texts: What are all the dictation commands in iOS? (iOS 10)

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iOS (10) has a speech-recognition-based dictation feature. You press a little microphone button, start talking, and it transcribes your speech into text. Commands I currently know:

"new paragraph"
"comma"
"period"
"hyphen"
"dash"
"colon"
"semicolon"
"open/closed bracket"
"open/closed curly brace"
"open/closed parenthesis"

However, I do not know voice commands for:

backspace/delete
undo/redo
cycle between alternate options for a word

Please help.

Also, if possible, please let me know how to:

prevent dictation mode from automatically turning off
convert pre-recorded audio to text using speech recognition


texts: Can you hide hidden files in specific folders (like the desktop) while keeping them shown everywhere else?

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I work with hidden files all the time, but I like an uncluttered desktop. It would be nice to make files like .DS_Store, and .localized invisible just on the Desktop.

Please note I am already aware of this trusty old terminal standby:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder

Setting that flag to FALSE applies to everything in the system. My goal is to make an exception for the Desktop. Any suggestions?


texts: macOS can't detect my Feitian MultiPass U2F Device over BLE

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I'm enrolled in Google's Advanced Protection program, and it requires me to carry a physical U2F token when signing in through a new device. I've also started using this as my only second-factor authentication method.

My Feitian MultiPass U2F key device is BLE and can authenticate via Bluetooth. I had no problems pairing it with my phone, but when I tried pairing it with my MacBook, I couldn't even see it listed in the list of new devices.

At the same time, my MacBook can see my phone and had no trouble pairing with my headphones. I can use my U2F token with my phone just fine.

I also tried using it via Bluetooth with my wife's Macbook, and that didn't work either. The same problem, it didn't even show up.

Our laptops:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) running 10.13.5 High Sierra
MacBook Pro (2016 with Touchbar) running 10.13.5 High Sierra


texts: Batch convert Apple Pages files to Microsoft Word doc files

texts: How can I convert a large number of Pages and Numbers files into corresponding MS Office format in a quick manner.


texts: Is it possible to install App in iPhone directly without iTunes or Appstore?

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Android apps can be directly installed from apk files from Android phones.

Is it possible to install iPhone App in iPhone directly without using iTunes or Appstore?


texts: How can I unlock my screen when my input is in a different language?

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I have 3 languages installed and everytime my MacBook goes to sleep - the screen is being locked. After entering a password, system says that it's incorrect. It appears, that I'm entering password not in English language, but in Lithuanian (mother tongue), where all digits are taken by Lithuanian-specific vowels and consonants (from 1 to 8: ąčęėįšųū). And the problem is that I can't change language back to English so that I'd be able to enter digits for my password. Using backtick for "default language" does not work (I get beeps all the time). Copy pasting does not work too.

Any suggestions? As I don't think I need to take care of what language my MacBook locks the screen in.

I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.


texts: Different free storage space reported in the Files app and in Settings → iPad Storage

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The reported value looks off by ~38 GB

Settings → General → iPad Storage:

Files → On My iPad:

I'm trying to Airdrop a 9 GB file to this iPad and it fails, this could be why. Smaller files (~1,5 GB) get transferred just fine.

Rebooted the device several times. Is this fixable without a reset of any kind?


texts: spctl "command not found" on Recovery start (mac OS Big Sierra)

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I've just updated to macOS Big Sur.
The firewall I use, Little Snitch doesn't work with Big Sur natively, and you have to do some stuff (they explain the thing here https://obdev.at/support/littlesnitch/245913651253917):

Start up your computer from macOS Recovery: Restart your computer and hold Command-R during startup.
Open the Terminal application from the Utilities menu in the menu bar.
Enter the following command and press Return:
spctl kext-consent add MLZF7K7B5R

My mac starts on Internet Recovery Mode and everytime I run the command I get the result "command not found"
I tried to look for the command in the route /usr/sbin/ but neither found there.

Any idea of what can i do to run it?
Thanks in advance and regards :)


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I like making a habit to use the different languages I study, to keep that knowledge fresh. So I like typing in those languages when I get the chance. But swapping keyboards under OSX is just a little too cumbersome.

For example, I was just typing the name of one of my co-workers in its original 汉子 form instead of as an English transliteration. It's nice. It reminds me to pronounce her name properly, with tone, etc., which otherwise doesn't come naturally. The transliteration of her name is especially misleading. Everyone at the company is pronouncing it wrong.

But to swap into writing 汉子 I have to mouse up to the top menu bar, select a new keyboard, type, mouse back up to the top bar, and then select back into English. I know there's a keyboard shortcut, but with 5 different keyboards active in my menu, cycling through 5 to get to the one I want feels just as cumbersome.

Is there a way to attach a hotkey to a specific keyboard, or some other way to make swapping character sets lighter?


texts: Screen sharing with windows 8.1 - observe windows screen on mac

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Here are already some questions about how to connect to mac's screen from windows, like:

screen sharing from Windows to Mac over LAN
Screen Sharing from windows to mac with no software on the windows computer

I'm looking for a reverse way. My wife got a new windows 8.1 notebook, and i'm looking for a way how to

connect to her notebook from my Mac
observe what she doing and allow remote assistence from my MAC
in short - the same functionality as the /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Screen\ Sharing.app does with another mac. (e.g. vnc://... )

What i need to install and/or configure in the windows notebook to got the ability share the windows 8.1 screen, e.g. what allows me doing the following:

$ smbutil lookup wifebook
Got response from 192.168.1.13
IP address of wifebook: 192.168.1.13
$ open vnc://192.168.1.13

Any ideas?

(ps: while i'm pretty familiar with UNIX like systems, i'm totally windows noob & ignorant)


texts: My iPad lagging after 3 months' use, why?

texts: I have iPad 2 and writing has become totally bad with it now. Something is hooking up the resources or it is getting old after 3 months. How can I make it faster?


texts: Banish "You have forced XXX to quit" from showing on my screen again

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I never want to see this popup on my computer again.

Is it possible to prevent "do not ask again" this type of dialog?


texts: pasting commands from TextWrangler to Terminal (applescript troubleshooting)

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I have a following script that I have been using for years to paste selection or a whole line from TextWrangler to R. I got it from some website, slightly modified, and it has worked perfectly:

tell application "TextWrangler"
set the_selection to (selection of front window as string)
if (the_selection) is "" then
    set the_selection to line (get startLine of selection) of front window as string
end if
end tell
tell application "R64"
cmd the_selection
end tell

Now I wanted to do the same, but pasting to Terminal window instead of R. However, when I modify the relevant line (3rd line from end) of the above script to:

tell application "Terminal"

the script no longer works. After some debugging I narrowed down the problem to the "cmd the_selection", where the editor says "Syntax error: Expected end of line but found identifier.". The funny thing is I cannot find what "cmd" command does - it's not in Apple's guidelines, and googling it doesn't help. I assume this must be some deprecated function to paste selection or line and that it no longer works in my version of applescript.

Any ideas how to fix this?
cheers
yot


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I am trying to install CocoaPods on my Mac device. When I run the following command:
sudo gem install cocoapods
it returns:
Fetching: cocoapods-core-1.5.3.gem (100%)
Successfully installed cocoapods-core-1.5.3

ERROR:  Error installing cocoapods: invalid gem: package metadata is missing in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/cache/cocoapods-deintegrate-1.0.2.gem

What is casing this issue and how do I install CocoaPods?


texts:
I know the thread How to uninstall Qt Creator on Mac Yosemite but I cannot locate Qt folders in $HOME/Library/.
The following command is also unsuccessful

sudo QtSDK/SDKMaintenanceTool.app/Contents/MacOS/SDKMaintenanceTool

I think Qt version is 5.1. The whole package took about 14 Gb which I cannot keep anymore in my system.

How can you uninstall Qt in El Capitan?


texts: MacOS underestimates battery life on replacement battery

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I recently replaced the battery in my late 2011 MacBook Pro, and the battery seems to do fine except that it will drop very quickly from about 75% down to 2% and then continue to work for quite a while (I haven't timed it but probably close to an hour if not more of normal use).

What could cause this, and how might I fix it, so that it shows a more reasonable battery life estimate?

It's a little irritating having to guess at how much time I have left before it sleeps.

coconutBattery says:

Current Charge: 114 mAh (2%)

Note: this hasn't changed from 114 in the 15 (edit: 20) or so minutes since I first checked.

Full Charge Capacity: 5752 mAh
Design Capacity: 6900 mAh
Manufacture date: 2015-06-24
Loadcycles: 13
macOS Battery status: Good
Discharging with: 12.15 Watts
Manufacturer: Simplo
Battery failure: Yes

That last one makes me a little nervous. What does "Battery failure: Yes" mean?


texts: fsck -fy hangs on Checking catalog file + issues booting (MacBook)

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Last night my MacBook Pro crashed. This morning I tried turning the computer on, and it had a few issues..

Computer doesn't get past initial boot up loading.
Fan activates loudly while starting up.
Screen is generally slightly tinted green, with light green horizontal stripes going across the display every couple pixels.
Initial loading screen has a green progress bar.
Screen occasionally has a black stripe with rainbow pixels dotted across the top of the screen.
Rendered pixels are generally shifted up or down a single pixel every few inches across the screen.
After hanging with a white screen for ~4 minutes, it switches to a blue screen with vertical red stripes.
A couple minutes later the computer reboots and the process restarts.

So I try using single-user mode, because obviously I'm not getting anywhere with this boot-up loop.

I follow this process:

$ /sbin/fsck -fy
** /dev/rdisk1
** Root file system
   Executing fsck_hfs (Version hfs-305.10.1).
** Checking Journaled HFS Plujs vloume.
   The volume name is Macintosh HD
** Checking extents overflow tile.
** Checking catalog file.

It proceeds to hang here until I ^C out of fsck.

I try rebuilding the catalog...

$ fsck_hfs -y -Rc -d /dev/disk0s2
Unable to open block device /dev/disk0s2: Resource busyjournal_replay(/dev/disk0s2) returned 16
** /dev/rdisk0s2 (NO WRITE)
        Using cacheBlockSize=32K cacheTotalBlock=16384 cacheSize=524288K.
   Executing fsck_hfs (version hfs-305.10.1).
        Block 975093950 is not an MDB or Volume Header
Journal is empty
** Checking JOurnaled HFS Plus volume.
   The volume name is Macintosh HD
** Checking extents overflow file.
** Checking catalog file.
** The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
       volume type is pure HFS+
       primary MDB is at block 0 0x00
       alternative MDB is at block 0 0x00
       primary VHB is at block 2 0x02
       alternate VHB is at block 975093950 0x3a1ec0be
       sector size = 512 0x200
       VolumeObject flags = 0x03
       total sectors for volume = 975093952 0x3a1ec0c0
       total sectors for embedded volume = 0 0x00
       CheckHFS returned 7. fsmodified = 0

It says my hard drive is corrupt. To repair the hard drive you generally use /sbin/fsck -fy, right? The only problem is that gives me the same as before, hanging on the catalog file.

I'm not really sure what to do!


texts: Macbook Pro 13-inch stuck at Gray screen with apple logo and wheel

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I have a 13 inch Macbook Pro, early 2011 with its original OS.
I came to a point where its battery needs to be replaced, and I can't use it without using its charger/adapter. One time, I  accidentally  pulled out the charger and it turned off. It was not my first time so I just didn't worry. But when I plugged it back and turned on the laptop, it just got stuck at the gray screen with the Apple logo, the wheel, and a loading bar. At first I thought I should just wait, but later I realized it's still stuck for almost an hour!

I tried to Google and I read that something is corrupt.

I don't really have too important files, so it's okay if I would need to reinstall the OS. Or do I need to change the laptop's hard drive?


texts: Is a classical music friendly "Composer List" view possible in iTunes 11?

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The iTunes 11 redesign has pretty much ruined usability for those of us whose library consists primarily of classical music. Both iTunes 10 and 11 allow two values for Composers in addition to the normal Artist

Something similar to "Artist List" view would be extremely useful, but don't see any filtering/sorting options for that view. Is it possible to change the "pivot" field for that view to use composer instead of artist?

Hopefully someone can figure out How to get the Column Browser in iTunes 11 on the left side? and most of my usability concerns would be addressed, but I would like to be able to leverage the new Artist List view, but by composer. Has anyone found a good way to expose metadata fields like composer


texts: If I block someone on my iPhone will I stop receiving their messages on my iPad as well or do I have to block the number on both?


texts: Upgrade iPhone 5 from iOS 7.0.4 to iOS 7.1.2

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I have an iPhone 5 that I use with Straight Talk (telecom provider) and I am trying to "upgrade" it from 7.0.4 to 7.1.2, or any release with the 7.x version for that matter.

I specifically do not want to upgrade to IOS 8 just yet.

I have the file "iPhone5,2_7.1.2_11D257_Restore.ipsw" but I get the error "The device isn't eligible for the requested build." I've also hashed out the gs.apple address in my hosts file.

I know you can't downgrade from 8 to 7, but in this case is there a way I can still upgrade to a later version of 7.x?


texts: Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) 3.7 - how to drag n drop copy files from local to remote

texts: I've been able to use Apple Remote Desktop to copy files and folders from my local machine to remotes for many years. I've updated to ARD 3.7 and I can longer copy files. Is this no longer supported or is there some setting I need to change? I've looked and tried many things with no luck. How can I drag n drop files from my local Mac to the Remotes?


texts:
Since last year, I have been using and iPhone 5s with iOS7 version.

My Problems are:

I haven't been able to decline an incoming call for some time.
There are two User interfaces available for incoming call. One interface has the option to Decline with red button. In the other interface, I can't find the option to decline.


texts: Yosemite OSX iMac reboot progress bar stuck at 50%

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My son went out of town and, upon returning, turned on his iMac. It rebooted and went into the progress bar typically showing during updates. It goes to the 50% mark, fairly quickly but then stayed there for 10 minutes. He rebooted and tried again but, this time let it sit overnight, at least six hours, but still stuck at 50%.

He tells me he installed Yosemite but not any time in the last few days before he left. From Googling around we tried resetting PRAM and also verifying the hard disk form disk utilities. The hard disk gave a green check mark(?) and said the volume was OK. I asked him to verify permissions but that was now grayed out.

Unfortunately, I am not a Mac user and I'm trying to help him over the phone. I'm very technically inclined but don't know what to do about this issue.

EDIT: So now things are getting worse as he tries rebooting and, after the start up sound, the computer powers down.

EDIT2: I just learned that the computer was not turned off while he was away which leads me to believe the system tried to update itself and something went wrong causing some system files to not be found or, perhaps, the few things we tried to do to the system helped that along.

So we found out Apple will check out his system even though it's not under warranty and, if it can be fixed in the software, they'll also fix it for free. What a great company!

EDIT3: Apple decided the hard drive had gone bad and replaced it. My son has a friend in the data recovery business who will attempt to extract the data.


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I can't find a way to add links on my images, am I missing something? I tried via the menu but the option seems locked or with ⌘+k but this has no effect either.

Any clue on what's going on? If it's not possible, is there a known hack for this?


texts:
While using the media browser to add photo's to indesign, I think I accidentally dragged the album selector underneath the toolbar of the finder. Now I can't change the photo album I want to select photo's from and the whole media browser has become unusable. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

Here there is no album to select from.

Here there are albums to choose from, it used to look the same way in the photo's section.


texts: External hard drive unrecognizable in disk utility but found in System Information

texts: I've got a WD EasyStore 1TB external hard drive that won't show up in disk utility at all. I've tried multiple MacBooks and on my raspberry pi. The ONLY thing I can get to recognize the hard drive itself are the WD Drive Utilities (yuck), but when I try to erase it from there the application crashes. I have looked for a fsck_hfs or fsck_exfat process running to see if the machine is trying to repair the disk before it runs it at all. Nothing. When I try to reboot my MacBook with the drive connected to it, it stays stalled on the apple logo for as long as I'll let it. I can see that it is recognized as a USB connection in System Information, but it is not recognized as storage at all. Help, please!!!


texts: Windows 7 Bootcamp not recognising devices

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Has anybody encountered a problem with the USB driver when running Windows 7 on MacBook Pro 2010 (MC371)?

It doesn't recognize any USB drives or USB hard drives. I've tried both Windows Update and Bootcamp update - nothing helps. Where can I find a proper driver?


texts: Can I use GPL-licensed source in my iOS app?

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I'm going to use some GPL-covered code in my app. Firstly, I'm not sure if GPL is compatible with Apple's App Store, i.e. whether apps entirely covered by GPL can be published through App Store.

Second, iOS does not allow 3rd party dynamic libraries, which means, to my understanding, you can't legally combine GPL and non-GPL code in one iOS app.

So what are my options if I want to use some GPL code in my app?


texts: Does Mac OS X allow for the creation of iso files and if so can they then be run on a virtual drive?

texts: Does Mac OS X allow for the creation of iso files (similar to that of Windows) and if so can they then be run on a virtual drive within the operating system ?


texts: Can I get my Touch Bar to play sounds to acknowledge my Touch Bar key presses?

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I love my MBP and the Touch Bar is pretty cool, but sometimes I find I’m second-guessing myself. Did I press the ESC key or not? Did I press that function key? Well you get the idea. There’s just no physical feedback and sometimes I keep tapping where I think something is, but it’s not!

I know there's no tactile feedback, but then it hit me - maybe there’s a setting somewhere for sound. You know, like the beeps you here when pressing buttons on some devices.

My guess is this is just not possible, but before I make the suggestion to Apple I wanna make sure!

Any ideas?


texts: Mountain Lion Share Sheet Keyboard Shortcuts?

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Using the Keyboard Preference Pane, I've assigned shortcuts to the items in the share sheet in the Finder. Command-Option-Control-M for "Email" and Command-Option-Control-C for Message. The keyboard shortcuts actually get listed next to those commands when I click on the share sheet.

But they don't actually work. I've tried relaunching Finder and restarting, but to no avail. Any ideas to kickstart these commands, or is it just a glitch that they even appear in the menu?


texts: Communication apps "jumping" to front without user input on Big Sur

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Since I updated to Big Sur on my MacBookPro MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, i5) I have this very inconvenient situation where my communication apps, specifically Zoom, Slack and Discord, jump to the front without any action on my part.
Usually I have the app in the back, meaning I am either actively using another application, like writing something on visual studio code, IntelliJ, pycharm, or just have something else like Firefox or Mail opened in front of it. Then suddenly it jumps to front as if I had clicked on it or brought it to the front in some arcane way like "hitting cmd+tab" very fast.
It has become common place to be showing something on zoom screen share to my colleagues and then discord or slack to jump to the front plane on top of what I am showing, or when just talking with video open the zoom landing/main/app jumps to front obscuring my screen in the middle of the call.
It is very disruptive and frustrating to my workflow and it is happening at an alarming rate. Yesterday I had it happen to me 7 times, today it already happened once.
I had other weird problems too with Big Sur like the zoom link to open a call not immediately opening a new tab in my browser (actually it may take up to 2 minutes to open a new tab), but this is showing signs that it is going back to normal now.


texts: I have several memory questions regarding OS X 10.9.5

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I have just purchased CS3 and it has been legally transferred to me. Do I have enough memory to handle it? In addition I want to upgrade to Yosemite or El Capitan. Do I have enough memory to do that too?

Also, can I erase photos from iPhoto that I no longer need and will this give me more memory?

Attached is my memory indication.


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I am trying to update Xcode to 8.0. My OS is 10.11.6 El Capitan. However I am getting:

  We could not complete your update
  There is not enough disk space available to install the product.

I have got 14.22 GB free space. How much do I need?

UPDATE: I do not know the exact figure, though I did manage to update with 17.21 GB free space later on.


texts: macOS Mojave dual monitor seperate spaces force dock on one screen

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I'm relatively new to macOS. I'm using macOS Mojave and I have 2 monitors. I want the dock to stay on my right screen.
My problem is when I move the mouse to the the bottom center on my left screen the dock permanently changes it's location to the left screen until I do the same again on my right screen.

The following solutions do not work for me for reasons below:

I don't want the dock to move to right. I want it at the bottom.
I don't want to disable separate spaces because I want to use this feature.

Is there any way to do this besides these 2 options?


texts: I'm looking for a photo viewer that would sync with multiple (sub)folders on my computer HD (some of which are not in my MyPhoto folder), and would have a feature to do a slideshow on the iPhone.


texts: softwareupdated running at 100% CPU roughly every hour (Yosemite)

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Roughly every hour, my MBP gets very hot, my fans go crazy, everything slows down, and when I look in Activity Monitor it tells me that softwareupdated is running at 100% CPU. It lasts about 2-3 minutes each time and then disappears.

I am running Yosemite 10.10.5 on an early 2011 MBP. I shut down every night and reboot in the morning.

What I have tried:

I have done all of the updates available in the App Store.
I have unchecked every box in the App Store settings regarding checking for updates (in fact, I have just unchecked every box).
I have disabled check for updates in iTunes settings.
I have force-quit softwareupdated in Activity Monitor. It comes back straight away to finish whatever mystery task it is performing.

Having looked at similar questions, this problem seems unusual. Most report that softwareupdated runs constantly at high CPU, instead of coming and going. The recommended trick to deal with this is to reboot, however that does nothing for my problem.

I am not computer literate enough to know how to determine precisely what app is launching this (or even if it is an app launching it). The only things I generally have running are Terminal, MATLAB 2016b, Safari, and iTunes. Sometimes Mail.

It's driving me mad; I am sure it can't be good for it to suddenly get so hot, so regularly. Moreover, I am worried that the only way to get it to stop is to upgrade to Sierra, but my MBP is pretty old and I am concerned about slow-down.

My questions:

How can I find out why it is running?
Are there any other apps, like iTunes, that have independent update checking?
Is it possible that my settings regarding checking for updates are being overridden?

EDIT: I should perhaps say, this has been an ongoing problem for quite some time now. It is not something that has suddenly started - I am just using my Mac more than usual at the moment, and hence it is now becoming a real problem.


texts: Where is the manual for the Apple iPhone Podcasts app?

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I have the recently released Apple iPhone app "Podcasts", released June 2012. Is there somewhere that gives more than just a cursory explanation of how to use it?

For example, when does it chose to download podcasts? Can you force it to update the podcasts without going one by one and clicking on the download link? Will it download over cellular? (I don't want it to do that). Can it download the podcasts but play through the normal music app?


texts: Copy contents of a smart folder to a new folder in Mountain Lion

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I admit that my music collection is a royal mess. This is the result of merging many sources of music (external drive, old iPod sync, iTunes purchases, etc) into my iTunes account. iTunes Match has done a pretty good job of cleaning it up visually as I look at it in iTunes.

What I want to do is create a backup copy of all my music no matter where it lives (external HD, etc.) to one location and hopefully eliminate duplicates in the process.

More specifically, I setup a smart folder to find all of kind:music with a bitrate over 44kbps. This results in over 20,000 music files at around 485 GB. I now want to copy all this content to my external drive to ensure I have a backup of all these audio files.

I tried a simple select all and drag to copy, but that didn't seem to work. After a few days of Finder "not responding", I killed the process.  Some zero-byte files were created on the external drive, but no sign of progress after the first few minutes.

I'm wondering if there is a Terminal command that could reference the contents of a smart folder and copy or some other creative way to get this done.

I really don't want to mess with iTunes, I just want to copy all music files to the external HD. Bash script maybe?


texts: Display is set to Mobile PC Display on Windows when I run it on  Macbook Pro via boot camp

texts:
Just installed Windows using boot camp. I downloaded the drivers using boot camp. After installing the display says: Mobile PC Display. I have 15 inch Macbook Pro.  What display driver do I need to get the right resolution?

Update: Okay. My bad. Went to Genius bar at apple they told me that Mobile PC Display is how Macbook sees your display on Windows. Resolution is 1440 x 900 what my resolution on Macbook. There is no missing driver after all.


texts: Is there an easy way to lock individual cells or a group of cells in Numbers to prevent the data in the cell from being changed?


texts: How can I make the enter key on my extended keyboard act as return only?

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For some reason sometimes the numeric enter key acts as return and sometimes it doesn't. (I'm talking of the last key on the keyboard, the one with the "k" symbol tilted towards left.)

I'd like to be able to use it as the regular enter.

Do you know any tip in order to fix this? At the moment it is totally random. My guess is that some software  I use remaps the enter into return, but I've not been able to point to which one.


texts: Why does a Double Hard Reset help with iPhone issues?

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My wife has an iPhone 3G, me an iPhone 4.

Ever since she upgraded to iOS 4, her phone has been much slower than it was on iOS 3.

My iPhone 4, upon upgrading to iOS 5, isn’t slower. However it has greatly reduced battery life and gets physically warm for seemingly no reason.

What do these two things have in common (besides being upgraded to a firmware designed for the next generation of hardware)?

Both phones can be temporarily healed of their maladies by being Double Hard Reset.

According to Cult of Mac:

  To perform a Hard Reset, press and hold the Home and Sleep/Wake
  buttons on your iPhone simultaneously for 5 to 10 seconds.  After a
  few seconds the Slide to Power Off notice will appear, ignore this and
  keep holding down both buttons. In another few seconds the device
  should abruptly turn off.

They go on to say that the device will reboot itself after you've done this, but both of my devices stay off.

To complete the “Double Hard Reset,” you need to power on the phone after you’ve done this, then do it again before the phone gets to your lock screen.

I have personally experienced this numerous times.

Why does this help?  What does doing a Double Hard Reset do to the phones?


texts: How to open a files that's currently in Trash

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How do I open files that are in Trash? I have put some MKV video files in Trash. I want to watch the videos (I use IINA).

How can I watch the videos without moving them out of Trash?


texts: Memory used on Ipod Classic that will not delete

texts: I have an Ipod Classic 160G that I just bought. I uploaded my itunes library to it but for whatever reason it did not work. I then restored it to factory to delete these songs and retried. The new songs worked but now it shows that twice the memory is being used. I've tried restoring again and it still brings me back to 12G is being used but nothing is on it, so it says. How do I get these off/get back to the 160G?


texts: Is there a shortcut for Apple Music on iOS that can “love” a song and add it to my library and playlist at the same time?

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I would like to simply select a shortcut that will:
- Love the song
- Add it to my library
- Add it to a playlist

All in one shortcut. Can the new shortcut app automate all of this at once?


texts: Occasionally getting additional spaces inserted when typing

texts:
When typing, after hitting spacebar, I often get an additional space inserted. I haven't seen it happen when using the built-in keyboard, but it happens with two separate external keyboards. As far as suspect software goes, I do have Karabiner installed, though I see the issue even when it isn't running and if it were the issue, I would expect to see it happen when using the built-in keyboard as well.
I've tried two separate brands of USB-A to USB-C dongles for connecting the keyboards, but the issue still happens with both.
I also haven't seen the issue with any other key, only the spacebar. I'm not sure how to go about tracking down a root cause here.


texts: Python 3 'json' module is actually corrupted

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I'm asking this question here and not on Stack Overflow because it appears to be MacOS specific. Many answers over there point to searching for a bad "json.py" module however we can see from the following that no such bad module is being imported.
How do I "fix" the Python 3 installation?
$ python3
Python 3.7.7 (default, Mar 10 2020, 15:43:33)
[Clang 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.17)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> import json
>>> d = {'a' : 100, 'b' : 200}
>>> json.dumps(d)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: module 'json' has no attribute 'dumps'

>>> print(json.__file__)
None

Here's where it is located:
$ which python3
/usr/local/bin/python3

I've tried a brew reinstall python3 to no avail.


texts: How do I add a custom-built theme to Keynote for iCloud?

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I'm just after finishing the creation of a custom theme for my wife's new company. We created it with Keynote, and then backed up the .kth extension file and sent it from her computer to mine.

She's able to load it from her Keynote app on her OS X El Capitan. I was able to open it via email, and add it to "My Themes" onto my macOS Mojave, and later opened it on the iPhone and added it to "My Themes".

Then I decided to go and check out http://keynote.icloud.com .. And can only see Standard and Wide - but no My Themes.

So, how would I go about adding a custom-built theme so that it is available via Keynote for iCloud?

Is this even supported by the web-app Keynote for iCloud?

I tried dragging the .kth file into the Keynote for iCloud file browser, nothing happened. Then I tried clicking "Upload" and selecting the .kth file, which resulted in the following error:

Cannot upload this type of file to this App Library.
Only files that can be opened by keynote can be uploaded here.

Which is somewhat bemusing, since Keynote can open the file. Just not Keynote for iCloud.

Any ideas?


texts: Can I move Xcode and Android Studio to SD card

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I'm planning to buy a 64GB SD card to supplement the storage on my MacBook Air 128GB (early 2015)

I wanted to know if I can move my Xcode and android studio to it as both have them take a significant part of the memory.

If this can happen, I wanted to know how can I move these two to the SD card. I'm fairly new to macOS and have no idea how to do this.


texts:
I'm using iBooks 1.7 on macOS Sierra (but have had this issue since iCloud syncing via iBooks has been available). Books added via file > Add To Library are not being synced across my devices.

I have an iPad and an iPhone using the same apple ID all supposedly syncing bookmarks, collections iBooks data etc and yet it's not actually syncing any of them.

The most progress that I can see is a cloud logo in the top right of the books on a (3rd or 4th) restart of iBooks and an uploads arrow listing the newly added books, but there's no option in the UI to start the uploads that are listed.

Has anyone had this trouble? I'm absolutely at a loss and it's a recurring issue.

Thanks SE!


texts: MacBook Pro 2016: Keyboard key stuck – how to remove key?

texts:
Regularly different keys on my new MacBook Pro (2016) are stuck. I assume little pieces of dirt or small crumbs interfere with the mechanics. With older Mac keyboards, I occasionally removed individual keys for cleaning. As the keyboard of the current model was redesigned, it seems much harder to do so now and I can’t find any tutorials.

So: How do I remove (and reinstall) a key of a MacBook Pro (2016)?


texts: Avoid using command for keyboard shortcuts

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I work with a disabled person who uses their communication-aid to control their iMac through keyboard and mouse commands.

I'm setting up keyboard shortcuts to launch applications directly using services in Automator, however the communication-aid doesn't have the ability to send the command key.

How can I get OSX to recognise other key combinations? (e.g. ctrl-alt-f to launch FireFox)


texts: Playing iPhone games with Apple TV & Airplay

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I just got an Apple Tv yesterday and I've purchased apps that say they are compatible with Apple Tv for playing games. However, I can't seem to figure out how to get them to work. I've double tapped the home button on my iPhone 4, and it only displays the itunes apple tv / iphone option not the apps apple tv option.

I purchased Kung Fu Rabbit which says its compatible with airplay.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kung-fu-rabbit/id495142468?mt=8

However, I can't get it to work with Airplay at all.

Has anyone figured out a solution to getting games to work with apple tv?
And does iphone apps / games stream just the sound to the tv, or does it also display the video. I know videos can be streamed to the tv, both sound and visual, but what about games?

Thanks.


texts: How to prevent the Mail app from restoring its previous state?

texts:
The Mail app on my iPhone 5s crashes while launching. I assume that it is trying to restore its last state. Unfortunately that last state was what originally crashed it. So restoring that state results in a Mail app that will always crash on start up. What can I do to prevent the Mail app from restoring its last state on start up?

I already tried the following:

disabling all Mail accounts
send myself a mail to launch the Mail app from lock-screen
closing the Mail app
rebooting the phone
contacted Apple support - only to find out that restoring an old backup is the only thing they know will help

I do not want to restore from a backup, because it is probably not possible to restore the Mail app backup only.


texts: Keyboard goes blank when trying to type special character on iPhone

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I type Polish a lot on my iPhone, requiring special characters.  At some point, this started happening: when I try to type a special character, press and hold brings up the menu, but before I can get to the character, the keyboard goes blank, and I have to give up.  I think the phone vibrates once, and it seems like it happens when my finger slips a little off the row of characters.  A screenshot looks like this:
What the hell is the phone trying to do, and how do I stop it?

EDIT: This is purely intuition, but I think this is supposed to be a feature, not a bug, though I admit, I cannot figure out what the feature is.


texts: Mac Pro 2010 (5,1) problem: White / white-striped screen, loud fans, then restart

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BIG problem. My computer has intermittently shown this problem (in the title). The screen goes blank, fans go very loud, then the computer restarts itself. This happens mostly when using Logic, and more so when EuCon is active. However, it has also happened when simply using the internet... like right now, when I'm searching for a solution!
It's been stress-tested (by the fine folk at CreatePro), and, according to them, the CPU, GPU and logic board have shown no problems at all.
A quick run-down of my specs: Mac Pro 5,1 mid-2010, 64GB RAM, 12-core 2.66GHz; Mac OS 10.12.6.
I have checked out the logs when these problem have occurred, and it looks like WindowServer and libdispatch client are both present in most of these reports.
If anyone can help me with this, that'd be incredible. Am at my wits end, and have work to do, dammit! I've copied excerpts from the reports below. Thank you so much for reading! Nick

Jul  8 12:22:17 NickSamuelsPro diagnosticd[679]: System mode client stopped - Console (707) - clearing mode: 0x8, still active: 0x0
Jul  8 12:23:41 NickSamuelsPro diagnosticd[679]: System mode client started - Console (769) - mode: 0x8
Jul  8 12:23:52 NickSamuelsPro Console[769]: BUG in libdispatch client: kevent[EVFILT_VNODE] monitored resource vanished before the source cancel handler was invoked
Jul  8 12:26:05 NickSamuelsPro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit
_______________________
Date/Time:       2020-07-08 11:43:58.910927 +0100
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.12.6 (Build 16G1510)
Architecture:    x86_64
Report Version:  19
Command:         WindowServer
Path:            /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SkyLight.framework/Versions/A/Resources/WindowServer
Version:         ??? (???)
Parent:          launchd [1]
PID:             231
Event:           wakeups
Wakeups:         45010 wakeups over the last 286 seconds (157 wakeups per second average), exceeding limit of 150 wakeups per second over 300 seconds
Duration:        286.46s
Steps:           356
Hardware model:  MacPro5,1
Active cpus:     24
Fan speed:       887 rpm
Powerstats for:  WindowServer [231]
UUID:            719E9679-9EC1-3C42-B63B-9CDC68029956
Start time:      2020-07-08 11:43:59 +0100
End time:        2020-07-08 11:48:38 +0100
Parent:          launchd
Microstackshots: 20 samples (5%)
Primary state:   10 samples Non-Frontmost App, User mode, Effective Thread QoS Unspecified, Requested Thread QoS Unspecified, Override Thread QoS Unspecified
User Activity:   0 samples Idle, 20 samples Active
Power Source:    0 samples on Battery, 20 samples on AC
________________________
Sun Jul  5 13:31:32 2020
Event:               GPU Reset
Date/Time:           Sun Jul  5 13:31:32 2020
Application:         WindowServer
Path:
Tailspin:            /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/gpuRestart2020-07-05-133132.tailspin
GPUSubmission Trace ID: 0
OS Version:          Mac OS X Version 10.12.6 (Build 16G1510)
Graphics Hardware:   AMD Radeon HD 7xxx
Signature:           e
Report Data:
GPURestartReportStart
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Hung Channels: GFX
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[00] AccelChannel: GFX
Pending Command from   : GLCtx
PendingCommandTimestamp: 0x0000109e, TotalDWords: 0x00000220, GART Offset=0x0000000400000dc0, stamp_idx=0, estamp=0x0000109e
PendingCommandStart:
PendingCommandEnd
------------------------
[00] GFX HWChannel  : Enabled, NotIdle
LastReadTimestamp   : 0x0000109d
NextSubmitTimestamp : 0x000010cd
[GFX, ts:0x0000109e]: No semaphore wait
[GFX, ts:0x0000109e]: semaphore  signal: 0xffffff8096b98400
HWSemaphore 0xffffff8096b98400 Signal Event: [GFX channel[0] TS:0x0000109e las


texts: No sound (speakers/jack) + microphone's dead after spilling water

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Sadly, yesterday I've spilled some water on my MacBook Pro (El Capitan).
Before you yell at me - it was closed, turned off and it wasn't a lot of water, the laptop was wet only on the top and under - not inside.

Today I've turned him on. At first battery wasn't recharging for some reason, but SMC reset fixed the problem.

At the first booting speaker was like talking to me, hard to explain but it was weird. Also only right speaker was "talking", despite the fact that only left side of the laptop was watered. Then there was no sound at all, not from the speakers, nor from the headphones. Also microphone's not working. USB ports are okay. The water was spilled from the left side of the laptop.
I know this is hardware issue, and something's broken, but I want to be 100% sure. No it's not muted.
I've also tried NVRAM reset a few times, but it doesn't fix the problem :(

There might be one factor, before spilling, my laptop "died" for the first time (battery energy ran off), but I doubt it's the case. (but hey, every info matters, right?)

It wouldn't be weird for me, if only left speaker wouldn't work, but built-in microphone not working is kinda weird in this case, isn't it?

I just want to ask you guys, what else can I check, before I'll be 100% sure it's dead inside?

I've plugged in external microphone - it's not working too.


texts: Undo an autocorrected word on the iPhone keyboard

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The iPhone's keyboard seems extremely diligent with its autocorrection.

Problem is, I very frequently type words that aren't in the dictionary (proper names, foreign words, etc...).

In some Android keyboards, there is a function to undo a word that was autocorrected to the original spelling—is such a functionality available in iPhone's default keyboard?


texts: How to transfer video files from ipad air to macbook air

texts:
There is no file explorer type utility in iOS just like we have it on Android system. So how can I copy files from/to my iPad from/to other computers (MacBook/Windows)?
Specifically I am interested in the video created by the iOS Camera app.


texts: Storage shows more space used than actually used

texts:
I got my Mac 2 days ago and installed a few softwares, Xcode, Android Studio and stuff. Today I noticed my Storage as this:

17GB of Apps might be there but I dont have any Audio/Photos! Where is this 2GB going? And whats this 13Gb other?

Is there an app that can locate these files taking this space?


texts: Upgrade to final release of Yosemite from gold master?

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I'm using developer preview of Yosemite for a while, now that Yosemite is released I want to have it installed on top of my Yosemite partition.

Clicking on "Download" in App Store Yosemite page, I see that I am prompted with an error note, saying :

  Os X v10.10 is already installed on this computer. Use the Updates page to install the 10.10 update or if you would like to download the full OS X installer click Continue.

There's only two buttons; "Learn More" and "OK". OK does nothing, and there's no relevant update note regarding switching to full version of Yosemite so it's not rleevant neither.

How can I download full, final OS X Yosemite 10.10 release and install it on top of preview partition?


texts:
I have Hazel set up on a media server to automatically add files to specific iTunes playlists based on a text tag in the directory name. Several users will send us individual files or directories through a dropbox on our server and they're automatically downloaded to the media server via Cargo.

The problem I'm running into is that Hazel applies the rules as soon as it sees 1 file in the Cargo directory, so if someone sends multiple files only the first one is automatically added to iTunes. You have to manually select "run rules" in Hazel to get the remaining tracks added to the library and proper playlists.

Manually running the rules is absolutely not an option in this set up so I'm wondering if there's a way with Applescript or Automator to force Hazel to standby until the download is completed.


texts: Where can I find a printable keyboard layout when the option key is pressed?

texts:
I am new to Apple, and I am new to use a Swiss French keyboard; unfortunately, a lot of useful characters are only available when the option key is pressed.

I would like to have an image of them available to be printed or to be quickly available, so that I can learn them. I have noticed that you can see the layout from Sys preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources > press the option key, but the image is too small and to be honest I do not know how to take a screenshot while pressing the option key.

Do you have any suggestion or good image?


texts: "File Open" dialogue missing "All my files"

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In my finder sidebar, the first item is "All my files", followed by "iCloud Drive" and all my custom folders.

In "File Open" dialogue boxes, all the items are showing except "All my files". This has been missing since I upgraded to 'El Capitan'.

This previous question answers what happens to the entire list of Favourites, but doesn't answer what has happened to the "All my files" item:
"File Open" dialog is missing sidebar items

Is there a way of getting "All my files" back into the File Open list? It's the most useful option if you are trying to open the last modified file on your system. If you save a JPG from one file and want to load it in another program, the easier way to do is to his "File Open", "All my files" and it's there sorted by date at the top of the list.

Any ideas?


texts: My iPhone XR keeps making emergency calls without any interaction from me

texts:
This is really weird: three times within the past week, my iPhone XR has called my mother-in-law via the Emergency Call feature, without any apparent interaction from me.

Each time this has happened, the phone has been in my pocket. When I realize that it's calling (because I can faintly hear the phone ringing over the internal speaker), I've taken it out of my pocket and it's on an "Emergency Call" screen (white background with red text) and is dialing my mother-in-law's number.

I do have my mother-in-law listed as an emergency contact in my iPhone's Medical ID, but my mother and wife are also listed there as emergency contacts, and it's never called either of them.

I don't know of any way to dial an emergency contact other than to press and hold the side and volume buttons, then choose Medical ID, then scroll down and tap an emergency contact. I can't possibly be doing that by accident while the phone is in my pocket, so I have no idea how this is getting triggered.

Is it possible Siri is mishearing something and thinking I want to make an emergency call? (I do have "Hey Siri" turned on).

Any ideas? And how do I get it to stop?


texts:
While trying to download Pokémon GO from the ios-appstore, this dialog box appeared:

Transcribed:

This item is over 100MB.
Unless an incremental download is available for this item, "Pokémon GO" may not download until you connect to Wi-Fi.
Cancel OK

What is an incremental download?


texts: Is there a way to swipe down instead of up to launch Mission Control?

texts:
To me it feels more natural to "pull" down the Desktop down to access Mission Control however System Preferences for the Magic Trackpad only allow for swiping up to access Mission Control.

Is there a hidden terminal preference or app that would enable swipe down to activate Mission Control?


texts: coreaudiod and launchd are taking up 80% and 40% processor respectively

texts:
I've just upgraded from mavericks to yosemite, the download was sluggish but eventually worked so I don't think any of the files were corrupted. There was no hitch with the installation as far as I know either. All I know is that when I woke up after leaving my MacBook Pro (15 inch, mid-2010) its fan was spinning out of control at the login screen.

When I restarted and looked at the activity monitor I saw that core audio and launchd were the culprits. I've tried the following to fix my problem:

Clearing the PRAM.
Clearing the SMC.
Deleting the plist for the audio preference pane.
Verifying disk permissions.
Repairing disk permissions.

Additional info:
I've run etreCheck a few times and have fixed most of the things it pointed out, all that is left is:

System launch daemons with problems :
    [fail]  com.apple.systemstatsd.plist

Launch daemons with problems :
    [invalid?]  com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist Aide

I've searched and haven't found any answers that worked yet.
Anything else I can do apart from a reinstall?

Also I've noticed that bluetooth can't be turned off anymore although it doesn't actually seem to be on, any fixes for that would be appreciated too.


texts: What is your favorite word processor for the iPad?

texts:
I'm hearing some information about Elements and Pages, but I wanted to ask what you're using as a word processing app on your iPad.

I'm currently using the Notes app, but I'd like to be able to work on a document (mostly just text documents) and be able to save my progress, and then optionally pick up where I left off the next time I'm in front of my office Mac.

Dropbox doesn't seem to let me edit from the iPad, and Google Docs, to my surprise, will let me view word processing documents, but not edit nor create them. (!)


texts: Can't Authenticate my work gMail — I get right through the OTP dance then it simply fails

texts:
I've updated my iMac to Sierra (which is a red-herring, see further update below) and since then reset my work password, so need to re-authenticate via System Prefs > Internet Accounts.  We use the OneLogin OTP system for 2fa.

So I go to Internet Accounts, enter my email and password, and it accepts that then displays the OneLogin 2fa screen.

I hit the OTP send on my phone as per usual (I also have tried manually entering the code) and it accepts that and takes me to the 'remember' or 'forget' screen.

I click 'remember' and then it thinks, and then says 'Failed to authenticate with Google. Please try again later'.

This same process works fine on my MacBook pro running El Capitan.

Any suggestions?

update I have also tried deleting all the relevant tokens from my keychain, with no improvement

Further update As part of deleting all the tokens in my keychain that seemed to have anything to do with Google or my work, I've now managed to wipe my work account completely from both macs (yay iCloud). Alas Now I am having the same issue on El Capitan so it's clearly not a Sierra specific issue. I'll change the headline to suit.


texts: Check enable box whitout a mouse on an imac

texts:
I have no mouse
I have the keyboard full size

how do I check the enable box in mouse keys

Thank you!!


texts: Why does Reminders seem to be syncing with the network, even though I have reminders turned off in iCloud settings?

texts:
I started using Reminders.app as soon as I got iOS 5.0, and for me it mostly works very well. As soon as I got an iCloud account, of course I turned reminder syncing on there as well.

However I soon found that reminder syncing is still quite buggy at this stage. In particular, it doesn't seem to handle moving to-do items from list to list very well. I often got duplicate items and had other problems. (Note: This is not the topic of my question.)

So I finally decided to live without reminder syncing, and just use Reminders.app on my iPhone only. I turned off reminder syncing in iCloud. This did solve the problem with duplicate items, and I'm mostly happy with it.

But... I noticed that Reminders.app still seems to be accessing the network, even though I haven't configured reminders to sync with anything. (I am basing this observation on the little spinner in the status bar at the top of the iPhone screen.)

And whenever it does this, some of the old problems come back -- mostly sluggishness and jerky scrolling, etc.

I have verified that when I put the iPhone into airplane mode, the problem doesn't happen.

Does anyone know why Reminders.app would still try to access the network when iCloud syncing is turned off? What is it trying to do? Any way to turn it off completely?


texts: How effective is Itunes "error correction" for CD imports?

texts: I have not been able to find out how the Itunes "error correction" option works. There are more effective programs out there for bit perfect rips but I prefer the speed and ease of use of Itunes. Does anyone know how this error correction works and how effective it is at getting quality rips from scratched CDs?


texts: Is Automator suitable for complex folder based workflows?

texts:
I have a rather puzzling scenario for you, one that I would like to solve with Automator:

We're a startup that creates HD music video content that is streamed online; we've got a custom-programmed Linux/Unix backend that takes HD videos from a folder, processes them for streaming, and throws them up in a Web format so that they can be viewed/streamed/downloaded from our site. Let us call that folder Folder D for the sake of this problem.

When a video editor has a completed project, he or she adds their project to Folder A, Folder B, or Folder C, each of which is a folder on a volume on our SAN. The SAN has 3 volumes, any of which can be mounted RW on one machine at a time, so at any time up to 3 people can be adding content to A, B or C.

What I'd like to do in Automator, if possible:

Watch folders A, B & C for new videos.
When a video is dropped into one of those folders, copy it to Folder D.
Our backend system works on D and then deletes the file from D.
The tricky part is making sure that once the file is deleted from D, it isn't re-added from A, B or C.
Because of the SAN's limited RW access, assume that A, B and C cannot be written to from the machine where Folder D is located.

I am basically unsure of how to specify something like "once this video has shown up once in Folder D, ignore it if it ever shows up again" and don't know a way to do that without somehow accessing the originals on A, B & C and renaming them


texts: Extremely High DNS Data Usage (GBs per Month)

texts:
My iPhone was using > 2GB a month in data, and 99% of it was due to DNS.  Consistently I was chewing up 50-100MB in data per day.  I would go to Cellular->System Services->DNS and see very little usage elsewhere, but high GB usage for DNS.

What could possibly cause this?  A DNS query is an ipv4 packet or two...

All the other data usage clearly correlated to my actual usage but I could not understand DNS.

This is on an iPhone 8+ that is always updated to the latest iOS within a few days.


texts: Does the iPhone 7 have true tone display?

texts: I got the iPhone 7, and I can't seem to find the true tone display setting. Is it still iPad Pro 9.7" exclusive?


texts:
I know my upload speed is limited at about 100/110KB/s, sometimes I reach this limit and it impacts the connexion of other computer of my home network.

Is there a way to tell OSX to limit its upload speed to (for example) 80KB/s ?


texts: ffmpeg giving error on launch in Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1

texts:
I installed ffmpeg 0.8.5 in my Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1 with Homebrew

brew install --use-gcc ffmpeg

It installed without any error. But, now when I run, it gives the following -

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/0.8.5/lib/libavdevice.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
  Reason: Incompatible library version: ffmpeg requires version 53.0.0 or later, but libavdevice.dylib provides version 52.0.0
Trace/BPT trap: 5


texts: Recurring error com.apple.Safari.ImageDecoder error = 147

texts:
When I open/quit a blank Safari window, the following message keeps showing up in system.log.

com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.WebContent.6661): Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/SafariShared.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.Safari.ImageDecoder.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.Safari.ImageDecoder error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.WebKit.WebContent.xpc

What exactly does error = 147 mean? What does com.apple.Safari.ImageDecoder do? How can I stop those messages?

Update: I am also seeing those messages on a clean macOS 10.12 installation.


texts: Does iTunes compress images that I sync to my iPhone?

texts: When I sync a folder with iTunes to download into my iPhone, do the images get resized or compressed in anyway?  Specifically I am trying to sync large images such as 5000px x 5000px at 72dpi. If iTunes does do this is there another way to get them added to my phone without compression?


texts:
Is there a free cloud file server for personal files
with shell commands like Unix ls, cp etc. ?
Along the lines

cloud ls [-options] pattern
cloud cp-up pattern
cloud cp-down pattern

My ideal would be /Volumes/cloud; then I could use all Unix commands
in scripts, Makefiles ...
(which I'm used to: waaay simpler and more comfortable than clicking through GUIs.)


texts: How to be able to edit files under "Application Support" without saving as a dupe

texts:
So as a person that enjoys (sometimes) making weird resource packs in Minecraft, I find it inconvenient to grab the resource pack I'm working on out of the folder, then put it back in. The reason why I do this is because of this error in Preview while editing:

  The original File can't be changed, so a duplicate with your changes has been created.

This error is annoying, keep in mind that my Minecraft/resourcepacks directory is under my ~/library/Application Support/ folder, which can probably explain why macOS wants to save the items as a dupe. But I want to create an override for my Minecraft resourcepacks folder instead of having to take the folder out to edit it. Is there a way to edit it?


texts: lagging cursor from magic mouse and magic trackpad

texts:
I have a brand new mac mini 2012 connected to a Thunderbolt display. Since the Thunderbolt display was connected, I sometimes get a lagging cursor, meaning that moving the mouse/trackpad leads the cursor to follow the position very slowly. I have connected both, a Magic Mouse and a Magic Trackpad.

I'm trying to track down this issue but up to now, no avail. I've already connected another Magic Mouse, but same here.

Any idea welcome.

EDIT: if only the trackpad or the mouse is attached, it gets a bit better, but still not acceptable. I also moved around my WiFi-station and the Mac mini - not better.


texts: Cannot connect to Apple file servers after upgrading to 10.8

texts:
Since I can't find thousands of other users reporting this I'm thinking it's got to be something wrong with my system, but after I updated to Mountain Lion I can't connect to Apple file servers anymore.

Not even a Drobo FS.

The servers still show up in my sidebar but they never successfully connect.

I tried creating a new user and connecting from that one, but still had the same problem.

The OSX servers are running 10.6 & 10.7.

Really? No one else is having this problem?


texts: When plugging in iPhone, iTunes and iPhoto open on my Mac

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So, I've seen this question and tried to follow it... but it happens regardless. And to top it all off, iTunes gives me a grave warning now everytime I plugin my phone "if you do not authorize this computer, 22 apps, including “AccuWeather”, and their data will be deleted from this iPhone."

My Mac is using a different apple ID than my phone because my Mac is my work machine, but my phone is personal. I think this has something to do with it. I need to plugin my iPhone to my Mac to use for development (ie, testing apps and such) but I don't need to manage anything else through it.

How can I get the constant barrage of apps and now warnings/potential of lose of data from popping up each time I plug my iPhone into my Mac?

My Mac is using Yosemite and my iPhone iOS 8.3.. Everything is up to date


texts: How can I change a command and cursor key bindings globally?

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I want to assign "Go to previous word" command to cmd← and "Go to beginning of the line" command to alt←.

In short, I want to switch the actions of cmd← and alt←. Similarly for cmd→ and alt→ as well. How can I accomplish this?


texts: How to keep all my passwords, browsing data, e-mails, content etc. only for myself, and away from Apple?

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I just bought my first Apple product (iPhone) a few days ago and from the moment I switched on I have been asked to use the Apple ID and iCloud for pretty much everything.

I have a concern, i.e. if I have an Apple ID registered with my real name, address, etc. will Apple and/or iCloud always know all my browsing data, my emails, email passwords, etc.?

If yes, is there a way to be completely "cut off from the cloud"?

I am not feeling completely secure enough to check my normal e-mail from the iphone until I am 100% sure nobody (at least at Apple) can read it.

What steps can I take to ensure that my data is least exposed to the world/Apple?

e.g. would using fake personal data help?

If you ask why, well, there's nothing much I want to hide except some nighttime activities I don't want anybody to know about - for obvious reasons :-)


texts: Can iPad show percentage when charging by USB, and does iPad 2 charge slowly too?

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I found that my iPad might be half charged after a few hours by USB from PC... too bad I can't find the wall adapter...  but when I turn it on, it says "Not charging" without saying the Percentage it already has charged up.  Can it show somehow?  Maybe by tapping the "Not charging" message but I don't really need to see it so many times. (but tapping doesn't work)

Does the iPad 2 also have the same issue of slow charging too?


texts: How can I disable the Screen Saver on the login window?


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Is there a command i can run from terminal that will show what type of accounts are used

something that reports the username and type of account like below

/Users/fred - mobile, standard
/Users/wilma - network admin


texts: Is there a way to disable any key and trackpad press power on for 2018 or later MacBooks?

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Oddly, 2018 or newer MacBooks by default power on when Off (a.k.a in the shutdown state) with any key-press or track-pad button press not just the power button or touch ID area as would be traditionally expected. Is there a way to disable this feature so that only pressing the power button / touch ID area cause the computer to power on?
Ways to  Turn On, boot from the off state according to the Apple Documentation, without pressing the power button

Newer Mac notebooks also turn on when you do these things:

Open the lid of your Mac, even if it's not connected to power.

Connect your Mac to a power adapter while its lid is open.

Additionally, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models introduced in 2018 or later turn on when you press any key on the keyboard or press the trackpad.


texts: Recover files after Paragon HFS+ Corruption

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I have been using Paragon HFS+ to get write access to my Mac HFS+ partition from within Windows 8. Suddenly half the files in a directory have gone missing.

A few months ago I copied the files onto an external drive. On discovering the files were missing, I went to copy these old files back to the same directory that has been partially emptied by Paragon HFS+, using OS X Sierra Finder.

However, when I try to copy in the files from a backup, the copy stops, saying there is already a file with that name in the destination folder. Yet the file is not visible with OS X Finder or using the ls -a command.

This gives me hope that the files do still exist on the drive. Somehow, while they are found by the OS X copy command, they are hidden from ls, sudo ls -a, and the Finder GUI. So I cancel the copy, hoping to find a way of recovering the data.

Any ideas how can I recover my hidden files?

How might they be visible to the copy operation but invisible to ls -a?

I have been trying to get help from Paragon's customer support. After 4 days they told me to uninstall and reinstall their software - it is as obvious on my support call as it is here that that is irrelevant to the issue. After another 4 days Paragon told me their software drivers cannot be to blame as they do not write to disks. I can't stop working for a week, so by now I have had to re-create the files.

I was running Paragon's HFS+ software for just 13 days before this corruption happened, and this is the second bug I have tried to get support for (the first was the software refuses to register). Neither bug has fixes or solutions, and they have refused to refund, let alone help recovering my files.


texts: How to make a Mac mini and MacBook Pro work together (one keyboard for two Macs)?

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I have one MacBook Pro and two monitors (One monitor and one TV. Both of them are connected to my MacBook Pro).

I use this MacBook for business and development work. I would like to simultaneously use this MacBook for development work and one Mac mini I do not have yet for business work.

I want to be able to use the keyboard + Trackpad of my MacBook Pro for my MacBook and my Mac mini. I also want to display the Mac mini output on one of my two monitors (not on the built-in MacBook Pro display).

Any idea how I could set this up?


texts: Send "soft power off" signal from a Mac via HDMI to a TV

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How can I make a TV (a Sony W755C in my case) do a "soft power off" (same as when pressing the ON/OFF on the remote) by sending HDMI signals from a connected Mac?

I think Apple TVs can turn TVs on and off, so then a Mac should theoretically be able too. Is there a command line utility that does this, eg. hdmitool --soft-power-off?

PS! This question is a spinoff from this question which has some background on the problem.


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Some time ago I split the hard drive (500gb) in two partitions (250 each), now I have first successfully erased one partition but I still have the second one (Mac HD 2, which runs Mavericks) but I can not deactivate to erase it.

Anytime I try to remove it or deactivate it, this is the message:

"Deactivation failed, make sure that all the files and applications are closed"

I am working on an other Hard Disk SSD 250 gigabyte which runs Yosemite, and I want to use the other 2 partitions for storage.

I assume that I am still using some applications and files coming from that partition and that's why I cannot proceed with the erase?

What you recommend for me to in this case? Deleting all the applications manually in the Hard Disk to make sure I am not running any of them? Is there any way to check which application(s) or file(s) are in use which causes the problem?


texts: How to export iBooks Author .ipa file to ePub

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iBooks Author 2.5

Blank ePub template.
Import file.
Make corrections.
Save. Now there's a *.ipa file.
The export procedure to create an ePub is supposed to be:
Share>Export>ePub.

But ePub is not one of the options.
The options under Share>Export are: iBooks, PDF, Text.
How can I create an ePub file??


texts: Mojave: Default start time of new events

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When I create a new event in Calendar, it starts at 9:00 am and ends at 10:00 am. I want to change that to one hour earlier. Is there a way to achieve this?

I know there's a way to change the default duration of new events and it's not what I'm looking for. I found this question without an answer for the iPhone. I'm on macOS 10.14.6.


texts: Connecting external monitor to MacBook turns both screens black

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The screen of my 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro regularly (maybe 1 out of 5 times) turns black when connecting external monitors (which then remain black as well). There are occasional flickers where the MacBook's screen turns on and looks normal for a fraction of a second every few seconds. Meanwhile the external displays remain black continuously. If I disconnect the external monitor, the MacBook's screen is back to normal. It happens both with an LG display connected via USB-C to DisplayPort and a Samsung display connected via USB-C to USB-C (with power delivery in case that's relevant).

I've tried multiple SMC and NVRAM resets as well as enabling and disabling different display settings like True Tone and Automatic Brightness Adjustment to no avail. The only thing that does help is to restart the machine which is very annoying. I don't want to have to restart several times a day.

I've had a 2017 15-inch MacBook Pro before with exactly the same issues. Meanwhile a Linux machine has no problems with these screens (admittedly using different cables but I don't think the cables are the problem). It's most likely a macOS software/driver issue.

Is anyone having similar problems? Any ideas how to fix?


texts: How do I transfer my Disney Digital Copy movie to iTunes using Lion?

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I want to try this "Digital Copy" to iCloud movie deal but when I pop in the DVD it says:

  You can't open the application Up because PowerPC applications are no longer supported.

Is there any other work around besides using Snow Leopard or a Windows PC?

I just want to watch Disney Pixar's Up on my iPad.


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Concerning these Apache files:
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
/etc/apache2/vhosts/httpd-vhosts.conf
Unlike the previous version of MacOS, each Big Sur update resets these Apache .conf files to their original state, wiping out my changes.  These are the only files I changed, so I assume that if I had changed any others that the update would have reset those also.
At the bottom of the original httpd.conf file is this line:
Include /private/etc/apache2/other/*.conf
Any .conf files that I place in this directory are left alone during an update.  Should I leave the original httpd.conf file alone and in its original state and place all the changes I need to make in .conf files in the /private/etc/apache2/other subdirectory?  I think this would work but it seems strange because, for example, there's the line "ServerAdmin you@example.com" in the original which feels like it should be edited to be my own admin email address, but if I instead create .../other/*.conf files then I'll be setting "ServerAdmin" again, which feels very klugey but which I hope works and is kosher.
Is this the right way to do things?  Or is there a better way?
(I know that my versions of the files get placed in "Previously Relocated Items n" subdirectories in /Users/Shared, but I'd prefer not to have to perform manual restorations after each update.)
(There was a very similar question several months ago at Big Sur Update wiped my /etc/apache2/extra, and I would have preferred posting this to that thread, but the tips say not to post requests for help or clarification, which seems odd, but I'll follow the guidelines.)


texts: Is there a way to synchronize display brightness with keyboard backlight levels? So, when ambient light sensor detects a change automatically adjust both levels.


texts: Is it safe to delete the /Developer folder on Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion)?

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My computer originally had Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) installed on it but has since been upgraded to OS X 10.7 (Lion). I noticed that the /Developer folder is still on the hard drive even though none of its files appear to have been modified for nearly two years. Is it safe to delete /Developer or is there some reason to keep it around?

Chris Rea's answer includes a link to a guide to uninstall Xcode, which seems to suggest that the contents of /Developer are only used by versions of Xcode prior to 4.3. I have already installed Xcode 4.6 on my machine, so I should be able to remove /Developer and everything under it. That being said, the following statement in the aforementioned guide puzzled me a bit.

sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=xcodedir

  This command is basically a shortcut to the previously mentioned “/Developer/Library/uninstall-developer-folder” script. If you want to ditch the /Developer directory, run this command rather than manually deleting it through the Finder.

Why should I run this script instead of simply deleting /Developer through the Finder?

This question is related, but I don't want to fully remove Xcode 4. I just want to remove all traces of Xcode that are not needed by the latest version.


texts: how to connect sound to samsung 49" monitor using Thunderbolt 2012 macbook pro

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Hello I have an upgraded 2012 macbook pro and I recently purchased a 49" Samsung Ultrawide monitor :). I connected the monitor using the thunderbolt. I know the sound will most likely work with hdmi but I'm trying to avoid using the converter.
So how can I get sound to come the Samsung monitor? I check the sound output settings and its not even option on here. If anyone can help I would appreciate it.


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I have a 2008 Mac Mini with 4 GB of RAM.  Recently (post installation of Lion), it started to behave extremely sluggishly, so I used Activity Monitor to see what was using up the system resources.  Turns out that kernel_task is using 2.95 GB of RAM.  Not a typo: it's using ~3 GB of RAM.

I use this Mac Mini as a home media server, connected to a TV and a Drobo.  In other words, beyond running iTunes, I don't really use it for much.  I don't have a ton of applications running, nor do I have any accessories other than the Drobo and the TV connected to it.

What on earth could kernel_task possibly need 3 GB of RAM for, and how can I tell it to stop eating all my RAM and dragging my system to a screeching halt?


texts: I think my Mac swallowed Facebook and Twitter - How to get them back?

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I upgraded today from Sierra to Mojave and now my share menu seems to be broken.

Previously I could share content directly to sites like Facebook and Twitter. For instance I could right-click on a photo and choose to share it to Twitter, Facebook and so on like so:

Now if I click on a photo and choose to share, I don’t get Twitter or Facebook as options anymore:

How can I enable these options?


texts: Can an Xbox 360 be hooked up to a Thunderbolt display?

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Having both the video and audio going to the display would be optimal, but if I can just get the video on the display and use headphones plugged into the Xbox, that's perfectly fine and probably easier to achieve.

I have an HDMI to mini DisplayPort adapter, so I tried using that and plugging it into the Thunderbolt port, unfortunately I didn't get sound or video that way.


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This is likely a stupid question, and it should be easy, but I'm clearly not seeing it.

My local Sites directory seems to have changed permissions since using it yesterday. It's been working fine for months and I can't for the life of me figure out what's changed.

The localhost works fine, but my home Sites folder gives a 403
my local Sites directory (~/Sites) is 755 permissions, as are the directories inside, and the files are mostly 644
Permissions on ~/Sites is drwxr-xr-x+, owned by my shortname & staff, which seems right
Checked apachectl configuration and got a "Syntax OK" response
Just to be clear, this was working. My /etc/apache2/httpd.conf allows for user-directories (uncommented) and it resolves the virtual hosts I've set, they all just have some mystical 403 blocking them.
Adding insult to injury, the Sites work in other user profiles on the machine, and they have the same permissions

So - stumped. What am I just not seeing?


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is there a command I can use to resume recording (audio/video) even when the lids are closed? Even though I used sudo pmset disablesleep 1 in order to disaple sleep when the lid is closed, the recording still seems to be paused when I close it.
I am using Catalina, and my device is MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2019.
Thanks.


texts: Stop macOS from creating/storing previous versions of a document

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macOS creates a history or previous version of each any every document/file I edit and this not only happens across the os but also happens across every mac apps.

These version files takes up huge chunks of unnecessary storage so how can I stop macOS from making this histories/previous document versions and storing it on your HDD.

I don't have Time Machine backup enabled and it still stores and saves the previous versions of a file!


texts: Finder opens Terminal when clicking on homedir icon

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I have added an icon for my homedir to Finder.

However, when I click on it, Terminal opens instead of the expected Finder view of $HOME.

Is there some sort of file type or other metadata that has somehow become incorrect for the homedir icon? If so, how do I fix it?


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I'm trying to figure out how to customise some of my folders' sidebar icons that are using custom ICNS icons via "Get Info". They're basic "Documents", "Downloads", etc. folders that I've replaced with my own on a secondary drive.

Currently running El Capitan 10.11.6.

An option that doesn't require an external app would be ideal. Can Dropbox's method be replicated? Thanks!


texts: Target Display iMac steals Thunderbolt when I unplug and won't give it back

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I'm using a 27" iMac in Target Display Mode, daisy-chained though a Thunderbolt display on my MacBook Pro. Both are running Yosemite.

MBP-->TBDisplay-->iMac  (normal operation)

Typically I come into the office in the morning, connect my laptop to the Thunderbolt, then power on the iMac and switch to Target Display Mode. My laptop is now happily running two external displays:

However, when I unplug my laptop to go to a meeting, the iMac grabs the Thunderbolt as a second display. I don't really care about this for now...

MBP-X-TBdisplay<--iMac (not a problem)

but when I plug the laptop back in and switch the iMac back to Target Display Mode, the Thunderbolt becomes the iMac's only display, and now the laptop only has a single external display.

MBP--xTBdisplay<==>iMac (problem with TBdisplay not showing MBP)

Is there any way of preventing the iMac from grabbing the Thunderbolt, or forcing it to relinquish it when I return, short of disconnecting and reconnecting the cable (really don't want to do this, the cable is flaky enough already) or rebooting the iMac? Even putting it to sleep doesn't seem to cut it.


texts: Problems with Time Capsule full restore from Leopard to Mountain Lion

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I have a backup of my OS X Leopard on Time Capsule. In the meantime I've upgraded to Mountain Lion. When I try to restore from Time Capsule in full it takes me back to Leopard.

In Mountain Lion they want you to use the OS x restore which I did and got me back to leopard or if I use Mountain Lion time capsule feature they want you to find each file and restore it separately, which would take forever.

How would I go about restoring all my information and files from my old backup to have on Mountain Lion?

Should I take another backup with my time capsule, so it has an updated OS X or shoule I just do them separately?

Any Ideas?


texts: Turned off everything in folder /LaunchDeamons with launchctl; can’t boot now—how to recover?

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In an effort to shut down the httpd server, I was going to execute this command:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist

Instead this was executed:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons

The result was that my MacBook just stopped completely and can’t boot. Is it possible to revert it with the following command?

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/

But I don’t know what was on and off.

So I need help. How do I restore it? I tried to alt-boot, got into Mountain Lion's recovery options and reinstalled the system, but with the same result. Is the terminal in the recovery tool to any help?

Is this setting saved in a file I can restore from Time Machine?


texts: How to show NumPad on the Keyboard Viewer

texts: I use a software which requires keyboard shortcuts on the NumPad.  The number keys above the keyboard won't work.  On a MacBook Pro, I used to be able to open the on-screen Keyboard Viewer and click on the keys, but it's not working in Mojave.  Now the on-screen keyboard mirrors the laptop keyboard, and only shows the NumPad if I connect a full-size USB keyboard.  How can I get the full-size virtual keyboard back?


texts: What's the difference between hostname's show and the hostname on the command line?

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I use hostname for checking:

aircrafts-MacBook-Pro:~ ldl$ hostname
aircrafts-MacBook-Pro.local

there shows aircrafts-MacBook-Pro.local.

I want to know the difference between aircrafts-MacBook-Pro:~ ldl$'s aircrafts-MacBook-Pro and aircrafts-MacBook-Pro.local.


texts: Disable the do not disturb banner on iOS 13 notification centre

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I like do not disturb, however, I updated my iPhone to iOS 13 and now there is a banner every time I turn on do not disturb. I know I turned on do not disturb, I don't want the banner.

How do I make the banner go away?


texts: How do I select a directory to save files in Pages

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How do I select a directory to save files into?
In Pages I get the choice of Favorites or Recent Places?


texts: What are the drawbacks of updating my iPhone 4s to the latest iOS? What are the advantages? With my phone plan, I cannot get the newest iPhone yet.


texts: Slow transfer between two external drives

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Copying data to a USB external drive is much slower than expected.
I have a 6TB external RAID drive that holds my photos, and I'm trying to do an archive copy of this data to another external USB drive.
Both are HDD drives, formatted with HFS+. I have turned off the Spotlight indexing for both drives. I'm using a MacBookPro with fast USB-C ports, and USB 3.0 or better ports on both external drives. All cables are 3.0 (SS) cables or better.
The file transfer started at about 200MB/s then slowed to around 20MB/s and sometimes even less. I'm using the Activity Monitor - Disk  to display the read/write speed.
I think the initial transfer speed was the write buffers on the target drive filling up. I'm expecting a real-life transfer speed for USB 3.0 to be around 100MB/s.
Any idea why this is running so slowly. How can I figure out the bottleneck?
Jim


texts: How do I create a secondary X axis in numbers?

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So I have a set of data such that:

"Months A/B/C" represent X values, and Cost represents the associated Y value. Combined, there is the data there to plot three different data series on this one scatter graph.

However for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to add X axis for each series, they all seem to use the "Months A" X values, rather than their own.

If I attempt to edit the "X Value" in the "Series" panel on the right (with one of the Cost columns selected, it changes them ALL to use that column as the X values. :/


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This error is shown in a dialog when you're trying to open a book. The dialog appears and you get a spinning HUD.

"BKAgentServiceErrorDomain error 8"

Today I solved the problem together with the Apple Support. I couldn't answer the original question (not enough reputations), thus I created a duplicate.


texts: How can I display contents of trash using terminal?


texts: How to copy the "Local Items" Keychain to a new mac?

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I copied my whole HDD from MBPOld to MBPNew, but saw the "Local Objects" Keychain is empty.

I then saw there is a folder in ~/Library/Keychains named like the UUID of the Mac. (which can be retrieved with system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep 'Hardware UUID' | awk '{print $3}').

I restarted the Mac in recovery mode (by holding down Cmd + R) and opened up Terminal to rename the folder from OldMBP-UUID to NewMBP-UUID but still the local objects keychain is empty.

Is there any way to get this done?


texts: How to uninstall TrueCrypt 7.1a from my Mac cleanly? The instruction on TrueCrypt website is Windows-only.


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I'm trying to record system sound from my macbook while simultaneously record the screen.

Is there an option for this?

Thank you


texts: How can I recover when my iPhone isn't responding to touch when using Guided Access on iOS 6?

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Is there a recommended solution for when Guided Access fails to respond to triple-click of the home button?  I set this up for a kids app for my son, and despite triple-clicking the home button several times, I am failing to get a response to prompt for my guided access pin number.

I tried holding the power button, and several other options, all to no avail.  Is my only option to let the battery die out?  Will that even fix the issue?


texts: Search files across folders and move recursively to new folder

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I need a way to search from a base folder, all the folders inside of that one recursively, and find all photos of JPG and PNG that were created before a certain date (01.Feb.2013) and then move them to a particular folder.

How would I go about this?


texts: SwitchResX broke my color profile, how to restore?

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I wanted to try SwitchRes X and I installed it. It broke my color profile. Now my screen look pink and I cannot calibrate. If I go to my color profile it shows:

and if I click on calibrate it shows:

and I removed the application. It didn't fix my problem. I tried to find the original color profile and it is gone in <~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles> or <~User/Library/ColorSync/Profiles>.

Besides reinstall the whole system, is there a way I can restore factory color profile? Thanks.


texts: Safari on Yosemite stops loading tabs if a new one is created

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If I visit a site in Safari, and before it loads, create a new tab or switch over to an existing one, the loading stops in the initial tab.

Has anyone else experienced this as well? None of the Yosemite updates has fixed this issue for me. I've reinstalled the entire OS as well but the problem still persists.


texts: Retaining current files in Dropbox after restoring Time Machine backup

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My mac recently had a software problem and I need to restore a time machine backup to get the mac working again.

I do not want to restore any dropbox files to their earlier state, especially since I share many folders with work colleagues. When I restore my mac to the state it was in a week ago, I need to be sure that the Dropbox folders saved locally do not revert to their older versions, sync, and resave the whole folders as older versions.

I see things online on Dropbox support about recovering previous versions of Dropbox files, but I want to avoid the problem up-front. Trying to solve by reverting could lead to messy problems with conflicted versions if a colleague is working while I revert.


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As there is no Home button on iPhone X, how do you take a screenshot?
Swiping up from bottom of the screen while pressing the lock button?


texts: Copying a path of the app to a new directory?

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I was wondering if someone could help me make an AppleScript that copies the app the script is into another location. So, this is what I tried... (Please don't say anything since I am new at Applescript)

set Folder to "~/Public/"
set FdrPosix to quoted form of POSIX path of Folder
set newFolderName to "Folder"
set destinationFdrPosix to quoted form of FdrPosix & POSIX file newFolderName
set sourceFilename to path to me
set sourceFnPosix to quoted form of FdrPosix & POSIX file sourceFilename
tell application "Finder"
  make new folder at alias FdrPosix with properties {name:newFolderName}
  copy file sourceFnPosix to folder destinationFdrPosix
end tell


texts: I have a setup of a MacBook Air (2013), an iMac (2009), and a regular external monitor. I’m able to connect either the iMac or the monitor to the MacBook and use them as an additional screen. Is there way though to connect both of them at once, so that I have two external monitors managed by the MacBook? Obviously, the MacBook only has one Thunderbolt port, but there’s an extra one available on the iMac. Any way to utilise it in this case?


texts: Newbie Mac user - how to start over with Mac mini that has Windows installed

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I'm very, very new to using Macs in general - my current work computer (iMac Mid 2010) is the first that I've used, and it's only been a couple of months.

I work for a non-profit and someone has kindly donated a Mac mini (late 2012) to us.  However, it has Windows 7 installed on it (why, I don't know).  I'd like to use the mini as a work computer at home to sync with what I'm doing at the office.  I've looked at the boot menus, and it doesn't look like there's any remnants of the Mac OS left - it was wiped clean and has Windows installed.

There might be a super-easy answer to this (I've done searches here that don't seem to match my general situation, but I could have missed it), and I apologize for my lack of Mac knowledge here, but I want to install a Mac OS back onto the Mac mini.  What's the best approach?  Thanks.


texts: Yosemite keeps asking to install Java runtime, while it's installed

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I was prompted to install JRE version 8 after upgrading to Yosemite on the family 2010 21" iMac. After I installed it (and checked whether the correct version was installed on the site of Oracle) it prompted that it wasn't installed although it was. I tried just following the steps they gave me to install it, but to no avail. Yosemite still asks to install the JRE on restart.

Does anyone know where the problem is or how I could solve it?


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I am using a french keyboard in MacBook Pro. The followings are shortcuts in Notes. Zoom In works perfectly, whereas Zoom Out by Shift + command + , does not work.

Does anyone know what's wrong?


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I am looking for a Terminal Script for MacOS to monitor my bandwidth and ping etc. like this (linux) ->
https://gitgud.io/J0s3f/speedtest_cron/tree/master

I have the speedtest-cli installed via homebrew and I thought it must be possible to do a script that triggers a speed test every 10 minutes and repeats it for example 100 times. After it is finished, it puts the results in a .txt file.

I wanna do the same with a ping that executes e.g. 5 times every 10 Minutes and this for a couple of hours etc and get a results file too.

Background: I am having problems with my internet connection and the ISP call centre guy refusing to see a problem.


texts: Boot Camp not burning Windows support DVD

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So, I'm trying to get Boot Camp to work so I can put a partition of Windows 7 on my MacBook. I'm getting to the point where it's downloaded the supporting software and I have to burn it to a DVD. I have blank DVD in the SuperDrive but regardless of how many times I hit 'Burn' nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong?

Also, I'm a complete noob with OS X, so please be very explanatory.

Thanks in advance!


texts: How do people hack iPhone games so easily?

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I have seen high scores of 999,999  on Flappy Bird as well as many other impossible high scores on games such as Temple Run, etc., on iPhone and iPad.

How do people hack these games so easily when they cannot see the source code?  It seems like they know the source code of the game, which makes them able to manipulate the game file so easily.  I don't understand how this happens given that the Apple iPhone is sandboxed, unlike Android.


texts: Desktop files showing in command line shell but not in Finder

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I'm using iCloud drive. I have some HEIC files on my Desktop that I converted to jpg using a simple automator script. After the conversion, the jpgs are nowhere to be found in Finder or on the Desktop. In Finder, I see the .HEIC files still sitting there in the Desktop folder in the iCloud drive.

However, when I go to ~/Desktop, there are no HEIC files. I do see the converted JPGs, however.

From the command line, if I do touch test.txt the file does not show up in Finder but it does in the shell. However, if I create a new folder using Finder, the new folder does show up in the shell's directory as well as on the Desktop.

What is going on? This is maddening.

UPDATE: If I close out the Finder window and then reopen, the jpg files appear. The HEIC files are still there even though they don't show in the shell. Adding to the weirdness, I cannot open the HEIC files in Preview; nothing happens when I try. I can open the jpg files.

UPDATE 2: And actually, only 3 of 5 expected jpg images were visible in the Finder window. The other 2 only popped in after I deleted an unneeded folder on the desktop. It was then the HEIC photos finally got removed from the listing.


texts: Transferring image files from Win10 laptop to iPhone XR (iOS 13.4) using Windows File Explorer?

texts: I am trying to transfer some image files from my Win10Pro laptop to my iPhone XR (iOS 13.4) using Windows File Explorer. When the devices are linked by a USB to Lightning cable I can open (Laptop)|Apple iPhone|Internal Storage|DCIM|100APPLE on the laptop and copy from it but not to it. How can I copy from the laptop's hard drive to it? Is there a switch I'm missing that tells the iPhone to treat the laptop as a friend? All I'm getting at the moment when I try to drag a file to the folder is a "No Entry" sign.


texts: My phone says it I disabled and I should connect to itunes.  I have no idea what to do and all the answers here require a computer..  Can you help?


texts: Completed Reminders not syncing to iOS from OS X

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Running the most recent version of OS X Mountain Lion and iOS 6.0, I'm able to sync all my Reminders between all my devices.

However, though the Reminders themselves will sync across all my devices, their completion state will only cross the same platform (that is, if I complete a Reminder on OS X, all my Macs will show as complete, but not my iOS devices, and vice versa).

Is there a setting that I can check somewhere to fix this, or is it working as intended?


texts: Is it possible to increase history length on iPhone Safari?

texts: Is it possible on Safari for iPhone to increase the length of the browsing history? It seems to only keep one week of browsing history, which makes it hard to go back to stuff more than a week later.


texts: Why does Image Capture scan tiff files with different compression formats?

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I'm scanning some old family photos using Image Capture. I want a lossless image using TIFF and LZW compression. What I'm seeing, thanks to the tiffutil -info <file> command, is that the .tiff files that are being outputted are getting a mix of Compression Scheme: Lempel-Ziv & Welch encoding (aka LZW) and Compression Scheme: JPEG encoding.

Does anyone know why Image Capture would switch compression formats? I can't seem to find a pattern as to when it does this but it does seem dependent on the image being scanned.
Is there a way to force it to use LZW, always?
Why would anyone want a lossy compression (JPEG) inside a format (TIFF) generally known for being lossless?

Here are some examples of scanned images. The full TIFFs are available in this Dropbox folder.

1.tiff

2.tiff

Here is the corresponding tiffutil output:

1.tiff: JPEG compression support is not configured.
Directory at 0x8
  Image Width: 1515 Image Length: 2639
  Resolution: 600, 600
  Resolution Unit: pixels/inch
  Bits/Sample: 8
  Sample Format: unsigned integer
  Compression Scheme: JPEG encoding
  Photometric Interpretation: RGB color
  Alpha: Present
  FillOrder: msb-to-lsb
  Predictor: none
  Software: "Apple Image Capture"
  Model: "Brother HL-L3290CDW series"
  Orientation: row 0 top, col 0 lhs
  Samples/Pixel: 4
  Rows/Strip: 16
  Number of Strips: 165
  Planar Configuration: Not planar
  Profile Name: Scanner RGB Profile

*** 2.tiff
Directory at 0x8
  Image Width: 1520 Image Length: 2641
  Resolution: 600, 600
  Resolution Unit: pixels/inch
  Bits/Sample: 8
  Sample Format: unsigned integer
  Compression Scheme: Lempel-Ziv & Welch encoding
  Photometric Interpretation: RGB color
  Alpha: Present
  FillOrder: msb-to-lsb
  Predictor: horizontal differencing
  Host Computer: "Apple Mac OS X"
  Software: "Apple Image Capture"
  Make: "Brother"
  Model: "HL-L3290CDW series"
  Orientation: row 0 top, col 0 lhs
  Samples/Pixel: 4
  Rows/Strip: 21
  Number of Strips: 126
  Planar Configuration: Not planar
  Profile Name: Generic RGB Profile