texts: How to delay hibernation after sleep in Mac mini?

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When I press a power button on my Mac mini, it goes to sleep mode and when I press it again, it turns on very quickly. However, after a longer sleep, it hibernates. How can I make this delay longer?

I know that I have tu use pmset but I don't know how exactly. Should I change the standbydelay?

My current config:

Last login: Wed Oct 23 08:52:38 on ttys000
Mac-mini-Pawel:~ pmichna$ pmset -g
Active Profiles:
AC Power        -1*
Currently in use:
 standby              0
 Sleep On Power Button 1
 womp                 1
 autorestart          0
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 darkwakes            0
 networkoversleep     0
 disksleep            0
 sleep                0 (sleep prevented by mds, storeagent, storeagent, storeagent, storeagent, AddressBookSour, UserEventAgent)
 autopoweroffdelay    14400
 hibernatemode        0
 autopoweroff         1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         10
 standbydelay         4200

I use OS X Mavericks.


texts: Is installing Mavericks on Hackintosh legal?

texts: As we all know Mac OS X Mavericks is now free of charge officially! Does this mean that it is now legal to use Mavericks on non-Apple hardware?


texts: How can I use an app I bought for my iPhone also on my iPad?

texts: I have a IPhone 4S with TOM TOM installed (bought from Google Play), I now need the app to be copied to my IPad. Is there anyway to do this with out buying another TOM TOM app.


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Is there a special procedure to be followed when installing a brand new battery ?

Like

discharging it completely, or not;
leave it fully charged for a certain amount of time,
etc...

(It's a battery of a MacBook Pro)


texts: Is there a TODO list app for mac you can change Font Size?

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You can't do it, in wunderlist, reminders, any.do, etc.

You really need to ruin your eyes to read you notes.


texts: What is the proper way to use the cut command on ps command output

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This question is related to a question I posted on rogue firefox procesess. It relates to firefox processes following image uploads that I have been having for a while.

I am trying to get to the second field of the ps command with the following set of pipes, so that I can kill the processes from the command line quickly:

ps aux| grep fire|cut -f 2

However this produces the wrong output as it shows the whole line of ps.

I know that the default delimiter for cut is tab

I have also tried:

ps aux| grep fire|cut -f 2 -d \t

From this question on stackoverflow I know that

ps axu | grep '[f]irefox' | awk '{print $2}'

gives me the output I want.

I want to understand why my two versions of cut are not working, and can it be made to work piping ps to grep and then to cut and getting to the second column (ie. the process IDs).


texts: is Windows not supporting NTFS Bootcamp?

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So I couldn’t seem to partition my Late 2013 Mac with Bootcamp to run Windows 10.. it would just continue to show the partition part of the step for hours and hours. I became pretty sure it wouldn’t work. I decided to to search online and nothing seemed useful except this:
Boot Camp Assistance is stuck on create a partition?
Everything seemed to work perfectly. Until I got to the last step.. the partition is created. I’ve just clicked “Next” on the installation process and I gets pop-up saying this:
“Windows detected that the EFI system partition was formatted as NTFS. Format the EFI system partition as FAT32, and restart application.”
I thought NTFS was perfect for Windows 10. Should I try to change it to FAT32??? Should I try something else? A step by step guide would be nice..
I should probably include diskutil list:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         180.8 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                68.7 GB    disk0s3
   4:           Windows Recovery                         629.1 MB   disk0s4
   5:           Windows Recovery                         629.1 MB   disk0s5

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +180.8 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume \,L0\ - Data            132.2 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 81.6 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.1 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume \,L0\                   11.2 GB    disk1s5

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *2.1 TB     disk2
   1:               Windows_NTFS WinInstall              2.1 TB     disk2s1


texts: How can I COMPLETELY uninstall Microsoft Office for Mac 2016


texts: How do I control Macbook volume when a DP display is connected?

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When I plug my Mac  into a DisplayPort monitor that has loudspeakers, the Mac's volume controls become disabled.

Is Apple assuming that if I have external speakers I am so much better using their own volume control that I have to be forced to do it?   That is annoying because the monitor's volume controls are buried in terrible menus accessed by terrible buttons on the back of the monitor.

Also, if I am inside an app where I can select the audio device and I select the Mac's internal speakers, the volume controls are STILL disabled.  Is there no way to control the volume of an app when an external speaker is connected even if the app is not using the external speaker?????

Some additional info: It's a Macbook Pro 13" 2018 version.  Using a Thunderbolt to Displayport cable, plugging in to a Dell monitor with speakers.    In another location I use the same cable to plug in to Dell monitors with Displayport but without built in speakers in the monitors.   At that location the volume controls remain active and they control the internal speaker in the laptop as they should.


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As the title suggests, my apple watch is working perfectly in termos of fitness tracking, the problem is in saving the data, the activity app on the Apple watch shows the activity rings full but the activity app on the iPhone has absolutely no data, also, the week summary, probably because there is no data stored, says I didn't move the whole week.

Already tried unpair and repair, didn't work.

Thanks in advance,

Tiferrei


texts: On Mac OS X El Capitan (MacBook Pro Mid 2014) it seems that visiting the trash bin from the GUI produces a bunch of files however visiting .Trash user$ and running ls -a only produces a single file. Why would this be the case? I'm assuming the GUI defines the trash bin to be different from the terminal? If so could someone explain these definitions to me. Thanks so much


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I routinely rate songs on my iPhone in the Music app with the 1-5 star system.

I just plugged my iPhone into my computer and saw in iTunes (on the "Music" tab under "Devices") ALL OF MY SONG RATINGS ARE GONE. When I right click on a particular song and click "Get Info", the star ratings are gone from there, too.

How can I see the star ratings in iTunes?

OS X 10.10.4 (2013 rMBP)  --  iTunes 12.2.0.145  --  iOS 8.3 (iPhone 4S)


texts: Terminal command to enable write to remote NFTS drive

texts: Can the drivename be "Seagate Backup Plus Drive" in the Terminal command ... label= drivename none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse or will the spaces create errors in Terminal?


texts: Is there a way to switch Mac OS boot partitions without going through System Preferences?

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I have just viewed a YouTube video on how to set up my Mac as a Mojave/Catalina dual-boot, using two APFS volumes on the internal drive, instead of using a bootable external drive.

But is there a way to select the boot OS without having to go into System Preferences every time I want to switch? And is there a way that's compatible with the bootable APFS volumes being encrypted?

So far, everything I've seen online about Boot Camp seems to indicate that it's strictly for setting up a Mac/WinDoze dual-boot. Am I mistaken? Can it do what I want here?

By comparison, my DOS/Linux dual boot at home boots to a GRUB menu, that allows me to select the desired OS (PC-DOS 2000 or Ubuntu Hardy Heron), defaulting to whatever OS I used last.


texts: my Mac and my iPhone show wrong time zone

texts: I set my Mac to receive the date and time from time.europa.apple.com, and my iPhone is set to find a time zone automatically. But they both show me incorrect time. one hour later. Well,  I live in St-Petersburg, Russia, and some years ago we had this "timezone changing", to not differ from Europe, but later we returned back to the previous. So is the Apple server set up incorrect, or do I have to change something?


texts: How to configure iOS 12 sharesheet to add WhatsApp Messaging?

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Links, Photos, and other data can be shared through options: Messages, Mail, etc.

For example, if I am browsing images in the Photos app, I would like to the ability to click the share button and select WhatsApp from a list of apps, so that the photo can be forwarded to a contact. WhatsApp is not on the list and needs to be added said list and configured to accept photos.

How does one add WhatsApp as an option to the sharing list in all apps?


texts: Network client is released unexpectedly and mac goes to sleep

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My jenkins builds crash because of broken ssh pipes into my iMac.
The ssh connection is dropped unexpectedly and the iMac instantly enters sleep state. I cant figure out why. Here's the pmset -g logoutput:

2018-06-22 14:49:16 +0200 Assertions  PID 48(powerd) Released NetworkClientActive "com.apple.powermanagement.ttyassertion" 00:09:19  id:0x11000013f7 [System: PrevIdle]
2018-06-22 14:49:16 +0200 Sleep       Entering Sleep state due to 'Maintenance Sleep': Using AC                     77 secs

I cant figure out why NetworkClientActive gets released nor do I find any information about this. Where do I find logs why the sleep happens?


texts: Windows appear in odd places in Yosemite

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Since upgrading to Yosemite when it came out, windows in different apps randomly appear in odd places - eg, not connected to their parents window. Here's the Chrome search bar:

Sometimes it's worse, sometimes it's better, but it's never 100% OK. This happens in multiple apps. Restarting the OS or the app does not help. How can I made windows appear in normal places again on Yosemite?


texts: Upgraded to Lion with an application in Snow Leopard called LaunchPad

texts: Recently I upgraded my laptop from Snow Leopard to Lion.  However in Snow Leopard, I fooled around with the system a bit and "named" an app called LaunchPad.app(It's actually called quickpick)  Now in Lion, it retained the old app and didn't change it to the actual LaunchPad.  When I try to delete the LaunchPad app now, it says the it is necessary for the system and I can't delete it.  What should I do now?  Thanks everyone.


texts: Automatic mounting of encrypted partitions on OS X

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There is a well-documented method of getting Unix to automatically mount a partition on Mac OS X, namely adding something like this to /etc/fstab:

UUID=C92FFDDD-5E09-34ED-A10D-914EA92EA888 /MountPoint hfs auto

However if the partition is encrypted, this won't work.  Does anyone know is there a way to get Unix to mount encrypted partitions?


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I hope this is the right site to ask this question. I have successfully configured OS X server (3.0.2 on mavericks) mail service, but if i edit my /Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/main.cf (postfix config file), it won't affect the behaviour of the server mail service.

For example I changed smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated to smtpd_client_restrictions = reject and the same with smtpd_recipient_restrictions, but i'm still able to login to the SMTP Server and send emails.
I always did sudo postfix reload and sudo serveradmin stop mail, sudo serveradmin start mail.

What am i doing wrong?


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I was browsing the internet when the app store opened by itself, though the back button was greyed out and no apps were showing on that screen. I was unable to click out of it for maybe 1-2 seconds. I wasn't quite sure what was going on until my email app opened by itself too with a composed long message about virus software as a message to send. I didnt get a chance to see the address to whom it was being sent, but have lots of important work contacts I do not want to send weird virus spam to. So I wasnt sure what to do, so i tried quickly closing all apps and shutting off the iPad. I looked through my email accounts on my computer and do not see that any email was actually sent.

So i suspect that my iPad has a virus which is pretty weird given that it is not jailbroken. A cursory search for non-jailbroken iOS viruses mostly brings up chinese viruses, but i cant find much being reported.

Thoughts on what to do from here?


texts: Fink help!! Not installing in Mavericks!

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I just installed OS X Mavericks on my Mac.

Now I'm trying to install Fink via the instructions here

I have gone up to this line command:

./bootstrap

But after that I am not able to run this line command:

/sw/bin/pathsetup.sh

... because there is no bin directory under sw.

Is it perhaps because of Mavericks (the instructions have not been updated for Mavericks because it is so new).

What can I do to fix it? (Paging Fink experts.)


texts: Move iTunes data from C drive to D drive

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My Windows7 C-drive is full. My D-drive have 120GB free space.

I am unable to backup my existing iPhone data to C-drive. How can I move the iTunes folder from C-drive to D-drive so that enough free space for backups is available?


texts: Identify last (or first) non-blank cell in range

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Is there a way to identify the last (or first) non-blank cell in a range?  Consider a sheet that may have multiple rows with blank cells in a certain column.  In a cell, I'd like to use the value of the closest non-blank cell in the same column.

A cell in a row of column A might contain the formula fragment OFFSET ( $A$2, 0, 0, ROW() -1,  1 ) to reference the range of cells in the same column from row 2 to the row above the current row.  Is there a way to select the last non-blank value in that range?


texts: Siri can not activate some alarms on iPhone 6S Plus with iOS 9.2

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When I use the "Hey Siri" feature to enable an alarm it usually works. But recently I've encountered a problem. The conversation with Siri would go like this:

<me>   Hey Siri, wake me up at 7 20.
<Siri> Your, 7:20 alarm is on.
<Siri> (short pause)
<Siri> Sorry Jozef, there has been a problem setting up your alarm.

And indeed the alarm is not turned on for 7:20. It would work for other times, ex. 7:10 (regardless whether an alarm at desired date exists or not).

Is there any special case when Siri can not activate a specific alarm?

This is not a problem with Internet connection (I have one) or understanding of what I said (the text is interpreted correctly and Siri actually seems to have turned the alarm for a short moment).


texts: How does iCloud Keychain store unsecured wifi hotspot information?

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Setup

I connected to an XFINITY wifi hotspot (SSID xfinitywifi) roughly 2 hours ago on my iPhone 5S (iOS 7.1.2). These hotspots require no username or password (unencrypted), but do require authenticating with a Comcast username/password at the captive portal web page after connecting. (image below)

I have iCloud Keychain enabled on my iPhone and on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.9.4). The information for xfinitywifi was automatically copied to my MacBook Pro. (image below)

I have Safari set not to remember usernames and passwords on either device (this is unrelated to wifi and my question below, but I thought it might potentially give clarity to some readers/answerers).

Question
How (or perhaps where) does iCloud store this unsecured hotspot network information for syncing with other devices which have iCloud Keychain enabled, especially devices running OS X?
On encrypted networks, the information is stored in the Keychain Access app as an "AirPort network password" keychain entry. However, there is no entry for xfinitywifi in Keychain Access. I even searched for various other related strings such as comcast, etc. but found no relevant entries (see screenshot below).


texts: How to make Bootcamp 4 work in Windows 8.1 on unsupported MacBook Air 1,1

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I recently installed Windows 8.1 on my Macbook 1,1. It had previously run Windows 10 which worked fine at first but began to give problems with each major update until version 1709 stopped the trackpad working properly.

I then experimented with Ubuntu and Linux Mint, trying to find a modern, supported OS that worked OK on this 1.6 GHz Core 2 Duo machine with only 2GB of soldered-in RAM.

Windows 8.1 immediately installed and runs better than the latest version of Windows 10 on this machine but when I tried to install Boot Camp I got the message that I was using an unsupported machine, even when I used compatibility mode.

I know I can install Windows 7, then Boot Camp and then upgrade to 8.1 but is there any other way of forcing  Boot Camp to work? It is useful for configuring the Mac keyboard and to use multi-touch on the trackpad, even though most of the hardware drivers have now been installed separately anyway.


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Problem:
After updating iTerm2 to version 3.3.6, I started getting the following message whenever opening iTerm2 or opening a new tab in iTerm2.

Login incorrect
login:

I could then login and use the iTerm as normal, but would get the same message and prompt whenever opening a new tab.

Workaround: If I go to Preferences > Profiles and change the Working Directory setting from "Home directory" to "Directory:", then enter the path to my home directory, this fixes the problem.

Question: I'm trying to understand and fix the underlying problem. Given the above workaround, it seems that iTerm2 thinks my home directory is somewhere else. Any ideas?

Extra details: I'm running MacOS 10.14.5. My username and home directory contains a space. Someone suggested that this might be part of the problem, but if the space is causing a problem, that doesn't explain why it only became an issue after updating iTerm.


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I have a lot of books in ePub and PDF format in iBooks on my Mac. I sync the next few ones I want to ready to my iPhone and iPad and read them there.

Is there a way to set up a workflow so that when I finish reading a book, it "goes away" from iBooks, everywhere? I'd like the list of books to keep shortening so that once I'm done reading a book, I don't see it anymore.

It seems like a natural feature to have in a book reader, to not see books that one has already finished reading. Syncing of current page works great across all my devices, but automatically hiding / deleting read books is something that I'd like to have as well.


texts: No longer receiving iMessages from an iCloud email address

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I have just got a new (2020) iPhone SE, and having an issue with iMessages.
I was previously in a group conversation - most of the recipients are phone numbers (with iPhones), but one is an iCloud email address. Since I got the new phone, I can't see any messages from the person using their iCloud address. And they don't see my messages. Everyone else in group chat can see our messages fine.
What's going on here? I've tried turning imessages on and off. Any other tips?


texts: Will the Mac Mini drive 2 different displays

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I want to switch my windows machine with a mac mini.  I have 2 monitors:
A VGA driven display
A DVI driven display

My pc graphics card can handle these outputs.

The Mac-Mini has a HDMI display and a thunderbolt display.

Would I be able to get a converter that would drive:
The HDMI to DVI?
The Thunderbolt to VGA?

I'm already spending £700 on the mini, I don't want to spend an extra 300 on monitors


texts: how to make more display only few lines at a time?

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On linux more -10 <file> displays only 10 lines at a time of file file. On a macOS Terminal, however, this does not work (for me).

How can I get this to work? Or how else can I get equivalent behaviour with less?

I should say that I run OSX 10.12.5.


texts: Import XML Apple Music Playlist in iTunes

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I have exported from iTunes the XML of a playlist followed on Apple Music (I have an active subscription Apple Music).

Now I want to reimport it again so, I do that in iTunes, sync iCloud Library, getting covers... But can't play tracks in the playlist anymore. When i look at the infos of the track you can see that :

The issue is the kind "internet audio stream" instead of "Apple Music AAC audio file" so that's probably why the "iCloud" status is in error.

So how can I do to be able to play again this Playlist ?

Thanks


texts: I just opened my new MacBook Air and I noticed that when my computer asks for my password, the tinted word that should say "Password" (before I type it) is in a different language. How do I change it to English?


texts: How to fast navigate through emoji panel

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On mac we can use Cmd+Ctrl+Space to quickly launch an emoji panel and type in emojis. And on that panel, we can navigate around with the arrow keys and press enter to type in the selected emoji. I am wondering if there are ways that I can navigate through without having my hands leaving the main keyboard. Or in other words, to press the arrow keys you always need to move your right hand to the arrow keys, which is kind of inconvenient. I think the ideal case would be using vim's hjkl to navigate. But not very sure how to configure.

And moreover, I have a touch bar on my mac, is there a way to have the emojis always displayed on the touch bar whenever I type? Because now I need to press the face icon first and then will the emojis show up on the touch bar, and this also seems not that convenient. I just hope the emojis could standby on the touch bar all the time.


texts: How can I use system commands in Google Now Voice Actions?

texts: I have an iPhone 4, so making Siri work on it is impossible (you can never find a working port). Is there a Cydia package that can take system commands such as alarm clocks and reminders from Google Now Voice Actions and use them as system commands, like Siri?


texts: I'm trying to remove the free space partition from disk utility. I get this error when I try to do so.


texts: Can I safely charge a Galaxy S9 with a USB-C MacBook Pro charger?

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I have a Galaxy S9+ (with "fast charging"), which requires a USB-C charger. I also have a MacBook Pro with a USB-C charger.

I am curious whether I can (safely) charge my Galaxy S9+ with my MacBook charger. The phone shows that it is charging, and very fast actually.

However, I am not sure whether the charger has too much power and would negatively impact the battery on a short time (perhaps get too hot or even cause physical damage/explode) or long-term (decreased battery health).


texts: In OSX mail, I have a number of different mailbox types - iCloud, Google Apps, and Exchange. For whatever reason, the Exchange mailbox displays the folders underneath the mailbox list at the top (see picture). iCloud and Google Apps do not do this (both are IMAP). Is there a reason for this? Any way to change that behavior?


texts: Attach one .dmg file on different computers at the same time (hdiutil attach)

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I have a question about "hdiutil attach"
I've "created" (ctrl+c/ctrl+v) one bash script to execute some .app automatically.

First im mounting shared folder:

mount_smbfs -o nobrowse //SERVER/share "/Users/user_name/APPNAME/18"

and attaching with the help of "hdiutil" the .dmg file
(you must attach .dmg in order to install this app :) )

hdiutil attach -nobrowse /Users/user_name/APPNAME/18/appname.dmg

so far so good. But! if im going to deploy it on multiple end-devices, i suppose its going to cause some issues.

So that's my question: Is it possible to attach the same file on multiple Computers at the same time? And if so, is it possible to execute this file from them?

Thanks for yout help!


texts: Is it possible to view files stored in iCloud Backup?

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I have a backup for my iPhone 5s from January. Is there any way I can download them onto my computer ?

Is there any way I can look into the files that were backed up onto iCloud?


texts: Even in iTunes 11, there is no fade out when pausing playback or fade in when starting playback. How can I achieve this?


texts: Does Growl logs all the notifications that it handles? And if yes, is it possible to view a list with all of them?


texts: How come terminal processes are paused when display sleeps?

texts: I'm running some long-running CPU intensive scripts, but I've noticed that the CPU utilisation becomes 0 when the display sleeps. I've already kept the machine awake using caffeine. Is this expected behaviour?


texts: Which file types are "ineligible" for iCloud drive?

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It seems that some files (or name thereof) are "ineligible" for iCloud drive. For example, if the file name ends with a tilde, it cannot be uploaded to iCloud drive. [Example of programs that produce file names with tilde are Emacs (for back files) and RCS (for revision files).]

Has Apple published any reference on what is (or is not) "eligible" in iCloud drive?


texts: Files are corrupted after recovery with easeus

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Something really really bad happened to me. I was formatting my SD Card with the Terminal when suddenly something happened and it formatted my ext. Hard drive.

After that, I found the software "easeus data recovery" but every file I recover is corrupted, but the file size is the same as the original one.

Here some data from me:

System (OS): macOS High Sierra V. 10.13.4
Hard drive before: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Hard drive after: Fat
Terminal command: sudo diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 MYSD MBRFormat /dev/disk2

What I already tried:

Saving on an other Hard drive (Journaled and ExFat)

Does someone have a solution for that?


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I jailbroke my iPhone 5 a while ago and everything was going fine a couple weeks ago. I couldnt update or download apps from the appstore and couldn't delete or install tweaks from cydia. So i decided to remove my jailbreak. First i tried to restore with itunes, but my phone could't connect or froze (i tried on a pc and laptop). So i tried doing it from the phone itself, but now its stuck on the screen that you also see when you update your IOS (the apple logo with the white downloadbar below it). I already tried holding the power and home button, but when i turn it on again it goes to the same screen.

I'm hoping for a way to troubleshoot or fix this other than being patient while the charge on the battery depletes forcing a shut down/reboot cycle.


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I wanted to erase the 3 TB Fusion HD on my iMac in order to install a clean system and start from scratch. The erase went fine except right at the end when it said something about core storage... (which I failed to capture, sorry)... and now the machine behaves as though the drive only sort of half exists.

There is no 'sub-disk' when I look with Disk Utility - i.e., there is no indented drive listed below "Macintosh HD"
The "Erase" tab is absent in Disk Utility
All partition options are greyed out in Disk Utility
I can boot in Recovery Mode, but I can't reinstall OS X because there is no drive available - it asks me to select a disk, but no disks are listed
diskutil sees the drive fine (screenshots below)

In case it's not clear from the images, distil cs list shows:

Logical Volume Group C970ADA-0D05-42AA-9E9C-403ED0E5335
Name: Macintosh HD
Status: Online
(3.1Tb)

    Physical Volume 7DAE3935-D0AD-42AE-AE2A-F6001F09187
    Index: 0
    Disk: disk0s2
    (120Gb)

    Physical Volume BA37C009-F93C-4EAF-9EF3-9C19772BD91C
    Index: 1
    Disk: disk1s2
    (3Tb)

diskutil list shows:


texts: Recover data from external hard drive partition Mac OS X

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A couple of weeks ago, I dropped my external drive while a program was writing data to it. The drive seems to spin up fine, without beeps/scratches. The drive also has EFI and Recovery partitions. One of the two data partitions also mounts. I need to recover data from the other partition; any help will be appreciated.

I'm not sure if my issue is related to this question and its solution, but I used wxHexEditor to go to the offset for the partition in question, and did not see the HFSJ string in the third block. Every time I try searching for all possible instances for HFSJ, it takes too long and eventually the program becomes unresponsive.

I'm attaching the results of various tests on the drive. The partition I want to recover from is "HDD WD...", I don't care about the rest.

diskutil list /dev/disk2

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE                  NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
1: EFI                   EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS             BackupPT                1000.0 GB  disk2s2
3: Apple_HFS             HDD WD                  999.2 GB   disk2s3
4: Apple_Boot            Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk2s4

diskutil info /dev/disk2

Device Identifier:        disk2
Device Node:              /dev/disk2
Whole:                    Yes
Part of Whole:            disk2
Device / Media Name:      Mobile

Volume Name:              Not applicable (no file system)
Mounted:                  Not applicable (no file system)
File System:              None

Content (IOContent):      GUID_partition_scheme
OS Can Be Installed:      No
Media Type:               Generic
Protocol:                 USB
SMART Status:             Not Supported

Disk Size:                2.0 TB (2000365289472 Bytes) (exactly 3906963456 512-Byte-Units)
Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

Read-Only Media:          No
Read-Only Volume:         Not applicable (no file system)

Device Location:          External
Removable Media:          Fixed

Virtual:                  No

fdisk /dev/disk2

Disk: /dev/disk2    geometry: 243197/255/63 [3906963456 sectors]
Signature: 0x0
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

gpt recover /dev/disk2

gpt recover: unable to open device '/dev/disk2': Resource busy

gpt -r -vv show /dev/disk2

gpt show: /dev/disk2: mediasize=2000365289472; sectorsize=512; blocks=3906963456
gpt show: /dev/disk2: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk2: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk2: Sec GPT at sector 3906963455
       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  1953125000      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1953534640      262144
  1953796784  1951634952      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  3905431736      262144
  3905693880     1269536      4  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  3906963416           7
  3906963423          32         Sec GPT table
  3906963455           1         Sec GPT header


texts: MacBook Pro (Mavericks) sees details of non connected wifi network

texts: I have a MacBook Pro, connected to my private Wi-Fi (Apple Time Capsule) network.  I have another Wi-Fi guest network (Devolo). Opening who's on my Wi-Fi shows details of machines connected to my guest network, opening Devolo cockpit allows me to see and configure the Devolo Wi-Fi network, even when I'm connected to the other private network?


texts: External SSHD has Mac OS X installed by another mac. Can I use that SSHD on my Mac?

texts: There was an external SSHD that had MAC OS X installed on it through Internet Recovery by using another Macintosh with a USB 3.0 to Sata II cable. Is there some sort of serial number that is tied to that installation of Mac OS X on the external SSHD? Or can I actually boot that external SSHD on another Macintosh and it would be fine?


texts: how to install Open Source Samba tool 'smbget' on macOS High Sierra?

texts:
It seems smbget is not available on Homebrew. Also the Samba suite not available.

  This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

  smbget is a simple utility with wget-like semantics, that can download
  files from SMB servers. You can specify the files you would like to
  download on the command-line.

  The files should be in the smb-URL standard, e.g. use
  smb://host/share/file for the UNC path \\HOST\SHARE\file.

What's the easiest way to install smbget on macOS?


texts: Major slowdown and sluggishness observed when switching from 10.13 to 10.15

texts:
I have a late 2012 Mac mini (2.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 w/8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3).

I meant to update to the latest 10.14 in order to fix a persistent Mail problem, but missed the switch-over deadline and had to install 10.15.1 instead, as a result of which I noticed a major slowdown of most observable processes and applications (at least the Mail problem did get solved).

Why might this be?

I don't want to go down the conspiracy theory path (Apple intentionally slowing down older Macs in order to make us buy newer ones) - I would like to hear a sensible technical answer/explanation from someone in the know.

Thanks in advance!


texts: Turn mac into a personal hotspot while connected to network via wi-fi

texts:
I have two computers, one is a mac and the other is a windows PC. My mac is connecting to a home network through Wi-Fi but my windows PC isn't picking up the signal.

I want to turn my Mac into a personal hotspot, to see if the windows PC can connect to the home network through my mac. All the information I can find says to connect the mac to the network through an ethernet cable first, but I don't have one handy. I need to be able to do this through wi-fi.

It's not critically important, but it is an interesting problem.


texts:
I'm on 11.1 and sometimes after opening my laptop every click registes as "Right Click". This both with internal and external trackpad. It's as if "CTRL" is permanently pressed whenever I click (it is remapped to CAPS on my laptop). I've had similar problem with older versions of mac as well (perhaps related to CAPS/CTRL switch?)
The only solution I found that works is to restart my laptop. Any idea if there's a quicker workaround?


texts: How to select single word in URL in iOS 13?

texts:
Given a text with a link inside:

Prior to iOS 13, i could long press a word that was not part of the URL to select the word, then drag the finger over a word in the URL to select only that word of the URL, without opening the URL.

In iOS 13 this is not possible anymore. When dragging the selection of a single word, the selection gets extended with additional words.

How can I select a single word in a URL to copy the word without opening the URL?


texts: How can I import mini-DV content onto a Mac?

texts:
I have a number of old mini-DV tapes that I would like to import into my Macbook.

I want an app to read the contents of these tapes
It should be able to produce a single MP4 combining all of the clips on the tape
It should be able to produce multiple MP4 files of the separate clips on the tape.

I tried using iMovie one time and found it to be overkill for what I need.  It imported the contents of my tape as multiple .dv files and then I have to create a project.  I don't want to deal with that.  I want to not need to manage things and import the content of tapes and store it on the filesystem so that I can watch the content on Macs/Windows/Linux/multiple-platforms.
What software meets these requirements?


texts:
There is a lot of questions and articles about the "When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application" under the mission control settings pane (also called "Auto Swoosh") such as here and here.

My issue with this setting is that some applications are used very differently from each other. For example when I want to switch to Spotify I probably also want to move to its space. However, some app (notably web browsers) I'd like the behaviour to be different. Specifically I usually have many safari windows across many spaces and when I switch to safari I probably would want to open a new window in my current space (so I don't want to be switched to a random space).

The best way I see to fix this is some ability to customise the Auto Swoosh setting on a per app basis. I've also been thinking of alternative solutions such as keeping the option off and using apple script or something to make a shortcut to switch to the space with the active window (like a one time manual invocation of Auto Swoosh), or a keeping it the option on and finding a different way of opening safari windows (such as typing in my search into spotlight and using cmd+B to google search it) however nothing works quite as I'd like it to.

What are some options I could use to get to the behaviour I want? My main thing is being able to navigate my computer without using the mouse and without searching through spaces it find the app I want.


texts: How to properly increase a `ulimit -n` limits?

texts:
I'm trying to download the X-Plane 10 Demo through uTorrent, however I get a "too many open files" error all the time. I can do the alternate download (which takes forever and a day), but I wonder how I can increase the setting in Lion?

I found conflicting information about it, some say that ulimit -n and sysctl are the tools of choice, while others report that launchctl is correct.

The reported value for ulimit -n is 256, same for launchctl limit:

cpu         unlimited      unlimited
filesize    unlimited      unlimited
data        unlimited      unlimited
stack       8388608        67104768
core        0              unlimited
rss         unlimited      unlimited
memlock     unlimited      unlimited
maxproc     709            1064
maxfiles    256            unlimited


texts: What should I look for when buying an SSD for an iMac?

texts:
I have an iMac 5k, late 2015, with a Fusion Drive consisting of a 2TB hard disc and a 128GB SSD. I want to upgrade the SSD by buying a third-party one.

What specs should the third-party SSD have to fit in and work with the iMac? NVMe? PCIe? mSATA? M2?

There are two parts to this: it needs to have the right physical connector that fits into the Mac motherboard, and it needs to speak a protocol the Mac speaks. What are the requirements for each?

If I choose an SSD that speaks the SATA protocol, will it still work with my Mac, or must I get a PCIe one? I'm not worried about a slight difference in speed, since both are much faster than a spinning hard disc.


texts: MacBook Pro becomes terribly Slow When Using The Secondary GPU

texts:
Whenever mac starts to use the secondary GPU (AMD Radeon), such as graphical tasks or when I use a secondary display, It becomes terribly slow.
I can say that it must be a GPU problem because if I disable GPU switching from Battery preferences, it starts to become slower.
This problem occurred after the day I run a high-graphics game (CS:GO). Can this damage the GPU?
Are there any solutions that I can try?


texts: Is it possible to reduce the disk space required to install Mac OS X 10.6?

texts:
I was hoping to install Mac OS X on a flash-based drive I have, but it's only 4GB. The installer tells me there's not enough free space, but it doesn't specify how much I need free.

Does anyone know the exact minimum?
Is it possible to create a custom install with only the bare basics and install within 4GB?


texts: Unknown Apple app qlmanage shows up as running in Dock

texts:
Since a few days, an app called qlmanage seems to show up on my Dock as a running app constantly. Have tried restarting, but it shows up again.

The app has no window, and clicking on its icon on the dock seems to does nothing.

Trying to quit the app has no effect either.

It seems to be part of OS X (
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/qlmanage.1.html)

Can someone throw some light on what's happening? I checked Login Items but it isn't listed there.

Edit:
Actually it was qLmanage (with lowercase 'l') not qImanage as I'd thought. With this "knowledge" :D , I was able to find the solution to my problem.


texts: Mac Postfix - Force from address, prevent from using Mac Username

texts:
After making the switch from Windows using WAMP and sendmail, to Mac using MAMP Pro and hopefully Postfix I am having issues getting the emails configured correctly. I have fully configured the Postfix Smart Host to use a live email account to send the emails.

When I check the mail.log

Jul 22 11:29:28 John-MacBook postfix/smtp[544]: C5B2926C91C: to=<info@mysite.co.uk>, relay=mail.mysite.com[212.110.123.123]:25, delay=603, delays=602/0.07/0.13/0.03, dsn=5.7.1, status=bounced (host mail.mysite.com[212.110.123.123] said: 553 5.7.1 <john@mysite.co.uk>: Sender address rejected: not owned by user mail@mysite.co.uk (in reply to RCPT TO command))
Jul 22 11:29:28 John-MacBook postfix/cleanup[550]: 4607426CA90: message-id=<20120722102928.4607426CA90@mailer.mysite.co.uk>
Jul 22 11:29:28 John-MacBook postfix/qmgr[502]: 4607426CA90: from=<>, size=2447, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jul 22 11:29:28 John-MacBook postfix/bounce[548]: C5B2926C91C: sender non-delivery notification: 4607426CA90
Jul 22 11:29:28 John-MacBook postfix/qmgr[502]: C5B2926C91C: removed
Jul 22 11:29:28 John-MacBook postfix/smtp[543]: 4607426CA90: to=<john@mysite.co.uk>, relay=mail.mysite.com[212.110.123.123]:25, delay=0.19, delays=0.01/0/0.08/0.09, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 5E2E8D807E)
Jul 22 11:29:28 John-MacBook postfix/qmgr[502]: 4607426CA90: removed

  status=bounced : Sender address rejected: not owned by user
  mail@mysite.co.uk (in reply to RCPT TO command))

I notice here that "john@mysite.co.uk" doesn't exist, actually "john" is my Mac username. How can I force Postfix to always send email using mail@mysite.com? This is the email address it should be using to send the email which I enter into the MAMP PRO control panel.


texts: How can I figure out if a Safari extension is using unreasonable memory/cpu? I'm not really experiencing any unreasonable sluggishness, but I am starting to pile up on the extensions and was considering pruning the most performance draining ones just for good measure.


texts: Why did apache move config, and how do I move it back?

texts:
I just installed PHP 7, and suddenly localhost is no longer accessible.

Investigating, apachectl determined that it changed from reading /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, to now be reading /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf. This means that the local folder that I put in /Library/WebServer/Documents/ are no longer accessible; it's not even listening on port 80 anymore!

What caused it to change, and how do I change it back?


texts: Disable iPhoto auto launch when connecting an iPhone or iPad

texts:
iPhoto starts launching when iPhone is connected even though it never used to before Yosemite.
Steps described in: On connecting device - iTunes or iPhotos must not open does not work in Yosemite. Yosemite seems to ignore the iPhoto settings.


texts: Decreasing Image Size with Minimal Quality Loss?

texts:
I have a few scanned in images of some some pages that I need to digitise. They're each roughly around 5.1MB with 600 DPI, but I can't really afford to have scans so large because I only have around 16GB to last for another 7 months.

I want to decrease the image size but I need to have minimal quality loss of the image. Can this be done?


texts: syspolicyd is killing my battery on a new MacBook Pro, repeatedly scanning and re-scanning my Steam library

texts:
syspolicyd is consistently using ~20% CPU and consuming lots of power.  Tracing it with sudo fs_usage "$(pgrep syspolicyd)" reveals that it's repeatedly scanning the same dozen or so Steam apps in my ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common directory.

Is there any way to convince it to be less aggressive about scanning, or remind it that it's already scanned these locations?  Or at least get it to tell me why it's doing this without resorting to dtrace tooling?


texts:
Ok, I got an iPhone & iPad, only I use two different libraries on iTunes.
I got Google installed on both devices (plus desktop).
But for some reasons only part of my contacts are on the iPhone, while
all of them are on my iPad.
What the simplest way to sync (and merge if necessary) these between devices?
iCloud, Google (chrome/calendar/gmail), bluetooth, other app?


texts: T2 chip encryption benefits: "Your encrypted SSDs automatically mount and decrypt when connected to you mac."

texts:
I just read the mac page about SSD encryption by the T2 chip here

Always back up your content to a secure external drive or other secure backup location so that you can restore it, if necessary. You should also turn on FileVault for additional security, because without FileVault enabled, your encrypted SSDs automatically mount and decrypt when connected to your Mac.

I am confused. Isn't encryption only useful when it does not automatically decrypt? This seems rather useless. I guess it prevents certain kinds of attacks: someone steals the SSD from the device using advanced techniques without stealing the whole laptop. In this case, doesn't it just make sense to take the whole laptop?
What is the purpose of the encryption provided by the T2 chip? I know the benefits of FileVault 2 though, which also makes use of the T2 chip. However, to decrypt this FileVault you need your user password. To decrypt the initial T2 encryption, you need nothing?


texts:
I have a MacBook Air (mid-2012, MacBookAir5,2). I'm really far from terminology of this subject, I have no idea what is flash memory and don't know if all MacBook SSDs must have a flash memory supported SSD drive. I see that there are some suitable SSD upgrades for my MBA on OWC. But I want to buy an SSD from a local technology market. So exactly which specs should I look for to understand which SSDs suitable with my MacBook Air.

How can I be sure, if I buy SSD it will work with my MBA?


texts: iTunes fails to sync with iPod Touch, suggests I should reset it to factory defaults

texts:
I'm unable to perform a backup from my iPod Touch to iTunes because it says it's failing to read data from it and that I have to reset it to factory defaults. This will erase all data on the device.

I have, however, over 2000 songs on it that I don't want to lose, and thousands of contacts that I'd rather not lose as well. I tried to backup them with PodTrans but it gives me the same bad news that the device's database is corrupted.

From the device's side though, all is well and it's working normally.

The device was working fine with iTunes until it was halfway through a backup and now it won't sync again.

I've tried several different cables with no success, it doesn't seem to be a cable issue.

I've tried rebooting and restarting iTunes background processes several times with no success.

Is there anything else I can try to save my data from this device?


texts: Listing all opened documents across all open visible apps in AppleScript

texts:
I've come across doing something like:

Code:

tell application "Preview"
    set p to {}
    set p to documents
end tell

Output:

{document "1st.pdf" of application "Preview", document "2nd.pdf" of application "Preview"}

But this is highly app-specific—doing this on MS Word, for instance, yielded pathnames and some apps like CodeRunner don't understand the documents keyword at all.

Given these open documents:

Current open documents from all open visible apps
+– Microsoft Word.app
|  +– 1.docx
|  +– 2.docx
+– CodeRunner.app
|  +– 1.sh
|  +– 2.py
|  +– 3.pl
+– Preview.app
   +– 1.pdf
   +– 2.png
.
.
.

I want an output of something like this:

{"~/Documents/1.docx", "~/Downloads/2.docx", "~/Dropbox/folder/1.sh", "~/Dropbox/others/2.py", "~/Downloads/folder/folder/3.pl", "~/Documents/special/1.pdf", "~/Dropbox/special/2.png", ...}

How is it possible to list all open documents across all open apps?


texts: How to use machine name of iOS devices on network?

texts:
I have an iPhone 4 and a 3rd generation iPad. They connect to my local home network over WiFi but I cannot use their machines names. I have an app on both devices that exposes a web server, but I can only connect to them using their IP addresses and not their machine names.

If I try to ping their names from a Windows PC I get the following:

Ping request could not find host <iOS machine name>. Please check the name and try again.

How can I enable their machine names to be accessible via DNS on my home network?


texts:
Quick question:

Bought a secondhand Macbook pro over ebay.
Seller told me "I logged off from iCloud but forgot to turn off Find My Mac.
Bought it anyway since I do not plan using iCloud.
Now I got news that if he wants he can track and block my Mac.

I have administrator account access, the EFI is not password protected since i asked him to wipe it out, so:

Can I simply log in with my iCloud account to the Mac and disable Find My Mac?

It's not nice to know that somebody can "track me".

More info:

The seller formated the drive before sending it to me, when i turned it off i got to the first time installation wizard. There's no apple id associated to the macbook and the only user is the one i did create in the wizard and has no icloud account associated whatsoever.

So, is it even possible to log off from your icloud account without disabling "find my mac"?. i've read that the tokes for find my mac are stored in nvram and the recovery partition so a hard drive format is quite useless since the device would be still showing up in the "find" icloud account of the seller.


texts: Is it advisable to calibrate the battery on a MacBook?

texts:
How useful or necessary is it to calibrate the battery on a MacBook?

If it is, should it be carried out when first purchased and does calibration of the battery mean it will also last longer?


texts: How can I see all apps in 'Essentials' in Mac and iTunes app stores?

texts:
A quick question: While navigating the Mac and iOS appstores, I often see some apps marked with a grey rectangular box with rounded edges called 'Essentials', which appears just below the rating of the app. The selection of apps marked in this ways seems quite well thought-out to me. Is there a way to see all these 'Essential' apps in one place?

For example, 'Day One', 'Evernote' and 'WolframAlpha' are all 'Essential' apps in the iOS store.


texts: To let Finder always open a folder with default window width and height

texts:
The Finder seems to remember the width and height of window that last time I open that particular folder and set such.
In other words, if I opened a folder and make the window really wide, the next time (after closing it) I open that folder, the window is still very wide.
This remains true even if I restarted computer, and even if I delete the .DS_store inside the root of that folder.

How to let Finder forget all previously-remembered window size of every folder in this computer?
I want that every time I open a new folder, Finder always apply the default size, the setting shipped with MacBook (This is about 1/2 width and 1/2 height of the whole window).

Though this is not big deal, it somewhat annoys me that when I have widened a window for some reason, the next time I open it, I have to manually adjust it back to smaller width and height for ease of reading, or the other way round.


texts: After updating to iOS5, Safari will not run on jailbroken iPhone 4

texts: Clicking Safari brings up the launch screen for Safari and then it immediately quits. Double clicking the Home button shows Safari is still running.  Quitting it and restarting does not help.  Quitting and restarting phone does not help.


texts: How do I use Messages with Google Hangouts on MacOS Mojave?

texts:
After upgrading to MacOS Mojave, Messages no longer allows me to sign in to Jabber / Google Talk.  Previously, if the Jabber account was offline, it offered a dropdown to sign back in.

Now, that dropdown appears to be gone.


texts: On Mac, are there keyboard shortcuts to create a new Space? Or at least any way to automate this process with keyboard shortcuts?

texts: I want to not have to use the mouse to create Spaces. I want to use the keyboard for that.


texts: Since the iOS 7 update, when I receive calls, the person on the other cannot hear me, although I can still hear them.  Also, when I try to give Siri a command, Siri cannot hear me.  Has anyone else had that problem too?


texts: How can I stop my computer time to reset to my local time-zone time?

texts:
Sometimes I want my Mac OS time to be different from my local time zone. In order to do that I uncheck the box "set time and date automatically" and set the time to whatever I want. This works beautifully for quite some time (days) until randomly something resets the time back to the local timezone. The box with the settings is still unchecked, but clearly some process has set the time automatically to the local one. What is this process & how can I stop it from happening?

I am currently running Mac OS 10.14, but I think this issue also occurred on previous versions of Mac OS. My computer is a Macbook Air in case it matters.

[I also have the box "set time zone automatically using current location" unchecked, but I have manually selected the time-zone I am in.]


texts:
I installed Octave 3.8.0 using homebrew. The Octave official FAQ says I can use --force-gui option to start octave with the GUI.

But when I use octave --force-gui command in the terminal, nothing happens differently. That is, Octave is still started in command-line interface.

How can I fix that?


texts:
I am looking for an iPad app that allows me to map gestures to keyboard buttons and then pass these along to my PC. The idea being that I want to control Windows Media Center with gestures. So a swipe up would be the up arrow, something else the enter key, etc.

I am not interested in a full RDP client, I just want to send keypresses to my PC.

My google-fu and appstore-fu are failing me.


texts: Is it possible to get Windows 7 on the latest 2017 MacBook Pros via Bootcamp?


texts: Mac OS: Some apps (mostly java) are very slow at first loading

texts:
System: Macbook Pro Duo 2.4Ghz, 4GB, Snow Leopard

I first encountered this problem when running eclipse. When I first run it after every reboot or waking up, it painfully takes > 7 min to load. The same actually happens the second time or even third time I load it anew on the same session. Next times, however, loads rather fast.

When already loaded, eclipse seems to go just fine, but when running (very simple) Java programs, the JVM virtual machine typically loads also slowly.

Suspecting the problem was with Java, I tested running simply java without any parameter whatsoever (that is, it prints the help) after a reboot, and it takes also minutes. Following runs go well.

As for other Java programs, the game Minecraft loads relatively fast but then the game goes quite slow.

So I could think that the problem is with Java but, however, I'm experimenting a similar problem when uncompressing zipped files, using both the Archiver program that comes with Snow Leopard and with TheUnarchiver (they are not Java!). The first time I want to uncompress a file, even if small, it takes ages, then second times for the same file or other files which may be much larger runs very fast.

And these first painful loads happen every time I reboot or I wake up the laptop!

Do you see any reason for these problems? Things I've already checked:

Give enough cache size to Java (through Java Preferences I give it 1GB in hard disk)
Deactivate backups
Checked off secure virtual memory
Parallel working load is negligible. I have 2GB free at all times.

Thanks a lot.


texts: If I move a window quickly to the right or left I often find myself in a different space. Is there a way to prevent this

texts: If I'm working on an app or in another window I will occasionally slide an idle window or app to the right or left to just get it out of the way temporarily. Often I go too far and find myself in a different space. Is there a way to prevent this?


texts: How to change the color scheme in KeyNote 6?

texts:
In Keynote 6, each Theme comes with a color scheme. I cannot figure out where this color scheme is defined, nor how to change it.

How to change the color scheme?

Or this one from a different template:


texts: Pay for Apple Developer Program from account money

texts: I'm member of the iOS developer program. During this month it will expire. I have about $200 on account. Is it possible to pay from this money without cashing out for the developer program?


texts: "System Builder" Windows on VMWare Fusion?

texts: I am a web developer, and I want to buy a copy of Windows 7 to use with my currently-existing copy of VMWare Fusion for easier testing of web sites in Internet Explorer. However, the overabundance of Windows versions is confusing me. I believe I want the Professional version, since from what I understand, the Windows XP emulation feature will let me install IE 6 and 7 for testing alongside 8 and 9. However, Amazon is offering me two versions of Windows 7 Pro; a normal boxed one, and a "System Builder" one for half the price. Obviously I'd rather purchase the latter, but I haven't found any clear information as to whether it can legally or technically be used under virtualization or not. Can anyone shed some light on this?


texts: How to update iOS by using Profile Manager as mobile device management (MDM) service?

texts:
I cannot find a way to remotely update iOS version for iPads by using Profile Manager as mobile device management (MDM) service. All devices are enrolled in Apple's DEP program.

I can choose Install Updates, select iOS 12 and press Install, but this won't install iOS 12. iPads will download iOS 12 but won't install. I need to open iPad cases and start using iPads to get the installation started. Doing this for hundreds of iPads is painful.


texts: How can I connect a cassette player to my Macbook (Mid 2015) to record cassette tapes on my mac?

texts:
I tried connecting the two headphone jacks to each other but the Mac is not recognizing this as an input source. I also have a cord to connect the headphone jack on the cassette player to a USB but the Mac isn't recognizing that either.
What is the proper way to go about this? I know nothing about cords and inputs/outputs. I want to somehow feed the audio from the cassette to the Mac to eventually be able to digitize the audio on the cassette tapes.
Thank you!


texts:
I'm upgrading from a Mac Mini to an iMac and am quite surprised to learn that I'm losing some connectivity options. Firewire I can live without, but I quite needed the optical input on my Mac Mini.

I have a PC and a Mac, and one set of speakers. So I used the optical output from my PC to the optical input on my Mac Mini and was quite happy with that arrangement. But it seems the iMac lacks optical input. What options are open to me? I can find professional solutions from M-Audio that would work, but I'd rather not have to pour hundreds of dollars into making up for a missing port.


texts: When using Sidecar on MacBook Pro, built-in display is tinted

texts: I don't know why, and if this is expected, but I noticed that the built-in display on my MacBook Pro was tinted, as if the system was applying another and incorrect color profile on it, when using Sidecar.


texts: How to watch/run videos served by KA_Lite server on iPod touch?

texts:
I am running KA Lite(Khan Academy Lite) on my PC and I can access the local server, log-in, browse and play the videos from it.

This same server is accessible via WiFi on my iPod touch. However, I'm unable to play KA_Lite videos on my iPod touch 4th Generation( iOS 6.1.3).

The KA_Lite video's are stored in MP4 format and I can play them on iPod( with iTunes file transfer). These same video's are being streamed( by KA_Lite Server) but somehow become unplayable. I'm sure this is not a Wifi Band-Width problem as I have done Wifi file transfers before and played HD videos( via VLC Streamer).

Has anyone successfully played KA_lite server streamed videos on their iDevices ??


texts: How can I download e-mails w/ Mozilla Thunderbird onto my hard drive & upload to new server?

texts:
My family's company is moving from an old, washed up server to a new cloud server with a different web hosting company.

I need to download emails from the current web host's server for 14 email boxes to my hard drive, so they can be uploaded to the new web host's server!

I have searched different add-ons for Mozilla Thunderbird, but I am unable to figure out the proper way to download individual e-mail profiles and save them on my hard drive.

I have Googled, but tutorials I have followed are too convoluted or have not worked.

Any guidance in this regard would be greatly appreciated!


texts: Once I set up AppleTV to to play My Photo stream photos, can it update the photo stream automatically (or even manually)?

texts:
I have an Apple TV 2 that I set up to use a screen Saver of My Photo Stream ( Settings > Screen Saver > Photos > My Photo stream )

it appears to have imported what it claims are 379 photos from my Apple photo stream on the day I set it up -- 11/16. However, it does not seem to update the photos ever, even though the device is connected to the internet.

when I go to the settings, I can see the photo stream from that date

is it possible to have the apple TV continually update my photo stream? And/or it is possible to update it manually myself. I don't see a way to even update it manually myself


texts: Keynote: How to skip "open presentation" window?

texts:
When I launch Keynote on my new MacBook Pro, the window used to open existing presentations is opened:

I would like to simply open a new document instead, but cannot find an option for this.

Is there any way for me to set Keynote to default to creating a new presentation, instead of defaulting to opening an existing one?


texts: What is the name of the small circuit board above the trackpad that the flex cable connects to on the MacBook pro retina 2015 13"?

texts:
My keyboard and track pad are not working and I'm thinking it's neither the keyboard nor the track pad nor even the flex cable. When I was replacing the flex cable the circuit board that the flex cable connect to (from the logic board) short and sparked - somehow I'd forgotten to turn of the laptop.

This is the small board located below the battery above the track pad on the MacBook Pro Retina 2015 13". I guess I need to replace that board. But I don't know what it's called. Does anyone here know?


texts: How does the integration with Fitbit work for data generated on Apple Watch?

texts:
I'm hoping to replace my mom's Fitbit Alta with an apple watch. She's been a Fitbit user for years so we’d prefer to keep that data source

I browsed online and there's a lot of conflicting and outdated information. My questions:

Can the AW sync steps to Fitbit? This is the biggest thing for her.

She doesn't care about Fitbit challenges. I would to hear with AW users who actually do sync their data to a Fitbit account.


texts: I have override a file in bin folder and this affect other programs

texts:
I was installing phpstorm. It use shortcut to use it in bin files as "ps"
to use "ps" in terminal to open phpstorm.

I didn't know that a file with that name already existed, and I found that when I use nodemon and other scripts, the phpstorm opens automatically and that there are "ps" in bin folder /usr/local/bin. That file was used with other programs as MAMP and NODEMON.

I want to recover that file any help ?


texts:
I'm running sierra os and want to listen to my audible audiobooks on itunes. The audible website says that I don't need any additional software for Mac:

  Mac users using iTunes do not need to download any additional
  software. Audible files will download directly into iTunes.

When I go to an audiobook section of my itunes I can't see anything. How do I import the audiobooks? I've downloaded them to the computer.


texts: Pairing multiple iOS devices with one bluetooth keyboard

texts:
I have a Keys to go Bluetooth keyboard that I use with my iPad. When I turned off the Bluetooth of my iPad, and paired the keyboard with my iPhone, it worked fine with the iPhone. The issue is that when I turn off the iPhone Bluetooth trying pair back to iPad, the iPad doesn't recognize the keyboard. I could make the re-paring to my iPad only after my forcefully un-paring the device manually with my iPhone.

I just expected that the Bluetooth keyboard can connect any devices nearby, but this may not be the case.
Is this expected behavior or Bluetooth keyboards? Is this specific to iOS devices?


texts: Why am I seeing emojis under my "frequently used" section that I've never even used?

texts: Recently I've been seeing emojis under the frequently used section that I've never even used before. Is it possible I'm seeing my husbands frequently used emojis on my phone somehow?


texts: rm does not support long-form --recursive, --force on Mac?

texts:
This seems crazy, but I just checked in a build script that switched from rm -rf to rm --recursive --force, since it would be more readable. And a collaborator who uses a Mac is reporting this breaks. When I ask him to run rm --help, he gets

5gt2:html-build annevk$ rm --help
rm: illegal option -- -
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
       unlink file

5gt2:html-build annevk$ rm --force
rm: illegal option -- -
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
       unlink file

This seems crazy to me that such a basic thing would not be supported across different *nixes. Does anyone have a workaround, or at least an explanation?


texts: New Computer bought will information be deleted?

texts: I bought a new computer recently and have not plugged my iphone into it yet. I had my phone synced with my old computer which crashed and cannot retrieve any information off of it including my music. So if I plug my iPhone into my new computer will everything be deleted or since I have iCloud will everything be saved? I want to know this information before I would plug into my new computer.


texts: Some files are gone after recovery from Time Machine backup... WHY?

texts:
I tried to clean install my mid-2012 MacBook Pro Retina and then recover from my Time Machine backup. At first the backup looked like a success and the OS did boot properly. However, I found that there are some files that are gone from the filesystem... Whoa! I was able to find it when I tried to play a music in iTunes, and got the error something like "the file doesn't exist. You have to locate it...".

And so I did search for someone who met the same issue as me, and found that this happens often after the recovery from the Time Machine backup. However, almost all answers there just helps the OP by teaching how to move the directory from the backup to the OS filesystem manually, or didn't get the answer in the first place (not in this site). But I want to know WHY it occurs, and on WHAT directory it occurs.

I've been searching for every directory and its files there that are gone after the backup, and found that my Python directory (~/py/user) erases every file and directory except one file and two directories. I'm pretty, pretty frustrated to see it doesn't recover correctly, and I would have to spend another 30 hours or so just to make sure that all my files in my filesystem do exist, and if it's missing I have to recover it from the backup one by one manually.

I tried to recover it from the Apple AirMac Time Capsule, on which I backed up in every two hours to date. I recovered from the latest backup. I even don't know whether the AirMac's storage can correctly back up my files and it's just the transportation issue that caused the issue here, or the AirMac failed to make a backup in the first place (forgive me, but I cannot check it out - it's pretty unresponsive when I tried to browse through the filesystem. But given that I've found so far, it's likely the former). Fortunately, I also have another backup with thunderbolt, and am now recovering the missing files from it. Usually I use the thunderbolt storage when I recover, but it's a manual backup and I haven't made a backup in 11 days. So I had to recover it from the AirMac... (The thunderbolt storage makes the recover properly the last time I use it, if I'm not missing something in my whole filesystem).

Sorry for the long question, but to summarize, my question are as follows:

Why does such a phenomenon happen?
Is it feasible to prevent this pathetically frustrating effect?
Is there any tendency in directory that is prone to the deletion? As far as I've searched, the Music folder is what most people report, but I don't know whether it's because most people stores a lot of data on it, or it's just the Musics folder's issue. For your information, my Musics folder is missing about 15% of all files.
Is this the responsibility of OS X's backup system, or the third-party storage (including AirMac Time Capsule)? Which is more likely?

My AirMac Time Capsule is one that is released last June, with 3TB storage. The OS is Mavericks 10.9.3, while the OS when I backed up is 10.9.2. Any feedbacks would be appreciated.

update

I finally confirmed that those missing files from the Time Capsule was NOT backed up in the first place. Whoa! I don't know any reasons that why those files failed to be backed up. Those files and directories don't have a different permission from the other files in my filesystem that was backed up properly. Is there any reasons that some files can be backed up while the others cannot? I've completely lost my trust in Time Machine and the whole backup system OS X provides...


texts: I have Maas360 on my iPhone, but the app isn't installed it's only listed under MDM. Can it track my location even if I didnt give the app location permissions?


texts: The power wire from MacBook Air turns yellow

texts:
I noticed that over time, the thin part of the power cord for my Mac Air was turning yellow.

At the beginning I thought that I had spilled some paint or juice, but over time, the area of yellowing became more. I became worried that it might get very hot and the plastic began to melt, but I did not confirm this, since I do not particularly feel its heating. What could be the reason for the yellower wire and should I be worried about this?
P.S. If the wire, wipe or wash the yellowness does not go away


texts: Security Certificates disappearing from trust store

texts: Publicly signed fully valid .CRT file, signed by root CA and not expired, disappears from the System Keychain. Seems to affect all sorts of Mac computers in my environment including new and fully patched machines. Users do not have admin rights so I'm fairly certain they are not the cause. Are there end user tasks a non-admin could inadvertently do to cause the cert to drop?


texts: Is there any way to use the Mac App Store without the administrator password? IE change it to install the app at ~/Applications instead of /Applications?


texts: For the last week or two, Finder is out of sync with the file system. This seems specific to my Downloads folder. Files I download are not visible in Finder, although if I open a terminal I can see the files are there. If I try to open a file from an application, like add an email attachment, then I do see the files in Downloads, but not in Finder itself. Any idea how I can fix this?


texts: Can I change the URL for RSS feed in NetNewsWire?

texts:
Is it possible to change the URL of a RSS feed in NetNewsWire? And if so, how?

I am using NetNewsWire ver. 3.2.15


texts: Is a user's downloads folder always called "Downloads" and located in the same path, or does its name and path change due to localization?


texts:
At WWDC 2020, Apple updated their Developer Forums.
This has broken links to the old developer forum, such as:   https://developer.apple.com/forums/message/335101
The forum link now says:

Error - Page Not Found
The page you’re looking for can’t be found

I linked that topic on Ask Different here. The link in that Question is now broken.

Were the old Apple Developer Forum topics moved to the new Forum? Was that content deleted?
The URLs were evidently changed. Is there a way to get a new URL if you have only the old URL?
Are the old topics archived anywhere? Or has all that content been deleted?
Knowing only the old URL, how can I find the migrated topic?

Same discussion on Ask Different Meta, here, for fixing these links SE-wide:
Apple Developer Forum links broken after WWDC 2020 forum upgrade


texts: I recently installed Outlook 2013 on my iPhone 5C. But I cannot find any option how to add a new contact to my list. Secondly, how can I sync my iCloud contacts with my Outlook 2013 installed on iPhone 5C.


texts:
In order to monitor the filesystem activity on my computer, I found command "sudo fs_usage", which works very well in Terminal. Then I had the idea to display those system activities (written) on my desktop wallpaper.

I downloaded the app "GeekTool" and created a "Shell" widget with the command:

echo "root password" | sudo -s fs_usage

But it doesn't work :(


texts: Do app developers know when users disable notifications?

texts:
Some iOS apps annoy me with push notifications that I cannot customize inside the app, so I go into iOS settings and turn off notifications entirely.

But I wonder, do app developers get any metrics on this?  I'd like them to be aware that their customers are turning off notifications, so maybe they could improve the app.


texts: How can I download Mavericks from Yosemite?

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Does anyone know how to download Mavericks from Yosemite?  I'm trying to get the image to put on a different computer but it won't let me download it from the App Store.

I click "download" and it says "OS X 10.10 is already installed on this computer.  Are you sure you want to download OS X 10.9?".  I click "OK" and it does absolutely nothing.

[edit]

Solution for anyone looking for it: How to re-download Lion from Mountain Lion

Same thing works here.

Open App Store
Modify /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist and set 10.10 to 10.8
Start Download
Revert modifications


texts: My MacBook Pro (2011) is saying there are no software updates, however there should be.

texts: My MacBook Pro (2011) is not up to date, however there are no software updates showing. I know it is not up to date because when I try downloading Xcode it says Xcode can's be installed on Macintosh HD, it needs Mac OS X 10.8.4.What should I do?


texts: Can I downgrade to macOS Mojave if I buy the new 2019 MacBook Pro?

texts: I plan to buy a MacBook Pro. But my work relies heavily on 32 bit apps for music production, which are not supported in Catalina. Can I downgrade to macOS Mojave if I buy the new MacBook Pro?


texts: A old MacBook was given to me to develop an iPhone app. The problem is that the Mac was treated horribly and there is a lot of bloatware. It is currently running 10.7.5. I want to create a new user that does not use ANY of the applications so it runs completely separate as in none of the bloatware apps are shown/used. I can't restore the Mac completely as it's someone elses and I don't want to remove any of their files but still want to have a "restored account."


texts: MacBook Pro Slow local network SMB upload speed

texts:
I am manually transferring some files using SMB over my local network to a new MacBook Pro from an old one (mid-2012) via WiFi, and the old MBP appears to be the bottleneck, with its Data sent/sec rate averaging ~3 MB/sec.

The WiFi router is rated AC3200, and I ran a download test to each laptop from a Gigabit Ethernet-connected NAS (isolating WiFi download), and they could both achieve 20-30 MB/sec download. On the sending computer, I copied a large file to Dropbox, and the total Data Sent rate jumped from ~3 MB/sec to ~18 MB/sec, so it appears the problem is specific to the SMB transfer, not that computer's WiFi connection.

Why wouldn't an SMB transfer go faster, since there is clearly headroom for upload in the sending computer and similarly download headroom of the receiving one?


texts: Where is the power button on the 2016 MBP With TouchBar?

texts: Where is the power button on the 2016 Macbook Pros w/ Touchbar?


texts:
I am using VMWare Fusion 8.5.8 on MacOS 10.12.6 with a guest of MacOS 10.12.5.

Periodically drag and drop stops working.  Usually I can reboot and it will start to work again.  This time a reboot did not fix it.

I contacted VMWare and they declined support because they claim it does not work and it never worked.  They sent me this link supposedly supporting that, but by my reading it does not support their claim:
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1032440

I am quite sure that I use drag and drop between the guest and host previously as it is part of my development workflow.

Further supporting my claim that it previously worked I previously submitted a ticket about it not working, but by the time the support person got back to me I had to reboot and no longer had a test case for them to work on.  They then suspended the ticket.

If someone could run a quick video of drag and drop working on they similar setup I would appreciated getting a copy so I could send it to VMWare to get them to take my issue seriously.

What can I try to get drag and drop to work again?

[EDIT] I updated the guest machine to 10.12.6 and drag and drop started to work again.  Problem solved except I want to get to the bottom of it to keep it from happening in the future.

I just got this email from VMware claiming that this feature does not work:

  ** Please do not change the subject line of this email if you wish to respond. **

  Hello Michael,

  Thank you for your response.

  This feature is not supported. Kindly refer the knowledge base article
  which lists the limitations for VMware Fusion 8.5.8 and also for the
  latest Fusion 10.

  The feature may have worked in the earlier builds or may work
  intermittently with the newer version. However, we have checked with
  the engineering team and they have confirmed that we do not support
  the drag and drop feature.

  These were the inputs which were shared directly from the engineering
  team: For MacOS guest, Drag & Drop/Copy & Paste file is not supported,
  it only supports copy text between guest and host. Like copy a string
  in TextEdit from guest and paste it to host's TextEdit.

  So, it's not a bug

  We request you to submit a feature request.


texts: is there an iphone (Cydia) app to forward/back 30s

texts:
With SBSettings+Activator one is able to program the physical buttons on the iPhone, to open apps, toggle settings, skip to next/previous song, play/pause musik, open controls, etc.

Is there something like this to program a physical button to (when listening to a podcast or audiobook) skip forward/back 30s (within the same track)?


texts:
Macbook Pro running El Capitan. Fontd utility just started using 100% of cpu when doing anything in Mac Mail. I have researched and performed recommendations (validate fontbook  fonts, clear/restart font server) with no benefit. Fontd still taking up nearly 100% of cpu when navigating mail.

Other suggestions would be appreciated.


texts:
I am trying to install Autopsy on my macbook but I cannot get the application running. I followed the instructions from this site:

  Press Command+Space and type Terminal and press enter/return key.
  Run in Terminal app:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

  and press enter/return key. Wait for the command to finish.
  Run:

brew install autopsy

How do I open the application and get it up and running for Mac?


texts: delete a standard account and log with the admin account

texts:
I have an old Mac with one (admin) account. The mac can boot without any problem, but I don't remember the admin password. A friend of mine had the 'brilliant' idea to create a new (non-admin) user and set it to load by default.

Can I access the admin's documents with this new account and afterwards just delete the freshly created account?
Or is there a way to changer/recover the admin password?


texts:
I would like my Mac to mute every time it wakes from sleep to avoid unintentionally playing loud music/videos when I'm at a meeting.

I found this related question:
Mute volume of macbook on sleep

but the answer may be outdated, and I can't comment because my reputation isn't high enough. Does anyone have an updated fix?

Here is what I did:

I installed SleepWatcher, ran the script, then the following code:

$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/share/man/man8
$ sudo cp ~/Desktop/sleepwatcher_2.2.1/sleepwatcher /usr/local/sbin
$ sudo cp ~/Desktop/sleepwatcher_2.2.1/sleepwatcher.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8

Then, per the answer to the previous question, I did:

$ /usr/local/sbin/sleepwatcher --verbose --sleep /usr/bin/osascript -e 'set volume with output muted'

I get the following error:

  sleepwatcher: invalid option -- e

If I remove e, it says

  sleepwatcher: superfluous arguments ignored: "set volume with output muted ..."


texts: Virtualenvwrapper, can I get rid of it from Terminal and my Sublime Text?

texts:
I have an MBP latest OS running, I tried to follow a guide to install VirtualEnvWrapper a few weeks ago, not too sure why.

But I keep getting this error when opening terminal and its quite annoying, how to get rid?
http://puu.sh/nSu82/fcb2f5291a.png

and in my sublime text I see it too:
http://puu.sh/nSu9F/2cc43f46a0.png

How can I fix this?

Edit: I also tried
sed -n '3p' $HOME/.bash_profile

and got

source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper_lazy.sh


texts: Finder and About this mac shows different free space sizes?

texts: Which one shows the correct value and how can I make room for ghost application allocated space?


texts: How can I browse WWDC session videos directly on my iOS device or AppleTV?

texts:
On my Mac, I can log in to the developer center to watch the videos from the website, and that I can log in on iTunes on my Mac to browse and download them. However, is there a way to browse and watch WWDC session videos directly from my iPad or AppleTV?

I've tried logging in to the Apple developer center on my iPad's browser, then viewing the videos "in iTunes"--this brings up the iTunes app, with a section called "Developer on iTunes", but also a pop-up dialog telling me "Access Denied". On the AppleTV, there isn't even a browser, and searching iTunes U in both places has yielded nothing.


texts: Mac Pro crashed and wants to recover files on hard drive

texts:
I have a Mac Pro and the motherboard is damaged and I'm trying to retrieve the files from the hard disk on my Windows 7 desktop. Can anyone tell me what software i can use?

Windows 7 cannot read HFS+


texts: Why don't my Photos sort correctly by date?

texts:
Using OS 10.12.4 and Photos 2.0 (3150.4.120).

I imported a bunch of photos recently, and selected View > Sort > "Keep Sorted by Oldest First".

Most of them appear in the correct order, but a few are out of order. If I do Get Info on them, I can see that certain photos have a later date than photos appearing later in the album.

Is this sort order based on a different date? How can I make them appear in the right order? Or is this just a bug in Photos (in which case I'll abandon hope)?

It also uses this same incorrect order on iOS 10.3.1, when I sync them to my iPhone.

I tried putting them in a new album, as well as creating a Smart Album with the photos, but the same order persists.


texts:
Can we have an exact alternative (for macOS) to the output for /proc/net/dev on Linux systems?

There's a slightly similar question at OS X equivalent of linux /proc dir but I'm looking specifically for /proc/net/dev.

I am trying to run speedometer which is a python script that displays network usage history graphically. For example, in Ubuntu, I can run it in three terminals and it shows the per second, per minute, and per hour average network speed for a given interface. Maybe I can try another tool for the job?

speedometer is failing when it requests for the output of /proc/net/dev


texts: How can I view the current price of an app I've previously purchased?

texts:
I want to view the price of Cut The Rope 2 on the iOS App Store. However, because it's an app I've already purchased, the price listing has been replaced with the "redownload" button.

Is there a way to view the current price of an app I've previously purchased?


texts: How can I enable DVD or CD Sharing with the Firewall on?

texts:
I'm trying to enable "DVD or CD Sharing" in the System Preferences. When I enable it, it says that the Firewall is blocking it. If I go into the Security > Firewall settings, I see that the first item under Advanced... is "DVD or CD Sharing" and that it's set to "Allow incoming connections".

If I disable the Firewall completely, it works correctly. Is there any way to get it to work with the Firewall enabled, though?


texts: After update to El Capitan, can't write to my home dir?

texts:
I did a hard drive wipe and clean reinstall for OS X 10.11 El Capitan. I now get some permission errors about my home directory.  Here's an example, after running the program psql, which is the PostgreSQL command line interface.

could not save history to file "/Users/rob/.psql_history": Permission denied

If I look at my home dir, the rwx part looks right, but there is an extra ACL. Should I delete that ACL? Why is it there? Lots of programs write to . files in home directory.

$ ls -lde /Users/rob/
drwxr-xr-x@ 27 rob  staff  918 Oct 22 16:31 /Users/rob/
0: group:everyone deny add_file,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,writeattr,writeextattr,chown


texts: Do programs keep running on macos when user switches account?

texts:
I am wondering if programs keep running when users switch account, alas account is locked and another user account logs in.
For instance, user Mike runs Photos (that will start curating pictures), then locks account and user Sue logs in to other account; will Photos instance keep running in Mike account in the background?


texts: Mid '11 Mac Mini boot loops at Apple logo, but can boot to Safe Mode

texts:
So the previous issue I had with my Mac Mini has morphed into a worse one and now it won't even boot normally, it just endlessly boot loops at the Apple screen. However, I have ran Apple Hardware Test twice and it comes back with "no trouble found." I'm really at my wit's end with this issue and am ready to just reinstall OS X entirely (I'm on OS X El Cap 10.11.6), but am not sure that would help...but I think it must be a software issue since I can boot to Safe Mode. Does that sound right?

So far I have tried:
- Turning the Mac Mini over and opening the bottom panel to let heat
   radiate out better.
- Disconnecting everything but keyboard/mouse & monitor.
- Ran AHT several times (always just says "No trouble found."
- Booted to Apple -R to recovery: recheck disk and ran repair
   permissions.
- Pulled both 8GB RAM modules (one at a time, of
   course) and tried booting with only one.

I'm out of ideas here. Any feedback here greatly appreciated.

EDIT: No idea how or why it's able to run in Safe Mode, but I think this must be a hardware issue because I am not able to boot to either Recovery or a Linux Mint USB. Both also cause a boot loop!


texts: Safari Extensions keep on getting deleted

texts:
I recently upgraded to High Sierra and I liked the upgrade too but the most annoying thing is that the safari extensions which I download from the official Apple website keep on getting deleted by itself I have tried to fix the problem by trying the following stuff:

Deleting  ~/Library/Safari/Extensions/Extensions.plist
Deleting  ~/Library/Safari/Extensions/

So can someone help me around with this problem?


texts: Have: Single partition firewire HD w/ 10.5.8 (my StartUp Disk), 2 bootable USB drives (1st= 10.6.7, 2nd= 10.8.2). Want: upgrade firewire HD to 10.8.2

texts:
Have:

a) single partition 2 TB external firewire HD w/ 10.5.8 (my current StartUp Disk)

b) single partition bootable USB drive with 10.6.7 (full version / not just an "upgrade" version)

c) single partition bootable USB drive with 10.8.2 (full version / not just an "upgrade" version)

Desired Outcome: run 10.8.2 on the single partition firewire HD (item "a" above)

Constraint: the single partition firewire external HD w/ 10.5.8 (current StartUp Disk) is a 2TB drive, and it also has other (non Mac OSX related) data files on the drive that I do not want to lose. To be clear, the constraint is that I do not want to erase this drive during the upgrade process.

System Details: 2008 Intel iMac 24", 4 gig RAM, USB 2.0, broken-ass internal DVD drive, broken-ass internal HD

My Question: how best to achieve the desired outcome? If not possible, please suggest next best alternative.

My Appreciation For Your Help: sincere & immense :-)


texts:
Just bought a mid-2014 MBP from ebay and I tried to update to Catalina but it said I need APFS to do that. I tried disk utility but the option is greyed out. I NEED a way to do it non-destructively. I have no way to backup my stuff as of right now.

Current OS - Mojave

Trying to update to - Catalina

Tried - Disk-Utility -> Edit -> Convert to APFS (Greyed out), lots of googling. Tried using diskutil apfs convert command but gave the error -69546


texts: Accessing internal Macintosh HD with Boot Camp Windows To Go install on external drive

texts:
I've installed a bootable Windows 10 (Windows To Go) install on an external SSD with Boot Camp drivers. Accessing the internal drive while running Windows To Go is not recommended by Microsoft, but they specifically mention problems with corruption when the internal drive has Windows 7 or earlier installed and was left hibernating.
I have macOS Big Sur installed on my internal drive, and I find it inconvenient that I can't access the files on my internal drive and I want to try mounting the drive -- has anyone tried this? Does anyone foresee any potential problems with doing this?


texts: What does the CLEAN badge mean in iTunes?

texts:
I noticed an indication 'CLEAN' on iTunes today. What does it mean?

Screenshot:


texts: Macbook pro 15 inch 2017 freezes until hard reboot

texts:
My 15 inch MacBook pro running Mojave (10.14.6) recently started freezing randomly staying completely unresponsive. I use an external monitor and all I see is the screensaver frozen, when disconnected the MacBook's screen remains black.
I tried resetting the SMC, PRAM, and VRAM but it happened again. The problem goes away momentarily when I hard reset the computer. I checked and there's no crash reports to be found after the reboot. I checked the SSD with DiskUtility and no problem was found.
I have a copy of system.log and I know the approximate time of today's freeze, but I don't know how to read the log file, I can copy the log file if necessary.
What else can I do to diagnostic my computer?? Or does anyone know what could be happening?
Thanks.


texts: Why does OS X use swap memory when memory pressure remains low?

texts: My system (Yosemite / 10.10) has been paging out to swap memory despite my memory pressure reading less than 50% over the last 7 days (tracked with iStat Menus). How is this possible? It would be one thing if memory pressure exceeded 100% at some point in the last week and then the swap file was activated, but that doesn't seem to have happened at all and yet I've got 1.25 GB of 2.00 GB being swapped right now, with 36% memory pressure. Shouldn't the new memory model introduced in Mavericks behave differently?


texts: Mac mode where you can see code on startup

texts:
In The Outliers, Bill Joy is quoted as saying

  "If you put your Mac in that funny mode where you can see the code, I
  see things that I can remember typing 25 years ago."

I'm intrigued - what is this mode? How does one use it?


texts: How to show application windows only for current Space in Exposé, and not aggregated from all Spaces

texts:
I just started using Spaces in 10.14 (I know I'm a little late to) and was excited at first until I encountered this scenario:

When I am in a Space and do Exposé to "Show me ALL Application Windows", Exposé shows me ALL the windows opened for that App across ALL Spaces (and not just from the current Space)

However, the behavior in the next scenario is perfect:
When I am in a Space and do Exposé to "Show me ALL Windows for ALL running applications", Exposé dutifully shows me only the relevant windows for "ALL" running applications in the "Current" space only. - GREAT!

The problem with showing me "All Windows for Current Application Across ALL Spaces" easily overwhelms me, and to me it cancels out the usefulness of Spaces to organize productivity & workflow.

I created my Desktops to keep things separate.

If anyone has has any insight please share- would love to use Spaces!

Info on my research

I found this article and these 2 Stack Articles:

Customize Mission Control To Show Only Windows From Current Desktop Space

Exposé in 10.7: When exposing “Application Windows”, how do you show only the windows in the current space?

How to modify app expose to show only open windows of current application on current desktop?

I thought I'd try to add the wvous-show-windows-in-other-spaces back in to my plist

edited ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist -> added xml value

    <key>wvous-show-windows-in-other-spaces</key>
    <false/>

killall Dock

But did not work.


texts: Website URLs seem to refresh in the background

texts:
I have written a Python script hosted on a Raspberry Pi that controls my garage doors. The doors are operated by sending a GET request to one of a few URLs on the server. It's only available within the LAN.

We use three iPhones, two 7s and a 6, all with the latest iOS version, to operate it with Safari.

By inspecting my server logs I am finding that one of the 7s and the 6 appear to be firing GET requests an random times, even in the middle of the night for example, causing my doors to open 'by themselves'. The other 7 doesn't seem to do this.

I've tried leaving it with the URLs added to the home screen, and also just bookmarked in Safari, but it doesn't seem to change the behaviour.

Is there some kind of background app refresh going on here that I don't know about, or could it be some other kind of fault? The Python end seems to be fine as the logging shows that it's responding to legitimate GET requests each time, but I can't find a difference between the iPhones that exhibit the behaviour and the one that doesn't.

Can you help? Thank you!


texts: iPhone 5c Digitizer or logic board damage

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My wife dropped her phone on Sunday... I don't want to replace the screen if it's the logic board and nothing can be done to recover her data. A beautiful picture:

If this were the 1970's her phone would be so vogue... Who didn't love plaid back then?

Anyway... I have taken the screen off and checked the connections, put everything back together. No change.

The phone still rings when called
The phone vibrates when switched into silent mode
The digitizer is not working - the phone cannot be "unlocked" and calls cannot be answered
There was a screw that had detached from the retaining plate where the screen connects to the logic board

I tried hard reboots (power + home)

The home and power buttons are still recognized but this has no impact on the artifacting display
During the hard reboot the display goes blank and then lights up again after being restarted.

I tried disconnecting / reconnecting the battery from the logic board

This had no impact on the display. We've gone plaid.

Curious if anyone can tell whether this symptom is indicative of a bad logic board or if the display / digitizer cables have been damaged!


texts: How do I disable message sending using the return key on Ipad or Iphone? While using a bluetooth keyboard

texts: Using a Bluetooth keypad with my Ipad how do I compose a message with new paragraphs?    Pressing Énter/return’ sends the message immediately and message is most often incomplete. I also experience this with Facebook when posting messages!?


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I have a very weak connection through my Airport Express. By this I mean not a single Spotify song can play without being interrupted.

My computer is located 6m from the Airport Express in a straight line, with no walls or other obstacles in the way. No DECT phones and no microwave turned on.

Wireless speedtest: download of 0.52Mb/s and upload of 0.07Mb/s

Wired speedtest: download of 23.34Mb/s and upload of 1.80Mb/s with a ping of 43ms.

iStumbler 6m away tells me signal between 35% - 45% and noise around 20%.
iStumbler right next to the Airport Express tells me a signal of around 55% - 60%.

Up until last week things were better, in the sense that Spotify played uninterrupted unless I visit heavy webpages or download big files.

It seems my wired connection is good enough but wireless is awful. How can I fix / debug this further?

Speedtest when I set to channel 3: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3297169246


texts:
I've bought the latest MacBook Pro with Touch bar. I've installed clean installation of Mac OSX (latest, no updates avail.). Whenever I open keychain, the Touch ID request dialog is shown. After using Touch ID the dialog is shown after few seconds. Multiple entry (like 20) didn't help. Even if I close the Mac and use external monitor, Touch ID dialog is shown.

Any advice?
Thank you,
Martin


texts: How can I copy a playlist from my iPod to iTunes?

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I have some playlists which exist on my iPod only; I lost them in iTunes the last time I did a backup.  How can I get these (non-smart) playlists out of the iPod, and restore them to iTunes?

I have a 2nd gen iPod Nano, which I connect via USB to iTunes (v10.6.0.40) on a Windows 7 PC.