texts: Mac monitor is displaying screen but I cannot navigate my cursor to it

texts: I'm using a VGA adapter to connect my Macbook Pro to an external monitor and I see the Macbook screen on my external display but I'm not able to move my cursor to it. It was working just fine a day ago, all of a sudden my cursor is not able to navigate there and I'm not able to drag any open windows to the screen either.


texts: FileVault2 boot volume corrupt after partition deletion

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A client has a MacBook Pro Retina with a FileVault2 encrypted boot drive, and the Mac used to dual boot with Linux. Disk Utility apparently showed 4 partitions [Mac HD, Linux, and other 2 small partitions, likely used by Linux as it too was full disk encrypted.

He managed somehow to delete one of the small partitions, and now all disk utility shows are disk0s1, disk0s2, and so on, without even the containing physical drive above in the list.

The os was 12.12.4 [likely, definitely 12.12.x].

This is an image from Recovery > Disk Utility:

      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  813902408      2  GPT part - FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
  814312048    1269536      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  815581584       1648
  815583232   80498047      4  GPT part - 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4
  896081279        641
  896081920    2244608      5  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  898326528     262144
  898588672   78516224      6  GPT part - 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4
  977104896        131
  977105027         32         Sec GPT table
  977105059          1         Sec GPT header

Of course he doesn't have a backup. He has the recovery key for FileVault2. Any ideas?


texts: Setting system-wide environment variables in El Capitan

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I was using the method described in this post to invoke "launchctl setenv" to set environment variables globally. I have just upgraded to OS X 10.11 "El Capitan," and now I see that the launchctl command works fine, but appears to have no effect on the actual environment. For example, here is the output from some debug code I stuck into a "make" file running under Eclipse:

launchctl getenv PATH /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/ecos/gnutools/h8300-elf/bin:/opt/ecos/gnutool s/arm-elf/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin

echo "PATH = /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
PATH = /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

Anyone have any idea what's happening to me? Thanks in advance.


texts: Restoring recovered files from a partition

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My Mac was previously running Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion. While making a bootable USB installer of El Capitan, the terminal command to restore the image ended up writing over a partition instead of the USB since they both were named "untitled". This partition had Snow Leopard along with all of my data. The other partition is working fine.

Now, I have been able to recover all of my valuable files after purchasing the recovery software but I'm wondering whether I should recover the rest of the files too. The software found literally all of the data on the partition, apps and everything but all of it is under "lost folders", somewhat categorized. Is there any way for me to restore this recovered data and go back to the original state of my MacBook?

Other Info:

The thumb drive I was making was for an external SSD. I wasn't planning on making any changes to the current setup of the Mac.

This was the guide that I was using: How to make a bootable OS X 10.11 El Capitan installer drive

This is what the recovery software is showing:

I have since renamed the partition to "OS X el capitan" since I erased it once.


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How to identify mac book pro product manufacturing year? And not the product release date.
example is mac book pro series launched in 2012 but what is its product manufactured date?


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After a complete freeze and hard reboot on my Mac Pro, I try to find out why.

In Console “Devices” I only see the logs of the last few minutes.

How can I see earlier logs? The only control I can see is a “Now” button.

OK, looks like “Diagnostic and Usage Data” is more helpful. There I see also previous logs.

But what about “Devices”? Are there only logs from the current system start on?


texts: How to enable root on the Lion "Recovery" boot drive?

texts: There's a few funny things / clues here and there on the Lion recovery disk "Systems" - that indicate you can save your settings between boots. A very light smattering of persistent settings etc. Beyond that.. Does anyone know if you can enable the root account or if there is an admin password etc. on these boot drives? It would kinda be nice to be able to look around when booted to these things, possibly see what's going on under the hood etc..  Also, it might open the door to being able to SSH to the machine, which would definitely come in handy during tough installs, or other strange circumstances.


texts: How do I script the forced logging out another desktop user from OS X?

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We're running tests that require multiple desktops on a Mac Mini.

We're successfully using an ssh TCP tunnel to localhost, 5900 to 6900, to make Screen Sharing let us log into other users on this same machine with vnc://user:password@localhost:6900 and some Applescript to press the resulting dialogue buttons. I can detect successful login via ssh running a program under Java 1.7 with export AWT_TOOLKIT=CToolkit that tries to open an AWT window as the secondary user, which fails if the desktop isn't started.

This is fairly reliable, although I'd happily hear of more reliable methods!

Where things are going wrong:

We're having problems logging those robot users out, to leave the machine fresh for other tests that object to all the memory wasted by stray processes the users leave running.

I'm currently using

for i in $users ; do
  ssh ${i}@localhost "osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\"'
                                  -e 'log out'
                                  -e 'delay 3'
                                  -e 'keystroke return'
                                -e end" &
done; wait

but sometimes System Events apparently isn't running and refuses to start:

33:40: execution error: System Events got an error: Application isn’t running. (-600)

I've recently added -e 'if it is not running then launch' -e 'delay 5' immediately before the -e 'log out' but that doesn't seem to do a whole lot to help.

I thought replacing all that Applescript stuff with some variant of ssh kill -KILL -1 would work - at least as a back-up for the hold-out users whose System Events are broken - but it leaves a good couple of dozens of CoreServices, PrivateFrameworks, and Frameworks GUI-looking things running most of which refuse to die even with kill -9 manually aimed at their PIDs. I tried quite hard with a two-stage script, catching the output of killall -s to a file and squirting it into a second ssh session.

Is there a more reliable way to log these users out and kill all their processes? I have admin rights on the box, but I'd prefer something on the Unix command-line to avoid writing further painful AppleScript to manipulate the GUI.

Thanks!


texts: Battery indicator is showing "Service Battery" notification

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I upgraded my macbook RAM, but after that when I switched on my MAC it showed my "Service Battery" indicator in battery menu. I installed Battery Health application and it showed following stats.

Its showing my original battery charge is left at 26%. Does that means I need to change my battery and get a new one. My macbook is 15 inch early 2011 model.
Thanks


texts: Prompting user for input on locking screen

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I'm relatively new to OSX (running Mavericks), but my goal is to create a script that reminds me to take notes on the day's work. The script will ideally: run upon the user clicking 'Login window' (i.e. lock screen) and prompt the user for whether or not they want to record notes (ok/cancel). If the user answers OK, then the script will ask for a multiline input, then append the date and time, plus that input, to a text file before locking the screen. If the user clicks cancel or 15 seconds pass without interaction, the dialog should be dismissed and the screen will lock.

I'm:

1) unsure about how to prompt the user for multiline input

2) unclear how to trigger the script on the user requesting a return to the login window (lock screen?)

If this can be accomplished through a third-party program/interface, I'm open to that as well. Thanks!


texts: How many whatsapp backup are stored on icloud?

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I erased a very important whatsapp discussion 6 days ago and I'd like to get it back. The problem is auto-backup on my Iphone 8 is set to "daily". So when i erase the app from iphone and restore from icloud the backup I get is the last one. Does Icloud keep older whatsapp backup somewhere ? and how could I get them and replace the newest ?
Thanks !


texts: Does reinstalling Lion from Recovery partition delete data?

texts: I've decided my install of Lion is hopelessly botched. Spotlight doesn't work, kernel panics, etc etc etc. Want to reinstall. If I reinstall Lion from the recovery USB key I have, it will retain all my data correct? ie; not format the drive and reinstall.


texts: Any problems adding a new SSD to iMac 2011?

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I have an iMac 2011 mid-model. I bought this without a SSD, now I want to add one.

I heard the model have several problems, when it comes to adding extra SSD's. Including TRIM support and Temperature Sensor. But I want to add it if those problems are acceptable.

I want to know if there are any problems, with adding a SSD, and workarounds for the problems.

Is there any Apple certified SSD that I can purchase now or later? I will bring my iMac to Apple's service center, and let them to add it, to keep AppleCare.

Update.

I'm living in Korea. And here is no Apple retail store and Genius bar. So I asked this question here.


texts: Is it possible to display the current state of modifier keys?

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I have a keyboard which is a little flaky, and occasionally one of the modifier keys becomes stuck. Realizing I’ve entered this state often takes a while. Is it possible to display — e.g., in the menu bar or in the style of Sticky Keys — which modifier keys are currently down?

I don’t need the Sticky Keys functionality, so turning that on wouldn’t seem to be a solution.


texts: Navigating forward/backward in Microsoft Word?

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I have a Word document with internal links (i.e. a link will jump to anchor in the same document). When I click on one of these links, it jumps to that location, as it is supposed to.

How can I get back to the location I was at before I clicked the link? I can't find a back or forward button anywhere.

Also, if I'm in Outline view, it changes the view to Print Layout. Is there any way to have the back button also switch the view back to how it was originally? In other words, I'm looking for a way to undo the link click.

I'm using Microsoft Word 2011 (for Mac).


texts: Terminal .profile: No such file or directory

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when I run Terminal I got this message:

Last login: Tue Apr 14 09:41:36 on ttys000
-bash: /Users/user/.profile: No such file or directory

Does someone know why and how can I fix it?

Thanks in advance.


texts: disable reading list side panel on mouse move

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When I am in fullscreen Safari and I move my mouse pointer to the left of the screen, the reading list (?) slides out, and gets in my way.

How do I do one of

prevent the panel from revealing itself when my mouse is on the left of the screen
completely disable that panel altogether


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I wanted to know if I could delete my own user in my mac, I have administrator permissions. Can I only delete other users or can I delete my own account too?
(EDIT : i don't use the Mac anymore so I want to delete my own account, there is an other admin account (the Mac owner). It would save a lot of place in my Mac)


texts: Defaults documentation for builtin apps?

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Does Apple supply a list of valid preferences, in terms of key-value pairs found in plist files, for built-in OS X apps?

For example, the Preview app has a user setting for anti-aliasing. One can turn this off from the command line with

defaults write com.apple.Preview PVPDFAntiAliasOption -bool no

This can also be done from the PDF tab of the Preview preferences pane, and if I do the command

defaults read com.apple.Preview

I am able to see all of Preview's stored defaults, and might be able to deduce without foreknowledge that PVPDFAntiAliasOption would be the key-value pair to alter to get the desired behaviour.

But now suppose I would like to modify other behaviours for Preview, which do not have entries in the preferences pane. Say have the sidebar open by default to the table of contents, instead of thumbnails. Or have the sidebar not open at all.

I am unable to find documentation on developer.apple.com which even lists the known PVPDFAntiAliasOption, let alone the (non-)existence of unknown keys. Google will find information about this known key, but I haven't found the right combination of search terms to find the desired list. Does documentation exist for these items? Is it provided by Apple?


texts: How do I unbind a Mac from the AD using the command line?

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Currently I am using the below command line to bind any Mac to my AD, and so far has been work perfectly.

dsconfigad -a hostname -u DomainAdminsUserName -p Password --ou "CN=Computers,DC=hello,DC=com" -domain hello.com -mobile enable -mobileconfirm enable -localhome enable -useuncpath enable -groups "Domain Admins,Enterprise Admins" -alldomains enable

reboot

Question, how do I unbind a Mac from AD to reverse the above configuration using the command line?


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My Reminders dock badge shows 6 reminders (am using macOS Sierra 10.12.3)

But there are only 2 due:

I already tried:

Closing Reminders, killing the Dock, reopening Reimenders
Enabling the Debug menu and refreshing

Reminders are synced with iCloud and Exchange, all other devices have the right count of open reminders.

Any other ideas?


texts: I have a spare SSD Drive that's been removed from my iMac. Is there a way I can use it externally using an adaptor or something though USB?


texts: How to ignore the invalid SSL certificate error in Firefox on iOS?

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I've just switched to Firefox from Safari in iOS just after its release.

How can I ignore the invalid SSL Certificates error and bypass it in the newly released iOS version of Firefox?

I can't find any button to bypass it and big blue Try again just refreshs.


texts: Cannot access mounted .dmg over the network in Mountain Lion

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I noticed this with TrueCrypt volumes. Before 10.8, whenever I mounted a .dmg on my iMac, I could access it automatically from my mbp over the network with afp sharing. But after upgrading to Mountain Lion, apparently this is not working anymore.

Furthermore, I if explicitly share the mounted .dmg, I have no error on the iMac , but on the mbp the share is not visible. It's only me or this is a new "feature", may be related to security ?


texts: iPod touch syncs to my new computer correctly - apart from my Apps. How to fix?

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I have a 4th generation iPod touch.
I used to sync it with my old Windows computer and everything worked fine.

I then switched to a Mac, and followed a procedure for porting my iTunes library over.
The procedure was something like: Consolidate library, export library. Copy the generated file over and iTunes Music folder to a temporary folder. Update the file paths. Import the file onto the new, and let the Mac iTunes reorganise it in its new structure.

This worked fine, except that it didn't copy my apps across. When I selected "sync with this computer" the first time I plugged in my iPod to the Mac it seemed to work, except then I noticed that it wasn't syncing any apps. Those I bought on my iPod aren't snced to my Mac, and vice-versa,

Is there any way to force my apps to sync from my iPod to my Mac? (Preferably keeping save data).

They both use the same iTunes account.

The iPod is jailbroken, in case theres a Cydia app I can use to achieve this.

EDIT: Just to clarify, the rest of the iPod data - music, videos, iBook books, etc. sync fine.


texts: Can I have launchctl output stdout/stderr from my application to the system-wide Unified Logging mechanism?

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I have set up a custom .plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents to run a process (offlineimap) on a periodic basis. I've specified both the StandardOutPath and StandardErrorPath keys to point to files in my home directory, which works. However, this doesn't really provide a complete logging solution from what I can see. The logs are not rotated, there are no timestamps (addressed by this question, although there was no clear answer), and the log is not integrated into any other logging on the system. I think I would prefer it if the logs went to Unified Logging.

I'm used to systemd logging on Linux, which is a similar mechanism, and it would be great if there was a similar way I could redirect that output into the system-wide log, viewable with the log command. Is there any way to do that with a custom LaunchAgent?

I should add that I'm using MacOS 10.14.5.


texts: Display's native resolution not registering properly

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I've got an HP monitor (specs here) that is supposed to display natively in 1080p.  I've used it for years in this setup no problem.

Last night I upgraded my Mini to a newer model, and when it was starting up I realized that I didn't have the HP monitor plugged in, just the secondary monitor, so I connected it via the HDMI port, as I always have.

For some reason, the HP monitor is now thinking that the edges of 1080p are an inch off the screen in every direction when told to use its native resolution in the Displays control panel.  If I use the other options below it (1080p, 720p, and 1600x900), it just gets increasingly worse, only showing a quarter of the actual screen.  Restarting has not fixed this.

Today I was plugging it back into the old Mini to help get it set up for a coworker and it's working normally again.

I'm completely at a loss at this point for why it's misbehaving.  The only way to get it to display at the proper size is to slide Underscan slider halfway across in the display's settings, but that causes other issues due to irregular pixel sizes, etc.

Is there any way to "unregister" this monitor's settings and have it detect them again, perhaps?  Or some other way to get it to detect it properly?


texts: Are devices supposed to automatically be removed from iCloud when all content and settings are erased?

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I've just upgraded to a new iPhone; my previous device was linked to my iCloud account, and had Find My enabled. When choosing to perform a reset (from Settings/General/Reset/Erase all Content and Settings), I had to enter my Apple ID password; the text on this screen stated that this was to disable Find My, which has been done. However, when checking the devices still associated from my account on my new iPhone (from Settings/My Name/iCloud), I noticed that I still had my just-erased device listed, as well as two Apple Watches (one that I'd erased several minutes before doing the same to my old iPhone, and an old Watch that I erased this time last year).

When erasing a device, are these devices then supposed to automatically be removed from the list of associated devices in iCloud or should this be done manually? When erasing my Watch, I clearly remember the notification stating that Find My would be disabled, as well as the Watch being removed from my account but this doesn't appear to be the case - for either my Watch or iPhone.


texts: What is the difference between iCloud Photo Library and My Photo Stream

texts: In my iPhone settings I have both set ON. What is the difference if I turn one or the other off?i


texts: How can I delete song from both playlist and iTunes library?

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How can I delete a song both from a playlist and the iTunes music library when viewing the playlist in iTunes 12.0.1.26.

I've tried several key combinations with Backspace and Delete (in the Editmenu) is disabled.


texts: When editing files on a (Windows?) networked drive I get "could not be saved" errors

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When I edit files that are stored locally, everything works fine, but when editing files that are stored on my networked home directory (at uni here), I get:

The document "<x>" could not be saved.

when I try to save a file. If I then close the program (XCode), I get this:

If I click duplicate, and then reopen the file, the changes I just made are all there. And as far as I can tell, no duplicate file is created. With TextEdit I get this:

I've lost the browser tab now, but I read something that was saying this will only happen for programs that use OSX's autosave feature or something? So far, I get the error message in XCode and TextEdit, but not TextWrangler.

The networked drive is at /Volumes/Student/Home/myUsername/, and I think it's a windows drive, but I'm not sure.

EDIT:
As requested, df:

Filesystem                             512-blocks       Used   Available Capacity  iused      ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2                           1951845952   92568016  1858765936     5% 11635000  232345742    5%   /
devfs                                         363        363           0   100%      629          0  100%   /dev
map -hosts                                      0          0           0   100%        0          0  100%   /net
map auto_home                                   0          0           0   100%        0          0  100%   /home
map -fstab                                      0          0           0   100%        0          0  100%   /Network/Servers
//myUsername@domain.edu.au/student        285149176   74120992   211028184    26%        0 18446744073709551615    0%   /Volumes/student
//myUsername@domain.edu.au/student/Home 17203089400 5130812464 12072276936    30%        0 18446744073709551615    0%   /Volumes/student/Home

, and diskutil list:

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            999.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3


texts: Keyboard and Trackpad behave erratic MacBook Pro 13 (early 2015)

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i have a slight problem with my MacBook Pro early 2015. For some reason the keyboard strokes are not correctly registered by the OS. On the login screen typing either triggers the “can’t type here” sound or wrong letters / erratic movement occur. For example pressing the louder button usually first turns the sound down twice and then mutes the Mac. Also a trackpad click only triggers the secondary click. A normal click or tap is not possible. The same stays true after login.

This is already weird but I also checked the virtual keyboard and there the right buttons are highlighted on stroke meaning that at least there I see full function. Also the Option + keys correctly types each special symbol. Also weird is that on the virtual key the acute is always lid in orange. Sometimes the keyboard completely works for some time just to revert to the no-function a little later. What i also noticed is that I can trigger the failure the following way:
if the keyboard works the acute on the virtual keyboard is always lid. If I press the left shift key, the acute is not lid anymore and the keyboard strokes are not recognised by the system anymore. However, the virtual keyboard is still recognising everything just fine.

The error is also present when booting from an USB stick. P+R+Option+Alt does not work and neither does triggering the recovery mode.

What did I try to fix it:

Warranty has run out, therefore I thougt: go for it!

I already exchanged the cable that connects the trackpad to the logic board, I reinstalled the OS, exchanged the trackpad itself and cleared the nvram. I do not know where to look for error reports or such. Thus any pointer would be highly appreciated.

I'd be super happy and grateful if someone could help me!


texts: X forwarding application shows blank window after one successful load

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I'm running into a strange issue trying to forward an application from a remote Linux server over X (through ssh).

The application (it is a java application---a commercial program, not my own) seems to load successfully once, but after exiting and trying to run it again I only get a blank X11 window, with the correct application title. I don't get any errors, the window just doesn't load.

My .ssh\config options for both servers include ForwardX11 and ForwardX11Trusted.

I'm running OS X 10.9, with XQuartz 2.7.5. One machine I'm trying to run this application from is Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS, and the other is RHEL 6.4.

Any ideas, or suggestions on where to look for an issue? I've tried ssh'ing with -vvv, but I didn't notice any obvious error messages.


texts: Mac Photos stuck on "Restoring... 0%" after Time Machine restore

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I’m having troubles with a Mac Photos library after a Time Machine restore.  It’s an iCloud library with roughly 120,000 photos, and was set to only store optimized images locally.  Catalina 10.15.7, with plenty of free space.
My Mac was repaired under AppleCare, including replacing the logic board, which replaced the SSD.  I restored from my Time Machine backup without incident, other than Photos wouldn’t launch.  The window opened with “Restoring… 0% complete” and never stopped.  (Not “Restoring from iCloud” which I know is a message that can also appear).  After several hours with no progress, I killed the app.  My photos are in iCloud, and work fine on other devices so I figured I’d just create a new local library and re-sync from iCloud.  I’ve been unable to do so.
What I do:

Create a new empty library and set it to be Primary.  Photos freezes
(spins) when I press that Primary button.  Location of that library
is irrelevant (tried both default and non-default location)
Once I
kill Photos, I relaunch, and it shows “Restoring… 0%” and never makes
progress.  Photos, along with the related daemons (photolibraryd,
photoalanlysd, and cloudphotod) remain at 0%.

Steps I’ve tried multiple times in various combinations:

Delete the Photos library
Delete Photos preferences, at least all I can find
Turn off iCloud->Photos in system preferences
Reboot

Any suggestions?


texts: How to update latest MacBook pro EFI firmware manually?

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In short, the firmware cannot be updated either by upgrading macOS to High Sierra or by bless manually. Here comes the detail.

My MacBook pro info:

Attempt 1 - update it by updating macOS from 10.12.6 to 10.13.2

Failed with error message "An error occurred while verifying firmware". Key info in ia.log is as following.

  ROM does not support APFS

  Clearing automation and attempting to rebless.

  Failed to get disk for UUID specified for rebless.

  Operation: Verify firmware failed, Failure Reason: Error Domain=com.apple.osinstall Code=512

If look into previous log of EFI updating, it seems they are quite normal.

  EFI currentVersion: [0000000000D30008]
  EFI updateVersion:  [0000000000D70000]

  /Volumes/bless.YdD7/EFI/APPLE/FIRMWARE/MBP91_00D7_B00.scap created successfully

  Writing firmware update installed cookie (/Volumes/MacSSD/macOS Install Data/.FirmwareUpdateInstalled)

  /usr/libexec/efiupdater finished with status: 0

Thus, I've no idea why High Sierra installer failed to update the EFI firmware at the very first time.

Attempt 2 - update EFI firmware manually

According to the chapter 2.0 How Does a Mac Update Its EFI Firmware & How Do You Find Your EFI Version of The Apple of Your EFI , with the following command bless, the file MBP91_00D3_B0C_LOCKED.scap extracted from mac2015002efiupdate.dmg, which downloaded from Apple.com, and the file MBP91_00D7_B00.scap extracted from Install macOS High Sierra.app, it executed successfully.

sudo bless -mount / -firmware <PATH>/MBP91_00D7_B00.scap --verbose --recovery

Shutdown, Power on. It got a flashing LED light indicating the firmware was about to be updated. Then, 3 times power off automatically in a short period, end up with a normal OS X startup. Everything stay still. In another word, the Boot ROM Version hasn't been changed.

Any idea?

Update @11 Jan 2018:

I've just seem a related post Is there any way to manually bless firmware when main disk is external?

It seems that the root cause is running OS X from a second internal disk. Unfortunately the first one of my MacBook is out of order.

Update @13 Jan 2018:

Confirmed the following methods do not work.

replaced the Samsung SSD with original Apple HDD and tried again. The ia.log was same as that of SSD
kept internal hard drive connected, connected the USB external drive or SXCARD reader. It selected the ESP on internal hard drive as the staging EFI. Thus, same result as above.
disconnect all internal hard drive, connected the USB external drive and SXCARD reader. Got the log as

  No appropriate ESP could be found. Error while writing firmware updater for EFI.


texts: Cannot overwrite a file on an SMB network share After upgrading to OSX 10.10

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Last week I upgraded to Yosemite and I work a lot with saving files to a network share, mainly updating existing templates. Usually I just copy the newest template to the network share and it asks if I want to Overwrite/replace. Now when I attempt that it never asks me if I want to overwrite. It just hangs. Then if I attempt to change the file on my desktop, like rename, I get the error -8076. To resolve that error I have to run killall Finder for it to release the file.

I am however able to delete the file and then copy up the new one but when working with 40-50 new files a day that is a burden especially with large files.

Any help would be much appreciated.


texts: Unable to remove user named "Administrator" on macOS Sierra

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I've created an administrator-level account called "Administrator" on my iMac (macOS Sierra).  I basically did this to ease copying existing user documents, etc. from a backup using the Migration Assistant without any name/user conflicts.

Now I've copied stuff over, I'd like to delete this account named "Administrator".  Using another administrator-level account, I login, but when I access the Users & Groups System Preferences, the user "Administrator" doesn't appear in the list of current or other users.  Therefore, I can't delete it.  Any ideas as to why this user doesn't show up in the list?


texts: What's this statistics-looking icon on my TouchBar?

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I've just discovered this icon on my MacBook Pro's TouchBar:

Looks like some sort of statistics, or so? It only appears occasionally. Tapping on it I get this slider:

This doesn't do anything though. When sliding I get a "0:00" count next to it and nothing happens. What is this supposed to do?

Looks like I'm also unable to take TouchBar screenshots via ⌘+⇧+6 for some reason.


texts: Cusor won't react to hyperlinks when using Safari

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Problem Descriptions:

Normally when hovering the mouse cursor on a hyperlink, the cursor turns into a little hand, and the link will show the CSS hover effect. But a weird Safari bug kept this from happening.

It's been almost 4 months since I first encounter this issue. Finally I found the potential cause:

Enter Safari full-screen mode.
Click any website from Bookmarks (including Favorites).
In the opened website, turn on and off the Bookmark Sidebar once.
From now on, any website that opened from Bookmarks won't trigger hover effect.

Here's the same in action:

What I've tried to solve this:

Empty cache, clear history, remove all plugins, delete relevant plist file, quit all the other apps, but to no avail.
Installed latest Safari Technology Preview, repeat step 1, but to no avail.
Created another admin account, problem persists.
Repaired disk permission in Recovery Mode, didn't fix the issue.

I am using a MacBook Pro 15, 2018, running macOS Mojave 10.14.5 (18F203). Safari version 12.1.1.


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After upgrading to iOS 5 my AppStore language changed to German. Referring to that quesiton it is possible to change the language by selecting the country in iTunes like it is described in this apple KB.

My problem is the following : I have a Swiss AppStore account, as you may know Switzerland has many official languages (German, French, Italian, ...) that why a Swiss AppStore account could be in German, French or English as default language.

Before upgrading to iOS 5, the AppStore language was in English as I want it.

I've tried the solution given by the Apple KB. But even doing so, you can only select the country but not the language (German is the first language in Switzerland, that's why it falls back to german). By the way, when I go to the iTunes store the language is also German.

I have tried to set English as default language in the following places :

iOS's language in ENG
iCloud.com account in ENG
MacOSX Lion's language where I have my iTunes in also ENG

Where can I specify the language so the AppStore & iTunes Store language will be in english ?


texts: Does anybody use an external battery for iPhone?

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Do external batteries for iPhones work well?

I have an iPhone 4S

For example, is it true that I can charge up to 6 times my iphone with this product?


texts: How to automate launchctl / restart a daemon

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On OSX 10.10 I created a plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ to start at launch an OpenVPN connection. However I encountered DNS problems when going from an internet interface to another (as WiFi to LAN Network) and thought that I needed to restart my OpenVPN daemon with launchctl to fix it.

But with this method I need to go to a console, type a monstrous launchctl's command with sudo and, of course, type my admin password.

Can this typing process be automated?

Edit

Thanks for @bmike general answer which will open new horizons and @Graham Miln though I'm not fond of AppleScript, but as @Mark requested here's my .plist file :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>net.openvpnd</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/sbin/openvpn</string>
        <string>/a/path/to/file.ext</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>SuccessfullExit</key>
    <true/>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/Library/Logs/ovpnerr.log</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/Library/Logs/ovpn.log</string>
    <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
    <dict>
      <key>PATH</key>
      <string>/usr/sbin:/another/path</string>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>


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If there's an encrypted (filevault) volume, both of these methods in terminal will erase the given drive. However, what differences exist between the two? Which is more secure?

Option 1:

diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Macintosh\ HD disk22

Option 2:

diskutil cs list
// find logical volume group UUID
diskutil delete *UUID*


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It's a Mac Mini, Late 2012, 2.4 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM and an internal fusion drive of 1 TB, running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3.

The issue is that it's running so slowly that there I can move the mouse and it takes up to sixty seconds (on one memorable occasion, eighteen minutes) for the cursor to move on the screen.  I launch an application and it's two or three minutes before it's available.  I say available, but it's not really available unless I'm prepared to move the mouse and then go for a coffee whilst it acknowledges the action.

I ran top command:

Load Avg: 58.82, 38.48, 36.87

It's a relatively new installation - about a month old.  There are four USB drives hanging off a powered hub, but disconnecting them does nothing to speed up the system.  I launch ActivityMonitor and watch it for a while.  The CPU usage is about 98.8% idle. Once I start to use the Mac, I see 'kernel process' which can run up to 1600% of CPU. The fan is on constantly and is extremely loud.

The applications that I can see running (in the Dock as opposed to in the background or via a terminal) are Safari, Mail.app, WhatsApp, iTerm2 (with eight tabs), Gedit and of course, Activity Monitor.  Quitting them all doesn't eliminate the 'kernal task', although if I don't touch the Mac, that will disappear after about half an hour.

Here is the output of top at the moment, when things are relatively calm:

Processes: 289 total, 2 running, 287 sleeping, 1053 threads                15:17:07
Load Avg: 1.56, 2.67, 4.64  CPU usage: 2.78% user, 2.17% sys, 95.3% idle   SharedLibs: 316M resident, 63M data, 50M linkedit. MemRegions: 36312 total, 2305M resident, 166M private, 565M shared.
PhysMem: 7084M used (1815M wired), 9298M unused. VM: 1277G vsize, 1100M framework vsize, 0(0) swapins, 0(0) swapouts. Networks: packets: 355317/388M in, 229733/35M out.
Disks: 390366/11G read, 226405/11G written.

In the menu bar, I previously had stuff such Adobe CC, JumpCut and Skitch.  I have killed those, and restarted after removing them from 'startup'. I've also tried the usual stuff like repairing disk permissions etc.

I don't know what to do at this point, and am tearing my hair out in frustration. All advice gratefully received.


texts: How can I install large Apps from App Store on and external disk

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I can't download extremely large games, because App Store says there's "not enough space to install the product."

This is not unexpected, but I do have a USB-C 2TB SSD always connected and I'd like to install things there.

Is there a way to change where games get installed from App Store?


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I'm having trouble with the Mac App Store.
It shows me error messages with question marks instead of normal letters as in the following pic.

Can anyone help me?


texts: Can I create an OSX image to install after a disk format/7-pass

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I often do a secure pass (usually 7) once a month on my Macbook, for privacy reasons and my job.

But, it's annoying that I have to continue to reinstall my applications each time. It is possible to some how create an image of a OS with my applications already installed?

Surely this must be possible because large companies would likely have a master disk so every installation has the pre installed software needed.

How is this possible?

Im running an early 2014 MBP.


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My left ⌘ (command key) doesn't respond, while the right ⌘ key works fine.

my Mac: MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)
on keyboard viewer: when I click left ⌘ no respond on keyboard viewer, but right ⌘ and all other keys have.
I have opened the left ⌘ key, nothing seems wrong with it. (The left ⌘ has no physical damage.)

Anyone know what is wrong with my left ⌘ key?


texts: I use a bunch of Adobe products like InDesign and Lightroom, but they are trigger happy when you use a Magic Mouse and a slight touch will send the current pages/images sideways or jump multiple images. There is a Terminal script to stop sideways scrolling which I've set and confirmed that the option is set to false in the prefs, but this makes no difference. Any other ideas on how to do this so it stops sideways scrolling? Otherwise, a good replacement mouse for graphics/photography work.


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How can a simple demonstration video like this be made using a Mac?

In particular, I need:

To edit and cut some of the raw materials, as some of it may not be very interesting to the audience.
Add some words in the video.

Could anyone can give me some help?


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Is it possible to give a custom name to a browser window on OS X?

Perhaps by using a Window Manager that has this feature? If yes, which one has it?

The motivation for this question is : I have 100 browser tabs open, all on different topics. It would be great to cluster these 100 browser tabs into different browser windows, each having a meaningful name.

For example :

1st browser window for cat pictures named "cat pictures", having 10 tabs open about cats
2nd browser window for Haskell programming, having 10 tabs about Haskell open, named "Haskell"
3rd browser window for Buying a new meachanical keyboard, where I have 10 different tabs open about different keyboard review sites...
named "keyboard"

Any idea how to do this on OS X?


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I would like to ask if someone knows where can I find all the possible printing options the can CUPS send to backend/filter etc.

These are some of the possible options:

com.apple.print.PrintSettings.PMBorder..b.
com.apple.print.PrintSettings.PMBorderType..n.=1
com.apple.print.PrintSettings.PMColorMatchingMode..n.=0
com.apple.print.PrintSettings.PMColorSpaceModel..n.=0
com.apple.print.PrintSettings.PMCopies..n.=1
com.apple.print.PrintSettings.PMCopyCollate..b.

I would like to get the full list of these options, but can't find any specification for that.

https://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-2.0/api-cups.html#cupsParseOptions


texts: Is it safe to delete "My First Project.rcproject" file in the "iMovie Projects" folder?

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I am totally new to "iMovie" so I would like to ask you if it's safe to delete "My First Project.rcproject" file in the "iMovie Projects" folder (as it appeared from nowhere, maybe it was result of opening "iMovie")?

Thank you in advance.


texts: Contacts + Google: Sync 'Collected addresses'

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I'm using a Google mail account for work and I didn't really add any people to contacts. I just mailed people and with time Google autocompleted the addresses and added the names (I guess this is what the 'Collected addresses' label is).

Thing is, I started using a MacBook and added my Google account to sync mail, contacts and calendar. As it turns out, 'Collected addresses' nor 'Frequently contacted' get synced so I have 0 contacts and 0 autocomplete assistance when writing mails with the Mail app.

Any way around this? I know I can select all collected addresses and add the to my contacts but I would have to do this periodically as new addresses are added.

Thanks in advance.


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So I have a 2011 MacBook Pro that I received from a friend of mine. It had Sierra on the Mac and I was able to upgrade it to High Sierra. The account that I used to do all this was an admin account that I was able create when my friend gave it to me. I am planning on going to school for Software Development so I started setting up my Windows and Mac to do this on either or.

I googled how to set up your Mac for software development and found this website: https://www.stuartellis.name/articles/mac-setup/

I’ve got about half way through this process when my life took somewhat of a turn and had to focus on other things. Fast forward a few months of not using my Mac I go on it to continue the process and I notice I don’t have admin rights anymore. There’s another account that has admin rights and now my account is a managed account. Both Firmware and FileVault are on and I can’t turn them off without an admin password, which I don’t have to this account. I’m stuck and unsure how to fix this issue.

Thanks in advance!


texts: Why does my mac lose internet when I connect my iPhone?

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I'm using wifi for internet access, but when I connect my iPhone via lightning cable all my internet activity comes back as "destination unreachable" or similar errors.

How do I troubleshoot and correct this issue so the mac stays online using the wifi when I connect my iphone?


texts: How to remove an application update file?

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I was updating Xcode and macOS High Sierra at the same time. The OS restarted and then Xcode was in update "paused" state. I tried but couldn't restart/resume it so I deleted the app hoping it would be fixed. Now the app is removed but I still have that icon in my Launchpad.

How can I remove this?


texts: iTunes Match not downloading high bitrate version of songs

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I have a playlist in iTunes that shows all my songs that are matched with iTunes Match but are lower than 256 kbps. What I do every once in a while, is delete all the songs in the playlist (I delete them from iTunes, but NOT from iTunes Match/iCloud, then download them again. This is supposed to download the 256 kbps copies that iTunes has of each song.

Lately though, I've noticed that when I delete and download these songs again, the version that is downloaded is exactly the same as the one I just deleted. Is this a new thing? Or is this just a bug?


texts: Subscribe to Shared Album from iCloud for PC

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Q: How do I use iCloud for Windows to accept an invitation for a Shared Photo Album  without an iOS device or a Mac?

I have an Apple ID, I can see my iCloud files and photos with a web browser, and I can use the PC iCloud app to upload and download photos but I do not have an iOS device or a Mac.


texts: Is there any way to delete apps that were added by Apple in the Mavericks 10.9 update? In particular, I'm talking about iBooks.app. When I try to delete it, OS X tells me that it can't be because it's required by OS X.


texts: Do I have to explicitly update iTunes Match after adding new tracks to my Library?

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Yesterday I set up iTunes Match, and before the day was over it Matched and/or Uploaded all of the tracks in my library at the time. Just now I added a few more tracks and they're currently listed as 'Waiting'.

Will iTunes Match eventually act on these new tracks automatically? Or will I have to explicitly go into the Store menu and choose 'Update iTunes Match'?


texts: Can I speed up iCloud photo sync between iPhone and Macbook?

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I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 9.1 and a Macbook Pro running Yosemite.

Both devices are set up to sync photos to and from iCloud.

When I take a photo on the iPhone (for further processing on the Macbook), it takes an inordinate amount of time until the photo shows up in the Macbook's photos library - sometimes up to 10-20 minutes. Sometimes it seems to work faster if I quit the Photos app on both devices, and start it again.

I often end up sending myself photos through E-Mail because it's quicker. That seems ridiculous!

Is there a way to force a sync on the iPhone, or to speed up the process some other way?


texts: Is it possible to use a 2009 imac as a display for a 2017 macbook pro? If so, what cable would I need to make this work? Ideally with a mini display port to usb-c cable it would just work but I have my doubts.


texts: Any way to write the Terminal scrollback history?

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I would like to open a new tab in Terminal with custom scrollback history. The primary use-case is to "fork" an existing tab such that both tabs contain the same scrollback history, but more generally I would like to have some custom scripts save and restore Terminal sessions.

I know about the history restore functionality already in Terminal but it doesn't suit my needs; the main one being that I have a system built around the script command and some zsh hooks to save history and output for all terminal sessions for later auditing purposes (recalling changes that I've made).

I would now like to switch to use osascript to save the history and on restoring sessions later to match up the new session with its prior one- in a way, implementing long-term, persistent sessions. I've had Terminal's saved sessions lose their data too many times that I am working around it.


texts: Beamer keeps asking PIN code connecting to Apple TV

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All of a sudden Beamer can't connect to my Apple TV anymore. When I'd like to play a movie it asks PIN code. I enter the PIN code displayed on the TV screen, and seemingly it does not accept it because in the following moment a new enter password window comes up in Beamer and a bit later a new PIN code is displayed on the TV.

Something went south. I haven't changed my network setup and haven't touched any setup of Apple TV.

However, my Iphone can connect to Apple TV and I can use it as remote. I can connect to Apple TV from my Macbook Pro and share my screen. Beamer is displayed in Apple TV setups as Unknown device.

I checked, 25 March a new TvOs was released, my device has this version. Is there any chance Apple introduced something "magic" in this update cause my issue? If it is true, in general how quickly Beamer guys release some solution for this?

I did so far the following any result:

restart MBP
restart Apple TV
delete Beamer with its cache and other crap it produces (ForkLift helps to delete these files as far as I see)
Beamer beta version (no available beta version right now)
factory reset of Apple TV
I read through multiple issues on Apple's site, but no result

Honeslty, I run out of possible solutions.

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: How do I change the default alarm sound when creating an alarm with Siri?

texts: I picked a song for an alarm and now every  alarm that I create with Siri uses that song. I cannot change the default alarm song back to the default alarm sound. When I need to create an alarm manually I can see the default alarm sound, but every single time I  create an alarm with Siri then it reverts back to that one song. It's impossible to change the default alarm sound that Siri uses. I'm using iOS 10.2.


texts: SMB "There was a problem connecting to the server"

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As of today, I'm suddenly unable to view any SMB shares on my macbook pro (mid 2011 13" model, El Capitain 10.11.4).

Everything worked fine yesterday, but today I can't connect to ANY windows file share systems. I have to load Windows XP in Virtualbox and copy stuff across that way.

I've looked at all the other answers, and this isn't because of some program (I have none running atm), nor is it due to cloud sync (I have it disabled) or time machine (I never use it).

Everything worked (well, as good as can be expected with file sharing on a mac), and now suddenly nothing works. Using the IP address directly doesn't help. Rebooting didn't help. Restarting the other machines didn't help. Disconnecting and reconnecting WIFI didn't help. And of course, the computer doesn't give any kind of error code to help track down the problem. Just "There was a problem connecting to the server".

The servers still do show up in Finder (even after rebooting). I just can't connect to them. Actually, it does connect to them long enough to ask how I want to log in, but then it pukes and shows that error.


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An interface called llw0 shows up in ifconfig and has the same IPv6 address (different scopeid) and hardware address as awdl0:
awdl0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1484
   options=400<CHANNEL_IO>
   ether 42:f8:7a:c4:5a:b6
   inet6 fe80::e8de:dfa2:fe4f:f1e%awdl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xd
   nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
   media: autoselect
   status: active
llw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
   options=400<CHANNEL_IO>
   ether 42:f8:7a:c4:5a:b6
   inet6 fe80::e8de:dfa2:fe4f:f1e%llw0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xe
   nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
   media: autoselect
   status: active

awdl0 is Apple Wireless Direct Link, but what is llw0?


texts: caldav stopped syncing - how to fix without losing entries?

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My family uses caldav in their iPhones to keep a shared calendar (yahoo) in sync with everyone.  One phone, used to add a lot of calendar entries, has stopped syncing. I tried simply reentering the PW to see if that would jump start it, but it is still "stuck".  With no diagnostic information available, I don't have a clue why.

If I "delete" this shared calendar, I will lose calendar entries added to the phone but not yet at the server.  Any suggestions?  Is there an easy way to select all calendar entries for a calendar and perhaps move them to the "local" calendar, Then I can delete the shared calendar, add it again, then move those new entries back to the shared calendar?

I wish there were some way to diagnose and fix this, I just don't think Apple has ever provided any tools for that.


texts: New hard drive in Mac Book Pro leading to occasional crashes and kernel panics

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Ok, this is kind of a long story because I don't know what facts are relevant.

I fell off my bike and my 2010 13" MacBook Pro receives blunt trauma.   It's in a protective sleeve so I don't think about it.  I arrive at school and the computer wakes up from sleep and works, but I can't save anything and it's giving me weird hard drive errors.  So I restart.  Then the computer gets stuck on the Apple start up screen indefinitely.  No matter what I do I can't get it to start up.

Everything else works fine.  I can run it off of the Mac OS X CD.  The guys at the fake Apple store (I live in Israel) can run it off an external hard drive.  They tell me it's a hard drive problem and give me a way too high price to fix it.

So I buy my own hard drive.  Its a Seagate 750 GB 2.5 inch, but I don't think it's important.

Luckily I had backed up recently to an external HD.  So my sister and I installed the new Hard Drive (easier than I thought!), reinstalled OS X, and then got all my stuff from the back up.

Now everything works well.  Or seems to.  Until Chrome crashes giving me some error about my user profile.  Then when I try to open Firefox it says it can't be opened because it's already open (which it isn't).  Then Microsoft Word gives me an error that has to do with not enough memory.  Then I get long stretches of a rotating beach ball while my computer thinks. Sometimes I also get a Kernel Panic.

I tried running disk warrior.  I tried running disk utilities.  I tried erasing the hard drive and starting again.  I still get crashes.  I usually restart before I get to Kernel Panics but I can feel them coming.

I don't see any pattern to when it happens.  Sometimes I use my computer for hours straight - streaming music and playing games - with no problem.  Sometimes it crashes right away.  There are no other problems.  I can save files to the HD no problem.

Any ideas?  What else can I try?


texts: Is it true that we could dual boot Mojave and Catalina, in the same APFS partition, and they don't have to have fixed sizes?

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Is it true that if we dual boot Mojave and Catalina, or if we dual boot Catalina and Big Sur, we can go the traditional way of creating two APFS partitions, and each partition is one container and in it, just have one volume and it is Mojave or Catalina, respectively. Each OS would then have a fixed size (for example, 250GB each, on a 500GB SSD drive).
But with APFS, we could also have one single APFS partition on the physical hard drive -- and so it is one container, and then create two volumes: one for Mojave and one for Catalina, and they can dual boot this way?  This actually has the benefits that each OS is not limited to a fixed size, because Mojave can be 150GB and Catalina can grow to 350GB, and if Catalina goes down to 200GB, now Mojave can grow to 300GB -- dynamic flexible sizing?


texts: Missing photos in photo library on iPhone 6 iOS 8.1

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I have an iPhone 6, updated to iOS 8.1. Since my storage space is limited, I wanted to transfer all my photos to my Mac and delete them on my iPhone. Once I did that, I looked at the "Usage" tab in Settings. After deleting every single photo, video, and disabling Photostream and iCloud photo sharing, it still says that my photo library is 1.1 GB.

Any ideas how this is possible? Note, I have no single item in the photo library.


texts: Verizon contract fulfilled, yet no other carrier will touch my iPhone 4?

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Several people are saying on this site and other sites that they have been able to get service for their Verizon iPhone 4 (with contract fulfilled already) on either Straight Talk or Page Plus.  But when I call both companies, they say they can not activate any Verizon iPhones.

Why the contradictory info?  How can I take my money (less of it hopefully) elsewhere? I  barely even use the thing, so spending the $80 plus a month with Verizon is not acceptable any more (and my 2 year contract is up).


texts: How to uninstall a program through the App Store?

texts: I want to uninstall some recently installed software which I installed using the Mac App Store. Is is possible to uninstall those programs from inside the App Store?


texts: AirPods blinking orange as long as they are both in the case, one of the pods don’t work

texts: My AirPods keep blinking orange. When I take one out and shut the case, on opening it back it’s a stable green, if I return the pod back it starts blinking orange again, and if I connect to my device only the right pod works. I’ve tried to reset with the button at the back of the case to no avail.


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I have an iPad Pro that I recently completely wiped and reset (following all of the usual steps correctly) which I am now unable to access without entering a passcode. However no passcode that I've every used is accepted, and I'm unable to proceed.

Why is this happening (how could it possibly happen)? What can I do to get past the passcode and use the iPad?


texts: How can I remove an empty folder that I created manually inside the Photos library?

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I accidentally created an empty folder inside my Photos library.

My import process is a bit unusual.

I first import photos from my iPhone as usual. Then I locate the newly imported photos in Finder inside the Photos library file and copy them to a SMB share. That's when I accidentally had created a new empty folder inside a folder for one of the imports. That import was then deleted and all the image files disappeared. However, the empty folder is still there and it's basically junk.

I'd like to remove this entire directory tree: 2019/05/22/20190522-10460/New Folder With Items

I tried the repair function but it didn't help.

Deleting this directory tree manually breaks the Photos library.

How can I delete this junk?


texts: How to disable WebGL in the Chrome browser on Mac OS X

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How does one disable Google Chrome from using WebGL on a Mac (Mac OS X 10.6)?

(There currently appears to be some sort of security advisory regarding this component.)


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Is it safe to store password from macOS account inside of any keychain?

I think that if someone can access my keychain, then this someone can access anything on my macOS. Therefore it's safe to store account password there.


texts: Can you define a cell's name in Numbers for use in formulas across a workbook like you can in Excel?


texts: Can I install Windows from a preexisting Windows installation?

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I have an early 2011 Macbook Pro. The Superdrive broke, so I installed an SSD and put my old HDD in an optibay. The old HDD had a bootcamp Windows installation on it. Since I can't use bootcamp without a Superdrive, is it possible to install Windows on my SSD from within my HDD installation of Windows? Or do I need to do the installation through bootcamp?

Thanks.


texts: Safari will not "Remember Me" on Facebook

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My question is very similar to this question:

Safari 7.0.4 doesn't remember my login status. "Remember me" not working (OS X 10.9.3)

Except it differs in 3 key ways:

The solution did not work for me This occurs ONLY on Facebook.com;
reddit, twitter, netflix, etc.'s "remember me" function works fine.
The erasure of the cookies does not occur during restart of the
browser. In fact, I can restart safari and still be logged in.
The
erasure happens when I put the computer to sleep and wake it up
again.

I have confirmed that the cookies are being reset. The cookie list is entirely different on wake, and I am booted out of Facebook.

The curious thing is that it only occurs for Facebook. This is really annoying though, and my next resort will be a full reinstall.

Extra info:

Newest model Retina MacBook Pro (August 2014) running OS X 10.9.4
Safari 7.0.6

EDIT

It seems to have been resolved for now, with a "Repair Disk Permissions" from Disk Utility, although I suspect it will occur again.

EDIT

This is a long time after I asked the question, however I did eventually figure it out. It turns out that I had connected my Skype to my Facebook account, and that was somehow triggering a logout every time I opened Skype (that's why it seemed so random). So solution for anybody who's having this problem: just disconnect Skype and Facebook. Never had this issue again.


texts: Download Mountain Lion on unsupported Mac?

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Can I buy and download OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion, via the Mac App Store on an unsupported Mac?

My home internet is dial-up, so whenever I need to download stuff I go to the library with my Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) MacBook.

For Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8), it doesn't work, because my MacBook isn't supported by Mountain Lion, even though I actually want to install 10.8 on my iMac at home, so the app store won't let me buy it.

Is there a way to work around this?


texts: Updating to 10.14.6 giving internet connection error

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While trying to download the update for my Mac, I am getting an error which indicates there is a problem with my internet connection. My internet connection is working fine, however. Tried using the default Software Update and also using the command line. Command line error below.

MacOs Mojave 10.14.5

sudo softwareupdate -i -a

Password:
Software Update Tool

Finding available software

Downloading macOS 10.14.6 Update
Downloaded macOS 10.14.6 Update
Preparing macOS 10.14.6 Update
Error downloading macOS 10.14.6 Update: An Internet connection is required to install macOS.
Done.

Error downloading updates.


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I am a Linux user and have never used OSX before. Someone asked me for help with installing some software on an OSX "Lion" server. I asked him to give me an SSH shell, assuming that would be sufficient. However things are more tricky than I thought.

I wanted to install homebrew, but it didn't install because there was no cc on the system. After some google, I suppose I need to install Xcode. I just downloaded xcode 4.5 from the apple developer site, and mounted it on the system. It contains a dir Xcode.app with a bunch of stuff in it. How do I go from here?

Can I install Xcode without physical access to the machine? All I really want is get homebrew running at this point.


texts: How can I get DoubleTwist to differentiate between music and podcasts?

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Since iTunes has no way to sync with my Motorola Droid, and all of my music is on my Macbook Pro, I recently tried out DoubleTwist.  It detected my Droid right away.

The problem is that when I chose to sync all of my music, DoubleTwist also synced all of my podcasts, which quickly filled up my sd card with stuff I don't want on there.  Is there a way to have it only sync my iTunes music library and ignore podcasts?


texts: Mail for mac does not find e-mails of the last month

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Mail for mac on MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 is not able to find messages received over the last month.

i.e. if I search for messages "from tony bruce" it only shows messages received until the 30th of august, but nothing in September.
Alternatively, if there is a message from Tony Bruce in a thread, it goes to the message of the thread of the last month. But never the last one. Doesn't matter if I search for name, address, subject ecc... always the same problem.

I have synched two gmail mailboxes with IMAP configuration, nothing very special, but it's very frustrating and annoying. Any suggestion?

Thanks


texts: Automator services replace selected text's spaces with underscore

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Looking to create a simple automator service that I can use when selecting text. If the text has spaces, it will replace it with underscores.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Is there a fast way to switch System time zone from the command line?

texts: I usually do it through the System Preference panel for Date & Time, but I'd like a quicker way to do this if there is one.


texts: No music contents on iPhone after synchronization

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Every time I synchronize my iPhone with iTunes on my computer, for example, when I want to add new music to my iPhone, I suddenly lose all my music on the iPhone.

I recently wanted to add a new album to my iPhone. So I plugged it in via USB, checked the album for synchronization in iTunes and started synchronization. After a while it finished and said "Synchronization done. You can disconnect your iPhone now blah blah…".

But when I looked at my iPhone and opened the iPod app, it says: "No contents". How is this possible? In iTunes there is an overview telling you how much space is full and what the space is used for. There I see 4,5 GB for Apps, 7 GB for music and some space for other stuff. On my iPhone I can check the space too, and there it also says that there should be the 7 GB of music, but the iPod app doesn't show any contents.

I also tried to restore my iPhone multiple times with different back-ups. It works until I sychnronize my iPhone the next time. Another strange thing is that restoring my iPhone isn't easy at all. It often aborts, showing random error messages (6,9,14). This is really annoying and I'm about to throw my iPhone against a wall.

Has anyone had similar problems and found a solution?

iPhone:

iPhone 4 (32 GB)
iOS 4.3.5
no jailbreak

PC:

iTunes 10.4.0.80
Windows 7 64


texts: What iOS 6 features does the iPhone 4 lack?

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Under iOS 6, what features will I not get if I were to buy an iPhone 4 vs. an iPhone 4S today?

What I already know is the new navigation (continuous navigation on the lock screen, if I understood that correctly), which will be available in 5 and 4s, and won't be available in 4.

Anything else?


texts: iPhone 5C running iOS 7 does not display Contacts

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I have two different problems with contacts on my iPhone:

Some of them are duplicated
The new contacts are not available to see, like they doesn't exist, but if I dail the number in the contact shows up.

Does anyone know whats going on here and have a solution for this?

Thanks!


texts: MacBook will not boot to recovery after setting boot args

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I booted to recovery using Command R.

I was trying to get to safe mode so I opened a terminal window here and ran:

nvram boot-args="-x"

and then I rebooted. The system did not go to safe mode.

Rebooted again pressing Command R, but the system will not boot to recovery. All I get now is a circle with a line through it. How can I fix this?


texts: Replace Text Edit as the default text editor

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I've seen questions like this which don't quite solve my problem.

I'd like to make Sublime Text 3 the default file viewer/editor for all files that currently use textedit.

Most of these files can be command+i'd, but the ones that have no extension cannot. They give all sorts of permissions errors such as the ones in this image

Is there any way to just never use textedit, and instead set sublime as the default editor for all files?


texts: Can I make Chrome the default web browser in iOS?

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With Google Chrome available for iOS now I'd like to know if it's possible to make Chrome the default browser? I find "open in browser" type options from other iOS apps still take me to Safari.

Not interested in jailbreaking. Looking for a solution that works without having to do that.


texts: Automatic connection to PowerBeats 3 does not register it as a sound device

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I'm using PowerBeats 3 with macbook pro 2017 running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6. There is no hardware issues with the macbook as it passed Apple Hardware Test. When I open PowerBeats 3, it automatically connects to my macbook. However, it does not register as a sound device (does not appear in "sound" in System Preferences), and disconnects after a few seconds. A manual connection works (selecting the device in bluetooth menu and choosing "connect), even if it is not preceded by an automatic connection. This does not happen with any other bluetooth devices.
E.g.:

Bluetooth log:
2020-10-07 07:24:33 +0000 Role change 0 for handle: 0x81D0
Joy's Powerbeats³ connected, handle: 0xB
Joy's Powerbeats³ connected, handle: 0xB <--------------------------(Automatically connected)
2020-10-07 07:25:01 +0000 Handle: 0xB disconnected, reason: 0x08
2020-10-07 07:25:01 +0000 Handle: 0xB disconnected, reason: 0x08
Joy's Powerbeats³ disconnected
Joy's Powerbeats³ disconnected <------------------------------------(Disconnects automatically after some time)
Joy's Powerbeats³ connected, handle: 0xB
Joy's Powerbeats³ connected, handle: 0xB <--------------------------(Manual connection works perfectly fine)
2020-10-07 07:25:35 +0000 Mode change 11 for handle: 0x2
2020-10-07 07:25:35 +0000 Mode change 11 for handle: 0x2

log stream --level debug | grep bluetooth: https://github.com/sclsj/log/blob/master/bluetooth.log
log stream --level debug | grep coreaudiod: https://github.com/sclsj/log/blob/master/coreaudiod.log


texts: Long iPhone voice memos won't import to my Mac

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I recorded a lengthy meeting today in two parts.  The first part was 20 minutes, and it was easily imported to my Mac.  The second, about 55 minutes, will not sync.  It is still on the phone, but I want to transfer it to my computer so that I can create an MP3 version.

Can anyone tell me whats wrong?


texts: Cannot use FaceTime HD Camera on VirtualBox Ubuntu 18.04 guest OS

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I installed Virtualbox & extension pack 6.0.6 on OSX host(on Mackbook pro with Type-c, 2018 15". Mojave 10.14.4).
On this VBox configuration, I installed Ubuntu 18.04 as guest with default configuration(no modification to settings except for Enabling USB Controller)

I enabled Facetime HD Camera VirtualBox(Menu bar > Devices > Webcams > Facetime HD Camera checkbox on), but when I test the /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 with cheese command on guest blank screen shows up with this error:

** Message: 15:09:30.041: cheese-application.vala:211: Error during camera setup: No device found
...
...(omitted: one common thing was assertion: device != NULL failed)
...
** (cheese:1592): CRITICAL **: 15:09:30.053: cheese_preferences_dialog_setup_resolutions_for_device: assertion 'device != NULL' failed

Also, the green light on the Macbook indicating that the camera is in use, does not blink at all during the whole process. In addition to that, there's no Application registered to Privacy settings on OSX that has requested Camera access.

I reinstalled VirtualBox, but there's no change after that. I also reinstalled guest Ubuntu but the problem still persists.

I also tried manually attaching camera with terminal command VBoxManage controlvm (vmname) attach .1(or its hardware id starting with 0x), but that does not change anything.


texts: Using MDM alternative after apples MDM block

texts: How can I create an app that can track location, regulate screen time by blocking access without using MD? What are some alternate ways of doing this after Apple has blocked the use of MDM  feature.


texts: iPad 4 not charging solution with usb 3.0 dual ports Y adapter

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Just recently picked up an iPad 4.  Saw that it specifies "not charging" when plugged into the usb port.  Saw that it is a common issue due to usb power.  I have usb 3.0 ports on my desktop so I tried that and the same result.  USB 3.0 is specified for up to 900 ma while 2.0 is 500ma.  Course even that can change depending on a few things.  Seems that the iPad wants up to 2.1 amps.  So I searched for solution using dual usb ports like some external 2.5" laptop hard drives use.  I found nothing which surprised me.  If I can get 900ma x 2 ports (for 1.8 total amps) I am near the full charge spec for the iPad.

Such cables seem foreign but I found 2 of them.  Most Y cables like this come with a mini usb at the end so these are unfortunately rare and more expensive (unless you want to solder your own which I suppose I could do too with my abundance of cables).
http://www.shopaddonics.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=AA2USBPC
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812161003

From here the lightning cord would simply plug into the female end.  Anyone tried something like this?  Result?


texts: Jetdrive 850 install on Macbook Pro 2015

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I have a Macbook Pro 2015 that I bought used. When I bought it, OS 10.13 (High Sierra) was installed, but the SSD was failing. I bought a JetDrive 850 to replace it, and put the High Sierra installer on an external USB hard drive.

When use the option key and choose "Install macOS High Sierra" from the USB drive, it takes me to the question mark folder.

Edited to add: When I try to boot to internet recovery, I get an 2002F error, which apparently indicates an internet connectivity. However, my WiFi is working fine for other devices.

What should I try?


texts: Lion Safari's enabled and disabled button contrast is so low it's hard to see the difference

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Is it me or is Lion's buttons' contrast way too low? The back button (enabled) and forward button (disabled) are almost the same shade of gray.

Is there a way to increase the contrast between enabled and disabled? I tried System Preferences - Universal Access - Display - Enhance contrast, but it doesn't really enhance the contrast of the button.


texts: Make and receive land line phone calls on my mac?

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I have two phones, an iphone and a land line.
I'm spending several hours a day on the phone.  I know I can use my iphone and my mac working together, but I want to be able to do this with my landline too.

Headset on a 3.5 mm plug to my mac pro.  (Do I need a splitter for mic and audio out?)
Call display showing the number in an app, that I can cut and paste into a call log.
Double click dialing.

I think I need a USB or internal card modem for this.


texts: How to install Windows 10 into a 2011 iMac without using the Boot Camp Assistant, an optical (DVD) drive or third party tools?

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Apple does not support Boot Camp Assistant installations of Windows 10 on 2011 and earlier iMac models. The exact list of supported Mac models is given below.

The following Mac models support 64-bit versions of Windows 10 when installed using Boot Camp.

  If you have one of the models listed below, then you should not use the accepted answer to install Widows 10.

MacBook Pro (2012 and later)
MacBook Air (2012 and later)
MacBook (2015 and later)
iMac (2012 and later)
Mac mini (2012 and later)
Mac mini Server (Late 2012)
Mac Pro (Late 2013)

I have read where others have successfully used the Boot Camp Assistant to create a Windows flash drive installer. This was accomplished by first editing a .plist file contained within the Boot Camp Assistant software. I have the following problems with doing this.

The Boot Camp Assistant software has to be hacked in order to create the Windows installer.
The resulting flash drive installer defaults to a Windows installation that uses the EFI boot method. Apple did not officially start supporting this method of booting Windows until the 2012 model year. I have always assumed the Windows Support Software, supplied by Apple for my Mac, was designed only for the legacy BIOS boot method of installation.

  I have no problems EFI booting the USB Windows installer, but I still want to install Windows to use the BIOS boot method.

Here is what I wish to accomplish.

Install Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. I have downloaded the latest Windows 10 (Version 1709, OS Build 16299.15) iso file.
Install Windows 10 into a newly formatted volume. I do not want to first install an earlier version of Windows and then upgrade to Window 10.
Boot Windows using the legacy BIOS boot method.
Use only one partition on the first internal drive (disk0) for the Windows files.  The single internal disk in my Mac uses a 512 byte sector size.
Install Windows using the latest version of macOS. Currently, this would be High Sierra (macOS 10.13.2).

I would desire to preform the installation without any of the following.

No third party software
No optical (DVD) drive
No Boot Camp Assistant
Without disabling System Integrity Protection (SIP).

I would prefer not having to boot to macOS Recovery via the internet, built-in recovery or an USB flash drive macOS installer. But, since macOS Recovery is not a third party tool, I am not opposed to its use.


texts: Macbook Aluminum wakes up - Lion Updated

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I have recently updated my macbook with Lion. Now it keeps on waking up in my bag for some unknown reason. Here is what i get in the console.

An Unknown USB Device (Port 4 of Hub at 0x4000000), may have caused a wake by being connected

I'm not sure what is at the port 4 of Hub? Also what i have discovered is that my bluetooth module apparently is not connected!? What would cause this to happen?

This is from system info:

USB Bus:

  Host Controller Location: Built-in USB
  Host Controller Driver:   AppleUSBOHCI
  PCI Device ID:    0x0aa5
  PCI Revision ID:  0x00b1
  PCI Vendor ID:    0x10de
  Bus Number:   0x04

Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad:

  Product ID:   0x0236
  Vendor ID:    0x05ac  (Apple Inc.)
  Version:  0.77
  Speed:    Up to 12 Mb/sec
  Manufacturer: Apple, Inc.
  Location ID:  0x04600000 / 3

IR Receiver:

  Product ID:   0x8242
  Vendor ID:    0x05ac  (Apple Inc.)
  Version:  0.16
  Speed:    Up to 1.5 Mb/sec
  Manufacturer: Apple Computer, Inc.
  Location ID:  0x04500000 / 2

How do I find what is at port 4? Could it be bluetooth module?


texts: Restore Downloads icon to Finder Sidebar

texts:
So I symlinked my Downloads folder from my boot drive to an external HDD I always keep connected to my mac. I deleted the original downloads folder from my home folder and replaced it with a symlink to a new folder on my HDD.

This works perfectly, except that in Finder, the sidebar icon is now a folder:

When it should look like this:

Operating system is High Sierra 10.13.6


texts: Notifications for completed Time Machine backups?

texts: Is there a way to enable notifications for completed Time Machine backups?


texts: What should happen when Face ID is turned off after having been used?

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I can't find anywhere in Apple's guidelines what the behavior of Face ID should be in the following scenario:

I enter valid credentials
I enable Face ID
I use Face ID to log in (for some period)
I return to the login screen and disable Face ID
I reenable Face ID

As a convenience having 5 use the credentials supplied in 1 makes sense (doing otherwise would be frustrating), but what if between 4 and 5 I enter new credentials (e.g. I've changed my password or I need to use a different e-mail address). In that case having 5 use the credentials supplied in 1 no longer makes sense.


texts: How to record photo/video files smaller on iOS

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My iPhone photos and videos are too high resolution so that I can't send them via email or facebook messenger.

I rarely need high-definition photo and video, and I'd like to set the default resolution much lower than it is out of the box.

Is this possible? And is it possible to shrink the file size of my existing large photos and videos?


texts: How can I operate 2 XServes and 2 iMacs from 1 keyboard and 1 mouse (both bluetooth)?

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I have 2 Xserves and 2 iMacs.  I would like to control them with 1 Apple wireless keyboard and one Apple Magic Mouse.

I have seen a device from IOGear a Bluetooth 2.1 USB Micro Adapter,  which made me wonder if something like the following could work:

To do this I would need two 1 x 4 passive usb hubs with some kind of electronic or mechanical switch.  Then, plugging the bluetooth to usb adapters into each such device I could pair the keyboard or mouse with the respective bluetooth to usb adapter.

Do any such switchable usb hubs exist?  Could I use anything else?  Since I can readily share the displays of my iMacs via a mini dvi connection to the XServes I don't really need a full blown KVM device.

I saw a post on this site that recommended Synergy to do something like this, but as I don't have dedicated monitors for the servers, it does not look like a good solution for me.

Any other solutions welcome.

Thanks in advance.


texts: A problem with using the iphoto library upgrader tool

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I'm running OSX 10.9.4, and IPhoto 9.5.1. I have an old iphoto library (pre 7.0) on a time-machined backup external drive and wanted to access the photos on it.

I tried to 'Switch' to it in IPhoto, and was asked to run the iPhoto library upgrader tool (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1523) instead.

I did that, and at some point the upgrader declared my library ready to be upgraded by the "new" version of iPhoto. I asked it to do so, and then iPhoto starts up, complaining again that the library needs to be upgraded using the iPhoto library upgrader.

This keeps happening. What's worse, the Option/Alt trick to switch to a new library at iPhoto doesn't work, so once I've told iPhoto once to switch to the new (non-working) library, I can no longer run iPhoto unless I dismount the external drive.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I've also tried the Option-Cmd-start iPhoto attempt to repair the library, and that doesn't pop up any repair screen either.

Notes (based on other discussions on the web):

the external drive is formatted Mac OSX extended (journaled, case sensitive)
I can't use Time Machine directly since this backup is from a different machine.
I have NOT tried first copying the library to the local drive, but I doubt that would make a difference.


texts: Weird and Inconsistent Behaviour Syncing Books with iTunes

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I have spent quite a bit of time debugging this, and still can't figure it out.

While debugging, I ended up turning off the "Sync Books" option in iTunes.  My iTunes sidebar, after clicking on the phone icon in the top left, would look like this,

except for one thing - every other time I would sync, the "Books" entry in the "Settings" section would be missing.  (In order to make the "Books" entry appear or disappear, it was necessary to quit iTunes, and restart it - just leaving iTunes running and syncing again wouldn't do it.)

I figured out how to make this strange phenomenon stop - I opened the Book app on the phone.  Even though "Sync Books" was turned off, I could see all my books.  If I set the phone in aeroplane mode, though, I was unable to access them, so I guess they are in iCloud rather than stored locally.

Once I did this, the "Books" entry in the "Settings" section of the sidebar seemed to become permanent.  However, there is still bizarre oscillating behaviour.  Every other time I run iTunes, if I click on the phone icon, and then the "Books" entry in the "Settings" section, I see this on the right.

So no books at all.  Every other time, I see this.

That is, the books are all there.

Checking the "Sync books" box launches me into yet another cycle.  The first sync seems normal enough, but after that, every time iTunes starts, I get this pop-up window asking me to transfer purchased items from the phone to iTunes.

This window now comes up every time, despite choosing "transfer" the time before.  During the sync, 73 books (out of 74) are transferred from the phone to the computer.  But it, doesn't matter, the next time, I am asked again.  There is still cyclical behaviour here - every other time, clicking on the "Books" entry in the "Settings" section of the sidebar results in zero books displayed on the right side at the beginning of the sync, and 73 books at the end of the sync.  But the other times iTunes is started, there is one book displayed on the right side at the beginning of the sync (the one I was last reading), and 74 books at the end of the sync.

Opening the Books app on the phone, at various points in the cycle, does not seem to change behaviour.  Clicking "Don't Transfer" launches me into another weird alternating cycle, which I can describe further if needed.

What could possibly be going on here?  Has anyone seen anything like this, or know how to fix it?

In all cases, the oscillating behaviour occurs when the iTunes program is closed and started again.  Just clicking on "Sync" again doesn't do it.

iPhone 6s plus - iOS 12.3.1
iTunes 12.9.5.5 on recent MacBook Pro


texts: Understand "Open in browser" vs "Open in Preview" for PDF files

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When I click on a link to a PDF file, sometimes the PDF document opens in the Safari browser window, and sometimes it opens a new window and opens the PDF document in the Preview application.

Is there a way to predict which will happen, before I click on the link?  If I want it to always open in Preview, or always open in the browser, is there a way to configure the browser to do so?

I'm using Safari on Mountain Lion, if that is relevant.


texts: How do I make Safari, Chrome, Mail, and other applications all use different SOCKS proxies

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How do I make different applications like Safari, Chrome, and Mail all use different SOCKS proxies.

FireFox has it's own proxy settings, but Safari, Chrome, and presumably Mail all use the system proxy  settings.  I need them to all use different SOCKS proxies, all running simultaneously under the same user and login.

I have all the SOCKS proxies set up on different ports already, each is proxies into a different company in a different country using ssh -D.


texts: here is the problem. On my MacBook Pro with mavericks I can't connect to any site with working wifi(checked it on ipad). Also, Skype and utorrent are working fine, but all browsers can't connect. Restart MacBook and wifi didn't help.


texts:
I was googling how to mass delete photos from my iPhone and the consensus was to use Image Capture. However, I couldn't find that application on my Mac. Is there a way I can install it individually?

If that's impossible, is there any other alternative app that does the same thing?

I'm running OS X El Capitan 10.11.3.


texts: Install Bootcamp Windows7 off external USB optical drive on Lion system

texts: I got my new MBP today and I plan to use MCE's OptiBay to place a second harddisk in the drive bay and put Windows via Bootcamp on it, but I heard / read that, at least with Snow Leopard, it was not really possible to install via an external optical drive with the Windows7 DVD. Has this changed lately or anyone done this successfully? rEfit pops up as a solution, but I wanted to know whether it's possible with the stock bootmanager/bootcamp assistant in Lion?


texts:
I am finally making the switch from Windows to Mac and one big impediment/irritant is in the switch from Word for Windows to Word for Mac.  I do a lot of mathematical work and have a large number of Word documents with equations in them from the Word 2010/2011 equation feature.  In the Windows version, this is just a Pi symbol that I click to start typing an equation, and I can insert functions, summations, fractions, exponents, things like that really easily.  I have Word 2008 on my Mac right now and none of those documents will even open.  I could try updating to the newest version of Office, but I'm worried that I'll do that, they still won't work, and I'll be out a lot of money.

I'd like to not only open all these documents but also to continue writing mathematical documents the same way I'm used to on Windows.  What can I do?


texts: iOS 10 Control Center does not feature Music buttons

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What feels missing here are the music controls << || >>. They are on the lock screen before you unlock the phone. However, it happens a lot of times that I accidentally unlock the phone, even though I want to perform operations on the lock screen.

Having the music controls here is also an easy way to navigate through the playlist without having to switch to the Music app.

Is there any way to bring back these buttons, or is there a new way in iOS 10?


texts: Certain apps not updating on Mac App Store with "temporarily unavailable" and "could not complete your request"

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Certain apps on the Mac App Store are not updating (apart from iTunes and system updates), these include Pages, Numbers, Shazam, Evernote, OneDrive, etc.

It gives the following errors each time and refuses to update.

  This item is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.

  We could not complete your request. There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later.

I have macOS 10.12.2 on MacBook Pro mid 2015.


texts: Apple Thunderbolt Display randomly goes black throughout the day

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My Mac is connected to two Apple Thunderbolt Displays. The first monitor works without flaw. The second however will randomly turn off its screen 3 to 4 times a day. A quick but annoying fix is to un-plug and re-plugin the Thunderbolt connector. I have them daisy chained from my Mac Pro to the first display, then from the first to the second display. Devices such as Thunderbolt hard drives and my keyboard still work through the second display even when the screen is off. When I swap the displays, the one on the end of the chain will always turn off.

Running OS X 10.11.3, Mac Pro (Late 2013),
Thunderbolt Display Model Number: MC914


texts: Power Macbook Air with Early 2008 Macbook Pro

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I have two batteries from my old 15" Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo (Early 2008). It's a non-unibody (discrete) model. Anyone know of any way to use these batteries to power my 2nd Gen Macbook Air? An external battery costs ~$300-$450 and it seems kind of unnecessary if there is an adapter or some hack job way to make the old batteries work.

Note: I'm not talking about replacing the macbook air batteries, I'm talking about using the macbook pro batteries as an external battery connected to the magsafe power port.


texts: Is there an GTalk application for the iPad 2?

texts: Is there an application that will allow me to do video talk using Google Talk from my iPad 2?


texts: My iPod touch does not respond since yesterday. I cannot see anything on the screen and the buttons don't do anything, no backlighting either. The problem started when I wanted to plug my iPod into the wall to charge it (it was almost empty). When I plugged in my iPod, the screen went out and I have had no response since. I think the battery is broken, but I am not sure. How can I fix this? Or should I contact Apple?


texts: Can't get OS X installed on this ancient, formatted eMac

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Many years ago I was bequeathed an eMac. I believe it's a 1 GHz G4. It's been sitting around doing nothing for a long time, but now I need to install realMYST Mac edition, from 2002, and it's my best bet.

I was given three OS X install discs with the eMac: A 10.0 disc, an eMac Software Restore disc (that says it has Panther on it), and also a set of Panther upgrade discs. Unfortunately, the eMac refuses to boot from either the 10.0 disc or the Restore disc. It will boot from the Panther Upgrade disc, but I can't install it because the hard drive is blank and doesn't have a previous version of OS X on it!

Is there some file on the disc I could delete, some plist I could change or something, to make this installer not do the upgrade check? Or does anyone have any ideas on how to get it to boot from the restore disc?

EDIT to clarify:

The discs that the eMac won't boot from are in perfect condition and entirely readable by other Macs; the eMac simply won't boot from them. But it boots perfectly every single time from the Panther Upgrade disc. And the Panther Upgrade disc is way more scratched up (to the naked eye, anyway) than the others.

Apparently this eMac shipped with OS X 10.3 Panther. The restore discs claim to have Panther on them. But the eMac won't boot from the restore disc, even though it boots from the Panther Upgrade disc.


texts: How can I open password protected Word documents on my iPad for free?

texts: I would like to open a password protected Word document on my iPad. I've found paid solutions but nothing for free. Am I missing an option?


texts: How do I sync my iPhone and 2015 MacBook

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I don't have a USB-C cable or USB-C adapter.

How do I sync my iPhone 5s with my 2015 MacBook? I thought I could do it over WiFi?

2015 MacBook's don't have USB ports

I also have a MacBook Pro but I don't want my iTunes library on this machine.


texts: How can I search within documents from the Finder?

texts: I scan documents (receipts, etc) PDFs and the software does OCR to make them searchable. I can search them from within Preview, but I'd like to be able to search within the documents in Finder (or Spotlight). Is there a way to do this? Or a third-party app that does it?


texts:
When i purchased a new Mac book and turned it on for the first time, there was a pop up where i had to enter my name, address, email etc.

I skipped the email field, and now in xCode, my name and my company name gets displayed as comments and not my email address. So how can i get my email to get displayed in xCode in the comment section ?

note: I only want my email ID to be displayed in xCode and not in other applications.


texts: macOS: What is this mysterious white window?

texts:
This small white window often pops up and it's very annoying.

I'm using macOS Sierra 10.12.6

It may or may not be related to these questions: 1, 2

The only way to get it to disappear is to click on the highlighted “1”.

But it doesn't stay gone. It appears at random intervals. I can't reproduce it consistently, but every time it appears it is when I press some combination of modifier keys and number keys.

After I click to make it go away it seems not to be able to return for several minutes.

The worst thing is that it seems to be interfering with my ability to use the Ctrl1 keyboard shortcut. Immediately after closing the window I regain my ability to use Ctrl1, but it's not permanent.

I have Japanese text input enabled, and at first I thought maybe it was a text input related window, but now I really have no idea.

Someone in an answer to another question pointed to Microsoft Office as the culprit. I have Office for Mac installed on this machine (not by my choosing), however closing those applications does not make the window disappear. There might be some background process related to Office causing it, but looking through Activity Monitor I can't guess what it might be.

Does anyone know what this is or how to get rid of it?

Thanks


texts: Offline transfer contacts and text messages from Android to iPhone

texts:
I would like to transfer text messages and contacts from an Android phone to an iPhone, but:

No jailbreaking
No online services (including iCloud or Google)
No third party apps (at least not GUI-based ones; terminal-based ones may be OK!)

I have at my disposal:

A Mac with iTunes
USB cables
Decent proficiency with Unix, SQLite, etc.
Official tools from Apple or Google (including subsidiaries such as Samsung).

Is this possible with the given limitations?


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I am using an Eero Pro 6 device for my home wifi connection.
The "Eero Secure" product offers to let you block certain domains. I have entered "reddit.com" in the block list, and it seems to work:
$ nslookup reddit.com
Server:     192.168.4.1
Address:    192.168.4.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   reddit.com
Address: 192.168.4.1

192.168.4.1 is my routers IP address, and ends up redirecting to https://blocked.eero.com. All is good here, and this is what I want.
The trouble is that Safari (on my Mac, iPad, and iPhone) seems to find a way around this, and is able to load reddit.com without issue. No amount of dscacheutil -flushcache, Develop -> Empty Caches, rebooting, resetting safari, etc - nothing seems to work.
Does anyone have any ideas? Here is my scutil -dns:
DNS configuration

resolver #1
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.4.1
  if_index : 9 (en0)
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : 0x00020002 (Reachable,Directly Reachable Address)

resolver #2
  domain   : local
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : 0x00000000 (Not Reachable)
  order    : 300000

resolver #3
  domain   : 254.169.in-addr.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : 0x00000000 (Not Reachable)
  order    : 300200

resolver #4
  domain   : 8.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : 0x00000000 (Not Reachable)
  order    : 300400

resolver #5
  domain   : 9.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : 0x00000000 (Not Reachable)
  order    : 300600

resolver #6
  domain   : a.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : 0x00000000 (Not Reachable)
  order    : 300800

resolver #7
  domain   : b.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : 0x00000000 (Not Reachable)
  order    : 301000

DNS configuration (for scoped queries)

resolver #1
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.4.1
  if_index : 9 (en0)
  flags    : Scoped, Request A records
  reach    : 0x00020002 (Reachable,Directly Reachable Address)

edit: forgot to point out that I am using macOS Big Sur, and iOS/iPadOS 14.


texts:
I'm using OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5. No matter what application I'm in, the menus don't respond to the mouse hovering over them. If I click a menu, then it responds with the appropriate action. I've rebooted and tried a different mouse. If I right click something and get the menu, when hovering over it, it doesn't respond to the mouse.

I'm pretty stumped on this one. Not even sure what to Google. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: I've install Lion on both MBP17 2008 and iMac27 i7 2010. On the old MBP, Mission Control animation are smooth but on the iMac, the desktop slide away with a nice animation but then all the application window appear in a snap with no animation at all.  Is there a way to turn this feature on again ?


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Apple mentions that the HomePod can be used for regular phone calls, but would that also work for third party VoIP apps like Skype, WhatsApp etc.?

If this is implemented anything like handoff/continuity for phone calls, my assumption is that it won't work:

While I am able to hand off normal voice calls to my Mac (on the same Wi-Fi), this does not work for VoIP apps, even if they use CallKit (the Mac doesn't show up in the list of target devices, only Bluetooth and wired headsets as well as the phone's speaker show up there).