texts: How to restore a hidden file in Time Machine?

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I accidentally deleted my ~/.zshrc file and I'd like to get it back from a Time Machine backup. When I enter Time Machine I can see my home directory, but all the dot-files in the directory are hidden in the Finder window displayed by Time Machine.

How can I restore a hidden file like ~/.zshrc using Time Machine?


texts: I'm trying to system restore my computer and want to keep my installed software

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I'm trying to system restore my computer (MacBook7,1 running 10.9.4), but want to keep Microsoft Office and Logic Express that I have installed. I do not have the disks to reinstall them, as I lost them during a move.

How can I restore my computer and keep my purchased software?


texts: What are alternative keyboard shortcuts for Mission Control if you use Xcode?

texts: As listed in this question Xcode Keyboard Shortcuts Conflicted there are a lot of Mission Control shortcuts that interfere with Xcode and I was wondering what are some good alternative keyboard shortcuts for Mission Control that don't interfere with Xcode or any other major apps.


texts: Installing RAM in a 27 inch late 2013 iMac

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I would like to increase the RAM in my iMac (it currently holds the standard 2 x 4GB cards with 2 empty slots). I have found some 16 GB cards for a good price and would like to increase the RAM to support my graphics programs. I know that it can only support 32GB (as per apple website).

Do you have to use all 4 slots if you increase the RAM?
Will it still work if I remove the 2 x 4GB cards and replace with 2 x 16GB cards?
Can I add just one 16GB card and leave one slot empty?

Thank you


texts: How to Sync Notes El Capitan to iOS 9 via IMAP

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Yes, I know Apple says this will no longer work. But it continues to work just fine on iOS 9 devices. Both iPad and iPhone iOS 9 devices continue to sync via my IMAP account. I enter or modify a note on iPad and I see the change on iPhone immediately, and vice versa. And my web mail client see the Notes folder with the updates. All sub-folders are visible in iPhone and iPad and in the web mail client...but not on Mac OS X.

How can I fix my Mac Notes configuration to reenable syncing via IMAP? I don't need the new features of Notes on El Capitan... I need basic synchronization of simple notes between all devices. I can't use iCloud or any other for-profit web service, I need to sync through a specific IMAP server for compliance reasons.

I've tried restoring the old Notes app, but Apple disallows this during the Time Machine restore function.

Thanks


texts: Unable to open app from unidentified developer

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I'm trying to install VMD on my MacBook. My operating system is macOS Mojave 10.14.5. When I try to install the software, I receive the following unidentified developer message:

But when I go to the System Preferences, I can't find any options to overrule it.

I was wondering why is this the case and how to fix it.


texts: Are there two separate network systems on a Mac? One that is controlled through the GUI in OS X, and one that is controlled through the Terminal?

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I have a 2012 refurbished Mac mini running Yosemite 10.10.3. Often I
cannot connect via Wi-fi. I am not usually given a specific reason, but it does actively tell me It can't connect. It does not just fail. However all my iOS devices are connected all the time and work with no issue.

In System Preferences, Network, only the wifi is active. In troubleshooting, I have systematically disabled all other network interfaces, which has helped a little.

However, in Terminal, although everything is off in Mac OS X GUI, ifconfig says everything is up and running here. Lo0, en0, en1, en2, fw0, p2p0, bridge0, awdl0 all firing on all cylinders, promiscuous settings on, multicast, broadcast, higher than normal MTU (lo0 is at 16384) and a bunch of extra MAC addresses I have never seen or ever been able to utilize from Mac OS X.

I know Network System Preferences matches to en0 Ethernet, en1 to Wi-fi, fw0 to FireWire. And of course lo0 is the loopback adapter.

But what about the others? With unknown MAC addresses? Some are piggybacking on my existing. P2p0 uses my Wi-fi MAC address. Bridge0 uses all zeroes which I think means it can use any available MAC address.
When I turned all these extra interfaces off, via Terminal, my connection improves dramatically. But they were off already. They show as such in the network settings.

So Is this a separate system? With different devices? If not, why such discrepancies between whats turned on or off between the OS and Terminal?

What can I do to get a little more control over my network?


texts: .htaccess protected site cannot be accessed by iPad

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I have been working on a website on a test server test.domain.com for a few weeks now. I was always able to access the .htaccess password protected site using my iPad mini as well as my iPhone or using the Simulator.

.htaccess used:

AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Test Server"
    AuthUserFile /usr/local/www/test.domain.com/.htpasswd
Require valid-user

Somehow today I could not access the site anymore from my iPad mini. The site kept on loading, but no response was given to the GET request at all. No pop-up asking for the password either.

This was so weird. I tried reloading many times. Then I tried to access the site using Chrome on the same iPad where I was asked to enter the .htaccess username and password and it did work. For some off reason I had to enter the details twice, but anyways.

I decided to ask my partner to turn of the .htaccess password protection et voila! Access was granted again.

How come that I was not asked for entering the details again in Safari on the iPad? Where can I check how these details were stored if they had been?


texts: Disable icloud permanently to prevent locked devices and lost data

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Is there a way to prevent employees from setting up icloud accounts?

The issue we have is employees set up an icloud account then leave the business and the phone become a costly paperweight because there is no way to reset the phone due to the icloud account.

If possible it would be nice to disable icloud all together to avoid lockouts and mixing of personal and work data.


texts: Can I designate a wireless network that always takes precedence, if available?

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I suspect there may not be a way to do this, but I thought I'd check with the experts. Here's the situation:

There is a wireless network at my work (Work), and at my home (Home). However, I do some work from home, and so I have an Aruba wireless box that means the Work network is also available in my house in order to give me access to my employer's VPN.

When I'm at work during the day, I use the network Work on my iPhone. When I come home, it will always automatically connect to my VPN enabled Work network at home, rather than my Home network. And I have to remember to switch it manually.

I've tried forgetting both networks, and re-adding them in the order Home, Work, but that hasn't helped. I suspect the phone is simply connecting to the network it saw most recently.

I realize this isn't the biggest problem in the world, as I can always change it manually. But is there a way to have the phone always connect to a designated network when it's available?


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DiskUtility on Yosemite gave me this error message :

  Incorrect number of file hard links

I would like to repair my disk but i don't know if it will erase all my documents.

Can someone tell me if repairing the disk is going to format it too?

Thx in advance!


texts: How do I find the path of a file on another computer on my network?

texts: I would like to access files from another computer on the same network in the Terminal. But I am not sure of the path to those files. How do I find it?


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I have entered my name with a typo when I first started my MacBook Pro. Now whenever I open iChat or whenever I send an E-Mail the typo is still there.

Where do I change the name?

I have change the name in System Preferences / Accounts as well as the Profiles for Mail and iChat, but the typo still shows up.

Is there a configuration file I can edit directly?


texts: Unresponsive keyboard and trackpad on MacBook Pro 2015

texts: I have a MacBook Pro 2015 model (A1052). About two days ago, the keyboard and trackpad went completely unresponsive. On the trackpad, the force touch seems to be active but the cursor does not move. I am not able to reset the NVRAM or the SMC since the keyboard is unresponsive. After a bit of searching, I saw that many have recommended replacing the small cable that connects the trackpad and the keyboard. I got a new one and tried that as well but still no joy! Apart from taking it to the service center any other ideas?


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Is there a Linux distribution, that runs on an old iMac G5 with a PowerPC processor? I would like to use the old iMac as computer for my mother, she would only need an up-to-date browser running, nothing more.

I found MintPPC, based on the Debian "testing" branch. Would that work?

I am installing mintPPC right now with this installation instruction. It seems to work fine.


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Due to the sad demise of my main machine, I'm booting a much less capable system from an external drive to keep myself going while I await a replacement. The machine itself has its own internal drive. Both the machine's own internal drive, and my recovered (now external) drive, are formatted APFS, and both have the full set of system volumes (preboot, recovery and VM).

The problem is, when booting from the external drive, macOS wants to store swapfiles on it, even though the performance is poor when doing this, especially since this emergency setup has a lot less RAM making swapping a lot more likely.

What I'd like to know is; can I tell macOS Mojave to mount the internal drive's VM volume and use that for swap-files, rather than using the external disk?

One oddity is that although the external drive has its own VM volume (not that I want to use it), macOS Mojave isn't utilising that either, instead it's storing swap-files under /vm, rather than mounting the VM volume at /private/var/vm as normal.

In case it's easier to visualise, my drives look like this, where disk0 is internal, and disk2 is external, and was pulled from my dead machine:

diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *320.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         319.9 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +319.9 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            34.4 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 41.8 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                507.4 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      20.5 KB    disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         1000.0 GB  disk2s2

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +1000.0 GB  disk3
                                 Physical Store disk2s2
   1:                APFS Volume macOS                   102.5 GB   disk3s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 64.3 MB    disk3s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.0 GB     disk3s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      20.5 KB    disk3s4
   5:                APFS Volume Users                   321.0 GB   disk3s5

To clarify; I'm not looking to disable swapping entirely, but to use the internal drive as the swap-file location. Indeed, swapping is necessary on the older machine I'm using, as it was never used for much more than a media-centre, and only has 4gb of RAM, which fills fast!


texts: Restart download Mac OS X (macOS) Sierra, Developer Preview version

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My download of macOS Sierra (Developer Preview, see press release) began downloading, appearing in the Launchpad app. But then got interrupted. It failed to restart, so I deleted the icon in Launchpad by holding down Option key and clicking the "X" icon that appears.

Now when I try the download again, the link on the Developer page takes me to the App Store app. There I get page with a Redeem button and an error message saying “This code has already been redeemed.”.

How can I restart the download?


texts: How to quickly drain iPhone's charge to compare batteries

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I have two iPhone batteries, and I'm having doubts as to their apparent metrics regarding max charge capacity.

I want to compare their real life performance by putting a high load on them, but I want to do so in a reproducible way and in a way that lets me time the drainage without having to babysit the phone, in order to compare the results.

I have searched for benchmark apps and only found recommendations for Geekbench 3 and Batteryscore, neither which seem to be in my AppStore region. I found Geekbench 4 in my AppStore, but it makes no mention of any battery benchmarks in its description.

How do I go about doing a battery benchmark?

Update

Well my 3rd party battery died completely before I could do the experiment. Conclusion: It was garbage that somehow kept a decent charge until its failure.


texts: Can't download Mavericks - I got a Mountain Lion CD, what to do?

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This is the most silly question I'll ever ask, and I'm sorry for this.

But doing the following:

Step 1: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/os-x-mavericks/id675248567
Step 2: http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/

I assumed there would be at least ONE way of downloading Mavericks, since.. It's free.. But aparently Apple assumes that 2014 was the year of removing download buttons?

I have a blank Mac Book Pro 2010.
This in turn has a OS X 10.8 DVD with it.

All I need, is to reinstall the machine!
I do not have a friend with a mac. I do not have a Apple store near by. I don't have Itunes (and can't install it either).
I do however have a DVD burner, a extremely fast internet and I don't mind fiddling in the command promt.

Any ideas what I could do? Again, sorry for this shitty question, been reinstalling Machines for over 15 years but never have a machine been this much of a headache.

Update:

This is what the site looks to like me...

For those who don't understand the dilemma of me having a 10.8 DVD.
According to their own forums, they've discontinued 10.8 as a installation option from the app store. They referr you to the Mavericks installation which should be a two press installation.. Assuming you have Another apple Product near by.

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texts: How can I use my existing Time Machine drive on the network?

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I have an external HD that I've been using as a time machine for my MBP.  Here's what I want to do:

attach the drive to my desktop machine
configure time machine on my MBP to use the drive as a time machine through the network
retain my existing backups...

So I want time machine to continue using the same backups it always did when the drive was connected locally.  I do not want to start from scratch.
I know how to set time machine to use a network drive rather than a locally attached drive, but it doesn't recognize the existing backups (it wants to start over).  I'm not afraid of the terminal... how can I get this working?
on edit:
I got a large drive to use during the conversion, but the link below didn't help because there was no hex id to be found on my machine in the second step  :/


texts: iMessage from computer not syncing with iPhone , not being sent

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I have the latest iOS on an iPhone SE and macOS Mojave on a desktop computer with Airdrop and everything (not that latter matters).

However, SMS messages sent to my iPhone do not popup and now I am trying to send a message to an iPhone user from the computer and it is just loading.

Not popping up on the phone as failed to send either.

I've literally tried everything. Verified number, synced in iCloud, paired both with Bluetooth, USB, Wi-Fi, enabled and disabled all kinds of things on phone and computer settings. macOS is freshly installed so nothing wrong with the Mac.

Is this a known problem? I am a computer engineer so please keep that in mind when it comes to proposing the obvious like turn off the phone, iMessage, Bluetooth and so forth.


texts: Manually add a program to the File and Folders access list

texts: I've just installed Xournal++ on my MacBook Pro running Big Sur. Most things work fine, but it can't access the Desktop, Documents or Downloads. Usually, programs request permission and one gets a pop-up, then they appear under Files and Folders in Security. However, that doesn't happen for Xournal++ so I can't authorise it. How do I add it to the list manually?


texts: How to remove Windows partitions on external HDD?

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Hi! I wonder what is the correct procedure to remove all partitions from an external HDD (500GB) that was previously a Windows boot HDD (Extracted from my old PC).
Before the erase, there were 3 partitions:

Win7
System Reserve
Data

After backing up and erasing the drives, they're now empty.
I'd like to remove all the partitions but it doesn't seem to allow me to delete by clicking "-" from the Volume on the 2nd top left on the Toolbars.
Any idea how do I do it?


texts: How can I keep a folder on a remote server in sync with a local folder in iOS accessible via Files?

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I prefer not sideloading apps onto my devices, so solutions leveraging existing products are preferred.

I tried using Nextcloud, but I don’t know how to accomplish my goal of a synced folder with it, and it is slow.

PS: I have Blink installed.


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Is this normal that the events I add in my calendar on my iPod doesn't show up on the calendar on my MobileMe account ? Do I have to do something on the iPod to not only be sync from the MobileMe Account but also push the new events on the could ?

Note : I have Mail set up with my MobileMe information on the iPod. This works fine.


texts: How can I use a command to delete all files in Downloads whose dates added are greater than 1 year?

texts: I am using a Mac. How can I use a command to delete all files in ~/Downloads whose dates added are greater than 1 year?


texts: Internet sharing via WiFi won't work (BSS stopping)

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I'm trying to start internet sharing on my mac mini (share ethernet to wifi).
Until a few days ago, it worked fine, and suddenly stopped working.

I'm pretty sure my "graphical" config is fine (with the System settings app). But there's something strange in the /var/log/wifi.log.

Whenever I start the sharing, it actually works very briefly, before stopping again (MAC addresses and stuff replaced with <snip>)

2014-05-05 11:47:37.974783 AM [wifid] <en1> Start BSS on <snip>
2014-05-05 11:47:37.974984 AM [wifid] <en1> Start Network
2014-05-05 11:47:38.058925 AM [wifid] <en1> Apple SWAP IE
Raw IE:
<snip>
Signature Length: 4
Use for Beacon
Use for Probe Response

Host model identifier: Macmini6,2
Internet Connection Sharing Enabled

2014-05-05 11:47:38.107761 AM [wifid] <en1> Stop BSS on <snip>
2014-05-05 11:47:38.117333 AM [wifid] Change Interface Role on en1 with MAC <snip> to sta
2014-05-05 11:47:38.117608 AM [wifid] <en1> Maximum PHY Rate <450>

Any idea what's wrong?


texts: Calls from Yosemite via iPhone fail when connected via WiFi and Thunderbolt Ethernet

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I am able to make and receive phone calls from my MacBook running Yosemite via my iPhone when I am only connected via WiFi to my home network (Airport Extreme).

When I connect additionally via my Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter to the same network it does not work anymore. Making and receiving phone calls always fails with the message "Call failed" after trying for some seconds to connect to the iPhone.

UPDATE: I can see the following error in the console:

17/10/14 14:15:23,082 discoveryd[56]: Basic Network GetExtendedFlags ioctl failed Device not configured


texts: My iPad will not send messages or receive I'm connected to wifi I can send them but the send bar at the top will go almost all the way then stop and say about thirty seconds later not delivered


texts: My iphone 4s is not being recognised by my itunes

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I have just got the new iphone 4s and when I am trying to sync it with my itunes it is not being recognised.
I have downloaded the new itunes twice so I am sure it is up to date.
Does anyone have any other solutions I can try?


texts: Mac losing connection every 10 minutes. Have to turn wifi off/on every time

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I'm having a problem with my Mac Air with OSX X Yosemite.

It loses the wifi connection every about 10 minutes.
Interestingly, connection summary shows Internet as recheable:

To solve it, I have to turn off/on my wifi every time.

I had tried this solution, which seems to work for a while,
but does not solve definitely.

This problem doesn't occurs in others devices using the same Wifi


texts: iMovie 9.0: how do you make clips shorter than 5ms?

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I'm trying to make a stop motion animation and I can't seem to find a way to make clips shorter than 5ms. By "clip" I mean the images I drag into the time line. I try to adjust it by hovering over the timeline object, click on the cog, then go to clip adjustments, then edit the duration.

How do I make a clip shorter than 5ms?


texts: Safari keeps crashing after updating to Big Sur. Termination Reason: Namespace ASSERTIOND

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After I upgraded to MacOS Big Sur, Safari started to crash and the crash logs look very similar.
Sometimes it would crash when I click a link, sometimes it would crash when not doing anything. Often I would notice that Safari crashed when I was away from my computer.
The message is about the same every time:
System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGKILL)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Reason:    Namespace ASSERTIOND, Code 0xd00d2bad

Application Specific Information:
Enabled App Extensions:
com.Tab-Suspender.Extension (DZ2G3D39GP) (Version: 39 - Display Version: 2.1.1) Tab Suspender
com.adguard.safari.AdGuard.AdvancedBlocking (TC3Q7MAJXF) (Version: 48 - Display Version: 1.8.10) AdGuard Advanced Blocking
de.APPenzeller.PiPifier.PiPifier-Safari-Extension (AW9CBV6SY7) (Version: 8 - Display Version: 1.2.4) PiPifier Button
com.adguard.safari.AdGuard.Extension (TC3Q7MAJXF) (Version: 48 - Display Version: 1.8.10) AdGuard Safari Icon

Enabled Content Blockers:
com.adguard.safari.AdGuard.BlockerExtension (TC3Q7MAJXF) (Version: 48 - Display Version: 1.8.10) AdGuard General
com.adguard.safari.AdGuard.BlockerSecurity (TC3Q7MAJXF) (Version: 48 - Display Version: 1.8.10) AdGuard Security
com.adguard.safari.AdGuard.BlockerCustom (TC3Q7MAJXF) (Version: 48 - Display Version: 1.8.10) AdGuard Custom
com.adguard.safari.AdGuard.BlockerOther (TC3Q7MAJXF) (Version: 48 - Display Version: 1.8.10) AdGuard Other
com.adguard.safari.AdGuard.BlockerPrivacy (TC3Q7MAJXF) (Version: 48 - Display Version: 1.8.10) AdGuard Privacy
com.adguard.safari.AdGuard.BlockerSocial (TC3Q7MAJXF) (Version: 48 - Display Version: 1.8.10) AdGuard Social

Any ideas how to debug this or what it could be?
Thanks.


texts: How to strip a Hebrew text of vowels and punctuation in AppleScript?

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Take the first several verses of Genesis, in Hebrew, for example:

  בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ׃

  וְהָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֙הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ וְחֹ֖שֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י תְה֑וֹם וְר֣וּחַ אֱלֹהִ֔ים מְרַחֶ֖פֶת עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַמָּֽיִם׃

  וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים יְהִ֣י א֑וֹר וַֽיְהִי־אֽוֹר׃

  וַיַּ֧רְא אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הָא֖וֹר כִּי־ט֑וֹב וַיַּבְדֵּ֣ל אֱלֹהִ֔ים בֵּ֥ין הָא֖וֹר וּבֵ֥ין הַחֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

  וַיִּקְרָ֨א אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ לָאוֹר֙ י֔וֹם וְלַחֹ֖שֶׁךְ קָ֣רָא לָ֑יְלָה וַֽיְהִי־עֶ֥רֶב וַֽיְהִי־בֹ֖קֶר י֥וֹם אֶחָֽד׃ (פ)

(That (פ) for some reason isn't formatting properly in the blockquote, but it does in my text file.)

Now, I'd like to strip this text of all characters except for the standard 27-letter Hebrew alphabet אבגדהוזחטיכךלמםנןסעפףצץקרשת, plus line breaks (which Script Editor automatically parses as \n) and line and paragraph breaks (: and (פ) or (ס)). You'll notice on several lines that there are hyphens - those should be replaced with a space. Some lines also contain | - those should be replaced with a single . When done, it should look like:

  בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ׃

  והארץ היתה תהו ובהו וחשך על פני תהום ורוח אלהים מרחפת על פני המים׃

  ויאמר אלהים יהי אור ויהי אור׃

  וירא אלהים את האור כי טוב ויבדל אלהים בין האור ובין החשך׃

  ויקרא אלהים לאור יום ולחשך קרא לילה ויהי ערב ויהי בקר יום אחד׃ (פ)

I tried something simple at first - set the Hebrew alphabet plus , (, and ) to a list, set x to the length of the inputted string, then do a repeat for each character of the string: if it's on the list, then append it to the output; if it's a -, append  to the output; if it's a \ and the next one is a n, append \n to the output; and if there are two spaces in a row, delete the second.

I logged the output and got some gibberish:

(*אאית   א    ים  ת     ם   ת    ץץץץץץץץ    ה  הה   הה       ללללי    ם         ים     ת  ללללי    םםםםםאאר    ים   י   ר    ייייררררררא    ים  תתתתתר  ייייב     ל    ים  ין    ר   ין           א    ים    אאא   ם         א    ה    ייייב    ייייר   ם   דד (פ)*)

which seems to be every letter in the passage without a vowel, duplicated in the event that the following letter(s) do. (My mistake on the repeats - wrote the repeat loop poorly.) But that it skips over consonants that also have vowels is what left me wondering.

So I did a test:

set charNum to ASCII number "בְּ"
log charNum
set charNum to ASCII number "ב"
log charNum
-->result: (*63*) (*63*)

Although in the text editor, vowels and the like are separate characters overlaid on the previous ones, Script Editor doesn't see it that way, and sees בְּ and ב as the same letter. And yet, when comparing it to my list, it doesn't recognize the character and skips it.

So how can I strip the vowels and the like from the letters while not doing an if-loop for any possible letter and vowel combination?


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Some apps (eg IDEs) I like to have Function keys directly shown, but most other apps I like the Quick Actions with Control Strip.

Is there a way to get the Touch Bar to automatically switch between the settings rather than having to manually goto Keyboard prefs?


texts: Split csv file using Automator Service (Finder Context Menu)

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I am trying to create an Automator Service for Finder's Right-Click Context Menu that can split any selected csv file, whilst copying in the original header at the top of every file.

My current attempt is to make Automator run this Bash Shell Script:

#!/bin/bash

FILE=$(ls -1 | grep MY_CSV_FILE.csv)
NAME=${FILE%%.csv}

head -1 $FILE > header.csv
tail -n +2 $FILE > data.csv

split -l 50 data.csv

for a in x??
    do
        cat header.csv $a > $NAME.$a.csv
    done

rm header.csv data.csv x??

This script will split MY_CSV_FILE.csv into new files with max 50 lines while copying in the original header at the top of every file. The new files will have the original name appended with xaa, xab, xac etc.

Regarding the Automator setup, this is the Service I'm currently working on. The problem right now is that I'm unable to pass the Selected File in Finder to the Bash script.

Notice that:

Service receives: files or folders in Finder.app.
Pass input to Shell script: as arguments.
I have removed #!/bin/bash from the top of the Shell Script and set the Shell to: /bin/bash.
I switched MY_CSV_FILE.csv for "$f" – not sure if that's correct.

Do I also need to specify the path using something like "$@" for both the input file and the resulting output files? I haven't done something like this before, so I'm not really familiar with that variable and "$f" for that matter.

How could I make this work? I'd like the resulting files to appear in the same folder as the file I select to run the Service on, via the Finder Right-Click Menu. It would be even better if the Service only accepted csv files.


texts: iPhone Gmail app marks all mail as important

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I'm using the official Gmail application on my iPhone to receive my Gmail. The reason I use this app is because I label a lot of mails (newsletters for example) so they end up in a folder.

However, all the new e-mail I get also get marked as Important and I do not like that.

How can I prevent the Gmail.app from doing this (silly and annoying) behavior?


texts: Paragon-NTFS only let me save files into NTFS Drive from Finder Application

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I just upgraded my Mac OS into Lion. I use Paragon NTFS to apply ntfs write mode. While working using Microsoft office, i noticed that i couldn't save any file from outlook, word, excel into NTFS drive from my external drive.
From outlook, there is no error messages, but from word i got this pop up error:

Word Cannot save or create this file. the disk may full or write-protected
Try one or more following:

Free more memory
Make sure that the disk you want to save is not full, write-protected, or damaged.

Did anyone ever experiencing this kind error? Don't know yet whether Microsoft Office bugs or not, but i could write any file from finder to this ntfs drive.
thanks.
update1: after i check with other application, it still failed to save any file into my ntfs drive. looks like the problem comes from Paragon. anyway i changed the title


texts: What's the max resolution for mini DisplayPort connected to a 2013 MacBook Air?

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I've got a new 2013 MacBook Air 13", with Intel HD Graphics 5000, and it came with a Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter within the box. A mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter is also available from Apple.

An ASUS PB278Q 27" 5ms WQHD (2560 x 1440) only gets 1920x1080 resolution using the VGA adapter. I'm not aware of VGA being limited to 1080p, and this is not advertised at all anywhere on the ordering page.

As per Google search of Apple's quite scattered and incomplete docs on the matter, which, in the end, still don't cover all custom-order options provided immediately on the ordering page for a MacBook Air, both VGA and DVI adapters apparently only support up to 1920x1200 resolutions, with dual-link DVI being required for "resolutions above 1920 x 1200" (what does this even mean, I'm buying a MacBook Air, what's "above 1920x1200"?).  http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3382

Why resolutions of Mini DisplayPort to VGA and DVI adapters is limited to 1920x1200?
What is the maximum resolution of Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adapter as ordered for mid-2013 MacBook Air 13?
Does Apple's official HDMI adapter, "Belkin Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter", support "resolutions above 1920x1200"?  Which ones would that be?
What resolutions would I get with a third-party miniDP to DP cables or adapters, or miniDP to HDMI?


texts: Time Machine automatic backups fail, manual backups succeed

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Short Description
Automatic Time Machine backups fail (with an error code of '19'), but manual backups succeed. Does anyone know what would cause this behavior?
Long Description & Troubleshooting Recon
On OSX v10.8.4, I've set up Time Machine to write backups to a network-attached storage (NAS) device. When Time Machine attempts to execute an automatic backup, it fails with the following error (appearing in system.log):
Sep  5 10:03:26 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17870]: Starting automatic backup
Sep  5 10:03:26 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17870]: Backup failed with error: 19

If I go into Time Machine settings, right click on the drive icon above the "Select Disk..." icon, and choose "Back Up Now", the backup succeeds:
Sep  5 10:21:06 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: Disk image /Volumes/BA_Backup/local’s Mac mini.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Sep  5 10:21:06 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Sep  5 10:21:07 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: Using file event preflight for Macintosh HD
Sep  5 10:21:10 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: Will copy (24.7 MB) from Macintosh HD
Sep  5 10:21:10 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: Found 10645 files (230.8 MB) needing backup
Sep  5 10:21:10 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: 1.31 GB required (including padding), 3.59 TB available
Sep  5 10:22:06 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: Copied 16396 files (173 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Sep  5 10:22:06 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: Using file event preflight for Macintosh HD
Sep  5 10:22:06 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: Will copy (442 KB) from Macintosh HD
Sep  5 10:22:06 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: Found 23 files (442 KB) needing backup
Sep  5 10:22:06 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: 1.04 GB required (including padding), 3.59 TB available
Sep  5 10:22:11 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: Copied 461 files (2.6 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Sep  5 10:22:11 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: Created new backup: 2013-09-05-102211
Sep  5 10:22:12 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: Starting post-backup thinning
Sep  5 10:22:12 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Sep  5 10:22:12 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: Backup completed successfully.
Sep  5 10:22:12 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/BA_Backup/local’s Mac mini.sparsebundle
Sep  5 10:22:13 shaun-macmini.local com.apple.backupd[17955]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.

Subsequent automatic backups still fail, however everytime I've executed one manually, I have no issues.
Research into whatever the cause of "error 19" is hasn't revealed anything useful so far. Most advice on the Apple forums ranges from resetting the Time Machine backup to replacing the NAS device. Since the manual backup succeeds, that would seem to indicate some issue with the NAS mount. The manual backups seem to both mount and unmount the NAS device (or so says the logs), but the automatic backups do not appear to do the same thing.
I tried adding the mount of the NAS device to my user's "Login Items" and re-establishing the mount, but that does not appear to resolve the issue, either.
If I right-click the Time Machine icon in the top menu and select "Back Up Now", I get an error that the backup disk is not available. However, I can immediately go into the preference pane as described earlier and invoke a successful backup there.
What's causing my automatic backups to fail?


texts: Match the Creation Date of 2 sets of files with same name

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I've just converted hundreds of AIF recordings from a few days ago to WAV, but I need the newly created files to keep the original Creation Date of the recordings. Filenames are identical apart from the extension, stored in two separate folders.

Is there a way to batch modify each WAV's Creation Date to match its respective AIF?

Thanks!


texts: How can I determine why keyboard response is intermittently very slow with large display?

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I'm using a Seiki 4k display model SE39UY04 connected via HDMI with a Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013 MacBook Pro at 3840x2160 @ 30 Hz running Mavericks.  I've noticed that with the laptop closed and only displaying on the external display, I sometimes find in Chrome that bluetooth attached keyboard response is very sluggish.  For example, I can type a sentence on a web page but nothing appears at first, then a few words, and finally the rest appears quickly, however, the delay between typing and completion of it showing up can be 30 seconds or so.  I've looked at the Activity Monitor and do not see any CPU hog, the machine is relatively idle and the fan is not running on the laptop.

How can I figure out the cause of this intermittent delay that seems to have appeared with the introduction of the very large external display?


texts: Typing macron using the Kotoeri Romaji mode

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Given that I often type in Japanese or romanized Japanese, my default keyboard layout is the Romaji mode of Apple's Kotoeri input method. But I keep running into an inability to type e.g. ō without switching (using the mouse) to U.S. Extended.

My search skills both on Google and on this site have yielded no ways of typing the ¯ character anywhere within Kotoeri. Has the entire Internet missed this, or am I just so stupid that everyone's figured it out and it wasn't even complicated enough to warrant how-to articles? Or is it impossible?


texts: Is it possible to update an iphone 3g ios 4.2.1 to ios 5?

texts: I've tried to go on iTunes (check my updates)- but it says your phone as been updated your current version is 4.2.1 is it possible?


texts: Can I change my music location for itunes to external hard drive on my mac book pro?

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I have itunes setup with my music in the Music folder on my mac book pro.  I am now realizing that i am going to run out of space soon so i would like to change this to point to an external hard drive.

First question is what is the best way of doing this?

Second question is does this cause a full resync or does it realize that i just moved from one place to another without a required wipe and download?


texts: How to make Mail use standard signature separator?

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I am using many signatures under Mail.
I noticed that unlike many professionnal E-mail programs Mail
doesn't automatically include the standard E-mail signature separator.

The command:

defaults read com.apple.mail | egrep '(--|sep|sig)'

didn't let me a lot of hope.

Is there any way to configure Mail so that it will automatically include the standard separator -- \n with any signature ?


texts: View and delete individual messages directly from POP server in OS X Mail

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There is/was a feature in OS X Mail that allowed to fetch the list of messages from the server in a configured POP account. This fetched only message headers - all at once - and displayed the list in a window then allowed to individually select messages and delete them directly from the server. Not all messages via the Preferences - Accounts - Advanced - Remove now option but individually.

I can't seem to find this option any more. Was this removed from Mail or just well hidden?


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I am considering recommending an iPad for an older relative that currently has no computer and no Internet access. I get reasonable 3G reception from this person's home. Internet access options start at roughly $60/month. So, I am considering recommending a 3G iPad and using only the 3G service for Internet access.

Obviously this would be slower than a high speed Wi-Fi connection, but it would also be much cheaper and I think it might be adequate. I am wondering if anyone has experience with using 3G as the primary internet connection source.


texts: Meaning of "send as sms when imessage is unavailable"?

texts: I want the option to "send as sms when imessage is unavailable" to turn off. But if it's on, does that mean it sends as SMS when imessage is unavailable on MY end (the sending end), the receiving end, or both? Example: while I had this option on, if I texted a friend whose phone was on airplane mode or off, it would go through as sms and not imessage. With this option off, if I imessage someone and their phone is on airplane mode/off, would it send as SMS because imessage is available on my end? Or keep it as an undelivered imessage because imessage is unavailable on their end??


texts: Can I use my iPhone charger for charging other USB based devices?

texts: Is it OK to use my iPhone charger for charging other USB powered devices like the Kindle or a digital camera (with a rechargeable battery)? Can it cause any damage to the charger or to the device being charged?


texts: OS X 10.6 : Automating new system provisioning with scripts

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I've been working on this for days but simply cannot find the correct references to make it work.
The idea is to have a script that will baseline newly purchased Macs that comes into the company with basic stuffs like set autologin to off, create a new admin user (for remote admins to access for support, set password to unlock screensaver and etc) .
Sample list for baseline that admins have to do on each new machine:

Click the Login Options button
Set Automatic Login: OFF
Check: Show the Restart, Sleep, and Shutdown buttons
Uncheck: Show input menu in login window
Uncheck: Show password hints
Uncheck: Use voice over in the login window
Check: Show fast user switching menu as Short Name

(note: this is only part of a long list to do on each machine)
I've managed to find some references to make some parts work. Like autologin can be unset with "defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences com.apple.userspref.DisableAutoLogin -bool TRUE" and I've kinda found ways to muscle in a new user creation (including prompts) with applescript and shell commands.
But generally its tough finding ways to do somewhat simple things like turn on password to get out of screensaver or to allow fast user switching. References are either too limited or just no where to be seen (e.g. i can unset autologin via cli but the very next setting on the system preference "show restart, sleep and shutdown buttons" is somewhere else and i can't find any command line to make it set)
Does anyone have any ideas on a list, document, reference or anything of where each setting on the system resides so that I can be pointed to make it work? or maybe sample scripts for the above example...
My thanks for reading thus far - a huge thank you for whoever that has any info on the above.


texts: Use an iPhone 5 Nano-SIM in an iPhone 4?

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I dropped my iPhone 5 into a pool and had to downgraded to an iPhone 4S. U wanted to transfer my data from the iPhone 5 Nano-SIM card to the iPhone 4.

Are there any adapters or ways to transfer that data?


texts: Does Apple Pay offer consumer privacy advantages over traditional payment on the web?

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As a developer, I know that an Apple Pay payment seems to offer more privacy in some cases when online.

Can anyone elaborate the different scenarios Apple pay offers and what the consumer privacy risk is of each?  For example:

A shoe vendor uses a "Apple Pay Merchant" such as Stripe or Braintree to process payments online.  In this case the trusted URL is set to https://BrainTreeOrStripe.com/.well-known/apple-developer-merchantid-domain-association
A shoe vendor acts as an Apple Pay Merchant, and the above URL points to their own website (Payless.com)

In the above examples some information identifying the user is shared with some parties and not others.

My question is regarding PII (Personally Identifiable Information) or even a  per-user tracking identifier that may exist. I'd like to know when any of that data is shared between the merchant, the payment network, and/or other parties.

A risky example shows itself when I use ApplePay with two different merchants (medical processing and a nightclub), and that data is subsequently  correlated by two merchants willing to share data or perhaps it's observed on the payment network itself.  My fear is that insurance rates will rise simply because I'm buying drinks for friends at a nightclub, but the data makes it appear that I'm buying all those drinks for myself.


texts: How to allow the user to choose from a pricing package yet be compatible with volume purchase and family sharing

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I want to allow the user to pick the subscription package that is most convenient for their situation similar to how SAAS do it, eg.:

I want it to have 3 tiers: Free, Standard, Pro

As I want to distribute it exclusively in the app store (to avoid setting up my own payment framework, backend, etc) I am limited on the payment options.

I was thinking of creating 2 in-app purchases (Standard & Pro) but that will mean that users will not be able to use family sharing or do volume purchase.

The only solution I can think of is to create 2 extra versions:

MyApp (free to download and with IAP available for upgrades)
MyApp Standard ($X to download, no IAP)
MyApp Pro ($Y to download, no IAP)

Besides the extra work of managing and maintaining 3 apps (despite any automation I might do), there's still the issue of cannibalization of ratings and downloads number that affect the ranking of the main app.

Is there another way to do this?

Apologies for the confusing title, not sure how to make it simpler.

Thank you


texts: I have upgraded my iPhone 4S to the iOS 8.0 version and it has made my phone extremely slow. Can I restore my iPhone 4S to its original state before any upgrades were done?


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I have a Macbook Air 13″ (late 2010) and external monitor (Dell SX2210) connected by Mac Display Adapter to VGA adapter (pre-Thunderbolt). I frequently see regions of the Dell screen glitched by wavy-jittery noise for a few seconds at a time. The size and location on the screen seems random, and is more frequent and noticeable some times than others. No glitches on the Mac screen. This has persisted through OS upgrade from Mountain Lion to Mavericks.

Would using DVI instead of VGA fix this (worth the purchase of adapter)? Anything else?


texts: ping $(hostname) has request timeout but nslookup $(hostname) works

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Why does ping $(hostname) fail with the output below?
PING deeznuts.noodleofdeath.com (10.186.132.10): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4

same with direct IP address:
PING 10.186.132.10: 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4

but nslookup $(hostname) work with the following output?
Server:     10.153.50.27
Address:    10.153.50.27#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   deeznuts.noodleofdeath.com
Address: 10.186.132.10

What do I do to make ping work? When I am on another machine on the same network, I can ping deeznuts.noodleofdeath.com successfully.
The contents of my /etc/resolv.conf is the following:
#
# macOS Notice
#
# This file is not consulted for DNS hostname resolution, address
# resolution, or the DNS query routing mechanism used by most
# processes on this system.
#
# To view the DNS configuration used by this system, use:
#   scutil --dns
#
# SEE ALSO
#   dns-sd(1), scutil(8)
#
# This file is automatically generated.
#
search noodleofdeath.com
nameserver 10.153.50.27


texts: How to convert .number file to any of the readble format including excel and pdf without having mac

texts: I have an important .number iworks file. My Mac is now no more... How do I convert .number file to any of the readble format including excel and pdf without having mac.


texts: Time limits on specific apps in macOS High Sierra

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In macOS High Sierra v 10.13.4, I can do the following in Parental Controls:

Entirely disallow the use of specific apps in the Apps tab's Limit Applications on this Mac option.
Limit the entire use of the computer in the Time tab.

However, what I would like to do is limit how long a specific app can be used.  In particular, I'd like to limit my kid's use of a specific game to x hours per day, but the above options do not permit that.

Is there a way to do this using macOS itself? If not, is there another way to do this, either with another app, through the command line, or otherwise?

(This similar question with respect to Mac OS X 10.10 references an app called Watcher, but that got poor reviews and doesn't appear to have been updated recently.)


texts:
Last week my late 2012 iMac was running slow and generally not working well, I erased the hard drive to reinstall a fresh copy of Mac OS but somehow messed up the erase (Reading online I think the fusion drive somehow split), I ended up with no operating system and when I turned my iMac on there was just a question mark. I followed some info online about repairing a split drive using terminal and somehow managed to get the original (2012) operating system installed and then updated to the latest version, although it is running now (not great still) I am not sure if everything is correct?
Can someone who knows how these things work please take a look at the provided images of the drives and tell me if all is ok or have I still messed something up??


texts: Getting slow internet response for browsers other than Safari (MacOS Mojave)

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I got a strange error message that might pertain to the issue: The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -9806.)
Recently, I did do a little bit of file deletions by name (a measure to manually uninstall an app after using the app's own uninstallation tool, since it did an incomplete job) across all user libraries. Parental Controls are also active (which I can bypass, but prefer not to disable altogether), and webfilterproxyd has been using obscene amounts of RAM ever since (up to 3.5GB; averages at 1.3GB).
Other issues that subsequently arose include internet response in web browsers other than Safari is extremely slowed, and certain functions do not respond, namely…
• Opera (and its 'VPN' proxy service; it does not offer multiple proxy options anymore; download speeds are between bytes and kilobytes for the first 5 minutes or so, previously ranging between 500KBps and 5MBps.)
• Opera GX (default browser with same errors as Opera, except that when I open a link from Apple's Mail application, it does not load the webpage but rather merely launches the application. Beforehand, it would default to opening in whichever application window was closest to the top (in the application switcher), no matter the browser or privacy mode. Now, it forcefully launches Opera GX and doesn't even process the link that prompted it to launch.)
• Discord (desktop app; usually had instantaneous response, now takes two minutes to launch and 30 seconds to load pages, even if I had just visited them less than a minute earlier.)
• Dictionary (Wikipedia search, specifically. This is where I got the error message. After the error message displays, it takes 30 seconds to load any page– it used to be instantaneous.)
• Mail (Apple's email application; runs normally, except that if there is web content on an email, it takes an extra 10 seconds to load.)
Meanwhile, Safari is running faster than ever.
When dragging a Finder window's icon to a file-upload browser, it drags the window instead (unless I click and hold for 3 seconds on the icon only, before dragging).
Lastly, I'm constantly prompted to re-authenticate my Google account. I select 'continue.' It opens System Preferences and prompts me to open in Safari to authenticate. I select 'Open in Safari' and then wait a minute. Safari never opens, and even if it's already open it doesn't launch the login prompt. Instead, I get this:

I reset my PRAM 5 times this morning. So far, I can't tell the difference.
What can be done to restore the former connectivity to these apps?
I'm an intermediate-advanced user, so I can follow advanced steps.


texts: Apple Health: collecting and combining step data from multiple devices with different Apple IDs

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I have 2 iPhones: work and personal. For IT dept. reasons, I have to use a different Apple ID on each device: a work Apple ID and a personal Apple ID.

I track my steps in Apple Health on my personal iPhone, under my personal Apple ID.

Sometimes I carry both devices, sometimes I carry only one. Is there a way to set it up so that whichever device I'm carrying (work, personal or both) all my steps will be collected (and de-duplicated) under my personal Apple ID? (So I miss tracking as few as possible.)

I suspect there might be a way to do this by collecting data to a third party app that I have on both devices, but which only writes to Apple Health on the personal device.


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Terminal gets bash to go through an elaborate dance to keep separate histories for each tab.  Normally (for me anyway) after a restart of Mac OS these separate histories are lost and you are left with just one.

At one time (years ago) the separate histories survived a reboot (much to my delight) but after yet another OS upgrade it went back to the old behavior.

Over the intervening period I have done sporadic searches trying to find out if I imagined this and what the expected behaviour is but turned up nothing useful.

So, was I imagining this and if not how do I get terminal to preserve individual histories between reboots/logouts?

There is this post which I think addresses the same issue but the answer is bit cryptic for me and it isn't clear where you should add the trap command.  Although it may explain why the behaviour comes and goes if that trap is at the in /etc/bashrc_Apple_Terminal and then another OS release comes along without it!


texts: When I download a free app in appstore it says “amd action:authenticate:sm”

texts: When I download a free app in appstore it says "amd action:authenticate:sm". My device is iPhone 5c. How can I solve this problem???


texts: Downgrade macOS Sierra of a brand new MacBook

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Here is my story.
Few weeks ago I've bought a brand new MacBook Pro 13' (2015 edition). I've opened it and installed macOS Sierra for the first time. This laptop has never been on some other OS. However, I experience some UI lags which are just killing me and my experience. I've never expected this from a new MacBook Pro. For example when I scroll through Facebook or trying to resize some application (even if I try to resize the activity monitor) there is a noticeable lag and 'decrease of the FPS'. Not really expected this kind of issues.

Just for my peace of mind, I've run a few benchmarks (CPU, GPU, SSD), downloaded a few 'normal-weight' games and everything looks OK. Games have I would say normal FPS and when I compare the benchmarks results they are pretty good and almost the same compared to other 2015 MacBook Pro's.

I was told that this UI lag is because of the OS and if I downgrade and wait until the next macOS release, this will be probably fixed. So, OK I want to downgrade, but I can't figure out how.


texts: How to parametrize the sleep/hibernate behavior of a MacBook Pro

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I try to run some operations in the background (an rsync operation) and the mac goes into background without interactions. The behavior I would to have is:

If the screen is opened then maybe the screen go black, but operations going into the background continue.
If the screen is closed then the mac stops, internet connections are stopped, but the memory remain intact and it can restart afterwards.

How could I change the sleep/hibernate behavior of the macintosh? Right now, I have to stay in in order for background operations to continue and that is not very usable.


texts: HTTP Get is not working stable after Netboot

texts:
I am booting a Netboot Image with a MacMini 5.1, after the system is up a shell script calls a server via curl.

At the moment the Internet connection is up and running. I verify that doing a ping to the same server before using curl.

Every now and then it is not working properly. When it is not working the http get request never reaches the server. Since the ping worked before i think it might be a DNS problem.

If i use curl "manually" 2 time working 3rd time not... Its not easy to reproduce this error...

So i tried to add the IP to /etc/hosts and it is still not working properly every time.

What might cause this problem ?


texts: I can't boot Windows 7 USB from macOS Sierra using option key

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I want to install Windows 7 on my Mac, which is running macOS Sierra.

I can't do this with Boot Camp, since Boot Camp only supports Windows 8 and later.

I need to boot from the USB, which I created, but I can't do it using the usual method of holding down option key while booting the Mac.

I also tried holding down shift key, nothing works, it just starts as usual.

How can I actually boot from USB and are there different keys to press in order to boot from USB or boot in safe mode in macOS Sierra?


texts: What is the command line equivalent of PRAM reset?

texts:
My wired keyboard is starting to flake out and I'm not able to PRAM reset the machine at boot with the Option ⌥  + Command ⌘ + P + R sequence. I tried plugging in a Windows keyboard and use Alt + Windows key +  P  + R , but the Mac doesn't seem to recognize the sequence.

Is there a command line equivalent to the keyboard boot sequence above? I tried sudo nvram -c but that didn't seem to do it.

The idea is that I want to set the boot volume to something else, but I'm flying blind on a MacPro3,1 since the video card is a non-EFI PC one so I can't just do the "hold option at boot" trick.

Any ideas?


texts: How can I automatically download lyrics in iTunes?

texts: Is there a way to automatically download lyrics in iTunes?


texts: How to download macOS High Sierra from the Mojave App Store?

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I use the beta of macOS Mojave and I want to download High Sierra for another install.

I don't find it in the new App Store, maybe because the update of the OS is now in the System Preferences.

I try the link from the online version: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?mt=12 but the Download button is disabled.

Any idea to download it?


texts: How to recover the built in Directory Service data?

texts:
AFAIU, OS X has a collection of built in users, and one of these users is 'mysql' user.

The reason I am making this guess is, the first time I have installed mysql server using the dmg, it installed fine. However, later I have uninstalled it and deleted mysql users. When I wanted to reinstall it later again from dmg, the installation kept failing until I recreated the 'mysql' user and 'mysql' group.

So, is there any way to recover the built in Directory Service data (such as Users, Groups, etc.)?


texts: Is there any MacBook-supported filesystem that will not do a scan every time its underlying external HDD gets unplugged without eject?

texts:
Currently, with ExFAT filesystem on an external HDD connected to a MacBook Pro I experience very long scan times (proportional to the size of the HDD, several TBs in this case; MacOS is used here) whenever I plug the drive after it was accidentally unplugged without ejecting the drive first.
While I understand the reason behind it, it is sometimes unacceptable to wait for hours before I can start using it again.
Therefore I am looking for filesystems that wouldn't render the drive unusable for hours whenever that happens.
Any suggestion is appreciated, the internet yields no immediate solutions/answers, and I would really like to avoid answering myself by testing filesystems - if this kind of info already exists somewhere out there.


texts: How do I take a screenshot without the shadow behind it?

texts:
If I take a screenshot with Shift ⇧ + Command ⌘ + 4 + Space, then I get one of the two images:

Either way the saved image is surrounded by the shadow halo. I could then edit it out by hand (using Preview) to discard the shadow, or I could use Shift ⇧ + Command ⌘ + 4 and try to pinpoint the boundary by hand, but neither lets me get a pixel-perfect boundary easily.

Is there a convenient way to save a window without its shadow?


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So I dug up my old MacBook Pro, It previously had El Capitan running on it.
The el Capitan was kind of getting slow, so I opted for making a factory reset(Erase mackintosh HD).
Now I am trying to boot from a USB flash drive that I created in TransMac, however when I use the alt boot, it doesn't show up in the bootable drives. It does however show up in the Disk Utility when I boot with CMD + R.
Tried clearing PRAM,NVRAM,SMC.
Why in god's name should such a straightforward task take me 5+ hours to unsuccessfully troubleshoot, whereas it takes me 3 minutes on a regular windows PC to setup.
Anyway, suggestions are more than helpful.
Edit: I also tried the reinstall OS X option from the CMD + R menu, although I get stuck there since apparently my appleid has not been tied with the el Capitan that was previously on the system.


texts: Turn off iMessage on computer but not on iPhone

texts:
I've recently bought a new Mac.

iMessage is on it.
I'd rather not have it on my computer.  I want my texts to be kept private.
How do I keep it on my iPhone and remove it from the Mac?


texts: Making the active window more obvious in OSX

texts:
From an accessibility point of view there are many people who find it easier to control their computers by (effectively) the keyboard, rather than the mouse.  One of the things that comes up semi-regularly is mistakes caused by not realising which window is the active one.

I'm looking for a tweak or even a program that makes it easier to see which window is the active one in OSX. I'd like like something that just, for example, dramatically increased the shadow, or boardered the active window in Red.


texts: What is the best way to create a slideshow in iphoto across multiple events?

texts: I want to put together a slideshow but i want to use pictures across multiple events.  I see you can click on Slideshow on a particular event.  Do I have to copy these picture all into a new "event" just to do a slideshow on it ?


texts: Can Mac Messages connect to more than one apple id?

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Say I have two iCloud accounts, personal@example.com and work@example.com. My iPhone is logged into personal@example.com, while the Messages app on my work computer is logged into work@example.com.

Is there a way to get text messages on the Messages app? I've tried going to "Messages > Preferences > Accounts > +" to add an account, but the only option seems to be Jabber.


texts:
Does anyone know how to prevent mobile data being turned off on an iPhone 6 and iPhone 7. I want to ensure my daughters data is not able to be turned off at any time.

their other parent turns off the data when they are in their care therefore not allowing me to speak to my daughter even though I bought the phone.

I want to find a way to stop them being able to turn off the mobile data


texts: How to Download m3u8 stream to local HD in OS X?

texts:
The file in question looks like this:
https://example.com/somenumbers/somenumbers/somename.ts.m3u8
The file in question isn't a live stream. It's a recording.
I've tried using the ffmpeg library using various commands but the resulting file was either not downloaded at all due to "corrupted" error, or was downloaded but was heavily corrupted.


texts: How do I set the home page for Safari on the iPad2?

texts:
This is driving me crazy .

I'm trying to set the Home page on the iPad.

The instructions I've seen indicate there should be a bar at the bottom of the browser with an arrow. There isn't. There also isn't a Home Page button.

I just updated the latest OS release few weeks ago.

Any ideas?


texts: How to add third party app text contact to phone book favorites?

texts: I am able to see WhatsApp, Signal and Viber under Call when adding a Favourite contact, but I couldn’t do the same for text messages. Is this even possible?


texts: I've lost a lot of my accessory windows from some random app install

texts:
To start: I'm a software dev much more comfortable on Windows than OSX. I've tinkered with things like homebrew (which is where I think I started my issue) and I'm not 100% familiar with what I may have done.

The short of it is that in Preview.app, using Export, there is no window. I know that it's trying to create the window, and I've even on occasion seen the controls associated with the window on the very lowest level of the gui stack, if I minimize everything except Preview.app. But I can't interact with anything in those windows. This applies to other windows in Preview.app.

There are other applications installed as well, such as Microsoft Remote Desktop.app (the red icon, relatively recently released) where the Import and Export windows do not appear.

It may be that I had installed XQuartz, but I removed that (and rebooted) and I'm still having issues.

How can I go about figuring out what library is probably overwriting these menus, or where to look to see what system information can help me figure out the problem?

Here's an example output from Console when I try to open the Preview.app Export window:

1/15/14 7:18:57.137 PM Preview[13893]: RVS:__54-[NSRemoteSavePanel _runOrderingOperationWithContext:]_block_invoke_0319 : Timeout occured while waiting for the window

And Microsoft Remote Desktop.app Import:
1/15/14 7:20:15.164 PM Microsoft Remote Desktop[5529]: RVS:__54-[NSRemoteSavePanel _runOrderingOperationWithContext:]_block_invoke_0319 : Timeout occured while waiting for the window


texts: How to throttle usage of individual computer with Apple Airport?

texts:
There are a bunch of kids in our house using wifi. When one is watching HD video on Youtube, everyone else can hardly load a webpage.

How can I customize the Apple Airport to throttle usage for all machines using the wifi?


texts: What are these red/gray squares that appear on my Macbook Pro?

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I own a 2015 Macbook Pro 15" with these specs:

Sometimes red/grey squares appear below/around text labels, like this:

As you can see, all kinds of apps are effected, like the Dock or Calendar. Also, the squares sometimes have a dark red, sometimes grayish color. When I hover with the mouse over the Dock icons the labels start changing their color between red and grey.

When I restart the app (e.g. use killall dock) the squares are gone but they will re-appear later.

It doesn't matter if I use an external display or the integrated display of the Macbook, the problem will occur on both.

Only thing I noticed is that if I attach both my external monitors to it (27" Thunderbolt Display and 27" Cinema Display) and if I drag an app, e.g. Calendar, from the Cinema Display to the Thunderbolt Display, suddenly the squares appear. If I drag the app back to the other monitor, the squares disappear. The rectangles in the Dock appear on both monitors though.

So far that's all that happens. It's not to bad but it's a bit annoying.

Also, I need this computer for work, so if it's a hardware problem I don't want it to die suddenly in the middle of important work.

So far I haven't tried to reinstall macOS yet since, as I said, I need the computer for work and don't want to fiddle around with it to much since it's working smoothly besides the issue with the rectangles.

What do you think could be the issue here? Is it hardware or software? Would macOS reinstall help? Is it a known issue? Do I have to go see the genius bar? Really want to avoid that :-(


texts: How to solve Yosemite massive memory leak?

texts:
I am experiencing a massive memory leak in Mac OS X 10.10.2 (14C2513). I have 16 GB of RAM and the used memory rise to circa 15 GB in ~3 hours. Top applications usage is relatively low, circa 200 MB per application (10 top applications).

I solved it only shutting down the system.

Is there any update for this?


texts: How to create an APFS-formated volume on an external drive using Terminal

texts: I want to create a case-sensitive encrypted APFS formatted Volume on my external drive using only the CLI. I had a look at man diskutil already but this doesn't seem to have all the details required. So I'm kind of stuck right now, any help appreciated.


texts: The error "Keychain "login" cannot be found to store ..."

texts:
When I start up my MacBookPro/osx/snow leopard , I get this error with yahoo messenger..

What is this keychain thing? Is this some Mac thing?

Any links to explain this concept and how to resolve it?

Thanks,


texts: How to combine two images into one on a Mac?

texts:
Say I have two photos (or any images), for example with the following dimensions:

+----------+       +----------+
|          |       |          |
|          |       |          |
|320 x 428 |  and  |320 x 428 |
|          |       |          |
|          |       |          |
+----------+       +----------+

I want to combine them into a single image, side by side. So the result should be

+----------------------+
|                      |
|                      |
|      640 x 428       |
|                      |
|                      |
+----------------------+

What's the simplest way to do this on a Mac? Is it possible with some default app like Preview, or would you recommend some 3rd party tool for the job?

Solution ✅

If I could, I'd accept these two answers:

If you want a GUI solution, use Preview
For a smooth command-line solution, use convert from ImageMagick


texts: A question about syncing the IPad with Win XP and Win 8.1

texts: I use an IPad, a Windows XP SP3 desktop and a Windows 8.1 laptop. I usually use the IPad and I delete emails from there. I do not know how to sync all three of these machines to get rid of the deleted emails and update everything else. Can someone tell me how to do this? I am new at this syncing thing.


texts: How can I add an action to search for the selected Terminal text in Google?

texts: I want to be able to add an action to search Google with any selected text in Terminal. Any ideas?


texts:
In the process of upgrading a 2 4tb disk RAID 0 array from an iffy LaCie drive to a faster/more reliable USB enclosure I have lost data. The backups take a long, long time to restore so I'm hoping to be able to rebuild the RAID 0 array instead. This is all on a Mac Mini running High Sierra.

It was originally a RAID 0 array in a LaCie Thunderbolt drive, but this kept randomly dropping out so I decided to move the drives into a COTS USB 3 enclosure instead. This was set up as a RAID 1 array with 2 2tb drives and I cloned the LaCie contents onto it as a backup. Then I took the pair of 4tb drives from the LaCie and put them in the USB enclosure and switched it to RAID 0 mode, but the Mac Mini did not recognise them. So then I replaced them in the LaCie enclosure, but they just showed up as 2 different drives which the Mac Mini would not mount.
 I tried switching the order of the drives, but this did not help. I wasn't worried because I still had my pair of 2tb RAID 1 drives, which I put back in the USB enclosure, switched it to RAID 1 mode and...the Mac Mini would not recognise it. Data gone - and I hadn't even done a single write operation or formatted anything.

I have tried Data Rescue and 321 Soft Raid Recovery to try and recover the LaCie RAID 0 drive, and while I have managed to get a lot of data from the RAID 1 drive, it's just recovered it as a bunch of files with no usable filenames or directory structure.

My offsite backups appear to be incomplete, and in any case are taking literally days to restore.

distil list output: ...$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            999.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *5.0 TB     disk4
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk4s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS HSBACKUP1               5.0 TB     disk4s2

/dev/disk5 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                                                   *4.0 TB     disk5

/dev/disk6 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                                                   *4.0 TB     disk6

/dev/disk 5 and 6 are the elements of the RAID 0 (ignore HSBACKUP1 - that is my offsite backup drive currently doing a restore of most of the company files)

My LaCie enclosure model is a 2big thunderbolt 8tb - comes preconfigured as RAID 0. I didn't install it originally (it was done in 2013) but I assume it was just used with default settings.

So - does anyone know how to rebuild a RAID 0 array on a mac? It hasn't been formatted or written to in any way - just put into another enclosure, taken out and put back into the original.

OUTCOME: Have not succeeded in rebuilding the RAID. Instead between the restores from my offsite backups and £60 for a Data Rescue license, have managed to recover everything that was lost. Lessons learnt: do not use a Mac as a file server, with the best will in the world they're just not built with that in mind, and verify your daily backups to make sure they're backing up everything you need them to, I wouldn't have had any problems at all save that the account doing the backups did not have rights to all the source files.


texts: What is the Elo of the Mac Book chess engine at top strength?

texts:
This will always have to be an approximation, but on a Mac Book Pro with the 2.8 GHz processor, plugged in, and with the engine set to the maximum strength setting, what Elo is it? I don't have direct access to the engine as far as I know, so I can't set it up to run tests against other engines, and doing that manually would be a real pain in the neck. Does anyone know what its Elo is, or if there is another way I could find out? This is assuming that Apple wrote its own chess engine and didn't just use one that was already out there (there are plenty of free, open-source chess engines). I'm also assuming that they don't rewrite the engine with each new version of Lion.

I was really surprised to see that there was no information about this on Google, and that nobody was even curious. Chess Titans speculation is out there but there is very little on the Apple program, which is surprising, because as an expert player I can handle Chess Titans, but Apple's program is much more challenging.

I will upvote guesses, but for the best answer I'd like either the actual Elo (unlikely, since that information probably doesn't exist) or a very educated guess based on tests or some other comparison to other existing chess engines.

For those curious about comparing chess engines or chess computer strength in general, check out the Wikipedia article chess engines.


texts: What is the difference "FTP on the Go" and "FTP on the Go Pro" for iOS? and which is better?


texts: storing a directory name with spaces in a bash variable

texts:
(Note:  after some more research I have a partial answer, but I don't like having to write the actual commands against that variable differently depending on embedded spaces or not.  I'll accept better suggestions).

I like to store various work variables in bash as I am working on something.  This avoids having to type it up every time and also helps when you come back to work on it some time later (stick the assignment in a localprofile.sh file and source that later...).

I'd like to store a directory name with spaces in it.  I know how to do deal with spaces in file/directory names interactively, using either quoting or \-based escaping:

$ ls -1 /Users/myuser/Library/Application\ Support/ | tail -5
iTerm2
icdd
org.videolan.vlc
pip
videosubscriptionsd

or

$ ls -1 "/Users/myuser/Library/Application Support/" | tail -5
iTerm2
icdd
org.videolan.vlc
pip
videosubscriptionsd

Now I'd like to assign that directory to a bash $dn variable and that's not working so well.

Here are some various tries.  On purpose I stayed away from ~-based shell extension.

dn='/Users/myuser/Library/Application Support/'
echo ''
echo ''
echo $dn
ls -1 $dn

dn='"/Users/myuser/Library/Application Support/"'
echo ''
echo ''
echo $dn
ls -1 $dn

dn=/Users/myuser/Library/Application\ Support/
echo ''
echo ''
echo $dn
ls -1 $dn

dn="/Users/myuser/Library/Application\ Support/"
echo ''
echo ''
echo $dn
ls -1 $dn

each one of these shows a variation on ls: /Users/myuser/Library/Application\: No such file or directory


texts: How can I ensure that my iPod Classic lasts as long as possible?

texts:
Word on the street is that Apple is very close to discontinuing the iPod Classic for good. I bought a brand new 160GB iPod Classic in June 2010 (during the last iteration of this rumor). I am an iPhone and iPod Touch user, but for music, I don't think anything beats a simple, dedicated device. I want to keep my iPod Classic going for as long as I can.

So, how should I treat it? I will avoid bumps and drops, and protect the case as much as possible. Will it be happier long-term if it lives plugged in, or if I cycle the battery? What temperature should I try to keep it at? Are there any concerns I should have about stress on the headphone jack if I leave a set of headphones plugged in all the time?

Update almost three years later: it looks like Apple has finally pulled the plug on the iPod classic. Time to keep mine in a hermetically sealed box.


texts: How to install OS X again with no access to a recovery partition?

texts: I have a Mac running Fedora with no recovery partition and no access to any computer with Mac OS X. How can I reinstall OS X on this computer?


texts: Sound doesn't work anymore with Yosemite

texts:
Today, suddenly, my MacBook Pro is gone mute. The speaker icon on the top bar is faded gray and within the output devices there is not the option internal speaker anymore but just digital output and two Soundflower options. I've tried what was suggested in the thread
Sound not working when running OS 10 Yosemite but it didn't worked. When I restart my Mac, it makes the opening sound and it works with headphones.

What should I do to restore the sounds?


texts: Connect Wi-Fi Hotspot Through OSX Internet

texts:
I have a question regarding creating a wifi hotspot using a router or a wifi card with a MacBook Pro running OSX 10.9.  Is it possible to create a hotspot using a separate wifi card or router? The connection coming into my device is also wifi.

Any ideas?


texts: Subtract files in folder A from folder B

texts:
I've got folder A with 8000 images and folder B with 9000 images. Folder B contains the 8000 images from folder A as well as additional 1000 images. I would like to delete the 8000 images which are already in Folder A, leaving only the "new" 1000 images.

Does anyone know an elegant way to get the job done? (btw. I can not sort them by date and get the newer ones)


texts:
I want to run an Applescript when I mount a specific disk. It isn't if the script is located on the disk or not, it should just run when OS X mounts the disk.

I tried to accomplish this with folder actions, but it looks like it isn't possible to do it this way.

Clarification:

I get home with my Macbook
I plug my USB Hub into the device
External disks are mounted in OS X
My Applescript gets run, does some stuff on those disks

I want to automate step 4.


texts: Downloading, rather than playing, flv files from Safari's Activity window

texts:
The usual way for downloading youtube's flv files used to be to double-click on the conspicuously largest file in Safari's activity window (cmd-option-a).

For some reason doing so now triggers viewing the video using a plugin. The possible culprits are perian and vlc. Disabling perian doesn't help, and vlc does not seem to include a plugin. What to do?


texts: I have a iPad and a iPhone. My iPhone don't have enough storage so I want to disable downloading photo from Photo Stream. However, I do want iPhone to upload the photos to Photo stream and access & download it on my iPad. Is their anyway I can do this? Thanks!


texts: Is there something like Linux console in Mac OS X? Like "terminal", but without running graphics environment.


texts: What are the default special folder names for IMAP accounts in Mail.app (like Drafts, Junk, Sent)?

texts:
I'm setting up my own email server. Clients will connect to this server using IMAP.

Nowadays it's possible to map the correct 'special' folders on the server to the local client (like Drafts, Junk, and Sent). However, because the majority of the devices connecting to my server will use Mail.app (or Mail on iOS), it'd be nice if the default folder names on the server correspond to the names Mail.app uses (so I don't have to remap the folders on all devices).

Therefore, my question is: what are the special folders names Mail.app uses by default?


texts: If I remote wipe my iPhone, can I still locate it remotely?

texts: If I lose my iPhone, and I use remote wipe to prevent my confidential data from being stolen, then can I still use Find My iPhone to locate it on a map?  I'm assuming not (since it resets to factory settings), but I wanted to double-check.


texts: On iPhone and iPad, how do I get the latitude and longitude number from the Maps app or Google Maps app?

texts:
For example, on a desktop computer, if I enter in Google Maps website:

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA

I can easily get in the URL

37.769425,-122.48840

If I use the Maps app or Google Maps app, is there a way to get the latitude and longitude number easily?


texts:
Disclaimer: I don't know much AppleScript, but I am a bit of a programmer, so you can go a little technical on me.

I am looking for a solution to the issue of putting Dropbox on an external HD.  While they don't advise it, I think that it can be done safely with a couple measures:

Run Dropbox when the hard drive is mounted through AppleScript.  This shouldn't be hard because I read that there is StartOnMount or I can listen for the hard drive's "folder" in /Volumes like here.
Stop Dropbox when the hard drive is ejected, wherein lies the problem.  Is there an event triggered by pushing the eject button that would allow me to run a script before un-mounting?

Either I use the above method or I somehow disable the drive from being unmounted by Mac OS X and mount and un-mount only through AppleScripts (hide it from the Finder's sidebar or, preferably, something better).  Which of those is the easier solution?


texts: How can I drag and drop transfer a playlist of songs using home sharing?

texts:
It's easy to browse a list of songs using home sharing and import all the songs that are "not in my library".

Once that is done, is there an easy way to get the same playlist on the new library?

There is no option to import a playlist. You can drag a playlist from another computer to one of yours. But that would end up copying all songs again and creating duplicates.

I ended up using Screen Sharing to export that playlist as File -> Library -> Export Playlist..., choosing XML format, then saving it to the desktop of the current mac. From there, it imported the playlist fine, but I was hoping I was missing a simpler, more drag and drop solution.

I can't believe I'm actually looking for another feature to be added to iTunes - it's got to be there somewhere.

Also, I don't want all the playlists - just a few so exporting the whole library won't speed things up or simplify the operation.


texts: Can I use iCloud with my devices on Windows XP?

texts:
We have two XP machines (in different cities) that up to now they have been the the hosts for syncing and backing up an iPad and iPhone via iTunes via USB.  We want to make use of iCloud, at least for backing up the iPhone and iPad.  As you know iCloud / it's control panel isn't supported on XP (without a hack to the installer).
I've got some questions about how the syncing and iCloud backup process will work in my situation.

1) Is it correct that we can enable iCloud on the iPhone and iPad (via iTunes on XP or directly on the iPhone and iPad) without the iCloud control panel being installed on XP?

2) If we use iCloud on the iPhone/iPad - and can't enable iCloud on XP - how will apps and media be synced to the XP iTunes?  Manually?

3) In the case of XP iTunes without iCloud and iPhone/iPad enabled apps, media, photos and data, is it correct that we would still benefit from iCloud automatic syncing of apps, media and data to/between the iPhone/iPad without risk of losing any media on the XP iTunes (as long as we manually sync XP iTunes with the App/iTunes Store)?


texts: Uninstall "Logitech app for bluetooth keyboard" completely on Macbook

texts:
I installed logitch app for bluetooth keyboard months ago.

After I uninstalled it from 'Application', it remind me to update every time I power on.

How to remove it?


texts: Is there a menu bar tool which will let me eject external drives easily?

texts:
I usually have a lot of external drives connected to my MacBook, such as flash drives, hard drives, and SD cards. It so happens that I need to eject them quite often.

The usual way I eject these is by either showing the desktop using a shortcut and dragging the drives I want to eject to the trash, or navigating to the finder and ejecting the drives from there, or by using a script which ejects all my external drives at once. However, when I want to do something simple like ejecting a flash drive or SD card (which I do quite often) I'd prefer not to break my workflow and simply be able to, say, click on a menu bar icon and select which volume I want to eject.

I haven't yet seen a utility which can achieve this. Does anyone know of one?


texts:
Where on earth did the "not junk"/thumbs up icon go in Mail?
Just upgraded to Sierra, and am unhappy it's apparently gone. I use that one often. Nothing in Messages drop-down either.


texts: I'd like to upgrade my old MacBookPro2,2 with something like a 120 GB Samsung 840 Basic SSD. Does that make sense?


texts: Filter out duplicate keystrokes in software?

texts:
I have a flaky keyboard which sometimes translates a single keystroke into several, and while I hope to repair it soon, I am wondering if there is a software solution which would help for the time being. For example, it could notice that a single key is being repeated too fast for a human to produce and filter out the bogus key events.

Does such a program exist?


texts: How do I set the working directory as the tab title in Terminal for Mac?

texts:
One of my Macs is running Mac OS Mojave and so for parity with my Catalina machine I switched the shell to zsh. Not sure exactly when but at some point I noticed the current working directory was never being displayed either in the prompt itself or in the title of the tab.

I found I way to restore the title to the prompt by adding this to my ~/.zprofile file: PROMPT='%~ '. However, I have not been able to restore the directory name to the tab title:

This is quite frustrating when dealing with multiple tabs, as I do daily. It would seem to me that everything in the Terminal's settings is correct:

Am I missing something or have I encountered a strange bug?


texts: How to add your university timetable to iCal?

texts:
Is there a common way to add institutional scheduling information (such as an individual's university course schedule or timetable) to iCal? In what format would it have to be published to be importable into iCal?

In other words, would it be possible for iCal to know what times during the day your availability is set to 'Busy' so that it warns you when creating appointments during those times?


texts: iPad calendar entry disappears after edit

texts:
I've been having a strange issue with future calendar entries disappearing for a while. I'm finally able to reproduce the problem. I have an iPad mini running iOS 9.3.5 (newest version it supports).

When I click on a link such as this one and select download to calendar it prompts me to add it to my calendar. After adding it, the entry appears on my calendar as expected.

If I then go into calendar, tap on the event, edit, change the reminder alert time, and tap done, the entry disappears from the calendar. I can reproduce this every time. One clue I noticed is that if I turn off iCloud for the calendar before I add the entry the problem does not occur.

It only happens when creating the invite via a link.  Events added manually never have this problem.  I've tried toggling iCloud on/off.  That didn't bring it back.  I also verified that I am not over my iCloud disk quota.  Any idea what is going on?


texts: My MBP will no longer shut down or restart

texts:
My Macbook Pro was purchased late 2013.  I now have OS X 10.9.5 (13F34).  All of my Apple drop down menu items have become dysfunctional. I consistently cannot shutdown or reboot.

What can I do?


texts:
Is it possible to script the exclude lists for Time Machine when setting up a new machine?

For example, for a new machine I would like to setup the following exclusion list:


texts: Shortcut to multiple commands for cleanup

texts:
To clean up cache and log files, I prefer to run following commands via terminal on daily basis (once a day, mostly in morning).

rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/* ~/Library/Caches/*
sudo rm -rf /Library/Logs/* /Library/Caches/*

I want to make a shortcut for above commands. I was thinking of putting them into a file (say, cleanup) where above and other similar commands are listed on seperate lines. Wheneven, I want to run above commands, it should be simpler command like run cleanup.

Is this possible? Also, can I put something like this when system starts (post booting)?


texts: Macbook Pro mid-2012: All applications are "damaged or incomplete", question mark on all apps, no icons

texts:
Over the past couple days I have experience truly the most bizarre issue with an Apple product I have ever experienced. It has a somewhat long story to it, so I have all relevant details in chronological order.

First off, here's my specs: Macbook Pro Mid-2012 i5 w/ 250GB SSD, 1TB HDD in optical bay, 8GB RAM. Running high sierra 10.13.2

Alright. So, my computer installed some updates overnight last weekend. Worked fine the next day, except that Spotlight stopped indexing my applications folder. Rather annoying, but not completely bizzare. I tried fixing it by adding the applications folder to the Spotlight blacklist, then remove it. That did nothing.

Monday night, I tried the following three commands to try to force it to reindex my entire drive:

sudo mdutil -i on /
sudo mdutil -i off /
sudo mdutil -E /

That did nothing immediately - again, unsurprisingly. But the next day, it still hadn't indexed the drive. The progress bar in Spotlight was stuck at the beginning.

Last night (Tuesday) was when the really bizzare stuff started happening. I tried to launch Fusion 360 (CAD software) from the dock, to be greeted with a "Fusion 360 cannot be opened because it is damaged or incomplete." I did the reasonable thing, and did a system reboot. I tried opening other software from the dock, but was greeted with the same message for all items in the dock. I then tried opening items from the launchpad, only to be greeted with no apps having icons whatsoever. Same thing with apps directly from my Applications folder - attempting to open any app, including system utilities like Terminal and Disk utility - resulted in the same damaged or incomplete error. Additionally, all the apps had their icons missing in the Applications folder. Right-clicking > show package content > browsing to the actual executable also does not work - it asks what software you would like to open the file with. I would have launched them from the terminal, but... well... I can't open it!

At this point, I got seriously freaked out about a corrupted drive, malware, etc, so I shut it down for the night. Today, I pulled the drive and took a full image of it for backup purposes. After some SMART analysis and the massive copy without any errors (used ddrescue on a linux box to clone the drive to an iso), I can say definitively that the SSD is not dying. After backing up the drive, I booted off a recovery USB drive and ran first aid on the main partition on the SSD, which found no errors.

I also tried other user accounts. First I tried another admin account, and google chrome launched on login fine, but no other software would open. After quitting google chrome, it refused to open again - same damaged or incomplete error. I then tried the guest account, where all the app icons on the dock are replaced with question marks. Again, nothing would open. However, I could open "About This Mac", and get a system report, etc. Clicking on software update results in a cryptic error about not being able to find the app to open that link with.

I also know that it isn't a broken SATA cable, as I've booted off a clone of the drive via USB and it has all the same issues.

At this point, I plan on doing a full OS reinstall and copying stuff back from my disk image. But if anyone has any idea why this happened in the first place, or what I could do to repair it short of doing a full reinstall, let me know. If you want screenshots of any of this weirdness (taken with a phone camera, because Preview can't open to take screenshots...) then let me know. Thank for any help!


texts: Cannot delete old Exchange account from Internet Accounts in El Capitan

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I have an old Exchange account, I don't have access to it nor remember the password.

I want to delete it.

When I go to Internet Accounts, select it, and click "-" to delete it, it asks "are you sure", I say "yes", and nothing happens. The account is still there.


texts: How much video can you record on a 64 GB iPhone 12?

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I’m considering a phone upgrade, but don’t really need a lot of storage.
Approximately, how much of different resolutions video, can one record onto a 64GB iPhone 12?
How many minutes of video would a gigabyte of HDR Video Recording with “Dolby Vision” contain? How can I research this without knowing the technical specifics of a format I cannot access until I purchase a phone?
I’m not looking for very exact answers, just an approximation of HD video sizes and lengths in the context of the camera tech used in this specific phone.


texts: Mounting a remote SCP or SFTP share on Mac

texts:
I use Fuse4X and ForkLift to mount a remote directory (a dev server). I use PHPStorm to open projects and source (/Volumes/dev/project_path), but sometimes it happens that Forklift freezes (in Activity Monitor 100 and more percent cpu). To solve this I have to kill Forklift, remount and reopen project.

Any idea or tip for better mounting?


texts: Microsoft Word for Mac - crazy keyboard response in review comments

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Problem:

I am reviewing a Word document using tracked changes and inserted comments.
Halfway through the process, I can no longer type normally in the inserted comments. Each time I hit a specific key, what shows up is a corrupted text with multiple repeated letters, all of the repeated letters changing with an additional press on the keyboard. Pressing backspace generates no response.

Observations:

ONLY this specific document that is affected. If I open a new document, all the comment typing functions work perfectly.
Tends to happen on files with large volumes of tracked changes and comments. It's as if I reach a certain volume of comments, and then BAM! No more commenting.

Solutions tried and failed:

Saving and restarting Microsoft Word
Restarting laptop

What I'm using:

Microsoft Word for Mac (2011, v.14.1.0)
2013 Macbook Air (MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6)
Laptop built-in keyboard

Thank you in advance for any ideas or suggestions!


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I tried Esc+Opt+Cmd, then selected Chrome and Force stop.
The name of the application dissapeared from that menu, but it was still freezed.
After 10 minutes I tried to reboot, but the computer were waiting for the application to close. In the end I pressed the power button for a couple of seconds to force the shutdown. Can I kill a lazy app without force-shutting down the mac?


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I have daily time machine backups. After a crash I am trying to restore the full disk but it keeps giving error of unable to the restore the restore disk.
I have old 2012 December MBR15 while I had Mojave running. I a root disk partition and another one for data. (The third one is the mac restore disk).
The TM was backing up full disk all this time.
Is there a way to to restore the root partition?

Now I wonder, what is so great in TM if it can only restore files and not the entire disk back.


texts: Mac High Sierra not able to open MacMail, iCal for more than 5 seconds

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I am facing some issue with iCal and Mail Application. As soon I open it closes it self within 5 seconds.

http://g.recordit.co/8q6iIK6cFS.gif

I have tried following things

Delete Following files

com.apple.mail.plist
com.apple.mail-shared.plist
/Users/users/Library/Mail/V4/MailData/Envelope*

Reset NVRAM

Start in Safe Mode

However nothing is working.


texts: How can I completely disable desktop background change?

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I need to block the possibility for a single user to change the desktop background, or at least to make it possible only by inserting his password on OS X Lion / Mountain Lion.

I want to lock every possibility, from iPhoto to Safari…


texts: Is "server performance mode" enabled or not?

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When experiencing some MAJOR file sharing slowdowns in a new macOS High Sierra machine running Server.app I came across this page from Apple showing how to enable "performance mode for macOS Server".

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202528

Some online resources make reference to the "old" procedure before SIP prevented that from working, and provided instructions on how to turn off SIP and then use "serverinfo" to enable perfmode, and then turn off SIP.

References at No boot-args in nvram and What does serverperfmode=1 actually do on macOS? gave me some more information, but I cannot find info about checking the perfmode status in High Sierra.

I have set the NVRAM variable like Apple says, and checking it returns the proper result of "boot-args serverperfmode=1" and I restarted a few times, but "serverinfo --perfmode" still returns the result of "Server performance mode is NOT enabled."

When set via the NVRAM, should "serverinfo --perfmode" tell me that performance mode is enabled? If not, how can I tell if it has been enabled? The NVRAM variable essentially says "turn it on when you boot", but it does not tell me "it got turned on when I booted".