texts: Install OS X 10.7 to 10-10 on MacBook Air MD232

texts: I have MacBook Air MD232. As we need to test our software on all OS X from 10.7 to 10.10, we need to install them all. Is it possible to install them on my MBA? When I buy, this MBA has been installed with Yosemite. I tried to install any other OSs by using "restore" feature from Disk Utility. However, restoring process were successful and pressing alt/option during restart, I get only gray screen with a stop sign and nothing happen afterwards. Would you please tell me how?


texts: Should I reinstall the OS after restoring from time machine?

texts:
A while back, my MacBook Pro died. It was an older machine (2007 I think), with a Core 2 Duo processor. I was doing regular backups through Time Machine. I bought a I7 MBP, and re-staged the new system by restoring from the Time Machine backup.

The performance of the new machine is not quite what I expected. It crashes fairly frequently, and seems to page-out memory even though I installed 16GB of RAM.

Would it be worthwhile to reinstall the OS? Is it possible that the OS restored from Time Machine is not taking full advantage of the new machine's processor and RAM?


texts: Is there any app for mac which I use to know the RBG value of the point where my mouse is right now?


texts: Will Apple reject my iOS app if it has unused UIViewControllers?

texts:
Will apple reject my iOS app if it has unused UIViewControllers?

I have many UIViewControllers in the Storyboard. However there are few of them I am leaving for next releases as they need more testing. Their functionality is implemented though.

Can I submit the app with these conditions?

The unused UIViewControllers are isolated from the used ones, So there are no segues between unused UIVC and a used one.


texts: Might have accidentally change admin user to standard user

texts:
So I tried deleting an app a few days ago and it requires admin name and password. I tried every single combination that i can think of and it wouldnt work. I then realize that I have a standard user instead of an admin. I tried the create a new admin user way but the permission is denied.
I got no idea how to proceed onwards. Help needed please.
Its a osx yosemite 10.10.5


texts:
I'm trying to execute an AppleScript .app thats compressed.

unzip -p file.app.zip | open -

or

open < $(unzip -p file.app.zip)

Is this possible?


texts: Can any settings reduce or eliminate the Mac OS X Lion Jumping Cursor Bug?

texts:
How do you stop the jumping cursor bug in Mac OS X Lion?

I am using the Magic Mouse and the cursor keeps jumping to the edge of the screen very often, every minute or two I say. The mouse seems to take off in whatever direction the mouse is moving, just going way too far leaving the cursor at the edge of the screen

After googling, it looks like it is a widespread issue and definately a Mac OS X Lion bug.

Are there any solutions besides waiting for Apple to fix this? Afterall, could take ages and I need to get work done!... Can't downgrade to Snow Leopard, new laptop with Lion.


texts: Why do Downloaded Google Maps expire after 29 days?

texts:
I am assuming when the map expires, that I am SOL if I try to use it.

Within the Google Maps app, one can download maps for offline use: great when traveling abroad, especially when there is no connectivity.  What is the reason for having the maps expire after such a short time span?  Is there a way to increase the number?  It's odd in the sense expiration is 29 days and not a round number.


texts: OSX ssh-agent: no password pasting, and problem with PKCS#8?

texts:
I use ssh on my machine, and have set up a long not-human-friendly passphrase which is saved in my password manager.
What makes me crazy every time is that I cannot paste into the window pictured below. I know the Remember password in my keychain option and use it. Sometimes I have to enter a new one though. Why can't I paste into a password field?

Same thing for the dialog which pops up when plugging in encrypted disks.

Some updates:

I found out how i can circumvent the dialog: just use ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa, and then I can paste the passphrase into the terminal.
As mattmcmanus mentioned, my Key is encryted using pkcs8 which was broken on Yosemite's ssh-agent. This is unrelated to the above problem, but it did occur to me at the same time (read here).
using ssh-add still not fixes this for encrypted disks.


texts: I have an iMac running High Seirra. I have quite a few photos on my mac that have names consisting of something like this: 11008553_991594160872293_5946103255845449374 and ending in _n.jpg. These look like normal jpegs but i don't understand the naming. What are these files?  They originally came from my iPhone.


texts: mid 2009 iPod Touch not downloading from the app store

texts:
Ever since iOS4.0 came out (even before I installed it) my iPod Touch no longer downloads apps from the appstore.  The appstore itself loads (slowly) but when I try to buy something, it just takes unbelievably long and then doesn't even ask me for my password 9/10 times.  I haven't tried buying a paid app because I don't want to pay for something that I don't get.

I can still buy apps from my laptop, but it's a pain.

I'm currently in Australia, but I still use the US appstore (since that's where I live).

Any ideas what it might be?


texts:
Just for my knowledge and curiosity,

I was looking at the different type of data located in the Cloud under my iOS iCloud Storage.

What are exactly Recovered_Files?

Example if I delete all the files included in this folder and I restore my iOS device from an iCloud back, what type of settings or files or metadata will be missing?

Thank you


texts: How to set up Time Machine backup for two macOS disks with third data disk?

texts:
I'm hoping someone has had experience with this and can offer some advice, here's the lowdown on my scenario.

I have a Mac Pro tower (so 4 drive bays) with all bays filled.

Bay 1 has a 320GB HDD hosting Mavericks
Bay 2 has a 1.5TB HDD JHFS+ formattedd for a data/archive disk
Bay 3 has a 320GB HDD hosting Windows 7
Bay 4 has a 120GB SSD that I just installed macOS Sierra on.

I have a 2TB external HDD that I use for Time Machine backups, and in the past I backed up disks 1 and 2, leaving the Windows disk alone, of course. Now that I have an SSD running Sierra, my goal is to use Sierra as my primary OS, and only use Mavericks when necessary. (And it is necessary, occasionally.)

Ultimately my concern is this: I do not need Time Machine trying to back up three disks to my backup disk from one OS, only to have it attempt to do the whole thing over again when I boot into the other OS. Is Time Machine intelligent enough to know that I am backing up the same three disks from two OS's?

Update: I ran Time Machine from the Sierra disk and it didn't try to duplicate the backup of the storage disk, so that's half of my question answered at least, but I'm still not sure I want to boot into Mavericks with the Time Machine disk connected until I know what to expect from it.


texts: Battery life of macbook air with different hardware configuration

texts:
Apple states that the 2014 11-inch MacBook Air has a battery life of 9 hours and the 13-inch model has a battery life of 12 hours.
These stats are for the default configuration:

Processor: 1.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 (Turbo Boost up to 2.7GHz)
with 3MB shared L3 cache;
RAM: 4GB of 1600MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory;
Storage: 128 Gb or 256 Gb PCIe-based flash storage.

MacBook Air can be upgraded though:

Processor: configurable to 1.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 (Turbo
Boost up to 3.3GHz) with 4MB shared L3 cache;

RAM: configurable to 8GB;

Storage: configurable to 512GB flash storage.
I believe the component that has the biggest impact on battery life is the processor, though also RAM could affect battery life. What about storage?
Do you have battery life stats of an upgraded MacBook Air?

Power is important for me but also battery life and weight, so I'd buy a MacBook Air, otherwise if I only cared about power I'd buy a MacBook Pro.


texts: EarPods are louder when put backwards into my ear

texts:
My EarPods (wired EarPods) broke recently.

Now if I put them in normally I can barely hear them, even at max volume.

If I cup my ears with my hands (with the EarPods in my ears in a normal position) then it's very loud again.

If I put the backs of the EarPods into my ears then it's loud, or upside down is also louder than the normal orientation.

Every other pair of EarPods I've tested work fine, it seems to be a problem with this specific pair.

How can I fix this problem?

I assume the speakers have twisted inside of them (maybe not), is there a way I can safely and reversibly open the EarPods to put it back the right way round?


texts: Activity Monitor: Is there a way to sum up child processes into their parents?

texts:
I really like the Hierarchical view in activity monitor for finding which process belongs to which application. The problem is that when you sort by "% CPU" it sorts by the value of the parent, not including the sum of its child processes. Is there a way to get it to include the child processes?
So for example, the screenshot below shows that "Smart Converter" is running on 5.4% of the CPU, but its child process "ffmpeg" is running on 1213.1% of the CPU. What I'm looking for is it to show 1218.5% for "Smart Converter", which is 5.4 + 1213.1. That way when you sort, it shows you the applications that are using the most CPU, then in turn, which child processes are using the most.


texts:
I got a problem with using the Touch ID to unlock my MacBook Pro 15" running macOS High Sierra. Whenever I lock my screen by clicking the  → Lock Screen (or Control + Command + q), Mac locks me out and shows me a password window.

I cannot use Touch ID to unlock it, I have to click the Switch User button, then go to the normal Login screen, and then I can use Touch ID to unlock it.

But my colleague, sees the normal Login screen always when he locks the screen on his MacBook.

Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?


texts:
Is there a way to use my USB web Camera which I use with my windows PC to use with my iPad first edition?

Or any other camera to use with ipad first edition.


texts: Is there any advantage to different file systems on microSD?

texts:
I have a two new microSD cards and I'm going to use them for overflow storage and Timemachine using macOS Catalina.
They have exFAT now.
Q. Is there any advantage to formatting them in any other format?  Specifically looking at safety as I've lost files on another microSD that is using exFAT.  The files were lost, yet the drive was still seen and some files came back.  So I'm looking for any file system that is safer or can recover lost files better than others.


texts: How to get iMessages from phone and old Apple ID email?

texts: My 12 year old just got an iPhone. She has an old iPad that she has been using to text. She wants to be able to get texts on both the new iPhone as well as the iPad. Problem is, the iMessages she gets on the iPad are an aol account associated with an old apple ID. A couple years ago, we had to create a new Apple ID for each of our kids to be able to use family sharing. So she has 2 different Apple IDs. Is there a way for her to see texts for both on both devices?


texts: Do adapters exist to install generic SSDs in MacBook Airs?

texts:
I have a rescued mid-2013 11 inch MacBook Air working great off external USB 3 hard drive but missing its internal SSD.

They use a custom SSD, which seem to be expensive even used and aftermarket.

Are any adaptors available to install a generic SSD?

I Googled and thought I found that they do now exist, but then I realized the ones I found were the opposite, for using the SSDs from various MacBooks in other laptops etc.


texts: How is the UUID for a user used by macOS?

texts: In the Advanced Options for a user under the Users & Groups System Preference, there is field for UUID and a button for Create New next to it. How is the UUID used by macOS and what are the implications of changing it?


texts: Measure decibels while recording video or in playback

texts:
I have an iPhone SE.
Is there a way to measure the decibel as video is being recorded, and include it as part of the captured video?  I want to show that there is something wrong with the mounting of a washroom ventilation fan.  It is extremely loud after the motor was replaced.
This link indicates that it is not possible, but it applies to playback.  Therefore, it must be referring to audio coming from a recording, and apparently after automatic gain control (AGC).
In contrast, what I'm seeking is a measurement right off the mic.
On a related matter, the above link also seems to indicate that AGC is applied as the audio is coming in, i.e., before the signal actually gets captured as a recording.  Why would AGC be applied before capture rather than after?  It seems that this compromises the fidelity of the recording.  Applying AGC on the playback seems to achieve the same thing without compromising the fidelity of the capture.
P.S. If I can't do what I seek, I will fall back to the "RTA Audio" suggested in the above thread, or a CDC NIOSH app.


texts: Cannot log out from iCloud to turn off Find My iPhone because the account is locked

texts:
I can't log out from iCloud on an iPhone 6 Plus. After I enter the password, a popup is shown saying I need to unlock the account because it's locked for security reasons.

I can use the same Apple ID on a different iPhone normally.

How can I turn off Find My iPhone?


texts: Is there a way to order all the files and folders automatically?

texts:
I am new to OS X, but there's one thing that annoys me a little bit, which is that every time I have to clean up all the files (by name, for example) because they are always pasted in an unordered way.

I would not like to lose time to order them every time I change the content of the folders.


texts: Can I display notifications on my non-primary monitor? Or on both displays?

texts:
This issue has plagued Growl for ages.  And ML's track record with multiple monitor support isn't great.

But it's worth asking: can I display notification center's badges or alerts on multiple displays, or on the non-primary display?  Plist tricks?


texts: Install High Sierra on a dual booted MBP [Mac 10.11.6 and Windows 7]

texts:
I have a Late 2011 13" MBP running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6.

I needed to run some windows apps on my lappy so I used Boot Camp Assistant to partition --the only storage disk my laptop-- a 250 GB SSD and install Windows 7 on it.

Now I need some Mac apps that require a newer version of OS X to run, What's the best way to install High Sierra and have all the three OS's?

I'm a Mac noobie so please go easy on me :)


texts: Can AppleScript select text after my cursor between designated characters?

texts:
I would like an AppleScript to start from my current cursor location (or the end of the current selection if there is one), scan forward to the next ";" or "(", then select all text until before the next ")" or ";". Then drop any spaces or "[" or "]" from each end of the selection.

If I were to do this with "brute force", it would look like this:

step cursor forward until I pass "(" or ";"
continue stepping forward until I reach a character that is not " " or "[".
begin selection
select forward until I reach ")" or ";"
reduce selection until previous character is not " " or "]"

Example:

If my cursor is at the beginning of the block:

  JSONSetElement ( json ; [ keyOrIndexOrPath ; value ; type ]; [ keyOrIndexOrPath ; value ; type ]; )

I want the AppleScript to first select "json", then "keyOrIndexOrPath", then "value", then "type", then "keyOrIndexOrPath", etc.

  Average ( field {; field...} )

Would select "field {", then "field...}"


texts: iterm2 how to change or toggle split orientation?

texts:
Is it possible to change from vertical splits to horizontal splits and vice versa?
Something like  vscode's toggle editor layout.


texts: Force MacBook to drain the battery while connected to charger

texts:
I leave my MacBook Pro on my desk nearly all the time, connected to the charger with the lid closed, connected to an external display.  I've heard this is bad for the battery health, and everyone in my office have to replace swollen batteries every couple of years.
I want to regularly discharge the battery, per Apple's recommendation, but I don't want to physically unplug it because that temporarily turns off the external monitor, and then I have to reconnect the monitor.  So I am looking for a software method of disabling the power input, to force the laptop to discharge its battery to 20% and then re-enable the power input.


texts: Make safari use normal `back` and `forward` button as other browser

texts: As you might know, Safari use different short to go forward and back in history, CMD+[ and CMD+]. How do I change that to use normal back and forward button as on most mouse and other browser?


texts: Deleted email from iPad while offline gets a strikethrough line on web app rather than deleted

texts:
When I delete an email message in Mail on my iPad, everything works normally—unless I'm offline. When this is the case, it deletes from the iPad, but the message on the web interface (in this case FastMail) retains it in the Inbox with a strikethrough line:

Is this a problem with IMAP, Mail, or FastMail? How can I make Mail actually delete the message?


texts: MacBook wont boot after creating two small partitions

texts:
I recently created 2 small partitions, and after that, I shutdown my Mac. Then when I turned Mac back on today it took awhile to boot and then showed a blocked symbol.

I tried booting into the recovery partition. Then I deleted the partition, which is 10 GB in size, but I'm not able to delete the second partition, which is 15 GB. Also, when I tried creating the partitions before, it showed "Operation failed".

After some time, two partitions showed up, both named -- and greyed out. Macintosh HD no longer shows up in Disk Utility. Only some weird disk image shows up as OS X Base System.

I tried to reinstall macOS Sierra but the Macintosh HD partition again does not show up. I tried First Aid but it shows Macintosh is corrupted and needs to be recovered in Recovery, but I booted in the recovery partition only.

So how do I make my mac boot up normally and delete the 15GB partition without losing any data and erasing my HD.

macOS Sierra 10.12.5

And is this problem a serious issue or not?

Output of gpt -r show disk0 per klanomath's request:

start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  205318496      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  205728136    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  206997672   29718320      4  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  236715992     262151
  236978143         32         Sec GPT table
  236978175          1         Sec GPT header


texts: How to do multiple conditions in one formula; and/or use a string as a condition?

texts:
I’m trying to make a formula that does different things under different conditions in different cells. What I have is:

IF(BM16=−1,1,"O")

This produces the letter ‘O’ for open in my case.

What I want is the above plus if BK16 is >0 and/or if BM16 is greater than >-1 then the cell will produce a blank. Can this all be done in one formula?

Another way, and possibly better, to do this in my sheet would be IF(BM16=−1,1,"O") plus check for a string generated in an adjacent cell by a different conditional: resulting in the above formula plus IF ‘string’ in a specified cell = X OTM, then generate a blank cell.


texts: In Messages for iOS, can I delete an individual photos from a conversation?

texts:
While Messages for macOS allows for the deletion of individual photos from a conversation, the photos are not deleted on other iMessage clients so they have to be deleted off of each client that was open at the time. This is a problem when my girlfriend decides to text me risqué photos over the weekend and I left Messages running on my work machine. I guess I have some careful deleting to do tomorrow!

Anyway, I am unable to find out how to delete a photo from a conversation on iOS Messages at all. Is it even possible? The only way to do it appears to be to delete the entire conversation which I do not want to do. Anyone have any clues?


texts: How do you make the dock more sensitive to being shown?

texts:
The amount that you have to move the mouse downwards to get the dock to trigger is too high in my opinion.  I've only found the following settings:

defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0

This set the speed of the transition to 0, but does not make it easier to trigger.

defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0

This sets the delay to 0 once triggered, but does not make it easier to trigger.

I want it to launch the moment the mouse touches the edge of my screen.

Thanks

Edit: the suggested duplicate has no answers that answer this question as addressed in the text above.


texts: Is it possible to bypass a proxy when the proxy settings are set to Auto Proxy Config?

texts:
I've set up Automatic Proxy Configuration (PAC) in OSX Snow Leopard to point to a URL. I've also filled out the "Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts & Domains" box because I want to skip the proxy for certain sites. (I'm using pow which as far as I understand, works by creating a local mini dns server.)

If I use Apple's Web Proxy/Secure Web Proxy, it'll use my settings for bypassing the proxy, but apparently not for PAC. Any way to make this work?


texts: tmutil - Failed to delete local snapshot

texts:
My mbp is stuck on boot and fsck cannot be performed because of:

snap_metadata_val object (oid <aléatoire>): invalid extentref_tree_oid (0x0)

It happens that I have dataless snapshot and if I try to:

tmutil deletelocalsnapshots <date>

I'm getting:

Failed to delete local snapshot '<date>'


texts: iPhone playing songs NOT on any of my playlists

texts: I have deleted some songs my roomie used to listen to but they keep playing when I activate music play on iOS 7. I can't figure out how that would happen. A song will come on. I will go to my only playlist. It won't be there but it's still playing. Next week same thing. Makes  no sense. Help I hate his music!


texts: What is this dollar sign ($) icon in my Menu Bar?

texts: It just appeared this most recent time I opened my mac and I don't remember installing anything with this logo. It doesn't show any options for me to do anything when I click on it either. Have I been hacked?


texts: Cannot Actvate Setup assistant in MacOS Catalina after Migration Crash

texts:
I bought a new Macbook Air 2018 with macOS Catalina.  I wanted to transfer my stuff from my old computer so I tried to use Migration Assistant.  It crashed in the middle of the process.

Now my main user is "corrupted".  I cannot login because it crashes and reboots every time I try to access.

I tried Activate Setup assistant in recovery mode but I'm still getting the message /Volumes/Macintosh HD/var/db/.AppleSetupDone no such file or directory.

What else can I do to fix this?


texts: Why doesn't sed pattern matching treat '\t' as a  character?

texts:
I have a file with some leading tabs and I tried to convert the tabs to spaces by using sed:

cat test_file | sed -e 's/[\t]/    /g'

It works properly on various flavours of UNIX, but on my Mac (Sierra) it doesn't treat '\t' as an escape for tab (hex 0x09) rather it treats it as two separated characters.

grep properly handles the \t shortcut for tab.


texts: How is iMessage/FaceTime/iCloud service in China?

texts: A non-tech savvy friend is going to China. I need to stay in contact with him while he's there. I've set up WeChat to ensure we're not stalled by firewalls, but I'd really like to use iMessage and FaceTime there. How do iMessage and FaceTime work in China? What about iCloud File Sharing?


texts:
How can I use Regular Expressions in Spotlight on Mountain Lion?

I want to use my knowledge of regular expressions to make my search results more exact.


texts: Adding a line break to a shell output in AppleScript

texts:
I've got a script working but not the way I want. Here's the script

return do shell script "BLUETOOTH_DEFAULTS=$(defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth); SYSTEM_PROFILER=$(system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType); MAC_ADDR=$(grep -b2 \"Minor Type: Headphones\"<<<\"${SYSTEM_PROFILER}\"|awk '/Address/{print $3}'); CONNECTED=$(grep -ia6 \"${MAC_ADDR}\"<<<\"${SYSTEM_PROFILER}\"|awk '/Connected: Yes/{print 1}'); BLUETOOTH_DATA=$(grep -ia6 '\"'\"${MAC_ADDR}\"'\"'<<<\"${BLUETOOTH_DEFAULTS}\"); BATTERY_LEVELS=(\"BatteryPercentCombined\" \"HeadsetBattery\" \"BatteryPercentSingle\" \"BatteryPercentLeft\" \return\"BatteryPercentRight\"); if [[ \"${CONNECTED}\" ]]; then for I in \"${BATTERY_LEVELS[@]}\"; do declare -x \"${I}\"=\"$(awk -v pat=\"${I}\" '$0~pat{gsub (\";\",\"\"); print $3 }'<<<\"${BLUETOOTH_DATA}\")\"; [[ ! -z \"${!I}\" ]] && OUTPUT=\"${OUTPUT} $(awk '/BatteryPercent/{print substr($0,15,1)\": \"}'<<<\"${I}\")${!I}%\"; done; printf \"%s\\n\" \"${OUTPUT}\"; else printf \"%s Not Connected\\n\" \"${OUTPUT}\"; fi" # Version 2.3

It returns:

L: 82% R: 88%

What I want it to return is:

L: 82%
R: 88%

I can't for the life of me figure out how to add the break. I've tried \n, \t, \r, & return &,... nothing works. This is probably just my ignorance though. I know enough to get myself in trouble.

Any thoughts?


texts: Appstore not automatically checking for updates since iOS 11

texts:
Just me or has the appstore app stopped automatic checks for app updates since iOS 11? Updates aren't found and hence the badge on the app icon isn't shown.
Only if I manually open the appstore app and refresh-pull the updates tab the app updates are polled.


texts: How do you get Spotlight to search in sub-directories?

texts: How do you get Spotlight to search in sub-directories like Windows Explorer does? Here I have done the same search on the same directory - the root of the usb drive SFD223128GB using both OS X Finder and Windows Explorer (via Parallels). The results are different - it seems that the Finder doesn't search within sub-directories. Is there a way to change this?


texts: macOS How to turn on airplay automatically on setup

texts:
I have a Mac mini, and I use it without wired monitor .

Every time, I connect to it with my old Macbook by screen sharing, and turn airplay on, mirroring the screen to a portable monitor. then close the macbook and begin working with Mac mini. ( of course I use bluetooth mouse and keyboard)

My questions is, how to turn on airplay automatically on setup - especially if I can use the command line to automate this?


texts: Post a file from pages.app to a Yahoo! group

texts:
My wife and I can't figure out how to post a file from the Pages.app on her iPad to a Yahoo! group.  From Pages.app, she can email the file to herself, but can't post it to the file sharing section of Yahoo! groups.

Since she got it, my wife has been working diligently to ditch her laptop and go iPad only.  Until now, nearly everything she needs to do has been doable.  Some things are harder, but almost always, they are "doable."  This is the first time we couldn't find a solution without using a laptop.

The file that needs to be posted are PTA meeting minutes (taken directly on the iPad in Pages.app) and the Yahoo! group is one that was created years ago and is already well established for the PTA (i.e., We can't move the whole PTA over to another service like iCloud).

Any suggestions out there?


texts: What is the best way to block ocsp.apple.com on mac?

texts: There seems to be some bug where mac os is constantly contacting http://ocsp.apple.com. You can prevent it by turning off the wifi, but then your computer is nothing more than a fancy calculator. Is there a program, vpn, or even the firewall option, to block this site from the whole os?


texts: iPhone 6 and iPad picking up different location settings for search and ads

texts:
iPad and iPhone think they're in a different country. All ads and searches default to Hong Kong.

I have checked my location setting on each device and they're set for Australia and I've cleared the history in Safari as suggested elsewhere but no change to the searches and ads. Help required.


texts: Finder closes after emptying trash or ejecting a disk

texts: Is it possible to change some Finder settings so that it doesn't automatically close the window when the Trash is emptied or a usb disk/hard drive is ejected?


texts:
Can anyone identify this menu bar icon?

Every minute or so, it quickly appears and disappears in my menu bar, just for a few seconds.


texts: Early 2013 Retina display on Late 2013 MacBook Pro 13 inch compatibility

texts: Does a MacBook Pro 13 inch Retina late 2013 work with an early 2013 Retina display? As far as I know just the webcam cables are different. Does that mean that the display works just without the webcam (which I don't need)?


texts: After iOS 5 update can't open Photos.app

texts:
Camera works and stores somewhere photos. But I can't open Photo.app...
I have tried many things to solve this problem:

Quiting Photo.app
iPhone restrat
iPhone restore

Image Capture doesn't sea any photos as well.

All the same.

Do you have any ideas how to troubleshot this.

Thank you in advance.


texts: How to recover a compromised Mac OS 10.8.5

texts:
Computer got Safari hijacked by the "police" virus. Temporary solved by using Firefox instead.
Questions:

Read on numerous forums that you could reinstall OS X by holding
down cmd + R keys. However, this computer ignores this.
Also tried the CD/DVD which came with the computer. Clicking on Install OS X renders something like You cannot install this version.
Also tried starting with the CD/DVD by holding down the C key but that makes the screen go all gray and stay such.


texts: iTunes Home Sharing never updates Play Counts or Ratings from iPhone

texts:
Ever since iTunes introduced Home Sharing, the Preferences dialog has had a checkbox titled "Home Sharing computers and devices update play counts".  But this option has never had any effect whatsoever that I can discern.

You can rate the songs on your iPhone and the rating will appear to stick on the iPhone, but when you disconnect from the Home Sharing, the ratings you've just made are discarded.  And the Play Counts in your iTunes library will never update.

Can this be fixed or is this just a huge bug since the beginning of Home Sharing?


texts: How do I know what version the Mini DisplayPort port is on my 2010 MacBook Pro?

texts: I want to connect 2 monitors to my MacBook Pro (mid-2010). The problem is that I don't if the Mini DisplayPort is version 1.2, which would support daisy chaining.  How can I figure out what version firmware my Mini DisplayPort uses and whether or not it would support daisy chaining?


texts:
The latest iOS update (11.1.1) bricked my iPhone, and it appears that I will need to reset the phone to factory settings and then restore from my (iTunes) backup. I have a fairly recent backup available, but by far the most important thing that I need to be sure will continue to work is my Google Authenticator codes.

I'm not changing devices, just reseting and restoring from backup to the same one. Will my Google Authenticator codes work if I restore my iPhone from a backup?


texts: Yosemite Messages Screen Sharing Disabled

texts:
I'm trying to screen share on from within the Messages app with another iMessage user. We're both on Yosemite, and we've successfully used Messages's new screen sharing feature many times. One day, we discovered the screen share button was disabled. It has never come back.

Screen sharing is enabled in the Video menu, and we are both on the most recent version of Yosemite. I'm not sure how to look for answers without even an error message to go on.


texts: How do I add the "explicit" tag to albums in iTunes

texts: I know how to add explicit tags to individual tracks, but I'd like to know how to add the tag to albums/the album title as well. I'm using windows if that affects anything.


texts: Does Time Capsule require Internet to properly function as a backup server?

texts:
Is it possible to use Time Capsule without the Internet as an offline private wifi network for backup?

I have read only tales of terror in my search for anecdotes and instructions regarding set-up other than using the time capsule as the cornerstone of my

I have live power outlets in some pretty obscure places, and as sleek as this little white box is, I see only trouble having it anywhere near the kids or even me for that matter. I might even run some power and make a little shelf between studs before I finish up the drywall.

I would like to leave my existing, hassle-free cable wifi setup completely untouched.

Time Capsule model year 2013-2014, Laptop is 2013 MacBook Air.


texts: macOS: Is /etc/fstab file deprecated? What is the recommended config file then?

texts:
I am running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6. When I look for /etc/fstab file, I found /etc/fstab.hd file (no /etc/fstab file was present), and the file content says IGNORE THIS FILE.

But when I google, there are many articles still talking about /etc/fstab such as this link. So should I create and use /etc/fstab file? If it's not recommended, what is the recommended config file then?


texts: How can I turn off music automatically starting after phone call in iPhone

texts:
I use an iPhone 11 with a Sennheiser noise cancelling PXC 550-II Bluetooth headset.

Every time I end a phone call, the iPhone starts playing a seemingly random song from my music library. I understand the benefit from pausing music during a phone call, but when music was turned off before the call, I expect it to stay that way after the call.

I looked, and it seems MacOS has similar issues, but there is no mention (or solution) for the iPhone.

So is it

Me, because I overlooked a setting in iPhone
some bug in IOS, or
the Sennheiser headset?

I sort of hope for 1) because that would be a quick fix instead of having to report bugs to the vendors.


texts: How Do I Disable Remote Management and Enable Screen Sharing?

texts:
I am connected to a headless remote Mac Mini. Under Sharing in the System Preferences both Remote Login and Remote Management are checked though Remote Mangement is "grayed out". I would like to disable Remote Management and enable Screen Sharing.

Currently the Screen Sharing checkbox is "grayed out". When I click on it, I get the following message: "Screen Sharing is currently being controlled by the Remote Management service." This warning to not continue makes sense if I would lose my current VNC connection and not be able to turn it back on remotely.

To access the remote server I Connect to Server (command-k) vnc://IPnumber

I would like just Remote Login and Screen Sharing enabled and Remote Management disabled.

Does anyone know the steps for me to accomplish this goal remotely?


texts: How to delete all partitions from iMac without an OS installed and rebuild a fusion drive without UUID

texts:
a friend of mine bought a second hand iMac and they erased sort of everything from the iMac before it was given to him. There is no OS installed and it's not possible to instal a new version from OSX from Internet Recovery because the Hard Drive is greyed out. When I open terminal and check distil list this shows up:
What are those 17 disks? and how can I remove them and rebuild the whole harddrive? Everywhere I look they say that is should have an UUID but when I use diskutil cs list it says "No CoreStorage logical volume groups found".

iMac 27" early 2016
2TB Fusion
8GB Ram
Internet recovery (El Capitan)

I hope there is someone that can help me!

So this is actually my question. Can I delete everything there is on this harddrive and rebuild it al?

grts,

Alex


texts: The speed connection drops down after a few months

texts:
I don't understand what's the deal with USB-C Ethernet adapter and dock.
I bought many USB-C Ethernet adapters and docks (for  example Anker USB Type-C to Ethernet, USB C Hub 8 in 1, uni USB-C, Hyper Drive GEN2 12-in-1 USB-C Dock) and I always hand up getting an issue with the NIC.
Every time I'm getting a normal speed at the beginning of 940Mbps+, after a few months, (even faster for the Hyper Drive), the speed is dropping drastically to 100/120Mbps.
Just to clarify, there is no network issue, no Ethernet cable issue. When the same switch/port/VLAN is connected to another client, I get the full speed.
I initially thought it was an issue with the Thunderbolt 3 port of my MacBook Pro 2019 16inch. I sent it back to Apple, but they couldn't replicate the issue. (I don't think they would have a gigabit WAN to test, and I really doubt they would do a iPerf.)
I don't know what to do now. Should I only buy thunderbolt 3 docks/adaptors, and avoid USB-C (non Thunderbolt)? (It's all over 300€ if I want to keep PD which is 96W, in my case.)


texts: Disassociate Game Center account from device without access to device

texts:
I play the game Clash of Clans on my iPad, and for a while I allowed a friend to use my Game Center account. Now I need it back but he won't let me play it. He changes the layout and ruins it and everything. I changed the password but he can still play the game since my base is now attached to his iPad.

Is there anything I can do to dissociate his device with my Game Center ID to prevent him from continuing to play the game from my user?


texts: I am about to buy MacBook Air from Kuwait, and I wonder if I can purchase warranty from Canada since am living in Canada and am a student of a University there?


texts: Download photos from digital camera to iCloud

texts: When I connect my Sony digital camera to my MacBook Air, photos go Dropbox instead of going to iCloud.  I have enough space in my iCloud account, which is almost empty.


texts:
With reference to the following thread (but without the security issue):

IOS 10 warning: Using a hidden network can expose personally identifiable information

Unsafe or not... Could this be a potential battery thief?

*Edit: This thread was put on hold (because of too little info.), so I add a complimentary question here to mike's answer below...

Are you saying that the "iDevices" are making broadcasts the very same way for not hidden networks as for a hidden ones? In that case, what content is broadcasted for those networks that are not hidden?

*Edit2: Please see discussion below. It would be nice if you could keep this thread open until it is answered.


texts: Disable volume adjustment sound effect while audio is playing

texts:
When there is currently no audio playing, the 'blip blip' sound effect is useful to know where the volume is currently set.  But when there IS audio playing, you don't need the sound effect, yet is plays anyway.  It is annoying, especially if you are using your computer for a presentation, or music at a party, etc.

Has anyone found a way to disable the volume adjustment sound effect for when audio is already playing?


texts: Preventing iTunes from keeping old versions on "Mobile Applications" folder

texts:
I just manually deleted about 1gb of useless old version files from that folder. But I've got 966 items there and no way to going through them all, plus some of them are not even that simple to identify as being an older version of the same app since they change names.

Is there any way to automate the process? Why are they kept there in the first place?


texts: I have an iPad 2, it is not charging at all. What can I do? I have tried a different charger,

texts: Everything I need to say is mentioned in the question.


texts: Can be iPhone detected in 'Find my iPhone' service after recover?

texts:
I lost my iPhone and while it was turned on I could lock it and put in 'Lost mode' through  Apple 'Find My iPhone' service.

Unfortunately almost one month it's not found and until now I had hope to find it.

If somebody found it and recovered or re-installed iOS on that phone, can it be detected after turning on in my iCloud service anyway? or I lost it forever?


texts: Software Update command (on Mac) not listing all the updates

texts:
On regular basis, I check for OS and App updates using terminal and softwareupdate command

Recently, there was update of Slack app but command output didn't show the same. I was able to view update on AppStore.

Below was the output of the command.

$ softwareupdate -all
Software Update Tool

Finding available software
Software Update found the following new or updated software:
   * Command Line Tools (macOS High Sierra version 10.13) for Xcode-10.0
    Command Line Tools (macOS High Sierra version 10.13) for Xcode (10.0), 190520K [recommended]
   * Safari12.0HighSierraAuto-12.0
    Safari (12.0), 78915K [recommended]

Any reason why Slack update was not listed? Am I missing any parameter?


texts:
A bit of info about my configuration

OS X: Mavericks
iOS: 7.1.1
Hardware: iPhone 5s and BacBook Pro (Late 2013)
They are both on same Wifi network.

Problem

iTunes doesn't recognize iPhone's remote app in any way.

What I tried

Reinstalled OS X
Reinstalled Remote app on iPhone
Reinstalled iOS
Resetted Wifi router (There is no problem with router. It worked with same configuration about half year ago)
Tried with and without home sharing
Deauthorized and reauthorized iTunes
Signed out of Apple account and signed in on iTunes
Turned off OS X Firewall
Reset iTunes configuration
Tried to switch WiFi signal channel

Neither iTunes nor iPhone doesn't recognize each other. Any suggestions?


texts: Boot Camp Low Audio Level Through 3.5mm Audio Jack

texts:
Description:

When using the 3.5mm audio output while booted into Windows 10, audio is barely audible at max volume; built-in speakers work perfectly. That is, the volume is very soft when my headphones are plugged in. Windows partition installed through Boot Camp Assistant.

Device: 2018 15" MacBook Pro, Vega 20 GPU.

OS: Tested on Windows 10 1809 AND 1903 (Both fully updated)

Boot Camp Assistant Version: 6.1.0 (6067.230.4)

What I Have Tried:

Clean install Windows 10 1809 and 1903
Enable and disable Windows Sonic For Headphones
Cannot disable audio Enhancements (the tab is missing for some reason)
Reinstall Mojave
Reinstall Windows Support Software

Observation:

Cirrus audio driver does not seem to be installed, but rather Apple Audio Driver. I am assuming this is normal?

Comments:

Is this a driver issue or a "me" issue. Headphone audio level is normal while using macOS Mojave. Windows 10 installation went smoothly and was uneventful. I did not have this problem on my 2015 15" MacBook Pro.


texts:
I have bought an iPad 2 a few days ago, have configured it but I am unable to use FaceTime or iMessages. After searching a while, I found this page (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4627). It says how I can manage my devices on iTunes Store but when I follow the steps and visit my account I don't see the MANAGE DEVICES item I should. Apparently the problem I am having is that my iPad is not associated with my Apple ID. The iPad is a brand new, bought on a store.

How do I associate this new iPad with my apple ID?

Another problem is this: if I try to flick the switches for automatic downloads of apps and books the same switches flick to off half second later.


texts: What does "The iTunes Store is unable to process purchases at this time" message mean and how can I fix it?

texts: I’ve been getting this message a lot. It just started today and I haven’t tried to purchase or download anything.


texts: How to fine tune force touch trackpad sensitivity?

texts:
The force touch trackpad seems great but I would like to reduce it's sensitivity.

It seems the UI allow selection of 3 modes:
Click: Light - Medium - Firm
which both set sensitivity and the haptic feedback level.

Would it be possible to set the sensitivity in a more fine way ? Maybe by command line ?


texts: MacBook Pro fan running with no CPU load and computer is COLD

texts:
Under normal circumstances (not installed new programs recently; had the usual programs running) I found my MacBook Pro 13" (Early 2015) with the fans running at average speed.

I always have the Activity Monitor CPU load indicator in Dock, to keep an eye at CPU usage, but this time it was not some program that got stuck using 100% CPU.

I downloaded iStat Menus to check temperatures, and I confirmed everything is cold:

Air Flow Proximity: 38°C
Battery TS1: 33°C
Battery TS2: 32°C
Battery TS_MAX: 33°C
CPU Core 1: 43°C
CPU Core 2: 42°C
CPU Gfx Core: 42°C
CPU Proximity: 41°C
CPU System Agent Core: 44°C
DDR3 Proximity: 39°C
PCH PECI Die: 45°C
Palm Rest: 32°C
Palm Rest 2: 31°C
Right Fin Stack: 36°C
SSD: 36°C
Hard Drive: 35°C

Fan: 6198rpm

CPU Vcore: 1.87V
DC In: 16.45V
PBus: 12.93V

These values are steady since half an hour, and the fan keeps running at this speed.

Do temperature values look normal?
The computer chassis is cold, and the air blowing from behind function keys also is cold.

What could be the cause and what can I do?


texts: How to download entire iCloud photo library to external drive attached to my MacBook

texts: I have a large iCloud photo library (60K + images).  I want to keep my iCloud library as it is and make a copy of it onto an external drive (attached to my MacBook, running Big Sur).  What is the easiest way to do this please?


texts: I would like to use my iPod touch 3.1 only for music, pictures and videos.  Can I still download music to this iPod from my current iPhone music list?


texts: How to type backslash and pipe? (Czech layout, USB keyboard)

texts:
I use an USB keyboard with my Macbook Pro - no choice here, some of the keys of internal keyboard are damaged. The Keyboard is from Genius, type LuxeMate i200. I use Czech QWERTY layout.

Everything pretty much works, although I can't seem to find a way how to type backslash \ and pipe | characters.

Above the right Enter, I have a mysterious key with following characters:

first row: | ) ;
second row: \ ň ¨ (and "circle in front of x" i can't even type)

I've tried the following:

key: ¨
left SHIFT + key: `
right SHIFT + key: `
left ALT + key: ¨
right ALT + key: ¨
left SHIFT + key: "
right SHIFT + key: "
FN + key: ¨

I would really like to avoid switching between keyboards OR copying the characters from Google, as I use them a lot. Can someone help me please?

EDIT: Here is a photo of the keyboard, if that helps.

EDIT 2: Thanks @krnk, the keyboard viewer helped with the backslash character! I still have a problem with the pipe character though.

What the viewer shows is not consistent with the keyboard (there is no key between left shift and Z key, for example, which would solve my problem with the pipe). Is that maybe another symptom of misconfiguration?

Is there anything else I could try besides "changing keyboard type" (which I already did)?


texts: How to exclude Mail messages from Finder search?

texts:
I want to exclude Mail messages from showing up in Finder search.

->FINDER, NOT SPOTLIGHT<-

I have asked this question on other platforms, and I have found the emphasis is very necessary. Yes, you can exclude Mail from Spotlight by going to the Spotlight preference pane and unchecking Mail. This has no effect on Finder, at least in Mavericks (it did in Lion. I skipped Mountain Lion, but I believe it also suffers from this problem.)

You can  also narrow what IS returned in Finder search, by clicking the plus sign and adding filters. But this is not a solution either: you can only filter what "is" returned, there is no "is not" option.

For bonus points, answers about how to exclude folders would also be wonderful. If you have ebooks, you know that they too turn up in pretty much every search. Put simpler, I just want the Spotlight preferences to apply to Finder...like they used to.


texts: Update from OS X 10.11 beta release to retail version

texts:
A few days after it was released, I installed the first beta of OS X 10.11 El Capitan on my MacBook Air (Early 2015 model). The El Capitan beta has been running more or less stable and I only had some minor issues that were resolved in later beta releases.

It hasn't occurred to me to check my OS X version for a while. Upon doing so now, OS X still reads "OS X 10.11 Beta", but the Mac App Store doesn't display an available update.

How can I update to the latest retail version of OS X El Capitan?


texts:
I would like to execute a script on my machine every five minutes, even when I am not in front of my mac OS X Yosemite. Therefore, I would like to lock my session and shut off the screen while the computer stays active. How can I do that.
I have tried with a crontab.

Let's say this is my script :

#!/bin/bash
D=`date +%Y%m%d.%H%M`
echo "Hello" > "test_$D.txt"

and this is my crontab entry

*/5 * * * * /MyPath/script.sh > /MyPath/log

When I do this, and when I lock my session, or start the screen saver, the crontab doesn't execute, which mean that I need to keep my session and my screen open all day long. Is there a way to do what I want to do with a mac?


texts: Which version of Windows runs best on an early 2011 MacBook Pro (and how do I obtain it)?

texts:
I'd like to install Windows on my early 2011 MBP via Bootcamp so I can run a highly critical piece of software (Guild Wars 2).

The system reqs. are XP or better.

Which version of Windows?

On searching Amazon, I found that there are several versions of Windows for sale.

There's Windows 7 Home Premium. That sounds about right I guess. But does the "Premium" tag mean there's also a cheaper "non-premium" version available? If so, should I get that instead?

I understand that the current version is Windows 8. But my sense is that with Windows, one doesn't always want to run the current version.

Which release version (XP, Vista, 7, or 8) and feature version (Home, Premium, whatever) is least likely to make me miserable?
Should I install the 32 or 64-bit version? (64-bit, I guess, right?)


texts:
Had an iPhone 6, created an iTunes backup, restored it to new iPhone 6s.
Both devices are managed by my company.

On the 6s, iMessage has a red exclamation mark, telling me I have been logged out of iMessage. To fix this, i shall go to "settings -> messages" (may be called differently, translated this from German Einstellungen -> Nachrichten).

This screen is completely empty with the only thing showing is the "

How can I reconnect my phone to iMessage?


texts: I tried to properly eject a flash drive by moving it into Trash. It went up in that little puff of smoke. Now when I try to reuse the drive by plugging it back into the computer, it does not show up in my Finder. What gives? (I am running Yosemite.)


texts: Application name not appearing below thumbnail in mission control unless cursor is on it

texts:
In mission control, I couldn't see Application names below thumbnails if the cursor is somewhere else. See this image.

If I move the cursor onto any thumbnail, then I'm seeing the application name.

Is there any setting that enables even if the cursor isn't hovering on the app thumbnail. Like images in this answer. Desktop 1, Mail, Desktop 2, Desktop 3 are appearing all at once and cursor isn't on those thumbnails.


texts: Mac does not sleep when lid is closed after installing Insomniax

texts:
I've installed Insomniax on my MacBook Air. After I tap "Disable lid sleep" my Mac can't sleep.

I tried to turn off this function by it no helped. When I close and open the lid, then run pmset -g in Terminal, I see

sleep 1 (sleep prevented by fud, powerd)

How can I fix this?

macOS Sierra 10.13.3


texts: backup MacOS documents that are on icloud

texts:
I have activated my mac documents and desktop syncing to icloud drive. Now I noticed that I can't find version history for my files anywhere, including on my Time Machine backup. Is there any practical way to back up these documents?
If not I will move all my documents to my dropbox. There I have version history for a year and the smart sync function allows me free up space on my local hard drive.


texts: Stop default application per file type changing

texts:
I'm now on High Sierra but have had this problem previously on El Capitan.

Sometimes, even directly after a reboot, files like .png or .jpg open, instead of in Preview, which is what I want, in some ancient canon photo util programs I still have on my system (which I should probably delete).

I'd like to know what could be happening here and to investigate - can anyone advise how to precisely control filetype associations and what are the common causes of this getting messed up?

Following other questions on this topic, if I do:

cat  ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist

I just get:

bplist00?

Then if I view this file in vim, I get some unreadable characters. It turns out (after a quick search for bplist), that this is a binary format, so not editable in a text editor.  Is my only option to delete it?  Will it be regenerated?  Is there a way to view what all associations are currently and pinpoint all sources which may change them? Thanks.


texts:
My MacBook Pro is just 3 months old. It is 13 inch running i5 processor. Today I was working on Eclipse and connected one end of USB cable to the MacBook. I was about to connect other end of USB cable to my Android phone when the MacBook crashed suddenly.

MacBook was running on battery at the time of crash, I tried pressing power buttons many times but it didn't help. Around 20 minutes before crashing I had checked battery and it said that 2 hours are remaining. I connected power adapter and it is showing very dim green light (as compared to bright green light that is shown when charging).

What can be the problem here?


texts: What can I do once my jailbroken iPhone gets a data plan attached by AT&T?

texts: I noticed my phone bill had a data plan attached this month to my jailbroken iPhone -- is there any way to get around this?


texts: Time Machine backing up my entire system every time

texts:
For some time now, every time I run Time Machine, it backs up an insane amount of data and takes several hours.  Most recently, it backed up about 70GB, this being supposedly an incremental backup since the previous backup two weeks earlier.   As recommended by others, I ran sudo tmutil compare to see what was being backed up and it listed my entire system, the summary being:
Added:         70.6G
Removed:       1.4G
Changed:       2.4G
Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be?  I've had to resort to occasional manual backups because nightly backups were still running the next day.
I am running Mojave 10.14.6, with the Time Machine backups on a Synology NAS DS211j.


texts: With what should I clean the screen of my Macbook mid-2010 White unibody? Which kind of liquid would you suggest?


texts: internet connection problems with the iphone 3

texts: i have had an iphone 3 for a year. no problems! i recently updated my iphone to ios 6, it was fine for a day, and then suddenly, my facebook, instagram and whatsapp/kik stopped working, i was still able to access twitter and snapchap though. Why isn't my iphone allowing me to access certain internet based apps? it simply won't load. please help!


texts: No sound on my 21.5inch, mid2011 imac bootcamp running windows10

texts:
after installing windows10 (upgrade win7) on my 21.5 inch mid 2011 imac for the first time everything was ok (including sounds),
after losing my system and have to re-install directly windows 10 ISO file, everything went ok except for no sound,
i tried almost everything over days, that included re-install bootcamp 5.1.5 (same i used before), then downloaded windows support software from bootcamp assisstant on my 10.9.5 OSX, many cirrus drivers (and realtek), windows troubleshooter, device manager, etc .. still no sound.
btw, i tried apple and windows support with no solutions!


texts: "Playlist can't be added to your iCloud Music Library". Why?

texts:
I am migrating from Spotify and I want iTunes to accommodate the way I used to add songs to a "favorites" playlist, just like the Starred Songs works on Spotify.

Initially I created a Smart Playlist to self-update with all my hearted/loved tracks (let's call this Playlist 1). That didn't work because apparently the heart rating doesn't persist between devices, and most of the point of this is so I can have this self-updating playlist available offline on mobile.

My second solution was to create a non-smart playlist and manually update that one with any new music the smart playlist catches. (Let's call that Playlist 2.) That works (I can set this manual playlist to be kept accessible offline on my phone), but it's cumbersome to manually copy-paste songs every time I heart new tracks.

My third solution was to create another smart playlist especially made to mirror the first. (Let's call this Playlist 3.) The first playlist is set to auto-add any hearted tracks, but since this parameter doesn't carry to mobile, I made this second smart playlist that simply adds whatever music is added to the first. Essentially a mirror playlist, but with a different parameter.

This kinda works, but I get a strange error:

The playlist was created, and it works as I intended (successfully mirroring the first one at all times), but apparently I can't access it from other devices for some reason.

Why does this happen? The Playlist 3 contains exactly the same tracks as Playlist 1, so the given reason that Playlist 3 "includes other media kinds or songs that are not eligible" doesn't make any sense.

Anyone knows why is this happening and/or how could I solve my initial problem?

Thanks!


texts: How do I make the iPhone app emulator retina-size?

texts: I'm developing an iPhone app and the only device I have for testing is an iPad 2. I can run the app on the iPad and it will use the internal iPhone emulator (or whatever it's called). But the display ratio is that of the older iPhones, not retina-size (see this, I need the last version). How do I change the aspect ratio?


texts: How to reset Apple Mail on macOS Mojave without deleting and adding back Internet account?

texts:
I'd like for Apple Mail to start fresh and download and index all of my emails from scratch across multiple email accounts. I read that I might be able to go into internet accounts and delete all of them, and re-add them, but I want to avoid this as this will delete all my Messages history under those accounts, and other app settings associated with these accounts.

Instead, I assume there are a few folders that I can simply go in and delete and when Mail starts up again, it forces a full mailbox rebuild on those accounts, without me having to setup the accounts again and without losing my Messages history and other account settings.

Does anyone know what the procedure is to do this?


texts: Is there a Calendar program out there with features that can make the "days" be linked from 5am to 5am (one day), rather than from 12am to 12am?

texts: What if you're a person that sleeps and wakes at funky hours and wants to schedule things from 11pm-1am, for example.  In such a case, the event would be split up into two different days.  But for this weirdo, that's actually the middle of their day.  I'd like to be able to view my "day" in one go, rather than having to flip back and forth between the end of one day and the beginning of another.  Are there any calendars that allow for this kind of flexibility?


texts: Is it possible to turn on "read receipts" in iMessage for just certain contacts?

texts: I am wondering if it is possible to specify which of my contacts will see if I have read their messages. I know I can turn on "send read receipts" in iMessage but that allows everyone to see if I have read their messages. I would really like it if there was some way to just have certain of my friends see that I have read their messages.


texts: "scheduled tasks" - what's the OSX equivalent

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  OSX: Is there a built-in scheduler program?

I'm a "born again OSX user", coming from 20 years of Windows ;-)

I'd like to run a batch file that does maintenance for me - backup, some other stuff every night at a given time. On windows you have something called "Scheduled Tasks" what allows you to handle that. Couldn't find something equivalent on OSX. Is it not implemented on the GUI Level and you have to go to command line for that? something like "cron jobs" on linux?


texts: Is it possible to add a horizontal line to apple notes on a mac?

texts: On MacOS I see ways to enter checklists and tables but no way to enter a horizontal line. Is this possible to do?


texts: How can I verify if a group exists in Active Directory on a certain domain

texts:
In Windows you can use the "net" command to do this quite easily:
net group /domain groupName

Which checks if groupName exists in your current domain.
Is there something equivalent in Mac?


texts: What is the best version of iOS to use on an iPhone 3G?

texts:
my girlfriend is currently using an iPhone 3G (iOS version 3.1.3 - 7E18) and I've noticed it can be very sluggish. She doesn't use it for much more than the usual messaging/safari/mail. Compared to my 3GS it is pretty terrible.

I used to have a 3G (still do in fact, and it runs much smoother/faster).

So my question is, what is the best version of iOS to run on an iPhone 3G?

I'm going to downgrade (if necessary, which I think might require jailbreak which I'm not thrilled about) or try a restore and see if that fixes it, but I'm not sure if it's even possible to restore her phone but keep it running 3.1.3.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!


texts: Installing a linux application in OS X - source or via package mechanism?

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I'm looking at installing an application whose installation is supported on a few Linux distros via yum, rpm etc and from source. What I would like to know is given these possibilities, what would be the best way to install it on OS X? I'm only vaguely aware of Brew, Fink & pkgsrc. I only have beginner experience with package managers too. What I don't understand is once you install some variety of package manager, does the application have to have been "packaged" with one of those for it to be installable or, does it just use the package framework and (maybe) existing system libraries to produce what it needs on OS X with whatever package sources are available from the vendor?

It seems even with a source installation some form of package manager is needed given they list various library requirements as being met via issuing:

yum install cmake gcc gcc-c++ libaio libaio-devel automake autoconf bison libtool ncurses-devel libgcrypt-devel libev-devel

(There is also an apt-get equivalent provided as well).
Also - is it best to have a solution that leverages the installed system base libraries or provides its own copies? Would darwinup be a possibility for a source installation?


texts: Transferring an iMovie project with AirDrop gives "Insufficient Space" repeatedly

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I've come across this problem a few times now.

I initiate a transfer of an iMovie project from my iPhone to my son's iPad (both with current software as of August 2016: iOS 9 and iMovie 2).
The transfer appears to complete, but then we see Insufficient Space. There's not enough disk space to copy this project. About X MB more space is needed on my son's iPad.
We free up some space on my son's iPad (more than X MB) and repeat the transfer.
Sadly, we see the same error message.  The free space we created in the previous step has disappeared.
We free up some more space and repeat this process, my hair gradually turning white.

Where is the free space going, and how can we successfully transfer the project?


texts: iPad Mini stuck in iTunes logo (failed upgrade)

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I tried to update to iOS 8 today, and when I opened iTunes to do so, it also requested to update itself, as I thought it could handle both things (especially because I assumed it would update itself then, the iPad Mini).

Now, the iPad is stuck in a connect to iTunes mode, if I try to open the iTunes while the iPad is connect, the iTunes won't open and if I connect it after the iPad doesn't appear as a device in iTunes.

In the Device Manager it states that I have a unknown Device, and in Devices and Printers it is displayed as Apple Mobile Device USB Driver.

How can I get out of this mode and install the new OS ? I remember that when I had an iPhone 3g it could be done through getting the device into DFU. Is there an analog for it in iOS 7?


texts: How to Show Apple Wallet without Apple Pay — Boarding Passes Only (iOS 10)

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In Australia, Apple Pay is not widely supported, so the credit card facility is not of much use at this time. On the other hand, the two major domestic airlines certainly support Apple Wallet with their boarding passes.

The question is:

(a) Is it possible to hide the credit card section, or, at least, to move it below the boarding passes?
(b) Is this why the double-click short cut doesn’t work to show the Wallet from the lock screen?


texts: Reduce the minimum iPhone volume (bluetooth speakers)

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When connecting my iPhone (4S or 6) to a JBL Flip 2 bluetooth speakers, the minimum volume is too loud. Under that, it mutes. It is not a problem of the speakers, as the volume using another, non-Apple, phone, can be reduced much more.

Is there a way to get finer decrements of the volume than those of the side buttons? Moving the slider suggests so, but it is difficult to control in such small space.

I tried using a volume cap as suggested elsewehere, but there seems to have no effect on the volume precision.

Any ideas?


texts:
I want to mount an external drive, connected on computer A, to computer B.

I am able to access and mount the drive by connecting to the server through Finder (Command-K), but how can I do this exact action through the terminal? I've been using several formats of mount and mount_afp but nothing seems to work. Something along the lines of:

mount_afp -i afp://user:pass@ipaddress/Volumes/SharedDrive /Volumes/Shared

In Finder, I just type the IP of the Mac connected to the drive, input credentials, and mount the selected drive...but it's not working by simply entering the afp://ipaddress, just like the 'Connect Server' command through Finder, in the terminal.

How do I do the same connection with a bash command? The end result will be the mounted drive on B.


texts: How to set up OS X server for serving static files over HTTP?

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I have OS X Server(.app) installed (because I'm a registered developer, so I got it for free).  I figured it would be an easy way to flip a switch and get a web server for some static files, for my own local testing, but I can't seem to make it work.

There's a default website with location Default (/Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default), and going to localhost in my browser shows a "Welcome to Lion Server" page, so it's definitely running.

I clicked the "+" button, changed the Domain Name to "*" (I assume that means "any", since it's what the default used), changed the port to 8000 (so it wouldn't collide with the default), changed the location to /Users/ken/Sites (which has a demo index.html file already), and clicked OK.  It spins for a few seconds, the window goes away, and I'm back at the list of sites, and my new site isn't there.

I'm sure it'd be easier to install my own Apache or nginx through Homebrew at this point, but I'm invested. How do I make this thing work?

Update: I found /etc/apache2/sites/0000_any_8000_.conf, which appears to be exactly the website I created.  I assumed it didn't work since it didn't appear in the Server list of web sites, but going to localhost:8000 actually works! Something is truly weird.


texts: v4.services.acrobat.com and denying keychain

texts: How do I prevent the following dialog from appearing in Safari. I don't see why Adobe would need certain information. Since "deny" doesn't seem to impact anything, I would like to "Always Deny". I have already disabled the adobe plugins within Safari. I am observing this in the latest High Sierra. I have latest Acrobat, Illustrator and Photoshop installed through Adobe Creative Cloud.


texts: Music on iPhone/iPad grouped bizarrely despite being fine on iTunes

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I have some 'albums' in my iTunes library that look fine to me:

However, when I sync them to my phone and iPad, they become grouped in really weird ways:

If I play the album, all the songs are actually on the device:

I just can't see them in the actual listing.
I thought it might be the "Grouping" field in iTunes, but it's empty for all the songs, and the behaviour persists (even after several of the files have been replaced).

How do I get my devices to show me all my songs, not these weirdly grouped swap ins?  I'm on Windows, if it makes a difference.


texts: Connection refused: MongoDB 4.2 on Mac OS

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I am trying to set up a MongoDB 4.2.X Community instance on my local computer.
However, I am getting the following error message:

Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017, connection attempt failed:
    SocketException: Error connecting to 127.0.0.1:27017 :: caused by ::
    Connection refused : connect@src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:341:17

I have followed all instructions on https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-os-x/ and couldn't find any suitable help on the internet.
Does anybody know how to fix this?

==> Summary
  /usr/local/Cellar/mongodb-community/4.2.0: 21 files, 272.3MB, built in 5 seconds

Juliens-iMac:~ julien$ mongod --config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf

Juliens-iMac:~ julien$ mongo
MongoDB shell version v4.2.0
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/?compressors=disabled&gssapiServiceName=mongodb
2019-10-19T11:47:04.088+0200 E  QUERY    [js] Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017, connection attempt failed: SocketException: Error connecting to 127.0.0.1:27017 :: caused by :: Connection refused :
connect@src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:341:17
@(connect):2:6
2019-10-19T11:47:04.090+0200 F  -        [main] exception: connect failed
2019-10-19T11:47:04.091+0200 E  -        [main] exiting with code 1

Juliens-iMac:~ julien$ brew services list
Name              Status  User   Plist
docker-machine    started julien /Users/julien/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.docker-machine.plist
mongodb-community started julien /Users/julien/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mongodb-community.plist


texts: Can seller lock/erase my second-hand Mac with Find My Mac?

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I recently purchased a MacBook. It's a model that supports Apple's latest OS (at this time 10.9), meaning that it also supports Find My Mac and such.

I'd like to know what I would need to do to ensure the person I bought the system from can't suddenly lock it with a pin/code. (I've seen a few instances of this happening where sellers try ransoming the buyer for more money.)

Here's what I know about Find my Mac and my own guess at a solution—any feedback/advice is appreciated. I don't want to become a victim of having the system I bought locked because the seller wants to try make more money or anything like that. I dont care too much for FMM anyway, and so just want to have it, and its functions off at all times.

Find my Mac does as it says on the tin, it finds your Mac! It also provides options to lock and remote wipe the system—that's all I know of it.

Here is my best-guess solution at having FMM disabled and preventing the person I purchased from being able to track or lock the system:

Wipe the disk entirely in another system, no recovery HD, nothing. Total wipe.

In my opinion this would erase any and all iCloud data from previous users and prevent any tracking/locking of the system when the OS is reinstalled and my own iCloud details used. A PRAM zap may also be done as a precaution (Only seen it mentioned once that previous user data is stored there also).
After OS reinstalled, opt against enabling location services and Find My Mac functions. and/or delete Recovery HD. Apparently this is required for FMM to function anyway, and I can deal with having an external USB installer to recover with.

Would that be enough to stop the seller being able to track and lock the system?


texts: MBP with Touchbar install Debian 10 fails

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Trying to create a dual boot system with Debian 10 on my MBP 2016 but the installation process fails because the keyboard input is not recognized. I can move through the initial menu where I can select what I want to do

Graphical installation
Installation
...

but I can not move through the followup installation where in the first step I shall select a language.

Wrong linux?
Need to use a specific version with specific driver pack?
Ideas?


texts: Are there remote administration tools for iPad? Preferably screen sharing

texts:
I have an elderly friend who has an iPad and calls every few days with problems. Doing remote tech support over the phone is getting tedious.

Is there anything available for iPad that's comparable to the Mac-to-Mac screen sharing options? Searching Google only turned up apps that let you administer a Mac from an iPad.


texts: Open application in specific space through AppleScript

texts:
I have a script that I run when I get to work to open all of the applications that I work with. But when I run it they all open in one space. I'm running OSX Yosemite 10.10.3.

So I need an AppleScript that will make new spaces if needed and then open the applications in specified spaces.


texts: Create a local MS SQL Database on OSX Yosemite

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I need to do some tests on a MS SQL (not MySQL) database. But without the burden of having to open a hosting account, create a remote database, connect to it, and remotely insert a million records.

I need to create a MS SQL Database locally on my computer only to be used on my computer - and I need to be able to import it using Navicat software.

How can we create a local MS SQL database on OS X [Yosemite]?


texts: How do I back up videos using IFTTT, not just photos or is there an alternative?

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I created an IFTTT applet to backup photos from my camera roll to Google Drive, which is syncing to my Mac. I created a folder action to move all files from that Google Drive folder(~/Google Drive/IFTTT) to ~/Pictures/IFTTT. The photos backup fine, but the videos aren't even detected by IFTTT.

How can I get IFTTT to backup all my photos and videos?

If not, is there an alternative to back up both my photos and videos? I only want the photos backing up to my Mac, and not the cloud as I already use Google Photos.


texts: Installing Windows on External SSD on MacBook Pro

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I am planning of installing windows following the tutorial given by 9to5mac in the link https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/14/install-windows-mac-external-ssd-drive-boot-camp-2020-video/
I want to do this using Samsung T7 SSD on my MacBook Pro(2020, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD)
I have a few questions about this if someone could answer:

How much of the RAM will the windows use when run using the SSD? all 16 gb?
If I do not have the SSD plugged in, will I be able to login to my MacOS smoothly?


texts: Disable Automatic Gain control in Google Hangouts

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I'm using the latest version of OSX with Google Chrome and Hangouts. I'm having trouble with the Hangout's automatic gain control, in that I don't want to use it. The gain control is too dumb to understand that we're using a table top mic and that background noise isn't relevant.

I have found guides that tell you to edit com.google.GoogleTalkPluginD.plist, and I've followed them to a T, but they haven't affected the issue. It seems that hangouts is now separated from the Google Talk Plugin. All the information related to this issue was from 2011, and hangouts have changed vastly since then.

Is there any new settings file? It seems like the only option might be an inline level mixer. Thanks!


texts:
When I use ls, I get the following message.

  ls: .afpDeleted38045157: No such file or directory

My svn fails in this directory with

  svn: E070008: Can't read directory 'current path': Partial results are valid but processing is incomplete

Apparently, these .afpDeleted files are some form of deleted files that are still open according to http://lists.apple.com/archives/macos-x-server/2004/Jun/msg01271.html

How do I know which program generated this file? I can't even access what's in the file, nor can I remove it arbitrarily.

I'm using Mac OS 10.8.4.

EDIT: After killing several suspected processes, I found out it was my MATLAB. I still want to understand more about this afpDeleted* business though.


texts: Retina MBP - "time remaining" not available on menu-bar battery icon?

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On my new Retina MacBook Pro I'm finding I can't show the time remaining next to the battery icon on the menubar. The option is available in the right-click menu on non-Retina laptops.

Any ideas on how I can get this useful indicator?


texts: Mac terminal shows 'null' for host name at the prompt

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I've got a new Mac and I've noticed on the terminal I get a null instead of some kind of name there before on my previous computer.

Last login: Fri Mar  9 10:14:57 on ttys000
(null):~ Macuser$

I'm pretty sure thats not normal and occasionally it does fix itself! Why is it doing this?


texts: Install windows 7 on 15 inch macbook pro with a 13 inch MBP install disk

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I have a 15 inch MBP which I want to install windows 7 on and I read online that I should have the MBP installation disk with me to install drivers and things after I install windows. I don't have it anymore.

My friend loaned me his 13 inch MBP install disk but it says clearly on the disk that it is for MBP 13 inches. I'm not sure if it will work, has anyone tried this before? Is it ok if I go ahead with the install?


texts:
So, I was trying to add Laravel to my list of executable commands and, somehow, I fudged up my iTerm 2 (and regular Terminal) and now they both appear like this.

MacBook-Pro%

That just looks ugly. How do I change back to what it once was? With the Git indicator, folder name, colors, etc.


texts: iChat with Yahoo Messenger keeps prompting about the same buddy requests

texts:
I have iChat set up with the Yahoo Messenger protocol. Every time I log in, or suspend/resume my machine, it prompts me to respond to the same 3 Yahoo Messenger buddy requests. I always hit "decline", dismissing the dialogs, but it doesn't seem to stick. Is there a way to fix this?

This is iChat v6.0.1, with Lion


texts: Deleted Desktop & Documents Folders from iCloud Drive, but still takes up space

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I uncheck Desktop & Documents Folders from iCloud Drive, and I deleted folders manually from Finder, after I copied them to my local storage in my Mac.

The folders size is around 13 GB.

By the time, there is no folders from Desktop & Documents in the iCloud Drive (accessing from devices and the webpage from iCloud), but there is still 13 GB and I can't do anything about it.

Is there any possibility to free up this space?


texts: some google calendar invites go on iPhone others don't

texts: My husband consistently has issues with his google calendar on his iPhone X.  I send him a dozen invites to his email a week.  About half show up and he clicks accept and all is fine.  About half never show up or take months and then show up.  Sometimes they show up and the accept has a red box and the invite is red in his calendar and he cannot accept it.  Then there is a delete issue.  If I delete something it still shows up in his calendar just brown and says deleted, but he cannot delete it so his calendar is full of things such as a tumble class my daughter took 2 years ago.  This is beyond frustrating how inconsistent it is.  Could it be because he has an iCloud.com email address?  HELP!


texts: Why do I get "Warning: You are using macOS 10.9" from Homebrew when I have 10.9.5?

texts:
I have just reinstalled OS X on my Macbook, I'm trying to get homebrew to install subversion, but I encounter the following error:

"Warning: You are using macOS 10.9.
We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version.
YOu will encounter build failures with some formulae."


texts: MacBook Pro 2018 no haptic feedback OS Catalina

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I have a problem with my MacBook Pro 2018. There no haptic feedback on the touchpad. It worked with Catalina well, but only for a few days.
The touchpad works very well with all gestures. There is only no vibration when I klick anything.
What I did:

restart the MacBook
NVRAM reset
SMC reset
I set the MacBook to default configuration and don't logged in with my Apple ID.

Anybody here who has another idea what to do?


texts:
With the mac version of OneNote, the files that I attach to a page are always read-only.
In the windows version of the software, the files can be modified from within OneNote.

Is this a bug of the mac version, or is this something to do to be able to modify?


texts: How can I create a script with multi command

texts:
I tried to create a script on OS X. I do something wrong.
I want to execute 2 command:

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true

and

killall Finder

I saved and chmod the file but I got some errors:

/Users/max/Desktop/visible.command ; exit;
MacBook-Pro-de-Maxime:~ max$ /Users/max/Desktop/visible.command ; exit;
/Users/max/Desktop/visible.command: line 1: {rtf1ansiansicpg1252cocoartf1343cocoasubrtf160: command not found
/Users/max/Desktop/visible.command: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
/Users/max/Desktop/visible.command: line 2: `{\fonttbl\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Menlo-Regular;\f1\fmodern\fcharset0 Courier;}'
logout

Thank you for your help!


texts:
On Yosemite Messages my iCloud account is shown as inactive although I use it constantly for Mail, Notes, Contacts etc. It is also slow to log in when I enter my password and sometimes that fails.

How do I make it active? I do have a serial number for my Mac so the most obvious issue is probably not there.

It seemed to work up to when I chnaged my iPhone to a new 6S I has all the SMS messages from my old phone


texts: How do I know where is a specific contact stored by Apple Contacts.app?

texts:
I am using multiple contact storages, like Gmail or Exchange and I want to know where a contact is stored, so I can remove the right duplicate.

Also I would like to know how can I move a contact from one addressbook to another: from example moving from Exchange to Gmail.

Note: this question applies to OS X 10.9.1


texts: iTunes: How do I export a podcast as an mp3 to my phone?

texts:
I downloaded a free podcast, I see it in my saved episodes. I want it off of my computer and ported to my cell phone. I am new to this interface, and while I understand there are many ardent fans, I find it mostly confusing to the max. I mean, can they make the print smaller?

How? Where is it?

Do I need to set up a account and sync my devices?


texts: Can I update apps on my ipod when it's full via itunes?

texts:
My iPod Touch 8gb is pretty full, so I can't install the vital angry birds updates and so forth.

Is there a way I can upgrade it during sync to iTunes that works round the space without taking all the music off, upgrading apps, then resynching music?

(and by my iPod I mean my son's)


texts: Automatic call audio routing still asking for device

texts:
I have recently purchased new airpods and they were working good, but yesterday I think I didn't pair them properly and tried to make a phone call. Since then everytime I try to make a phone call even with airpods disconnected, it prompts me to choose an output device, even though I have set my call audio routing to automatic. It has happened to me once before with friends JBL bluetooth speaker, but I don't remember how I solved it. I think the problem faded away after a couple of days, but I'm not sure if it was due to me clicking something in settings or not...

Has anyone encountered the same problem? If so, how did you solve it?


texts: Not able to resolve my domain name on browser

texts:
I am using docker for application and modified the hosts file and added domain name on local browser. I added in hosts:

    127.0.0.1 xyz.com

but when I am trying to open from browser getting the following error:

This page isn’t working

xyz.com is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500

What I am doing wrong?
Same application running in different OS like windows and ubuntu but here I am facing issues.


texts: Why isn't my iPhone automatically adjusting its brightness?

texts:
On my iPhone 4S (iOS 5), I've set Auto-Brightness to on (in Settings -> Brightness).

I haven't, however, seen it do anything. As far as I can tell, my brightness has never changed automatically. The screen is equally bright when I'm outside on a sunny day, or inside reading in a dark room.

Am I misunderstanding what this option does? Otherwise, am I doing something wrong that's preventing it from working, or is this just a bug?

My brightness slider is set all the way to the right; Auto-Brightness is set to On.


texts: How to view hidden files when viewing a mac through target disk mode?

texts:
I am hoping to view some of a /usr/local folder from a mac, using target disk mode.

However, it is hidden and I cannot see it in finder to copy.

How can I view and then copy a file (for example, /usr/local/test.txt) from a mac that is in target disk mode to another mac?


texts: Bootcamp HD monitor overscan problem on MBP

texts:
I've got a MacBook Pro (Early 2011) set up with Windows 7 64-bit on a Boot Camp partition.  I'm using a mini DisplayPort adapter and an HDMI cable to connect to an Asus VH232H monitor.  The problem is that using the native resolution (1920x1080) in Windows results in a black band appearing around the edges of the screen.  I know a lot of people seem to have run into this in the past. How do I actually fix it?

Some additional info:

My research tells me I need to adjust an "overscan" setting, but can find no way to do this with the display drivers provided by Apple.
I've seen many references to people fixing the problem by installing AMD's Catalyst Control Center, which does have an 'overscan' or 'scaling' option you can adjust.  However, because I'm using a MacBook Pro, none of the AMD install packages I've tried will actually install the Control Center on my machine.


texts: What software can I use to mirror my MIDI keyboard controller on-screen?

texts: I have a MIDI keyboard controller and I want to be able to mirror what I am playing on an onscreen keyboard, so that students in a music class can see it. Suggestions?


texts: Bedtime stops counting sleep if I oversleep (iOS 14 + Watch)

texts:
I tend to keep a fixed Bedtime schedule, and it works well when either I wake up on time (and stop off the alarm from the Watch as it's firing), or if I wake up early (in that case, I use the crown to deactivate Bedtime on the Watch, and a few minutes later I get a notification asking whether I want to deactivate the [unneeded] alarm—sure).
In both cases, the number of hours of sleep is registered correctly in the Health app.
The problem happens if I oversleep: the alarm fires, and I will stop it (perhaps after a number of snoozes), and... continue sleeping (I work flexible hours, so it's not unusual that this happens). I don't understand why my Watch stops counting sleeping hours, given that a) I never turned the crown to deactivate Bedtime mode, and b) the Watch knows I'm laying, still.
I've used 3rd party apps for this in the past, but I was thrilled this was added to WatchOS (as I prefer to keep the number of installed Watch apps to a minimum); but I simply cannot get over this behavior.
Am I using it wrong? Does it have a fix (within iOS/WatchOS)? Is Sleep Schedule not the same as Bedtime, and it's not mean for sleep tracking?


texts: How can i delete the 13.2gb photo library off of my phone?

texts: I have already gone through the creating an empty folder and synced just that folder and when that didn't work I unselected the box to sync photos and that also did not resolve my issue.  I'm at a loss on how to remove the data from my iPhone5.  I currently have 250 photos/videos on my phone that are just over 2gb...I would really appreciate help clearing out such a large portion of my harddrive


texts: Unable to verify mail every time I am at a different location

texts:
There are a lot of people that have a problem verifying mail clients and there are lots of solutions that may or may not work.

I've seen that I have this problem every time my mail client (Catalina) tries to access a Hotmail account from a physical location that it is not used to. I get an email notifying me about a suspicious activity, which I mark as safe, but the mail still cannot verify the account (password is certainly correct). The only solution until now was to completely remove and add the account, but I cannot do this every single time I travel. It is getting ridiculous.

I understand that this is a security feature for my own benefit, but most of the time lately I don't have access to the mails. Is there any way to disable this feature? Or some other workaround?


texts: How long should Boot Camp formatting selecting drive take?

texts: I'm trying to install Windows 7 using Boot Camp Assistant. Now the boot camp is on task "Formatting the selected drive" and it has been going on three hours and it is not even on the half way. How long this task should take normally, or is this normal? Or is task frozen somehow?


texts: How do I save a contact to a specific iCloud account?

texts:
I have multiple account sources for my Contacts (family iCloud, personal iCloud, Exchange, etc.) When I create a new contact, how do I specify what account I want it saved to? Right now, Contacts just saves it to the default account.

I'm on the latest Yosemite.


texts: How can I reinstall OS X without a valid App Store connection?

texts:
I have a Mid 2009 MacBook Pro that was used by a "less than responsible" user.  As such, it seems to have become infected with malware that rewrites all SSL certificates.  These certificates cannot be validated by OS X which is what alerted me to the fact that there is a problem.

My issue is that I cannot access the App Store to initiate a reinstallation of OS X.  Since the MacBook Pro can't validate the App Store SSL certificates, nothing loads.

So, I'm stuck.  What steps should I take to reinstall OS X or restore access to the App Store?

Update: Cmd + R on boot doesn't seem to work (perhaps due to the Malware).  Also, the OS version is 10.9.5 (Mavericks).


texts: Move a hard drive from a mac book 2012 mid to a Mac Pro mid 2012

texts: So recently my mac book got water in inside of it and am unable to run it or do anything. Is it possible to put the hard drive of the macbook into the mac pro if not what can i do


texts: How do I install QuickTime 10.1 on Snow Leopard?

texts:
I haven't upgraded to Lion yet and was thinking of keeping this Mac running Snow Leopard and buy a new Mac with Lion.

So I hope to install the newest QuickTime 10.1 on the current Mac running Snow Leopard.  It already has QuickTime 10.0 (128) so it can record the screen as .mov, but it can't select a region on the screen to do the recording like on a Lion Mac in the Apple Store (which has QuickTime 10.1).  (so QuickTime 10.0 must record the full screen, it seems, and the duo core CPU is not powerful enough).

But I don't see any upgrade link inside QuickTime's about or help, and I don't see it on Apple's website (only QuickTime 7 is available).  Is it possible to upgrade to QuickTime 10.1 on Snow Leopard?


texts: How can I remove Emoji keyboard from iOS8?

texts: I updated my iPad to iOS8, and the Emoji keyboard suddenly appears although I have never set for it. How can I remove that? When I go to Settings:General:Keyboards, I see that Emoji is among the keyboards set, but I can't find a way to remove it.


texts: Use Automator to copy multiple folders with different amounts of folders while removing parent folder

texts:
copy whats within the red box(images folder too with content) into the blue box and delete the folders.
the remaining result will then be SIZExSIZE - > sizexsize.file etc.. and images folder with images.


texts:
I encrypted my computer with FileVault full disk encryption on Yosemite. FileVault gave me an emergency decryption code to use when I forgot my password.

For some reason, when I changed my account password while the drive was being encrypted it gave me another emergency code. How can I verify which one works?


texts: My "Date and Time" time is a minute off of the official time

texts:
I'm using Mavericks,10.9.5.

The time on the menu bar exactly matches the time in the official Date and Time area… It is that time in the official area that is incorrect.

First the time was about 30-40 seconds fast, and then I had to restart the computer several times because of an unrelated issue, and now I'm nearly a minute SLOW. Using a comment that I found in another thread, I found the terminal (for the first time ever!), entered this:

sudo ntpdate -u time.apple.com

And the result was this:

31 May 15:29:14 ntpdate[2476]: step time server 17.253.26.253 offset 50.650629 sec

What is the next step in trying to fix this issue... preferably in words of one syllable?


texts: How do other Macs in the network see my Freenas 9.3 backup drive attached to iMac via Ethernet?

texts: I have a Time Machine back up setup on a Freenas 9.3 server. It works really slowly via WiFi attached to my broadband router. So, I attached it directly to my iMac via Ethernet instead - a full backup takes less than 2 hours now. Problem is how can other Macs on the network see the Freenas server through the IMac Ethernet connection via WIFI? I know the IP address of the Freenas server but can't figure out how I can Time Machine back up my Macbookair via Wifi?


texts: Automator Service: Parent of input from files or folders

texts:
I cannot find any information on this, so I hope somebody with experience can fill in the gap.

I am writing a simple Automator Service, and I can’t get past the first step.

The script is a Service
Service receives selected files or folders in Finder.app
Run AppleScript

The script is

on run {input,parameters}
    set test to container of input -- Can’t make container into type reference.
    display dialog test as string
    return input
end run

The input parameter has the selected file or folder, and all I want to do at this stage is to get the parent folder of the selected item. Everything I try, which is from countless near solutions on the web fail in this, telling me that I can’t make the container into a reference.

I have no idea what I should be doing, and I can’t find any information on this.

How can I get the parent folder using Automator?


texts: Office lock files on SMB share seem to still be present after Office is closed

texts:
One of our Mac user (macOS 10.12.6) is working together with some other guys who use Windows. The data they are working on resides on a central server which the Mac guy connects to via SMB.

Microsoft Office creates lock files when someone opens an Office document. When the document is closed, these lock files are also removed. The lock file contains the name of the user who has the file opened. With this mechanism Office is able to show a dialog like "You can't save this file as it is currently opened by XXX". The filename is ~$<original file name>, so test.xlsx has the lock file ~$test.xlsx.

The problem is that those files are still visible on the Mac, even when the Office document is already closed. I crosschecked the folder contents from a Windows VM and wasn't able to find the lock files. Also the guy, which the Mac claimed to have the file open, actually didn't had it open.

I have no idea why those files are still shown on the Mac when they actually aren't present anymore. Could this be related to the ~ sign in the name? Or do we have to add some mount options to the SMB share?

[Edit] The computer is connected via Gigabit Ethernet, the building is connected via 10G fiber to the data center. Throughput to the SMB share was around 80MB/s the last time I measured. So, I guess, this doesn't count as slow connection.

[2nd Edit] I don't know about the OS of the central server. But the Mac is connected to an Active Directory which is provided by Windows server (at least I have remote access to a Windows machine where I can manage my department users). The local user account is not connected to the AD, but when mounting the remote share, an AD user is used for authentication.


texts: Is it possible to detect/assign faces in iPhoto for iOS?

texts: With the new iPhoto out for both the iPhone and iPad, I was wondering whether it allows face detection and assignment on iOS or is it still OS X-only feature?


texts: Deleting a podcast on iPod. What will happen the next time I sync?

texts:
If I out for a while and if I need some free space on my iPod, I can manually delete some videos (iTunesU) or some podcasts. Fine.

But what will happen the next time I sync ?

Will those deleted podcasts be deleted in my library on my computer

OR

Will they be reloaded on my iPod ?


texts:
Ok, this might be a stupid question to ask, but trying to mount a NFS share (from a Linux machine, if it's worth anything) in a folder that resides in /Volumes never makes the share appear in Finder (not in Volumes anyway).

The folder was made by simply sudo mkdir /Volumes/folder_name and the mount was made using autofs like this:

/Volumes/folder_name    auto_nfs      -nolock,locallocks,rdirplus

I should mention the folder is accessible though the terminal, but it just doesn't show in Finder.

On the other hand, if I modify /etc/auto_master to this:

/Volumes  auto_nfs      -nolock,locallocks,rdirplus

the folder appears, but I loose all my other drives (except the system one and Network)

At the moment, I'm mounting to a regular folder on the system drive which I've symlinked to a folder in /Volumes. Oddly, that works fine, but it does appear as a symlink and it bothers me (and possibly other users).


texts: How can I disable my iPad's screen turning on when there is a notification?

texts:
I have an iPad mini 2. Also I'm using Telegram application. When someone sends me a new message into telegram, my iPad's screen will be turned on (light on).. and that's a huge problem for me .. Because I'm a member of lots of groups and channels  so I have more than 1000 new messages per day. And honestly I'm worried about my iPad's screen, I concern it will be broken, because it will be turn on/off constantly.

Anyway is there any approach to I disable the relationship between "my iPad's screen" and "new notifications"?