texts: Damaged partition table on Catalina prevents Mac from starting

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After deleting a partition with Ubuntu on it from my Mac, I’m unable to boot the OS because of what looks like a damaged partition table. I started the system in the Recovery Mode and tried to use the Disk Utility, but got a “Disk Error” message (see screenshot). Unfortunately, I haven’t backed up my data for years and I can’t afford to erase it.

Below are the screenshots from running the ”diskutils list“ and “gpt -r show” disk0 and disk1 commands. How can I restore the partition table without losing my data on the machine? I’ll be thankful for any advice I can get.


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I've just installed iMovie from the App Store.  When I run it, it crashes after the Welcome wizard.  I've rebooted, deleted and reinstalled, and the same thing happens each time.

I've tried opening with Cmd and deleting preferences, I've deleted everything in ~/Movies, ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iMovieApp, it still crashes every time

  2014 MBP, 16 GB RAM, just installed 10.13

There may be vestiges of old iMovie installs/projects laying around; if there are, I'm OK with completely deleting them, if someone can tell me how to hunt them all down

Crash report

  Process:               iMovie [1107] Path:
  /Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/MacOS/iMovie Identifier:
  com.apple.iMovieApp Version:               10.1.7 (310090) Build Info:
  iMovieX-31009000019000000~1 App Item ID:           408981434 App
  External ID:       823649006 Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
  Parent Process:        ??? [1] Responsible:           iMovie [1107]
  User ID:               501

  Date/Time:             2017-10-01 19:33:44.776 -0500 OS Version:
  Mac OS X 10.13 (17A365) Report Version:        12 Anonymous UUID:
  1BAD87A2-DB4E-312A-643C-36D1F4BE862D

  Time Awake Since Boot: 2600 seconds

  System Integrity Protection: enabled

  Crashed Thread:        4  Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-qos

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

  Application Specific Information:
  -[QCCGLRootContext minimalSharedContextForCurrentThread]: Inconsistent state abort() called HÇÆ±ˇ


texts: Can I make push notifications for some email addresses only and not others on my iphone?

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I have one email address i use to sign up for random stuff. and One that I only give out to people i trust. Over the years the one i use to sign up for stuff has gotten riddled with spam. the other one has all my important emails.

I would like to get push notifications from the important email address and not from the one with all the spam.

In the iphone settings it seems like you can only turn this on or off for all email addresses at once.

Is there any way to turn on push notifications for only certain inboxes and not others?


texts: I have a camcorder hooked up to my iMac running iMovie 10.0.9. When I try to import the video, I get question marks, and then the HDD Camera clicks off the menu. How can I get the video into iMovie to edit?


texts: How to assign iPhone "Shortcut" to record video?

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iPhone XR large button on right: double-tap brings up Apple Pay.  I would like to be able to remap the double-tap to record videos and not miss recording key events tapping through the menus to invoke video recording.
The goal is to pull the device from the pocket and start recording with a single command (preferably without looking at the phone, so as to keep an eye on the event).
How is this possible, if not, what is the next best option?


texts: Wikipedia in the builtin dictionary in hebrew...but only when searching for tech words?

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It doesn't do it for all of them, ex. when I search TCP/IP it's in english but a search for BSD yields this

  Berkeley Software Distribution, או בקיצור BSD, היא מערכת הפעלה נגזרת של מערכת ההפעלה UNIX, שנוצרה ותוחזקה באוניברסיטת קליפורניה בברקלי מאז שנות ה-70 עד לאמצע שנות התשעים של המאה העשרים. כיום, המושג 'BSD' מתייחס לאחד מצאצאי BSD המקורי, הווה אומר מערכות FreeBSD, NetBSD או OpenBSD, שגם הן מערכות דמויות UNIX.

אחד הרכיבים של מערכת Mac OS X הוא Darwin, שהיא ליבת מערכת שמבוססת על FreeBSD.

I have already checked in preferences and english is the only language selected. I'm running 10.10.2 on a late 2013 Macbook Pro 15. Does anyone know what is causing certain ones to be in hebrew when I want only english and how to fix it?


texts: Trying to install very old logitech software on Catalina

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I realize this probably won't work, but I'm kinda obsessed at this point.
I bought a Logitech Broadcaster WiFi webcam without realizing it was quite out of date (2013).
I'm trying to get its companion software installed but I keep running into an 'untrusted' package situation specifically a package inside the installer:
 "The package “masterpackagerequisite.pkg” is untrusted.
I've been using the osx 'sudo installer' with an allowUntrusted flag after making the dmg into an mpkg using hdiutil.
Any thoughts?
I realize once installed it probably won't even work but I'm obsessed.


texts: I'm not sure if solid state drives need defragmentation. Can anyone tell me if this requirement goes away with the new technology?


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this is probably a very dumb question but I would just like to clarify...I live in New Zealand, and looking to buy a Trashcan/Mac pro from Ebay, as it is a lot cheaper (including duty/tax) than buying one here on a similar second hand website...

My only question is can I simply plug in the relevant power supply to the mac pro and use it here? I've tried to google it but I keep getting stuff about macbook pro adaptors, and not much about the mac pro cable. Although I did see some references to Apple having an international power supply or something.

Anyway, any clarification would be super helpful. Thanks..


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I haven't been able to find this via Google. In particular, I am interested in reading about whether or not a Snow Leopard license is a prerequisite for installing Lion, and the new virtualisation rules.

Does anyone have a link to this?


texts: A popover shown from the Spotlight menu is stuck on the screen

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How do I get rid of it? It doesn't show up on task manager. It isn't dead, it responds to the  mouse wheel and scrolls up and down.

Screen shot below...


texts: Accidentally overwrote encrypted external drive (Mac OS)

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So I was rushed (and being careless) and accidentally copied about 80 MB of a Raspberry PI image (SD card formatted extfs) over my external USB drive (4TB) that was formatted and encrypted (using Disk Utility but not sure of the specifics).

I tried following Recover deleted Encrypted OS X Extended volume and looked through Rebuild partition table on external HDD - not writable but still haven't managed to get the drive recognizable by my laptop (Mac OS 10.13.6 - where the drive had been mounted previously).

Running TestDisk did find these partitions (I assume from the backup GPT?) before I started making any changes:

#1557837238 Disk /dev/rdisk2 - 4000 GB / 3726 GiB - 7814037167 sectors
 1 : start=       40, size=   409600, Id=00, P
 2 : start=   409640, size=3518398048, Id=00, P
 3 : start=3518807688, size=   262144, Id=00, P

(Note that I think the sizes may be incorrectly reported as I didn't change the disk geometry before running the scan)

Following @klanomath's excellent instructions in the first answer above, I did recreate the partition table, so now gpt -r show /dev/disk2 does give:

       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640  7813365343      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  7813774983      262144      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  7814037127           7
  7814037134          32         Sec GPT table
  7814037166           1         Sec GPT header

However, diskutil cs list still reports No CoreStorage logical volume groups found.

I'm unfortunately out of my element here and not sure how to proceed.


texts: How do I hide names from incoming messages on whatsapp on my iphone5

texts: I dont want the contact names to show on the notification but I stillwant the notification badge to show


texts: After upgrading to High Sierra NTFS format mobile HDD fails to load

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I encountered a problem after upgrading to High Sierra. I have a mobile hard drive which is NTFS formatted (USB 3.0).

When I connect my hard drive to the computer, it doesn't appear in Finder. It can be found in the Disk Utility but it is grayed out. Mobile hard disk is working properly because in other windows computer connection is fine, before the upgrade (macOS 10.12) can also be displayed in finder.

Hardware: MacBook Pro 13 2017 16 GB RAM & 256 GB SSD without Touch Bar.


texts: How to split jointly used iCloud account/Apple ID?

texts: My wife and I use the same apple ID but do not like cloud because we do not want each other's contacts or phone numbers. How do I take her off our joint ID, keep that one for myself, and set up her own apple ID for her phone and our shared IMac. She would sign on to the IMac using her own user account and not mine.


texts: How to disable autocomplete on macOS but not iOS?

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How do I disable autocomplete on macOS Sierra for MacBook, please, without disabling it on iOS 10 for iPhone?

Seems to occur only in native/Apple apps. Appears below my typing as blue text in a white rectangle with a close button on its right.

It flashes for a split second before inserting its suggestion into my typing, without feedback from me.

The suggestions are listed in Syst Prefs / Keyboard / Text / Replace…With. These I created on my phone's device Settings / General / Keyboard / Text Replacement, but I never asked for them to be applied to macOS. How'd they get there?

If I delete them from the Mac, they also delete from the phone. How might I remove/disable them from one but not the other? Thank you.


texts: How do I disable Chrome's two-finger back/forward navigation?

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In dev builds of Chrome, they've implemented, refined, and released two-finger swipes left/right in order to browse back/forward in the browser history. Unfortunately, you can accidentally trigger it while you're in the middle of a long down/up scroll, which needless to say occurs often.

I generally like the gesture, and things like Preview, Safari, and other application have implemented it much better, where you cannot blindly navigate back/forward so long as you have begun to scroll up/down.

How do I selectively disable two-finger back/forward navigation in Chrome?


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I just switched from a PC (Ubuntu 12.10) to a Macbook Pro (Mountain Lion). I'd like to know if there's a way to have a similar shortcut menu on the dock as I had on Ubuntu's sidebar? Basically I made a clickable menu to run a bunch of expect scripts so I wouldn't have to do it through the terminal.
Here's how it looks in ubuntu:

I used a .desktop config file to add each menu item and then dragged it onto the sidebar. So my question is - what are the ways to have something like this in OS X?


texts: How to select photos from an album using smart ablum like rules

texts: I imported all images in my iPhone to Photos app in my macOS. While I imported them, I specified an album titled "old iPhone". The images contain both camera pictures and screenshots. Now I want to move the screenshots in "old iPhone" album to another album, say, "screenshots". Since there are thousands of images in the "old iPhone" album, I wonder if there is a simple way for me to select all screenshots (like the rules used when creating smart album)? Thanks in advance.


texts: When I try to "Save as…" a Word document, I used to get a Finder window and could then save it where I wish.  Instead, I now get a short list of possible places to save it.  What happened to the Finder dialog box?


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All my files and pictures got lost or deleted while installing the OS X El Capitan software! Is there a way to get at least my iPhoto Library back? I have not made a back up before.

Thanks for your help!


texts: Unable to delete the core storage local volume group

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Currently, I'm trying to delete one of my partitions but for some reason it's giving me this issue:

Does anyone know how I could go about clearing this?


texts: Can I create a service in Automator that will run without having a file selected?

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When creating services in automator, the topmost options is "Service receives selected..." Is there a way to create a service that just works on the currently open finder window, without having a file selected? The reason why this would be nice to have is the following:

I have my unit tests in a directory tree that duplicates that of my source code. I wrote a service using automator, applescript and php that makes it possible to toggle back and forth between the source directories and my test directories. Currently I have to select a file in the directory to activate the service. I would like to be able to just navigate to a folder and activate the service that toggles to the according directory, without having to select a file first (Sometimes there are no files yet!)

Edit:
Following robmathers's suggestion in his comment to his answer I now use

tell application "Finder" to set windowTarget to the target of the front Finder window as alias
set posixPath to POSIX path of windowTarget`

which gives me the correct path to the finder window's path when I run the service in Automator.

The problem now is that the service does not show up in the "Services" panel, nor in System preferences under keyboard shortcuts when I create a new service with these settings. If I modify the existing service, It is not available when I don't have anything selected.


texts: Using kdiff3 as default git diff viewer on Mac OS

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I have kdiff3 installed on my Mac (Version 0.9.97, 64 bit). Here's my ~/.gitconfig:

[filter "media"]
    required = true
    clean = git media clean %f
    smudge = git media smudge %f
[user]
    name = My Name
    email = me@example.com

[core]
    editor = atom --wait
[merge]
    tool = kdiff3
[mergetool "kdiff3"]
    path = /Applications/kdiff3.app/Contents/MacOS/kdiff3
[diff]
    tool = kdiff3
[difftool "kdiff3"]
    path = /Applications/kdiff3.app/Contents/MacOS/kdiff3

Everything seems to be fine, except for the fact that when I do git diff, I see the output of the console diff. Any ideas on how to solve this?


texts: Buzzing sound through MBA earphones while charging

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I have got a MBA M1 base variant and am in India with 220 V @ 50 Hz power supply. Currently, my MBA is plugged in (and 100% charged) and through my earphones I am hearing a buzzing sound. If I turn off the power then the sound vanishes.
More interestingly though, if I touch my hand to any area on the metal surface the sound vanishes. Likewise, if the power is plugged-in and I drag my hand through any area of the metal surface then there is a distinctive vibration I can feel which is absent when my hand is resting.
Is this normal behaviour? Is there any chance of damage of any kind? Could this be a grounding issue? I'm pretty sure that the power is grounded (but not 100% sure).
Edit : Additional Comment -
In case it's relevant I bought the MacBook through official online store of Apple so no chance of a run-in with power rating issues. Also, the power supply at my place is rock-steady.


texts: iPad from AT&T or Verizon for Bell Network in Canada

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I was thinking about buying an iPad 3 in the US for use in Canada (I travel back and forth a lot) and wanted to know which one would be compatible with the Bell Network in Canada. I've compared the specs and honestly just don't understand the differences.

Anyone know whether the AT&T or Verizon iPad is more likely to work with Bell?


texts: Sold my MacBook Pro Lion, how to reset OS installation?

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I just sold my MacBook Pro. It originally came with OS X 10.6.6 (snow leopard). I since upgraded it, through the App Store, to OS X 10.7.5 (lion).

I want to wipe everything clean on the hard drive so the new owner starts fresh. I have the original Install DVD. Should I just insert that and format the drive? Is there an easier way, like with iPhones, that I can click on something?

After resetting everything, do I then need to go to the App Store with my Apple ID, install Lion, and then erase my Apple ID?


texts: How to run Apple Hardware Test with broken keyboard?

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mid-2011 13" MBA running Yosemite

Coffee spill has left keyboard of mid-2011 13" MBA non-functioning. Even power button doesn't work, I boot by shorting the two solder points on logic board. I've tried to run the AHT with both the broken 'D' and a USB kb 'D'. Neither seems to be registered, as it just boots normally.

Are there any other workarounds for running AHT?

Thanks in advance.


texts: Booting internally from a harddrive that was used on a different Mac

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I just bought a new Mac Mini 2012 and have just replaced the drive in it with an SSD from my old MBP. Now the Mac Mini won't boot anymore, showing a stop sign when I try (after holding alt to begin with) from either the bootable main volume or recovery partition. I.e. it sees the drive, so I'm hoping it isn't a hardware problem. Isn't this supposed to work? I seem to recall having changed bootable drives between machines before and it being able to adapt to the new hardware, but maybe I'm confusing it with booting from an external drive. At any rate, the goal is to restore the exact system I had, but on this new machine.

I have a CCC backup on my network of the drive in question. Do I need to first install OSX fresh, boot into the fresh install and then restore the old backup? Though I don't see how that's any different?


texts: Can I set priority for certain start-up services?

texts: I've set up a Synergy client on my copy of Lion. I have configured it to auto-start on login and for my computer to auto-login. However, it takes about 2-3 minutes for the Synergy service to finally run and connect to my Windows server. Is there any way to set the priority of this service?


texts: `dtrace_deadman_timeout` modification for dtrace scripts such as dtruss?

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When running some intensive debugging that needs to run on the order of about 5 minutes, I'm finding that dtrace's deadman switch is being triggered regularly and cannot get to the error that is being tracked:

dtrace: processing aborted: Abort due to systemic unresponsiveness

It appears that I could modify the parameters of deadman with perhaps dtrace_deadman_timeout being the most promising. These can be found here and the slide is as follows:

What is the appropriate way to set such parameters on macOS (specifically 10.13.x)?


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I'm trying to mount a RAM disk on startup with this:

/Users/Aram/Development/Tools/ramdisk.sh

diskutil erasevolume HFS+ "RamDisk" `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://800000`

com.aram.ramdisk.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
        "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.aram.ramdisk</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>/bin/sh</string>
            <string>/Users/Aram/Development/Tools/ramdisk.sh</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
    </dict>
</plist>

And then running:

sudo chown root:wheel /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.aram.ramdisk.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.aram.ramdisk.plist

But I get these in the console:

1/08/12 1:29:25.982 PM fseventsd[64]: could not open <</Volumes/RamDisk/.fseventsd/fseventsd-uuid>> (No such file or directory)
1/08/12 1:29:25.982 PM fseventsd[64]: log dir: /Volumes/RamDisk/.fseventsd getting new uuid: 102D7293-F1F1-4640-AA50-D547C365339F

1/08/12 1:29:24.561 PM sudo[1193]:     Aram : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Library/LaunchDaemons ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.aram.ramdisk.plist

1/08/12 1:40:17.052 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.aram.ramdisk) Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

It works if I set KeepAlive to true, but then it creates a RAM disk every 10 seconds.

Is there a way to delay the script for 10 seconds before running?


texts: My ex husband bought our daughter an iPod touch and put everything under his email account so when she try's to text and stuff it goes to him. Is there a way to reset just the email to hers so she can talk with her friends in private. I would reset the whole thing but she has already bought a lot of music and we don't have iTunes or Internet on home computer.


texts: Launchd job doesn't run at specified interval

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I had a launchd job where the StartInterval is set to 10800 (seconds), however, the job actually ran at a rather short interval like 5 seconds, and I couldn't figure out why.
Here's the job definition:
(requires terminal-notifier, which can be installed via brew install --cask terminal-notifier
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>launchd.test</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/local/bin/terminal-notifier</string>
        <string>-message</string>
        <string>from launchd</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/usr/local/var/log/launchd_interval_test.log</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/usr/local/var/log/launchd_interval_test.log</string>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>10800</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

How do I debug the interval issue?


texts: How to get money back from cancelled apple store order (visa)?

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Apple has cancelled my order on the the 5th of March. Today is 12th of March and I still haven't got my money back. What should I do in this case?

I'm using visa card.


texts: Unable to install Windows via Boot Camp - Unable to Partition

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I am unable to proceed beyond the initial screens of Boot Camp in order to install Windows 10.  I am told the:

The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.

Upon checking I only have a single partition, my OS X partition, as per the screenshot below.

If I dismiss that prompt there is no way to proceed with an installation.  So, how do I install Windows 10?

Output of: sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 19457/255/63 [312581808 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  312581807] <Unknown ID>
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

And output of sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0

      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  311909984      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  312319624     262151
  312581775         32         Sec GPT table
  312581807          1         Sec GPT header

Macbook model is: MacbookPro5,5


texts: Drag music to iTunes from network, don't copy (keep network link)?

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I swear I've done this before, but either I am forgetting something or the behavior of iTunes 11 changed:

In the past I've only kept about a dozen or so albums on my local (work) computer, but I have networked storage containing my whole music collection. If I connected to the networked drive and copied albums into iTunes, the albums would appear in iTunes but remain on networked storage. When I left my local network, the networked music would still appear, but there was an icon (red x?) to indicate that it was offline. When I reconnected at home, the icons disappear and I can play the networked music again.

Now in iTunes 11, when I drag music from networked storage to my library, iTunes makes a local copy of it in the iTunes music folder instead of just linking to the networked file. Can anyone comment on what's happening?

Thanks!


texts: Boot Camp drivers don't always load (for Windows 7)?

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Recently, I backed up my Windows 7 Boot Camp partition with Carbon Copy Cleaner before realizing that it would not be a bootable backup. Well, after some fiddling around, I made it bootable again (with the help of iPartition) and it generally works well.

However, for some reason, sometimes when I boot into Windows 7, it appears that some drivers don't work properly about half the time. For instance, if I load a game, the game will not be full screen and will instead be the exact dimensions that is specified (my display is 1920 x 1080; if the game is set to 1280 x 720, then it won't stretch to full screen but instead appear at that size). As I said, this happens about half the time.

Also, I use MacDrive so I can write to Mac partitions, and when these display problems occur, then MacDrive will also show an error saying that it needs to be repaired.

All of this can be fixed with a restart, but after restarting, my two displays will be duplicated instead of extended.

It appears that the display drivers (and perhaps a few things, related to MacDrive) don't seem to be loading properly at all times? For some reason, I can seem to fix this if, when in Mac, I quit all applications first before booting up Boot Camp. I don't know how they could be related, but it so far seems that way.


texts: Flashlight turns itself off while a recording video on iPhone 5s

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I'm using FiLMiC to record a 30 minute video.

In FiLMiC, I turn the flashlight on and hit the record button.

(the iPhone has is the power cord connected).

After about 20 minutes the flashlight just turned itself off!

Is this some overheating issue? I can't find any documentation to suggest that it is. It's very annoying!


texts: So my workplace purchased a new Enduro 3E Card Printer and they asked me to install it--looking at the installation discs, I immediately realized that they were for Windows installations. So I went to the manufacturer's site and looked to see if they had Mac drivers, and I did find some. However, upon installing them, the printer still fails to even show up in the Add Printer window whether I connected it via USB or Ethernet. So I decided to use Wine to use the Printer Service Utility (only for Windows) to see if it's being detected at all, which it isn't. There isn't an available PC to use, so I've been trying to find a appropriate Windows emulator that has driver support. I should be able to get my hands on a Windows installation disc if I need to. Answers or links would be very much appreciated.


texts: Are cheap cable remotes for the iPhone and iPad good for listening to podcasts

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I like to listen to podcasts while driving - but I can't use the iPhone's touch interface to play/pause podcasts because it requires looking at the iPhone long enough to cause an accident.

I'm looking for a physical pause/play button I can operate by touch and I've found this product on eBay Cable Remote Music Control for Apple iPod Nano 6 Touch 3 Classic iPhone 4S 4 3GS

I've had issues before with a car's built-in iPod control that would mark a podcast as completely played even if I listened only to a short part of it and that made that car's iPod control completely useless for me.

Does anyone here has experience with that iPhone remote and knows if it works well for podcasts?

Recommendation for alternative products are also welcome, as long as the alternative is cheap

if it makes any difference the iPhone is connected to the car's radio speakers with a cable connected to the phone's earphones jack.


texts: Where are the system spellchecking dictionaries?

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I would like to use the spellchecking dictionaries bundled with OS X from the command line (hunspell), but can't seem to find them. In /System/Library/Spelling there are only 2 files pl_PL.{aff,dic}, and find / -name '*.dic' revealed nothing.

I know I can dowload dictionaries from OpenOffice etc., but I'd like to find the ones bundled with OS X.

EDIT To clarify, there are at least two kinds of dictionaries in OS X:

Definitions used in Dictionary.app. I'm not interested in those.
Word lists used by the system spellchecker (red dotted lines). I know OS X uses hunspell because the hunspell website says so, and there are numerous posts on how to add new ones (1, 2). Just, I don't want to add new ones but use the English one that obviously comes with the system.


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This happens after I update my iPad to iOS 12. When I remove an app from my device, it seems that the app isn’t removed immediately.

More precisely, when I redownload the app from App Store, usually the progress indicator will be slow enough for me to see the download progress. I do have a fast Wi-Fi access, so I can download things in e.g. 40Mbps (so 5MBps), and I expect to finish downloading a 50MB-app in around 12-15 seconds (some extra time for installation). However, when I redownload an app shortly after I removed it from the home screen (it was removed, at least not appearing at Settings -> General -> iPad Storage), the app reappears almost immediately. There is no “Loading...” or “Waiting” label showing in the home screen. Instead, a greyed-out icon appears after I redownload the app from App Store, and then it changes to a normal bright one shortly.

Just for curiosity: is this a bug or a feature?


texts: I cannot open a Partition of a Harddrive when Shared

texts:
I've partitioned 0.75TB of external harddrive space for photo backups, which is shared on the network with a PC. However when shared I am unable to open the folder in Finder, as it will hang for 2 seconds and crash - even when nobody is accessing it.

I've tried using a different filesystem, but none seem to avail. I seem to be able to access it on the PC just fine.

The full external harddisk is 2 TB, split into:

1TB - Extra Storage
0.75TB - "Photos"
0.25TB - Time Machine Backup (I tried accessing the folder while and after the backup was running)

Any help would be appreciated.

(Edit: I should note that I can access the folder via other methods (the "select a folder" screen and Terminal, for example))

Console log: http://hastebin.com/oyakuxepoj.vala


texts: Prevent calls to iPhone launching FaceTime on MacBook in Mojave?

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It used to be (still is on my High Sierra MacBook Pro) all I needed to do was untick "Calls from iPhone" in macOS FaceTime app prefs:

But now (on my Mojave MacBook Air) this seems to do nothing. All incoming phone calls ring on my iPhone and launch and ring on FaceTime on MacBook. Even when my iPhone is in airplane mode.

I'd rather not (because I'd still like to be able to place outgoing calls—and it's not necessary on my older machine), but I also tried disabling "Cellular / Calls on Other Devices / Allow Calls on [Mojave MBA]" (and disabling the entire "Allow Calls on Other Devices", not just the MBA), yet this didn't stop the calls either.

And I've tried rebooting both MacBook and iPhone. And logging out/in of iCloud.

Apple tech support had me reset PRAM, but this did nothing. Anyone else having this trouble?


texts: How to disable predictive text on Mac OS Catalina on iMessages

texts: How to disable predictive text on Mac OS Catalina? I don't have it on many places, but on iMessages it is always popping up and screwing with my writing. I have everything regarding autocorrect already switched off, but the predictive text interferes still with my writing. How do I disable it? I am talking about this:


texts: Applescript to automatically add .noindex extension to a file?

texts: I'm interested in excluding certain files from Spotlight, and it was suggested to add the .noindex extension. I'd like to automate this. How is it possible to do via Applescript?


texts: Split sound from video using iPhone and monitor

texts: I'm duplicating the image from my iPhone to an HDMI monitor screen using a lightning digital AV adapter. The screen does not have audio output, while the phone is muted by default. How do I keep the audio coming from the phone while watching videos on the monitor?


texts: Can an 2013 MacBook Air run a monitor at 144hz?

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Apparently 2013 13" MacBook Air has Intel HD Graphics 5000.

Is it possible to run a monitor at 2560x1440 at 144hz?


texts: No apple news app after the mojave upgrade

texts: I followed the steps to get a pirated version of mojave beta upgrade and everything is working fine except I don't see the much talked about apple news app, although other apps like voice memos, stocks and home are there. Its not a deal breaker but would like to know how to get it. Can't find it on the app store either.


texts: How can I add a universal keybinding for a program?

texts:
I want to add a key binding that allows me to use it even when the application is not in the foreground. Specifically how would I add play/skip/previous key bindings to Spotify?

I'm not looking for the media key bindings. They can stay as is. I would like to add custom ones with keys of my choosing.


texts: Why is rename command missing from macOS?

texts:
I usually rename files and directories with the mv command. I'm reading a book on bash shell that mentions the rename command. When I executed man rename a man page was shown. However, when I entered rename on bash shell, it reported:

-bash: rename: command not found

I did some research and discovered that you can install the rename command with Homebrew.

Is there any good reason not to install it with Homebrew?
Is there anything you can do with the rename command that you can't do with the mv command?

I'm also curious to know if there is a known explanation for why the rename command doesn't exist in the first place. And why is there a man page for a command that does not exist?


texts: Using Visual Studio Code on MacOS "Error: No default engine was specified and no extension was provided."

texts:
Scenario/Setup:

MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 with new install of VSCode 1.50.0
Following/running VSCode Node Tutorial from:   https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/nodejs/nodejs-tutorial
Jump to "Express Application" section

install Express as directed using npm install -g express-generator
build app as directed using express myExpressApp --view pug
run app using npm start but app / web server fails to run with error in terminal

Error:

Error: No default engine was specified and no extension was provided.

System Details:

New install of VSCode 1.50.1

MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6


texts:
I am running grep -o $string ~/giant_file
where

string="foo
bar
baz"

This process keeps being killed after running for awhile and generating results, and I don't understand why. When it is killed, the following is output to the console:

[1] 69923 killed grep --color=auto --exclude-dir={.bzr,.cvs,.git,.hg,.svn} $string *

Is there a way to check the kernel logs to see why this is? In linux I would got to /var/log/kern.log to see if it is an OOM issue but I am not sure what to do on osx. If it isn't an oom issue, I am not sure what could be causing this, so other hypotheses are welcome.


texts: Is there an iPad app to play movies from an SD card?

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Is there an iPad application which is capable of playing iPad compatible movie files from an SD card via the Apple Camera Connection Kit?
I prefer App Store apps, no jailbreak apps please.


texts: Seagate Backup Plus Mac reformatted to NTFS don't mount on Mac

texts:
I have a Seagate Backup Plus Mac drive that, as the name implies, came with the HFS format for Mac. I reformatted it to NTFS to be compatible with a Windows PC (I was not working with Mac at the time). I tried recently to read the disk on a Mac, but unlike other NTFS disks (which can be read, albeit don't written), it don't mount at all. I also tested at other computers and my results are:

At some Linux version, it read fine out of the box
At a Windows PC it don't read by default, but it reads when I install a HFS driver (despite the drive itself still being recognized as NTFS when is mounted)

Is there any way it can be read on Mac as it is, or even, reformat the disk erasing its data so it can be HFS again?


texts: "Other storage" taking up most of hard drive

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I am having an issue on my wife's MacBook Pro running OS X 10.10.5 (late 2012 13-inch retina). The hard drive is only 120 GB, but the "other" category in the About this Mac storage option is taking up over 81 GB. I've tried following a number of turorials online including cleaning up mail cache, downloads, browser cache, etc. to little avail.

My question is, is this expected? I feel like 81 GB for other storage is a bit excessive, but I can't find any files large enough to indicate this should be an issue (including browsing almost her entire user directory and looking at folder sizes).

Anything you could offer would help.


texts:
I am using an iPhone 5, version 9.3.2, 32 GB of memory, 27.1 of capacity.

Suddenly I cannot use my Messages.

Other option is working well but when click Messages it's just hanging.

I even cannot delete/read/send any messages.

I already powered off my phone but still same thing.

What can I do now?


texts: How do I open Outlook .msg files on my iPad

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I work with a Document Management System that has my Outlook email archive stored as .msg files...  which is nice and all, but I can't get my iPad to actually open them up properly.

A search through the App Store results in two apps that claim to support this:

MSG File Viewer ($0.99) - doesn't seem to associate itself properly with .MSG files in Safari/SkyDrive/etc.
Klammer ($0.99 + $0.99 in-app purchase) - shows up in Open With... dialog, but shows up empty in the app.

However, neither seems to associate itself with .MSG files in Safari/SkyDrive/etc . Also, support for inline images and formatting seems sketchy at best.

I also noted that if I forward a .MSG file in an email, Mail will sometimes open it properly by converting it to .EML on the fly. I just can't figured out how to use that to open .MSG files on any other location, though.

Are there any other solutions I'm not aware of? It would be really nice to be able to access these files on the road.


texts: iCloud Services (iMessages/FaceTime/Continuity) Very Broken on my Mac

texts:
I'm having the most frustrating problem with iCloud on one of my Macs. Firstly, the Mac (a late 2012 iMac) was working flawlessly with all iCloud services up until a few days ago. Now, I am able to login to iCloud in my OS X user account fine, but no messages are ever displayed, no continuity features work, Messages will not send (some users show as not being registered with iMessages, some the message simply fails to send, and if I text myself I see the iMessage on that Mac only), FaceTime tries to dial but never completes, etc. This happens on all user accounts with all iCloud accounts on this Mac, not just mine. The same iCloud account works fine on a different computer (MacBook Air) and an iPhone running newest version of iOS 8.

I'm not at all sure if it's related, but I created a Mavericks VM in VMWare Fusion and signed in to iMessages on that VM on the iMac just before the time it started having issues, which worked and continues to work fine (the VM running on the "broken" iMac).

Here are some things that I've tried:

reset the PRAM (many times!)
reinstalled the OS (did not clear the drive first - didn't want to lose my stuff, that's next step. and also it seems insane)
updated to 10.10.2 beta (this somehow got Messages to start sending SMS (although it is not enabled to do so on my iPhone!) messages but it is otherwise still broken)
changed iCloud password to force all devices signed into account to sign out
ensured that serial number shows in About This Mac
changed my DNS records to google's, 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4
tried other iCloud accounts
turned the computer off for a few hours
deleted ~/Library/Preferences/ directory and ~/Library/Messages/ directory to force full data reset of Messages app and iCloud preferences, then rebooted, but seems silly since all other users are having issues
left iCloud logged out for a few hours and logged back in

Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated it. I'm torn between calling Apple support (since the computer is out of AppleCare) and reformatting the computer to try to fix it.

edit: Mac has been connected to the network via WiFi and ethernet since problems began, no difference on either networks. Other Macs and iOS devices working fine on the network, and the network works great for all non-iCloud related stuff. I can go online, send files over network, etc. No issues.


texts: Any reason why a DMG file throws a checksum error on open?

texts:
OK, so I have a vendor-supplied DMG (Steinberg) containing an installer package. The vendor insists the file is fine. They are testing the installer on Mojave. My system is High Sierra.

The DMG archive has been downloaded separately twice and both downloads are identical.

When opening the DMG under High Sierra 10.3.6 the diskMounter throws a checksum error and refuses to open the DMG.

Is there any reason why a DMG that is prepared on Mojave will not open under High Sierra when it opens fine under Mojave?


texts: How to set a key to mimic clicking an app in the dock

texts:
I have multiple desktops on High Sierra. Given an app window (like Safari) on each desktop, I can click on the app icon on the dock, and it will cycle through the desktops with this app.

⌘-` will cycle app windows on this desktop

Can I set a key to cycle app-desktops?


texts: How to use unix executable file if double clicking it doesnt work?

texts:
I'm very new to using terminal on mac and was wondering if anyone can help with the issue I'm having.

I want to use a command that I downloaded but when I double-click this shows up. The terminal window then freezes and when I try to call the command from new shell, then it just says the command can't be found. Would really appreciate some help. Thank you!

Last login: Mon Jun  1 20:37:34 on ttys000
/Users/harinlee/Downloads/sonic-annotator-1.5-osx-amd64/sonic-annotator ; exit;
(base) Harins-MacBook-Pro:~ harinlee$ /Users/harinlee/Downloads/sonic-annotator-1.5-osx-amd64/sonic-annotator ; exit;
sonic-annotator: no transform(s) specified
sonic-annotator: use -h or --help option for help
logout
Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.

[Process completed]


texts: TV app home screen on iOS and Apple TV not working

texts:
So the TV app in iOS and Apple TV, where you setup your favorite shows in a carousel isn’t working. When I open it up on iOS or iPad or Apple TV, the first tab shows the scrolling circle and nothing appears.

The other tabs work. Now my iCloud account is logged in and podcast, App Store and everything else seems to work. I’ve restarted my phone, logged out and in of iCloud, and reset network. I have no idea what else I can do.
I basically want to see my HBO and other shows that are personalized according to my viewing.


texts: Contacts app on new iPad incorrectly assumes default country code

texts:
After doing a restore from an old iPad to a new iPad, and syncing up iCloud, contacts stored without a country code are displayed incorrectly.

In Australia, the mobile number format is 04xx xxx xxx, or +61 4xx xxx xxx (with country code).

The result of this is that text messages (or iMessages) received are not matched up to a contact. Additionally, the phone numbers appear in the incorrect format in the Contacts app (04x xxxx xxx), suggesting it is maybe assuming an American country code or something.

The iPad does not have a SIM card in it. I tried putting a working Australian SIM card in it, and it immediately fixed the problem... until I removed it and everything went back to how it was.

Does anyone know how to change this default without having a SIM card permanently installed? Seems like there should be a setting for this somewhere, but I cannot find anything. I've googled and the closest I can find is a setting called "Internationale dial assist" inside Settings > Phone but this area doesn't exist on an iPad and I cannot find anything similarly named. Any help would be very much appreciated!


texts: Mac App Store works like trying to open iTunes via browser

texts:
Greets everyone.

I've updated to 10.6.6 but my Mac App Store doesn't behave well - see screen below:

It seems to be constantly trying to open iTunes for some reason. BTW, I'd logged in iTunes with my Apple ID, but this didn't help.

Any ideas?


texts: Drafts Folder in Mail.app contains messages which have been sent

texts:
From time to time my Drafts folder contains an autosaved message that I haven't sent which is nice because I can pick up where I left off creating a new message, but lately most of the messages are messages that I did send.

I then have to go and check that the message did in-fact get sent before I can delete the draft.

This mailbox is unified from 3 IMAP accounts, one being a gmail account. I haven't seen a pattern (e.g. the zombie drafts always being from one account).

Has anyone else fixed this issue, or at least seen it?


texts: How to handle `KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED` straight after Windows Login with Boot Camp?

texts:
I have a Mac that runs macOS High Sierra, and a Boot Camp with Windows 10 that used to be running and up to date. But now, when I try to open Windows environment, I have got a blue screen with a KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED error message straight after I enter my Windows password. How can I get past this error message and open Windows,  with or without reinstallation, whatever is doable/easier.

I have tried to use the Boot Camp assistant (under OS X), but I get an error message The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.

I have checked my partition and the possible issue is that I have an additional, 3rd partition disk, called "Windows recovery". I am unable to remove it even in OS X recovery mode ("-" is greyed).

I have tried to run sudo gpt -r show disk0 as per Cannot delete partition (minus greyed out) - non-encrypted, no core storage but I get an error message gpt show: unable to open device 'disk0': Operation not permitted even though I am currently using an admin account.

What could I do to be able to open my Windows?


texts: Resolving problems with development tools on upgrading to Mac Yosemite

texts: I use software development tools including Java, MySQL, Apache, PHP, LaTeX and Homebrew on OS X 10.7.5. What problems might I encounter on upgrading to Mac Yosemite and how can these be resolved?


texts: On my apple watch I receive a imessage, I twist my wrist to show the message but for it always shows me the old messages and then the new imessage? How can I stop this so it either just shows me the new message or the actual up to date thread?


texts:
I have an old Hackintosh which I no longer use, except as a server to access 2 RAIDs made of 6 disks.

The machine is too big, uses too much power, makes too much noise, and generates too much heat to justify just being a file server.

So I'm looking for an economical way to 're-house' the disks in some kind of box/enclosure that will be smaller, quieter, and more energy efficient -- and which I will be able to access from my new laptop, preferably with Thunderbolt?

The 2 RAIDs contain 6TB of data; they were set up with Disk Utility:

A 'safe' 4TB RAID 1 (mirror) made of 2 x 4TB disks, 3.68TB used
A 'fast' 8TB RAID 0 (striped) made of 4 x 2TB disks, 2.41TB used

Is there a good NAS/enclosure/dock that will let me house the disks and not lose the data? I.e., will my machine 'see' the existing RAID structure?

Ideally it would be one box, like the Pegasus R6 -- which unfortunately is NOT available without disks.

And I don't really need the 'fast' storage anymore; I'm OK with putting all on one big RAID10 or RAID1 volume.


texts: MacBook not starting / booting after change done in user permissions with sudo

texts:
I'm having the problem explained in this post: mac won't start after "sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*" command.
The solution proposed is to reinstall the macOS, which I have done, but unfortunately, the Apple logo black screen is coming and nothing is happening post it.
When I try to erase the disk as explained here: https://support.apple.com/HT208496, Disk Utility displays this error:

My macOS version is Catalina.


texts: Does homebrew usually put lots of files in the /usr/local folder itself?

texts:
Doing ls -ltra /usr/local gives a lot of homebrew files and folders in /usr/local itself, as opposed to a subfolder:

$ ls -ltra /usr/local/
total 56
drwxr-xr-x@  12 root    wheel    408 13 Jul  2015 ..
drwxr-xr-x    7 65535   65535    238 24 Jul  2015 heroku
drwxr-xr-x    6 agrimm  admin    204 24 Jul  2015 foreman
-rw-r--r--    1 agrimm  admin    291  7 Oct  2015 .yardopts
-rw-r--r--    1 agrimm  admin   1241 15 Jan 16:19 LICENSE.txt
drwx------    8 agrimm  admin    272 15 Jan 16:25 var
drwxr-xr-x    8 agrimm  admin    272 15 Jan 16:31 etc
-rw-r--r--@   1 agrimm  admin   3161  4 Apr 14:48 CODEOFCONDUCT.md
-rw-r--r--    1 agrimm  admin    861 12 May 09:16 .travis.yml
drwxr-xr-x   34 agrimm  admin   1156 12 May 09:17 share
drwxr-xr-x  303 agrimm  admin  10302 23 Jun 09:21 lib
drwxr-xr-x   98 agrimm  admin   3332 23 Jun 09:22 include
-rw-r--r--@   1 agrimm  admin   4266 23 Jun 09:51 README.md
-rw-r--r--    1 agrimm  admin   1031 23 Jun 09:51 .gitignore
drwxr-xr-x    5 agrimm  admin    170 23 Jun 09:51 .github
drwxrwxr-x   21 root    admin    714 23 Jun 09:51 .
drwxr-xr-x   12 agrimm  admin    408 23 Jun 09:56 Library
drwxr-xr-x  256 agrimm  admin   8704  6 Jul 11:50 bin
drwxr-xr-x   60 agrimm  admin   2040  6 Jul 11:50 opt
drwxr-xr-x   60 agrimm  admin   2040  6 Jul 11:50 Cellar
drwxr-xr-x   15 agrimm  admin    510 13 Jul 10:50 .git

CODEOFCONDUCT.md, LICENSE.txt, README.md, .git, .gitignore, Library, bin, opt, Cellar and probably other files and folders refer to homebrew.

Is this normal for homebrew when I chose "Install" for Xcode, and then installed homebrew as per the following?

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/Library/...
/usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1

Press RETURN to continue or any other key to abort
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/mkdir /usr/local

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

Password:
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod g+rwx /usr/local
==> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/chgrp admin /usr/local
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/mkdir /Library/Caches/Homebrew
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod g+rwx /Library/Caches/Homebrew
==> Installing the Command Line Tools (expect a GUI popup):
==> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/xcode-select --install
xcode-select: note: install requested for command line developer tools
Press any key when the installation has completed.
==> Downloading and installing Homebrew...
remote: Counting objects: 3660, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3491/3491), done.
remote: Total 3660 (delta 35), reused 673 (delta 28), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (3660/3660), 2.97 MiB | 371.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (35/35), done.
From https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew
 * [new branch]      master     -> origin/master
HEAD is now at 3947f85 consul: add 0.5.2 bottle.
==> Installation successful!
==> Next steps
Run `brew help` to get started

For what it's worth, I've also installed cask.


texts: WiFi Hotspot - using external DHCP server

texts:
I've got an iMac set up to share it's wired network connection via WiFi. My MacBook connects to this fine, and is assigned an IP address via DHCP.

However, I'd like to use the MacBook as if it was directly connected to the same network as the iMac. Some addresses on the network do not resolve, and this appears to be because the MacBook is on a different subnet. I'm guessing this is because it's using the iMac as a DHCP server.

Is there a way to have the MacBook share the iMac's network connection, BUT with the MacBook using the same DHCP server as the iMac?

I'd like to avoid manually specifying an IP and subnet.


texts: Adobe applications - Case-sensitive volumes not supported

texts:
I need someone to put this together in the most fool-proof way possible.

I recently reinstalled the OS on my Macbook Air 2014 (Yosemite) as I had a ton of useless files as it was acting super duper slow so now that I want to install Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign (which my entire life depends on as I'm a design student) it gives me an error:
Installation on case-sensitive volumes is not supported. Please choose a different volume for installation.

I know this topic has been discussed before but tbh I didn't understand a thing going through them lol. So I know there is this thing called iPartition but I currently don't want to spend any money on apps and am more than happy to reboot my entire Macbook or pick a different OS if that helps.

Any thoughts?


texts: Delay before selecting text in macOS Safari?

texts:
I do a lot of editing on Wikipedia, and as part of this, I often select copy/paste text around to reorganize it.

Sometime in the last month or so, I've noticed there is now a rather obvious delay before selecting text. Obvious as in 1 or 2 seconds.

This only seems to occur when you're not in an editor, but in a read-only field (like a wiki article)

And it only seems to happen once - after I have selected some text then it operates normally for a while. It re-starts again at some point but I can't say how long it takes.

Its almost as if the mouse went to sleep - but it didn't, the mouse is moving fine and I don't see anything like this in any other app - Smultron and xcode keep working fine for instance.

Is anyone else noticing this too?


texts: Display virtual adapters in network settings

texts:
I've configured a host only adapter in Parallels Desktop. If I type ifconfig in the terminal that network adapter is listed in the output like:
...
bridge101: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
    ether fa:ff:c2:xx:xx:xx
    inet 192.168.12.98 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 192.168.12.127
    inet6 fe80::c67:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%bridge101 prefixlen 64 secured scopeid 0x14
    Configuration:
        id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 hellotime 0 fwddelay 0
        maxage 0 holdcnt 0 proto stp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
        root id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 ifcost 0 port 0
        ipfilter disabled flags 0x0
    member: en11 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
            ifmaxaddr 0 port 19 priority 0 path cost 0
    member: en12 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
            ifmaxaddr 0 port 21 priority 0 path cost 0
    member: en13 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
            ifmaxaddr 0 port 22 priority 0 path cost 0
    member: en14 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
            ifmaxaddr 0 port 23 priority 0 path cost 0
    member: en16 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
            ifmaxaddr 0 port 25 priority 0 path cost 0
    nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
    media: autoselect
    status: active
    ...

Before I've upgraded to Big Sur, I was able to see those adapters also in the (visual) network settings of OSX. Now it is not listed there anymore. Is there a way to show them also in Big Sur?


texts: How can I disable the system feedback when using the "fn" button on a Touch Bar-equipped MBP?

texts:
I use Shush to auto-mute my microphone on voice and video calls, where I toggle my mic on by holding the fn key.  But on a Touch Bar equipped MBP, the system issues a click and pop noise when pressing and releasing the fn button, and it's driving me batty.

How can I disable this feedback noise?  (And how did you figure this out?)

Update: I should note a few settings:

System Preferences > Sound > Sound Effects > Play user interface sound effects is OFF
System Preferences > Keyboard > Dictation is OFF


texts: Notes deleted after updating to Yosemite

texts:
My notes have been deleted after updating the OS on my Macbook Pro from Lion to Yosemite. How can I recover them?

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)


texts: iCloud photos gone forever or still there?

texts: So my friend shared an album and photos with me on ICloud but they disapeared from my iCloud photos stream on my phone 2 weeks later.By the way she just told me she deleted the album today but does that means can't get it back and it's gone forever or are the pictures still on iCloud somewhere


texts: Can I control the order of keyboard layouts in the system menu?

texts:
I have a few keyboard layouts or "input sources" as the system calls them. The system also lets you define a keyboard shortcut for "Select next source in Input menu".

I had muscle memory of how many times to hit that key combo to go between various keyboards. Then after a reboot they are now in different order. Is there a way to set the order so it doesn't change?


texts: Missed calls on lock screen iPhone 11 Pro

texts:
I don't mind seeing the missed call notification, but the instant redial feature results in too many unwanted calls -- like returning spam and political calls I didn't want in the first place. I have "Return missed calls" turned off in Settings but some other factor is overriding it. Yes, I'd like to see what missed call the notification is referring to, but I'll forgo that luxury if it means I instantly return the call.
TIA


texts: Unable to expand ".zip" into "downloads" (Error - 63 file name too long.)

texts: Unable to expand "zip" into "downloads" (Error - 63 file name too long.) on my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9.5.


texts: Will I be charged any fees to use iTunes Radio with my AT&T unlimited data plan?

texts:
I just got an iPhone 5s. My wireless plan is with AT&T and includes unlimited cellular data. When I open the Music app and go to iTunes Radio, a dialog appears stating:

  Use Cellular Data?

  Additional fees may apply when using cellular data
  for iTunes Radio, iTunes Match, and Automatic Downloads.

Is AT&T charging additional fees for using these services, or is this dialog only warning about the high rate of data usage that may cause limited-data subscribers to exceed their monthly data allowances?


texts: How do I transfer all the contents of a file based on a criteria to another folder?

texts: I have multiple folders i.e., Fold1_part1 which have 6 subdirectories in them. In each of them has 3 folders full of images labelled either 0,5,10. I am trying to move them to another folder which will hold all the images for each category(3 folders which are 0, 5 or 10).


texts: Quick Look stopped showing .tex documents

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I asked the following question on the TeX forum and was told to ask on an Apple forum instead:

I often use Mac OS's Quick Look (pressing the spacebar while a file is highlighted in Finder) to preview documents. Before updating to MacTex 2015, this worked fine on my .tex documents, displaying the plain text. After the update it just shows a blank icon. How can I fix this?

Further information: this seems to have only stopped working on one login, but still works correctly on others.


texts: iOS 7: How can I disable ringer for all phone numbers but one?

texts: I have a work cell phone that only rings when a server crashes. How would you disable the ringtone and text messages for every phone number except for one on iOS 7?


texts: iPhone doesn't show location in certain apps

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My iPhone 4 has several apps that I use location services on. But one set of 2 apps from the same developer will not show my location. They are enabled in Location Services, and show a grey arrow to show they have requested  location, but will not provide a location on their maps. I have a GPS Status app which reports at the correct location, as does google maps etc.

The apps have been removed and re-installed. reboots of the hardware have happened.
I'm wondering if there is a hardware fault, as the developer of the app reports no similar problems with iPhone users.

PS: iPhone 4 A1332 version 6.1.3 (10B329)


texts: How do I change the default local hard drive free space when using iCloud on OSX?

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I'm using iCloud to add additional storage to my Macbook. I'm trying to upload some or external hard drives, but it's a slow process since I can't extend the free space.
Is there a way to change the default free space on my local harddrive that way I can force more storage onto the cloud?


texts: How to automount sparsebundle for Time Machine backups?

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I have a disk drive connected to my router that I'm using for TM backups. What I did is I created a .sparsebundle image using Disk Utility and then copied that image to my disk drive. Then, in Terminal I typed the following:

sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/MYCIFSvolume

All works OK, but I have to manually mount the .sparsebundle by double clicking it and then Time Machine recognizes the drive and make backups to it.

Is there any way TM automounts this .sparsebundle when a backup is scheduled?

I'm using OS X 10.9

Many thanks,


texts: Check battery health on iPad like on iPhone

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How can I check the battery healthy of my iPad?
It's not the same as with my iPhone:

Settings → Battery → Battery Health

I haven't the Battery Health-Button in Settings → Battery on my iPad as I have it on my iPhone.

How can I check this on my iPad Pro? (Version 13.6)


texts: What would be the cleanest method of converting my APFS macOS partition back to HFS+?

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After installing High Sierra when it was released, I was initially happy with APFS and gave no care to its relative novelty. Recently I've been using Linux, macOS, and Windows, and having to reboot back into macOS just to grab a file and then copy it to my Windows or Linux partitions is becoming inconvenient and tedious, not to mention a waste of space. I decided that I'd make the attempt to convert my macOS partition back to HFS+. Here are the steps I've taken so far:

Made a full backup of my internal drive using gdd. I've tested this backup and am writing this booted off of it.
Installed macOS High Sierra onto a disk drive (thereby keeping it HFS+).
Copied all of my macOS files onto this drive using sudo cp -a (Target Disk Mode).
Written this HFS+ partition over my APFS partition (gparted-live).
Transferred the Apple_Boot partition to immediately after the HFS+ partition on my internal drive (Target Disk Mode).
Attempted to boot off of my internal drive.

The resulting HFS+ partition appears as a bootable drive in the hold-Option-at-boot menu, and when I attempt to boot it (verbosely), it throws tons of warnings/errors along the lines of kernel[0]: ... dyld_shared_cache_x86_64': owned by uid=89 instead of 0, then infinitely outputs Process[32] crashed: opendirectoryd. Too many corpses being created (number ranging from about 30 to about 150) and increments the number. After powercycling multiple times it now outputs Waiting for DSMOS before the infinite loop.

Here is a diskutil list of my internal drive:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS macOS                   169.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot                         600.8 MB   disk0s3
   4:           Linux Filesystem                         31.5 GB    disk0s4
   5:                 Linux Swap                         8.5 GB     disk0s5
   6:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                40.8 GB    disk0s6

Given all this, what would be the cleanest way for me to accomplish converting my macOS partition to HFS+, keeping in mind I can start over if needed?


texts: Updating to OS X 10.10.2 broke Quick Look previews for HTML files

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After updating to OS X 10.10.2, I can no longer use Quick Look on HTML files – I just get a blank preview window, and the issue persists through a reboot. But all other files types work fine.

Is there a cache I can clear or something else I can try to get this working again?


texts: Can't copy media to iPad through iTunes File Sharing because not enough free space is available

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I'm getting the following error when trying to copy a MKV file to VLC on iPad using the iTunes File Sharing on Windows:

  "Movie.mkv" could not be copied because not enough free space is available.

The movie is 2.2 GB, and iTunes is reporting that my iPad has 6.75 GB free which should be plenty.


texts: What is the easiest way to have Apple's Mail send an email at a specific time/date?

texts:
Something in Mail itself?  AppleScript?  Automator?
I am using OS X 10.7.3.


texts: How can I receive FM radio broadcasts on my iPhone 4?

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How to listen my local FM stations in my iphone 4? Like I can listen with my old Nokia phone, without using Internet, GPRS etc.

Is iPhone 4 lacking this facility?

I heard about "Pandora Radio" but it uses the Internet to run and it's also not for Indian FM channels.

In my Nokia Express Music Mobile I can listen my local FM stations without any GPRS, Internet in mobile.


texts: How to delete an account for a now unused ftp server from finders "connect at login" list

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EDIT2: I found the solution, see my answer below.

EDIT: The question may be a bit misleading I don't have it in the favorites bar, the problem is that finder always tries to connect to a server when I start my machine or log in.

I once saved an ftp server as a "favorite" in finder (so finder would automatically try to connect to it at startup). I no longer use this service, but finder still tries to connect to it automatically at every startup, I'm not sure how to delete this server from the list of servers finder tries to connect to automatically. How do I do that?

Some things I have tried: It has been removed from favorite servers and I also cleared the recent servers list in the "Connect to Server" menu. This had no effect.


texts: Safari not working with notification center

texts: I have a new macbook pro with mountain lion. I want to use the notification center for my Facebook/gmail, but when I'm logged into both facebook and gmail, I never get alerts.I have safari available in my notification center, but it won't work. What do I do?


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I have an early Early 2011 MBP, which I installed 16GB of RAM in, despite the fact that Apple claims the maximum is 8GB. This is a hack which is known to work, but I'm having some trouble with hibernate as a result.

It seems my sleep image is only 8GB, despite the fact that my RAM is 16GB; consequently, if I lose power while having more than 8GB in memory, safe sleep fails.

Any ideas on how to correct this?


texts: How to switch off the GPS (but not disable location tracking) on an iPhone?

texts: Is there any way to switch off the GPS on an iPhone 4, so that the location tracker application can use GSM instead (this is only to save my battery)?


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I have 2 identical USB devices (Zoom F8 multitrack field recorders) which connect as a standard audio interface. I'd like to create an aggregate device using both devices. macOS definitely "sees" both devices:

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
...
F Series Audio Interface with Rec:

Product ID: 0x0395
Vendor ID: 0x1686  (ZOOM Corporation)
Version: 0.00
Serial Number: 000000000000
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: ZOOM Corporation
Location ID: 0x14200000 / 28
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 0
Extra Operating Current (mA): 0

F Series Audio Interface with Rec:

Product ID: 0x0395
Vendor ID: 0x1686  (ZOOM Corporation)
Version: 0.00
Serial Number: 000000000000
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: ZOOM Corporation
Location ID: 0x14100000 / 27
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 0
Extra Operating Current (mA): 0

However, only one device appears in Audio MIDI setup. I'm guessing the issue is due to the null serial numbers, and so would like to manually assign them. Of course, I wouldn't expect this to persist the devices being disconnected/reconnected.


texts: Is there a way to have an encrypted folder on macOS with fast read/write operations?

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I've tried and used Disk Utility to create an encrypted image, so I can store data in it securely. However, when I tried to write files to this image, the write operation was too slow (to write ~50 GB of data, it would take 1 day as estimated).

My question: is there a robust alternative that allows creating an encrypted space in the hard disk to store data with fast read/write operations?

Device :

Apple MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)

Processor : 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory : 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Hard drive : APPLE HDD HTS547575A9E384

Rotational Rate:  5400
Partition Map Type:   GPT (GUID Partition Table)

OS version : 10.12.1

I am transferring data to an encrypted image on the hard drive. Its encryption type is 128-bit AES.

Source of data

The external hard drive that I am transferring data from : StoreJet Transcend Media.

Partition Map Type : GPT (GUID Partition Table)
Encrypted. Encryption Type : AES-XTS


texts: Encrypt TimeMachine backups or rely on hardware encryption?

texts: I'm thinking of purchasing a portable disk drive that supports hardware encryption (most of them seem to do these days). However, if I'm using such a drive can should I still encrypt my TimeMachine backups? I'm assuming that TimeMachine uses software to encrypt the backup data which would be slower than the hardware encryption supported by the drives. Is my assumption wrong?


texts: MBP Not Booting After Attempted Deletion of Ubuntu Partition

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I have a MBP (late 2011 I believe, running 10.12) that I had setup to run macOS and Ubuntu. I am using rEFId.  I don't use Ubuntu much so I went to delete the partition last night. When I did that, via disk utility, I had an error stating the disk needed to be repaired in safe mode (or something like that). After I tried repairing in safe mode, I am now no longer able to boot into macOS or Ubuntu. I get a GNU GRUB screen when I turn on the computer  and a weird error screen after I input "exit".

After using diskutil list and gpt -r show disk0, I found that one of the partitions (the one with the macOS) was being identified as type FFFF... I followed some instructions on here and was able to correct that, but I still do not have that partition available to boot with when on the Mac boot screen (when I hold option down at start up).

I have noticed that my LV is not staying mounted. I have unlocked it and mounted it multiple times and run volume checks on everything with no problems.
Just can't seem to get the Mac SSD available to boot on.

I would really like to get back into macOS as I haven't backed up in a few weeks. :(

Is there anything else I can do to possibly fix this??

Here are some terminal outputs.

gpt -r show

diskutil list


texts: Password request for file delete Mountain Lion Server

texts:
I've recently set up a new server environment in our small graphic design / video production studio.

The setup involves a Macpro running mountain lion server, with 56tb Raid 6 Proavio unit attached via SAS. The macpro has Small Tree gigabit ethernet cards allowing 12 workstations to be connected at any one time, allowing all users to access the same storage pool (the proavio raid). In terms of performance, the setup works fine. We've had 4 users editing full Hd compressed video across the ethernet network.

The problem i'm having is that in the OSX server prefs for the shared storage, I need to set the permissions to "ignore permissions on this volume" for users to be able to read / write to the drive.

I don't have a strong IT background (i'm a designer) but I have the feeling that the setup is incorrect in some way.

In addition to this bug, i'd also like to set up the system so that only the administrator of the server can delete files from the shared storage (password required). The reason being that we work with freelancers and interns who are not always safety savvy....!

Any light that can be shed on this by you brilliant people would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

J.


texts: Can I tell my Mac to charge to 80% only?

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I leave my MacBook plugged in for days at a time, so the battery stays charged to 100%. Despite Apple claims to the contrary, I believe that the battery's capacity would be better preserved if I could keep it at an 80% state-of-charge. Is there any command or setting that would let me disable charging from the power adapter?
Here are various options, (1) being my most preferred:

A setting to automatically maintain battery at 80% SoC (like my Tesla has)
A setting/command to use the AC adapter for running power only ("not charging" state)
A command to tell my Mac to totally ignore the AC adapter power

(2) could be cobbled into (1) with some kind of script. Even if not possible from the Mac itself, (3) could be cobbled together with an IOT switch. But with (3), it's unclear the lower maintained SoC would outweigh the cost of the additional cycling.


texts: iOS 7, Facebook Messenger app keeps crashing

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I was using my Facebook messenger app, and it suddenly crashed. I tried to open it again, but it kept crashing either instantly or after 20 seconds or so.

I've tried to turn it off and on, and delete and reinstall but its not working. Is there anything else I can do? What's wrong with it?


texts: External microphone audio recording on MacBook Pro Mid-2015

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I'm trying to use a RØDE smartLav+ Lavalier microphone with my MacBook Pro.

The MBP is a Retina Mid-2015 (running macOS 10.14.6) and has a single port for both audio output (headphones) and input (microphone).

The microphone has a TRRS connector (audio jack) identical to the iPhone's headphones with microphone.

If I plug the iPhone's headphones into the mac it recognizes a microphone is present; I can see that in System Preferences > Sound: sound input is "External Microphone".

If I plug the RØDE microphone it is not detected: sound input remains "Integrated Microphone"

Interesting enought if plug the RØDE microphone into an iPhone it  does record audio.

Finally this microphone is detected by Mid-2012 MacBook Pro (by plugging it in the headphones port, not the microphone port; the 2012 has both)

Is there anything I can do to let my Mid-2015 MPB recognize the RØDE microphone and let me record from it?


texts: MacBook Pro running Linux - only 3.6 GB RAM available

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(This is a repost of my question on SuperUser.com, hopefully it's better suited here ).

I've happily installed Linux on my MacBook Pro with 4 GB of RAM, but I only get 3.6 GB available:

robert@raptor ~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3684       2184       1500          0         83       1096
-/+ buffers/cache:       1004       2680
Swap:         6149          0       6149

I'm running a 64-bit kernel so this should not be a problem:

robert@raptor ~$ uname -a
Linux raptor 2.6.34.7-0.5-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-10-25 08:40:12 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

What can I do to get the whole 4 GB available?

Update: this is what I get when running top on MacOS X:

PhysMem: 540M wired, 640M active, 231M inactive, 1411M used, 2685M free.

where used + free = 4096 MB.

Update 2: There's a thread on MacRumors.com where a user complains of the same problem with Windows 7/64 bit.

Update 3: /proc/meminfo output:

MemTotal:        3773288 kB
MemFree:         1164244 kB
Buffers:          109096 kB
Cached:          1270520 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:          1446756 kB
Inactive:         962728 kB
Active(anon):     803404 kB
Inactive(anon):   230556 kB
Active(file):     643352 kB
Inactive(file):   732172 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
SwapTotal:       6297596 kB
SwapFree:        6297596 kB
Dirty:               792 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:       1029880 kB
Mapped:           185096 kB
Shmem:              4096 kB
Slab:             131260 kB
SReclaimable:     106212 kB
SUnreclaim:        25048 kB
KernelStack:        2680 kB
PageTables:        21248 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:     8184240 kB
Committed_AS:    3113016 kB
VmallocTotal:   34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:      123884 kB
VmallocChunk:   34359596028 kB
HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
DirectMap4k:       54444 kB
DirectMap2M:     3852288 kB

Memory info from dmesg:

[    0.000000] Memory: 3759972k/5242880k available (4780k kernel code, 1336600k absent, 146308k reserved, 6603k data, 892k init)


texts: Text selection (not built-in but useful) shortcuts

texts:
We all now we can select all text (in a text area) in any app by using Ctrl/Cmd + A. And this feature is also available for a lot of other contexts such as file selection (in finder for ex), content selection (in photoshop for ex) etc... But in those other contexts you can also perform a multiple selection and an inverted selection among other stuff.

In the same way for text I would find very useful having shortcuts to be able to

select multiple non-continuous text strings (I believe you can do this in Microsoft Word).
I understand that might be complex to achieve in a rich text area. But how about a plain text area?
"invert" the selected text as well, the same way as we do in Photoshop for a layer for example.

I know there is no built-in way to do this (either on mac or windows). But I wasn't able to find any method/trick to achieve it in my own custom way either (using 3rd-party apps, scripts).

Could anyone enlighten me on this please, especially on Mac?
Thank you


texts: Does safari on iOS update automatically? Outside of iOS updates?

texts:
I realize that safari is updated when iOS is updated. But is it ever updated silently, like chrome or firefox, for more minor additions? Say for bugs in webkit/nitro.

Or is it more like the stock android browser, or internet explorer? Which only are updated when the platforms they reside on are updated.


texts: Cannot Erase a 64Gb exFat SD Card with Disk Utility | OS Mojave

texts:
I've got a microSD card in an SD adaptor that I accidentally left in during the Bootcamp installation and now it is formatted as exFat rather than Fat-32. I tried erasing it and changing the format, but it says:

I looked at a couple pages on here and typed in some console commands but they didn't do anything so I'm writing my own question. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Also, here is the info:

EDIT: I think I found out why it won't erase - there is a windows NTFS format inside the disk, named disk2s1.


texts:
I never get crash logs when an application crashes, and the reason is that CrashReporter itself crashes:

4/20/12 10:11:25 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[104]
(com.apple.ReportCrash.Self[133]) Job appears to have crashed: Trace/BPT trap

A google search shows that I'm not the only person to experience this. But I haven't found a definitive cure. A popular google hit suggests moving the LaunchAgents .plist file from the System LaunchAgents to the User LaunchAgents, but that made no difference for me. I'm wondering if anyone has actually solved this.

(This is on Snow Leopard. I have a Lion installation and another Snow Leopard computer; the problem doesn't occur there. It's just this one volume.)


texts: How to limit the volume of sound effects in Finder?

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Sometimes I have my mac on full volume (maybe because I am / was listening to a song). Then I move a file in finder, or put something in the trash; finder plays the "move file" sound at full volume and it breaks my eardrums :D

Is there a way to limit the volume of sound effects on finder?


texts: How to increase max. file descriptors / max. open files in Catalina?

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When using SourceTree I run into the following error shortly after using it:

It appears that the system has run out of file descriptors as described in this bug report: http://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=1387401.

There are several resources online that describe how to change the open file limit on past MacOS versions, but none seem to work on Catalina. Does anyone know how to increase this maximum in Catalina?

Update: After reading some more, it seemed that configuring the machine to work in "performance mode for macOS Server" might be the correct way to do this. However, Apple's instructions on how to do this don't seem to work in Catalina either.


texts: How can I reduce the size of a continually growing Mail app on my iPhone 5?

texts:
I have two email accounts on my iPhone: Cox and Gmail.
Each accounts have few messages in their respective Inbox.  No attachments.
The Draft, Sent, and Trash folders are empty.
Yet, with time, the size of this app continues to grow and take up more of the free space on my iPhone 5: and its size is limited, the 16 GB model,
of which 12.5 GB is available to the user.  I am running iOS 8.4.1.

It's as if there is garbage collection that isn't taking place and the storage space doesn't get freed-up.  Think about how hard drive space may get freed-up after sectors are freed-up when you defrag a Windows hard-drive.
Battery Doctor helps free up cache space, etc., but does not affect the Mail app.  My Mail app now takes up 3.0 GB of space!

I have tried removing the accounts, and then setting them up fresh, but this doesn't help… the space is still taken.  I have performed factory resets on the iPhone where it is wiped clean and then have all apps reinstalled, but the problem still exists.  And, so far, I do not have a program that saves my Notes off to my laptop and maintains the formatting of the text, e.g. Bold, Italic, carriage returns, etc.  So, trying to recover the iPhone to the way it was is a real hassle, and the Mail app doesn't reduce in size… it will continue to grow.  Any ideas?


texts: Convenient way of maintaining differential backup of a large file

texts:
I'm interested in maintaining differential backup of a file (~2GB). I have Time Machine set up to cover the whole system but in case of this particular file, I would like to have a convenient backup solution that would enable me to:

Browse changes in the file
Ideally, the differential backup would take place automatically when the new file with the same name is moved to the folder

I'm not necessarily looking for this backup to take place through time machine and I would be happy for the backup to take place outside the normal backup routine. I'm more interested in maintaining the record of changes to the file then maintaining a safe copy.


texts: Keyboard backlight not working for some keys

texts:
Many similar questions I've read here have to do with backlights not working at all or when dimmed.

My problem is that the number 6 key is not illuminating. All other keys are working as they should.

Any ideas how to diagnose and fix this?


texts:
how can I wirelessly cast video files from my iMac (macOs Mojave) to my Samsung TV, without apple TV ?

I know it's "possible" because an app like Popcorn time can do it. But I'd like to do it with  files downloaded on my hard drive.

Thanks for your help.


texts: Fixing a couple of odd problems after I dropped my MacBook

texts:
I dropped my MacBook (six years old, running OS X 10.6.8) on the ground, and have observed a couple of odd problems since then:

Whenever I open my MacBook it attempts to eject the CD, makes a couple of violent-sounding noises, fails, and gives up. (Also, the software no longer recognizes that there is a CD in the drive.) Whenever I try software solutions (e.g. drutil tray eject) it does the same.
Occasionally, roughly every two or three minutes, the computer freezes for about ten seconds. When it does this it often highlights the "File" option in the menu at the top.

Otherwise my MacBook works fine. Anyone know how I might fix these issues? (Especially the second, if I busted my CD drive I can live with that.)


texts:
I recently replaced my broken SuperDrive with an OCZ Agility 3 120GB SSD with the following specs:

2.5" SATA 6Gb/s
SandForce 2281 Controller
Read 525Mb/s
Write 500Mb/s
85K IOPS

I have an Early-2009 24" iMac (9,1), and I purchased a caddy to place the drive in in order that it can sit where the SuperDrive was.
My iMac has a SATA2 bus, but after connecting the SSD it will only connect at SATA1 speeds.  I knew that the SuperDrive used to use this speed, but accepted that it was because is was simply an optical drive that could not push the speeds to saturate a SATA1 controller, so why bother with anything better.
However I expected the SSD to link at the SATA2 speeds that the bus supports.

I have the latest firmware on the drive itself, and on my Mac, I have reset my PRAM, and I don't know what to do next.  Why does the SSD not connect at SATA2?
I accept that I cannot get SATA3 like the drive supports, but some initial testing using a disk speed test tool suggests I am only getting just over 100Mb/s write and 145Mb/s read, which is a mere 20-80% more than the regular drive gets.
I cannot just swap the drives over, as it's not like the MacBook Pros that use 2.5" drives.  I have done a lot of Googling that suggested a firmware fix for MacBook Pros solved the same issue on those machines, but no luck for my iMac.
I have just put a normal SATA2 drive into the optical caddy, and it comes up at 3Gb (SATA2) just fine.  So it seems it's something about the SSD that it doesn't like.  Controller?  I wouldn't have thought that it cared what was connected, so long as it was SATA?


texts:
I have some videos I made on my iPhone and copied to my computer.  I deleted them from my iPhone.

Now when I play them though using Photos v4.0 on macOS 10.14.2 I see parts are in slow motion.  They are .MOV files.

How can I fix them so they do not play in slow motion?


texts:
I don't really like OS X 10.9.5, it has many problems with SelfControl, can I down grade it to 10.9.4?

Upgrade:
I can't install 10.9.4, here is the error message


texts: How do I change the UI language in Snow Leapoard?

texts: I'd like to change my MacBook's languages of the UI. How would I do that in Snow Leopard?


texts: Can you undo close all Finder windows (alt + click the red close button)?

texts:
I just inadvertently closed around 20 Finder windows in one click, each related to ongoing projects in them, by clicking the red window button and having "alt" key pressed.

Is there something I can do to reopen all the windows that have just been closed?

It might be too late for me now but if I make this mistake again it will save me a lot of time to reopen these windows.


texts: Get data off iPhone without iTunes sync or WiFi or cellular network?

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I water-damaged my iPhone 4s.

Net result is that the phone powers up normally (mostly) when connected to a wall charger. I can see my old home screen, pictures, etc.

When connected to a computer for USB-charging, it shuts down soon after the Apple logo pops up.

So connecting to a computer does not work. Unless there is a way to wall-charge and USB-sync at the same time?

WiFi does not work. The WiFi settings slider is greyed out.

  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4859
  iCloud automatically backs up the most important data on your device
  running iOS 5 or later. It will run on a daily basis as long as your device:

  is connected to Internet over Wi-Fi
  is connected to a power source
  has the screen locked

Apparently you cannot do an iCloud backup over mobile data, so that is out as well.

Just called Sprint... cannot activate the phone without either syncing or with WiFi. So out of luck for the cell connection too?

So, the question is, is there any way for me to do an iCloud backup of this iPhone?

Is there a way for me to manually back up things like pictures without WiFi or iTunes sync or the cellular connection?


texts: Why is my keyboard shortcut option+command+\ mapping to command+c?

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It's the weirdest thing, all of a sudden on macOS Catalina when I try to use my 1password shortcut option + command + \ it for some reason gets mapped to command + c. I checked here: http://keyboardchecker.com and it really weird that the c key gets pressed when I am literally typing option + command + \. Here's a video:

What might be causing this??


texts: How can I set a default zoom level in Safari?

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I've got a Mac Mini that I'm using as a Home Theatre PC, and my only real complaint is that I can't set a default zoom level in Safari. It's hard to read all that tiny text from 7 feet away from my TV set, so I'm always zooming in.

So: is there some extension or hidden hack way to force Safari to zoom in automatically?


texts: Restoring past purchases with changed Apple ID

texts: How can I restore my past purchases if I wish to change my Apple ID?


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I have been able to find an answer to why this is happening or how to remedy it.

[Red circles are from the Get Info window, the blue circle is from within a Finder window, and the green circle is from the Storage Management window inside of System Information.]


texts: OSX Sierra hangs when accessing Printers

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there is a situation that I can't resolve. It is related to the "Printer & Scanner" service on the Sierra. When I upgraded to it any app which tries to resolve the printer list crashes, including the System Preferences.

I've already tried copying the default settings file:

sudo cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.old

sudo cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.default /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

That didn't help.. So in a nutshell, I can't use the printing on my laptop, including 'export to pdf' on Chrome.
Do you know what might be happening here?

Thanks!


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Is there a simple tool that will convert .cr2 files (Canon RAW) to .jpg?

I know Preview does it well but I'm looking for something directly accessible from the contextual menu.


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Is there a reason why ALT+8 / ALT+9 does not produce [ and ] in iTerm2 ?

I'm running with defaults and a .bashrc/.bash_profile that produces the correct result in Terminal.app.


texts: Edit / Amended a previously annotated image in preview.

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I really like the annotation tool in preview, but when i annotate a jpg or png image and save it all the annotations get flattened into the image and cant be amended.

Im aware that if you annotate a PDF it lets you save the PDF then come back to it and amend, but is it possible to annotate a jpg or png and then save it as a file format that will allow it to be amended ?

Currently if you take a jpeg on png and export as a pdf it will basically print as a pdf so it again flattens the image.

Exporting it as a pdf first then annotating it would work, but that requires users to remember to do that first as if they dont they have to start again from scratch.


texts: How do I clone a hard disk excluding some directories?

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In preparation for Lion, I want to make a bootable clone of my system to an external harddisk. I use TimeMachine, but I want to be sure I have a running backup.

Of course, there is much stuff on my system which doesn't need to be secured. This includes ~/Library/Caches and especially the installation of the developer tools (/Developer). To save space, I don't want to clone these.

Which tool can I use to do that? I have always cloned my harddisks with Disk Utility, but you obviously can't exclude directories with it.


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I can't update a particular app (CSR Racing) -- when I go to the "Updates" part of the app store or to the app itself and tap "update", it will go to the progress bar thing (circle with square in middle) for a split second, then go back to showing "update".  Now it's just sitting there with the progress bar not doing anything.  Help meh!

I already restarted the iPhone and tried to reset the App Store (as proposed by @csstudent in one of the answers), it still won't let me update it.


texts: Is there an app to host vpn connection? (mac)

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I tried sharing my VPN connection using mac preferences but it didn't work, it only shares the internet connection without the VPN even if I selected the VPN.
Is there an app or another method to host my VPN connection in mac?


texts: Hotkeys being captured in save menu in GIMP?

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I just installed GIMP (from the dmg on the GIMP website) on my new MacBook Pro running Mavericks. Unfortunately, when I went to go export/save an image, the keys that are hotkeys in GIMP (e.g. 1 is 100% zoom) are captured as hotkeys while typing in the name to save the file. Captured in that they both are not typed in the save name input and it messes with what is being done in the GIMP project.

Anyone know what the cause might be or how I might fix it?


texts: Unable to boot into recovery mode on El Capitan MacBook Air

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I want to disable System Integrity Protection, So i am trying to run this command csrutil disable On recovery mode, But i am not able to boot in Recovery mode, It keep showing user login screen, I tried to Hold this Command+R combination as well as Command+E+R till The Apple logo shows, But no luck.

This the output of diskutil list command


texts: My MBP won’t start up and I can’t recover it using Time Machine

texts: This morning I wanted to restart my MacBook, and while it was loading, all of a sudden it got shut down. I think that it was downloading updates and couldn't install those because there was not enough space. I tried reinstalling macOS but due to a memory shortage, this also didn’t work. When I try to use Time Machine it also didn't help. I have searched my issues on the internet multiple times already, but I don’t know what to do. I have tried CTRL + S option also but it also didn’t work.


texts: How to circumvent a forgotten encrypted iPhone local backup password?

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I forgot my Encrypt Local Backup password for iPhone4S.

I tried to transfer contacts, photos, etc. to my new iPhone5 through iTunes with operation "restore from backup" but it always asks for a password that I can't remember.

How I can transfer contacts, photos, etc. to my new iPhone5, or do I have to enter all contacts manually?


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I had thousands of important photos, screen shots, etc. deleted by my wife.

Please let me know what I can do to restore/get them back.  Or, are they gone forever?


texts: How reliable and trustworthy are the Objective-See Security tools (KnockKnock (UI), Dynamic Hijack Scanner and BlockBlock)?

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DHS found an issue
Is this a false positive? Anybody else with the same message?
I installed BlockBlock. What do you think about it? Do you trust those Security tools?

BlockBlock (beta)
BlockBlock provides continual protection by monitoring persistence locations. Any new persistent component will trigger a BlockBlock alert, allowing malicious items be blocked.

URL: Free OS X Security Tools


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I have a 2016 15" macbook pro with a 256gb ssd. Only 122gb are used by MacOS. How do I get MacOS to use the entire drive? I believe this happened because of a botched bootcamp uninstall. Disk utility shows the following:

Here's the output from diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         122.0 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +122.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            104.0 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 44.7 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                510.4 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4

Thanks!


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I got a Mac with Catalina 10.15.6
When I access Network (Rede in image) in Finder, it show me a strange network, if I disconnect WiFi and connect again its show me a another network name...
Until then it only showed me not more one in same time.
I've seen 2 networks at the same time:

_dns-llq._udp.identrust.com
isrg.trustid.ocsp.identrust.com

Example of network names that appear:

isrg.trustid.ocsp.identrust.com
fzlecimhhcab
ltrkufb
gswjiugohfxkahw
xctjqgqhakhx
jjtizuktaatwpc
ckxyfhmtddi
_dns-llq._udp.identrust.com
vrqacxveocpcgaj
xzgdecneswqfi
zggsetbbq
peepwxbqlb
zveumgjmzy
local.avg.com
lehoafria

and anothers names...
I stay in same Network Wifi Internet.
What is this?


texts: iMac 27'' late 2009 with GPU problems gets fixed by reinstalling Mac OS, what can be really happening?

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A familiar has given me an iMac 27'' late 2009 because it supposedly got it's GPU broken. When it was given to me, after booting Mac OS X, it got almost frozen only being able to move the mouse in certain moments, but not responding to clicks or anything. In addition the screen was showing this weird lines.

As OS X was not operational I installed Debian because I thought that if it was the GPU failing, Debian could run without using the GPU. So indeed, Debian worked fine. To completely test that the GPU was broken I installed the GPU drivers in Debian and obviously the system got frozen and malfunctioning.

At that point I was sure that the GPU was broken so I decided to use the iMac a screen, so I tried to reinstall Mac OS (to be able to put it as a second screen for my laptop) and I had the surprise that the system was working perfectly. I have been using it for a week since then and I have not had any issue.

It can play videos at full HD, I can League of Legends at full specs and the iMac keeps working without problems. So after being sure that it had GPU problems I'm a little bit confused.

What can be the problem that it had if it was not GPU problems?

PD: Sorry for the level of English, I'm not native and I'm still learning.