texts: Kali Linux MAC address changing on MacBook Pro Retina

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Apparently this could be due to my hardware said one stack exchanger.

Anyway, for your information:

root@kali:~# lspci | grep Wireless
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)

That is my wlan0 and for some reason if I try to change it I get these errors:

root@kali:~# macchanger -a wlan0
Current MAC:   XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (Apple)
Permanent MAC: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (Apple)
[ERROR] Could not change MAC: interface up or insufficient permissions: Too many open files in system

or

root@kali:~# ifconfig wlan0 down
root@kali:~# ifconfig wlan0 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
SIOCSIFHWADDR: Too many open files in system

Does it mean that I have got to blacklist/remove the additional drivers that I downloaded but aren't using?


texts: How to remove when sudo rm says operation not permitted?

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I'm trying to get rid of a stray kernel extension from Corel Painter. There is a question and answer about it here. The kextunload command from that answer worked, but I can't remove the files.

sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/PainterAudioDriver.kext
rm: /Library/Extensions/PainterAudioDriver.kext/Contents/_CodeSignature/CodeResources:      Operation not permitted
rm: /Library/Extensions/PainterAudioDriver.kext/Contents/_CodeSignature: Operation not permitted
rm: /Library/Extensions/PainterAudioDriver.kext/Contents/MacOS/PainterAudioDriver: Operation not permitted
...
rm: /Library/Extensions/PainterAudioDriver.kext: Operation not permitted

How can it not be permitted when I'm using sudo? How do I remove them?

I guess this has something to do with it...

% ls -ld@ /Library/Extensions/PainterAudioDriver.kext
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root  wheel  96 Jan  7  2016    /Library/Extensions/PainterAudioDriver.kext
       com.apple.rootless    0


texts: How can I have Windows keymapping on my Macbook, CTRL+C, CTRL+V

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I have a Macbook pro 2016, I am a Linux user at home and I am used to CTRL+C, CTRL+X, CTRL+V kind of key mapping for my copy, cut and paste actions. I have set up keyboard modifier as below

I also have added additional keyboard shortcut overrides

But still some controls like copy paste does not work correctly from firefox or specifically from text fields.
Is there any thing I can do to make it streamlined ?
There are apps I have issues with. Visual Studio Code, Browser input fields, etc.


texts: How can I mount a partition to a custom directory only?

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I have a PCIe SSD in my 2019 Mac Pro that I am using for running a server. Using vifs in the Terminal app, I've edited /etc/fstab to add this line:
UUID=B3CDE3B6-C597-407B-8A43-A2324C50427C /var/my-server apfs rw

My problem is that the same partition ends up getting mounted under /Volumes/SSD as well as under /var/my-server, and I would like to have it mounted only at /var/my-server. Is there a way to accomplish this?


texts: How can I download an embedded video from Safari?

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I have macOS 10.15.7 and Safari 14.0. I would like to download some webinars that I would like to access offline. They are embedded in the website but I'm not sure if they are Flash videos or HTML5 or what.
Is there any way to do this?
Thanks in advanced!


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So I'm using Pages on my Mac and I once was able to switch the windows (NOT the application, but the windows in Pages) with the shortcut command + < or command + >. Now, they apparently removed this function.

In other applications like Safari it does still work. Do you know how I can activate this function again?

Thanks in advance!


texts: Write protecting a linux drive on macos, to prevent any accidental formatting

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I have an external drive plug into mac os, in which i install linux on, for a dual boot of linux and macos. I am running MacOS Catalina 10.15.7. Everything works great, except one major flaw with human error. The amount of times that I have accidentally formatted my external linux installation with disk utility or the dd command thinking it was my usb stick, is countless. Same goes for my bootcamp installation. Upon either of these accidental erases, I obviously have to reinstall and reconfigure my linux os all over again which is extremely time consuming.
My question is,
Is there any way in macos catalina, to prevent certain external drives from being erased or formatted (or even DD'd) from both disk utility as well as the command line? Are there any sort of options, or config files, plists, settings, etc. to make MacOS automatically identify my linux drive, and force it to be read-only and unformattable while plugged into my mac? Is there any failsaif mechanism that I could create to stop any accidental formatting of a specific drive no matter what drive number (disk1, disk2, disk3, etc.) it is in MacOS's device tree path?
Any help is appreciated!


texts: Why does AppleScript "exists" sometimes always return "false"? (part of question regarding checking documents in Pages)

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I'm new to AppleScript and I've reached this problem after several other problems and work arounds (see further down for more details). My current problem is that I'm telling Pages to check if any document is open with

tell application "Pages"
    exists front document
end tell

but sometimes even when Pages has a document open the "exists" is always "false". And in general, it seems that sometimes, any reference to "front document" returns errors that it can't get it when it is clearly there. When I quit Pages and try again, usually it works...until it doesn't.

Any ideas?

My original problem stems from wanting to make a QuickAction to open a file in Pages -> export to PDF -> close Pages -> repeat as necessary. But the script gets ahead of itself and tries to complete the export before the file is even open.

tell application "Finder"
    set theSelection to selection
    repeat with oneItem in theSelection
        set finderLocation to oneItem as text
        open oneItem
        tell application "Pages"
            set idx to 0
            repeat until (exists front document)
                set idx to idx + 1
                if idx > 2000 then quit
            end repeat
            set pagesLocation to file of front document as text
            repeat until finderLocation = pagesLocation
                set pagesLocation to file of front document as text
            end repeat
            set exportFile to file of front document as text
            set exportFile to text 1 thru -6 of exportFile
            set exportFile to exportFile & "pdf"
            export front document to file exportFile as PDF with properties {image quality:Best}
            close front document without saving
        end tell
    end repeat
end tell

So I've been trying to find a way to check if the document is open first before continuing. And I came up with this, to check if the front document file location in Pages matches the file locations opened by Finder. This worked until I tried from a fresh instance of Pages (quit Pages first then try). The problem there was that  Pages would flag an error for not being able to find "front document" at all (since it needed to read its file path but nothing was open yet).

So now I'm here trying to check if ANYTHING is open before checking if the target file is open. But now, as described above, it seems that references to "document" just breaks and causes either "exists" or "file of front document" to hang.

Am I even headed in the right direction here or is there a better way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT:
now my script looks like this, and seems to be more consistent, at least so far

tell application "Finder"
set theSelection to selection
repeat with oneItem in theSelection
    set nameOfDocument to name of oneItem
    open oneItem
    tell application "Pages"
        repeat until (exists document nameOfDocument)
            delay 0.1
        end repeat
        set exportFile to oneItem as text
        set exportFile to text 1 thru -6 of exportFile
        set exportFile to exportFile & "pdf"
        export document nameOfDocument to file exportFile as PDF with properties {image quality:Best}
        close document nameOfDocument without saving
    end tell
end repeat
end tell


texts: iPhone 5s forwarding automatically to another phone in the household after iOS 8 is installed

texts: My son updated his 5s to ios 8 and now for some reason when I call his phone if he doesn't answer it will ring to my daughter's phone and vice versa.   I have looked on both phones and cannot figure out why. The forward feature is not on.


texts: iCloud storage doesn't add up on in iPhone's "Manage Storage" panel

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I'm looking at the "Manage Storage" panel, (accessible from Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup > Manage Storage) which shows a list of all the items being backed up along with a total. Or at least that's what it appears to be... the problem is that the total shown is about 50 times greater than the sum of its parts. Like this:

All the listed apps together add up to less than 60 MB, but it insists that is using (and will continue to use) 3.3 GB.

Is this normal? Is there 3.2 GB of unlisted overhead? Is anyone else experiencing this issue?


texts: Stop my Apple devices and PC desktop syncing Mozilla bookmarks

texts: I have a MacBook Air and iPhone 7. I have a Dell desktop at work, and for some reason my Firefox bookmarks from my work PC are showing up on my Apple devices and I would like to remove them. At work I use Firefox, IE, and Chrome. On my Apple devices I use Safari and Chrome. I assume iCloud might be the problem here. I am wondering if (since I use it on all three devices, it is somehow syncing them. The shortcuts from my Firefox toolbar show up in my favorites on my Apple devices, and the bookmarks from my Firefox bookmark menu show up in my Safari bookmarks folder.


texts: How do I delete a large amount of photos from iPhoto that were taken on the same device (not sequential)

texts: I uploaded a ton of photos from a friend's iPhone before wiping her phone and transferring the photos to a flash drive for her to keep (I use the iPhone for myself now).  But now all of her photos are interspersed throughout my photos on iPhoto and it is very bothersome.  I need to delete all her photos from iPhoto without individually selecting them.  Is there a function I can use to select all photos taken on a certain device before a certain time period or something?  Thank you.


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I own MacBook Air (early 2015) where the GPU and its memory reads as following:

Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB

I think that the amount is a bit too high so I would rather decrease it to 1000 MB or something lower so I can benefit from higher RAM for applications.

Is there a possibility to do something like that?


texts: Is it possible to synchonize my iPod with iTunes on one computer and drag-drop ad-hoc files on another?

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I have iTunes installed on both my work and home computer. At home I want to keep it synchronized with my extensive library of music ripped from CDs, but for large files like videos and podcasts I like to download them at work where I have better bandwidth.

I'd like to be able to keep just my music files synchronized with the iPod from my home computer, but still be able to drag-drop a few ad-hoc podcasts/videos downloaded on my work computer onto the device (iPod touch). No synchronization with iTunes on my work computer is desired/required.

It seems like this would be a simple operation, but all of my attempts have resulted in wiping out large portions of the content from the device.

Any advice on how to make this work, or whether it is even possible?


texts: Delete autofill contacts in gmail app for iPhone

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In the gmail app I type a letter and autofill appears with an email address. I have tried the following steps to rectify this:

Contacts.google and deleted "other contacts". (It only reflects the changes on my desktop).
Turning off contact info from your devices.
Turning off contact info saved from interactions.
Going into 'settings' on my iPhone under the 'gmail' app and turning off 'contacts' and enabling 'background app refresh'.
Going into 'settings' on my iPhone under 'passwords & accounts', clicking 'gmail', and enabling/disabling contacts. I have also tried deleting this and re-adding it.
Going into 'settings' on my iPhone under 'passwords & accounts', clicking 'gmail', and clicking on my email, then advanced. Disabling/enabling SSL.
Removing my email from the gmail app and re-adding it.
Restarting my phone.
Deleting the gmail app and reinstalling it.

Does anybody have the solution to getting rid of autofill contacts on the gmail app for iPhone?


texts: Macbook not shutting down due to a stuck app

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I was trying to mount my server with Osxfuse but the server was offline but the cursor turned into a colorful loading icon and I wasn't able to click anything. Was only able too move the cursor. So I closed the laptop. Then opened it again and now the cursor is not moving and still shows that loading icon.

Keyboard lights are off now. Keyboard and trackpad are unresponsive.

I've tried holding the power button(Touch ID) for long enough but it's still not shutting down. Should I wait until battery runs out or what should I do?


texts: Apple Battery Charger - does not charge to 100%?

texts: I have recently purchased the Apple Battery Charger and immediately charged the batteries that came with it. A few days later (3 or 4) I placed the batteries into my mouse and noticed that they only indicate about 75% full. Is this correct? Is the value being read wrong (they are actually 100% full) or do they not fully charge?


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How to get Bluetooth connected or paired event Programmatically (iOS 7)
Please reply i need Status of Bluetooth Paired/connected or not.

Thanks


texts: Was there an app switcher or did you have to stop an app and start a new one?


texts: Can a Mac Mini use a MacBook Air CD SuperDrive?

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Will a MacBook Air SuperDrive work with a new Mac mini?

The Apple website says it will work with Mac Mini on Snow Leopard server. No mention of New mac mini and OSX Lion.


texts: When memory usage is too high for too long, macOS becomes unresponsive while finder, dock and menu bar continually open and crash

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Catalina 10.15.6 (19G73)
MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)
2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9
32 GB RAM

While Chrome chews through memory, it seems to somehow do this through kernel_task. Eventually (after a few days), macOS will freak out and whatever is responsible for the system/OS UI (dock & menu bar) crashes. Dock and menu bar disappear. Open apps are still visible but unresponsive. Fans spin up to full blast. After 10-15 seconds, dock and menu will reappear, then eventually crash/disappear again. This continues (crash, open, crash, open) and doesn't seem to recover. I eventually have to hold the power button to restart the computer.
I recently migrated to this computer from a 2015 Macbook Pro. That computer behaved exactly the same in terms of Chrome memory but it simply just got slow over time, as Chrome ate up RAM and things moved to swap. It never freaked out this way. That computer was running Mojave and had 16GB RAM.


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We have a simple filesharing setup, where iMac users connect via AFP.  This morning, one user could no longer access the base folder, despite no settings be changed.

There are standard POSIX and ACL permissions applied to the folder, and another user who is in the exact same groups as this one user can access the folder with no trouble.

Server is 10.6.8 (recently upgraded from 10.5; but, in the interim there had been no troubles of note).  Using the filesharing pane of the Server admin tool, I verified that the "ok" user has complete Read access in the effective access viewer; while the "bad" user only has a subset of permissions (see attached image).

I also logged in directly to the server, and via su confirmed that an error occurs when trying to access that particular directory.  (no error when sud as the "ok" user.

Posix permissions are set r-xr-x--- where the group is an inherited group of the user's main group.  (Same situation for both users).  ACL permissions are set to allow an admin full control, and deny writes to everyone else.

Any ideas?  Deleting the "deny writes" ACL might change things; but, even if it works, I'd like to understand -why-. this didn't work

Newly added info

Checking the membership via dsmemberutil checkmembership -U USERNAME -G GROUP yields user is not a member of the group when it is run on the main OpenDirectory master.  On clients, the same command yields user is a member of the group.


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Can I create any shortcut to focus on an application?

For instance ⌘ CMD+1 and Safari is active and on top of other windows, ⌘ CMD+2 Pages and so on.

I remember a long, long time ago, that was possible with F1, F2...


texts: Always keep a local copy of some folders in the iCloud synced files

texts: I keep almost everything synced with my iCloud drive. It removes from local storage the things I rarely use and I love the feature, however, there are a few folders which I would like to keep synced and always local, even if I don't touch them for a long time. How to add such an exception?


texts: Focus most recent window of pid without requiring accessibility approval

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I currently use this AppleScript to try to set focus to the most recent window of a PID, in example here my pid is 450.

tell application "System Events"
  set frontmost of the first process whose unix id is 450 to true
end tell

This works wonderfully in that it doesn't ask for accessibility approval. The quirks though are:

It ignores minimized windows, thus if all windows are minimized, nothing is focused
If you have windows across multiple spaces, and last accessed window was in space X. If you are in space Y and have windows of that app in space Y, it will focus the most recently used in space Y.
I haven't encountered it yet, but apparently people say if a window of other applications are on top of the window, it won't come to top.

I know of perform action AXRaise however this needs accessibility api approval. My users of my addon are asking to remove this as many of them struggle with allowing the single app access, especially if the miss granting it on the first popup.

So this was done in applescript, if you know how to do it in carbon (core-foundation, core-graphics) or cocoa I can use that to.

In osx 10.9 the AXMakeProcessTrusted was deprecated otherwise I could have used that to grant my app access without bothering users and then use AXUIElementSetAttributeValue to bring a window to the front.

Please help
Thanks


texts: iTunes Match: What do these symbols mean in iTunes?

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I've noticed that on some compilations I own, the following can be seen:

According to this question the two symbols mean "Duplicate" and "Available for Download".

Why would iTunes do this? It appears it's saying the song is not eligible for iTunes Match, but then is offering me to download it (presumably from iTunes Match).

Very confusing!


texts: Is there a programmatic way to identify built-in applications?

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I'm trying to keep an inventory of where each application in my Mac came from (context: I'm trying to be disciplined and install things only through the App Store, Homebrew or Caskroom).

Apps that came from the App Store can be identified because their application bundle contains a _MASReceipt directory. Is there a similar trick to identify the built-in applications? One idea is to check if CFBundleIdentifier in Info.plist starts with com.apple. Any others?


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I Have a 2011 Mac mini and I installed Windows 7 using Bootcamp. All the drivers are working fine, except the sound and the bluetooth. Since my internet connection is really lousy, I don't want to download a 100Mb drivers solution, I just need the Audio Controller, which I've been led to believe that it a Cirrus Logic CS4206B, but I haven't been able to find a single place to download the driver.

Can anyone point out any advice on how I can solve this? By providing a link to download the driver, or perhaps a way to extract it from somewhere, because bootcamp requires me to connect to internet to download the whole driver pack and I just can't do that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

UPDATE: Just for the sake of information, my Mac is a mid 2011 Mac Mini, having a 2.3Ghz Core i5 and an 8Gb RAM kit installed by me.

UPDATE After a while, I managed to install the Cirrus Logic driver, so I-m marking the answer as correct, however, I get audio only in the internal speaker, no audio on the Jack. I'll try to reinstall using Bootcamp 3.2 and see what happens.

UPDATE It's been a while since I posted this question, but I'll say my current solution. After many different ideas and trying with almost every variation of the Cirrus driver, I was able to use the download Windows support drivers and everything worked like a charm, so in the end, it was the only option to get a proper bootcamp installation.


texts: Airport Extreme (5th gen) throttling ethernet internet speeds

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I purchased the router in 2012, and am experiencing slower speeds than expected from my Airport Extreme.

Brand new 16x4 channel DOCsis3 modem on Time Warner's approved list. 200 Mbps plan, and getting 225 down when connected from iMac directly to modem.

Then, bring the Airport into the mix and connect it to the modem via CAT6. Another CAT6 cable from Airport to iMac, and speeds drop to 93 Mbps.

I feel like the router should be able to handle that full 225 from the modem and more. Only other things connected to router are a few WIFI devices such as iPhone and printer. Playing with the radio modes, N only, etc., under WIFI doesn't change anything.

Is my Airport defective with this speed being measured?


texts: I need to make my partitions into a single one after a failed bootcamp, how do i do this?

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I am a complete novice when it comes to macs. I recently tried to use bootcamp to run windows 10 and partition part of my hard drive. I used the bootcamp assistant and I followed all of the steps but when It came to the formatting bit whilst installing windows somehow it went tits up. Now I can't re-do bootcamp because of all of these partitions. i have tried disk utility but to no avail the '-' is always greyed out and I can't resize them using the partition pie chart. I have trawled the internet for days now trying to figure out a way to put them all back into a single partition to retry the whole bootcamp procedure. Its a 2015 27" 5k mac. It is is literally driving me insane.

I did go into diskutil in terminal but I couldn't workout how to copy and paste the text from that into here!!!

Any help would be appreciated massively.


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I recently bought a second hand MBP early 2013 15' quad core. Everything seems fine so far except 2 cpu died events I experienced.

The first one is happened last week when I exported a 2 minutes iMovie's video and today when I'm browsing a news website with heavy ads and ad video inside it.

The macbook suddenly fade to black and shutdown for few minutes, and this was happened suddenly and the fan was running at normal speed / slow. I got a iStat warning before it, that said CPU load over 50% for 10 seconds but the fan speed didn't increase.

This cpu die is not always happen. I'm still able to export iMovie's video and I open the same website daily, but I'm just worry about it.

Is it something normal? Can you guys give me a clue what is happened? Thanks!


texts: How can I tell when the iPhone is actively using GPS versus only using region monitoring?

texts: I run Google Latitude on an iPhone 4 with background updates turned on.  How can I distinguish between when it's actively grabbing the location vs when it's using region monitoring to wait for the phone to move?  As far as I can tell, both icons look the same in the status bar.


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I've been using Apple's screen sharing tool to connect from a client to an Xserve for a while and it's just occurred to me that doing so might be quite a bad idea!

I know VNC is inherently insecure and that it is possible to tunnel it over SSH, but does Apple's Screen Sharing tool use any secure transport protocol? If not then surely I've been typing in server passwords on my client and they have been transported over the network in plain text.

Anyway, I now use the Server Management tools and SSH when possible, but I'm sure there will be times when I still need to use VNC.


texts: How to sort mail.app conversations by subject rather than sender?

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Most of my work-related mail goes through a ticketing system. Whenever a customer or me or any of my colleagues sends a mail or replies to a mail, the ticketing system sends a copy of said message to my inbox.

When 'threading' or 'sort on conversation' was on in Snow Leopard's Mail.app, it used to group all mail with the same subject. This way I could easily spot when a ticket was not yet replied to be my or one of my colleagues.

Lion's mail.app seems to behave differently and seems to sort mail by Sender rather than Subject. Does anyone know of a way to make Lion sort conversations by subject rather than sender?

Right now it's very annoying:

You would expect all mails with subject test to be grouped together, but they aren't. I would expect that it respects the "In-Reply-To" header.

These are the relevant headers of the first mail with subject [#VZB-74211-323] test:

Message-Id: <DDEF4B55C73B450B8E5F90B15A4FC117@banteng.be>

Second mail:

Message-Id: <1342771382.500910b676bc9@cerb5.openminds.be>
In-Reply-To: <DDEF4B55C73B450B8E5F90B15A4FC117@banteng.be>

third:

Message-Id: <1342771377.500910b107688@cerb5.openminds.be>
In-Reply-To: <DDEF4B55C73B450B8E5F90B15A4FC117@banteng.be>

fourth:

Message-Id: <003CDBAA3CF04F8D8947DE9294E0E314@banteng.be>
In-Reply-To: <1342771382.500910b66b047@cerb5.openminds.be>

Surely there MUST be a hack somewhere or some plist to edit to fix this?


texts: I assigned 2 disks to TimeMachine and when 1 goes missing, TM complains, but it should seamlessly continue to use the 1 that is present?

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On the same USB-3.0 bus (MB-Pro Catalina, 10.15.6), I always have a 1-td HDD and sometimes have a 2-tb HDD, which is split into 1-tb partitions.
Time Machine is set to back-up to both the 1-tb HDD and 1 of the 1-tb partitions.
::problem:: MacOS sometimes unmounts the 2-tb HDD drive when I put it to sleep. Sometimes I leave the 2-tb disconnected for a few days because the extra TM bkup and data on the 2nd 1-tb partition is not that important. But this makes TM complain. Yet I thought TM should seamlessly just continue to use the drive it can find if it can't find the second drive in a dual drive configuration? The constant warnings make me want to change TM to only use the one reliable 1-tb drive.
I'd really like for the 2-tb drive to stop unmounting. It is 5-years old, has been used extensively, and kept immobile on my desk.


texts: Swapping the dollar sign for a euro, American english keyboard

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I know that the keyboard shortcut to use for the Euro symbol is Option + Shift + 2. But I'm now using the $ key, why can't I just re-assign or reprogram the Shift + 4 key combo to give me €?

Does anyone know a way this can be done?


texts: Booting into Windows gives "Operating System not found"

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I just upgraded my Macbook Pro from Snow Leopard to Lion, and now when I boot into Window 7 using Bootcamp I get the error "Operating System not found."

Following the advice at http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20090187-263/boot-camp-partitions-not-working-after-installing-os-x-lion/,
I found that I had MacFUSE installed, so I uninstalled it.  The problem still persists.

That article also suggests the possibility that there could be too many partitions on my drive, but Disk Utility says there are only two: Bootcamp and my OSX partition.

I can still access the files on my Windows partition through Finder.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?


texts: Safari 6 keeps suddenly crashing on Lion

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I upgraded Safari to version 6 on OS X Lion 10.7.4
The browser is really fast but with one problem, it keeps suddenly crashing and closing.  Relaunching it wont prompt with the usual suspects: "Ignore" and "Report to Apple".


texts: iCloud Contacts and iPhone Contacts show different birthdays!

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tl;dr;
Supposedly-synchronized Contacts on iCloud and on my iPhone seem to have serious differences. How can I avoid this?
Background: I have extremely little Apple experience. I've been on Android forever and am trying to switch, but am frustrated at nearly every turn.
I exported all my carefully-maintained Google contacts to a .VCF file and imported them into the web iCloud interface. The intent was to do this one time and abandon Google Contacts forever. The new iCloud contacts seemed to be okay on the web interface, except it said something like "20 of your contacts couldn't be imported". I couldn't figure out which ones, nor why they didn't import. (So any help there would be great.) Then, later when it synced with my new iPhone, I noticed some of the fields didn't import properly. For many of the contacts, their birthday became "February 7, 506713" on the iPhone. Others simply don't have the birthday field when they should have. I looked at the source VCF file, and everything looked correct there. I looked on iCloud web interface Contacts, and the "February 7, 506713" birthdays were correct there.
Searching the web for answers didn't seem to help. I found many folks have an off-by-one (or two) days issue with synchronized dates. I think I am also seeing this issue, as my wife's birthday is moved two days earlier and called our "Anniversary". This is seriously aggravating.
I want to just import all my contacts and work correctly. I don't want to go through many hundreds of contacts by hand to verify every field. Any suggestions help. How do I overcome iCloud showing the right date and iPhone showing "February 7, 506713"?
It's a fully-upgraded (as best I can tell) iPhone 12.


texts: How to make Mac's mouse icon to be left hand friendly?

texts: I'm left handed and want to have a mouse icon that pointed to top right corner instead of to left. In Windows I've made my own mouse theme to achieve that. Then how about Mac?


texts: my keyboard has randomly changes the cmnd2 shortcut from @  to changing to the second tab open. until now it was all working perfectly. the computer is quite old but is working perfectly and I do remember something similar happening to me previously and can't seem to recall how I changes it back and cannot find any answer that is quite it online. does someone have any knowlege of what should I do?


texts: Applescript for multiple find/replace using separate masterlist

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I am trying to create a script to extract a list of data from column A on document 1, and then use columns A & B on document 2 as multiple find/replace data.

Everything works in so far as grabbing the data required but I don't understand how to write the script to do the find/replace. I want it to run through the entire list from document 1 whilst referencing the first row of the find/replace list (document 2), and then to do the same with row 2, and so on until it reaches the end of document 2.

You will see how I have tried to execute this at the bottom but I don't understand how this should be written. I'd really appreciate some pointers here if anyone would care to help me.

-- set paths

tell application "Finder"

set folderpath to folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Will:Desktop:Data1"
set filePath to first file of folderpath as alias
set folderpath2 to folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Will:Desktop:Data2"
set filePath2 to first file of folderpath2 as alias

end tell

-- grab data

set fileRefr to (open for access filePath)
set theText to (read fileRefr)
set textList to paragraphs of theText
close access fileRefr

set uniqueList to {}
set dataList to every paragraph of (do shell script "cat " & quoted form of POSIX path of filePath & " | awk -F'" & tab & "' 'BEGIN{getline}{print $1}'")
set uniqueList to uniqueList & dataList

set fileRefr2 to (open for access filePath2)
set theText2 to (read fileRefr2)
set textList2 to paragraphs of theText2
close access fileRefr2
set theCNT to (count of textList2) - 1

set uniqueList2 to {}
set dataList2 to every paragraph of (do shell script "cat " & quoted form of POSIX path of filePath2 & " | awk -F'" & tab & "' 'BEGIN{getline}{print $1}'")
set uniqueList2 to uniqueList2 & dataList2

set uniqueList3 to {}
set dataList3 to every paragraph of (do shell script "cat " & quoted form of POSIX path of filePath2 & " | awk -F'" & tab & "' 'BEGIN{getline}{print $2}'")
set uniqueList3 to uniqueList3 & dataList3

-- find/replace data

repeat with i from 1 to count theCNT
set uniqueList to (replace_chars of uniqueList from (item i of uniqueList2) to (item i of uniqueList3))
end repeat


texts: MacBook is sleeping despite being set to "never" sleep

texts:
My 13" MacBook (late 2006) is set to never sleep but after about 3 hours the whole computer still goes to sleep.

Lid is always UP.
Power Adapter is plugged in and indicator light is green when battery is 100%.
Recently upgraded to Mac OS 10.6.8 and all system software is up to date.

Here are my exact settings...

System Settings -> Energy Saver ->

Computer Sleep: Never
Display Sleep: 15 minutes
Put the hard disks to sleep when possible:  NOT checked
Wake for Ethernet:  NOT checked
Automatically reduce brightness before display sleep: checked
Startup automatically after power failure:  NOT checked

(please ignore the "battery charge: 94%", it's only because I'm composing this question while using the battery)

I recently installed Simon for monitoring uptime of websites.  I cannot allow the computer to sleep since it stops the software monitor.  Exactly after three hours of inactivity, the MacBook goes to sleep so then Simon stops.  The console confirms sleep mode.  I can wake it without a problem but it's frustrating to see that my monitoring was interrupted for many hours by this sleep bug.

It's like it thinks it's set to sleep after 3 hours despite it being clearly set to "never".

So where is this thing stuck?  Is there some cache or plist file I need to blow out?  Troubleshooting this is very difficult since I essentially have to wait another three hours to see if I fixed it.

Any shove in the right direction appreciated.

As per comments, this is the result of pmset -g from Terminal:

MacBook:~ myusername$ pmset -g
Active Profiles:
Battery Power       1
AC Power        -1*
Currently in use:
 lidwake    1
 autorestart    0
 halfdim    1
 sms        1
 hibernatefile  /var/vm/sleepimage
 disksleep  0
 sleep      0
 hibernatemode  3
 ttyskeepawake  1
 displaysleep   15
 acwake     0
 womp       0


texts: How can I keep Safari from re-opening my tabs from my last session?

texts:
When I re-open Safari on my Mac Mini, it keeps opening the same tabs that were open before it was quit (or before the Mac OS X was switched off). The result is that it takes too much time to be operative, especially when I restart my Mac.

In the preference panel, the "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" option is already disabled, but Safari keeps opening the tabs open in the last session. I checked also in my MacBook, which is running Mac OS X 10.7.2, and that option doesn't change the Safari's behavior I describe in this question.

Is there any way to force it not to open all the tabs? I looked at its preferences, but I have not found anything that could help me. Is there any other way to disable this feature?


texts: Can an app in iOS 8 access Location Services even when it is not running?

texts:
I have the Kohl's app installed on my iPhone running iOS 8.1.  I notice that whenever I enable Location Access for that specific app, it starts pinging my location immediately, based on the location services icon in the status bar, and the purple location services icon next to the app in the settings.  This takes place even though the app is not running, and I have Background App Refresh turned off for that app, although it shouldn't matter as it is not even running in the background.

Is this expected behavior?  If so, is there a way to only enable location access only when I'm running the app?


texts: Do linked files located on FileVault partition make the encrypted file readable?

texts:
Question
Does a link, symlink, or macOS finder aliases to a file/directory located on a version 1 FileVault partition/container/volume to a partition not under the FileVault coverage allow unencrypted access?
 # Example
/Volumes/UnEncryptedVolume/Reference-To-Unlocked-FileVault-File     ->   ~/THE_FILEVAULT_FILE

Constraints

APFS formatted SSD
Permissions are not restrictive permissions on Database volume. All Users & Staff grouped Users can access it.
User is logged in, unlocking the FileVault volume
Link is either soft or hard, has standard permissions
Finder created alias has default permissions
Original file is again, standard permissions even if under $HOME (Change those UMASKS newcomers! :))
Original file is on the FileVault container
Database is on the same Disk, but a different container.
Disk is APFS formatted (composed of containers, not volumes or partitions, apfs is friggin' confusing IMO)

File System Structure
My Internal SSD partition structure (not a OEM SSD for those curious)
+-- Container disk1
|   ====================================================
|   APFS Container Reference:     disk1
|   Size (Capacity Ceiling):      999995129856 B (1000.0 GB)
|   Capacity In Use By Volumes:   314911416320 B (314.9 GB) (31.5% used)
|   Capacity Not Allocated:       685083713536 B (685.1 GB) (68.5% free)
|   |
|   +-< Physical Store disk0s2
|   |   -----------------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Physical Store Disk:   disk0s2
|   |   Size:                       999995129856 B (1000.0 GB)
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk1s1
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s1 (Data)
|   |   Name:                      MacOS - Data (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               /System/Volumes/Data
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         138089828352 B (138.1 GB)
|   |   FileVault:                 Yes (Unlocked)
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk1s2
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s2 (Preboot)
|   |   Name:                      Preboot (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               Not Mounted
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         80568320 B (80.6 MB)
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk1s3
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s3 (Recovery)
|   |   Name:                      Recovery (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               /Volumes/Recovery
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         525770752 B (525.8 MB)
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk1s4
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s4 (VM)
|   |   Name:                      VM (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               /private/var/vm
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         3222294528 B (3.2 GB)
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk1s5
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s5 (System)
|   |   Name:                      MacOS (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               /
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         11236782080 B (11.2 GB)
|   |   FileVault:                 Yes (Unlocked)
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk1s6
|       ---------------------------------------------------
|       APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s6 (No specific role)
|       Name:                      Database (Case-insensitive)
|       Mount Point:               /Volumes/Database
|       Capacity Consumed:         161548357632 B (161.5 GB)
|       FileVault:                 No
|


texts: How to restore Quick Look for plain text .txt files?

texts:
I was recently installing/uninstalling/re-installing some third-party Quick Look extensions (brew cask install qlstephen among others).  When all the dust had settled everything worked well except Quick Look for .txt files no longer works (I get the default Dear Kate letter).  Quick Look for .rtf files works fine.

By the way, the qlstephen extension is working OK for files without file extensions.  I suspect that problem arose during the uninstalling/re-installing of everything.  I'm running High Sierra.

Any suggestions for getting Quick Look working for plain text .txt files?


texts: Sshfs or its substitute in Apple products?

texts: I instructs my Apple friend to get Sshfs, i.e. to mount an outside target, to home -directory but he cannot find sshfs for Mac. Dose there exist some substitute or some Apple-compiled version for Sshfs? If it exists, how can my friend install it?


texts: How to minimise the risk of using a MacBook Pro 2015 recalled due to battery faults

texts:
My MacBook 2015 pro Retina 15'' has to be recalled by Apple. The reason is that its battery may be a fire hazard; eg macromors. Apple said the repairs can take two-three weeks. Because of my work, I absolutely can't have this interruption during the next month. (I will get the MBP fixed in a month's time.)

Question: If I must use my MBP, how can I minimise the battery risks?

I plan to do these:

Shut down and unplug when not using
Have a CO2 fire extinguisher nearby
Only use the MBP plugged in to the mains, and not from the battery
Constantly monitor the fan speeds and the battery/CPU temperatures and shut down when they spike

Would these work?  Or should I do something else instead or in addition?


texts: What is the actual situation of "RTF_PRCLONING",come from netstat -rn

texts: i know "RTF_PRCLONING"  explain is "Protocol-specified generate new routes on use",But I also want to know its specific use situation？When will the route records using this flag be added and deleted？If you know, please let me know. Thank you


texts: How to sync Google Photo from phone to mac?

texts:
As of July 10, that's changing. Google says that Drive sync was causing confusion with users, so Photos will no longer include an option to sync with Google Drive.

Is there any idea for seamless way to sync?

some of my search

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3407780/google-photos-backup-drive-auto-sync.html


texts:
On iOS 10, when you go to select a wallpaper, you can select live photos. Then on the preview screen, there is a segmented control that allows you to choose from:

still
perspective
live

However, "still" is preselected and I can't tap on perspective or live. Tapping on the segmented control animates the live photo but it doesn't select what you are tapping. I have an iPhone 7 running iOS 10.0.3.

Is this due to some other setting or is it a really nasty bug? Force-quitting settings didn't help.


texts: Transferring file from Windows to iPhone through iTunes?

texts:
A friend has a Windows 8 laptop and needs to copy a text file from the laptop over USB to her iPhone running iOS 7.

On the Windows side, I upgraded iTunes to the latest and greatest. When plugging the phone into the laptop, a window pops up prompting the user to sync their picture files, to which we agreed.
So it looks like everything works hardware- and software-wise. Incidently, the two Apple-related items in Device Manager are displayed correctly (ie. no exclamation point).

However, even after following this article, I can't figure out how to copy a text file from Windows to the iPhone: The apps installed on the iPhone aren't listed in iTunes.

Is there an Apple-newbie article that explains how to do this?

Thank you.

Edit: Should I forget about iTunes and go for iExplorer instead?

Edit : problem solved. Turns out the USB cable and/or the USB port used was a bit flaky, which explains why the iPhone would or wouldn't be accessible in Windows. This, combined with this first use of iTunes which caused us from not knowing how to proceed to transfer/copy a file from Windows to the iPhone. Thanks Tetsujin.


texts: How can I open a single app by an unidentified developer without allowing all

texts:
I know to secure safety it is now not allowed anymore to open apps that were not downloaded from the mac app store.

But surely there is a workaround for this to open an app that you know is 'good' but just isn't in the app store.
Preferably allowing only that app and not allowing all downloaded apps to be opened.

How do I open an app that is not downloaded from the app store in mountain lion?


texts:
As I understand there is no official software to work with HTC phone on the mac.
So how can I manage my phone contacts, create backups of my phone and so on?


texts:
I sync'd the contact of my old iPhone 3G with my yahoo mail contacts. That worked ok for while, then at some point all the the Yahoo contacts were duplicated (every contact appeared twice in my contacts list) on the iPhone. This was annoying, but I could not find a quick fix, so I lived with it.

Yesterday I bought a 4S and set up my various accounts and set up iCloud. Now the phone has 4 copies of my yahoo contacts. I don't know that point during the setup the contacts got duped(again).

Now I want to clean it all up. How?

Edit in response to comment. There are two copies of each contact in the yahoo account.and two copies in the iCloud account. And 4 copies in "all contacts".


texts: How do I stop the dock from moving to my second monitor?

texts:
I use an external monitor with my Macbook Pro, often to run Windows VMs with a task bar at the bottom.  While trying to use the task bar, I often accidentally summon the dock to the second monitor.  How do I stop the dock from moving?

Note: I'm aware of the option to go back to the old one-space-for-all-displays behaviour.  I don't want to go back to the old behaviour, I want to fix the new one.

Note, repeated: This isn't a duplicate of the question which asks why this happens.  I know why it happens, but there's nothing there that would help me to prevent it from happening.


texts: Spotlight Search on Yosemite indexes and shows iTunesLibrary.h and other files with ".h" extension

texts:
I am running Yosemite on My MacBook Air.

Spotlight settings are as below:

Even though I have not selected any option, it still shows ".h" files in result. Check below image for reference.

As seen in above image, there is iTunesLibrary.h file in search results.

How to stop Spotlight from indexing those ".h" files? and how to remove those ".h" files from search results?


texts: Can't open my mac after installing windows using bootcamp

texts:
My macbook pro isn't working well after I installed windows 8.1 using bootcamp. It displays the blue screen, and get an error. Now there is only Windows option in startup, and it says that your PC need to repair.

I can't open either Windows, or Mac, and the big thing is there's no mac option on startup.


texts: How do I erase an encrypted TimeMachine drive on Mountain Lion if I've forgotten the password?

texts: My question is similar to this question. I have a USB drive that contains an old encrypted backup. I don't remember the password and don't care about loosing the backup - I just want to be able to use the drive. When I select the volume on the left, I only see two tabs: "First Aid" and "Partition". I don't see an "Erase" tab.


texts:
I'm running

iTunes 12.9.5.5 on macOS 10.14.6
iOS 12.4 on iPhone 8

How do I reset the sync settings on iPhone?

What I have tried:

General > Reset > Reset All settings (this doesn't reset the sync settings to iTunes.)


texts: How to access Console Device log in macOS via terminal

texts: macOS has Console app to view different logging activities. Console has a group Devices in the top left corner with the mac itself and connected devices such as iPhone. I would like to access mac device log via terminal. I need it to check logs of remote mac server without TeamViewer and any GUI interactions to do it faster using ssh. Is it possible?


texts: Can I change an application's listed category in the Finder?

texts:
In the Finder, the Applications directory has an option to sort by "Application Category," which splits apps into groups like Productivity, Social Networking, Music, etc.

I have a number of apps listed under "Other" which I would like to assign to one of these other less-generic categories. Is it possible to change this? I looked in the Get Info window and don't see anything about the category listed.


texts: Mac Pro (5,1 - Mid 2010) + Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter + DVI Monitor = blank LCD

texts:
I just received a new 2.8 Ghz Mac Pro with an ATI 5770. I have one LCD connected to the DVI port which is working fine. I have another DVI LCD connected over a mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter to one of the mini DisplayPort ports. This mini DisplayPort to DVI LCD doesn't register at all.

I've tried three different models of LCDs. System Profiler simply says "No Display Connected." I have tried restarting numerous times and the only other possible solution I've read is to reset the PRAM. I'd like to know if that's actually worth my time or if I'm missing some other configuration change that's necessary.


texts: Multiple user iCloud accounts on same computer

texts:
Mac iMac and iCloud is 2TB using up about 1.4TB. I'm at my partners for a while and trying to use her MacBook Air 128GB. When I set up a new user account under my iCloud account it started to populate her MacBook Air till it's totally full and unusable.

Whats the best way to use her MacBook Air and still have access to my stuff without (over)filling the drive?


texts: F11 key doesn't work for "Show launchpad", no idea why

texts:
I am trying to set F11 as a key for opening Launchpad (I have a Mac with Magic Keyboard, and I never use F11 and F12 (I use F1-F10 for Unix utilities) - so I want to map one for Launchpad and another for mission control).
The problem is that it just never registers (nothing happens after I press it).
Here are my settings:
I have set F11 to "Show Launchpad" action, and there are no conflicts:

I have set F keys as standard function keys:

F11 is disabled in Mission control, only F12 is set there.

Any idea why F11 doesn't do anything for me?
EDIT: It might be a weird hackintosh problem:

I tested this on my Macbook - it works there on both built-in keyboard and Magic Keyboard 2.
But when I connect the same Magic keyboard to my Hackintosh, only F12 key triggers something, but F11 doesn't. F11 works, though, I can press it to map the action to F11 in Keyboard settings, but then the created shortcut doesn't do anything.


texts: Is low power mode in iOS good for battery?

texts: Is always keeping 'low powered mode' on iPhone SE, running iOS 10.2.1 , good for battery health?


texts: OSX 10.11 incorrectly sees application as powerPC

texts:
I have built and successfully run an application on OSX 10.11. Then I decided to create a bundle for the app and launched it successfully.  Then I moved the bundle to the Applications folder and it did not start anymore displaying the popup:

  'You can’t open the application “CodeBlocks” because PowerPC applications are no longer supported'

Obviously this isn't a PowerPC application.  Renaming the app, copying it to other locations restarting the mac did not solve the issue.

I'm using:

  MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

How can I prevent this error from being thrown?


texts: Why does iOS 9 have different glyphs for some characters on keyboard vs. on screen?

texts:
With the new San Francisco font in iOS 9 (honestly, I had never paid attention to this in previous versions), I notice that, for some characters, the glyph that actually gets put on the screen after pressing the corresponding key on the keyboard is different from the glyph on the keyboard itself.

This happens, for example, with the apostrophe, as you can see from this screenshot.

Does this happen for a reason?


texts: New user account PostgreSQL is created on its own

texts: After downloading PgAdmin4 on my MacBook, a new user account "PostgreSQL" was created without my knowledge and with a password that I don't know. Is this normal?


texts: Trying to understand how podcast syncing works in iOS 6

texts:
I noticed that in iOS6 I can't listen to podcasts in iTunes, but only in the new podcast app.
What is troubling me:

The play-count, played/unplayed status, or progress, of podcasts I
listen to via the podcast app don't update in iTunes.
I have subscribed to several podcasts inside of the podcast app with syncing turned on.
But I don't see these show up in the iTunes podcast section.

This must be a bug, or Apple has completely separated iTunes podcasts from podcasts on iOS6 devices. If that's the case, I'm not sure what the 'syncing' option in the podcast app settings is for.
How do I fix this?

Edit for clarification: I found that the only meta-data value that wasn't syncing was the "Last Played" date, which was caused a smart playlist dependent on that value not to work. So that may be a bug. Otherwise, I'm still don't understand why iTunes isn't syncing with the podcasts I subscribe to via the podcast app.


texts:
My friends 2008(ish) era macbook pro died recently but the SATA HDD is fine, I have removed it and plugged it into a Windows 7 machine. I can see in Paragon Partition Manager that the drive is a GPT Hard Disk, how do i go about viewing the files on Windows? The PC I have connected it to has dualboot ubuntu, would it be easier to access the files from linux? Any freeware suggestions? I have tried googling for a few tutorials but these tend to focus on a dead HDD.

Thanks.


texts: What password does OSX Server use when importing SSL certificates?

texts:
I am migrating my website away from my home OSX server to a virtual Linux server, hosted within a proper data centre, and I have a problem with the SSL certificates I imported into OSX Server.

It appears to have stored the certificates into /etc/certificates however I don't know the passphrase it used to encrypted the key file.  It's not my normal account/keychain password, so I've no idea what passphrase it, or I, chose at the time.

(I have tried to get the original SSL certificates but that's not proving so easy either, but might be my only hope).

Could someone tell me how this works so I can untangle myself and use the certificates on the new website please?


texts: How to modify a Launch Daemon permanently under OS X El Capitan?

texts:
I modified the default org.postfix.master.plist of postfix to run as a daemon, so it can send me e-mail whenever a local user receives a mail.

Default:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>org.postfix.master</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/usr/libexec/postfix/master</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>master</string>
        <string>-e</string>
        <string>60</string>
    </array>
    <key>QueueDirectories</key>
    <array>
        <string>/var/spool/postfix/maildrop</string>
    </array>
    <key>AbandonProcessGroup</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Modified:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>KeepAlive</key>
        <true/>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>org.postfix.master</string>
        <key>Program</key>
        <string>/usr/libexec/postfix/master</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>master</string>
        </array>
        <key>QueueDirectories</key>
        <array>
                <string>/var/spool/postfix/maildrop</string>
        </array>
        <key>AbandonProcessGroup</key>
        <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

However this file is under /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ so I had to disable SIP temporarily to modify the file. I read that after the next OS Update all my changes will be gone because of SIP. What can I do to make this permanent? Can I put my Launch Daemon under /Library/LaunchDaemons as a second one?


texts: Is it not possible to sort albums by artist on the iPad?

texts: So I recently picked up an iPad 2 and promptly loaded all my music onto it. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to have it display my albums grouped by artists like they are on iTunes.  Am I just missing something (probably obvious) or did Apple not bother to provide this functionality?


texts: Same iTunes Library between networked Mac and PC

texts:
I have a home network that contains computers with both Macs and PCs.  I'd like to use the same iTunes library on all of the machines, so I moved the library folder and all of the media to a network drive.

I updated the library on a Windows machine, but when I access the song on my Mac, it says that the file cannot be found.  This is because on Windows, the path was something like:

file://localhost/Z:/Music/Slayer/...

When my Mac asked me to locate the file, I checked the path and it reads something like:

/Volumes/Storage/Music/Slayer/...

I'm still pretty new to OSX, but I'm having a hard time finding a solution that allows me to use the same library on both my Mac and my PC.

I'd like to be able to update a library on any computer on the network and it updates the "shared" library, so I am able to sync my iDevice to any machine on the network.

How do I set up the network so the media file path can be the same on both my Windows and Mac machines?

Thank you.


texts: Screen Sharing app hangs on "Connecting..."

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014, running OS 10.12.1) and a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008, running OS 10.11.6) connected to the same home WiFi network.

I am trying to use the Screen Sharing app on the 13" MacBook to connect to the 15" MacBook. The target MacBook has both Screen Sharing and File Sharing enabled. I am able to successfully connect file sharing using Finder > "Connect As..." and the name and password for the admin account on my 15" MacBook.

When I try to connect Screen Sharing, using either the "Share Screen..." option in Finder, or by entering the "Connect To:" field, the Screen Sharing app will hang on the "Connecting..." screen.

I have tried restarting both computers, but the issue persists. I have also attempted some suggestions for killing related processes, but these seemed to be for older OS versions since I was unable to find "NetAuthAgent"

I have tried different combinations of Screen Sharing preferences (ie: Scaling and Quality) which didn't change anything. When I do manage to connect, if I turn scaling on, the Screen Sharing window will go grey and I will need to reconnect to see the remote desktop again.

Of note: When the "Connecting..." window shows, the display on the target 15" MacBook Pro wakes from sleep, but the Screen Sharing app on the 13" Macbook will remain stuck and never display the remote desktop.


texts: Apple bootable drive converted to fffffff type and getting issue of resource busy

texts:
In tried the situation on OS volume shows as type 'FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF'
But still getting error of resource busy. Even in tried diskutil umount disk0s2 still same error.
Please help.


texts: Is there any virtual machine which works on a PPC Mac running 10.4?

texts: Is there any virtual machine which works on a PPC (non-Intel) Mac 10.4? I am killing myself finding a virtual machine for Mac 10.4. Everything that I found needs an Intel Mac.


texts:
I do various development work on a 13" 2015 RMBP with 8 GB of RAM and a dual core i5, always using the latest MacOS. The experience is painful, to say the least. Every IDE's UI is laggy, and Xcode is the worst. Finder is laggy. Chrome is laggy. Even when memory pressure is green and CPU is well under 100%, everything is still slow as molasses.

Of course, at any given time, I really need to have open at least two IDEs, multiple web browsers, multiple VMs, terminals, Finder sessions, iMessage, Slack, etc. But that would bring the system to a crawl, so I have to incur the cost of opening/closing these as needed.

Is it possible to get a smooth Mac experience under my ideal workload of having everything open at once? Is there any model of Mac that can handle that? Or is MacOS just fundamentally slow?


texts: First click not working after short period of inactivity

texts:
OS: OS X 10.7.5
Hardware: Logitech G400s

I'm having a problem with my mouse clicking. I am pretty sure this is not a hardware issue but a software one. The mouse is not registering the first click after just a few (about 5) seconds of inactivity (not clicking). If I click continuously or  every 4 seconds every single click will register.

I previously had this problem before and disabling "enable access for assistive devices" from the Universal Access settings seemed to fix the problem. This seems to have no effect now. I have restarted multiple times and the problem persists.

Any help is very much appreciated as this problem is infuriating to say the least.

EDIT: So I narrowed the problem down a little. If steam + chrome are open at the same time the problem persists. BUT if either/both of them are closed then clicking works as normal. It's very strange behaviour..


texts: Mac Pro 5,1 (Mid-2010) not seeing airport card with Mojave

texts:
So, this is very strange:  I have a drive with Mountain Lion on it, and when I boot that drive, I have WiFi (using the installed Airport card).  I just made a clean install of Mojave and when I boot onto that drive the WiFi icon is grayed out and when I click on it, it says "no WiFi installed?"
How is it that WiFi works on Mountain Lion, but not on Mojave?


texts: How to downgrade iPhone 4S from iOS 9.0.1 to iOS 7.1.2?

texts:
(Please read the whole question before flaming me)

Today I updated my iPhone 4S (Model A1387) to iOS 9.0.1 from 8.4. Since the Wifi doesn't work with either of these versions I decided to downgrade the software to iOS 7.1.2.

After I downloaded myself a IPSW-File for the iPhone 4S and tried to [Shift]+Update my phone in iTunes I received the error code 3194.
After a quick web search I booted the iPhone into recovery mode and tried it again. After that I tried adapting my hosts file in Windows as showed on apples support page. This also didn't work.
I also tried downloading the I P S W-File from different providers and also tried to use a third party tool called "The Firmware Umbrella". Then I found out, that recovery mode is not enough and I have to go in DFU mode.

Since the black screen is an indicator of the DFU mode I was sure that it will work this time, since the DFU mode seems to be some kind of ultimate firmware override mode, but after hours of effort I'm still stuck with iOS 9 and nothing has worked out to bring me back to iOS 7.1.2.

So as the title states: How can I downgrade my iPhone 4S to iOS 7.1.2?
(As I am going to jailbreak this device afterwards, you can also show a direct way to load a jailbreaked firmware)


texts: How to know the date of photo/video taken after downloaded from icloud website?

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I got problem downloading icloud for my PC, so I access my icloud from icloud.com (mozilla browser). I want to free up my cloud storage, so I need to download all my photos and videos from icloud.

Problem #1: I need to select one by one the file, cannot select all.

Problem #2: After downloaded, I don't know when the photos/videos is taken. All properties is showing today's date. (media created, date created, date taken, date modified).

Is there any solutions to avoiding a PC web browser from not respecting the file metadata (location / EXIF / date taken) stored in iCloud or a solution to read that metadata from the file itself and fix the filesystem dates that Windows provides?


texts: Disk Images no longer show up in Finder's Sidebar

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I've been dealing with an issue for a very long time, I feel like it used to be a problem randomly, but at least for the last few months it's persistent. The Finder no longer lists mounted Disk Images (.dmg files) in the sidebar. Not for DMGs, nor external hard drives / external media.

The volumes are listed in Disk Utility, and I have resorted to using that to gracefully unmount the disk image. When a volume is mounted, it is possible to access it by it's /Volumes/<Volume Name> path.

In this screenshot you see Finder's Sidebar preferences. You can see that I have a DMG for Clementine open, and Disk Utility confirms that. But the volume isn't showing up on the sidebar. You can also see that the Devices list is expanded, listing my built in volume.

I've done some light searching of options to see if it could be controlled by a plist defaults setting, but I haven't found anything yet.

Why aren't mounted volumes showing up on the sidebar? How can I restore them in the list?

This problem began under Mavericks, and has persisted in Yosemite.


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Please help me figure out how to set a system wide PATH.....

I have upgraded svn to version 1.8.10 on osx 10.9

One of the required steps was adding the address of the current svn to the PATH.

export PATH=/opt/subversion/bin:$PATH

Doing it in he current terminal, it allowed me to see the svn --version as 1.8.10, but upon closing the terminal, the version reverted to 1.7

I read that I can add this line to ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile

These files do not exist on my mac

I created the .profile and added the line above. From terminal, now I can get the correct version. But I am required to read this version from a different program (my Qt project calls a command

system(svnversion -n)

Even though in terminal I can get the correct svn version, the command above still gives an error "This client is too old to work with the working copy..."

The directions i find online, like this, say I also have to modify the .bash_profile (which does not exist on my machine) or edit/add something inside the /etc/paths.d directory - mine is empty !

Please help - how do I add this path to the system PATH variable ? Considering that all the default places to add it are missing ? And make it work from other programs not just Terminal ?


texts: iPhone Gmail app push notifications not working

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Push notifications in Gmail app on my iPhone are not working properly anymore. I have the Primary only selected for my push notifications. For some reason I am getting notifications for the emails I don't care about in my primary inbox, and all of the email I actually care about in my primary inbox I am not getting notifications. Can I please get some ideas on how to fix this?

Are there any other good apps for getting push notifications for Gmail?


texts: After migration of a user to another Mac (Catalina to Big Sur, Intel to Apple Silicon) via Time Machine backup, user is stuck on login screen

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I setup my new MacBook Air M1 from scratch, just adding a new admin account. Then I connected my Time Machine backup disk from my older MacBook Air and used Migration Assistant to transfer my old admin account (which has a different name) to the new Mac.
This went successfully, but after restart I can not login with my migrated account. The password is accepted, but then the Mac is stuck at the login screen with a spinning process indicator and a notification about "Optimizing Your Mac". Nothing else seems to happen until I loose patience and restart.
Safe boot did not help. What can I do?


texts: Missing headers in macOS 10.15 (Catalina)

texts: What happened to header files after Catalina update? I am getting the error "assert.h:No such file or directory". In Mojave this issue was solved by using macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg package. Is there any such package for 10.15 or any other solution? Is anyone else facing this issue?


texts: Mac username & password for proxy settings keep resetting by itself

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I've a MacBook Pro Retina Display.

The username & password for the proxy settings for HTTPS keeps resetting by itself every few mins.

If I enable "Proxy server requires password" below & put in my username-password, after 2 or 3 mins, it'll automatically reset and the text fields becomes inactive.

As a result, the pop-up asking for username-password keeps coming back every few mins (which is very annoying).

However, this doesn't happen for the HTTP one.

How do I fix it?


texts: Contact names are gone, but still shown in Messages

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My iPhone 6's contact names are gone, but the numbers are still there.

However when I go to messaging and add a new message and type for a contact by name, all the contacts show up with both the name and the message. Therefore I know that the iPhone still has the names stored somewhere, because it shows up when searching in the messaging search.

What can I do to get all my contact names back, because I know that they are stored somewhere.

I don't have any backups, but I shouldn't need any, because my device seems to have the contact names somewhere, as I see them when I add a message and search.


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I have used rsync for many years between linux filesystems without any problem with a very deterministic behavior. Now I try to use it on mac and experience some problem that some files (a small proportion of my 600000 files) gets copied over and over.

Here is what I tried:

Moving from MacOS rsync 2.6.9 to rsync 3.1.3 (from brew) did not solve the problem.
Giving some large time interval in order to avoid possible clock skew did not resolve the problem.
I saw in some other answers that a possible problem is the utf-8 vs utf-8-mac characters. I understand that it can be a problem but I am ready to accept ascii filenames for the purpose of having linux and mac coexisting. The files in question have ASCII file names.

The weird think about it is that this unexpected behavior is completely deterministic. The same file ListDebug/ForDEBUG gets copied over and over. Yet the file ListDebug/ForDEBUG2 which is next to it was not copied over and over.

Any indication on the origin of this strange behavior would be much welcomed.

EDIT: I found some more info when copying only the directory ListDebug.
When I run rsync -vadi -e ssh remote:ListDebug . I get

mathieu@MacBook-Pro: rsync -vadi -e ssh remote:ListDebug .
>f.st......... ListDebug/ForDebug
mathieu@MacBook-Pro: rsync -vadi -e ssh remote:ListDebug .
>f.st......... ListDebug/ForDEBUG
mathieu@MacBook-Pro: rsync -vadi -e ssh remote:ListDebug .
>f.st......... ListDebug/ForDebug

Thus there is some oscillation between one print and another. That really sounds strange and a bug.

EDIT2: The file ListDebug/ForDebug gets copied but become named ListDebug/ForDEBUG and the file ForDEBUG never gets copied.

EDIT3: If I change the content of ForDebug/ForDEBUG to something standard like TEST1, TEST2 then the bug remains. On the other hand if I rename the files ForDebug/ForDEBUG to file1/file2 then the bug disappear. Ve


texts: How to go to new line in iTerm2 without executing command?

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Don't flag this as duplicate to answers that say append \ because I am not asking for line continuation.
I want something equivalent to Command .  from default terminal in ITerm2. I want to treat line as a comment.
Just want to go to a new line without executing. And I don't want to erase the command as well.
$ hello world
$ previous line was not executed and its still there without showing errors
$ ls -la


texts: How to install 'MySQL Utilities' using brew or brew cask?

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I installed MySQL server and client using brew. I installed MySQL Workbench with brew cask, but I don't find MySQL Utilities (something new?).

How to install that using brew or brew cask?


texts: 'Could not validate or distribute application to App Store' in App Submission

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We have developed an iOS universal application and are trying to upload it to the App Store.

From the Organizer window, when we try to validate or distribute the application, it loads for a long time at the login page and then gives a "request timed out" error. It's happened for the last 10 days.

How can we upload the application to the App Store?


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I have an app on my iPhone , that i am trying to open . Lynda.com.
I Tap the Lynda.com app on your device to launch it.
Ignore the user name and password fields on the login screen and instead tap on the button labeled web portal log in
On the web portal access screen, enter < company name >in the URL box.
I am  directed to Usher ( my company's internal authentication )

After successful authentication , i had to be redirected back to Lynda.com App ..

This works on several of my coworkers phone , but on my phone after the authentication is successful I am still on Lynda.com safari browser .

Things i tried:

Updating my IOS on phone to the same version that a current working phone is on ( latest update 9.3.3)
deleting safari cache
deleted and reinstalled Lynda.com app and retried ..

Any suggestion?

Indu


texts: Using locate.updatedb doesn't work in Lion

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A week ago I upgraded to Lion from Snow Leopard. I want to use the locate command, but the locate database has not been built yet. So I tried running

sudo launchctl -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist

The plist file only points to /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb and I keep getting the following error in syslog su: pam_acct_mgmt: error in service module
When I try running locate.updatedb directly I get the same error in syslog.

I could handle not using locate, but what bugs me the most is that I don't know what's causing the issue.


texts: Installing a HP Color LaserJet 1600 on MacOS 10.6.4

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I'm trying to install a HP Color LaserJet 1600 on MacOS 10.6.4 with little luck. The printer works fine from my Windows machines. HP doesn't support the MacOS for this printer by default so I followed the instructions from this forum post: http://macosx.com/forums/hardware-peripherals/302806-hp-lazer-1600-printer-driver-mac.html.

The post offers several solutions but I followed the instructions from whiskynwhisky and downloaded a Unix driver from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?nocydet5wml. The instructions included with the download were straightforward and I now have the driver installed and the printer in System Preferences. Unfortunately while jobs queue and dequeue they do not actually print. Are there other options to get this printer to work on my MacBook Air? Do I need to do something differently with the driver I already have installed?


texts: After latest iTunes (11.0) upgrade there is no sidebar where devices are supposed to appear. How do I rearrange the apps on my iPad2 via iTunes now?


texts: Is there a way to access the TOR network on iOS devices?

texts: What are my options for using TOR on an iPod Touch, either using something similar to the VPN settings, or through dedicated apps for browsing/email/RSS ?


texts: Using iPhone screen as a display monitor

texts: Has anybody come across somebody using iPhone hardware (intact/as is, or hacked, taken apart, disassembled. either way) to use the iPhone screen as a display monitor?


texts: Does OSX have a hidden "Device Manager" list like Windows?

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Back in the Windows world there was a Device Manager control panel that would list all the devices that were connected to your computer.

There was even an option to show "hidden devices", basically a list of items like thumb-drives, SD cards, etc. that were once connected to your PC.

I'm just curious if something like this exists in OSX? Is there a list of devices that are connected or ever were connected?


texts: How to let user specify name of new screenshot using Automator

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I'm trying to understand how to use 'Folder Actions' and/or Automator so that when I take a screenshot, it allows me to type in a name for the file as it stores it in the screenshot folder (which I've changed from the Desktop to a folder named 'screenshots' on the Desktop).  When I Ctrl-click the Folder and choose Folder Action Setup, it gives me a list of scripts, none of which do what I want, so I assume I have to write this script in Automator?

Using Automator, I start with the "Files and Folders" --> Get Selected Finder Items as my first step.  Then I tried "Files and Folders" --> Rename Finder Items, but this seems to be only about adding a date to the existing name.

I see I can use Automator -> "Ask for Text' to display a dialog to the user, but then how do I use that input to rename the file?


texts: Can you boot into recovery mode on an older iMac running a newer version of OS X (10.8)?

texts: I'm running OS X 10.8 on an iMac which is from 2008, and I can't seem to boot into recovery mode. Command-r doesn't do anything- the computer simply boots normally every time. Although OS X 10.8 certainly does support recovery mode, I'm wondering if the problem might be that I'm using an iMac that was built before the feature was added to OS x (it was added with 10.7 Lion in 2011, my iMac is from 2008). Is it possible that the hardware is preventing me from booting into recovery mode, or is it solely a feature of the operating system, and should work on older iMacs as well?


texts: Apple dev license expired - Renew(paying) or else?

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My paid apple dev license expired a year ago. In the meanwhile Xcode 7 came out with the option of testing locally on iOS devices without the need of a paid license.

I am now developing a Unity game that targets iOS devices. I build for iOS and open the Xcode project that returns this error:

  No code signing identities found: No valid signing identities (i.e.
  certificate and private key pair) were found.

I then suppose I would need to create certificates and related stuff, but if I access the apple dev portal I am presented with this:

What should I do at this stage to be able to test o local devices without paying?


texts: Adding a Google account in iMessage appears to be stuck

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I want to add a Google Hangouts / Talk account to iMessage. I am on OS X 10.12.3 (Sierra). After logging in to my Google account and after entering OTP, it brings me to a white screen that appears to be stuck. I already tried disabling OTP but it still gets stuck. I attached a screenshot.

Anybody seeing the same issue?


texts: This morning I was trying to send a text to my friend but it didn't say delivered on the bottom of it. I then tried to call her and all it did was ring for a long time before going to voicemail. Does that mean her phone is off? Am I blocked? Or the connection just sucks? This is the first time this ever happened, so I'm just trying to make sure I shouldn't be worried.


texts: My iPad Air 2 was working fine until yesterday. Then I turned it off for a while, and when I returned, I plugged my headphones in and typed in my passcode to go to the homescreen. However, the iPad froze before the homescreen loaded, so I switched off the iPad to restart it. Since I turned it off, I have been unable to get it to turn on again (the screen is black). I plugged it in and it made the "I'm charging" ding but the screen didn't turn on to show my lock screen. I clicked the on sleep/wake button and home button a few times but nothing happened. It was fully charged before this happened. What can I do to turn on my iPad again?


texts: How Do I Change The Colour Of The Apple Icon In The Menu Bar

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The apple icon in the menu bar is a black gradient (everything on this MacBook Pro seems to be a shade of grey!).

How can I change the icon to use the classic fruit colours instead?


texts: I am trying to email an html file with some charts in it and it doesn't show any of the content if I open in the Mail app on iOS except a bulleted point, whereas it is fine in a browser or any other email client. I tried downloading it but it still doesn't give the option to open it in Safari or any compatible app, where I think it would display properly.


texts: Terminal Crash on Macbook Air 2011, Mavericks

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I've managed to wreck my Terminal of my Air's OS X (10.9.5) while running a sudo command (sudo mv git /etc/paths.d) during git installation.
(Following https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4725389/how-to-get-started-with-git-on-mac)

Now I receive a continuous string of errors on every new Terminal window that I start, the first 3 lines of which are:

-bash: ???H??: command not found
-bash: command substitution: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `('
-bash: command substitution: line 4: `:??H?u?H??HH?BH?E??H?? ]?ffff.?:?U??E???

While the Terminal commands do go through after all the errors are listed, RStudio does not start, and the error pop-up states:

"Unexpected exception: Unmatched marking paranthesis ( or (. The error occurred while passing the regular expression fragment: ' "

This error stays even on reinstallation of RStudio (while R works correctly)

I've tried resetting the Terminal by deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist but the error still persists.

Really appreciate your help!

--EDIT---

echo $PATH is also gives a string of errors, starting with
    /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:????:O"::D?M?A??H?


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How does one connect using Terminal to a mounted Macintosh HD when there are 2 drives with the same name?

$ cd /Volumes
$ ls -l
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root      wheel     1 Jul 27 19:10 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxr-xr-x  35 robertsd  staff  1120 Jul 27 17:09 Macintosh HD 1

I am actually trying to access the 2nd (sick) Macbook's ~/Library via Thunderbolt cable with:

/Volumes/"Macintosh HD"/Users/robertsd/Library/

but this finds the 1st Macintosh HD.


texts: Mac OS internet Recovery mode stuck on progress option with globe animated screen

texts: It’s stuck on here. Anybody knows this answer ?


texts: Unresponsive Macbook Pro. Black Screen. Can't Reboot

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The other day my MacBook Pro just spontaneously halted during regular usage.
 The screen went black, aside from the mouse cursor appearing once every 10 seconds (exactly).

I don't seem to be able to move the cursor myself and upon trying to reboot the device (cold), I get the Apple Inc. logo / loading progress-bar combo, and then its straight back to being an unresponsive black screen with a cursor that flashes at ten second intervals.

Does anybody understand what's going on and/or how to fix the problem so that I can resume normal operation? Cheers.

Hardware:

MacBook Pro.
15" Retina Display.
Early 2013.
i7 Processor.
OS X Yosemite.
8GB RAM.
500GB Solid-State Storage.

Update:

SMC reset worked, but no change. NVRAM reset worked, i think (had to type firmware password) but it brought me to the recovery tools. Cannot boot into Safe-Mode or Single-User-Mode. Apple Diagnostics / Apple Hardware Test fails to launch. Recovery-Mode start-up brings me to the same screen as the NVRAM reset. Verbose-Mode also fails.


texts: Detach a tab in a fullscreen window in Chrome

texts: Is there a way to detach a tab in a fullscreen Chrome window? I find no way. When I need to do this, I have to un-maximize the window, drag to detach the tab, and then restore the window in fullscreen again. This is burdensome.


texts: lots of errors after sudo bash in terminal

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I want to run lots of terminal commands without having to place sudo in front of every command. I am running in macOS 10.10.5 in terminal.

I do sudo bash, but I'm getting lots of errors in my .bashrc script.

Here is my .bashrc file

mac $ cat .bashrc
#! /bin/bash
# ~/.bashrc: eyecuted by bash(1) for non-login shells.
#    see /usr/share/doc/bash/eyamples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
#    for eyamples
echo "in .bashrc but claims to be $0"
/usr/bin/id
which id
echo "the path is $(pwd)"
echo "\$PS1 variable is ${PS1}"
echo "\$SHELL variable is ${SHELL}"
echo -e "the path is: \n  $PATH"
echo $USER
echo "end of this script."

# how to display an existing function
# declare -f highlightExitCode
highlightExitCode()
    {
        exit_code=$?
        if [ $exit_code -ne 0 ]
        then
           echo -en " RC=${exit_code} "'\xf0\x9f\x98\xb1\x20'
        else
           echo -en ""
        fi
    }mac $

output form running "sudo bash. I have the feeling that bash isn't the running shell. When I have a case statement in .bashrc,  I got error messages about the case statement.  Why in the world cannot the /usr/bin/id command be found? :...

mac $ sudo bash
in .bashrc but claims to be bash
: No such file or directory
the path is /Users/mac
$PS1 variable is \u$(highlightExitCode) \$
$SHELL variable is /bin/bash
the path is:
  /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/Developer/Tools:/Users/mac/.nexustools
root
end of this script.
: command not found
: command not found
'ash: /Users/mac/.bashrc: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `
'ash: /Users/mac/.bashrc: line 18: `highlightExitCode()
bash: highlightExitCode: command not found
root #

I get the same results with "sudo -s":

 sudo -s
Password:
in .bashrc but claims to be /bin/bash
: No such file or directory
the path is /Users/mac
$PS1 variable is \u$(highlightExitCode) \$
$SHELL variable is /bin/bash
the path is:
  /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/Developer/Tools:/Users/mac/.nexustools
root
end of this script.
: command not found
: command not found
'ash: /Users/mac/.bashrc: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `
'ash: /Users/mac/.bashrc: line 18: `highlightExitCode()
bash: highlightExitCode: command not found
root #


texts: With Apple Watch 4, can I make phone calls without an iPhone?

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I'd like to use Apple Watch Series 4 as a standalone device to make phone calls.

On an Apple Watch Series 4 Cellular, can I make a phone call via cellular network without my iPhone, which I'd like to leave at home, connected to it via Bluetooth or WiFi?

And, can I additionally make phone calls via a Bluetooth headset which connects directly to the Apple Watch 4?


texts: Can I use the MacBook Air as a monitor when making a video with my Iphone. I wish to use my camera app on my Iphone 5s to record  how to videos and need to be able to see on a monitor at the same time. Is this possible


texts: I like the idea of being able to select a bunch of text and have it saved as an audio file and/or simply read back to me using OS X's default say functionality. It's almost like I can create my own instant personal audiobooks anytime I like. The problem is; the default voices, and more specifically, the robotic speech patterns, can get become quite unbearable to listen to. Is there a solution or an alternative available to overcome this problem? Thanks in advance.


texts: MacPro (mid 2012) crashing when put to sleep

texts: My 3.2 quad, 8gb ram, sierra 10.12.1 is crashing when it goes to sleep. Any ideas? Does it in safe mode, after PRAM reset, and with all peripherals disconnected.


texts: Overcoming autocomplete=Off in Safari 11

texts:
Does there anybody knows a script, that will make Safari ignore the autocomplete=off statement that prevents Safari from using Autofill on a web page input field? Like the old extension "Autocomplete Always On" for Safari 4 and 5. I find only a statement to this old extension (http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2010/06/10/safari-extension-autocomplete/).
I know the reasons for Safari's honoring that command, but for myself, I'd like to override it.

Greetings Andy


texts: How can I get OSX Mavericks to notice a DNS change in `/etc/hosts`?

texts:
A common way to "block" a website (eg, to eliminate it as a distraction) is to edit /etc/hosts and point the domain to the loopback address. Eg:

# Stop goofing off
127.0.0.1 youtube.com

On Mavericks, I find that changes like this are seemingly ignored by the OS; after editing the file (with sudo) and saving, the site that should be blocked still loads.

I've tried resetting my DNS cache as follows:

dscacheutil -flushcache
sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

But the site still loads.

How can I get OSX Mavericks to notice a change to /etc/hosts?


texts: My NTFS formatted external Toshiba drive is unreadable since update to Yosemite OS X 10.10.1

texts:
My portable external Toshiba hard drive is now unreadable on my MacBook Pro early 2008 aluminum computer. Since updating to Yosemite OS X 10.10.1, I cannot recover my files stored as Time Machine backups on my external drive. In the finder, it cannot be see under devices, however in Disk Utility, it is visible. The mounted partition is not viewable, however. My own native hard drive is 200 GB while the external hd is 500 GB. There's no creating a 500 GB image on my hard drive, in other words. I've tried the latest versions of Paragon NTFS and Tuxera NTFS with no avail.

How am I to recover my files, most importantly my Time Machine backups, from my external drive?

MacBook


texts: Where to complain to Apple about an premium reseller that is sending spam?

texts:
I have clear information that iStyle, a Premium Apple Reseller is sending commercial email messages to people who did not subscribed for that.

In addition to this, their "newsletter" contains no information regarding unsubscribing.

I want to send this complaint directly to Apple because this would be the only way that could put enough pressure on them to change their practice ASAP.


texts: I'm just editing a time lapse video I shot and have to change the exposure on about 1000 files. Is there a was in Apple Aperture to batch edit files?


texts: Is there a way to change the notification time for High Sierra or Mojave?

texts:
Found an old solution, but it doesn't work anymore:
http://osxdaily.com/2014/01/29/change-notifications-banner-time-mac-os-x/

This also doesn't work and only works on older OS:
How to change how long notifications stay on a Mac?


texts: How many hours a Thunderbolt Display has been powered on in its lifetime?

texts:
I'm interested in finding out how many hours a Thunderbolt Display has been powered on for in its lifetime.

How can I find out this information?


texts:
Note to moderators: this is not a login item. This is not a LaunchAgent. Please stop marking this as a duplicate. Thank you.
Apple has seemingly given 3rd party app developers more control over my OS than me, the user and owner of this computer. Can someone please explain how to disable 'modern login items'? The only work-around I know of currently is to edit the app bundle which did work with one app but I cannot guarantee will work with others, plus Apple will probably get POed that users have control over their Macs and close this loophole.


texts: How can I hide the path bar in the Mac Terminal

texts: There's a bar under the title bar of the Mac terminal showing the path the terminal is open at. I'm pretty sure this has recently appeared and I'd like to removed it. Is there a way?


texts: Since upgrading to Yosemite, the screen on our PowerPC desktop Mac is totally black and the light on the bottom right of the monitor flashes 'dot dash dot' repeatedly. We can't seem to find a solution having tried the obvious e.g switching off and on again. Please can anyone help?


texts: Sites blocked in /etc/hosts often doesn't work

texts:
I'm using a Macbook Pro as a productivity/work machine and have Facebook and reddit blocked with /etc/hosts:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0     localhost
0.0.0.0         facebook.com
::0             facebook.com
0.0.0.0         reddit.com
::0             reddit.com

This has worked for a while in all browsers, but recently stopped working in Firefox and Safari, and I can't figure out why. I was previously using 127.0.0.1, but when that stopped working I tried 0.0.0.0 instead, no dice.

I did install Avast just recently so I thought that could have been the problem, what with its web security features, but I uninstalled the browser add-on in Safari and Firefox and I was still able to access Facebook and reddit just fine.

And I just tried uninstalling the add-ons again, and restarted the computer. Now, Google Chrome can access Facebook, but not reddit. Firefox can't access either, and Safari can access both...

I'm using OS X 10.7.5.


texts: single track on disk showing as multiple iTunes entries, how to clean it up?

texts: If I 'show in finder' on the "duplicate" then both entries in iTunes point to the same track, how do I clean this up, preferably for the entire library as I've seen a few instances of this


texts: How to compress multiple folders into multiple zip files

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My folder structure is:
YEAR - MONTH - DAY - SUBFOLDERS
I want to compress each subfolder in the [DAY] directories. The solution from  here which is:
for i in */; do zip -r "${i%/}.zip" "$i"; done

works fine as long as I'm doing it from a [DAY] folder. But if I change it to:
for i in */*/; do zip -r "${i%/}.zip" "$i"; done

and run from a [MONTH] folder it still works, but the problem is that the .zip now contains an additional parent folder for each additional '/*' in the command when I unpack.
How can I run the command from a [YEAR] folder with '/* /* /*' while making sure that the .zip only contains the lowest level subfolder when I unpack?


texts:
For some strange reason when I try to type these keys:

Grave =  `  = keycode 50
Or shift + Grave = tilde = ~ = I don't know the keycode

I get different chars, for the grave I get this = §
and for the tilde I get this: ±

My keyboard is:

My PC is configured right as you can see in the image of the virtual kb:

I don't have a clue why! Someone how to solve this ?


texts: Screen brightness automatically adjusting in OS X Mavericks

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I just downloaded OS X Mavericks for my MacBook Pro. I don't know if this is a unique problem, but the screen brightness is automatically adjusting on it's own.

If I set it for about half the bars (50%), I'll be working, then notice that the screen is brighter than normal.  I'll check and it'll be at 75% or higher. Then, when I open the MacBook from sleep, sometimes the brightness is at 100% and sometimes it'll be 10%.

What gives? Is there a automatic adjust brightness setting on the new OS that I need to turn off?


texts: How to Rescue a Scratched CD/DVD on Mac OSX

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I have a scratched DVD and can't copy its content to my hard drive on Mac OSX. When trying to copy, I get error 36: "can't complete the operation because some data can't be read or written"

How can I fix this issue?


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Wireless networks listed in the dropdown menu from the menu bar have a quality indicator, shown by the number of "bars" in their icon (1-4).  On my 2012 MacBook Pro, this indicator seems to be 3 bars even for networks that cannot be used because they are too distant.  Even some 4 bar networks are unusable because of poor reception quality.

Is this normal?  Is there a way to adjust this so that the number of bars corresponds in a useful way to the quality of the service?


texts: Is users' discussion/chat on Jailbreaking allowed in an Apple-approved app?

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We have a 'web service' iPhone app where users can generate new content (which is publicly viewable) by uploading texts.

So, wanted to confirm: is it okay if they discuss/chat on benefits or on how to jailbreak?

Will the Apple take action once they find out? Or considering it to be user generated content, it will be ignored?

EDIT:
The app is not specifically meant for discussing Jailbreak. The app has many categories, including a "general chat" category, where it is being discussed by the users.


texts: Updating to macOS 10.12.6 says the "volume does not meet the requirements for this update"

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When I am trying to update macOS Sierra 10.12 to 10.12.6 update I have this problem:

  macOS Sierra Update can't be installed on this disk. The volume does not meet the requirements for this update.


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I recently had some issues with my computer and since I had a backup of all of my files I decided to just wipe the hard drive clean.  After, what I thought, was a full reset I am beginning to suspect I did something incorrectly.  What used to take about 15-20 seconds to go from powered off to using my computer now takes about 2 minutes.  Also, when my computer goes to sleep it says "My_Name_MacBook_Pro(2)" where as it used to just say "My_Name_MacBook_Pro".

I was hoping someone could give a possible explanation as to what I might have messed up in the factory reset process before I take it in to the Apple Store.


texts: How to remote control Youtube from an iPhone?

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I tried Chrome Remote Desktop but it's very difficult to use, specially because the Windows screen resolution is much higher than the phone's and it has a different orientation.

I remember Android used to have an app called Youtube Remote and I believe this functionality has been integrated into the main Youtube app, but it doesn't remote control Windows, only TVs.

Is there anything similar to the old Youtube Remote for iOS?


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I use Mozilla Thunderbird on OSX but I am considering getting an iPad. Thunderbird allows me to add any kind of custom email header. For me, this feature is essential.

Will I find an iOS app that can do the same?


texts: Is it possible to create a user with all admin rights *except* the ability to interrupt a particular process and access a particular folder?

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On Windows, it's not really doable. It is possible on linux with mandatory access control (for example). So you can have a web filter running, but the sudoer wouldn't be able to interfere with it (at least not without lots of effort, potentially rendering the system inoperable). At the same time a sudoer can modify virtually everything else.

What options would I have on OS X to do this?