to explain, I captured 16 seconds of video.

What could be the cause on this?


texts: upgrade a triple boot with 10.6.8 to 10.9 - potential problems?

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I was hoping to find a consensus of people who knew about the complications of upgrading from 10.6.8 to 10.9. I see on the App Store that 240 gave 10.9 1 star while 489 gave it 5 stars - so that is not very reassuring as I have a (overly) complicated laptop.

Firstly it is a (4,1) MacBook Pro (nvidia 8600G MT, 1 dual-core processor, 8 GB RAM, etc.) with 4 partitions (all wiped and partitioned by me when I first got it so it was very "blank" at the start): the first small one I stuck on rEFInd as a boot manager, and then the next three are, in order, Mac HFS+ (w/o journaling for writing by ubuntu), Windows 7, and then Ubuntu 14.04.

I disabled journaling on Mac and changed UIDs on Ubuntu so that I can read/write to and from them both. I also have VirtualBox(es) going back and forth if I need them both running at the same time (using rawdisks).

I also have tons of "big" software like Adobe Creative Suite that I'm worried may not work on 10.9. But mostly I don't want the upgrade to touch any partition other than /dev/disk0s2 (which is where Mac is at).

So if someone knows about these two major concerns of mine ("big" software & partitions), as well as any other forseeable problems, I would greatly appreciate any insight before I venture at possibly breaking my laptop :)


texts: Bootcamp Windows 7 loading time optimization

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I've created a bootcamp partition and successfully installed Windows 7 there. The problem is that Windows loads too slow - there is a white pointer on black screen blinking for 2 or 3 minutes before system starts loading, so total loading time exeeds to 4 minutes.
How can I reduce Windows loading time?
I'm using MBP 2010 MC371, so there should be no perfomance problems.


texts: How to remote desktop to Windows 8 with email login?

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How can I remote desktop to a Windows 8 machine using an email address login?

If enter my username as myusername@gmail.com and leave the domain blank I will be taken to the Windows 8 login screen and receive the login error:

  Other User

  The username or password is incorrect. Try again.

When I press OK, the Windows 8 login screen will just show my username as myusername, and if I add @gmail.com I can login.

The next time I open a remote desktop connection the client has split my user name up into:

  User name: myusername

  Domain: gmail.com

This also doesn't allow me to directly login and I get the same authentication error.

How can I preserve my username as myusername@gmail.com and login directly?

I am using Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.1.0 on OS X 10.8.4.


texts: I have an iPhone 5c that is not eligible for iOS 11. I don't want to have to buy a new phone if this one will still work, so is there a way to jailbreak the phone and install iOS 11? Or does it not work like that? Thanks for any help, I'd like to understand how this works.


texts: How to reload autofs on Lion without restarting?

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I'm trying to get my host machine running Lion to automount an NFS export on my CentOS VM.

I was able to get this working on a system running Mac OS 10.5 by modifying /etc/auto_master and then restarting the autofs service per the instructions in http://alanlam.blogspot.com/2008/06/restart-autofs-in-leopard-without.html:

sudo service com.apple.autofsd stop
sudo service com.apple.autofsd start

However, in Lion, the service command appears to be missing.

How do I reload the autofs service in OS X Lion without restarting?


texts:
Just watched Suits - S6; E13. I bought the season pass a while ago. Went to watch the next episode - S6; E14, but got the following error:

  This content can't be played on this Apple TV.

Why / why not?

Skipped ahead to the episode after that one - S6; E15,  which is working fine.

What's going on?


texts: Use only the left option key as meta key in Terminal.app

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There's an option in Terminal.app -> Preferences -> Settings -> Keyboard but it allows me only to set both option keys as meta keys.
iTerm.app has such an option but don't like that application.


texts: Time Machine over the network fails and reports incorrect available space

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I use Time Machine to backup my iMac to a MacBook Pro which is running OS X server.  Both are running 10.11.1; the Server version is 5.0.15.  Time Machine had been running fine using a 4TB USB drive on the server.  Yesterday I added a 6TB drive and switched the iMac to use it (again, over the network).

Now Time Machine fails after about 90 seconds and reports "The backup disk needs 743.84 GB for the backup but only 509.94 GB are available..."  The Time Machine System Preference panel then shows "510 GB of 510 GB available," which is strange because before the failure it correctly indicated "6 TB of 6 TB available."

I have doubled checked the formatting of the 6TB drive (HFS+ Journaled, GUID Partition Map) and confirmed that the server also shows 6TB available.  I have also reset Time Machine backups (http://pondini.org/TM/A4.html), rebooted both computers, shutdown and restarted the Time Machine service, and basically started everything I know of from scratch twice.

Any solutions or hints will be quite welcome!


texts: What are "dmgpart" files and what tools can create, merge, or manage them?

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I downloaded something that came as three large files:  One was a *.dmg (a disk image file, which I expected) and two more were *.dmgpart files, which I haven't happened to see before – I never downloaded something so large on my Mac!

I suppose these *.dmgpart files are just the parts of a single disk image, but spanning three files so each can fit within a target size for media backup purposes. For instance, the first two parts of my download were 4.3GB each, conspicuously the capacity of a single-layer DVD-ROM.

Is my supposition about *.dmgpart files correct, or did I miss something key?
How long ago were these multi-part disk image files introduced in Mac OS X?
Is there a logical limitation to the *.dmg file format itself requiring images over a certain size to be made multi-part, or is it an optional facility for spanning media only?
How can I create multi-part disk images like this? Is this supported by the standard tools (i.e. Disk Utility), or are special command-line or other tools required?
Is there an easy way to merge the parts back into a single disk image?  (One could conceive making the mistake of not copying an entire set – not a problem where only a single image file is involved.)
Is there an easy way to split an existing very large disk image into a spanned set?

Thanks!


texts: MacBook Air doesn't power on with the power-on button. But when I remove battery connection and put back it works. As long as it is in sleep mode it works. But when I switch OFF it doesn't power on and needs the battery connection to be reconnected.


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The default language on my iMac is Italian, however, after restoring from a time machine backup, the language of the shutdown and reboot options from the menu bar have mixed language.

The "countdown" is in Italian but the other text is not, as you can see. Also, the text of the password prompt of the lock screen is in English too, "Enter password". I tried switching the language to English and back to Italian but it didn't work. I'm running OS X 10.11.6.


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I have a 2015 MacBook Pro and need to know if I should be using a MagSafe 1 or 2 charger. I've searched around with Google but so far I've found conflicting information.

I recently ordered an 85W MagSafe 2 (T-style) car charger and while the green light comes on showing power coming in, the menubar battery doesn't show the lighting bolt in the UI.

Need to know if it is just defective or if I'm buying the wrong charger.


texts: Changing /etc/hosts not getting affected

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I have added the following line in my /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1   myapp.corp.com

so my full /etc/hosts looks like:

127.0.0.1   localhost
127.0.0.1   myapp.corp.com
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

After this, I have run the following commands:

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

After which I have started the local server, but

myapp.corp.com:8080

is not working. Where as localhost:8080 works. I tried even restarting my machine, clearing the browser cache. Nothing helped.

Where I'm making mistake?


texts: Fans not running when 2018 MBP is in Bootcamp

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I have Windows 10 installed on a Bootcamp partition of my 2018 MacBook Pro. When booted in macOS, the fans run fine (i.e. whenever the computer is in high load and hot).

But when I'm in Windows, the fans are completely quiet and I cannot feel any airflow from behind the machine. When I switch into macOS and check the CPU temperature using Macs Fan Control, it always reads high-90s and starts gunning the fans until it cools down, leading me to think that the CPU is throttling itself properly.

I've tried resetting the SMC following the instructions here, doing both the normal steps and the "If that doesn't resolve the issue" steps, but to no avail. Has anyone else had this problem, and has anything worked for you to get the fans to actually run in Windows?


texts: MacBook Air/Pro: run script upon lid close?

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How can one configure MacOS (10.8 or higher) to automatically and immediately call a user-designated script (probably a bash script) upon the user closing the display lid of a MacBook Air or Pro?

Details.

I want to do this because in some scenarios my MacBook Air 2013 running 10.8.5 does not immediately sleep/lock the screen upon lid close (possibly because a VPN client is trying to open a connection).  As such, I want the system to immediately execute a script which calls this screen-saving-and-locking procedure upon lid close.  However, I don't know how to call scripts upon display-lid closing.


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I've bought in 2010 the app "GoodReader" for iPhone and I would like to restore it to my iPad. However I cannot see it in my list of purchased apps in iTunes (although many others do show up).

Any idea why is so, and how to make it appear in my list?


texts: Is it possible to play 1080p MKV files on iPad2 over uPnP?

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I have just configured my Drobo FS to be a uPnP server on which I have lots of 1080p MKVs.

My little boy loves his movies (Nemo / Cars / etc), so I was hoping to be able to let him watch them on the iPad streamed from the Drobo.

Am I dreaming the impossible dream here?

Or have I hit some hardware limitation of the iPad and/or the bandwidth limits of my wifi?

EDIT

The files are mostly AVC for video and DTS for audio

EDIT 2

Since I already had plex installed on my iPad (which I bought on iTunes) I re-enabled the software on my PC server and just pointed it to my Drobo movie share. I was really hoping to not have to transcode, but I guess that will have to wait until I've got faster wifi and a more capable tablet ;)

EDIT 3

I was having a play this morning as I would quite like to watch some 720p TV shows I have (stored on my DroboFS) on my iPad2. But it seems I cannot even watch those. About the only things I can watch smoothly are SD AVIs (very low bitrate)


texts: How can I install Sierra on my Mac Pro Tower early 2008?

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I would just like to install Sierra on my unsupported Mac Pro Tower early 2008. I know it is not supported, but as the machine itself is no longer supported by Apple, I don't really care.

I have tried the Sierra patch tool from DosDude. However, the installer disk it creates hangs during boot with the error:

Can't get kexts port.
com.apple.bsd.dirhelper.489 Warning: Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.bsd.com

Even after exchanging emails with DosDude, we weren't able to resolve the problem.

Is there another way to go about this? What does the Sierra installer check to know whether the machine is supported? If I were to find a way around this, is there some hardware-related reason why Sierra wouldn't run on this machine? E.g. ROM? According to the MacTracker app, my tower has a Intel Xeon 5400 series ("Harpertown") processor. The Boot ROM and SMC versions are:
 Boot ROM Version:  MP31.006C.B05
 SMC Version (system):  1.25f4

I have a MacBook Air and I could afford to buy a new Mac. It's just that, damn it, I'm attached this old tower. It has run for years and is still very fast (especially with its new SSD drives). I could continue with El Capitan, but Sierra has many fixes to bugs I'm currently living with, plus improvements to many Apple apps that I would like to enjoy.


texts: Shutdown "no tty present and no askpass program specified"?

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I'm trying to run a shutdown script remotely on multiple Macs. The command I use to start it over ssh is:

ssh ADMIN@mac123 'bash -s' sudo < ./documents/ShutdownUPTIME.sh

Of course it asks me for an sudo password, which I type in correctly. The only message after that is: sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified

Any ideas how I can fix this?
My user is definitely a super-user


texts: How Can I Copy a Video to iPhone and Send It Over iMessage?

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I'm trying to send to video I made with my previous Windows Phone over iMessage, but after syncing it to my phone with iTunes, it shows up as a movie.

I can't select it from the messaging app, because I can only select items from Pictures > Video.

How can I get it to show up in there?

Video details:

Format                         : MPEG-4
Format profile                 : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID                       : mp42
File size                      : 22.3 MiB
Duration                       : 17s 740ms
Overall bit rate               : 10.6 Mbps

Video
ID                             : 1
Format                         : AVC
Format/Info                    : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                 : Main@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC         : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames      : 1 frame
Codec ID                       : avc1
Codec ID/Info                  : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                       : 17s 740ms
Source duration                : 17s 773ms
Bit rate mode                  : Variable
Bit rate                       : 10.4 Mbps
Width                          : 1 280 pixels
Height                         : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio           : 16:9
Frame rate mode                : Variable
Frame rate                     : 29.821 fps
Minimum frame rate             : 6.944 fps
Maximum frame rate             : 30.364 fps
Color space                    : YUV
Chroma subsampling             : 4:2:0
Bit depth                      : 8 bits
Scan type                      : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)             : 0.380
Stream size                    : 22.1 MiB (99%)
Source stream size             : 22.1 MiB (99%)
mdhd_Duration                  : 17770

Audio
ID                             : 2
Format                         : AAC
Format/Info                    : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile                 : LC
Codec ID                       : 40
Duration                       : 17s 740ms
Source duration                : 17s 740ms
Bit rate mode                  : Constant
Bit rate                       : 96.0 Kbps
Channel count                  : 1 channel
Channel positions              : Front: C
Sampling rate                  : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode               : Lossy
Stream size                    : 214 KiB (1%)
Source stream size             : 214 KiB (1%)
mdhd_Duration                  : 17740


texts: How to publish the Places map from Aperture with geotagged pictures?

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So I have a set of pictures taken along the way of a road trip. They were taken with an iPhone so they're geotagged but we could be dealing with manually geotagged pics, doesn't matter. I want to publish the equivalent of what I see in the Places section of Aperture. A map (any provider is fine) fully scrollable and or zoomable, with my set of pictures on it. Pics could be thumbnails or pins until you click on it, it doesn't matter.

Is my only solution the iPad iPhoto app and its journal feature? (never used it so I'm just guessing) Would that do the trick? Any other Mac software out there (dare I dream of an Aperture plugin?) that could do that?


texts: MacBook no longer mirrors audio to external screen when it is closed

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This problem is driving me absolutely insane. When I connect my Mac to a tv via HDMI, it displays and correctly routes the audio through the TV as expected, with me being able to toggle between the two in system preferences. When the lid is closed however, the video mirrors correctly, but no matter what option I select, audio is played out of the Macbook's speakers. Why would this be happening?

Here's my specs:

This is the dongle I am using.

TV is a Samsung Q70R


texts: How to show my name, but not my call back number when call out on Iphone 11

texts: I want to make calls so that people can see my name, but not have my cell number sent to avoid callbacks.


texts: Help me assess my internet connection's problem

texts:
I'm currently pinging google.com to find a trend and pinpoint the problem. The internet keeps disconnecting every few mins and I have no idea why.

What I realised is that between every 4-6 pings I get one request timeout, and sometimes the latency goes up to time=100 and above or time=1000 and above, in which the internet's speed becomes really slow. Sometimes I get 4 or more timeouts in one succession. I also observed that the latency is low and steady (with minor fluctuations) if I'm not browsing anything, as soon as I hit refresh or load a page the whole thing goes into a spiral of timeouts and very high latency.

However, restarting my connection by toggling WiFi on and off quickly resets the connection and I get good latency, that until the whole process repeats.

Anyone knows what may be the problem ? I am at a serviced apartment with Wifi shared on multiple channels. Also, I have a Retina without the Ethernet adapter, so I cannot check that right now.

edit It's 4AM in the morning and I have no timeouts and pretty quick latency, I'm sure this finding has some value.


texts: Mail - send web content as link by default

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If I choose to share a page with Safari, it automatically re-loads the entire web page in a Mail "new message" window. I can then choose to send web content as "Link Only", which removes all of the content that was just downloaded.

I routinely block a lot of trackers, ads, etc in my browser, and I don't want to lose all that protection when sharing a page. Also, first downloading a lot of content and then deleting it is bad practice.

Is there a way to set Mail to send it as link only by default?


texts: Is macOS Mojave (and up?) doing extra network blocking compared to macOS High Sierra?

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I have two computers on the same LAN:

old: macOS High Sierra + Server.app
new: macOS Mojave + Server.app

Both have the Application Firewall turned off

When I run nc -l 8082 on one I can connect to it from the other using a telnet client, both ways. I can also connect from other Macs on the local network.

But when connected to from the outside, the High Sierra computer accepts network connections, while the Mojave computer doesn't.

In other words, I set router NAT and router firewall to accept port 8082 and route it to old, the old computer is available for connections. I see the traffic (NAT and fw) in the logging on the (Ubiquiti) router (I've set logging active on the NAT rule and the allow firewall rule):

Dec 28 03:48:21 ubntrouter kernel: [WAN_IN-40-A]IN=eth1 OUT=switch0 MAC=24:a4:3c:b3:ae:0a:02:1d:b5:ca:a9:4b:08:00 SRC=[outsideclient] DST=[old:privateip] LEN=60 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=55 ID=18302 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=35900 DPT=8082 WINDOW=29200 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
Dec 28 03:48:21 ubntrouter kernel: [NAT-2-DNAT] IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=24:a4:3c:b3:ae:0a:02:1d:b5:ca:a9:4b:08:00 SRC=[outsideclient] DST=[publicip] LEN=60 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=56 ID=18302 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=35900 DPT=8082 WINDOW=29200 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0

But when I do exactly the same with the new computer, I get 'Connection refused'. I still see the same (except for private inside ip of course) traffic attempt in the logging of the router, though:

Dec 28 03:49:24 ubntrouter kernel: [WAN_IN-40-A]IN=eth1 OUT=switch0 MAC=24:a4:3c:b3:ae:0a:02:1d:b5:ca:a9:4b:08:00 SRC=[outsideclient] DST=[new:privateip] LEN=60 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=55 ID=53334 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=35946 DPT=8082 WINDOW=29200 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
Dec 28 03:49:24 ubntrouter kernel: [NAT-2-DNAT] IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=24:a4:3c:b3:ae:0a:02:1d:b5:ca:a9:4b:08:00 SRC=[outsideclient] DST=[publicip] LEN=60 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=56 ID=53334 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=35946 DPT=8082 WINDOW=29200 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0

After many hours hunting for a mistake, checking and double-checking, I must now cautiously conclude that the difference is in High Sierra versus Mojave. Somehow, HighSierra accepts the network traffic, while Mojave blocks it. I suspect Apple security measures, accepting traffic from the local IP range but not when originating from outside that IP range.

Assuming that is the case. What could be causing this (application firewall is off) and how can I fix it so I can actually provide a service from my Mac to the outside world?


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