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I received my 38mm Apple Watch Sport only a little under a month ago. So far, I love it. It works great... usually. Plenty of people online have complained about slow load times when opening apps, especially 3rd party ones. But for me, they rarely open at all. I'll wait for minutes, long enough for the device to lock, and still nothing. The only solution now is to restart (usually a forced restart by holding down both buttons on each device) both devices and try again. It's getting to the point where it's pretty frustrating to have to restart at least twice or thrice daily, especially since when I enter my password (it's text) on my iPhone, it freezes for 3-5 minutes and then restarts and lets me use Touch ID. Restarting sometimes doesn't solve the problem anyhow.

Anyone else having this issue? It's been happening now for a few weeks.

Some stats:

My watch arrived on June 1, 2015
My watch has 82 applications, 100 photos, and no songs
My watch is running watchOS 1.0.1
My watch has 5.6 GB of space available
My phone is an iPhone 5s 64 GB running iOS 8.3
My phone has 238 MB left (but that fluctuates frequently; could this be a source of the issue?)
My phone often has problems staying on wifi and likes to drift off onto 4G whenever it feels like it (sporadically, and not super often, but I felt this was mention-worthy)
My phone is around 2 years old now

Thanks in advance.

Update: I've realized that restarting my Apple Watch might be enough to temporarily solve the problem, and the issue only seems to come up after I install a new app on it. Another thing to keep in mind is that the Apple Watch app on my iPhone is faulty, and often crashes or does not work properly.

Update 2: Now I think I can  positively state that there is no pattern to my Apple Watch functioning or not. I've just proven the previous update wrong, then. I wish this issue had some predictability.

Update 3: My watch has been pretty good all of today (June 29, 2015), but just started acting up again. Here are a few things I noted that may prove useful:

The watch responded perfectly for at least 3 hours straight, during which I was able to use it to read books, search the web, and add cards to Trello lists.
I attempted to load Trello an hour later. The app loaded, but after loading, it showed the circular loading icon on the home screen without any of the icons showing.
I did some testing:

I let Trello run, and it crashed.
I opened it again. I timed 32 or so seconds before it crashed again, staying on the loading screen this time.
I restarted the watch normally, and tried again, but it didn't load.
I then force restarted the watch, letting it sit on my wrist for a few minutes after starting up. It didn't ask for my password.
I immediately went to the Trello app. After maybe 5 seconds (I didn't time this one), it loaded perfectly.

I'm baffled by the apparent lack of a pattern here.

Update 4: This is starting to feel like a journal. There truly is no pattern. All day (June 30, 2015) I have been restarting both my iPhone and Apple Watch, with the watch working for only 10 or so minutes at a time. I can't get any apps to load consistently.

If I discover any other clues, I'll post another update.


texts: Extending a Time Capsule network with an AirPort Express connected by ethernet cable?

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I'd like to extend my home wireless network to a location that is too far away for wireless to reach. My plan was to do this by running a 100m/328' length of Cat6a cable from my Time Capsule to an AirPort Express located in the remote location.

I thought I could just plug the ethernet in to the second port of the Time Capsule and then run that in to the AirPort Express, but it's not quite working. I'm missing some necessary part of the setup.

How can I get this working?


texts: State of xorg support in MacOS Catalina (10.15)

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I'm currently setting up a new Mac with Catalina (10.15) and Homebrew. What is the current state of xorg support in this combination?

Is XQuartz still maintained, and is it compatible with 10.15? The XQuartz Release page unfortunately does not have compatibility information.
Homebrew has some Xorg-based apps, like xpdf, but they don't seem to depend on an xorg formula. Their docs only mention, in a single sentence aimed at packagers, "Don’t build X11/XQuartz GUIs as they are a bad user experience on macOS." -- so what is the recommended way to use xorg-based software if one accepts that bad user experience?


texts: Can MacFusion be used under Mountain Lion?

texts:
I have bought a new MacBook Pro with Retina display which has OS X 10.8.3. I have installed MacFusion from the version on their website, but I cannot mount it, getting this error: Could not mount filesystem: Mount process has terminated unexpectedly.

Can you help me with that?


texts: Mac blogging client similar to Windows Live Writer

texts:
Can someone suggest a really good blogging client for Mac OS?

I am looking for something having similar functionality like Windows Live Writer (on Windows).

Blog details: WordPress (installed on Windows).
I have a Mac laptop at home, and am trying to decide on a blogging client for WordPress.


texts: Running iPhone side by side with another iPhone

texts:
I just bought a new iPhone to replace the one I dropped in water. The old iPhone works except for the screen, and I can't back it up via iTunes on my computer because I have a password on the old iPhone.

On another thread (see below), it said running the iPhones sides by side works, but I can't find anywhere that says how to do this. Please help - I have a number of texts I need to back up and have access to.

Suggestion from other thread:

  I think your best bet is to to run your iPhone side by side with another iPhone that is also set to lock. Now, by using the two phones side by side, you should be able to enter your passcode 'blind' using the position of the keys on the working phone as a guide.


texts: Unable to Import to MacOS Photos from external drive

texts:
Getting non-tech spouse setup to sort 20 years of pics using Photos.    Worked well for the first four years of pics, then only part of year five was imported.  Tried "repair photo library" and "create new photo library and import to it" without success, so...

[God forbid a single app could be reinstalled.</editorial> ]

From a clean install (recovery mode: remove Data disk, erase system disk, reinstall macOS ) to Catalina (macOS 10.15.4 19E266 March 24, 2020), able to import anywhere from 1 to several hundred pictures before Photos stops showing the imported pictures and throws "Cannot import nn items" and for each pic file "Invalid: The operation couldn't be completed (PHPhotosErrorDomain error -1)".  Tried File-Import, tried drag n drop.  Tried different external hard drive.  Tried copying pic files to mac before importing.  Might have tried a few other things...

After three clean installs with similar failures, here I am.


texts: How can I remove unwanted apps, such as Chess or Address Book, from my Mac?

texts:
There are a lot of applications that I have no use for that take up space on my Mac that I want to delete.

When ever I try to delete them it says that it is an essential part of the OS but with Chess.app, I find that reason specious at best.


texts: Disk Utility not letting me Partition Disk

texts:
A bit of background before I start. I'm trying to install Ubuntu onto my Macbook Pro and so far I've stumbled into a bit of a roadblock. I've also already installed Windows 10 with Bootcamp, I'm not sure if that makes a difference.

The issue I'm having is whenever I try to create the partition using Disk Utility it seems to get stuck at "Preparing to partition disk" no matter how long I wait for it. It really doesn't seem to matter what format I make the new partition, I still end up getting the same issue.

If anybody has any idea why this is happening or what I can do to fix it would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Does Mac OS X make use of NUMA on Mac Pros with two (or more) CPUs?


texts: How to remove macOS sharing extensions from the shell?

texts:
In macOS 10.14.x, I'm having trouble with some sharing Extensions (System Preferences -> Extensions) causing some kind of hang. Unfortunately it's so bad that even the preference pane has become unresponsive.

I'd like to be able to remove these via the Terminal (shell) or by ssh'ing into the machine when things are particularly bad and that's the only way of accessing it.

Where are the folders that these extensions are stored so that I can disable them (probably by moving their files / bundles to a temporary disabled folder)?


texts: Why did some applications have to rebuild their database after a Time Machine rollback?

texts:
Recently my system (10.8) got totally borked, so I booted into recovery mode and rewrote the entire disk from a two day old Time Machine backup. When I started back up, I found that:

Spotlight needed to reindex the entire disk.
Dropbox didn't recognize my computer, and after I logged back in it re-downloaded everything in my dropbox folder (even files that hadn't changed in the last two days).
Microsoft Office needed to rebuild the user database before I could use Outlook.

If my system was restored to the exact state it was in two days ago, why did all this happen? What made these applications behave differently from how they would have if I'd just left the computer off for two days?

I'd also be interested if anyone could point me to a list of things that are lost, reset, or rebuilt after restoring from Time Machine. Many thanks.


texts: SHA1 hash for OSX 10.10 Yosemite public release?

texts:
I have a less-than-reliable internet connection, so my download of Yosemite over the App Store has been broken over several tries. I would like to know if my download is intact. If you can run this command in Terminal:

shasum /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg

and share your result. This way we can agree on what a clean copy looks like.


texts: App was rejected for use of protected 3rd party material

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My app has been rejected due to 3rd party material clause:

  8.5: Use of protected 3rd party material (trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, otherwise proprietary content) requires a documented rights check which must be provided upon request.

1, What is documented rights check composed of

2, How do I offer it up to Apple so that my App is approved.


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Can I upgrade directly from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to 10.7 Lion?

Can I upgrade from 10.5 to 10.7 without installing 10.6 first?

And what is the cheapest way to upgrade?


texts:
I was listening to music a couple of minutes ago, and launched music, and noticed that everything was gone. I have tried respringing multiple times and quitting and relaunching mail, but it keeps telling me that there is nothing in my library. Music that I owned was gone, and so was all of my apple music.

iOS 10.3.3, jailbroken, haven't checked my laptop to see if this is happening there.

My music was really essential to me, is there any way to get it all back?


texts: Bug in Preview when copying and pasting an image?

texts:
Is Preview.app buggy in OS X 10.10, Yosemite, or is it because of the Nvidia Web Drivers?

I opened an image in Preview, copy the image, created a new file, and pasted it. The color looks more purple?

The blue image in the back is the original and the purple is the new file created copying and pasting the image. Problem is not there if I use Adobe Photoshop. So, I guess it is a Preview bug. Can any one confirm this behaviour?


texts: How do you specify the type of file you're looking for in an 'open file' dialog with a pattern?

texts:
On every other operating system except MacOS, when you bring up an Open File dialog, you can type (for example) *.txt or even *recipe*.txt to narrow down the list shown on the screen.

On MacOS, there's just a predefined list of filename extensions that you can choose from, but I don't see anywhere to type a file match pattern myself. I want to filter by the whole filename, not just the extension. How do I enable this very basic feature that I take for granted on both Windows and Linux?


texts:
There's a highly-rated app on the Mac App Store called FreeMemory.  It claims to be able to "increase your free memory with a simple click."  Although it's free right now, I believe it normally goes for 99 cents.

As a computer scientist, my intuition about the app is that it's almost certainly snake oil; in a modern operating system, anything the app could do would be unnecessary at best and actually harmful to performance at worst.

My best guess is that the app probably does something to cause the system to dump the "Inactive" memory, which probably has no effect whatsoever on performance.  However, very little information is provided about the app, and I'm reluctant to install it on my machine.  I'm also not as familiar with OS X as I am with Linux and Windows, so I could be mistaken about how OS X handles RAM.

My questions are:

What exactly does FreeMemory do, and how does it accomplish it?  Is there some public API that can give user-space programs access to the operating system's memory management parameters?
Could using FreeMemory actually confer a performance boost, or is it snake oil as I suspect?


texts: Why do aliases with words not expand in big sur?

texts:
I have some aliases in my ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile (I tried with and without .bash_profile), they were both sourced.
alias ll=‘ls -l’
alias al=‘ls -ahl’

alias iridium=“~/git/iridium”
alias vscode=“Visual Studio Code”

On Ubuntu, centos and fedora these would work fine.
Even on windows git bash I had long aliases to open games with the huge steam path.
But on big sur:
only the ls aliases work.
is there a reason for this?
I’m also sourcing these files from /etc/bashrc
Look at it in action:
 λ  cat ~/.bash_profile
alias ll='ls -l'
alias al='ls -ahl'

alias vscode='Visual Studio Code'

alias batchelor="~/git/batcheloranator"
alias iridium="~/git/iridium"
alias chem="~/git/chemistry_stuff"
 chemistry_stuff:  (master)
 λ  . ~/.bash_profile
 chemistry_stuff:  (master)
 λ  cd iridium
bash: cd: iridium: No such file or directory
 chemistry_stuff:  (master)
 λ  cd chem
bash: cd: chem: No such file or directory
 chemistry_stuff:  (master)
 λ  open -a vscode
Unable to find application named 'vscode'


texts: List of Unicode version support by macOS version

texts:
I'm looking for a list of supported Unicode versions by MacOS version. Does such a list exist?

To be specific: I like to understand which code points and code blocks are supported in the "Character Viewer", even if no font is available that contains all codepoints.

For example, on macOS High Sierra, the codeblock for Maya numerals (codepoints U+1D2E0 and up) is missing, which was introduced in Unicode version 11. Unsurprisingly, as High Sierra was released in September 2017 and Unicode 11 in June 2018.

So far, I have not found any such list, only specification of the underlying file systems:

The APFS filesytems supports all codepoints in Unicode 9, and is ignorant of codepoint normalization.
HFS plus filesystem supports any codepoint, but performs (the somewhat uncommon) decomposition normalization (NFD). Unicode 2.1 decomposition up till Mac OS X 10.2, and Unicode 3.2 decomposition starting with Mac OS X 10.3.


texts: My hard drive is broken on my Mac, I have a new one, but how can I install OS X?

texts:
I couldn't figure out how to properly explain the issue in my title.

Here is the deal:
My HDD is broken in my MacBook, every time I boot it up it's freezing. I bought a totally new SSD, but I didn't think before I bought it, so now I am stuck in a bad situation. I cannot download a new OS X, because they are downloaded from the App Store and I can't use my MacBook. I can't use disk utility to format the SSD either, because funnily enough, I also need my MacBook to work to do that.

So what options do I have here? The HDD is not operational at all, I do have a Windows desktop if I can do something here though.

Maybe I should also mention my insane stupidity of not having my installation disk either. I have an external harddrive though, so maybe if I could get the OS X iso and get my external Hard drive to install OS on the new SSD. But right now, I'm deep in the water.


texts: Why does Image Capture crash when downloading pictures from my iPhone?

texts: image capture crashes when I try to download photos from my iPhone to my MAC. It works OK with my wifes iPhone, but not mine anymore. I don't know why as I have been able to download from my iPhone previously.


texts: iMac - Install XP Can't Set Primary Display on the Second Monitor

texts:
I installed XP SP3 in iMac 17 inch (Late 2006), also installed all drivers from BootCamp 2.0 drivers bundle, all works fine. The question is, I have two displays, and the video card of this iMAc is ATI X1600 mobile, it's able to set the external display to be the primary one (I did it on OS X), I checked the display setting in XP, for the second display, the checkbox is gray so it's unable to set to primary one.

I googled a lot also, seems all solution mentioned it should install the full-ATI drivers (includes control panel), but I didn't find any place to download this driver for iMac, I did download some drivers for XP, but it's not working.

I am thinking if there are some ways to set the external display to be primary, by using software or some tools else? Thanks.


texts: Outlook to iPhone contact synchronisation

texts:
I ran into a weird problem involving the synchronisation of contacts between Outlook (on a Windows Computer), an iPhone and an iPad.

It all began when I had to do a couple of changes to a number of contacts in Outlook on PC. I had to switch a couple of names (first-/last name). The changes did sync on the iPad without any issues. The contacts on the iPhone however remained unchanged. When I tried to Change the contacts manually on the iPhone a duplicate was created in Outlook as well as on the iPad.

It seems like the problem is for the iPhone to download the contact data from the Server.

Here are some specs of the devices.

iPad OS: iOS 11.4.1
iPhone OS: iOS 12.1.4

Does anyone have an idea how to fix that issue?


texts: Which version of Safari is in Mac OS Lion?

texts:
As far as I know, Lion was to ship with the next version of Safari which would be Safari 6. However, I cannot find any information about a new version of Safari...

So, does Lion ship with Safari 6 or not?


texts: What machines will OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) run on?

texts: Has Apple announced which specific models of Macs will OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) run on and if so, what are they?


texts: Can't see other Mac workstation via ethernet but OK over Wi-Fi

texts:
So, I upgraded router to latest DD-WRT firmware.

Now, for some reason, can't see my Mac Desktop from my MacBook if connected to Ethernet. Macbook has DHCP, Mac Desktop has DHCP with manual IP.

I can see the Mac Desktop if I connect via Wi-Fi, but not through ethernet.

I've released / renewed DHCP a few times, rebooted, flushed dscache, power cycled router.


texts: External disk reports incorrect amount of free space after doing clean up via terminal. DiskUtility's Repair temporarily fixes it, but why?

texts:
I have an external 5 TB USB drive (HFS extended) which contains one encrypted disk image (HFS extended) of an equal size (practically 5 TB). All the external disk's work files are inside the encrypted disk image.

Over time the available free space naturally shrunk and shrunk; and recently I did a bit of a clean up.

Some folders had accumulated ridiculous amounts of files so I decided to use terminal (instead of Finder) for the task, ie. files were removed with rm.

Moreover, I noticed some backup folders had (partially) duplicated content. I knew the filenames were unique, so I created a catch-all folder and moved all suspected duplicates to it (namely, with mv via terminal—probably not the best option in hindsight) effectively killing the duplicate files.

Now I'm sure I have plenty of free space available, but Finder doesn't seem to know it nor remember it.

After every remount, Finder, Disk Utility app and df report the space usage as follows (disk2s2 is the regular volume, and disk3s2 is the encrypted one):

$ df -h
Filesystem                                 Size   Used  Avail Capacity   iused   ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk2s2                              4.5Ti  4.5Ti  317Mi   100% 610375939   40592  100%   /Volumes/Snake
/dev/disk3s2                              4.5Ti  4.5Ti  285Mi   100% 610178600   36496  100%   /Volumes/87

Which is to say I have 285 MB free space ≈pretty much what I had before clean up.

Now—if I run "Repair" in Apple's Disk Utility app (on the encrypted disk image, ie. disk3s2), I get no errors, but free space is updated (and presumably corrected):

$ df -h
Filesystem                                 Size   Used  Avail Capacity   iused    ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk2s2                              4.5Ti  4.5Ti  317Mi   100% 610375920    40611  100%   /Volumes/Snake
/dev/disk3s2                              4.5Ti  4.2Ti  316Gi    94% 568746945 41468151   93%   /Volumes/87

ie. 316 GB available and no effects on disk2s2. I unmounted disk3s2 and scanned disk2s2, but neither that had any effect:

$ df -h
Filesystem                                 Size   Used  Avail Capacity   iused   ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk2s2                              4.5Ti  4.5Ti  317Mi   100% 610375930   40601  100%   /Volumes/Snake

Also the corrected amount of free space is lost yet again after remounting disk3s2:

$ df -h
Filesystem                                 Size   Used  Avail Capacity   iused   ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk2s2                              4.5Ti  4.5Ti  317Mi   100% 610375931   40600  100%   /Volumes/Snake
/dev/disk3s2                              4.5Ti  4.5Ti  285Mi   100% 610178592   36504  100%   /Volumes/87

Rebooting OS X does not help.

I tried secure erasing the free space by sudo diskutil secureErase freespace 0 /dev/disk3s2, but that didn't help at all.

What magic does Disk Utility's Repair do that fixes the reported free space?
Can I do just that manually? By that I mean, I don't need to run diagnostic checks, only the thing to get the space reporting right
Why the repaired space usage report does not persist‽


texts: Unable to recover disk space Mac OS X EI Capitan

texts:
I deleted one partition on my mac and now I am not able to recover that space.  diskutil list shows below output. Here I see total space is 500 GB and size of Yosemite(installed El Capitan on it) is 248 GB. So where is remaining 250 GB.

sudo  fdisk  /dev/disk0

Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  976773167] <Unknown ID>
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

sudo  gpt  -r  show  /dev/disk0

      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  488816512
  489226152  485912608      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  975138760    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  976408296     364839
  976773135         32         Sec GPT table
  976773167          1         Sec GPT header


texts: Can OS X 10.5.8 be installed on a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 Mac Mini?

texts:
Can OS X 10.5.8 be installed on a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 Mac Mini
in order to upgrade to OS X 10.6.3 server?
(The Goal: to quit 10.8 Server in order to use Rosetta software again)


texts: Can I put MacBookPro5,1 RAM in a MacBookPro5,2?

texts:
I have an old 5,2 17” June 8, 2009 MacBook Pro that I want to upgrade the RAM in, can I put some slightly older MacBookPro5,1 RAM in it, or will it not function right? I’m assuming it will mess up the machine if I put older RAM in it but im not sure. It’s crucial ram and there are two 4GB sticks, if that helps at all, thanks again!

Liam


texts: How can I transfer songs etc to iPod without access to iTunes account?

texts:
My stepdaughter has brought her iPod home with her. We would like to transfer some photos and songs from our computer onto her iPod, but her mother has it connected to her own iTunes account. Since she is unwilling to share the password, we can't do it via iTunes syncing.

I thought I would be able to do it by just dragging across but it seems not. Any ideas?


texts: Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard becomes unresponsive intermittently on mac

texts:
I have a macbook pro running OS X v10.13.6 and am using the microsoft sculpt keyboard with it. The keyboard works but would become unresponsive intermittently. This is the setting I see in System Information:

I did some search and found some related links but:

This one says its completely unresponsive which is not what I am experiencing
This one also does not help
Over here I can see 10.13.6 is not listed but am guessing that's just because its outdated and the info needs to be updated
This does not help
This too did not help

I have listed above links as sometimes I would get a downvote saying what have you tried - so listing them to show I have done some due diligence and unable to resolve the issue.

Further I have turned bluetooth off on my mac to avoid any interference (not that it should matter)

The Keyboard System Assistant (system Preferences -> keyboard -> change keyboard type...) shows this:

Does anyone know how to fix this issue? Thanks


texts: Is it okay to use non-OEM USB-C cable and/or adapter for Macbook Pro?

texts:
Is there anything special about the Apple USB-C cable, other than its quality, that would prevent me from using a USB-C cable from another brand?

And the same question for the wall adapter.


texts: iMessage notifications not appearing for a contact (Hide Alerts is not enabled)

texts:
I am not getting notifications for text messages sent by one of my contacts. I have not enabled Hide Alerts for them.

What else do I need to do to ensure I get notifications?


texts: How to enable 3G for an Indian iPad on Airtel?

texts:
So,

I have an iPad Air 2 64 GB LTE purchased in India. I'm using a network carrier called Airtel for the data. This device is running iOS 8.4 as of posting this question.

Here's my problem-

When I put in my SIM card, the 3G band doesn't work. I don't see an option to manually select a 3G band either. I can see LTE or 2G/Edge but not 3G.

Some of you may ask - Why not just use LTE? Because Airtel only allows LTE for users of post-paid phones. I don't want to use a post paid connection for a device which is seldom out of WiFi range. For the few occasions that I'm not near Wifi, I need the iPad to work with whatever sim card I have with me. Also, LTE coverage is spotty to poor in most Indian cities.

For readers from other countries - specifically from the US, cell phones and tablets are purchased directly from something like a Best Buy after paying full price. These devices are carrier unlocked. It is the norm to swap in whichever SIM card suits your fancy for that day. The expectation from the device is that it should work perfectly.

On Android/Windows Phone/Symbian/Blackberry devices, its a trivial matter to go to the device settings and have the device use a specific network band. This is useful when you have poor 4g/3g coverage and want the device to stick to lets say, 2G/Edge bands. A 2G/Edge band is still quite useful for IM, Emails, SMS and phone calls. Obviously, you can't use it for streaming media, but that's alright.

Recent iOS devices have the hardware capable of using the most popular 2G/3G/4G/LTE/WCDMA bands. However, for reasons best decided by the iOS engineers, the choice to allow this band selection is enabled by the network carrier through the use of some elusive settings and files called the IPCC or Carrier settings files.

For readers from developed countries - most networks in India don't bother providing IPCC files because all non-iOS devices work without these settings just fine. So, when I go to an Apple forum - I'm just asked to use a different network. (As if!)

Anyway, I've searched the Internet high and low for these mystical IPCC files. Most resources are out of date or suggest that you root the device. Rooting is not an option because that would void the warranty.

Every time I connect the iPad to iTunes, I see a popup saying that carrier updates are available...I tell it to go do the update, but then zilch.. nothing happens.

Then I go do the other thing all Internet resources tell me : Settings > General > About > Update... and again, zilch.

So, how do I go about solving this problem?

Thanks for any help.

ps: Any comment or suggestion which mentions that the network carrier should provide these files - I say to them : All other devices work perfectly on their networks, so why should there be special arrangements for an iOS device? In developing countries, iOS devices account for a minor fraction of the subscriber base.


texts: How to share an Image using Airdrop from iPad mini to MacBook

texts: I am using an iPad Mini with iOS 7.1 , I want to share an image file using airdrop feature from my iPad mini to MacBook . But iPad mini is not detecting MacBook on Airdrop. How can I share file to and from iPad mini to MacBook using Airdrop??


texts: iPhone Not Showing Notification Content in Banner

texts:
This seems like a privacy setting, or some sort of notification setting, but I can't seem to find any option to reenable this functionality.

Current settings:
http://imgur.com/a/0rKSn

Issue at hand:
http://imgur.com/a/nXfav

If it helps, I was on the iOS 10.2.1 beta before downgrading back to 10.2. And if it is due to some form of corruption from iOS 10.2.1b1 how should I go about fixing the issue? Should I do a full restore?


texts: “macOS needs to repair your library” error loop on Mojave upgrade

texts:
I’ve been having trouble fixing the “macOS needs to repair your library” loop for the past couple of days and I’m running out of options. The message pops up over and over again, no matter what I do.

I’ve gone as far as typing a command in Terminal (recovery mode) which Apple support sent me (the diskutil resetuserpermissions, except longer).

I found some other commands online but I’m not sure what they do and that’s why I haven’t tried them, can anybody help me?

Other commands I’ve found:
resetpassword (confused as to WHICH password it’ll reset)
and

sudo chown -R <user> ~/Library

sudo chgrp -R <groupname> ~/Library (found on this website)

This last one the user said I should get it by running id -u for user and id -g for groups, but as I am not the tiniest bit familiar with programming, I wonder if he meant I should replace “user” for id -u and same thing for groups??

Please help as I am desperate and Apple support’s solutions haven’t helped me so far!!


texts: My iPod Touch ran out of battery and died for a short time. When I plugged it back in and it turned back on, all of my conversations on iMessage had been deleted. I still have the contacts but all of my texts and messages were gone. Why did this happen and is there any way to get my messages back?


texts:
I want all my photos from icloud to appear on all my devices. I've turned on icloud onto all my devices but they are all out of sync. This is quite strange, is this expected behaviour?

I've read I might need to enable photo stream but not only is it not clear what photo stream is but it also seems to have limitations, for example, it is limited in how many it can sync.

With google photo is syncs and stores all my photos in the cloud and shows me all the photos on all my devices. Is there no such thing for apple?


texts:
Yesterday I made OS X Server, on Mac Mini, for Xcode Continuous Integration.
Today, by scanning my local network, I see that this Mac Mini is having port 2012 open with this raid-ac.

I googled but can not find any info regarding this raid-ac.
I suppose that this raid-ac is used for this Xcode Continuous Integration feature.

Can somebody provide more info about it ?


texts: Playlist ascending / descending resetting

texts:
I'm using iTunes version 12.6.2.20 (latest) with a combination of local music, Apple Music, and iCloud Music Library.

In iTunes, all playlists are always sorted correctly except for "Current Favourites" which is supposed to be sorted ascending but always reverts to descending on restart of iTunes or the PC. This ascending / descending reversion affects all playlists.

On my iPhone, the playlists are always sorted correctly including "Current Favourites".

What could cause this?


texts: Why is encrypted APFS on SD cards so slow?

texts: When writing any data to SD cards, the operation is usually very slow compared to other kinds of media (up to tens ob MBytes/s). However, when using an encrypted file system on the SD card, such as encrypted APFS, the write operations tend to be even slower, for example one fourth of the transfer rate. Why is this the case? Modern CPUs should provide special instructions that are also used for any other file vault operation.


texts: Signed iOS app "can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer"

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I am a registered iOS developer. I generated an IPA file using a signing identity that qualifies for App Store submission.

I sent my client this IPA file but macOS won't open it. It claims that this file comes from an unidentified developer. While there is a workaround by option-clicking the file, I want to know how a client can set Gatekeeper to trust all app files signed by a given identity.

It is likly that the client is running Mountain Lion or Sierra.


texts: iPhone 4s can't use office internet (Squid Proxy)

texts:
I've configured iPhone 4s to use our office wifi and specified a squid proxy and its authentication data (tested and working on computers and my colleague android phone) but when I connect to office's wifi a "Login" completely white screen appears.
How can I solve this?


texts: brew: create install script for all installed packages/casks

texts:
I am currently planning to reinstall my OS from scratch. Over the years, I installed a LOT OF packages via brew. Obviously, I'd like to reinstall those after setting up the system again, and I want to automate this as much as possible.
Hence my question: How do I list all packages installed via brew, including casks, and how do I create an "install script" from those that will add all added casks for me and then install all packages again?"
Apple Silicon: port all Homebrew packages under /usr/local/opt/ to /opt/homebrew asks a similar question, but doesn't address the creation of a automated install script, rather the port between two architectures.


texts: Does Safari browser history DB contain transition type?

texts:
The browser history of Safari is stored in ~/Library/Safari/History.db which is a regular SQLite database. For example, it can be viewed using SQLite Browser or queried using Python.

The database contains a table named history_items. This lists all URL's, with their title, and id and the total number of time the website was visited. Another table is named history_visits. This lists all individual visits, with a timestamp, id and, possibly, information about the source which redirected the user to this website.

In the Chrome browser history, the transition type is also stored. This notes whether the user arrived at the website via a link, a reload or whether he typed in the address directly. Is such transition information also available in the Safari History.db?

The table history_visits also contains integer columns named origin, generation and attributes. However, it is unclear to me what these mean. Is there a documentation available for the Safari browser history database?


texts: Is there a limit on how much hard drive space a computer can handle?

texts: I'm thinking of getting a new SSHD for my early 2011 13" MBP, and if I do, I had the idea to give my 500GB HDD to my friend who has a 2007 MacBook (white polycarbonate). He seems to think that his computer can only take 80 and 120GB hard drives. Is this true?


texts: MBP 16" i9 (Late 2019) Possibly Overheating

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I just got a 2019 MBP 16" Model with 2.3 GHz i9 (turbo to 4.8GHz). When running simulations in MATLAB I have noticed the fans to spin quite loudly, and the CPU temp is rising very high. I have seen the temp peak 100C when plugged in, and around a max of 95C on battery power.
My question is whether this is typical behavior for this computer/CPU or whether I am at risk of damaging my components.
(Note: I am using this completely out of the box - have made no modifications, overclocking etc.. The temperatures I am seeing are just higher than I have seen previously for CPUs and I was shocked to be honest)


texts: Best strategy to transport a MacBook backup

texts:
I just bought a new MacBook Pro overseas. I currently own a MacBook Air and I need to bring a backup of this current computer to US, so I can restore it on my new computer when I arrive.

I currently do incremental backups to a Time Capsule, but bringing it is not an option. What would be the best strategy to back my data up to an external HD and restoring it later on this new MBP?

I am OK if I need paid solutions too, but of course freebies are better.

Update: I used the approach of adding an extra drive to Time Machine and it worked beautifully! I got my new MBP and it had Lion installed. When I used the Migration Agent, the user was successfully migrated but it wouldn't recognize my password. I had to reinstall from scratch, add a new user, login, update to Mountain Lion and finally run the Migration Agent again. Once that was done, everything worked.


texts: Run Terminal Command from .terminal file

texts:
I just figured out how to export settings from terminal which creates a .terminal file. And I realize that the ExecutionString parameter has changed to the CommandString parameter.

I put a command in the string tags and it worked but it jumped straight to [Process Completed] after it was done. Is there anyway to get it to give me a new prompt line for more commands?


texts: Could anyone please let me know how to install fontin which I download from Exljbris. I am new to mac so I am not sure what to do with .sit file.


texts: Time Machine stopped recognising backups on the NAS storage and does not make new backups anymore

texts:
I have a disk that is attached as a NAS storage to Time Machine. It's just a hard drive connected to my router.
I started doing Time Machine backups to this disk rather recently and until several days ago backups were done without any problems. But now Time Machine complains about incorrect credentials (based on what it tells me) and for some reason no backups are found on this disk anymore.
I tried to add and remove the storage many times and run a few commands with tmutil but without a deep understanding how it works it's hard to fix anything or even find out the cause of the problem...
This is what it looks like:

I start with a pristine and uninitialized Time Machine screen and there I select the NAS storage.

It asks me to provide credentials for the NAS storage.

After entering the correct credentials it says that there is an existing encrypted backup already and asks me if I want to use it or start over:

After I click on Use Existing Backup button it asks me to provide a password for my existing backup, and that's where things become interesting... I know the correct password but whatever I enter the result is the same.

At first it shows that there are no backups on the disk:

Then it starts looking for the backup disk:

And then a popup shows up saying that "The network backup disk could not be accessed because there was a problem with the username or password":

But the credentials are ok. Whenever I try to open the .sparsebundle file on that disk (even when it is connected directly to my MacBook) it is mounted successfully and I can browse all snapshots without even typing the encryption password (which I find particularly weird because KeyChain on my MacBook does not contain any keys which are related to the backups - I removed everything intentionally to check if that will work).
And this is what happens when I try to run most of the commands with tmutil:
 ~ % tmutil machinedirectory
 No machine directory found for host.

 ~ % tmutil latestbackup
 Unable to locate machine directory for host.

Any suggestions?
UPD:
I figured out why my Time Machine sparsebundle didn't require password. It was saved in KeyChain but under some strange GUID with the suffix/extension ".sparsebundle". I found it by searching "disk". And then after I removed these items completely I need to enter the password every time I access the sparsebundle image.
And... After playing around with tmutil associatedisk I managed to change the behavior of Time Machine. Now, instead of accepting any password and then displaying that there are no backups found, it rejects any password and says that "Password is invalid" although the password is obviously correct assuming that I can access the sparsebundle contents directly through Finder.


texts: Avoid double keystrokes for a given set of keys on OS X

texts:
I am looking for a program for OS X that can prevent the user from inputting the same key twice in less than X milliseconds. The set of keys for which this limitation applies to should be configurable.

Any price and license is fine.


texts: Editing iMac settings from an external Mac

texts:
My 2010 iMac's display shows up distorted lines on start up then gets stuck at the gray Apple logo screen. After being stuck there for a while it then reboots itself and does the same process over again until I force shutdown. Fortunately I have a MacBook Pro in which I can use to boot from and view the files from my iMac this way. I believe my iMac is having graphics issues but I have an external monitor I would like to use to view my iMac. Is it possible to configure the settings for my iMac from my MacBook Pro so that I can set my iMac to display via the external monitor and if not are there any alternatives?

Thanks in advance!


texts: Log out other user w/o first switching to that user

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My wife use separate accounts and quick user switching on a MBP running 10.6. Sometimes I want to log her out to free up some RAM, but I'd like to avoid logging in as her, logging out, then logging back in as me.

I have seen a terminal solution... is there a better way? Thanks!


texts: Cmd F1 not working to use ext. monitor with 2017 macbook pro

texts:
Good afternoon all,
I am aware similar questions have been asked and answered, but I can't find a solution which works and wonder if it is model specific.
I have a 2017 macbook pro with three thunderbolt 3 ports. The screen is broken and I would just like to get some files off before sending it for repair.
I have an older MBP without thunderbolt 3, and without dropping £80 on cable and adaptor I cannot connect in target disk mode. I do however have a hub with HDMI port on it and am trying to connect to an external monitor this way.  I can power the computer up, but not see to log in, and the usual answers to this problem dont seem to be working:
Powering up the laptop and closing it doesn't trigger it to use the external monitor,
cmd+F1 or Fn+cmd+F1 dont seem to do it either.
I have also tried waking the laptop uising external keyboard while the laptop is shut and this doesn't work!
Does anyone have any other tricks for this model MBP, or do I just need to hurry up and get the screen fixed?!
Many thanks for your time


texts: Is it possible to use FileMerge as standalone app?

texts: I'm wondering if there is a way to use FileMerge as a standalone tool. I don't want to install Xcode, since I don't need it. I just want the FileMerge app. Is that possible?


texts: launchd startInterval shorter than time taken for the script to complete

texts:
I'm using launchctl to load/start my python script and it works to a certain degree. It launches ever 120s, but some times my script takes 500s to run and my theory is that is I have a process running it restarts it rather than letting the first one run.

What I think happens:
- launch tester.py (tester.py estimated time to complete 400s)
- after 120s
- launch tester.py again and abandon the first one

What I want:
To finish the first tester.py not restart it.

<?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>Label</key>
    <string>BuildNotification.py</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/bin/python</string>
        <string>/Users/xcuer/tester.py</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>120</integer>
    <key>TimeOut</key>
    <integer>7200</integer>
    <key>ExitTimeOut</key>
    <integer>7200</integer>
</dict>
</plist>


texts: osx cancel startup applications from login window

texts:
I am positive there is some official Apple documentation and link for a list of different keys one can press during the login window (not the startup) that will do some different action. In particular I am looking for the one that would cancel the reopening of applications, even if at shutdown one said to reopened them. I saw this online the other day, but can't seem to find it again.

Any help is greatly appreacited! Thanks.


texts: Change iPhone backup location permanently?

texts:
I have 20GB left on my OSX Macbook Pro so I bought the Transcend JetDrive sd card for extra memory.

The iPhone iOS 10 back up takes about 80GB and would like to move it to that external memory drive. Moving is not a problem because I can manually locate the file, but is there a way to automatically backup my iPhone to that new location?


texts: How to use multiple pasteboards in OS X?

texts:
I have a situation where I need 2 or 3 different pasteboards so that I can issue a command-c/v for the traditional copy/paste and then be able to use option-command-c/v for a secondary pasteboard copy and paste and then a third one as well if possible.

The usecase is such that I need to rapidly be able to copy and paste different patterns in a dynamic manner.

I own PTHPasteboard Pro which seems to work again nicely in 10.11, but I have not been able to find a way to copy into additional pasteboards that you can create with it... only paste out from it.

Any ideas on how to either use this app or another option to implement additional pasteboards?


texts: connect to LDAP account using smartcard (PKINIT) - can user matching ignore case sensitivity?

texts:
For smartcard login, my certificate contain UPN which is lowercase formatted (i.e. user123). However, in DC its capitalized (i.e. User123).
The login fails with the following log (taken from log show) :
SmartCard - User is not paired with any smartcard .

I looked earlier in the logs to figure out why no smart card is found with the username who wish to authenticate, and I saw the following call to odquery, notice that it request to find with Equality: CaseExact.
2020-12-24 12:40:44.901571+0200 0x1f237    Info        0x14742              85     0
opendirectoryd: [com.apple.opendirectoryd:session] ODQueryCreateWithNode request, NodeID:
 E4648A1C-B2E1-4329-B702-5CADC51B9235, RecordType(s): dsRecTypeStandard:Users, Attribute:
 dsAttrTypeNative:dn, MatchType: EqualTo, Equality: CaseExact, Value(s): <private>, Requested
 Attributes: dsAttrTypeStandard:AuthenticationHint,dsAttrTypeNative:_guest,dsAttrTypeStandard:
AuthenticationAuthority,dsAttrTypeStandard:AppleMetaNodeLocation,dsAttrTypeStandard:RecordType,
dsAttrTypeStandard:GeneratedUID,dsAttrTypeStandard:PrimaryGroupID,dsAttrTypeStandard:RecordName,
dsAttrTypeNative:original_authentication_authority,dsAttrTypeStandard:HomeDirectory,dsAttrTypeSt
andard:UniqueID,dsAttrTypeStandard:RealName,dsAttrTypeStandard:AppleMetaReco
rdName,dsAttrTypeNative:home_info,dsAttrTypeStandard:NFSHomeDirectory, Max Results: 1

Perhaps there’s a way to configure the PKINIT authentication in macOS to be case insensitive


texts: When using Spaces, is there a way to set each "desktop" background independently?

texts: For instance, say I had a few sweet background images I wanted to use to identify each one.


texts: Is an iPod Touch 5th generation a good testing device for iOS (react-native) development in 2018

texts:
As I'm going to upload my first app on the Apple App store and do not own an iPhone. From what I understand, owning and bundling your app on an Apple Device is a required phase of the app creation process on x-code.

I'm wondering if an iPod Touch 5th generation is a good enough device for running and running my bundled app.

Appart from the screen size difference (the iPod touch 5th generation is 4") and minor differences, is an iPod Touch 5th gen an adequate device for ios development or must it obligatorily be an iphone?

PS: the only similar question I found dated from 2011, just want to be sure it's sill ok in 2018 before buying an iPod Touch and the apple developer licence.
   Will an iPod touch suffice for testing iOS apps?

PSS: I'm using react-native (without expo) but I guess it's not relevant in the question.


texts: For how many years can I expect to use an used iPad 1 if I buy one today (as of 2014)?

texts:
A coworker offered me his iPad first generation (model MB294LL, WiFi, 64gb) at a good price (the same price range doesn't have a good brand new alternative), but I am worried that it might run out of service in the near future.

I have tested it and it has all the functionality I desire (mostly as a fancy Dropbox-based mobile library and iBook-based reader for use indoors, mostly at home)

My main worries would be:

Apple would take some measure to force obsolescency (like Amazon already did with Kindle in the past);
The apps I currently use will become unavailable and I won't get the same version again (since there are no "installers", so to say);

I suppose that eventually there will be battery-related issues or some other non-serviceable physical damage, but considering the best-case scenario, is there any possibility that the iPad generation 1 wouldn't keep its current functionality due to software support/availability issues?


texts: Does it make sense to Quit apps before Sleep?

texts:
Will quitting (Cmd+Q) large apps before closing the MacBook lid make getting up and running again faster?

I have the impression that my MacBook needs more time to recover from sleep if I have large, memory-hungry (LibreOffice, heh) applications open, but that doesn't make much sense from what I believe sleep mode is (e.g., powering down disk and screen but not memory).


texts: Sudden strange keyboard behaviour Mac OS X

texts:
Suddenly my keyboard is behaving weirdly. Here's some examples of what happening:

Left command not working at all
Left option + L moves the cursor down one line
Left control + L moves cursor down one line
Left X working sporadically
Left X working sporadically
Option + T does what Option + Control + T should do
Control + T does what Option + Control + T should do

So the problem seems to be concentrated around the bottom left area of the keyboard.

Just before this started happening, I cleaned my keyboard with a damp cloth and also repaired computer's disk using Disk Utility. So I assume one of these things is responsible for issues.

Can anyone suggest a fix?


texts:
How do I get to see all of the folders shown in the folder in this question.
When I go to iCloud Drive all I see is:

(Parts of image containing personal information whited-out)


texts: Keychain trouble after changing password

texts:
I have recently migrated from a time machine backup of my previous mac. I have three different accounts on both my macs and two of these seem to work well. However, when I log in to the third account, I have some problems, especially on the new mac.

I have changed the password for all three users using the dialogue in system preferences.

Every time I log in, I see a screen that asks me to change my keychain password, or create a new keychain. When I choose to change my password, no input seems to be valid. When I create a new keychain, that does not seem to help either.

After choosing either continue logging in or choosing to create a new keychain, my mac will then ask me to log in with my apple id, which I can also decline.

If I continue past the apple id dialogue, my mac tells me: "Setting Up Your Mac..." which is pretty scary, considering it is already "Set up". Fortunately so far it has not wiped my HD.

It then logs me in into my user account and most of the time I get a lot of messages telling me that this and that process wants to access my login keychain.

I have tried deleting my keychain folder located at ~/Library/Keychains, as well as changing my password for the different keychains and checking the synchronise my keychain my user account checkbox under the preferences of the keychain utility. I have also tried to use the "Reset My Default Keychain" button. Two of these strategies are listed here. Unfortunately none of these seem to work.

Sometimes when I try to change the keychain password I find that I have to use my old password, sometimes the new one, and sometimes no input appears to get accepted (the last case happens when I try to change it from the dialogue that pops up when I try to log in).

On my previous mac I was also experiencing problems with this account. In particular it seems that any system preferences that I modified for would only last for one session, and would be forgotten when restarting my mac. One example is the hiding of the dock and also on my new mac osx forgets that I want to hide the dock.

Question: Does anybody know what is causing all this?

Strongly related: How do I delete or fix my Keychain after changing my password?


texts: Stop my Mac from downloading Apple TV content

texts:
I have an Apple TV where I subscribe to Seasons for various shows and watch them on my TV. The problem is that my Mac is also downloading the same,  storing it on the hard drive.

These are very large files, and I don't want to store them locally or use my bandwidth to download them.

How do I stop this from happening? Is there a setting in iTunes to make it stop?


texts: I just installed Mavericks, but when I open Maps, the two-finger rotate gesture does nothing. The gesture is active in System Preferences. The compass does not appear in Maps. I can use the same gesture in Preview. The pinch-to-zoom feature works fine. Is this a hardware issue or is there something I forgot to activate?


texts: When I look at the storage section of my phone, the various categories add up to about 2.5 GB of storage, but it says that 11.4 GB is being used. Is there any way to figure out what else is taking up space on my phone?


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro since 2014 and I haven't had any problem in these months. But today I realized that the free space info that gives Mac is wrong. I add two captures, one from the hard disk info, and the second from the 'About this Mac' window.

As you can see, I have set my Mac to Spanish language; hope you have no problem to understand it ;)
Also, in the second capture, it says there are about 312 GB of apps, when there is no such amount of apps in my laptop. Even more, if you add 312 + the free space Mac says there is (about 350 GB), it results more than 500GB!

Why is happening this? Is there a bad update from Mac that is causing this?

Thank you for your replies!


texts:
My iPhone has broken LCD glass, LCD is working from inside but I think the digitizer is broken.

I have visited many blogs and websites and most of them described to replace all the screen with LCD and digitizer. I want to know if there is a way I can fix the digitizer or do I need to replace the whole package?


texts: How do I require password prompt EVERY time I close my MacBook's lid?

texts:
This doesn't seem to always work.

Also (perhaps related?): when I close the lid of the laptop when it's connected to the Thunderbolt display, how do I make the display go black?

Basically, I am trying to increase security on my setup overall, if I leave my desk.


texts:
I recently started getting performance issues with my MBP while running apps like Xcode and Eclipse. A quick diagnostic of the system showed that it thrashed over 458k times.

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   095   095   062    Pre-fail  Always       -       458757

I just ordered a SSD to replace the HDD, will this help solve the problem, and also how do I get OSX back onto the computer if I replace the HDD and the new SSD is empty?


texts: Why does my phone say I have less space than iTunes does?

texts:
According to the usage and about settings on my iPhone, I have 2.2 GB of space left. However, when plugged into iTunes, iTunes tells me the phone has 4.62. GB free. Is there a reason for this, and which one is the correct amount?

(16GB White iPhone 6, iOS 8.4)


texts: Wake On Lan behavior with Mac Mini - how to put asleep and confirm wake success?

texts:
Experimenting with Wake On Lan, I tested with a small Fujitsu Esprimo mini computer and a Mac Mini.
In a Windows desktop app "WakeMeOnLan" on another unrelated computer, I can see "green" dots for awake clients, and "red" dots for sleeping clients. I can put the Esprimo to sleep, so the dots turn red, but not the Mac Mini. How can I test if my Wake On Lan works?
Esprimo with Ubuntu

makes a "click" noise when switched on, so I know it worked.
The colored app indicators change between green and red, as expected.
SSH connection drops on sleep via pm-suspend.

Mac Mini with latest OS

LED stays on always
Monitor turns off when starting sleep via SSH and pmset sleepnow.
Even after sleepnow, the colored app indicators are always green (unless the Mac is really switched off, so I can't wake on lan anyway)
SSH connection stays alive
After some time of inactivity the MAC's LED pulsates slowly, which at least gives an indications of a changed state. Still, the colored indicator in my wake-app is still green not red.

With the mac I have tested hibernate modes 0,3,25. Energy saving settings are those:

[ ] Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off
[X] Put hard disks to sleep when possible
[X] Wake for Network Access
[X] Start up automatically after a power failure
[ ] Enable Power Nap

Output of pmset -g

How can I be sure that the Mac is sleeping actually? (LED, SSH connection,...)
I need a way to proof that my Wake On Lan actually works for the Mac. It might just be a typical Mac issue, but I have no clue about Apple stuff.


texts:
System: El-Capitan 10.11.5, Macbook Air 2013-Mid, SSD 128 GB. I would like do a new partition in my SSD. Install Ubuntu on it side-by-side with OS X. I have documents which I would like to use by both systems.

Proposal 1 with SSD

OSX in OSX Extended.
Linux in ext4.
Use fuse if need files of Linux in OSX. Not sure how well this works.

I am unsure how you can create a symlink from Linux-ext4 to OSX-extended through fuse.

Proposal 2 with SSD + big HD in memory card slot

OS X in OSX Extended.
Linux in ext4.
Big HD in ntfs. Both systems should be able to read it. However, possible conflicts with Linux permissions.

How well will symlinks work to 2nd HD from OSX and Linux? Can both systems use ntfs format?
Is there any better format which both systems (Linux and OSX) can use?

How can you initiate ext4 for OS X's Linux partition and use it with OS X?


texts:
I’m having thermal issues with my MacBook Pro 17” late 2011 model laptop I7 2.5 quad core with 16GB of RAM.

Has anyone had any thermal issues when running DAW software on this particular laptop?

Every software app I use: Protools, Logic, Cubase, Live, Maschine, Studio One, all crash if I'm not running an air conditioner in the room. Even then I can’t  use too many plugins.

I think it’s the battery, as the bottom of the laptop gets very hot. I want to remove the battery, However I heard that my processor performance would be compromised.

I was thinking of also removing the DVD drive to get more air into the computer.

If anyone can help with any suggestions or solutions, I would be humbled and thankful for your time and response.


texts:
Is it possible to open a CSV file with Excel direct from Finder and have the data grouped into columns. I know this is possible through the "File > Import" route, but it takes a lot of time if you are working with CSVs a lot.

If I simply set Excel as the default application, it opens the data as follows:

I would like to have that data in separate columns.


texts: How to get the selected text into an AppleScript, without copying the text to the clipboard?

texts:
I've researched methods on how to get the selection as a text variable in an AppleScript. But these methods rely on copying the selection to the clipboard (for example, by keystroking the copy command at the top of the script) in order to introduce this text to the AppleScript (by using the clipboard).

This is less than ideal, of course, because the actual clipboard text is overwritten.

Is there another way to get the selected text, system-wide, in AppleScript, without disturbing the clipboard?

Obviously, one can easily get the selected text without touching the clipboard in Automator. However, in this case, I don't want to use Automator; I need a pure AppleScript solution.


texts: Blink / fade out to where the text-cursor is - Effect?

texts:
I just installed an application (MousePosé)(which many of you will love) to show me where my mousecursor is, after pressing a shortcut,

However: very often when I'm programming, especially after CMD-Tab, I can't remember/see where my text-cursor is.

Does there exists an application that fades out the screen, until at the point of where the text-cursor is, like MousePose does with the mouse cursor?

In fact, it's like an Lightbox effect, where your whole screen gets fade-out and only the thing that matters (your text-cursor) shows in perfect glory, with no dimmed light.

Just like this, but when with the text-cursor, instead of the mouse-cursor

Thanks!


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One desktop is plenty for me. In particular, I do not like the fact that when I drag a window to a side, it automatically switches to a new desktop. I don't want that.

I've unchecked all kinds of things related to multiple desktops, but none of it has managed to disable this feature.


texts: Skipping .DS_Store files when copying between two external drives

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There are quite a few questions on .DS_Store files already, but none seem to answer my problem.

I have an external hard drive with a dozen of ~ 50 GB backup folders. When I try to copy these folders to a new external hard drive by drag-and-drop, it fails because

  .DS_Store already exists and could not copied.
  [Stop]

To circumvent this issue, how can I skip copying .DS_Store files when copying between two hard drives?

A Terminal command solution certainly exists, but I am not well-versed enough in cp to find it myself. All help appreciated!

P.S. Both disks are Mac OS X Extended (Journaled).


texts: "You must update to iOS 8.0" when trying to download apps on iPhone 4

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I go to download my apps on my phone and it won't let me. It just comes up with this:

  This application requires iOS 8.0 or later.
  You must update to iOS 8.0 in order to download and use this application.

I go to update my software and it says there are no updates available. What should I do?


texts: How to remotely push "defaults write" settings to OS X server clients

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I have some Mac OSX machines that i'm managing with an OS X server, clients are authenticated using Active Directory (golden triangle) and i'd like to disable version control for Pages/Numbers/Keynote as it doesn't work well with user profiles stored on an SMB share,

The commands that achieve this are as follows:

defaults write com.apple.iWork.Pages ApplePersistence -bool no
defaults write com.apple.iWork.Numbers ApplePersistence -bool no
defaults write com.apple.iWork.Keynote ApplePersistence -bool no

This setting appears to be per-user

I tried to save these into a logon script file with .sh extension, I chmod+x the file to allow me to import it into OS X server but it doesn't work :(

There's a section in OSX server under preferences which has a load of .plist files in there but I couldnt find any good documentation on how to use it ... and I can't locate the plist file for Pages itself..

Sorry for the poor description, i'm new to OS X administration in this environment

Thanks in advance

(This query is actually solved now but just FYI it was OX Mavericks 10.9.5 client and a Mac Mini running 10.9.5 with Server 3.1.2)


texts: Truecrypt install fails - 3 out of 6 hunks FAILED

texts:
The first is just to show you where the installation is at this moment:

  n102:~ hendrikwindel$ brew info truecrypt
  truecrypt: stable 7.1a
  http://truecrypt.org/
  Conflicts with: fuse4x
  Not installed
  From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/truecrypt.rb
  ==> Dependencies
  Build: pkg-config ✔, nasm ✔
  Required: wxmac ✔, osxfuse ✔

And now occurs the issue:

  n102:~ hendrikwindel$ brew install truecrypt
  ==> Downloading ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/tc/truecrypt-7.1a.tar.gz
  Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/truecrypt-7.1a.tar.gz
  ==> Patching
  patching file Main/Application.cpp
  Hunk #1 succeeded at 36 with fuzz 2.
  patching file Main/CommandLineInterface.cpp
  patching file Main/Forms/Forms.cpp
  Hunk #1 succeeded at 263 with fuzz 2.
  Hunk #2 FAILED at 305.
  Hunk #3 succeeded at 1443 with fuzz 2.
  Hunk #4 FAILED at 1468.
  Hunk #5 succeeded at 2894 with fuzz 2.
  Hunk #6 FAILED at 2951.
  3 out of 6 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file Main/Forms/Forms.cpp.rej
  patching file Main/Forms/MainFrame.cpp
  patching file Main/Forms/SelectDirectoryWizardPage.cpp
  patching file Main/Forms/SelectDirectoryWizardPage.h
  patching file Main/GraphicUserInterface.cpp
  patching file Main/TextUserInterface.cpp
  patching file Main/UserPreferences.cpp
  patching file Platform/Unix/Process.cpp
  Error: Applying DATA patch failed

I have no idea what could be wrong. There is only a short prehistory. But I think it isn't connected with this issue.


texts: How to import my data from Android into my new iPhone?

texts: I recently changed my phone (it was an Android smartphone) to a new iPhone 7. I want to export and import a lot of files from my Android device to my iPhone but I do not know how to proceed. I have already tried it manually but it is a long and tiring job. What is a faster method?


texts: Comparison of Microsoft Word to Apple Pages

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I'm thinking about getting a word processor for my Mac. The two most popular options are probably Microsoft's Word or Apple's Pages. Before I decide to buy one I need to make sure that it will have all of the features I need. Is there feature matrix which compares Word to Pages and shows which features each application supports?

I'd like to see an exhaustive list of all the features each one supports, or something very close to it. Ideally it should be in table format so that it's very easy to read.


texts: Wifi dongle stopped working as soon a I upgraded to MacOS Big Sur 11 version

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My wifi dongle is not working on Big Sur. Whenever I tried to install the software that came with the wifi dongle, I get a message that the drive is incompatible. I was using a Wifi dongle from this company called Cuddy and when I contacted them, they said they are not sure when are they going to have a compatible driver for the same.
I found a similar post related to this over herewhen someone faced similar issue when Big sur was in beta phase.
And I was looking at Gummibando's answer where he mentioned the following:
While macOS 11 is in development, you can enable the loading of deprecated KEXTs by disabling SIP. See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-big-sur-11-beta-release-notes (Deprecations).
However, the link is not working anymore. Any other solution to solve this issue?


texts: Apple Script - send "Message (with date/time?)" to imessagebuddy

texts:
How do I get apple script to include the current time in an imessage sent with apple script?

on run {input, parameters}

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


texts: HFS+ invalid number of allocation blocks

texts:
Okay so a few days ago I wanted to install Ubuntu GNOME over regular Ubuntu and it gave me the option to automatically overwrite my Ubuntu installation (that I had on a separate partition from my OS X Yosemite). After I installed GNOME this way though, it appeared that the installer also removed my OS X partition.

Since then I've tried various things to recover my Mac partition, I've used TestDisk to find the sectors and gdisk to recreate the partition table (and partitions). The problem is that I can't mount these new partitions. I've tried fsck.hfsplus to repair the partition but it gives me the following error (booted from GNOME trial USB):

ubuntu-gnome@ubuntu-gnome:~$ sudo fsck.hfsplus /dev/sda2
** /dev/sda2
** Checking HFS Plus volume.
   Invalid number of allocation blocks
(4294967295, 0)
** Volume check failed.

Here are my testdisk results:

Here are the partitions I made in gdisk:

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              34          409633   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System Partition
   2          411648      1164570455   555.1 GiB   AF00  Apple HFS/HFS+
   3      1165256704      1166528119   620.8 MiB   AF00  Apple HFS/HFS+
   4      1166528512      1182543855   7.6 GiB     8200  Linux swap
   5      1182543872      1465147391   134.8 GiB   8300  Linux filesystem

Here are the different outputs after booting to Internet Recovery Mode:

diskutil list:

-bash-3.2# diskutil list /dev/disk0
   #:                        TYPE NAME                    SIZE        IDENTIFIER
   0:       GUID_partition_scheme                         *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                         EFI                          209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                   Apple_HFS                          596.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                   Apple_HFS                          651.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:                  Linux Swap                          8.2 GB     disk0s4
   5: 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4                 144.7 GB   disk0s5
/dev/disk1
   #:                        TYPE NAME                    SIZE        IDENTIFIER
   0:      Apple_partition_scheme                         *1.2 GB     disk1
   1:         Apple_partition_map                          30.7 KB    disk1s1
   2:                   Apple_HFS Mac OS X Base System     1.2 GB     disk1s2

/dev/disk2-disk12 are part of the recovery system and irrelevant here

diskutil cs list:

No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

gpt -r -vv show /dev/disk0:

-bash-3.2# gpt -r -vv show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=750156374016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1465149168
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1465149167
       start        size index contents
           0           1       PMBR
           1           1       Pri GPT header
           2          32       Pri GPT table
          34      409600     1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409634        2014
      411648  1164158808     2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1164570456      686248
  1165256704     1271416     3 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1166528120         392
  1166528512    16015344     4 GPT part - 0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
  1182543856          16
  1182543872   282603520     5 GPT part - 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4
  1465147392        1743
  1465149135          32       Sec GPT table
  1465149167           1       Sec GPT header


texts: Based on what criteria are the crash logs of a process automatically deleted?

texts:
According to the Apple Tech Note https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2004/tn2123.html,

"CrashReporter limits the number of crash log files for any given combination of user, process name and host name. The current limit is 20."

Also, the ReportCrash manual states:

"ReportCrash is invoked automatically by launchd when a crash is detected.
     For applications and other processes running in the per-user launchd con-
     text, ReportCrash runs as a LaunchAgent and saves crash reports in the
     user's ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ directory.  For daemons, other
     processes running in the system launchd context and other privileged pro-
     cesses, ReportCrash runs as a LaunchDaemon and saves crash reports in the
     system's /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports directory where they are only
     readable by admin users.  If there are too many crash reports saved for a
     particular process, older reports will automatically be removed in order
     to conserve disk space."

I ran a test on a macOS 10.13.4 and managed to crash a process (running as root) for more than 20 times. After the 20th crash, some of the older crash logs were deleted. The odd part is that they seemed to be deleted based on an extra criteria, other than the time stamp. I expected that after 30 crashes, the first 10 (chronologically speaking) would be deleted. But they were deleted randomly (at least, at the first sight). I can't manage to identify the other factor in this automatic cleanup process. I hope I was explicit enough. Thanks!


texts: Is it possible to rename "iCloud Drive"?

texts:
I do not like folder names with a space in them...

Can I rename iCloud Drive to another name, say, iDrive?


texts: Where can I download iOS 8.4 Beta safely, and how do I install it?

texts:
I've just seen a video on the new Music app in iOS 8.4 Beta. Now if possible I would like to try it, so I simply googled "iOS 8.4 Beta download". I was hoping to find it in some developer section of an Apple website, but only found it on third party websites.
Can I assume that the software is going to be safe, when downloading it from websites like Chip.de (which is usually a trustworthy source).
How would I go about installing the software, as there are normally updates in iTunes or on the iOS device itself?


texts: Airplay icon disappears after mac wakes up from sleep

texts:
I have found that when my mac wakes up from sleep, sometimes there is no airplay icon. The  only way I can fix this is by doing a recycle of my MacBook Air. I was wondering if there was any other way to have the airplay icon back on my MBA without having to restart it. Perhaps there is a command I can type on the Terminal. Anyone has a clue?

(FYI - Restarting the AppleTV does not solve the issue so I believe its a Mountain Lion part of things.)


texts: I have a Seagate external drive that shows up as an internal volume when mounted in Disk Utility. The info window shows the "kind" and a volume as well. Is there a way to change this, so it appears as an external drive again?


texts: Updating software from App Store not available for purchased items.

texts:
I have recently purchased Growl for handling my notifications. I had enabled my account from Greece since I was living there years ago before I got my mac. Now I have moved to Denmark and I followed the relevant procedure for changing country. Finally I purchased software after I switched my account to Denmark.

The issues come when there are updates for the software I bought. I am getting a message saying:

To update this application, sign in to the account you used to upgrade it.

I followed the instructions from here and now App Store doesn't even recognize I have spend money on software and asks me again to purchase it.

How can I configure my App Store account properly so I don't have these issues?


texts: Iphone: outgoing email iCloud account and gmail

texts:
Iphone 5 iOS 6.1 (jaikbroken)

OK, I've been solely using the gmail app for a while now and haven't had any use for the built-in mail app.  Was hoping to run without any mail account on there, but it gets me in trouble for those times some other app wants to send email and finds no mail account.

So finally I was setting up gmail just for outgoing smtp but even doing so it forces me to include incoming imap account and it annoys me just on principal to have local duplicate copies of the last 50 messages I don't need.

So I created an icloud account today so I could sync notes and also just use that now for the sent messages.  iCloud mail is set to forward incoming to gmail, but it wont forward outgoing.  Obviously.

Trying to devise a workaround.  What I want is to have all my mail in gmail. My thinking is something like:

if possible everything outgoing from icloud gets CC'd to gmail
set a filter in gmail, maybe everything with  from:(me)@icloud.com and bcc:(me)@gmail.com gets moved to sent mail.

Any thoughts, advice, or better ideas welcomed!


texts: Painfully slow to browse large list of subfolders via SMB and/or AFP

texts:
Having an issue where I have a folder on a QNAP NAS with over 68,000 subfolders within it.

I can browse it quickly and almost instantaneously within Windows 7 via SMB, however in OSX 10.6.8 and 10.7.2, it takes nearly 10+ minutes to display the subfolders, using both SMB and AFP.

Hoping there is an easy solution - we can't break the folders into smaller subfolders due to a requirement of proprietary software that accesses the sub folders.

I've tried the fixes suggested here, which don't seem to help: http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard-filesharing.html#030311b

Have the same issue browsing the files on a Windows 2003 server, so it is not a NAS issue - rather, it's an issue with how OS X browses over the network.  Perhaps it is trying to cache all the files/folders before displaying them?

Windows 7 doesn't do this, and therefore the subfolders display almost immediately.


texts:
So this happened a while ago, and I thought it would resolve itself eventually, but it hasn't, so I'll just ask here. I was updating my apps and clicked the "Update All" button in the App Store. However, the applications didn't update; the loading bar showed up on the applications but no update progress is being shown. Additionally, below the loading bar is the name of the application which is unusual, as when an application updates, "Waiting...", "Loading...", or "Installing..." are shown. Here's an image:

You can see an example of the problem in the upper right corner with the "Dictionary.com" and "Movie" apps. This is happening to many apps, though, not just these two.
So far, I've only tried restarting the phone. I'm pretty sure that restoring will fix the problem, but I'm saving that as a last resort.
So basically my question is, is it possible to fix this without restoring and if so, how?
I would say "thanks in advance", but I've just learned its considered rude (see here: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/98149/why-is-it-considered-rude-to-say-thanks-in-advance), so I guess I'll just say "Thanks for taking a look at my question".

Device information:

iPhone 4S
32GB
5.1.1


texts:
I messed up my Macbook pro 16 inches in the following way:

it came installed with Catalina
I upgraded to Big Sur Beta
Wanted a fresh install, tried to reinstall from recovery but didn’t install fresh OS
Went to recovery and deleted all volumes
Created one APFS volume
Went to internet recovery, tried to install Catalina, it gives me "Downloading installer information to the target volume failed" (tried multiple networks/hotspot with google dns, but same)

What can I do to un-mess this situation ?
Edit: downloaded Catalina dmg and restored it to flash disk, booted into recovery but says security settings do not allow booting from external devices, when I try to change the settings it tells me no administrator account found to log in !


texts:
(I asked in stackoverflow but repeat it here)

I would like to build a GUI prototype for an iPad application. The prototype can use static data (e.g. an xml file) but should look good and be fully functional, i.e. support user gestures, etc.

Obviously, I can program it in Objective-C. I wonder if I can use any other tool to build such a GUI easier. Does such a tool exist ?

Maybe I should use a GUI builder to build a "static" GUI and add some Objective-C code to make it react on user gestures. Does it make sense ?


texts:
This post is meant to be informative as possible while leading up to my question.

When I first purchased my iPod Touch in 2009, Skyhook Wireless was responsible for maintaining the database used by Location Services on Apple devices without GPS.

Since there is no GPS radio in the iPod Touch, Location Services uses an online database of Lat/Long corresponding with the router's hardware MAC address at the Wifi access point.  I presume this data was gathered through iPhones' GPS data while connected to these Wifi access points.  I also think that Skyhook contracted vehicles similar to how Google gathers Streetview photos.

Regardless, this system worked great until you got into a rural area and connected to a router never exposed to one of these data gathering vehicles.  Therefore at my own home, also in a rural area, I could not use any Location Services enabled feature.

So back in 2009 the fix was simple, I had to manually add my router's MAC address along with my Lat/Long coordinates to Skyhook.  After a few weeks, the data was correctly added and so anyone connected to my Wifi was accurately shown on a map with a pin on my roof.  Any Location Services dependent feature was fully enabled while I was connected to Wifi at my home.

For an unknown reason and corresponding to an iOS version upgrade in Spring of 2010, Location Services stopped functioning from my home.  (still worked at most public and less rural locations)

As per postings in the Apple online forums, Apple stopped using Skyhook for Location Services and took this job in-house.

For many months following the Spring of 2010 my Touch could not find my location while at home.  To this day, I can confirm that my MAC address is still in the Skyhook database but it doesn't matter because Apple is no longer using Skyhook.  There is also no-place to report a router's MAC address with Lat/Long to Apple similar to this.

Suddenly late last year, while at home, Location Services started reporting my location on the main highway just 0.50 miles away.  So apparently one of the data gathering vehicles drove down this route and picked up my signal.

I was satisfied.  The map location was slightly wrong but the pinpoint was close enough that all Location Services dependent features were again useful to me from my home location.  Good enough.

Now this all brings us to today where it's suddenly broken again.  Location Services cannot find my location while I am at home and my Location Services dependent apps are useless.

Does anyone have additional information or updated news on this topic?
A URL similar to this one where one can manually submit a Wifi MAC address and Lat/Long to Apple?
If not Apple, what company took over maintaining Location Services from Skyhook for Apple?


texts: Unicode character for Apple special keys?

texts:
Mac keyboards have some unique symbols on their modifier keys such as Cloverleaf and Option.
What are the Unicode values for character representations of these symbols?


texts: OS X Photos removes 5 photos when converting to iCloud Photos

texts:
When I try to convert my local Photos.app library to iCloud, the amount of photos in the library decreases from 686 to 681. I have tried to convert my local library multiple times but the problem keeps happening. I have found one of those 5 photos, but the file doesn't seem to be damaged.

The library was created in OS X 10.10.3 and I am currently running 10.10.4. Is this a bug in the app? What can I do to prevent these photos from getting deleted while enabling iCloud Photos?


texts: Set up background for laptop and plugged monitor

texts:
I have a setup with a laptop and a ultra-wide screen. I seldom use both screens at the same time. I wanted to have different backgrounds for my ultra-wide and laptop.

But if I turn both on and try to set the background for one and another, when I close my laptop, the wide screen monitor gets the not-so-wide background.

If I set a ultra-wide background in my monitor with the laptop closed, when I open the laptop, it gets the ultra-wide background, and the monitor gets another background.

Can I sepcifically set the backgrounds for the monitors?

I use a MacBook Pro Retina, running El Capitán.

A similar question


texts: Crashed when creating a partition - now missing drive space!

texts:
Just a couple of hours ago, while I was taking a GNU course, I decided to create a partition on my SSD to have ubuntu installed, meanwhile the disk utility was doing that, suddenly it just crashed and restarted itself, leaving 5GB free from any partition, I used diskutil list and this is the info it provided me:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            120.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +115.0 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 3B12580F-53CE-4FE2-A806-FB80AB07DD82
                                 Unlocked Encrypted

There is no additional partition on the disk utility and I was wondering if it is possible to recover this space.

My Mac is a MacBook Pro 13" Retina (Early 2015) 128 GB SSD


texts:
Is there an app that allows me to search the mac dictionary from the menu bar? I thought spotlight was able to do this but it doesn't seem to work (in Lion) (I noticed Dictionary isn't even listed in spotlight preferences).

I (stupidly) forgot to mention that I forbade spotlight from indexing my main drive. I thought that would just keep it from searching my files and not affect dictionary search, but I'm guessing that they're all bundled up together.


texts: Run OS X 10.8 virtual machine on OS X 10.6 with Virtualbox

texts: I have a roommate with a mid-2010 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.8. I would like to experiment with OS X 10.8, but don’t want to make them upgrade their Mac since 10.6 is still receiving security updates and they subscribe to the "if it isn’t broke don’t fix it" computer philosophy. Is it technically possible to run OS X 10.8 in Virtualbox with 10.6 as the host OS? If so how do you do this, and what is the legality of doing so?


texts: My old voice memos don't sync via iTunes

texts:
I have switched computer which I'm using to sync with my iPhone 3Gs. The problem is that all my old voice memos aren't added to my iTunes library, but they're still on the iPhone.

So I wonder how do fix so I can get all my voice memos to sync with iTunes?


texts: iOS screen recording while using external HDMI/VGA output?

texts:
On iOS devices, the screen recording feature does not function when an external HDMI or VGA adapter is connected.

My (limited) understanding is that, essentially, iOS uses an AirPlay-like mechanism to encode H.264 video and either send it to the adapter or save to file, although I am not sure why it is not possible to save the encoded stream simultaneously.

However, this is extremely annoying, since a very natural use of the iPad (particularly with Pencil) is to present lectures and presentations and record audio+screen at the same time.

Are there any natural workarounds to be able to screen record and output to HDMI at the same time?


texts:
I have a mid-2014 MBP retina with the Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB GPU running Yosemite.

Current setup:

1x 27" Thunderbolt Display
1x 27" Cinema Display

I went to connect another non-Apple monitor to my MBP via HDMI or also the Thunderbolt port on the back of my Thunderbolt display however the 3rd external monitor does not detect a single. Searching around I find out that there is a limit to the number of displays a MBP can run although I see some people are able to get 3 external monitors to work. Tried shutting my MBP to enable clamshell mode hoping that it would allow me to have my 3rd monitor to work since it would turn the MBP display off, no luck.

Is there any way I can get this 3rd monitor to work via HDMI or a mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort adapter?

I would be willing to allow my 3rd monitor use a usb video card knowing the frame rate will be far less (I'm not gonna run video or games on it). Would like to know what would be a good adapter that would work.


texts: What does iTunes Match think a specific track is?

texts: I have one track of an album that got matched, while the other 22 didn't; therefore, I'm sure that there must be a compilation with this track that iTunes Match knows about. How can I check which track actually got matched to?


texts: File sharing between two Catalinas - Finder cannot connect

texts:
So I can screen share between the two Macs; I can ssh, rsync, and scp  the files between the two Macs; but having Finder try to “Connect As” always fails the login sheet using the same user and password as on the command line.

I tried switching between SMP, SMP encrypted, and AFP ... makes no difference. Authentication? Always fails. Shakes it head at User and password validated as above.

Both Catalina systems were upgraded from previous OS X / MacOS versions, but both client and server accounts are new.


texts: What possible data can I lose if I backup iPhone to iTunes and then restore?

texts:
I heard that restoring iOS could eliminate the Other category bloating problem. But I'm very OCD about all my data and have a lot of apps. Also I know that iTunes don't backup apps anymore (even with the old iTunes with app support I think only small percent of apps, presumably old apps, were actually backed up as files for me).

I know I should create encrypted manual backup cause I want to keep the passwords. I suppose that if some of my apps were removed from the App Store to the point of not being accessible in the Purchased section, I will lose them, right? Is there no way to know other than checking all my apps in store one by one?

Have you experienced losing other specific data (app data, iOS settings, etc) when restoring via iTunes?

I can't stand that after clearing gigabytes of data, the system still warns me about "not enough space". Or when it downloads 2gb of iOS 12 without asking and then warns about not enough space. Or when I remove that update, and it says that I have only 1gb available (wut).
But I want to be prepared for what comes, cause I really hate having reinstalling OS'es and losing data in the process, just cause I wanted everything to work properly.


texts: How to change the cmd-h command to cmd-e

texts:
I would like to make Cmd+e do what Cmd+h does.

I can do this in keyboard config, but I have to do it for every single program, as the title in the menu is "hide safari" for safari, and fx. "hide photoshop" for Photoshop.

Therefore I seek a solution, so that Cmd+e and Cmd+h does the same thing in every single program.


texts: Keyboard shortcut for stopping and restarting a command line application

texts:
To stop and restart a Rails application that's running on the command line, I usually do Control + C, and then use the up arrow to get the previous command for running bin/rails s.

Is there a keyboard shortcut like Control + C that tells the application to stop, and start up again anew?

I'm currently using Terminal.


texts: Import Safari data into Safari Technology Preview

texts:
I have installed the Safari Technology Preview and whilst everything works fine, there is a lot of data which is missing and not been migrated.

Bookmarks, Reading List and AutoFill have been transferred automatically through iCloud, and eventually History through iCloud too, but I would like to also transfer the following data:

Cookies
Preferences
Extensions (specifically the extension preferences — I can reinstall the actual extensions)

How can I export my Safari browser data into the Safari Technology Preview?


texts: Is there any network monitor software with a notification area icon?

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I often use my laptop in the subway / office buildings where internet connection may be laggy / absent for some period of time. Is there any network monitorying software that can constantly monitor my network connection quality (for example, by sending ping to google.com every few second) and display a green-yellow-red icon in the notification area so I will know if i have a normal internet connection or not?

Google search doesn't show any such software :(


texts: Automator: Combine PDF pages double or triple in size

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I have the following workflow: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EhuddCrCrmwRfJPe9M0QoamWwNm9U_Nm/view?usp=sharing

Here's the desired outcome: I select a file, it splits it and I rebuild it as smaller sections of the PDF. Basically, an even better version of this workflow (or applescript) would split a PDF in half. I have been unsuccessful.

When I run my workflow, it creates a folder with all the different pages of the PDF. When I reselect half of those and combine them, it doubles or triples in size. That seems backwards, but it looks like the workflow is creating a repeating looped document. Super confused.

Image of workflow:


texts: How to make .docx files open in Pages by default

texts: Is there a way to make .docx (Word) files open in Pages by default? How do I do it?


texts: Force Google Chrome to store password on insecure HTTPS website (NAS)

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I have a synology NAS, and I enabled https web portal for safety reasons (I enabled quickconnect). For some reason, Google Chrome thinks that the certificate it uses is insecure (NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID) and therefore disables saving password, which is a feature I would like to have. How can I force Google Chrome to trust a website / allow saving passwords on an "insecure" website?
I had tried adding the following argument, which does nothing: --args --unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure="https://192.168.1.11,https://192.168.1.15"
Error dialog (note that this error message is not my question, instead it's saving passwords on this page)


texts: Magic Mouse is frequently losing its connection to MacBook Pro

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My Magic Mouse is intermittently losing its connection to my MacBook Pro.

First the mouse becomes unresponsive and a few seconds later, a picture of the mouse appears on the screen wit the words "Connection Lost." Then about 10 seconds later, the connections is "magically" re-established, without any action on my part.

Any ideas on what this could be due to and how I can stop this? I have changed the batteries and they are brand new. My software is also up-to-date unless there is a special bluetooth update that I have to go get somewhere.


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I'm having some trouble with Apple Mail 6.3 (1503) and Smart Mailboxes under 10.8.3. When I create Smart Mailboxes they work just as one would expect them to. When I quit Mail and re-open it, they're gone as if I would have never created them. I found a similar issue with an earlier version of Mac OS X where deleting the SmartMailboxesSomething.plist in ~/Library/Mail/ fixed the problem. This does not seem to apply for OS X's current version anymore.

I filed a bug about this: http://openradar.appspot.com/13700673

This happens on both my MacBook Air and my iMac. Both are running OS X's latest version.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks!
— Flo


texts: How to swipe up into Mission Control and then swipe back down again without lifting fingers?

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Okay, weird and sort of unnecessary question, but I'd love some help if you're able.

In Mountain Lion, you could swipe up with three fingers into Mission Control and then swipe back down to exit without lifting your fingers. Now in Yosemite (and I think Mavericks) you have to lift your fingers before you can do the exit gesture. Is there any way to fix this? I'd imagine there's some terminal code I can run to change this setting.

Basically, I want to be able to enter into Mission Control, see what's open, and then leave again all in one continuous gesture like you could in Mountain Lion.


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For screenshots of your app to be submitted on App Store Connect, do they need to include the four dots, clock, Wi-Fi, & battery level indicator on the top and the bar at the bottom?

Top 132 px:

Bottom 132 px:

If we do include these, should the clock be set to 12:00 or some other specific time? It isn't really clear in the specifications.