texts: Shortcut iPhone/iPad app to send email to a specific address?

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I send lots of emails to a small number of people.  Rather than having to send emails to them through the native Mail app, I'd like to have an app that I can "click" on that automatically has a specific address already filled in and seeks only a subject and message-contents.

I'd like to have three of these, each doing the same thing, but going to different email addresses.

I've never written an iOS app and don't feel like learning how, but I haven't yet found a way to either create forms or encapsulate macros or other paths to doing what I want.  I've tried doing this by navigating to a webmail "send email" screen via the Safari browser, filling in the To field, and then saving it as a shortcut, but when clicked on the screen appears without the email.

Any other ideas?


texts: Warning: /Volumes/macOS Base System/AppleInternal/Library/Extensions does not exist all files copied to /Volumes/System/Volumes/macOS Base System/

texts:
I have a problem with a brand new 2020 13” MacBook Pro, running Catalina, unfortunately, this is not a new problem.  It began in December 2018 when the recovery partition on my 2011 MBA got messed up during one of my attempts at performing a clean, USB install of macOS High Sierra.  As a result, the install is always based on “using product at distance 5” which positions the startup volume in /Volumes/System/  or /Volumes/System/Volumes/  instead of /Volumes/, where it belongs. This problem has occurred on the previous eight MBA’s I have purchased and returned in the past two years along with this new 2020 MBP. The following information is from a recent install log of macOS Sierra, which I have included because “using product at distance 5” began here.
Edit: Perhaps the easier question ... Is there a script that will load the MacOS Base System file so I can delete it on my 2011 MBA (source of problem).
Sep 14 19:28:14 MacBook-Air osinstallersetupd[547]: Using product <OSISInstallMediaProduct> based on media at /Volumes/OS X Install ESD at distance 5<br />
Sep 14 19:28:14 MacBook-Air osinstallersetupd[547]: Using product PKSecureNetEnabledProduct <file:///Volumes/Macintosh%20HD/macOS%20Install%20Data/> at distance 5

I just discovered the following, which shows /Volumes/macOS Base System being copied/moved to /Volumes/System/Volumes/macOS Base System/ because Volumes/macOS Base System/(and associated files) do not exist. After a month of sending logs, pictures, etc. to the engineers at Apple Support, they continue to claim; “this is expected behavior. The information doesn’t show anything mounted incorrectly.  The data they are viewing is showing the MacBook Pro operating as expected”, so I continue to look for a solution. Reinstallation of macOS does not copy or move macOS Base System from /System/Volumes/Data back to /Volumes; I believe this could be due to a file in “SharedSupport”.  Thank you!
---- Begin System Software Update Arming -----\
Ensuring /Volumes/macOS Base System's caches are up to date.
Warning: /Volumes/macOS Base System/AppleInternal/Library/Extensions: No such file or directory.
Warning: /Volumes/macOS Base System/Library/Apple/System/Library/Extensions: No such file or.  directory
Note: /Volumes/macOS Base System/System/Library/Kernels/kernel: No such file or directory.
Primary kext cache does not need update.
CSFDE property cache does not need update.
Localized EFI Login resources do not need update.
Mounting helper partition...
Looking for missing files.
Copying files used by the booter.
creating com.apple.Boot.plist data with UUID B392677C-67A5-4583-B8DF-DEB7B13F0E6C.
copying /Volumes/macOS BaseSystem/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.corestorage/EncryptedRoot.plist.wipekey to /System/Volumes/Data/macOS Install Data/Locked Files/Boot Files.
copying /Volumes/macOS Base System/usr/standalone/i386/EfiLoginUI/ to /System/Volumes/Data/macOS Install Data/Locked Files/Boot Files.
copying /Volumes/macOS Base System/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.corestorage/EFILoginLocalizations to /System/Volumes/Data/macOS Install Data/Locked Files/Boot Files.
copying /Volumes/macOS Base System/System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel to /System/Volumes/Data/macOS Install Data/Locked Files/Boot Files.
Copying files read before the booter runs.
Moving aside old label.
Copying new booter.
Activating new booter
Activating files used by the booter.
Activating files used before the booter runs.
Successfully updated disk1s2/macOS Install Data/Locked Files/Boot Files.
Rolling back any incomplete updates.

Sep 13 23:22:43 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[644]: Finding disk for productURL: /macOS Install Data.
Sep 13 23:22:43 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[644]: Using product <OSProduct: 0x7fa16ed59900> at distance 5.

Sep 30 Install

Sep 30 16:27:17 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[665]: Using product <OSProduct: 0x7fa04f31f320> at distance 5.


texts: Is a corrupted HD a sign of something ominous for the hardware?

texts: The Verify Disk functionality of the Disk Utility reports that my HD is corrupted. I fixed the problem using the startup CD but what does that mean for the health of my HDD?


texts: New address book entries on iPhone does not sync to iCloud

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I have an iPhone (iOS 5.1). I added a new telephone number to a new address book entry yesterday and today I find that neither the iCloud Web interface nor my address book on my desktop (OS X 10.7.3) know anything of the new entry.

I was used to automatic syncing via the Internet from MobileMe. Does it not work like that with iCloud?

(Calendar syncing appears to work. Both calendar and address book are switched on on both the iPhone and the iCloud control panel on my desktop.)


texts: Camera roll trying to send email from inactive account

texts:
I have an iPhone which had an exchange account as the default for mail. That account was inactivated on the Exchange side. Without realizing that, I tried sharing photos by email.

They now seem to be stuck in a queue, trying repeatedly to send, because I get pop ups asking for my exchange login info. Even after having set a gmail account as the default for sending mail.

I'm afraid these attempts to send using the exchange account are draining my battery. How can I stop the camera app from trying to send these photos? Would deleting the exchange account on the phone do it? Anything else I should try first?


texts: Can Find My Mac still persist after erasing the hard drive?

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I have recently acquired a MacBook Air 2011 off of ebay. In order to avoid second-hand Mac issues relating to iCloud remote shut downs, I have performed the following actions:

Secure erase (using parted magic), deleted old partition and created a new partition (using gparted).
Cleared PRAM/NVRAM using keyboard procedure a few times, after HD was already wiped.
Installed Ubuntu (I will be using Ubuntu, and maybe Windows through VB).

Is there any way that Find My Mac capabilities could have persisted, and would it be able to shut me down if I connect the MacBook to the internet and the seller (or sellers seller) decides to lock the device on iCloud?.

The device does not currently have any type of lock, nor did it have it when I received it, as I was able to plug in a USB and boot parted magic. A quick inquiry: I would be able to tell for sure if the device is FMM locked when I connect to the internet, correct? If FMM capabilities are still in order, the laptop would be tracked/locked (if so was the command), even if it was running Ubuntu?


texts: The question is it possible to have X virtual desktops/screens on my OSX, which would be really isolated from each other? Maybe I've very specific use case :-) but I would like to have work desktop and for instance, home. And I don't want to be notified from one to another, I would like to control it by myself. I don't really need this overlapping. Or even further. I would like to have ProjectA, ProjectB etc... with different browsers, apps etc.. I understand that it's easier maybe to have X laptops :-) but it's quite expensive, to be honest. Therefore I'm looking the software related solution.


texts:
While trying to understand why my Mac stopped performing so well on Spotlight.. I tried a suggestion that had me check my HD's status on Disk Utility. I can't press the Unmount button even after using First-Aid, weird. So this led me to searching this link - an old one but informative - and tried the commands there.

For the two other commands I got the expected result. Using sudo fsck_hfs -f /dev/disk0s2 or -fy, however.. (-y for Always attempt to repair any damage that is found ) while this is expected:

I got the following result. Same when typed -f in place of -fy.

This seemed troublesome. But shame I don't have a clue what is the issue nor how to deal with it. Could anyone share some insight please?


texts:
am trying to update my iMac 21.5 inch mid 2010 from os x mavericks 10.9.1 to 10.9.5 to work on Xcode 6 but it always fail and give me the alert message OS X Update could not be verified . It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading . Click download and check the update again

can anybody help


texts: Why can't I use the GNU Debugger (GDB) programming utility on Mac as a standard user?

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I can only use the GNU Debugger (GDB) when authenticated as an administrator.

When I launch GDB as a standard user, after giving the GDB command "run", a dialog requests me for a user name and password of a user in the "Developer Tools" group.

The problem is that I already am in the "Developer Tools" group, so I do not know what else to do...

Thank you!

Platform:

MacOS X 10.7.1
GCC 4.2.1
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)
GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1705)
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-apple-darwin".


texts: How to Recover a gone OSX (mavericks) on MacBookPro?

texts:
I shutdown my computer for some reasons with power button (cold shutdown). Unfortunately, my OS i.e.,mavericksis gone at the moment and I have no backup from the Data and settings of that Hard drive partition.
  I have the mavericks installation DVD, and tried to repair the disk with Disk Utility but it didn't work. getting the following message:

  Disk utility stopped repairing 'Macintosh HD`, Disk utility cant
  repair the disk, back up as many of your files.....'

I have 2 partitions on my hard drive including Macintosh HD which my OS was installed there, and Mac Store that contains my own data.
I tried to reinstall and recover the OS on the same drive i.e,Macintosh HD in order to keep the settings (password, usernames,) and information of my hard drive (However,later I should do the clean install).   To do this, I selected the Macintosh HD disk, and clicked on install , but I am getting an error saying

  The content of disk can't be changed. OSX couldn't be installed on
  this disk.

So I wanted to ask

1. Is there anyway to get my previous OS to work (I need my passwords and Data in Desktop,documents and download folders)?

2. Even if 1 is not possible, how can I backup the Data of that partition i.e,Macintosh HD?

3. Is it possible to extract my saved passwords on Firefox as well?

Thanks for your help.


texts: Unable to import iPhoto 11 Library in OS X Lion

texts:
I have an iPhoto 11 Library on an old Macbook Pro.

I just received a new Macbook Pro with a clean copy of iPhoto 11

I put my iPhoto Library into Dropbox and synced

When I try to import my iPhoto Library on my OS X Lion MacBook Pro I am unable to select the iPhoto Library because it is greyed out.

How can I import it?


texts: Mountain Lion: how to change webcam resolution

texts:
I've just recently got my first Macbook Pro. I'd like to change the resolution of the inbuilt webcam, because my daily GoToMeeting chews through 1-2Gb of traffic and there's no flatrate available from my ISP for my connection.

The GoTo meeting software offers no setting for resolution change. How can I do this?

Thanks


texts: Is there a way to refine my "current location"?

texts:
I recently purchased the Day One journaling app, and it geotags my posts. However, it really bugs me that it sets my home location as the wrong address. It's close, it's within a few hundred feet, but the address isn't quite right.

Is it possible to "calibrate" at a given location? That is, if I'm on 123 Main Street and it thinks I'm on 200-300 Main Street, can I tell OSX "If you think you're at 200-300 Main Street, you're actually at 123 Main Street"?

That'd be useful to me; I'd get more precise directions and more precise posts in Day One.


texts: how long time to get approve for Apple Developer Program enrollment?

texts: I have registered my program with individual type from India and it's already 6 days delay but still now i haven't got any email yet. So how long it will take for the activation.


texts: What is the SIMToolKit folder under /var/tmp?

texts: There is a folder called "SIMToolKit" on my Macbook Pro running High Sierra under the var/tmp directory. What is this folder and what does it do? I couldn't find any information about it.


texts: Is RAM upgrade worth it if I have an SSD already?

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I recently purchased a Macbook Pro.  I had an SSD from my last computer which I formatted, installed into my Mac, and used as my one and only HD (I don't need that much space so I didn't opt to do the upgrade where people pull out their optical drive).

I'm not much of a hardware guy - my knowledge is limited to basic understanding of where my data is hiding and how to swap parts.  I do work in Eclipse though, and I'm noticing that my RAM usage is near 100% (I still have the default 4gb installed).

I'm considering going for the 8gb install, but I'm wondering, Is upgrading the RAM worth it if I have an SSD already?  I know that when RAM is full it will use swap space on the hard drive so I don't know if it would benefit me to get an SSD or not...

I know there are some similar questions out there, but they all seem to focus on "Should I get RAM or SSD."  I've got the SSD, I just want to know if the RAM would provide any increase in performance.


texts: How do I make a volume mounted using sudo sshfs visible without sudo?

texts:
After upgrading my Mac to macOS Sierra (10.12.5), I upgraded FUSE for macOS (https://osxfuse.github.io) to the latest stable releases: FUSE for macOS 3.6.3 and SSHFS 2.5.0.

But now this no longer works:

$ sudo mkdir -p /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810 && sshfs dspitzer@dspitzer-5810:/home/CORP/dspitzer /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/
mount_osxfuse: failed to mount /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810@/dev/osxfuse0: Operation not permitted

/Volumes/ssh_fs_5810 exists:

$ ls /Volumes
Macintosh HD ssh_fs_5810

Apparently sshfs now requires sudo:

$ sudo sshfs dspitzer@dspitzer-5810:/home/CORP/dspitzer /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/
dspitzer@dspitzer-5810's password:

But now /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/ is not visible without sudo:

$ ls /Volumes
ls: ssh_fs_5810: No such file or directory
Macintosh HD
$ sudo ls /Volumes
Macintosh HD    ssh_fs_5810
$ sudo ls /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810
.ICEauthority           .ssh
...

How do I make /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/ (the directory I mount into using sudo sshfs) visible without sudo?

Update (addressing SteppingHat's comment):

Yes, the owner of /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/ is root:

$ sudo ls -l /Volumes
Password:
total 16
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root      wheel     1 Aug 22 16:09 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxr-xr-x@ 1 root      wheel  4096 Aug 22 16:06 ssh_fs_5810

But this doesn't work:

$ sudo chown dspitzer:admin /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/
chown: /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/: Operation not permitted

And note above, /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/ is visible after I create it using sudo, but not after sudo sshfs:

$ sudo umount -f /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810
$ sudo ls -l /Volumes
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root      wheel    1 Aug 22 16:09 Macintosh HD -> /
$ sudo mkdir /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/
$ sudo ls -l /Volumes
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root      wheel    1 Aug 22 16:09 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 root      wheel   68 Aug 22 18:05 ssh_fs_5810
$ ls /Volumes
Macintosh HD sh_fs_5810

Update #2 (in response to klanomath's "I've tested my alternative proposal..." comment on his answer below):

Here's what happened when I tried klanomath's alternative proposal:

$ ls /Volumes
Macintosh HD
$ sudo mkdir -p /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810
$ ls /Volumes
Macintosh HD ssh_fs_5810
$ sudo sshfs dspitzer@dspitzer-5810:/home/CORP/dspitzer /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/
dspitzer@dspitzer-5810's password:
$ ls /Volumes
ls: ssh_fs_5810: No such file or directory
Macintosh HD
$ sudo chown dspitzer:admin /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/
chown: /Volumes/ssh_fs_5810/: Operation not permitted
$ ls /Volumes
ls: ssh_fs_5810: No such file or directory
Macintosh HD
$ sudo ls /Volumes
Macintosh HD    ssh_fs_5810


texts: How to restore default sharing extension under Yosemite

texts: OS X Yosemite introduce few extensions like sharing extensions. With some defaults one like share with Apple Mail, iMessage, ... but today thoses extensions are missing for me. Is there's any knowed way, even with CLI to restaure them ?


texts: How can I change my Apple ID password on my iPad 2?

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I just upgraded my iPad 2 to iOS 6. I am trying to access the App Store for the very first time ever (trying to get the free iBooks app). It keeps telling me I'm using the wrong password. I did not enter a password during the upgrade to iOS 6.

I think the problem has to do with the fact that the original password I entered (in iOS 5) is still stored somewhere on the iPad 2 because, using my notebook computer (not a Mac), I can sign on to Apple ID maintenance site using the new password I set up there.

I tried setting my Apple ID on the web (via my notebook) to the one I think is saved on my iPad 2, but it says it's not complex enough (it had two identical characters in a row).

How do I change the Apple ID password that (I think) is stored on the iPad 2?

I have made a few changes to the iPad settings, but not many because I am just starting to use it.


texts:
I use a wireless Apple keyboard at home and a wired (full sized) one at work. Now I constantly get confused when I want to do a forward delete, since I'm used to the fn+delete combination.

Is it possible to somehow map control+delete to do the same thing? (control is in the same location as fn on the full size keyboard)


texts:
I wanted to change the name of my user as well as its home directory. Looking for a way to do this, I stumbled upon this support document.

I did everything as described there, but since I restarted the computer, all that happened is, that I'm not an admin anymore.

I can't unlock anything under System Preferences > Users & Groups, as well as I'm unable to edit /etc/sudoers/

What went wrong?
whoami still shows my previous username..

How can I fix this mess? Am I screwed now?

macOS 10.13.4 btw


texts: Crop photo in circle form on an iPad Pro

texts:
I would like to crop photos with a circle shape on an iPad Pro. However, I just can find the rectangular or square crop options in "markup".

Does anybody know how to crop photos in circle in iPad without using an app? If an app is necessary what would be the best free app?


texts: Wrong line-drawing characters when write "tree" command output to file

texts:
Under macOS Catalina 10.15.1, Using the standard "tree" command (as supplied by MacPorts), if at the Terminal prompt I cd to a folder and then execute tree there,  I get output like this:

.
├── Activity\ Monitor.app
├── ApplicationsFolderIcon.icns
├── BBEdit.app
├── Backup
│   ├── Backup\ and\ Sync\ from\ Google.app
│   ├── Carbon\ Copy\ Cloner.app
│   ├── Dropbox.app\
│   ├── ForeverSave\ 2.app
│   ├── Get\ Backup\ Pro\ 3.app

However, if I redirect the output to a text file, as in

tree > myapps.txt

then I get wrong characters when I view the file in TextEdit:

.
‚îú‚îÄ‚îÄ Activity\ Monitor.app
‚îú‚îÄ‚îÄ ApplicationsFolderIcon.icns
‚îú‚îÄ‚îÄ BBEdit.app
‚îú‚îÄ‚îÄ Backup
‚îÇ¬†¬† ‚îú‚îÄ‚îÄ Backup\ and\ Sync\ from\ Google.app
‚îÇ¬†¬† ‚îú‚îÄ‚îÄ Carbon\ Copy\ Cloner.app
‚îÇ¬†¬† ‚îú‚îÄ‚îÄ Dropbox.app\
‚îÇ¬†¬† ‚îú‚îÄ‚îÄ ForeverSave\ 2.app
‚îÇ¬†¬† ‚îú‚îÄ‚îÄ Get\ Backup\ Pro\ 3.app

What's wrong?


texts: How can I get the Navionics App for iphone to utilise a third party gps

texts: When I am outside of wifi and cell coverage, or even by choice, how can you use a third party GPS?


texts: How can I use Gmail to sync my calendar between Mac OS X and Android?

texts: I've recently bought an HTC Desire and I'd like to sync my calendar from my MacBook Pro (Os X 10.6.6) with the calendar from the phone. I suppose it would be easiest to do it over Gmail, but I'm not sure how. I checked their site, and there is a simple tutorial how to do it if you want Gmail calendar events in iCal, but I need the opposite. How to do that?


texts:
I have the volume + button broken, and if I click it, it may stuck itself and continuously increase the volume, so I avoid to use the + button. I tried the assistive touch, but it's incredibly annoying, sometimes I want to tap somewhere but I cannot because there is the icon in the middle, and I have to displace it all times.

I want an alternative way: is there a way to change the volume for example by changing it in options? I have iso 6, but also a solution for iso 7 is ok, I'll upgrade it.


texts: Will data be lost in resetting macOS admin password?

texts:
My GF recently started working with a Mac and while I'm a IT tech with Linux and Windows knowledge, I'm very much a noob with Macs.

The problem is she's working on a Mac that another user (the guy she replaced) set a admin password, now no one knows said password neither does he pick up the phone.

I've seen there’s a way to create a new admin account via this post:
How can I get admin access to a Mac without knowing the current password?

My question is will she loose any data from the old account? She has some projects and such (I know the keychain will be lost, but she has all the passwords she needs).


texts: Very curious problem - only Chrome can access the Internet, but literally everything else cannot. Confirmed this in Activity Monitor's Network tab (it shows 0 bytes sent/received for literally every process other than Chrome). Mail, Software Update, Safari, App Store, all can't connect. At first I suspected it was a botched uninstall of Little Snitch or K9 internet filter, but now I'm suspecting something deeper in the system. Cleared DNS cache and other items using Onyx. Still no luck. Thanks in advance.


texts: How to create a custom command for the terminal?

texts:
Every time I make a new webpage, I do the following commands in the terminal.

touch index.html
mkdir stylesheets
mkdir javascripts
mkdir images
mkdir sass
open index.html -a sublime\ text

I wish to automate this. like I wish I could type

init newProject

and all the above commands would execute on its own.

Is it possible?


texts: In changeable desktop pictures I use the pictures in iPhoto. Occasionally there shows a picture that I'd like to see in iPhoto. Is there a way to get the picture info while it shows as the desktop?


texts: Automating Creation of Hundreds of Symlinks in Finder

texts:
What's going to be the most painless way to automate the creation of hundreds of symlinks?

My iTunes Movies folder contains each .mp4 film in an individual folder. These folders are named for the movie they contain and most include artwork as well as the movie file in at least one alternate format.

Because of Plex's limitations, my Plex library is a separate folder that contains only the mp4 files of the movies, which are copies of those in my iTunes Library folder. There are 520 mp4s in there right now and this is obviously a huge waste of space.

So, what I wanna do is somehow scan through all the folders in my iTunes Movie Library, select all the .mp4 files and create symlinks to them in a new Plex Movie Library folder. What's going to be the easiest way to do this?


texts: Backup MBP to a network attached Disk Drive

texts:
Im kind of stuck with this... im following this link?

I get these errors that are in the image.
aka they timed out for some reason.

im upto 5b, stackexchange wont let me put a image...

image link... here

Last login: Sun Dec  2 18:48:23 on ttys000
    Ryans-mbp:~ user$ rsync -aE Ryans_mbp_0023df977bf4.sparsebundle /Volumes/volume1/.
    copyfile(.._Ryans_mbp_0023df977bf4.sparsebundle.EsmCAQ,./Ryans_mbp_0023df977bf4.sparsebundle, COPYFILE_UNPACK) failed:60
    rsync: rename "/Volumes/volume1/./.._Ryans_mbp_0023df977bf4.sparsebundle.EsmCAQ" -> "._Ryans_mbp_0023df977bf4.sparsebundle": Operation timed out (60)
    rsync: mkstemp "/Volumes/volume1/./Ryans_mbp_0023df977bf4.sparsebundle/.Info.bckup.k3eemI" failed: Operation timed out (60)
    rsync: mkstemp "/Volumes/volume1/./Ryans_mbp_0023df977bf4.sparsebundle/.Info.plist.HUQ6D4" failed: Operation timed out (60)
    rsync: mkstemp "/Volumes/volume1/./Ryans_mbp_0023df977bf4.sparsebundle/.token.pQX3lg" failed: Operation timed out (60)
    copyfile(/dev/null, Ryans_mbp_0023df977bf4.sparsebundle/bands, COPYFILE_METADATA) failed:60
    rsync: mkstemp "/Volumes/volume1/./Ryans_mbp_0023df977bf4.sparsebundle/bands/.0.CypYq7" failed: Operation timed out (60)
    rsync: mkstemp "/Volumes/volume1/./Ryans_mbp_0023df977bf4.sparsebundle/bands/.19.ctBo7k" failed: Operation timed out (60)
    rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/main.c(992) [sender=2.6.9]
    Ryans-mbp:~ user$


texts: Why isn't my iPad Retina iCloud Drive login verification code not showing up on my iPhone or Mac?

texts:
I'm running an iPad retina, and trying to login to the iCloud Drive in the Settings App.

It is logged into the App store, and iCloud sync for the Notes app.

I also have an iPhone 6S and a Macbook Pro Retina. Normally the 2FA verification code (please enter this iCloud passcode) notifications show up on the other devices when doing iCloud related operations. (Turn on iCloud backups etc).

When I try and login to iCloud Drive on my iPad, it asks me to login to iCloud with my password, and then pops up a 2FA verification code entry screen. But the code to enter doesn't come up on my other two devices.

My question is: Why isn't my iPad Retina Cloud Drive login 2FA verification code not showing up on my iPhone or Mac?

Edit: 2FA is enabled on the other two devices. That's how the 2FA notifications mentioned above pop up on the other two devices for other iCloud operations.


texts: Possibilities when not using background app refresh

texts: I like the idea of Background app refresh in iPhone that whenever I open back the app, I'll get new content on screen. However, can someone enlightenment me what happens if i opt not turning on background app refresh? Will the app still update its content after I reopen it, taking the possibility that now with background refresh off the app after reopening shall now take few moments to refresh its contents. Does the background refresh option affect any apps basic functionality?


texts: What's up with "paused" applications in Launchpad?

texts:
When I activate Launch on both my Mavericks and Mountain Lion systems, a few of the application icons are (seemingly permanently) greyed out and marked "Paused" with an empty progress bar.

It isn't hurting anything, but it's weird.

Any idea why?


texts: How to increase max socket connections for Yosemite 10.10

texts:
I'm trying to test a network service app that allows for a large number of simultaneous socket connections.

I have adjusted /etc/sysctl.conf with the following:

kern.maxfiles=65536
kern.maxfilesperproc=65536
kern.ipc.somaxconn=10000

With this in place, ulimit -n shows I have a 65536 "open file" maximum. Yet my service still gets stuck around the 1000th connection.

Thinking that perhaps it's something specific to the platform (Node), I re-implemented a simplified version of it in Golang, but it exhibits the same problem.

It also happens if I split the "client" side up into several procs that each open a handful of connections. The service always get stuck around the 1000th connection.

lsof -p <pid> shows 1011 IPv6 connections like so:

gochat  25034 username  178u    IPv6 0x11c1273e19ee5c8f       0t0       TCP localhost:http-alt->localhost:50080 (ESTABLISHED)

What is imposing this maximum socket connection limit, and how can I expand it?


texts: Xcode command line tools install failing due to network error

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After upgrading macOS one has to re-install the command line tools for Xcode. But when I try I get the license agreement and hit "Agree" and then I get a popup saying that "install failed because of a network error" and no hint as to what actually happened.

No other network issues that I can find.

I looked in the logs but did not find anything relevant, nor did Google fid anything so this does not appear to be a widespread issue.


texts: How do you remove Favorites Shortcut (.cannedSearch) from Network Mount?

texts: I accidentally had the sidebar open and dragged the "All My Files" shortcut under Favorites into a server folder where client's folders are organized alphabetically. No one can seem to delete this file. The Finder says that it's still in use which I'm wondering if it means by my machine, or now that it's on the whole server if it's everyone's computer. The computers in the room are all iMacs running various version of Mac OS. It's showing up as a "Predefined Search". I attached a screenshot of what it looks like stuck inside the client main folder. Thanks!


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I recently discovered that when I press f13 on my mac keyboard, the screen flashes white. It look exactly like when you take a screenshot except, it's not taking a screenshot. I have looked through all my keyboard shortcuts in settings, and can't find anything that is assigned to f13. I have tried to search online and I can't find anything on f13 assigned to anything on mac. I also have a hard time believing that this would be assigned to anything on mac by default because you have to have the extended keyboard to press f13.

NOTE: I am on a mac with yosemite.

EDIT: It also seems to occur when you press backspace in terminal when there is nothing left to delete

EDIT 2: I currently don't have the setting to flash on alert, so I don't know what it is.


texts: Is Cellular Network Data Usage persisted to a new iPhone

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I got my original 3GS on release day in June 2009 as an upgrade to a 1G. In around September 2009 it developed a problem with the mute switch so I had it replaced at my local Apple Store.

A friend just asked me what my data usage is (as he is looking at his first smart phone contract and doesn't know how much data allowance to include) so I checked my stats on the 3GS.

It says at the bottom Last Reset: Never so my question is, when does Never begin?

My current 3GS was restored from the backup of my original 3GS when it was replaced and I'm not 100% sure but I think that the original 3GS may have been restored from the 1G.

Does my usage stat include only the current 3GS or does it include the original 3GS usage (and possibly the 1G usage if I restored from it) as well?

EDIT: Following Cawas's answer, here are my current stats for illustration:


texts: Access Windows Virtual Machine Localhost from Host Mac

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I have a Windows 8.1 virtual machine (VMWare Fusion 6) running on my Mac (OSX 10.9.4). In windows, I am running a site using IIS Express on a specific port. On the windows vm, I can write localhost:XXXXX as my address and get the page.
However, the localhost is different on my Mac than it is on Windows, and thus I can't simply write localhost:XXXXX on the mac. I currently have the network to "Share with my Mac" on the virtual machine settings.
What do I need to do to access the windows server from the mac?

Update

For those finding this page using Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10, there appears to be a difference in how IIS Express works, and this solution no longer appears to solve the issue.

Update 2

I have this working now with Visual Studio 2015. The config files for the web application are now stored with the project/solution itself instead of old location in your documents folder. In the solution folder, there is a folder called .vs, and inside that, you need to navigate to the config folder. That's where the applicationhost.config is.
After that, I had to update my firewall to let IIS through (something changed where the old permission no longer worked, not sure if it's a quirk on my machine or not). Then, every thing else is as it has been described in the answer below.


texts: git not works after update to El Capitan

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I have just updated my OS X to El Capitan.

In previous version I have git installed with Xcode (as it was recommended settings).

After updating I could not use git. git command shows.

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun

git --version also shows same error. I have installed XQuartz but the problem didn't resolve.

I will mostly use git from terminal or from Jetbrains IDE


texts: How to create a read-only shadow for existing RAM disk on macOS?

texts: Read-only RAM disk can be created with method described in this post, so how to create a read-only shadow mount point for existing RAM disk while keeping the original mount point unchanged with command line on macOS Catalina?


texts: Warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM when running First Aid of Disk Utility

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I run Catalina and when I run First Aid on Disk Utility App, it returns

warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file

and

warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 125206461, refcnt 1)

Anyone can explain me, what is the meaning of those warnings?
My mac is randomly shutdown. Could it be possible because of those error?

Here are the complete First Aid Details :

Running First Aid on “Macintosh HD - Data” (disk1s1)

Verifying the startup volume will cause this computer to stop responding.

Verifying file system.
Volume could not be unmounted.
Using live mode.
Performing fsck_apfs -n -l -x /dev/rdisk1s1
Checking the container superblock.
Checking the EFI jumpstart record.
Checking the space manager.
Checking the space manager free queue trees.
Checking the object map.
Checking volume.
Checking the APFS volume superblock.
The volume Macintosh HD - Data was formatted by hfs_convert (748.1.46) and last modified by apfs_kext (1412.101.1).
Checking the object map.
Checking the snapshot metadata tree.
Checking the snapshot metadata.
Checking the extent ref tree.
Checking the fsroot tree.
warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file
warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file
warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file
warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file
warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file
warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file
warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file
warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file
warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file
warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file
warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file
warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file
warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 117115534, refcnt 1)
warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 118309624, refcnt 1)
warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 118703475, refcnt 1)
warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 121125034, refcnt 1)
warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 122691438, refcnt 1)
warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 122990318, refcnt 1)
warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 123417690, refcnt 1)
warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 124020790, refcnt 1)
warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 125203904, refcnt 1)
warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 125206461, refcnt 1)
warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 125975408, refcnt 1)
warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 126904909, refcnt 1)
Verifying allocated space.
Performing deferred repairs.
The volume /dev/rdisk1s1 appears to be OK.
File system check exit code is 0.
Restoring the original state found as mounted.

Operation successful.

Update : I can confirm that the random shutdown is not because of this issue. It because of logicboard issue.


texts: When i turn on my MacBook and select user and then enter password , it does not accept my password, after 3 or 4 times entering password it works, i do know how to solve this problem.


texts: How to ensure that all networking goes through my ssh proxy?

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I have a network location set up to ssh tunnel to my server.  For now, just ssh -D type stuff.  This works fine.  I set up the tunnel from within my .screenrc.  In other words, "screen" is the trigger to connect to my proxy.  Before I type that I should not be able to go online.  However, lynx and ping go through without problems. tunnel or not.  This is disquieting.

How can I ensure all network traffic uses my Network settings, and not it's own?  The only way packets should be leaving is via my DynamicForward port.

EDIT:  The apple specificity comes with the Network settings, either accessed via System Preferences, or via networksetup.

OS X has both ipfw, and the application level firewall.

The appfirewall does not seem to stop things from going out.  It stops connections to the system.

Ipfw does take precedence over the application firewall, apparently.

My SOCKS5 proxy is set up on a port, and I then give  that  port to in a network Location as the SOCKS5 proxy.  This works fine.  As I see it, programs should not get a choice about using the proxy, and indeed, if I turn it off, browsers can not access the web.

Linux and *BSD's do not have the various ( quite nifty ) things that OSX has in this regard. For them, it would be ipchains and ipfw, respectively.

I think I'm missing something.  It should just work.


texts: Equalizing volume of different songs in itunes

texts: I have enabled the option to equalize volume but it doesn't seem to do anything. Neither does it work for itunes, nor for the songs on my ipod. Is there some option/setting I am overlooking?


texts: Photo Synching between Catalina and iOS 13 losing settings

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My goal is to overcome my 64gig iPhone's storage limits by creating a smartfolder that contains all my photos except "duplicates".

I am synching between a fully updated iMac (Catalina) and a fully updated iPhone 11 pro/uIS 13.2

In finder on the Mac I request: "Selected Albulms" + "Automatically Include photos from last year". I also choose a SmartFolder called "All except Duplicates" which has one rule, which is "Album is not Duplicate Marked Photos". Duplicate Marked photos is an album generated by "Duplicate Photo Fixer Pro". As far as I can tell it's a normal album.

After synching, when I return to the Finder, the chosen folder is no longer checked and it seems like I have synched just the photos from 1 year back. This is fully reproducible.

So my question is: can you explain the behavior? Is it a bug? Or am I doing something wrong?


texts: Difference between System and Global Daemons

texts:
According to the Launchd Tutorial, there are two places where a daemon can be.

A global daemon located at /Library/LaunchDaemons
A system daemon located at /System/Library/LaunchDaemons

What is the difference between them? Both seem to do the same task, running a program at startup on behalf of root.

EDIT:

By difference, I mean difference in function. I know that the system daemon comes from apple, and global from vendors, but I want to know if there is a difference in function.


texts: iTunes on iOS shows song genre instead of a title for random albums (the same album on Mac shows everything correctly)

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I have a mp3 album on my old drive. I've imported it to iTunes on my Mac. Everything looks correctly.

When I want to sync that album to my iPhone, it's synced however instead of track titles I see that kind of weird stuff:

It drives me nuts and I can't have it like that.

What's funny, when I go on my iPhone to:

Settings -> Music -> Downloaded Music -> Depeche Mode -> 101

I see all titles displayed correctly the way I would expect in iTunes.

What's going on? Please advise.


texts: Install Windows 10 via Bootcamp Assistant on MacBook Pro from mid 2010

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As the title says, I'm looking for a way to install Windows 10 on a mid 2010 MacBook that is currently running OS X Yosemite.
The laptop has a broken optical drive which doesn't recognize any media. Unfortunately, Bootcamp Assistant insists on this boot media and completely ignores the bootable Windows 10 USB that I have plugged in.
I followed these instructions and it got me as far as installing and an initial run of Windows OS. But things get impossibly complicated the moment I update drivers either via Apple's Bootcamp driver package or Windows Update. Going either way results in blue screen and/or endless restart/repair cycle that can't be fixed by anything I tried. There's always a problem with one of the mountmgr.sys or igdkmd64.sys drivers.
Having thought that the graphics driver is the most probable culprit, I tried disabling the built-in Intel HD graphis card, hoping it would help, but to no avail. Sooner or later, the thing blue screens.
I've already wasted 10 hours on this. What bugs me is the fact that this very laptop used to run Windows on Bootcamp successfully in the past, but it was installed via Bootcamp Assistant from a DVD. Since this is no longer an option, my only hope is USB.
How can I make the Bootcamp Assistant recognize my bootable USB stick?
UPDATE
I tried to install Windows 8.1, as suggested. I used the official ISO from microsoft.com. The installer proceeded to copy all the files, but then, at the end, it complained that it couldn't update the boot configuration. After restart, I found that that Windows partition is unbootable. I can still get into the OS X by holding down the Option key at boot, but Windows is no go.
I tried installing the Windows 10 again, this time disabling internet connection during setup. I got much further, because it didn't try to automatically install drivers. I then tried manually installing latest NVidia driver for my GeForce GT 330M card. It succeeded, but the driver wouldn't take for some reason. Looking at Windows Device Manager, there was an unspecified problem with the display adapter corresponding to the NVidia card.
What else can I try? I have no clue.
UPDATE 2
I've now even tried it with an official Windows 7 ISO. This one won't go past the very first "Windows is loading files..." setup screen, before even copying any files. It just hangs at that point.
It's starting to really look like I'm not getting any Windows version on this MacBook... Which is sad. The only reason I want Windows is because my kids would like to play a Windows-only networked game with me, and this is the only other free computer we have...


texts: iPod shuffle 3rd gen doesn't shuffle well

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I recently got a Mac and I synced my iPod shuffle with it. I have around 300 songs on my iPod but despite the fact I set the playing order to shuffle, the iPod doesn't shuffle the items very well. It plays 3 songs from every album in a row.
How do I make sure it shuffles well?


texts: How can I optimize for file sharing on my Mac Mini 2014 (High Sierra 10.13.4)?

texts:
I'm running a Mac Mini 2014 with High Sierra (10.13.4) and am experiencing some  lag, since adding a pair of Thunderbolt RAID drives. I've also added 25 or so SMB sharing users. Only a few users are active at any time, and mostly through Sharing, not logging in.

The lag is apparent in the Desktop when I'm logged in, and in initial delay, when I access an SMB share.

A couple of questions:

How can I determine which maxed-out resource is causing the lag?

Is it RAM (I've got less than a GB of swap in used)
Is it CPU (I'm idling at less than 5% usage, but still see the lag)
Is it Disk or throughput to disk?
(I've got 15/18 TB free on the RAIDs and 210/252 GB free on the OS drive)
Is it network? (I see mostly a number near 0 for packets/sec, with bursts higher)
something else?

The only resource that seems stressed at first glance is cached files: 2.6GB.
Is there a way to manage (change priority, stop) some system services to free up more resources for file sharing?
Is ther a way to tune smbd so that it's more responsive? (I don't care about the console performance, as long as I can admin the system occasionally)

Update: I received several user complaints about performance. Not knowing what else to do, I restarted the machine. Looking at Activity Monitor, now, I see that it memory usage has changed - it's no longer using any Swap.
Not sure why yet. Nothing was intentionally changed.


texts: Ethernet says connected but can't access internet

texts:
I just got an apple usb to ethernet adaptor, connected it to my internet box and it now says the usb is connected (in system prefs), However I can't access the internet. I get a message that there is no connection when I try a variety of browsers.
Can anyone help me, please?
It is a macbook air 2017 running High Sierra 10.13.6
Thanks in advance.


texts: Stop unknown devices trying to connect to Apple TV

texts:
I have a 4th generation Apple TV and I live in an apartment block, so I have very nearby neighbours.

While I was watching a video, it was interrupted by the 4 digit confirmation screen of a new connection (Ryan's iPhone) flashing up.

I don't know Ryan, and I don't appreciate him interrupting my viewing.

I've checked my Wi-Fi router's status and it indicates that Ryan's iPhone is not connected to my WLAN. I presume that this was an attempt to connect via Bluetooth.

How do I prevent this from happening again and only allow connections from previously authorised devices?


texts: Pages: Is it possible to change stylesets?

texts:
In MS Word it is possible to change style-sets, so I can switch between making different documents.

Is this option, or something similar, available in Pages?

As it is now, I have to start every document with the default style, and change every title, body etc.


texts: USB thumbdrive plugged into Macbook Pro which instantly goes black, bricked?

texts:
New 2011 Macbook Pro 8,3 less then three months old, this is my first ever Apple product.
I have an old USB thumbdrive I couldn't remember what was on it so I plugged it into the USB port nearest the Thunderbolt port and nothing.
Then I tried the USB port closest to the front (nearest me) and my Macbook instantly goes black.
Even the light on the power adapter, the magnetic end at the laptop, is not lit.
Long pressing the power button does nothing, I've left the power plug out to kill the battery hoping some error will clear itself. Other than that there isn't much to do to it unless I remove the back cover but it's still under warranty and I don't want to void that!
Did I just brick my Macbook?
edit: It's working again! Through no action other than leaving it unplugged and powered down. The battery was 0% and the date and time was set to "2000-12-31 8:15pm". Nice but, what the hell happened in both situations?!
Are there system log files I can view?
edit #2: Found it: Console (to console me?). The last two kernel.log entries before the crash shows:
Nov 29 21:18:40 DGH-MacbookPro kernel [0]: 0     0 AppleUSBDC: start - initDevice failed

Nov 29 21:18:40 DGH-MacbookPro kernel [0] USBMC Identifier (non-unique): 0x90c 0x3000 0x100
So would "AppleUSBDC" indicate a problem with the USB power?


texts: Sync iPhone Associated with Library That No Longer Exists

texts:
One of the iPhones in our household is associated with an iTunes library that no longer exists.  The computer that the iTunes library was on had to be wiped clean due to warranty maintenance.  There is data (music, photos, contacts, etc.) on the iPhone that we do not want to lose by associating it with a new iTunes library.

How do we create the new library association without data loss?


texts: How can I take a larger screenshot on my iPhone?

texts: I would like to take a screenshot of an entire web page in Mobile Safari, not just the part that's visible on the screen. I'm running iOS 5 on an iPhone 4, but I'm pretty sure this functionality isn't built in anywhere. What app or trick do I need?


texts: What is the upper limit of Spaces in Lion?

texts:
10.5 and 10.6 limited users to a maximum of 16 spaces. Since Lion's space interface is a single (presumably scrollable) row, is there an upper limit on the number of Spaces?

Yes, I find myself needing more than 16 Spaces, frequently.


texts: How to efficiently mark mail as spam before reviewing it in Mac OS X Mail.app?

texts:
If my ISP marks an email as spam, and moves it to the spam folder before the Mac OS X Mail.app sees it, Mail.app does not mark these emails as spam.

This wouldn’t be too bad if there was a way for me to efficiently mark these as spam (so that I can review them just in case without triggering one-pix image trackers and the like), but there does not seem to be one:

Keyboard shortcuts are a non-starter, as they require the message to be selected first.
Right-clicking the emails one by one to mark them as spam (which requires going in a submenu each time) is tiresome.
In Lion, I could select multiple of them (being careful never to select only one spam) and mass-mark as spam without viewing any of them, but that stopped working when Mail.app got the ability to show multiple message selections as a pile of messages.
I can re-position the dividers or resize the window to hide the message view pane and mass-mark at that time, but that requires re-positioning them back manually each time, and that won’t do.

Is there something I have missed?


texts: Restoring track information for iTunes Match files

texts:
I made the mistake of editing a bunch of songs at once. Now, the changes have propagated to all of my iTunes Match registered devices. I tried Advanced > Get Track Names, but I get the following message

iTunes cannot get CD track names for songs that were not imported using iTunes

The thing is, the songs were originally imported using iTunes before syncing with iTunes Match.
Is there an easy way to restore track information, or must I manually go through the tracks and fix them?


texts:
We are capturing video from iOS devices and processing it using OpenGL but are encountering a FPS difference between the devices when trying to set them at their maximum rate.

The iPhone 6S and iPad Pro FaceTime cameras are maxing at 60 fps.

The 7+ and iPhone X however are maxing at 30 fps.

It seems unusual that the FPS would decrease with later versions of Apple's hardware. We are trying to figure out if this is a software issue or simply the technical specifications for the frame rate for the FaceTime camera.

We looked on Apple's technical specifications page but the frame rates of the FaceTime cameras aren't listed (though the rear cameras are.) For example:
https://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/specs/
https://www.apple.com/iphone-x/specs/

What are the FPS of the FaceTime Camera for the iPhone 6S vs 7+ vs X vs iPad Pro?


texts: How does one install "afloat" on OS 10.8/Mountain Lion?

texts:
On OS X, I want to show an always-foregrounded, transparent image while working on the application underneath it, for tracing purposes. As mentioned in this other stackexchange question, the solution is the application called afloat.

Great, so how do I get it to work? The old domain now just redirects to a github project page. There is no README, and there are no installation instructions. I found a closed/wontfix "how to install" ticket, and pieced together some probable instructions. This is what I have so far:

Download the SIMBL zip file
Unzip the file
Double-click/install SIMBL-0.9.9.pkg
Create SIMBL bundle dir: mkdir ~/Library/Application\ Support/SIMBL/Plugins/
Reboot
Install from the git repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/millenomi/afloat.git
$ cd afloat
$ xcodebuild -configuration Release install
  # verbose output trimmed, except for last line:
  ** INSTALL SUCCEEDED **
$ mv /tmp/Afloat.dst/Users/`whoami`/Library/Bundles/Afloat.bundle/ ~/Library/Application\ Support/SIMBL/Plugins/

So now what? Did I do this correctly? Am I supposed to see additional "Window" menu options?


texts: Time Machine keeps notifying me that it deleted old backups because it was full

texts:
I already disabled the feature to notify me when old backups are deleted, yet it's still notifying me. (I've had this checkbox disabled for years.)

I've been using my Mac for a long time, and since upgrading to macOS High Sierra, whenever Time Machine deletes old backups, it notifies me. Every time the notification comes up, I checkmark "Do not show this warning again.", and hit OK, yet the warning appears again eventually.

I've already tried resetting Time Machine, and running First Aid on the Time Machine partition.


texts: Can I change the resolution of a display in recovery mode?

texts:
Booted to High Sierra recovery HD, I’m not able to open the system preferences and choose a different resolution.

Can terminal be used from the utilities menu to change the resolution?

I have a Mac mini and Emerson TV connected over HDMI cable.


texts: Should I Do Anything Extra to Protect IPhone After Going to Beach?

texts:
My friend told me that the salt in the air on the beach will reduce the lifespan of iPhone.

Is it true? If yes, is there anything I can do to "clean up" the salt in my iPhone?


texts: When using Mail with Gmail IMAP, how to move emails to different folders and not label them?

texts:
I'm using Mac Lion Mail app with Gmail IMAP and when I drag and drop or command-click to move messages from my Inbox to a folder called Personal, it appears to work in Mail.  But when I look at Gmail, the message remains in Inbox.  Instead of actually moving the message, it simply gives it the label, Personal.

In Gmail, I never label anything, I always move messages to various folders and I want to mimic this behaviour in Mail app.  How can I do this?


texts: Synching progress in podcasts not synched correctly

texts:
I often listen to podcasts in my car via the dock connector and the cars stereo as well as via headphones (when I'm mowing the lawn, for example). However, I think ever since the Apple podcasts app got updated to 2.1, the position as well as marking a podcast 'played' isn't syncing very well. For example I'll completely listen to a podcast in the car, but after I get home the circle will only be half empty.

What mechanism is it that the phone uses to know how podcasts have been listened to via the dock connector?  Is this something I can fix with a new podcast app on the phone?

I've been doing it this way since my 3GS and only over the past few weeks has it gotten really bad to the point I've listened to the same intro segment of a podcast 5 times because the in progress marker doesn't "save" itself correctly when I turn the car off.


texts: crontab Operation not permitted - cron has full disk access

texts:
I have seen here various issues about the crontab 'Operation not permitted' issue for Mac OS, but I seem to have a more complex situation on my hands.
I have a bash file on the desktop, which I wanna execute in crontab. Configurations I added:

Created the file untitled.sh on my Desktop (which has #!/bin/bash in the beginning of the file).
Ran 'chmod +x untitled.sh'.
Using crontab -e, added the cron 0 13 * * * /Users/michael/Desktop/untitled.sh.
In Security & Privacy > Privacy, gave Full Disk Permissions to iTerm, Terminal, bash & cron.

but I still get the error:
/bin/bash: /Users/michael/Desktop/untitled.sh: Operation not permitted

What can be done?


texts: What is mdflagwriter and why does it eat up so much RAM?

texts: On my Mavericks 10.9.4 instance of mdflagwriter eats up 2.18G of RAM. I know that it's somehow related to Spotlight, but what is it exactly and why is it so RAM-hungry?


texts: using automator/applescript to upload files to a web form?

texts: I have a bunch of files I want to upload to web page. Unfortunately the web form for uploading only allows me to specify one at a time (it spawns and 'open file' dialog). Is there an easy way to do this with some combination of automator/applescirpt?


texts:
Our OS X Server serves our company DNS, web and mail with an external IP address to the Internet.
It currently does not have a local address on the LAN and thus cannot be used e.g. for software update caches for OS X and IOS devices on the network.

If I were to also attach the server to the LAN by one of its other ports would I be compromising its security or the security of the LAN?

I am more concerned about opening up a security hole from the WAN into the LAN than vice versa as I can control which users have access to which services on the Server.

OS X Server has its adaptive firewall enabled and the router via which it connects to the WAN has only those ports open that we need for the services it serves.


texts: URLs getting truncated in QuarkXpress running on macOS Mojave

texts:
I've just noticed a problem with QuarkXPress that may or may not be related to macOS Mojave.

Sometimes when I add a new hyperlink or edit an existing one, the full URL path is being truncated and this breaks the link.

Has anyone else experiencing the same? If yes, did they manage to fix it?


texts: Problem when updating using Software Update

texts:
I tried to update Mac OS X using Software Update. But when I tap on software updates, it's checking software updates and listing the available updates.

I didn't see Mac OS X update available in the list. I am not able to do this. Can you guys please help ?


texts: Can't find proper keyboard layout for AZERTY MacBook Air keyboard

texts:
I have a MacBook Air 13" Early 2015 and I couldn't find the proper keyboard layout matching its actual keyboard

This is a picture for my keyboard :


texts: I'm interested in LAMP stack and Nodejs stack for PowerPC (iMac g5). Do they exist for Mac OS X 10.5.6 PPC?


texts: Find, select and move/copy multiple files at once via Terminal

texts:
I looked for relevant posts extensively before writing but I apologise if it has been already asked and solved.

I'd need to find, select and move/copy some files from a folder starting from a list in a text file (but could also paste it directly if needed).

I've found some posts that could've helped and more precisely the ones at the following link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29311880/finding-files-from-list-and-copying-them-into-new-directory

This seems perfect but I've got a permission error (cp: /found_files: Permission denied) and couldn't find a work around (tried sudo and many other combinations).

This one seemed fine as well: Find multiple files at once via Terminal. It works very well to find the files but I couldn't find a way to select them in order to be able to move/copy them to a new directory.

Tried all this on macOS Sierra 10.12.6 with no special configurations or changes in the Terminal.


texts: How to change timestamp of movie on iPhone?

texts:
When I recorded a movie with my iPhone, the date was not set correctly. So now the video shows up in the wrong order in the Photos app.

It seems the video date is inferred from the file created/modified timestamp. How do I edit the timestamps of the file stored on my phone?

I figured out how to modify the timestamps of the file on my PC, but I don't know how to put them back on my phone while retaining the edited timestamps.

Windows explorer does not support copying files to the iPhone
iFunBox will copy files to the iPhone, but updates the timestamps at the same time

update:

MOV files have EXIF data, too. I used ExifTool to edit the tags like this:

exiftool.exe IMG_2439.MOV \
             -"CreateDate"="2016:10:12 20:59:55" \
             -"ModifyDate"="2016:10:12 21:02:37" \
        -"TrackCreateDate"="2016:10:12 20:59:55" \
        -"TrackModifyDate"="2016:10:12 21:02:37" \
        -"MediaCreateDate"="2016:10:12 20:59:55" \
        -"MediaModifyDate"="2016:10:12 21:02:37" \
           -"CreationDate"="2016:10:12 20:59:55-05:00"

However, deleting/modifying this file on my phone must have removed it from the Photos app database... I can't see this movie at from my iPhone, now. Only from the file system when connected to a computer.


texts: Which iOS jailbreak apps most closely implement an Android style notification system?

texts: Which iOS jailbreak apps implement a notifications system that most closely resembles Android's implementation?


texts:
I made a partition with Boot Camp on my wife's Macbook Pro and installed Windows, however after being installed I can not find the Boot Camp control panel.

I have looked in the control panel and the task bar. The program is simply not there. I can't get the Macbook to run OS X at all at this point, but can verify that the partition is only 40 GB in size. At this point, I don't care if I can get the partition working. I'm more worried about getting the OS X partition back up. I do not have a OS X install disk — the computer didn't come with one.


texts: How do I deactivate the dialog that appears when you hold a number key pressed?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How to turn off the iOS-style character picker menu

When I am writing and I hold number pressed, as when you write the number 9999999999, a dialog appears.

It ask me wether I want to write 9ª or 9º. I want none of them, I just want to write the number.

This is very annoying, how can I deactivate this behaviour altogether?


texts:
So here's what my iTunes looks like right now:

Nothing on this screen does what I'd expect, which may or may not be a problem with my expectations.

Why does double clicking on a track play only that track and then stop, rather than playing the album from there?
Why does clicking the play button next to "Demon Days" do nothing? What is the button for?
Why does clicking the arrow icon to the right of "Demon Days" and then choosing "Add to Up Next" add nothing to Up Next?

Can't make head nor tail of iTunes these days. Am I just getting old?


texts: What is the difference between 'Recommended Applications' and 'All Applications'?

texts:
I wanted to open my video file with VLC, so have opened the 'Choose Application' dialog. The window looks like this:

As the image shows there is a dropdown to select labeled 'Enable'. That dropdown's two options are 'Recommended Applications' and 'All Applications', as shown here:

and, zoomed in, here:

What is the difference between these two options?

I thought that I was choosing this particular application to open this file, and perhaps setting it to open files of this type in the future. What does this dialog have to do with enabling some set of applications, and what am I apparently enabling these applications to do?

What distinguishes the two options, the set of 'Recommended' applications as opposed to 'All'?


texts: Separating EFI partitions of Ubuntu 20.04 and Mac OSX on Macbook Pro

texts:
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 alongside OSX on my early 2015 Macbook pro by following this answer. And somehow I messed up.
I created a separate 400MB EFI partition for Ubuntu but, the system automatically selected Mac OS EFI partition. Can I transfer the Ubuntu boot files to the separate Partition without reinstall? I recently started using Linux. please someone help me out?
$: fdisk /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 233.78 GiB, 251000193024 bytes, 490234752 sectors
Disk model: APPLE SSD SM0256
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: E25C4B1F-9E64-4BCB-B346-07F1727F45F3

Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1         40    409639    409600   200M EFI System
/dev/sda2     409640 234784639 234375000 111.8G unknown
/dev/sda3  234784768 235567103    782336   382M EFI System
/dev/sda4  235567104 362520575 126953472  60.5G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda5  362520576 391817215  29296640    14G Linux swap
/dev/sda6  391817216 392595455    778240   380M Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda7  392597504 490233855  97636352  46.6G Microsoft basic data

$ gdisk /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 490234752 sectors, 233.8 GiB
Model: APPLE SSD SM0256
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/4096 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): E25C4B1F-9E64-4BCB-B346-07F1727F45F3
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 490234718
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 3045 sectors (1.5 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00
   2          409640       234784639   111.8 GiB   AF0A
   3       234784768       235567103   382.0 MiB   EF00
   4       235567104       362520575   60.5 GiB    8300
   5       362520576       391817215   14.0 GiB    8200
   6       391817216       392595455   380.0 MiB   0700
   7       392597504       490233855   46.6 GiB    0700


texts: How do external storage devices work with the iPad?

texts:
The Apple iPad is a sexy little device, but I have no clues on how the OS on that thingy works, and since it does not come with a USB connection I'm having some problems with how data is moved around on that thingy.

Apple sells a USB converter that you can plug into the iPad so you can connect it with a camera. But could I do the same with a portable drive like Western Digital Passport? Can I move images back and forth between the IPad and the Passport?
Can I connect the iPad to a NAS and do the same: move images/stuff back and forth between the NAS and the iPad ...

Two topical scenarios would be:

Take a image from my canon camera, fix red eyes on the iPad and then store the image on a usb/mass storage device.
copy over the latest episode of my favourite show from the NAS, watch it on the IPad and then delete the copy. In some cases also be able to transfer files over the the NAS

Is this possible? Someone has told me the iPad is only a "viewer", and I understand it is not a creational device... the the simple scenarios described are my minimum spec


texts: Codebox, or another code library manager?

texts:
Since I have Papers for all my documents, iTunes for my music/videos I'm only missing a good "code library manager/snippet manager" for all my pieces of code (especially for small projects or test code, as the bigger ones are easy to archives but little piece of code usually get more or less lost).

So I found Code box but there's no trial version available. I looks like it has the features I want, so something like Paper but for code.

My question is: is it worth buying it ? Would you recommend another one I could test first ?


texts: Disk Utility says Bootcamp partition has storage left but in Windows, the C: disk says there is no volume left?

texts: I partitioned 42GB for bootcamp and the windows system is about 17GB, I have one game on it plus Steam which combined with system files makes up to 34.1, and disk utility says I have 8.6GB free but when I'm actually in Windows, it says C: disk is almost full. Where did this 8GB go?


texts: Clean install of Mavericks via Snow Leopard using Time machine dat recovery

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When purchased, my iMac came with Snow Leopard, plus installation disks, but I recently upgraded the OS to Mavericks, in order to use the latest iteration of Garageband, i.e. Garageband 10.1.

Garageband 10.1 does not run at all well, but I don't know whether it is a glitchy, buggy program, or a system wide issue on my machine causing the problem. It occurred to me I might back up the system I currently run using Time Machine to preserve data, perform a clean install, using my Snow Leopard disks, then upgrade via the App store back to Mavericks, (because Garageband 10.1 cannot run on Snow Leopard), which would effectively give me clean Mavericks installation. I would then reinstall my data from my Time Machine Back up.

Is this a sensible approach which might work? I'd appreciate any advice. Many thanks, George Bolam.


texts:
My iPhone 6 got water damaged.

And I checked and found that logic board has short circuit. So I'm planning to buy a logic board from eBay and replace old one. But I want to check it just by connecting iPhone 6 logic board to a battery and a display.

Can I check whether the logic board I just bought is working properly or not?


texts: Can't see bootcamp anymore after OS X install

texts:
My mac pro (first gen) previously had a whole disc dedicated to Windows/bootcamp. I've now added a new disk to the machine. On this new disk I have installed OS X 10.6.

Now when I boot the machine, it loads straight into OS X without offering me the Windows option. Help?


texts: Devices with different Apple IDs responding to the same FaceTime calls

texts:
This is really weird. Whenever my sister-in-law calls my wife via FaceTime, my phone and Mac also ring at the same time. When my wife answers the call, then both of my devices stop ringing.

It's exactly as if all three devices were using the same Apple ID for FaceTime, but they're not, and they never have. My wife's phone is signed into her iCloud account and uses her phone number and email address for FaceTime; likewise, my phone and Mac are signed into my iCloud account and use my phone number and email address.

Furthermore, this only happens when my sister-in-law calls, not anyone else.

Why does this happen, and how can I prevent it? The only thing I can think of is that maybe my sister-in-law has both my wife's phone number and my phone number in the same contact card, so when she starts a FaceTime call, it goes out to both our numbers (and my Mac by extension)?


texts: How to get rid of stale Java icons from application switcher & dock?

texts:
I recently started seeing "java" processes with the default Java icon sometimes stay in the switcher/dock after Java Web Start applications are closed (OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks). This may have begun with JDK 1.7.0_76-b13. pgrep java shows there are no such processes. Force Quit does not work and they do not appear in the Activity Monitor.

I am behind corporate firewall/anti-virus and only use Java for local, proprietary applications. The disk has been verified by Disk Utility.

So far I have found that killall -KILL Dock will get rid of most of them but often leaves at least one called "java" with the command-line icon (black terminal window with green "exec" writing). Example from the Dock:

Does anyone else experience this or know - more generally - the cause and workaround?


texts:
I can use the command line to :-

cd /tmp
ls -al

What is the equivalent to do so in finder?
I can't seems find a way to browse to that folder using finder,
(my intention is to view images which I created in /tmp)

Or is there any image browser tools can do the same?


texts: iPhone, so many wifi points, mine won't appear in the list!

texts:
I have a wireless USB drive that I sometimes need to connect to, but most of the time it is disabled.  When I turn it on and try to connect my iPhone to it, it won't even show up in the list of available networks because my neighborhood has so many (dozens) access points!  iOS seems to list a maximum of 6 at any one time.

There appears to be no way to completely ignore certain networks and force iOS to skip past them, and also no way to "whitelist" certain networks so that they always appear in the list of available networks.  I know I can choose "Other" and manually connect to it every time, but I have a very long, strong password and typing it in every time on the phone is a huge pain.

Is there any way to make my iPhone find this network when it is turned on?  It does show up occasionally, but it's basically dumb luck.


texts: I have this screen bug that comes and goes, is there any way to fix it?

texts:
It is sort of like a static wave that goes across my screen for a second then goes away. It is rather annoying it comes once every 5 minutes i'd say.

2010 macbook pro 15" 4gb-ram NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB Intel i7 and OSX 10.9.

What is the course of action to stop this?

Thank You


texts: Simulator seems to be offline while it shouldn't be

texts:
I signed in in my simulator with an apple id of mine in order to be able to test my app which supports cloudkit. At first everything was working fine: I could refresh the data on a simulator and it would show on another simulator. Yesterday instead, after noticing that it didn't work anymore, I opened the settings and I was still logged in but some features were locked as if my icloud password was missing. A prompt asking for me to insert it appeared so I did insert it again. But after that nothing changed. I can't even sign out because sometimes it says the device is offline/ isn't connected to the server (other times I just can't press the button at all) but I'm connected to wifi.
So right now I'm not able to test my app. How can I solve this? I tried running xcrun simctl erase all or turning off and on my macbook but nothing helps.


texts: Mac doesn't sleep when lid is closed, but upon opening the lid it falls asleep?

texts: When I close the lid, my macbook pro does not go to sleep. However, when I open the lid, it will go to sleep. How do I correct this problem?


texts: How can I remove the window shadow in Mountain Lion?

texts:
There's an application called ShadowKiller that seems popular and supposedly works for Lion, but it just seems to die as soon as I try to start it on Mountain Lion.

I'd like to get around of the shadows surrounding a window.


texts: Is there a way to convert a video from iOS (QuickTime) format to Windows (WMV or AVI) format?

texts:
I recently purchased an iPod 5 and had the opportunity to take videos with it. The videos are great; but, I have a problem.

I would love to be able to convert these videos from their original Quick Time format to something that my computer "prefers" playing such as WAV or AVI.

Is there a way to do this without using an online converter (which I would really prefer not doing)? I have immediate access to Windows Media Player, Movie Maker and Quick Time. Any help would be appreciated!


texts:
I regularly receive emails with very large attachments (uncompressed scans, photos, videos, etc.). Obviously, the sender could have done me a favor by compressing the files before sharing. But not everyone takes the time or even knows how to.

To save space in my inbox, I can either delete the message or if I'd like to keep it for later reference I can (with the message selected) click on "Message" in the menu bar followed by "Remove attachments".

However, what if I'd like to keep a compressed version of the files for later reference as well? Is there some way to do this?


texts: Since upgrading to Yosemite, why is the screensaver unresponsive for a few random seconds after it starts?

texts:
Since I've upgraded to 10.10 (from 10.8), the screensaver is now unresponsive for some random seconds (~1 to 10) after it starts.

This is very annoying, since I like to have a short "screensaver: start after" time, coupled with a "security: require password after", so that the screensaver starts, but I immediatly hit a button and I can get back to work.

I've already had to increase the "require password after" from "5 seconds" to "1 minute", but this doesn't save me from wasting those unresponsive seconds each time...


texts: Can't install Apple Fitness app to iPad 14.3

texts:
I just updated my iPad Pro 2020 to iPadOS 14.3.  I'm also an Apple One Premier member.
When I try to download the Apple Fitness app to my iPad, the App Store doesn't let me.  I get an error message: "This app requires specific features not available on this device."
Apple's announcement states

For usage with iPad, Fitness+ requires iPad Pro, iPad (5th generation or later), iPad mini 4 or later, iPad Air 2, or iPad Air (3rd generation or later), running iOS 14.3.

It looks like there might be a problem for iPad users right now.  I can get it to work on my iPhone so I know it's available.  Is there a way to download this to an iPad?


texts: It is possible to create a login which doesn't need a password

texts: I was thinking that assigning passwords to OS X accounts is mandatory and you had to set the account to auto-login to avoid having to enter it every time. But can I also define a user account which doesn't need a password?


texts: How to change filepath structure using automator (windows to mac)?

texts:
I use a mac at work and people send me windows file paths all day. Does anyone know how to convert the filepath using applescript in an automator so I can right click in an email and then open it?

Windows path: \\Sfa66\devmrkdt$\Donor Relations\FY14\Events\Invitation\Email

Mac path: smb://Sfa66\devmrkdt$/Donor Relations/FY14/Events/Invitation/Email

This answer was so close How to translate between Windows and Mac -style file locations? but it won't work when there are blank spaces in the file path.


texts:
I just did a clean install of OS X Lion and I see that now I have no .bash_profile file in my home directory.

Should I create this by hand? (I want to save in it some alias.)

Thank you.

PS : The only file that exist now that I could use is /etc/profile


texts: Can I use other brand laptop chargers instead of my macbook pro adapter?

texts:
I recently watched a video on Youtube which claims you may charge your Mac through an adjustable power supply, by setting its output voltage on 18.5 and connecting your MacBook adapter’s wire (the one connected to the MagSafe connector) to the power supply. The circuitry at the top of the MagSafe connector determines how much power your mac is going to draw from the power supply, so even if the power supply supplies more voltage and/or amperage, your mac would not be allowed to draw more than the required power from the power supply.

Now, I just want to know your ideas on this video and if you consider it safe? Does higher voltage, say, 20 v. hurt the chip located at the MagSafe connector or my MacBook’s logic board? And based on all this, may I use a different adaptor instead of my original mackbook MagSafe charger? An adapter like the following HP charger:

HP PPP016H 18.5V 6.5A Laptop Charger

The link to the YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3w8nwyrdYw


texts: Set Finder arranging order by kind via Terminal

texts:
I know I can easily do this via the Finder's toolbar but I'm currently writing a huge shell script that'll set my future Mac up exactly as I want.

So is there any command to do it like the one to set viewing style ?


texts: Is there a way to transfer many photos from iPhone to Mac without losing filters & edits?

texts:
Is there an way to get the photos off my iPhone without losing the filters and edits that I have used?

I just want the jpeg files, I don't want to sync the phone to a database like iPhoto or (now) Photos.

I don't want to use iPhotos because it keeps all the photostreams on my MB Air and uses up disk space. I suppose I could use it with photostreams disabled.

If I use AirPlay, it takes forever and chokes when I want to do a few hundred at a time.

Is there a way to do it with the iPhone connected by cable?


texts: How can I restore the default dimensions of the Force Quit dialog

texts:
I accidentally maximized the Force Quit dialoge on my Mac and I am looking for a way to restore it to its original size other than manually resizing it. I would like it to be have exact dimensions as before.

Is there such a way to do that, for example, with preference files or defaults?


texts:
Is there any way to force Finder to refresh its in-use information for gray (inaccessible) files?

Details:

I move infrequently used files from my Mac (OS X 10.6) to a Windows Server 2008 file server.  I have recently found a large number of files which OS X's Finder shows as gray (like it would if the file was in the process of being copied).  The files in question are all valid and complete: no corruption or missing data; in fact, I can access the files from Terminal or from a Windows computer without problem, but Finder still thinks they should be considered inaccessible.

I can "fix" the problem by copying the original file to a new name, deleting the original file, waiting a minutes or so, and then renaming the new file to the original name (if I don't wait long enough, the new file will become gray when it is renamed to the original name).

Basically, it seems as if the Finder has failed to clear some "in-use" or "incomplete" flag [conjecture].

So, back to the original question: how can this be fixed?  Ideally, I would like to be able to scan the network drives and find and fix all the gray files via Terminal or Recursive operation, so I can fix them all without wasting a lot of time.


texts: How to transfer Clash of Clans from one iOS device to another

texts: I have two iPhones and an iPad 2. One of the phones is an iPhone 3GS running iOS 6.1.6 and the other is an iPhone 4 running iOS 7. Under the same Game Center account they each have a separate village for Clash of Clans. I just got my iPad and wanted to transfer the game on the iOS 6.1.6 device to my iPad. What I was wondering was, if it's even possible to link a game on Clash of Clans from an iOS 6 device to an iOS 7 device, and if so how do I do so?


texts: Spell Correction using only the keyboard

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I am a long time OS X user and as such, I often enjoy the built-in dictionary available system-wide. It’s a small detail that, if you come from Windows (or Linux) turns out to be of great help (provided you really care about improving your typing skills). Available on most Cocoa applications by default (thanks to the underlying technology), it underlines incorrect words and obvious grammar errors. It has its bad days, but the results are usually better than nothing. I type mainly in English and Spanish and in both cases, it’s a decent solution.

But I just realized that I have a problem with it. I rarely use the mouse when I’m in “Type Mode”. If I’m writing I don’t need to use the mouse. I just don’t use it; I manage to perform most of what I have to with the keyboard and its shortcuts.

There are notable exceptions to the above (where a dialog requires mouse action, or there’s simply no way to get the focus of a particular UI element). Those exceptions are annoying (and frequent), but I guess I already deal with them (by grabbing the mouse and killing a kitten).

However, there’s one that I’d like to know how to solve, and maybe the minds behind the site can clear for me.

Imagine the following simple scenario. TextEdit.

You start typing this:

In order to fix the misspelled word, you have a few choices with your mouse, or you could use the ⇧Shift⌘Cmd: combination to bring this:

However that dialog doesn’t have keyboard focus and I am unable to get it, so I have to reach the mouse, click on it, and fix the problem. That’s not good.

What I want is to be able to bring this:

…with my keyboard.

That menu came when I right clicked on the word.

How do you deal with this? Do you use the mouse? Do you use the keyboard?

Enlighten me please.

UPDATE FOR LION OS X 10.7

As many of you are aware, OS X 10.7 "Lion" is out and it brings some changes in this area. Sadly, the biggest complain is still not 100% fixed.

The good news is, it is "possible" to spell check using the keyboard only, although we still don't have a nice popup like the "right click" over an underlined word.

The Spell Check pane can be focused now by using ⌃F6 if it loses focus, but has it by default when you invoke it with ⇧⌘:, this allows you to invoke it over a red-underlined word and press ⏎ to change the word (or TAB to focus the list of alternatives and then ⏎ to change it)… but not really because…

…the Bad news is, if I make a mistake right here and I try to bring the spell check, it will go to the next mistake, not the word I have below the cursor, which is annoying, because it means you have to actually go back with the cursor before invoking the spell checker.

Also there are no shortcuts on the Grammar Pane, so you have to TAB around the fields to click anything other than "Change". The order of the options is also weird:

1) Upon launching Grammar Pane, focus is on Change for "return" but you are ready to start typing a replacement if you want. So you could type the "right word" and press return, or you could press return to accept the first replacement on the list, or you could press TAB to move to that list, select a new one (with the arrow keys) and finally press return to accept it.

2) If you wanted to move to the next change without accepting anything for the current word, you need to press TAB four times and then the space bar to click on find next.

3) Focus is one way, if you reach the last option in that dialog, it won't cycle back to the first option, so you have to shift-tab back in the focus chain. (weird?)

4) You can't focus the Define, Guess or Automatic by Language Buttons/Combo boxes, unless you grab your mouse.

5) You can dismiss the panel by pressing escape.

Finally, going from "mistake to mistake" is achieved with ⌘;; this will jump from red underlined word to the next in a cycle.


texts: Setting up Open Directory for already existing user accounts

texts:
I work for a small business, for the few years we've been running we've had individual MacBooks with local user accounts. We need to formalise this a bit in order to get an industry security accreditation, we need to prove password rotation and things like that.

I've set up Apple Server on a spare Mac Mini and created the network, I'm able to set up new users and login via the connected macbooks. The issue I have is we've all got long established profiles, apps, settings and so on, so I need a way to get these existing profiles tied to the users, there doesn't seem to be a standard way to do this and any guides/videos I find are very outdated.

I created a open directory user matching my local user, renamed my user (home) directory, deleted my local account using the root user and signed in to my network user on my macbook, then logged back into the root got rid of the network users user (home) directory and renamed my old one back, I tried to set the ownership of the directory to the network user account but when I logged in it was a world of pain, I couldn't even open apps due to the permissions.

I ended up losing my old local account, luckily I was able to get all of my files back and set the user and group permissions to my new user, although I've lost my settings and configs. There was obviously a whole load of other files I wasn't aware of in the Library that just didn't like the change.

Is there a way I can link Open Directory users to already existing local mac users, or somehow switch over?

Thanks!


texts:
I can't seem to find a definitive answer anywhere, but are Mac OS X Security Updates cumulative?

The update in question is 2015-004. I've checked https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204659 but it doesn't list any requirements.

Background: I've just finished deploying 2015-002 to some of our iMacs (running Mavericks 10.9.5), but now I see that 2015-004 is out. I was wondering if there was any point in continuing rolling out 2015-002, or should I just deploy 2015-004?


texts: Will a Airport Utility archive action delete files on the target disk?

texts:
Will an Airport Utility archive action delete files on the target disk?

I have an older Apple Time Capsule 2TB and I have a Laccie 6TB USB3.0 drive connected to it in "safe 3TB" configuration. In my Airport Utility app, it shows both disks.

The Laccie disk is already half full of stuff I put on it. I want to move 400MB of files from the Time Machine disk over to the Laccie disk but it says it will take over 24 hours.

So, I was thinking about using the Airport Utility "Archive" function to backup all the files on my Time Capsule over to the Laccie but I am afraid it might overwrite existing files already on that target disk.

Should I worry about when the "archive" function occurs, does it create a time-stamped folder?  I could find no information on exactly what happens when the "archive" function does its work.

EDIT:

I found a partial answer to my question:


texts: A new ExFAT partition prevents bootcamp from starting windows

texts:
I'm trying to create a shared partition that I can use from both Windows and OS X. I made a new partition, but if I make it FAT or ExFAT Windows does not start. I get Error code: 0xc000000e. I assume this is because it tries to boot from the empty partition instead of the bootcamp partition.

If I make the partition use Apple's filesystem, I can boot to Windows again but then the partition becomes read-only.

Any suggestions how to solve this? All partitions are on the same hard drive - I don't have any external drives. I created my Bootcamp installation using Yosemite and later updated. Today I used El Capitan to create the new shared partition. It is a MacBook Pro from mid 2014 and I run Windows 10.

Output from diskutil list

    /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            69.7 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS Shared                  99.4 GB    disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                80.8 GB    disk0s5
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +69.4 GB    disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 6AA15FCB-EEFC-4182-8382-EC890574DBDA
                                 Unencrypted


texts: Stickies - how to place a sticky on top of a fullscreen desktop (multiple desktops)

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I use full screen desktops a lot (ctrl + cmd + f) / (ctrl + up).

Is it possible to put a sticky on top of a desktop which has an app open full screen?

What I really want is regardless of whichever desktop I'm in and whichever page I go to, the sticky should remain in the same place on the screen.  This would then mean I don't lose track of my very important sticky note.


texts: Yosemite - Screen saver options - no default showing

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After updating to Yosemite I have no screen saver default showings at all.
How can I add photos?  When I click screen saver options the only thing that shows up to choose is thickness color and speed.
How can I change this to add my photos?


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Can I enable file removal in the open window on OS X?

The open or save dialogs do not allow you do do many opeations, like removing a file or renaming it.

Is there any hidden defaults preference that could enable this?


texts: Viewing Google Chrome (v69+) Cache on macOS?

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I recently viewed an image from Imgur on Google Chrome for Mac. The image is no longer available, and I would like to fish it out of my cache. chrome://cache no longer works. Looking through the files in my library/cache/google folder, I see that the files have no extension and are relatively new.

Doesn't Chrome keep image cache for at least 30 days? If so, how do I access it? Is there a viewer where I can see which files are images?


texts: How can I find out which apps I have already downloaded on my iPhone?

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When you attempt to download an app that costs money, you will not be charged if you already bought the app. After you press buy and enter your iTunes password, it will say "You have already purchased this item. To download it again for free, select OK."

The problem is that I deleted hundreds of apps from my phone, some of which were paid for. Later on I might find an app I like but notice that it costs money. It might be an app I had already paid for, or an app which I got when it was free.

How can I know if I tap the buy button if I will be charged for the app or not?

In other words, how can I know if I owned a previous version of an app before?


texts: How can I do a Full Backup of my iTunes library (including Playlists and Album Art) to an external Hard Disk?

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How can I backup my iTunes library (including album art and playlists) to an external Hard Disk 1?  iTunes only seems to allow full backups to discs.

FWIW, this is on a Win7 machine.


texts: Is there a known fix for apps that suddenly stop delivering notifications for any obvious reason?

texts: For several years now, I've noticed a really strange thing with notifications delivered from third-party apps on iOS - whereby they will just stop without any obvious reason. When checking within Settings/Notifications, nothing whatsoever has changed - all settings are as they should be. The immediately obvious steps (a device reboot and opening the app in question) don't resolve this - the only way of getting notifications back for the app in question is to remove it completely, and then reinstall it from the App Store. Whilst this isn't a big issue for apps that I'm only interested in notifications for (news apps are a good example), apps that require configuration are less ideal. Has anybody else noticed anything similar - and is there a known fix?


texts: Internet Sharing from Mac(LAN) to iPhone USB

texts: I'ld like to enable internet sharing b/w my Mac iPhone. I've enabled Internet Sharing and selected VPN  and in options to computer using - I've selected iPhone USB. I'm still not able to connect to internet. My Mac is connected to internet via LAN using USB 10/100/1000 , which has port for LAN wire. Any help is appreciated.


texts: Reliable instruction on installing Ubuntu on Macbook Pro

texts: There are some walk-through kind of instruction on installing Ubuntu on Macbook Pro (as dual boot OS along with Mac OS X), such as Lifehacker's post.  But they are either too old that I worry if the particular details are still currently applicable, or the source is not particularly reliable.  Any pointer to a good, reliable, and current source on this?  I intend to install Ubuntu as a dual boot OS on my Macbook Pro (mid 2011 model).


texts: Window retains focus when pressing Dock folder icon

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When I click on the Applications folder icon in the Dock and start typing, the previously active window retains its focus. That is particularly annoying when the previously active window is a messenger and I hit enter to open the application. Is that a common issue and, if so, what's causing it and how can I fix it?

Here's a motion capture of it:

You can see that while the Utilities subfolder is being selected, there's still typing going on in the text editor in the background.


texts: iPad won't accept WiFi captive portal logon

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I am building a captive portal for a university network.  It works quite well on all devices I have tested with, but I am having some iPad troubles.  Let me explain my steps:

I go to Settings, WiFi
Select my test network
Immediately upon connecting to the WiFi, Safari slides up from the bottom (sans URL box, with "Log In" at top) with my captive portal page.
I login to my captive portal page
I am redirected to Apple.com, which loads fine

The iPad is now allowed to use the internet, and all is well.  The problem is, the iPad doesn't see it that way.

The "Log In" form of Safari never slides back down out of the way, as I would expect.  If I press Home open up Safari, and try to open a page, I am immediately given the error:

  Cannot Open Page

  Safari cannot open the page because it is not connected to the Internet.

There are no connectivity issues at all, and the iPad indeed can connect to the Internet.  It just believes that it can't.

A few things that the problem isn't:

DHCP/DNS/IP Addressing issues... I assure you it has a valid IP address as assigned from DHCP, and the correct DNS addresses, and gateway.
WiFi Connectivity... Signal is strong, I am sitting 5 ft. away from the AP, and I can continuously ping the iPad with no packet loss or high latency.
"Turn it off/on again", or "Forget the network and rejoin it" are not solutions, and do not solve the problem
A problem with my captive portal...  The captive portal itself is fine, and there are no problems with it.  Again, the iPad can load apple.com from its own "Login Safari" just fine.

I believe the problem is that Apple has written some code, trying to be "intelligent" that detects when my captive portal page logon is complete, so it can save any form data for posting to the server later for automatic logon.

My question is...

What cue is Apple looking for to know when captive portal logon is complete?

For what its worth, I stumbled across a forum thread discussing the captive portal detection.  I'd rather not outright disable it... I just need to find a way to make it work.


texts: Setting GUI Visible Environment Variables with OS Catalina

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I need to set a number of Environment variables that can be seen by GUI apps (i.e. Xcode). When running from a terminal this is trivial and is simply a case of adding a. number of export commands to my .bash_profile e.g.

export BOOST_INCLUDE=~/boost/boost-XXXX/boost

Unfortunately GUI apps do not see values set in .bash_profile. I am using Catalina and it appears that Apple modifies the mechanism every time MacOs is updated. Many online guides are out of date....

This article: http://www.dowdandassociates.com/blog/content/howto-set-an-environment-variable-in-mac-os-x-launchd-plist/ suggests that launchctl should do what I need but even the following simple example does not work:

In a terminal:

/bin/launchctl setenv FOO BAR

Then close the terminal and open a new one

Check the value:

echo $FOO

The output should be

BAR

But it is unset. Note it is also unset in the original terminal so I am not convinced that the command /bin/launchctl setenv FOO BAR is doing anything.

Note: This is about setting the environment variable for GUI apps NOT just for the terminal.