texts: iPhone vibrates on every Viber text message received

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Even when my viber application is open on a specific discussion, it continues to vibrate on every received message part of the current discussion.

How can I turn off this very annoying feature for Viber discussions ?

or, if not possible,

How can I turn off the whole Viber notifications vibration ?

I currently use an iPhone 5


texts: Native VPN Client not Connecting with IKEv2

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I'm trying to connect to an IKEv2-based VPN using the native client in OS X High Sierra (10.13), but am seeing on both the client (Mac) and the server (Linux) that no packets are being sent between the Mac and the VPN host at all.

Console shows this message during the connection attempt:

-[NESMPluginRegistry copyAppIn:266  Failed to find the VPN app for plugin type com.apple.neplugin.IKEv2

Googling for this error only yields results like this one which shows packets being exchanged, whereas in this case they are not.

Steps to Reproduce:

Open Settings -> Network
Create new VPN via "+"
Set type to IKEv2
Input Server Address and Remote ID
Select any settings in Authentication Settings (it does not matter)
Inspect packets bound for VPN gateway:

sudo tcpdump -nvv dst vpn.example.com

Connect VPN
Observe that the output of tcpdump is empty
Now leave tcpdump running and create a similar VPN except with one of the alternative VPN types (L2TP over IPSec or Cisco IPSec)
Observe that tcpdump shows outbound packets when the non-IKEv2 VPN is attempting to connect


texts: Move an app to applications when it's installed itself elsewhere

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I installed SmartGit on my iMac, and it put itself in the Eric's iMac folder, adjacent to Macintosh HD.

When I open the SmartGit 18.1.2 folder, it has the following contents:

It would be nice if I could have SmartGit in the applications folder. What's a good way of doing this without screwing up the operation of the application? I could just dry moving/copying the .app file to the applications folder...

If it's easiest just to leave it there, I really don't mind.


texts: OpenPGP encryption of mails in Mountain Lion

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I've been trying to find out any way to OpenPGP encrypt mails while sending from Apple Mail or any other email app in Mountain Lion.

GPGTools' GPGMail is not yet ready for Mountain Lion.

MailMate application depends on gpg2 command & GPGTool's GPGKeyChain Access but when I tried by installing the required softwares, MailMate gave me some error when I tried to send. It seems the feature is not yet stable.

Am I missing anything else ?


texts: Are there any guidelines by Apple on what content apple TV app should have

texts: We are in the process of developing app for Apple TV, are there any guidelines that app should be either a video playing or gaming app, can I submit app with just readonly content like an iOS app and still it will be get approved by apple?


texts: Can the 2011 Mac Mini support 3 displays with DP 1.2 chaining?

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Dell u2713H monitor supports Daisy Chaining. as one of the first monitors I've seen that uses DP 1.2 protocol. In essence, I'm asking if thunderbolt supports / enables / works with DP chaining, but the practical question is more obvious.

Can I connect 3 of those monitors to my 2011 Intel HD Mac Mini via it's one Thunderbolt port?


texts: problems resulting from launchd script running when computer is sleeping

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I have a Bash script that copies a specified set of files/directories to a remote server via rsync. It is run by launchd as a Global Daemon every day at 3am. The computer is sleeping most of the time at 3am, but my understanding is that in those cases, the script will run as soon as the computer wakes.

It seems that the script is in fact running at 3am. The problem is (as far as i can tell) that the network is not active at that time, which causes the rsync command to choke. Here's the output:

***********************************************
*** BackupDaemon Running
*** 03-30-2020
*** 03:03:09 AM
***********************************************

==> stderr.log <==
ssh: Could not resolve hostname dave0112.com: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-52/rsync/io.c(453) [sender=2.6.9]

the hostname referenced is the remote server and is available 24/7

and here's my plist file in case it helps:

<?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>Disabled</key>
    <false/>
    <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
    <dict>
        <key>HOME</key>
        <string>/Volumes/Norman Data/daveh0</string>
    </dict>
    <key>GroupName</key>
    <string>staff</string>
    <key>InitGroups</key>
    <false/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>LaunchdTest</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/Volumes/Norman Data/daveh0/Scripts/backup/backup</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/bin/launchctl</string>
        <string>setenv</string>
        <string>HOME</string>
        <string>/Volumes/Norman Data/daveh0</string>
    </array>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/Volumes/Norman Data/daveh0/Scripts/backup/stderr.log</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/Volumes/Norman Data/daveh0/Scripts/backup/stdout.log</string>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <dict>
        <key>Hour</key>
        <integer>3</integer>
        <key>Minute</key>
        <integer>0</integer>
    </dict>
    <key>UserName</key>
    <string>daveh0</string>
</dict>
</plist>

The script runs fine if I run it manually from LaunchControl any time the computer is awake. Am I off with my belief that the script should wait until the computer is awake to run or is it something entirely different that I'm missing?


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I updated to Sierra and my Xcode server has stopped working. I'm trying to set Xcode 8.2.1 (8C1002) as the build version and all I get is

  This version of Xcode is not supported

I'm working on Swift 2.3 and can't yet update to Xcode 8.3.

At the moment it looks like my option is to downgrade to El Capitan.

Is there any other way to get Xcode 8.2.1 working on Sierra Server?


texts: Someone repeatedly answers Facetime from another device when I am called

texts: There are no other devices but my iPhone on my account. I have changed my Apple ID password multiple times and it continues to happen. Same person every time. What do I do?


texts: MacBook Pro HDD in Gparted - Main partition "unknown"

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I've been given a defective MacBook Pro, seems to be a model from around 2011 - still has a DVD-Drive and a normal HDD.

The MacBook had water spilled over it; so I disassemed it and took the HDD out to connect it (via SATA) to a normal PC. I booted into PartedMagic (with the ultimate Boot CD) and tried to see what's on the HDD.
I can see three partitions:
1: 200MiB fat32; labeled "EFI"
2: 465GiB "unknown", labeled "Customer"
3: 620MiB hfs+ Recocery_HD

As far as my understanding goes, the user partition should be hfs+ also; when I try to manually mount it (mount -t hfs plus /dev/......) I get an error that it's not possible (wrong filesystem etc).

Has this to do with some kind of encryption?
Is there a way to get the data from the (obviously working) HDD without using another Mac?

Thank you very much in advance.

Regards,
Lars


texts: print at the command line, how can I print landscape

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Just using lp filename.txt and it's going to my local printer

How can I do something like lp filename.txt -format=landscape or lpl filename.txt


texts: Logic forgets my controller assignments when I disconnect the MIDI interface

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I have a Roland A-800PRO-R MIDI keyboard that I connect to my MacBook over USB.

I can use Logic's controller assignments tool to assign effects such as volume, reverb, or EQ to the physical knobs and faders on my keyboard. But if I disconnect the keyboard and plug it back in, Logic ignores the assignments listed on the screen and instead creates a new A-800PRO-R profile with non-customized assignments.

Has anyone else encountered this, and is there a way to force Logic to remember my device?


texts:
I have an Early 2011 Macbook Pro (13", basic spec) which since I got it (I only just stopped to think about it) has had a massive amount of sleep battery drain.

When the laptop is on and in-use, its battery lasts pretty much as I'd expect (5-7 hours) but if I put it to sleep (no apps running in foreground, RescueTime, Dropbox, Delibar and Droplr in background) it'll flatten its battery from 100% in about 24 hours.

The background apps are exactly the same as the ones running on my 2010 pro, the machines are all but identically setup, but that one in any 24-hour off period gets through about 4% of its battery. Both machines also have FileVault enabled and are running the same build of Lion.

Is there anything I can do to test the cause of this, or should I take it to a genius to inspect?


texts: How to "star" messages or mark them as important in iPad mail app?

texts: I would like to mark messages as "important" in the iPad mail app via my gmail account. The app can move messages to a new folder, so I can put them in Gmail's "starred" folder, but that moves it out of the current label. How can I "star" messages on the iPads email app?


texts: iPad 3 - when I click on the email icon, it quickly pulls up the email but then it disappears!

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I click on the email icon as usual, but it just quickly pulls up the email and then disappears.

What's going on?


texts:
I have a Vertex Plus r2 OCZ SSD drive in my Macbook Pro 2010,

It's been going well and it only cost me like 80gbp.

I noticed recently (not that I run tests regularly) that the performance has dropped by nearly 50%

200Mbps read -> 90,      160 write -> 80

There is so much misinfo on SSD's out there it drives me mental, I don't have the 'trim enabler' hack installed because I read that the SSD drive had it's own built in hardware regeneration/ware leveling/trim type thing going on.

My question: how can I get performance back to what it was like when I bought it (6 months ago).

I was thinking:

A) Enable trim?
B) do a complete format and reinstall?
C) Leave the computer on and idle and hope it does it's hardware trim thing or whatever?

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
John


texts: The iPhone could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (9)

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This is an issue that occurred to my iPhone.

What is the recommended general fix for this?


texts: How many devices can be associated with an Apple ID for Find my iPhone?

texts: We're in a process right now to register 100+ company-issued iPhones. Right now the process of creating an Apple ID for each iPhone to be used for Find my iPhone is very time consuming, so my manager is assuming we can use just one account to manage it all. He wants to know if this is possible, or how many iPhones can be registered with Find my iPhone using only one account.


texts: USB disk doesn't show up in macOS Sierra, but it does in Recovery Mode

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I've got a 2TB Toshiba USB drive which I have been using for my Time Machine backups. Since a few days this disk no longer shows up when I connect it. Already tried completely shutting everything down and rebooting, no difference.

When running Disk Utility, it's not there.
When running diskutil list, it's not there.
I can't mount it (there's no volume or anything to mount).
I tried both USB ports, with the same cable I always use (it has always worked fine on both USB ports before).
When looking in System Information, either in the Store or USB section, it's not there.
I have reset the NVRAM (previously PRAM) as well as the SMC.
I checked if fsck might be running while it's seemingly busy, but that's not the case. I also checked if VirtualBox was trying to filter the USB drive, also not the case (actually, VirtualBox is not running at all).(I found these two suggestions in a similar question)
It's not an NTFS drive.

However, when I reboot into Recovery Mode and look in the Disk Utility there, it does show up!

Also, when I connect the USB drive in OS X, it starts buzzing and spinning i.e. making the usual sounds as if it's working normally. Goes on like that for about half a minute and then stops.

Any advice? I'm convinced that 'something' was changed to my system configuration that's causing the drive not to show up, but I can't seem to find out what.

Would it be wise or safe to start in Recovery Mode again, and do a First Aid / Disk Repair from there? (I would really prefer if the data on this drive doesn't get messed up)


texts: What are the practical differences between Bash and Zsh?

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With the news that Catalina will default to Zsh instead of Bash, I'm finding lots of results telling me about the switch, and that it may cause problems with shell scripts, but I'm not familiar enough with Zsh to know what those problems might be.

My shell scripts are really not that complicated, but I've only ever used Bash on macOS and Linux - zero experience with Zsh. Can anyone provide a simple practical comparison, or specific stumbling blocks I will need to know, so that I can start working towards being ready for the new shell when Catalina is released?


texts: How do I open MS Word and MS Excel documents with Google Docs as default?

texts: Is it possible to use Google Docs as the default document viewer for MS Word and Excel files?


texts: Apple TV stops playing the video from movies at 10 minutes

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My 2nd gen Apple TV pretty consistently freezes the video but not the audio of purchased content (movies or TV shows Edit from iTunes-see comment below) at exactly 10 minutes in.  It doesn't happen 100% of the time, but it does probably 75% or more.  My work around is to hit the menu button to exit the movie and then play it again resuming where I left off.  Usually it'll only happen once, but rarely it will continue to freeze at random or at 10  minute intervals.  I have fast internet and a good WiFi connection.  This has been happening consistently for over a year.  Has anyone seen this problem?  Any idea how to fix it?

Update: My old TV (2008 Samsung) died so I replaced it with a 2015 Sony which unfortunately didn't solve the problem.  Nobody else seems to have this problem, so I'm pretty sure that my Apple TV is slightly broken.  I'll probably just replace it when Apple releases a new model (hopefully next month).


texts: Can You Turn Off Swipe Gestures On iPad 2?

texts: I want to turn off the multitouch gestures on my iPad 2 running iOS 5. They make it very difficult to use around my child who is constantly switching apps on me or bringing up the notification bar.


texts: Is there an easy way to save a contact for a phone number in the text of an SMS (iphone 4s IOS7)

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I want to use the number that's in the body of the message, NOT the senders's number.

IOS clearly recognises this as a phone number as it highlights it and gives me the option to dial it, but nothing else. Best I've come up with so far is to dial it, hang up quickly then add the contact from the recent calls list. Is there a graceful solution I'm missing, this sort of thing used to be so easy on an old dumb phone.


texts: MacBook Air Early 2015 MAC OS Recovery loop

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the SSD on my MBA, has crashed ("?" Folder icon) so I got a new ssd called the transcend 850, and installed it in my 13 inch MBA Early 2015, tried Mojave and High Sierra USB installer, reformatted the ssd to be on MAC OS Extended Journaled in Disk Utility and after several minutes of load bar that never complete, it goes back to MacOS recovery mode again..

I tried formatting to AFPS, It states in High Sierra that only Mac OS Extended Journaled needs to be formatted to install High Sierra, whereas when installing Mojave, it prompts that firmware update is needed to install AFPS.

Please help..


texts: PWA application using angular 4 is not rendering properly on Safari

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We had developed a PWA application using angular 4, website url: https://www.peepingpeacock.com which is working fine on Google chrome.

but this Progressive web application do not render properly in Safari(Both Mac laptop and Mobile IOS browsers) and noticed it hangs the Safari browser and even very hard to open Web inspector.
How we see on  Chrome browser of Mac:

How we see in Safari of Mac:

Any thoughts on this issue is highly appreciated.


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I have multiple machines with iTunes installed (mac and pc) and a Windows server with a file share hosting my music. I would like :

All machines to use one data repository but still have the metadata synced (play count, rating etc...).
All machines reflect changes when I buy a song on one machine or delete a song on one machine. (no broken references or missing entries)
The music repository to always be running (my Windows server always is).

Currently I have my machines pointed to a UNC path (\\server\music) which works to share a repository but iTunes Music Library.xml is stored on each machine and it gets out of sync. Update iTunes Library.itl may be the real library, and the XML is just a backup.

Are there any iTunes server apps out there that will do this? What about iTunes home sharing...? Someone wrote an app called iTunes library updater which I used to use to sync my libraries but its not being updated anymore.

EDIT - I should note, I also use iCloud and iTunes match.


texts: I want to disable the "space+shift" thing in Sublime Text, it creates something that looks exactly like a space unless marked, and it messes upp all my scripts because I always accidentally type it. I was not able to find anything like "space+shift" or "shift+space" inside the sublime-keymap.


texts:
I'm trying to open Finder, but every time I try I get this error message:

I've tried restarting my Macbook Pro as well as doing a "Relaunch" from "Force Quit Applications":

However, nothing happens when I try to force-quit the application, so I'm 'stuck' with a non-responsive Finder. How can I fix this?


texts: How can I get an NTFS partition to mount in macOS Mojave?

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I have a external HDD with four different partitions on it. 3 out of 4 of them work flawlessly. Two partitions are running the macOS Extended filesystem, one is running good old fat32, with the last one being NTFS. I don't particularly need it mounted in macOS as it contains a bootable copy of Windows 10, or at least it used to.
I figure if I can mount the partition again and repair it or at least make a backup of it, I can get it working as a bootable partition once more. Here's the kicker, I can pull the partition up if I mount the drive in Windows 10 using a virtual machine. So why won't macOS recognize it?


texts: Thunderbolt 3 dock won't output to external display

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I have a 15" MBP 2019 model.  I also have a StarTech Thunderbolt 3 dock with 2 Displayport outputs.  I went out today and bought a cheap Philips 27" display (M7273VQ1L) to use when working from home.  Supports DVI, HDMI and VGA inputs.  I have it connected with a StarTech DisplayPort<->DVI cable.   OSX doesn't detect any display being connected via this configuration.  The monitor supports VGA,DVI & HDMI.  I figured that since DisplayPort is supposed to be legacy compatible with DVI it would be able to auto-configure the resolution via this adapter cable.  Am I missing something?
Would a better solution to use a DisplayPort->HDMI adapter and use that port on the monitor?


texts: I just updated to ios 8.3 on an iPhone5S. I notice that since the upgrade I no longer see the minimum and maximum number of steps or distance i have walked in the health app. It only shows an upper and lower line, not an exact number. It still reads the average over the period but i want my minimum and maximum back. Any ideas on how to do this?


texts: Help running what seems to be a directory in Terminal?

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I'm trying to export my Skype chat history with this: https://github.com/Temptin/SkypeExport

After I'm in the downloads directory in Terminal, typing in (with my skype username substituted in)

./SkypeExport --db ~/Library/Application\ Support/Skype/your_username/main.db

results in

-bash: ./SkypeExport: No such file or directory

I thought this was because my main.db file wasn't in Home/Library/Applications etc, so I pasted in the path. Typing in

./SkypeExport --db ~/Users/myaccount/Library/Application Support/Skype/your_username/main.db

also results in no such file or directory

What am I doing wrong? Any responses are appreciated!


texts: Why does iTunes re-open after I quit the app?

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Whenever I quit iTunes, it restarts itself. I have iTunes 10.1.12 (the newest one) installed on my Mac.  I don't remember exactly when it started—with either version 10 or 10.1.

Is there any solution to this?

ADDED

It was caused by the GimmeSomeTune, after reinstalling it, everything seems to working fine.


texts: Does a force restart in iOS do anything different from a normal restart?

texts:
I'm presenting a talk on troubleshooting OS X and iOS for a Mac user group next month, and I was surprised to hear that several members thought a "hard reset" or force restart of an iPhone or iPad is a useful troubleshooting procedure. They suggested that it does some sort of clearing of caches or resetting of [insert hand waving here] which is different from simply shutting the device off and turning it back on.

I've searched pretty deeply across Apple's support site, the Apple discussion forums, the popular Apple news websites, and sites offering Apple tech tips and I haven't found any corroboration.

To clarify the answer I'm seeking, I'm particularly looking for firsthand knowledge (i.e. "Apple told me a force restart does foo") or a published reference that confirms one way or the other.


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I had trouble getting sound in my Bose QC35 ii headphones connected by Bluetooth to my Macbook Pro 2015 running Mojave 10.14.6. After today, I don't get any sound at all.

The only way I get them to output any sound is to open System Preferences > Audio > Input and select the Bose as input. Then it plays, but it's noisy and sounds really bad. As soon I switch to another tab or close the window, after some seconds the audio output stops. The Bose is definitely selected as audio output device.

Internal sound and speakers connected to the line out are working fine.

What I have tried so far:

update the firmware on the phones
reset the headphones (following the Bose web page: switch off, wait, charge by USB, wait, switch on again)
deinstall all unused audio drivers (Apowersoft device) and restart.
disconnect all bluetooth devices and pair them again.
SMC reset
PRAM reset
ALT-SHIFT click the Bluetooth symbol in the status bar DEBUG -> Reset Bluetooth Module & Remove all Devices and pair them again
switch off BT and delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist* & ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.Bluetooth* files and reboot
disconnect external Display Port monitor to get rid of the audio device.

Everything to no avail. I am really out of ideas and my google foo ends here.

The headphones are connected to my Windows 10 PC as well.


texts: Why is my iPhone 5S battery draining overnight and very quickly?

texts:
A few days ago I was charging my phone in my car and it stopped charging, and I noticed that the cord had a little hole and smoke was coming out of there. I was buying some food from a local shop, and the guy working there knew me and said he had tons of cords, so he gave me one that he had at the store. After I started using this one, my battery has been going crazy. If I charge it to full power, I would wake up and find it under 10%. And if I charge it and use it during the day, it would drain very quickly. I thought the problem was because of the cord he gave me so I went to Best Buy to buy an Apple one and the guy there said that that was a long shot, and it's probably something else. I did use my uncle's iPad cord and the same problem is still there. I have no clue what happened. This battery thing literally happened overnight, it wasn't gradual and it's never been this bad. Can anyone help?
P.S. I have iOS 8.1.2 (not the latest one due to lacking storage)


texts: Can't use VSCode integrated terminal while on Team Viewer

texts:
My development team recently rented a Mac machine through MacInCloud.
I've prepared my development environment in this machine, but it seems like Visual Studio Code does not register certain keystrokes correctly like ENTER and BACKSPACE from my local machine (I'm using linux). Ex. When I open the terminal and I enter BACKSPACE for deleting a character an 'a' in inserted, the same goes for the ENTER key.

Is there a hidden setting in team viewer for fixing this behavior or a general way to bedbug keyboard mapping or shortcut functions when they fail to work as expected?


texts: So I turned on Web Sharing on my mac and put a basic HTML file in the folder for it, but I want to know how to make it accessible from any computer. How would I do that?


texts: How to get Boot Camp Audio Drivers for Windows 10 on High Sierra?

texts: How do I get Boot Camp Audio Drivers iMac(10.13.4) in Win10, they did not install. Everything else works in Windows.


texts: How to access external DNS on iOS when it is blocked

texts:
I need to access critical external website from an iPad which is blocked in our local network for unknown reason I yet to find out (not a porn, seriously!).

IP of that resource is still accessible but DHCP assigned DNS doesn't return proper IP. It is fairly trivial on a computer where you can edit HOSTS file. As this is not possible on iPad I tried to replace DNS with public Google DNS. To my surprise outgoing DNS requests are also blocked.

Is there any way to "emulate" HOSTS file functionality on iPad where IP is resolved locally without outgoing DNS request? Perhaps some browsers can do that?

P.S. Using proxy or running local DNS is not an option.


texts: is there a way to list all the aliases that point to a file or folder?

texts:
I have a folder that I know I've made aliases of, but I need to find where those are.

Is there a way to list all the aliases that point to this folder?


texts: Macbook Pro with Bootcamp and shared partition?

texts:
I just got a Macbook and want to install Bootcamp to have access to some Windows only VST plugins. I want to use both platforms to continue making music. As I have tons of GB of audio project files I thought that I could setup Windows via Bootcamp but also create a separate partition for those files. That way I would avoid having the audio files duplicated and redundant.

Now my questions are:

1) Is it possible to make this happen? One exFat for shared files, one regular mac parition and one NTFS for windows (its been a while when I was dealing with partitioning, and that was back on pure windows times)

2) If 1) is possible, how should I proceed. First bootcamp? First the exFat partition? And how do I do a pure data exfat partition on mac


texts: I created an aliases for a binary file (which runs in terminal) and want to put the aliases (shortcut) to dock. However, I can't drag&drop it to the dock. Is there a way to put the aliases to the dock?


texts: Open text file in Numbers when it is space delimited, but some fields are strings in quotes with spaces

texts:
I have a log file I'd like to open in Numbers to make sifting through it a lot easier.  The problem is that the format isn't CSV.  Each line has about a dozen fields, and the fields themselves are separated by spaces.  However, some of those fields are strings, which contain space, so I can't just do a find replace for spaces and put the comma in.  One field, the date, is actually formatted like this: [06/Feb/2018:03:27:37 +0000].  This appears to be the only spot where []s are used, so I could find/replace those with "s, but I'm still having trouble importing the document.  It places every row in a single column.

So, to summarize, my goal is to take an input file and break up each row so that the space is the delimiter, but it ignores spaces within quotes.


texts: Claiming an app title for your iTunes Connects account

texts: I'm setting up my iTunes Connect account and chose an app title etc.  Since I haven't released/published the app to iOS yet, can someone else set up an iTunes Connect app with the same app title and publish it? Or, once you add the app to your iTunes Connect account, do you reserve that title of the app until submission?


texts:
I am a prolific Garageband user, therefore I have lots of my own songs in my iTunes collection, which obviously will not be available via Apple's music library...

I am currently paying for iTunes Match and Apple Music. If I were to quit using Match, would I still get my own songs via upload to the cloud or whatever, or would I only be able to access Apple's music? I'd die if I couldn't stream my garageband projects to all my devices.


texts: system wide proxy only for certain domains

texts:
My Mac is running Catalina.  I have an ssh tunnel running on localhost:1234.  I would like to proxy all traffic to domain.com through localhost:1234.  How can I set up a system-wide proxy to make sure traffic to domain.com is proxied through localhost:1234?  Is this possible to do through nginx, murus (ipfw), or mitmproxy, or some other way?  For bonus points, is it possible to set a DNS resolver other than the system default for only this domain (not hard code the name in private/etc/hosts)?
Thanks


texts:
Something weird is happening with iMessage on my Mac. I can send and receive messages fine but when I close iMessage and reopen it, all my messages disappear. Also, if the app is closed and I get a message, I get a notification but when I open the app it's not there.

The conversations are all there but they are empty.

What I've tried so far:

Signed out of my account, closed iMessage and restarted the computer.
Deleted all plists related to iMessage in ~/Library/Preferences
Delete ~/Library/IdentityServices

What else should I try?


texts: Wake on demand not working with Apple TV 3 & iMac Mountain Lion

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I have an iMac (mid 2008) with Mountain Lion. I recently bought an Apple TV 3 and read that this can enable Wake on Demand via Bonjour sleep Proxy. I've followed the guide at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3774 however I can't seem to get it to wake.

System Information > Wifi = Wake on Wireless supported
Energy saver > wake for network access = on
Network > set service order = Wifi first
Apple TV plugged in, sleeping
When iMac is on it appears on network as normal

I'm trying to wake it via a 2013 Macbook Air - the commands I want to use are Connect to server & SSH. I've tried using an Airport express for the Wifi network instead of the usual generic wifi router supplied by telco but this doesn't help and shouldn't be necessary due to the Apple TV AFAIK?

I can't do AirPlay mirroring from the iMac to the ATV because the Mid 2008 iMac is not supported but this shouldn't affect things either.

Ideally I want to have the iMac plugged into generic router via ethernet (to get fastest dl speed) and not have to use the Airport express (because router already provides wifi).

Am I right in understanding that this has nothing to do with the router, ie if I turned it off, the Macbook Air, iMac and Apple TV all communicate wirelessly between themselves?


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I used to have the U2, Songs of Innocence album on my phone, that was a free download from Apple in 2014. (This was slightly controversial at the time.)

I can't see it on my iPhone X, running 13.3 in Apple Music App under music or purchases. Nor can I see it in the iTunes app under downloads or purchases on my phone.

The instructions on Apple's website, from the linked help page, indicate that having Apple Music enabled is a pre-requisite for downloading it. I don't have Apple Music enabled.

This came out prior to Apple Music. I don't understand why it would be associated with it.

In addition, I can see the Songs of Innocence Album on my phone using iMazing under Music, looking as if it needs to be downloaded from the Cloud.

My question is: Can I re-download the Songs of Innocence download I once had without an Apple Music subscription?


texts: How can I connect 2 Yosemite Macs (iMac Retina to MacBook Pro) via Thunderbolt for bi-directional file sharing?  I've tried this connection and the computers are not visible to one another.


texts: iPhone 3g with IOS 4.2.1 cycles wifi, cannot connect

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I'm trying to fix the WiFi on my friends iPhone 3g. It sees all the networks, but I only get "Unable to join network " when I try to connect. So I jailbroke it ;) and installed WiFiFoFum just to see if I could get some more details. And it seems like the phone cycles the wifi drivers or something.

When WiFiFoFum scans the networks, they show up in a list. It does this once every ~3 seconds (it shows a loader when it does). But every 3 or 4 scans, all networks disappear, stay away for about 3 or 4 scans, then pop in again.

Of cource this could be a flaw with WiFiFoFum, but it's very coincidental in that case...

Any suggestions? I'm planning on going in with SSH to see if I can figure out closer what is happening. Should I look for anything special?

EDIT:

Some more info.. I have tried unsecured, wep, wpa and wpa2 protected networks, no difference.


texts: How can I find dictation commands in French?

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Apple has a list of dictation commands online here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6482 and here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6481.

Does anyone know where I can find the French versions?


texts: Allow mouse to cross displays that are not touching in Arrangement

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I have the following display arrangement:

The reason there is a gap between the top 2 displays is so that my mouse cursor lines up correctly (or as close as possible) when going from the top<->bottom displays. Unfortunately, with this gap, this does not allow me to move the cursor between the top 2 displays. If I move the displays so they are touching, then it works fine, but my mouse cursor is then off when moving vertically.
Is there a way to keep the displays spaced, but allow the cursor to cross between?


texts: My SD card doesn't fit into my MacBook Air, but it fits into my MacBook Pro!

texts: My camera's SD Card can't fit into my MacBook Air's SD Card Slot. I can only push the SD Card into the slot halfway, but then ONE CORNER can't go in any further. The left corner of the card can still be pushed in, but the right corner is somehow blocked inside the slot. I'm pretty sure that's not how it's supposed to work, since SD Cards don't go in diagnally. Does my SD Card not meet Apple's size requirements?


texts: Restore iPod Touch without passcode or power button

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How could I reset my 4th gen iPod Touch just using my computer and a cable? My power button doesn't work and I have the white screen of death. The only way to reset the device I've seen is to hold the power and home button and then use restore on iTunes, but I can't do that for obvious reasons.

Are there any fixes for this?


texts: How do I transfer pictures from iPhoto to iCloud Drive?

texts: I have 17000 pictures in my iPhoto library. How do I transfer them to iCloud Drive?


texts: Git clone fails with "fatal: multiple updates for ref 'refs/tags/v1.0.0' not allowed" on MacOS Mojave

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I did a lot of operations on my computer last night, basically updating/upgrading(?) brew, which installed a new git version, updated python, lots of stuff and today I figured I couldn't clone a repository anymore.

git clone git@github.com:UnlyEd/serverless-plugin-dynamodb-backups.git
Cloning into 'serverless-plugin-dynamodb-backups'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 589, done.
remote: Total 589 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 589
Receiving objects: 100% (589/589), 304.18 KiB | 862.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (333/333), done.
fatal: multiple updates for ref 'refs/tags/v1.0.0' not allowed

I tried different repo, I get the same error every time, so it's my installation that is broken somehow.

I tried uninstalling/reinstalling git (with brew) but it didn't change anything.

I checked other git commands and I'm still able to pull/commit

I'm using git 2.21.0

I don't really know what to do to fix it and I don't know what caused this. Also, I don't use the git clone command on a daily basis so it could have broken before, but I feel like it's related to upgrading homebrew.

Adding more details based on comments/questions:

type git
git is an alias for LANG=en_GB git

mkdir ~/gitclone && cd ~/gitclone && git clone git@github.com:UnlyEd/serverless-plugin-dynamodb-backups.git
Cloning into 'serverless-plugin-dynamodb-backups'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 589, done.
remote: Total 589 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 589
Receiving objects: 100% (589/589), 304.18 KiB | 828.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (333/333), done.
fatal: multiple updates for ref 'refs/tags/v1.0.0' not allowed


texts: Keyboard, notification, or menubar shortcut to compose mail message?

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Im looking for a quick way to bring up a compose mail message dialogue.

Either a keyboard shortcut, or even a little tool within mountain lion's new notification center would be cool.

Anyone got anything?


texts: Finder wont respond on every restart attempt

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Starting recently, every time I try to restart my laptop (MacBook Pro 15-inch, Mid 2012) everything exits fine, the menu bar disappears, but then finder won't quit.  If I open the dock and right-click it, it says 'application not responding'.  Clicking 'relaunch' doesn't seem to do anything.  The only thing that seems to work is holding down the power-button to force a shutdown, or doing Cmd+cntl+Power to force a restart*.

I tried booting in safe mode, and trying to restart there -- but I have the same problem.

Has anyone had this problem before?

OSX El Capitan 10.11.1

*This forces restart doesn't allow updates to be installed.


texts: Was it safe to install High Sierra over 10.13.1 beta?

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Back when High Sierra RC was released I thought I'd update since we have access to a developer account here at work.

I downloaded a tool from developer.apple.com to register my MacBook Pro for RC access but the application said beta, and even though I enabled "beta" access it didn't really give me the option to install RC.

So I promptly forgot about it, waiting for the full normal release instead, which then happened.

However, when I read about a recent fix to a security snafu regarding encrypted volumes and checked which version I was running I was surprised to find that my OS X had installed 10.13.1 Beta through App Store for me a couple of days back.

Having had some bad experiences with the beta versions of OS X earlier I wanted to go back to stock High Sierra.

I tried booting into recovery mode, but reinstalling from here wanted to use Beta. I tried downloading High Sierra from the app store and creating a bootable USB drive from it, but booting from it gave me the dreaded "stop sign" - https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/when-booting-from-usb-i-get-circle-with-line-through-it.1411034/ - and couldn't find a way to fix this, tried different USB pens as well.

However, something does seem to have worked. What I did was this. I found the version of High Sierra I had downloaded from the app store a little earlier and started it, asking it to install itself on my MacBook Pro, which it then did.

The machine boots back up after installation completes and now says Version 10.13, not 10.13.1.

So it seems it was successful in installing stock High Sierra.

However, I also seem to recall that the App Store update blurb with the 10.13.1 beta said I could not go back, which clearly I just did. Or did I?

So do I now have a hybrid beta/RTM version? That I really shouldn't go forward with?

Basically, now that I have tricked the recovery partition to be RTM instead of Beta should I do a fresh reinstall just to be sure?


texts:
How do I merge disk0s2 and disk0s4

I followed this thread and at step 3 I get the following error

Error: -69519: The target disk is too small for this operation, or a gap
is required in your partition map which is missing or too small, which
is often caused by an attempt to grow a partition beyond the beginning
of another partition or beyond the end of partition map usable space


texts: How create an identical timestamp format as used in ppp.log file in a shell script?

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In the need to add custom logging messages to ppp.log, I see that the date and time are missing when outputting the command to >> /var/log/ppp.log. Other pppd related messages in ppp.log are prepended with a timestamp format that is similar to: "Sat Apr  9 17:18:02 2016 : ". My goal is to output this exact date time format in a Mavericks shell script
I know that other log files have different date/time timestamps. I want to re-create the format as used in ppp.log.
Regression
This Mac OS X 10.9 environment is configured with a dutch language locale. Therefore $ echo $(date '+%a') returns "za" instead of the desired "Sat". That is the part that can be fixed by export LC_TIME="C" or export LC_TIME="POSIX". I have tried to read the date and pppd man page. However then there is still the abbreviated alphabetic timezone name CEST (the %Z part in $ date +%Z) in the output "Sat Apr  9 18:12:12 CEST 2016".
I know I can create the format using all the different $ date format codes, like %a %b %e etcetera. Though I guess there is  a shorter way, isn't there?


texts: My New Internal HD is mounted as /Volumes/hdd

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I replaced my optical disk with an SSD for startup and Mountain Lion and upgraded my HDD to a larger one.

I also moved my home folder to the new disk.  But one thing is still bugging me.

My mid-2010 MBP automatically mounts the new drive as /Volumes/hdd.  Do I need /Volumes in there?  Do I have to do a symlink?

Maybe this is weird, but I'd like the new drive to behave like the startup drive but not actually be the start up drive.


texts: OSX: hard disk space different in Disk utility

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I have 2 differents 'free space' digits.
And after delete something big from disk -> free space in 'About your mac' - still unchanged.


texts: Fullscreen app unusable due to focus loss

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i am quite new to the OSX system and having some issues with ElCaptain.

Basically a fullscreen application (Android Studio in my case) loses the focus and i have to kill it via the task manager in order to get it up and working again.

To reproduce it i just have to open Android Studio. Then open the Genymotion Device manager and then the desktop switches to my main desktop (where non-fullscreen apps are placed). If i switch back to Android Studio again, the input focus is still on the Genymotion windows which is placed in the background. In this case i cannot bring the genymotion window back to foreground again and Android Studio does not accept any input anymore.

Is there any hotkey combination or other trick to get that window back again? I can see a subwindow "Genymotion*" if i "right"click on Android Studio, but its greyed out and i cannot switch to it this way.

Any tips?


texts: Tried starting in the morning after power drained, plugged in, everything came back for a few seconds then the screen went black. Can't restart. If I hold powe button down 10 sec machine emits an intermittent beep which continues until I push power button again. Any ideas on how to fix?


texts: Mount volume over a not-previously-existing folder

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mount always requires an existing folder path as destination mounting directory.

But on macOS the /Volumes folder doesn't have most od the mountpoints and they are created at plug/mount time.

What makes this possible?

I put an entry in /etc/fstab (sudo vifs) but I'd like the specified non-existing mount folder to be created at mount, and be removed after the umount; the same way it usually happens with all the automatically mounted volumes on macOS.


texts: If I authenticate a second iTunes can they browse and watch movies I've bought?

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I would like to authenticate my sibling's iTunes on his mac so he can watch movies I've bought. I know if I authenticate his iTunes I can copy a file over that I've bought and he'll be able to watch but I want to know if he can just browse my my collection from the cloud and watch what he likes.

Update:

I do have an iTunes account, all my movies/TV shows are in the cloud. I do not have iTunes match as I don't have much of a music collection.

I want to know if an authenticated machine will be able to access my movies and TV shows from the cloud. That is, I do not want to have to download them all on my computer and put them on a massive (300+ movies, 80+ TV shows each with 3+ seasons)  drive and give that to my sibling.


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I have been looking into UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy, a very old network protocol) as a way of communicating with some Linux boxes that don't always have an internet connection. While doing so on my Macbook (with El Capitan), I found entries in my /usr/share/uucp/sys file for uucpsys1.apple.com and uucpsys2.apple.com. (You can also see these by running uuchk | less.)

What is Apple doing with UUCP? I found this post on the Apple forums by someone who noticed a UUCP user, but no one came forward with an explanation, so I'm hoping someone here will know.

I'm especially curious because /usr/share/* falls under System Integrity Protection in El Capitan, which means I'll need to set up a separate UUCP implementation if I want to use it for my purposes — but it also suggests that, if Apple's shipping OS X with a UUCP that only they can use, they must be using it for something.

ETA: I've also found a launchd daemon at /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.uucp.plist. It has <key>Disabled</key><true/> in the plist, so it won't be run by default, but other daemons could enable it programmatically without altering the plist. I'm also intrigued to see that it's in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ (and thus subject to SIP) rather than /Library/LaunchDaemons/ — it adds to my hunch that it's something Apple is using (or maybe was using, as patrix comments), rather than just a miscellaneous *nix tool they happened to include.


texts: Keynote 6.6 cannot open old file, says: " cannot be opened for some reason."

texts: I've found that Keynote after upgrading to 6.6 could not open some of my previously created presentations anymore. How do I revert to a previous version?


texts: Is there a way to play music from iTunes with a Terminal command? I've tried to do this with the afplay command, but the music won't play because of a locked mp4 music file.


texts: Booting an iMac using a Macbook Pro's internal disk

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Suppose I have an iMac and a Macbook Pro. My Macbook Pro is my primary workstation, and when I switch to the iMac I would like my environment to be exactly the same in order to facilitate switching between the two during the day.

I read somewhere that it's possible to make a Macbook Pro behave as a simple external disk and connect it to another device that can read it. This means it might be possible to connect the Macbook Pro to the iMac and let the iMac boot from the Macbook Pro's disk, effectively providing the same environment on both machines.

Is this sort of thing possible? Will the two devices operate well while trying to boot from the same startup disk?


texts:
On a MacBook5,2 running OSX 10.5, with only 2GB RAM, Alfred toggles very slowly, like up to 5 seconds after the keystroke.
After I've just toggled it, it will toggle again much faster, but after a while it will be slow again.
What can I do to identify and fix the problem?

IIRC it does that even with the computer just started, so it's unlikely it's already swapping, but I'm open to suggestions.


texts: How to replace Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 with Mac Mini Server (Mountain Lion)

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Our SBS2003 is basically only managing user IDs (aka Active Directory). Files shares are on a NAS and mail is to soon be on Google Apps.

Can I replace SBS2003 with a MountainLion Mac Mini Server to manage Windows XP desktop logins?


texts: How to play music from iPod in Macbook iTunes?

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I would like to play music from iPod in MacBook's iTunes with wireless (over Wi-Fi).

Please advice how to setup to get that function.


texts: Why does iTunes briefly show an empty popup window when accessing online features, only on one of my computers?

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When I choose any online part of iTunes a window pops up for a second or two, is blank apart from an indeterminate-style spinner, and goes away after a second or two.

This happens on my Mac mini (2018), but not my MBP (early-2013)
Mac mini is 3X or 4X faster than the MBP
Mac mini was a recent Migration Assistant transfer of the MBP
I have not installed any unique/new software on the MBP since
Both are on 10.14.6 Mojave

Things I have tried:

logging out and back in on iTunes
de-authorizing all computers connected to my account

Neither worked.
Any ideas about the following:

what is this window?
how to stop it appearing?


texts: Disable Ctrl-H, Ctrl-P, and other Mac keyboard shortcuts

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On GUIs with editable text focused on Mac I cannot seem to remap ctrlP and ctrlH to shortcuts I want.

In IntelliJ I am trying to map my VIM ctrl shortcuts (ctrlH next tab, ctrlP open file).  When I hit ctrlP I see that the "Navigate" tab highlights and the File... option is selected, but its function is overridden by moving up in the currently focused text edit window. The same problem is present with ctrlH and trying to switch to the previous tab.

Any thoughts?

BTW, it's the same with ctrlN and any other native text editing commands. They also do not exist in System Preferences > Keyboard anywhere.


texts: MacBook Pro 13” 2014 - Trackpad gestures not working after long sleep

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I haven’t used my MacBook for around 2 weeks, it’s been in sleep mode (closed lid).

I’ve never had any issues with my MacBook Pro, but suddenly any form of gesture other than 1 finger on the trackpad causes a temporary 2/3 second freeze. Here’s what I’ve tried:

killall Dock on the console
updated to High sierra OS
unticked all trackpad gesture options
reset the SMC
sleeping, restarting, powering off and on

I’ve had absolutely no luck, not even temporary. It’s literally the moment it senses an additional finger on the pad that it freezes.

As there were no physical or software changes between when it worked and when it didn’t, can I assume it’s something to do with the long sleep? Are there any further tips for potential solutions or has anyone experienced this specific problem?


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So I recently made a post about my Mac not recognizing USB's or Boot. here's the link : MacBook Wont Boot or Recognize USB. Anyway this is an update. So my 2009 MacBook is still not working. It doesnt show the question mark folder, rather it goes to a command like screen with text saying "missing operating system". I know now my Mac CAN recognize USB's since it recognized a USB that had Refit on it. But it just doesnt recognize my bootable USB's with a OS on it. Also when I press opt(or alt if you want to call it that) it shows a HD called "Windows" but I never installed Windows or used bootcamp ever! I still cant use cmd + r for OS Utilities or cmd + opt + r since it doesnt have internet recovery ( 2009 Macs dont support internet recovery ). If anyone could please help I would thank you a lot! I need this MacBook for future projects!
It's a MacBook 2009


texts: Voice memos - Recordings.db not updated on iOS 7.1.2

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On my freshly hard reset iPhone 4 (iOS 7.1.2), when I record a voice memo it does not show up in the Recordings.db database.

The database itself is present and well formatted but the ZRECORDING table  stays empty. The recording and playback work perfectly well though.

Tested on another iPhone 4 running the same iOS version, it works as expected (ie a new entry is created for each new voice memo with timestamp, duration and path)...

Am I missing something here or is it a bug?


texts: External Hard Drive not recognized after upgrading to El Capitan

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I have a WD My Book 4TB external hard drive that I have all of my photo/video content on.  It was working fine with Mavericks, but when I upgraded to El Capitan, the drive is no longer showing up on my computer.

When I boot into windows, I can see the device, and all of my content is still there... but when I go back to El Capitan, it doesn't show up in finder.

This is what I see when I use the diskutil commands from terminal.

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: List of iPhone voice commands? (prior to Siri / iPhone 4S)

texts: Is there a list of possible voice commands anywhere?


texts:
I am trying to write OM tags using xattr.

xattr -w com.apple.metadata:kMDItemOMUserTags tag1 a.rtf

This works fine for one tag, but how do I add two or more? I have tried various combinations of quotes, commas, \, etc. without success so far.

Help greatly appreciated.


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I am relatively new to Mac world. I've bought my first Apple computer, a MacBook Pro Retina 2013, a few weeks ago and I've tried a lot of software since then.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I have a problem with Xcode as descried in this question I posted on stack overflow. I want to try reinstalling the OS to see if the problem will disappear.

About reinstalling the OS, my biggest concert is if all my files will remain after reinstallation. So, can you reinstall OS X without having to format your hard drive?

My mac came with Mavericks.


texts: Open a file:/// url with #anchor from terminal

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I've been trying to open a file:/// url e.g.

open "file:///Users/me/index.html#my-anchor"

Or

open -a Safari "file:///Users/me/index.html#my-anchor"

Or

open -a Google\ Chrome "file:///Users/me/index.html#my-anchor"

However, the browser location after opening is:

file:///Users/me/index.html

The hash/anchor has been clobbered.  Is there some way to do this that I'm missing?

(Note: Obviously this isn't what happens with URL's on web servers)


texts: Can I access and post on the official Apple iOS developer forums without the 99dollars subscription ?


texts: Generate and view macOS system performance report

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I want to generate a system performance report for my Mac. I would like that this report have CPU, Memory, disk and network activity statistics over a time period.

Like, I start the report generation in the morning morning and turn it off on the end of the day, or choose to record for an entire week.

This way, I wish to show to my boss that most of the time, my Mac runs at almost its maximum capacity. I have real data to backup my necessity of a new one.

I am looking for an app that can let me do so. If it is possible, I would appreciate a free one, but if there are no options, a paid one would also work.


texts: Why does MacBook Pro battery discharge when not in use?

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I generally keep my 2018 MacBook Pro plugged in and I use it casually when not plugged in throughout the day.

With light email checking in Safari throughout the day, I have gone from 35% to 13% today. This includes large jumps that decrease while the computer is closed.

Because I am aware of this problem, I tried closing the lid when not in use, also Power Nap While Using Battery is disabled.

My previous computer was a 2015 MacBook Air. I used that in a similar way and was able to use it entirely untethered from power for the entire week.

How can I diagnose battery usage for the times that the computer is closed?

Related

I do also see log events from time periods when the computer should be sleeping. For example, last night the computer was not plugged in and I was sleeping but Apple and/or the NSA decided this was a good time for com.apple.telemetry to make 100+ log entries. This is discussed at
MBpro - Battery drain in sleep mode - Wake Reason : EC.USBC(Maintenance) with no responses. I do not have a reason to believe this contributes significantly to my battery issue.


texts: MacBook Pro WiFi doesn't work when Bluetooth is on

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I want to use AirDrop to transfer some photos from iPhone to my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) running on OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. AirDrop requires both WiFi and Bluetooth to be turned on. But when I turn on Bluetooth, WiFi doesn't work, I get errors like:

  This site can’t be reached

  www.google.com took too long to respond.

I've found this very similar question, and I've tried some solutions from the answers but they didn't help me.

WiFi router is TP-LINK TL-WR740N
Channel is set to Auto and WiFi mode is '11bgn mixed'.

I also use wireless mouse, I've tried to turn it off, it has no effect on network.


texts: Slow disk access time in fresh OS X installation

texts:
My apple-shipped disk on my frankenstein early 2011 MacBook Pro (with upgraded motherboard to 512MB GPU Memory) just gone bad and I have to replace it. I had replaced DVD drive with SSD with the old harddrive replacing the DVD bay for around 6 months.

I put a HGST disk I pulled out of a brand new ThinkPad E130 and it seems to be undetected and even OS boot menu comes up very slowly. I put a brand new WD and it is detected just fine but benchmark indicates about 1MB/s speed.

The repair shop (not official store) indicated that my bay is bad and replaced the bay and associated cables with a brand new one. The benchmark is okay with around 100MB/s speed but normal usage of the drive seems to be the same. Bootcamp installation, however, can use the disk just fine with around 60MB/s speed copying Left 4 Dead vpk files (large files) to an ExFAT partition.

I cleanly reinstalled OS X 10.9 using OS X recovery partition to format, download and install 10.9 and it seems that the issue still persists. A simple ls of ExFAT partition with 28 files took over 28 seconds but subsequent runs become fast.

Another partition of the harddrive is an empty HFS+ one. A simple new directory & move to trash is also very slow.

I tried resetting of SMC and NVRAM but it doesn't help.

What should I do to fix this slow disk access?


texts: Set language-related environment vars for _all_ processes (not just inside Terminal)

texts:
On my somewhat creaky MBP running Yosemite, I find that the POSIX environment variables for controlling the locale (LANG and LC_*) are properly set inside Terminal windows...

$ printenv | grep -E '^(LANG|LC_)'
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
$ locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

... but they are not properly set in the environment provided to GUI applications; for instance, inside an Emacs shell window, the above commands print

$ printenv | grep -E '^(LANG|LC_)'

$ locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

How do I ensure that every process running on the computer, regardless of how it was started sees the proper LANG= environment setting?  Bonus points for an answer that doesn't need manual action to stay in sync with the language settings in System Preferences.

(Related questions: Where does $LANG variable gets set in Mac OS X? indicates that it is Terminal.app that reflects the language settings from System Preferences to the shell's environment.  Where are system environment variables set in Mountain Lion? suggests that the proper way to make manual global environment settings keeps getting changed with each new version of the operating system, yuck.)


texts: Is it Possible To Move Menu Bar To Applications

texts:
I have just bought a MacBook Pro 15 and I am finding the Menu Bar very difficult to work with.

For example; if the calculator is in the bottom right of the screen an I am focussing my eyes on it I can't even see the Menu bar. If I want to use something from the menu I have to push the mouse 3 or 4 times with the track pad to get up to the menu (e.g. for a convert function) then 3 or 4 times to get back down.

Is it possible to make the menus appear in the applications?


texts: Lion Server: Is Mobility in Workgroup Manager related to Profile Manager in the Server.app?

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I'm about to set upon a difficult task -- well, difficult for me anyway: Lion Server and Profile Manager with an eye toward managing a couple of MacBooks that will be taken out of the office from time-to-time.

I have several questions about it, but I'll take them one at a time as I learn more.

I was on the phone with Enterprise Support and asked them how I might manage a couple of MacBooks in my Open Directory environment. They pointed out the Profiles section in server.app and that I can set up mobility in there so I can guarantee that laptop users can still login and access their server-homed desktop and documents while they're physically out of the office.

Recently, I set up some Preferences options in Workgroup Manager and noticed there's a "Mobility" icon there.

Are Profile Manager and Mobility related to one another? Or do they operate independently?

As a side question: Do I need to enroll ALL computers in the profile manager regardless of whether they're going to be mobile or not? If so, will that affect my current setup which is primarily done through Workgroup Manager.

Cheers,

tcv


texts: iMac 27" Mid 2011 external monitor GPU (ODD) Fan control

texts:
I recently installed an SSD into my iMac and downloaded "Macs Fan Control" which works perfectly fine.

However, when I plug in my external monitor via Thunderbolt, the GPU temperature increases for 10°C (50°F) to about 55°C (131°F) or something which I think is normal. Due to the temperature increase, the RPM of the ODD fan (which I use to cool the GPU) also increase to a hearable amount. (about 2000 RPM)

I use following settings for the ODD cooler:

Sensor based value from GPU Diode
Temperature that fan speed will
start to increase from: 45°C (113°F)
Maximum temperature: 70°C
(158°F)

Can or should I tweak my settings (increasing the temperature that fan speed will start to increase) without the risk of damaging the GPU?


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I have an iPhone 4S from Verizon, which they've "unlocked" for international use. I say "unlocked" in quotes because it's still restricted from US SIM cards. I'm able to use any international SIM, but I can't use a SIM from AT&T, T-Mobile or AirFire.

I'm guessing this restriction involves checking if the Mobile Country Code is from the United States (310-316, I think). Since AT&T's MCC-MNC is 310-410, it's obvious the phone shouldn't be happy with it. However, with a SIM from GiffGaff (a virtual carrier on o2's network), I'm able to use AT&T in the US because their MCC-MNC is on the list, but not in the home position.

Armed with this information, I'm guessing I can take an AT&T SIM card, bump all the MCC-MNC's on the list down a position, and add a UK carrier in the 'home' position? That way my phone will look for the UK carrier and believe that it's a UK carrier's SIM, not find it and then move down the list to the roaming networks?

If anyone has any information on if this will work, or can point me in the right directions for the tools to try this, please let me know!


texts: Are there any deep details on the specifics of what the “Low Power Mode” in iOS 9 actually affects?

texts:
So as mentioned in this canonical question and answer thread on iOS 9 features, “Low Power Mode” is a good thing. This is what iOS 9’s blurb on “Low Power Mode” explains it does when activated:

  Low Power Mode temporarily reduces power consumption until you can
  fully charge your iPhone. When this is on, mail fetch, background app
  refresh, automatic downloads and some visual effects are reduced or
  turned off.

Okay, I get the gist of this. I understand the broad concepts. But is this really all that happens in “Low Power Mode?” For example, what are the exact visual effects which are “reduced or turned off?” Are there any more specific details from Apple on exactly what “Low Power Mode” does?


texts: How to recover a deleted/replaced HFS+ partition from external drive?

texts:
How do I recover a HFS Plus partition that somehow I've managed to delete or replace with a Linux command?
I didn't do anything else, I mean, I didn't put any files or folders on the drive, so it is "intact".
I just want to recover the partition, like I did once using Acronis Disk Director Suite, it was painless, easy and fast, but wasn't HFS+, was a NTFS formatted drive.
I use Lion on may Mac and Linux Mint 13 on my PC.

[Edit]
There is a method using Testdisk and/or Photorec, but I didn't get it. Does anyone know?
[Edit]
TestDisk & PhotoRec did the trick


texts: MacBook Wi-Fi can't connect on Connectify: invalid password

texts:
I made a hotspot using a Wi-Fi external receiver connected on my laptop running Windows with a program named Connectify just today.

My PC gets the Internet connection via the Ethernet connection and share it with Connectify. The name of my Wi-Fi network is "connectify".

I have noticed that only my iPad and iPhone are able to connect to it.

My MacBook just says "invalid password" when I know for a fact that the password I configured is correct.

I've never been able to connect to my Wi-Fi network from my Macbook. I have already deleted the Wi-Fi location configuration and made a new one without sucess.

What might explain this MacBook or Wi-Fi failure?


texts: What are the implications of deleting all content of /usr/local?

texts:
After many days trying to solve a problem related to the installation of the R package 'rstan' I came to a possible solution that requires "Delete all of /usr/local/. Reinstall all developer software again from scratch."
The image attached shows the top level contents of my /usr/local/ directory. Based on this info, can anyone please give me some notion of the implications of deleting all?
Thank you for any help!


texts: What kit enables iPhone or iPad use for wearable computing?

texts:
I am wondering if there are wearable computer kits for the iPhone or iPad, or are there resources on how to do it.

I would like to be able to, at a bare minimum, type text while walking, possibly do more like read text documents.


texts: Upgrading Windows 8 to 8.1 Pro via Windows Store

texts:
Currently I'm running Windows 8 in Boot Camp (MacBook Pro Retina Mid-2012) and get a free update to Windows 8.1 Pro from Windows Store. My question is...

Should I change the startup disk to Windows in Boot Camp Control Panel before upgrading to 8.1?
Can I just download and install it from the store and then just reinstall the Boot Camp Drivers to the newest (5.1.5621).

Thank you. :)


texts: Restoring to a new phone without the restore password

texts: I have a new phone and want to restore settings from the old one but can't remember my restore password. I can't seem to reset the password but can I reset iTunes somehow, do a new backup on the old phone then restore to the new one?


texts:
Out of no where the iCal 7 refused to sync with Google by prompting me to input password upon launched.

I tried both Google account password and application-specific password but no availability.

The error log I gotten from the Console are below:

  9/9/14 5:35:52.541 PM CalendarAgent[373]:
  [com.apple.calendar.store.log.caldav.queue] [Account refresh failed
  with error: Error Domain=CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain Code=401 "The
  operation couldn’t be completed. (CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain error
  401.)" UserInfo=0x7fe79c00f3b0 {AccountName=myemail@gmail.com, CalDAVErrFromRefresh=YES, CoreDAVHTTPHeaders={type = immutable dict, count = 12,
  entries =>    0 : Content-Type = {contents = "application/vnd.google.gdata.error+xml;
  charset=UTF-8"}   4 : alternate-protocol = {contents = "443:quic"}  5 : Content-Encoding = gzip
    6 : Server = GSE    7 : x-xss-protection = {contents = "1; mode=block"}     8 : Expires = {contents = "Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:35:49
  GMT"}     12 : Cache-Control = {contents = "private, max-age=0"}    13 : Date =
  {contents = "Tue, 09 Sep
  2014 09:35:49 GMT"}   15 : Content-Length = 210   19 :
  x-content-type-options = nosniff  21 : x-frame-options = {contents = "SAMEORIGIN"}     22 :
  Www-Authenticate = {contents
  = "GoogleLogin realm="https://accounts.google.com/ClientLogin", service="cl""} } }]

I have no issue accessing other Google services on the Mavericks and via browser.

Anybody can help? Thanks


texts: Convert MTS video to OGV (OGG) format via Terminal

texts: Is there a way to convert MTS video format to OGV? And how could you set desired size of output file or file resolution?


texts: Can just opening email infect Mac in any way?

texts:
I'd like opinion on this:

If I open email and see text, can it infect my Mac? Not opening attachments, just email itself. Can that be dangerous? I delete all suspicious and unknown ones, but there are few where I can't be sure or have to see the insides.

I have no real time scanner and sometimes run Malwarebytes.


texts: I connect my iPhone 6 to my computer(Windows 8.1), but I cannot find the "internal storage" or "Lily's iPhone". Can anyone help me?


texts: Why do I have 3 extra contacts on my phone when using Google contacts?

texts:
I have my iPhone 11 setup to use Google Contacts.  I've been using my contact list both on my gmail account / computer and my iPhone 11.

Why are there 3 extra contacts on my phone but not my computer.

I have 209 on my gmail contacts but 212 on my phone?

The phone appears to have 3 extra but I don't know were they came from?


texts: How to collaborate developing an app without using an App Store Connect Team?

texts:
My friend and I have personal iCloud accounts that we use to develop apps in our free time.
When he clones to his computer and runs, he gets errors with the team, bundle identifier, and push notifications.
We don't have a company, so I can't create a team and assign roles. How do we collaborate with each other if we can't make a team?
Apparently you need to show proof of a company to Apple to create a Team account.
Is there no way for hobbyists to easily collaborate on a project? There is surprisingly little on this topic online.


texts: How should I configure AppleTV in a shared space/living room?

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I have an Apple TV in a shared space with roommates/friends.  I don't want my personal photos to be shared or accessible there.

I do like the idea of sharing some purchases and other apps in that space.

Since Apple TV doesn't have the concept of "multiple users", and as of the latest iOS10 beta, that still seems to be true... what is the best way to configure Apple TV to preserve my privacy?

In particular I'm referring to the

App Store account
The iCloud account
Gaming accounts.

I'm not terribly interested in restricting content / movies, but I simply don't want people to be able to see my personal photos.

I also don't like the theoretical sharing of the iCloud keychain, which could put my account & PII at unnecessary risk in case of device theft.


texts: Why does my MobileMe email account have a Junk mailbox?

texts:
My MobileMe email account has a mailbox named Junk (first letter capitalized), and I don't know why.  I created a mailbox called junk (all lowercase) into which I manually move junk messages.  I see both mailboxes everywhere I view the account (Mac, iOS, me.com web interface).

I use one Mac with the MobileMe email account, and junk mail filtering is disabled.  I also use the MobileMe email account on an iPhone (iOS 4.3.5), an iPad (iOS 4.3.5), and occasionally the me.com web interface.  Within iOS settings, I don't see any setting specific to junk mail filtering.  I have no mail rules that move messages to a Junk folder on my Mac or on the me.com web interface.

Something is automatically moving messages to the Junk folder, and is getting some false positives with its junk detection, so I want to stop that.

How do I find out what's responsible for this mysterious Junk mailbox, and prevent it from automatically moving messages identified as junk?  I am trying to get rid of the Junk mailbox and only manage junk messages manually.  I have deleted the Junk mailbox in the past, and it came back, although I don't remember the specific circumstances related to its reappearance.

I've already viewed this knowledgebase article (which offers the opposite of what I want): http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/4.0/en/15591.html


texts: BOOTCAMP no longer listed as Device in Finder, but can boot into it on startup

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How can I get BOOTCAMP to be listed under Devices in Finder so that I can go into it and view the files there?

I can boot into BOOTCAMP as normal on startup but in OS X, Finder does not list BOOTCAMP.

It used to in OS X versions previous to OS X El Capitan, but I'm not sure exactly when it stopped showing and whether or not it's the OS X El Capitan upgrade or something else that caused the issue.

Here is the screenshot showing that BOOTCAMP is not listed in Finder:

Disk Utility shows the Macintosh HD and BOOTCAMP partitions, but only lists Macintosh HD on the left beneath the overall drive (Samsung 840 Pro SSD). Here is a screenshot showing this:

sudo frisk /dev/disk0 command issued in the Terminal gives the following:

Roberts-MacBook-Pro:Volumes robdavishome$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 62260/255/63 [1000215216 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
 2: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  640270848] HFS+
 3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 640684032 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 641953792 -  358260736] HPFS/QNX/AUX

Here is the output from sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0:

Roberts-MacBook-Pro:Volumes robdavishome$ sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640   640270848      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   640680488        3544
   640684032     1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   641953568         224
   641953792   358260736      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  1000214528         655
  1000215183          32         Sec GPT table
  1000215215           1         Sec GPT header

I don't have gdisk installed.

My Setup

MacBookPro mid 2010 17"
Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.5
Samsung SSD 840 Pro
Windows 10 Pro 64bit (in-place Microsoft standard upgrade from Windows 7 Pro 64bit)
I adjusted the size of the partitions using Camptune X when I had Yosemite
My adjustment was to create some unpartitioned space at the end of the SSD for over provisioning (to apparently enhance the life and performance of the SSD). I reduced the size of the Mac OS partition and shifted the Windows partition to take up the space created by the shrinking of the Mac OS partition, so that some unpartitioned space was left at the end.

Research so far

I considered following the answer to the problem here: bootcamp partition not showing up in El Capitan but the answer appeared to be very specific to the question and I was not confident that I could safely adapt this to my scenario.
Also looked at: Boot Camp disappeared after El Capitan update also Bootcamp not showing in Devices & Can't transfer files between and Resized bootcamp. MBR updated. GPT is not. Understanding and fixing but did not follow it for same reason about specifics.

Please can I have advice on how to get BOOTCAMP to be shown in Finder.


texts: Is it possible to add iCloud Reminders to iCal calendars?

texts:
In iCloud, each Reminder is placed in a named list (called a "List" in the details dialog, and a "Calendar" in the context menu in iCal), but there seems to be no way to assign a reminder to an existing ("normal") iCal calendar (as there was with pre-iCloud "To Do" items).

Is there a way to assign a Reminder to an existing iCal calendar?


texts: iBooks - is there a way to organize bookmarks by page number?

texts: Over the last year, I've replaced (and expanded) my library of programming books from physical copies to ebooks.  In each book, I have a host of bookmarks.  Unfortunately, I didn't save them in one front-to-back read through so my bookmark lists are all out of page order.  Is there a way to sort/organize them by page number?


texts: How to extract large .tar.gz file on FTP

texts: So I have a .tar.gz wordpress backup file of size 1.6 GB. When I try to extract this file using FTP file manager, it partially extracts it.


texts: Why are assigned PID numbers not sequential from 100?

texts:
If you look at a list of open processes, either in the Activity Monitor, or in Terminal with the TOP command, why are the assigned PID numbers not all used sequentially.

For example, is this because some processes with certain PID numbers have run and since ceased running, leaving a gap in sequential PID assigned numbers of existing running processes, or are their unlisted processes not visible in the Terminal tops command, or some other reason?

My understanding that after initial start up with PID numbers 0, 1 and a few more are assigned, PID numbers are then allocated from 100. As presented by:
AD: What's the maximum pid for Mac OS X?
And Wikipedia: Process Identifier.


texts: Script or workflow to modify find and replace backslashes in clipboard

texts:
I need to do a lot of copying filepaths written by people using a PC (which uses backslashes) to a Mac (which uses forward slashes), and I'm tired of manually switching them every time.  I have to copy the filepath from our shared web browser, paste it into my file browser, and then go in and manually remove the backslash and replace it with a forward slash.

That last part is really what's killing me since basically every filepath I copy has several backslashes in it that I want to paste! What I want is something that will modify the contents of my clipboard so I can just paste it into my Mac file browser without having to manually replace the slashes every time.

In short, I want any "\" in my clipboard to change to a "/" before I paste it. Can anyone please help me with this?


texts: What makes a unibody Mac better than what came before?

texts:
I am looking for information about what macs are considered unibody and wondering if there are any notable advantages and/or disadvantages to this fabrication style.

Answers that address marketing material as well as lifecycle data or experiences for largish deployments of macs with real life failure rates or data would be great to read.


texts: Fn+F6 misbehaving after Mountain Lion upgrade

texts:
After upgrading from Lion to Mountain Lion, I find that the F6 key (which is really Fn+F6, as I have enabled "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" under System Preferences:Keyboard) is not behaving as expected.

Under Lion, I was able to pass this key to an application (a bit complicated, but basically I pass it to Terminal which was passing it to a tmux session where I have configured F6 to switch to window 6).  But now after the upgrade, when I press F6 (or Fn+F6 for that matter) I am switched to a different desktop!  If I press it again, all the windows on that desktop disappear.  A third press causes the windows to reappear, and after that it just seems to toggle visibility of windows on my alternate desktop.

I have looked at Keyboard Shortcuts in System Preferences, but nothing appears to use the F6 key, and I haven't found anything in Apple's documentation which talks about what the actual function keys are supposed to do - only what the Icons do which is different, such as adjusting volume or screen brightness.  That is not what I am interested in, as I am using the Fn+ equivalent.

I am using an iMac with a fairly recent Bluetooth keyboard, and there is no "Num Lock" equivalent for F6 as apparently some keyboards have.


texts:
This one has been irking me for quite a while. I've made a few plots in a Pages graph (as well as their R^2 values). It is especially useful to move the equations around, especially when there are multiple plots on the same graph.

I have tried everything that comes to my mind, such as clicking multiple times or dragging in strange ways, but it seems as though I can not move the equations on the graph at all. They remain on the top left corner. When I try clicking on them and dragging, the graph is moved instead of the equations.

Is it possible to move these equations around? The only other way I'm seeing it copying and pasting these equations into textboxes, but that likely would be a huge headache in terms of layouts as well as updating the graphs' data (and thus their trend line equations).

Here is a video of the issue I am describing.


texts: MacBook stays connected to wifi but loses internet connection

texts:
Every few minutes my internet connection drops on my MacBook Pro 15" Mid-2015, running macOS Catalina 10.15.5.
It stays connected to wifi, at least it indicates as such in the menu bar and System Preferences.
However, I can't use the internet again until turning off and on wifi.
Also, I can't connect to my router's webpage itself (normally http://192.168.1.1/ is my router's config pages) when this issue happens.
However, from the terminal ping continues to work, for my router's IP and for names like google.com.
This issue breaks: Safari.app, Discord.app, wget, curl, dig, Firefox Developer Edition.app, Chrome.app, Folx.app, Mail.app, .... almost everything internet-related I can think of testing except ping. ping times don't even increase while the rest of the internet "drops".
This doesn't happen on any other device in the house.
How can I stay connected to the internet all the time without having to worry about needing to reconnect like this?

My MacBook, like all other devices the problem doesn't  happen on, gets its IP address using DHCP.
While the wifi is working:

While I can't connect to the internet:

According to support.apple.com/kb/SP719, your Mac supports "802.11ac Wi‑Fi wireless networking; IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n compatible", is the wireless router configured accordingly?

I'm not sure how to check... but I found on one page of my router's settings "Generic MAC80211 802.11bgn (radio0)" this text.


texts: Is there a way to change the OSX system font size per monitor?

texts:
I'm wondering if there is a way to change the OSX system font size per monitor (e.g. larger for Retina and smaller on external display) ?

I know how to change it system wide (as covered by How can I change the system font size in OS X?), but I would like to do it on a per monitor basis.

Note I am not talking about changing the display's resolution - Macbook Pro Retina running at native resolution.

I understand there some challenges with windows that cross display boundaries, but my thought is the system/tool could use the default for the display that contains the greatest % of the window.


texts: Can I access my Time Capsule remotely if I haven't set it up at home?

texts:
My Macbook has frozen on the start-up screen. I'm not sure if it's a serious fault or whether it just needs to re-start from a back-up, but I'm overseas at the moment & the back up is my Time Capsule at home. I need urgently to retrieve files from my Time Capsule. I'm aware that I could have set up my Time Capsule up to be accessed remotely before I left, &  I was wondering whether it is possible to set up remote access remotely, if that makes sense?

Thanks very much


texts: Is there a built in command line utility for airport and other wifi networks?

texts: Is there a built in command line utility to show information about Apple Airport networks and other wireless networks? Where? What's its usage?


texts:
I read the thread Accessing WhatsApp iCloud backup?
and did all Kanthala Raghu explained to reveal icloud whatsapp backup in terminal. But what I get is only a list in terminal after typing cd ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/find whatsapp. Like these:
57TXXXXX~net~whatsapp~WhatsApp
57TXXXXXX~net~whatsapp~WhatsApp/Documents
But how do I download them to my mac ? Now I can only see they exist on the terminal console...thanks for your help


texts:
I'm looking for a way to copy all of the data from my iPhone to a Windows PC, with accuracy down to the byte that could be used for forensic purposes. The iPhone in question is an iPhone 6 running iOS 9.3 and is not jailbroken.

Is there any software (the cost of which is not important) that would do just that? Basically, I'm wondering how the FBI did it.

The output file is NOT important. Even if it's all encrypted, it's ok—it just must be every single byte that can be taken off the phone (a complete copy of the iPhone's hard disk).

Could iTunes do this based on the presumption that nothing is left behind when iTunes+Windows makes an iPhone backup?


texts: Set custom iPhone word *definition* dictionary

texts: I would like to change the dictionary my iPhone uses for defining words (not for spell-checking) to a learner's one (e.g. Cambridge). Apple provides several dictionaries for various languages, but not an English Learner's one. Any idea how I may make a non-Apple dictionary the default?


texts: How can I connect an Apple TV to an older television?

texts: Is there a way to connect the latest Apple TV, which only has an HDMI output, to an older television that only has the yellow and red/white inputs for audio and video? This older television has a coaxial input as well.


texts: How do AirPort Express and wireless access point relate?

texts:
I was reading a story about how some guy reverse engineered AirPort Express and can't get one thing: what's that AirPort Express in plain words?

I understand that there's a device called "wireless access point" that connects to a wired network of the Internet provider (that might be Ethernet) and makes that wired network accessible to Wi-Fi or some other wireless protocol users.

Apple has a picture of a white box with a recognizable 110V plug and looks like it is AirPortExpress. What does that white box do exactly and how does it relate to a wireless access point?


texts: Set different double click times for physical click and trackpad double-tap

texts: When clicking my trackpad physically, I want the double click speed to be as fast as possible. When using the tap-to-click feature, though, I want it to be a tiny bit slower. Is there any way to set this, either natively or with third party apps?


texts: installed a new version of iTunes, 12.0.1.26 - albuns not colsolidated

texts: I just installed a new version of iTunes, 12.0.1.26. When I want to add a new music album into my music  it is Displaying as individual songs in Music Library. Kindly Find the Image Attached. FYI


texts: Clicked EFI volume kali installation, mac stuck

texts:
So, i was following this link -> http://docs.kali.org/installation/kali-linux-dual-boot-on-mac-hardware

And i selected EFI volume instead of kali or macos. It went to a black screen!

I force restarted it, holding the power button for a while, it got turned off. (I knew that because the trackpad stopped responding to touch)

I started it again, nothing happens. No light on the screen, no color, just black.

Tried this 7-8 times, nothing!!

Refind was installed on my Macbook pro, 15 inch, 2016 model

Any ideas?


texts: How do I force sync of my workouts from Watch to iPhone?

texts: Since iOS 14.0 (through at least 14.3) syncing of workouts from watch to phone has become unreliable, with occasionally workouts failing to appear on the phone. Is there a way (without wiping or resetting the phone) to force workouts (or a specific workout) on Watch to sync to the phone, or are workouts that fail to sync in this way permanently unavailable on the phone.


texts: iTunes randomly freezes on startup on Windows 7

texts:
I'm running iTunes 11.4.0.18 (the latest available version) on Windows 7 x64; for reference, I've been having this problem for months, and even on the computer I had before this one, which I replaced in December 2013; thus, this doesn't seem a version-specific or system-specific issue. The only Apple devices I've connected to iTunes are iPhones: I started with a 4, then replaced it with a 5, now I have a 5s; this doesn't seem to have affected the issue in any way.

The problem is: sometimes, iTunes freezes upon launching. It displays the main window, but it's blank or almost blank, and it doesn't answer any click. This has no resolution, waiting is useless, and the only way out of it is by killing the iTunes.exe process from the Task Manager.

What is really strange is, when this happens, there actually are two iTunes.exe processes in the Task Manager; killing one of them kills them both, and after doing this, iTunes can be launched again, and it just works.

This happens randomly and not very often (about 1-2 out of 10 times), but it has been a nuisance for a while; there doesn't seem to be any reason for it, and the fix is always the same: kill iTunes.exe (of which there are two), launch it again and it works. Of course, I've reinstalled iTunes several times, there have been several updates in the meantime, and I'm also using a completely new computer instead of the one I had when I first started experiencing the problem; the OS has also received countless updates, although it's still the same one (I just can't stand Windows 8, sorry).

Has anyone encountered this problem? How can it be solved?


texts: Xcode 6, Yosemite and iOS device with iOS6

texts:
I'm testing the app that is built using latest iOS8 SDK, but deployment target is set to iOS6 (it still has to run on iPod Touch 4th gen). I know that there is no iOS6 simulator available on Yosemite, but I'm trying to deploy it via old USB 30-pin cable on the physical device.

Seems like I'm always getting "valid provisioning profile for this executable is not found" error message, even though that profile is correct (which I'm 99% sure).

Should such configuration work and I just need to make sure profile is ok, or is it unsupported combination?


texts: Memory Upgrade: Planning to Use Different RAM Model

texts:
I'm considering upgrading to a total of 16GB RAM. Currently, I have 4GB.

MacBook Pro: 13-inch, Late 2011
Memory  4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

The problem: it appears the local resellers no longer have such RAM model. My question is, will the new PC3-12800 DDR3 1600 MHz type RAM, designed for the Mid-2012 model, work on the Late 2011 model?

Any apple-endorsed reference would be good. Thanks.


texts:
How to get extensive filesystem information about a file?

I have a file that consistently causes errors in my backup utility (Unison). I'm trying to narrow down a bug and find out how it is different from other files. I copied that file and a copy backups fine so bug is not related to file contents. Then I renamed original to make sure a bug is not related to a filename.

So now I have 2 files with exact same contents, same xattrs (I checked) but one of them causes backup to fail. What else could be different between those files?

Also it is not a single case. I have many similar problem files all of which are created by the same program (DaVinci Resolve)

update: I found out that while files show the exact same size in ls -l the problem file has larger size in Finder 'Get Info' dialog. So there is some king of metadata attached to that file. How to view it?

update2: I tried to use mdls and ls -l@ as advised but didn't get an answer. It just shows that file sizes are different but didn't show why. Here is some additional info:

Romans-MacBook-Pro:cut poma$ mdls src.mov
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2015-01-19 06:12:45 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate      = 2015-01-05 04:54:25 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode       = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags       = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon     = 0
kMDItemFSInvisible         = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery      = 0
kMDItemFSLabel             = 0
kMDItemFSName              = "src.mov"
kMDItemFSNodeCount         = 290301124
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID      = 99
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID       = 99
kMDItemFSSize              = 290301124
kMDItemFSTypeCode          = ""

Romans-MacBook-Pro:cut poma$ mdls copy.mov
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2015-01-19 06:56:04 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate      = 2015-01-19 06:56:04 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode       = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags       = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon     = 0
kMDItemFSInvisible         = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery      = 0
kMDItemFSLabel             = 0
kMDItemFSName              = "copy.mov"
kMDItemFSNodeCount         = 290300838
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID      = 99
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID       = 99
kMDItemFSSize              = 290300838
kMDItemFSTypeCode          = ""

.

Romans-MacBook-Pro:cut poma$ ls -la@
total 10681888
...
-rw-r--r--@ 1 poma  staff   290300838 Jan 19 13:56 copy.mov
    com.apple.quarantine            22
    Mac_Metadata            20
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 poma  staff   290300838 Jan 19 13:12 src.mov
    com.apple.quarantine            22
    Mac_Metadata            20

.

Romans-MacBook-Pro:cut poma$ md5 src.mov
MD5 (src.mov) = 7d59d01e5efffe3a258eff86d8b775a0
Romans-MacBook-Pro:cut poma$ md5 copy.mov
MD5 (copy.mov) = 7d59d01e5efffe3a258eff86d8b775a0

As you can see src.mov has different size in ls and mdls while for copy.mov they are the same.


texts: dd input/output error. No information in error string

texts:
I am using a MacBook macOS Mojave 10.14.5. I can list the device with diskutil list, but it isn't mounted. I perform the dd command below. The output states input/output error, which doesn't give a lot of information.

sudo dd if=~/Downloads/ubuntu-18.04.2-desktop-amd64.dmg of=/dev/rdisk2s2
Password:
dd: /dev/rdisk2s2: Input/output error
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 80.936791 secs (0 bytes/sec)

Anyone know how I can resolve this issue?


texts:
I recently installed Open MPI, and it's complaining

PMIx has detected a temporary directory name that results
in a path that is too long for the Unix domain socket:
Temp dir: /var/folders/**/*****************************/T/openmpi-sessions-501@host*******************************/*****

This question suggests setting TMPDIR to /tmp. Is that safe? Will it mess up other programs?


texts: Is the freezing and lines on the iMac due to me breaking the LCD connector?

texts:
I have an iMac “Core i7” 2.8 27-Inch (Late 2009) that I replaced the hard drive in. Before I replaced the hard drive it wouldn’t boot fully in. The hard drive tests showed that the drive had bad sectors.

When ever I used a memtest, ultimate boot CD, or any Linux CD it would boot but the screen would go black when the video driver was loaded. I thought nothing of it.

When I replaced the hard drive I put too much force on the LCD connector on the board and it bent up off the board a bit. Darn.

I was able to get Mac OS back on. The display works, but as soon as it boots in a bit the screen gets lines and freezes. The system has 4 ram chips, which I’ve tried all independently and running memtester from a Linux boot disc says the RAM is okay. Although I still can’t get anything but a black screen when I boot into Linux (I SSH in to the Linux livecd).

In short:

The system always boots up to a black screen when using memtest, ultimate boot cd, and Linux live cds. But Mac installers work fine.
The memory seems fine.
It only freezes when booting into the installed MacOS.
The hard drive is now new and installs fine.

Would the lines be from the bent connector and is there any way to tell?


texts: Keyboard shortcut to open folder with Sublime Text

texts:
Is there a way to define a keyboard shortcut that would open a whole folder with Sublime Text?

I can (obviously) easily open a file, I managed to define such a shortcut for opening a Terminal window at the folder location through keyboard preferences, but I don't know how to do that for 3rd party apps.


texts: What is the best phonetic app for the iPad?

texts:
I'm not a native english speaker and so I'm looking for an app to teach my 4 year old daughter with spelling and speaking. She's speaking English very well and very confident in communicating with her friends in English.

However, her teacher is saying that her phonetic is not quite good yet. She's missing some sound, eg. 'p' vs 'b'. Also, she's not good in dictating exercise, meaning writing down word when others read it to her.

So my question is what will be the best app for my daughter?

My daughter loves SuperWhy show but I'm not sure if their app is good. I wonder if anyone can list his/her favorite app here so we can vote on them.


texts: How can I make windows the same size on my 17" MacBook Pro & 23" HD Cinema Display?

texts: I just purchased a new 17" MacBook Pro and I am using it with my 23" Apple HD Cinema Display. I have both displays set to 1920 x 1200 but all the windows and text are smaller on my MacBook Pro. How can I make onscreen elements the same size?


texts: For the purposes of archival uploading to Google Drive/Dropbox/Etc, what are the differences between DMG and SparseImages?

texts:
I recently have a large amount of data I needed to upload into Google Drive. I decided to use Disk Utility to create a container for it (otherwise Google Drive would have to create many files and directories taking up a huge amount of the time).

I noticed that Disk Utility creates a read-only DMG file by first creating a sparseimage, then converting it to a DMG file.

As a result, to cut down on time, I am wondering if creating sparseimages of my files, then uploading to Google Drive is better than putting it into a DMG file. My two main concerns are:

1) I read somewhere that sparseimages seem to have a greater than of being corrupt on Google Drive or cloud services?

2) Is there any real difference between the two beyond write/read-only capabilities?


texts: Option+. prints ≥ instead of being recognized as a shortcut

texts:
Within the terminal, I used to be able to press Option+. in order to insert the last argument of the last command into the current prompt. On my new setup, pressing this combination simply prints "≥" (everywhere, not just in the terminal). I'm using US keyboard layout, but I'm on a German keyboard because I don't have any other at the moment.

The shortcut is incredibly useful, how do I get it back working?


texts:
Case:
I just received a MBP 13" Haswell Retina and installed Windows 8.1 with Bootcamp 5.0.5033 drivers.

Problem:
The Danish and Danish (Apple) keyboard layouts have two keys swapped: $ and <

How can I swap these back to their correct function?